I see, makes sense if the game becomes w10 only on w.store.

Yeah, i'm talking about gameplay. Visuals on SoD are weak indeed, as expected for a AA game. Also, Days Gone is another level, far superior, it' not fair to compare.

Maybe.  Or maybe because of the stuff mentioned below, especially the forced upgrades.

In a recent post on their site, the EFF provides a scathing review of Microsoft’s troublesome decisions in relation to Windows 10, including: hitherto unheard-of free upgrades; insistent and entrenched upgrade prompts on Windows 7 and 8; pushing Windows 10 upgrades via Windows Update; categorizing privacy-compromising and advertising-related updates as important for security; user interface tricks that are common to malware; collecting and transmitting large amounts of potentially sensitive data from Windows computers to Microsoft; failing to provide either adequate explanations for — or methods for disabling — various unwanted features; obfuscating their intentions behind claims of improved security and enhanced functionality; and claims that Windows Update is somehow unable to function without privacy-violating functionality enabled.  https://boot13.com/privacy/the-eff-scolds-microsoft-on-its-anti-consumer-tactics/

Dynamic events (random & effected by certain things like weather/time of day)

Day, night, rain, snow, fog = Not just cosmetic
it effect how you can deal with situations, it changes how you bike handles ect.
It even effects the creatures, how they act and how strong they are.

stealth combat / traps (also effected by weather) , enviorment usage (chockpoints vs swarms, run and gun, and manuvering to stay ahead of the swarm), all these differnt approaches to problem solveing,  Sound to lure monsters (while your lurking around),  crafting, Molatov cocktails, Useing a swarm of undead to take out other enemies (by lureing a swarm to your enemy), the A.I is much more complex even stuff like campfires effect how A.I people act.

watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ceBapkQrc

You cant tell me the gameplay doesnt look vastly more varied and impressive than this Co-OP multiplayer demo of State of Decay 2.

Where mostly they just run up and mash zombies heads in with a shovel or get a shot or two off with a gun to end a zombie.

2 platform exclusive zombie games releaseing near one another,.... it makes sense to compair them.

I've seen that Days Gone video before and the game looks good gameplay wise but SoD2 has more to offer when it comes to gameplay.

Game also has a day and night cycle that affects how zombies will act and the devs have hinted at a weather system.

There is also a stealth element of SoD2

Character progression and similar to the first game there will be different characters with different stats that you have to manage.

Base building which is a big part of the SoD ip that wasn't shown in the video.

How you manage and obtain resources.

4 player Co-op

3 different worlds. All of them are large open world's that are all bigger than the first games 1 open world map.

The IGN gameplay only showed a little bit of what the game has to offer. In a way it's similar to the days Gone gameplay we have see. In both gameplay all that's happening in killing and shooting zombies.

Enjoyed first one quite a bit - I kinda gravitate towards such AA diamonds in the rough...well, dimaond would be exaggeration, but it was fairly solid game, if bit too repetitive.

Looking forward to this one, though I'm in same situation as Bristow, I tend to delay moving to new versions of Windows as much as I can.

I get what your saying and I agree with you, but you gotta see how is kind of easy to slip into a comparison between those 2 games. Aside from those and metal gear survive, Im unaware of any other zombie survival game. And nobody cares for konami anymore. 

The difference is even the director of Days Gone says it’s not a survival game. It’s a narrative game “about survival”. SoD is a survival game. They both have zombies, but that’s where the similarities end.

This was already day one for me so nothings changed.