State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition was incredibly cringe worthy at points and yet I'd still rate it as one of the best games of last generation personally. That speaks to how good a concept this game has, and hopefully that translates into the sequel.
I agree with this. I bought the deluxe or whatever vanilla version day one and I enjoyed it, but it had some issues. The Juggernaut edition added a lot of cool stuff and there have been so many updates, each time I try to go back it’s kind of overwhelming like Destiny.
The concept is great. I love the permadeath aspect. The first game was exhilarating going out scavenging for supplies with a character you’ve put a lot of time into, knowing they could die and be lost forever. I remember losing my first character in the first game, got ripped in half.
It’s funny, when the first game came out and the devs were saying they wanted a PvE co-op MMO type experience I thought, wow, sounds incredible. Now those types of resource collecting survival games are a dime a dozen and I wish they’d make a more fleshed out SP sequel but I know that isn’t going to happen.