Why Dying Light 2 Is So Awesome … and Disappointing

I can't agree on Aiden being better than Kyle.

To hAve the BEST day/night system by far in gaming in general, with daytime exploring gameplay while at nighttime being hunted (and gaining bonuses) by terrifying uber predators , that you would have to work REALLY hard to avoid.... Just to tuurn it into THIS? whoever made this descision at techland, i pray for your sould because this will get you into hell

Can you return and review pls it’s a WHOLE different game

You should revisit the game because of all of the updates

The paragliding ruined the parkor

bro said the story was amazing in his other video lmaoooo

Idk man I think your pretty off the mark. My opinion. DL2 was 1 playthru and I don’t enjoy it anymore. Missed the magic of DL1. Human enemies suck and that is the worst part of the game. It’s not fun. No guns sucks. Binoculars are still bugged years later.

Honestly, I wish the original creators got to keep working on it. From the first trailer leak, it got me amazed even after playing hours of DL1. The atmosphere, parkour, tools, everything got me so hyped. Then when I played it, I missed the old one. I despise the RPG combat with humans when some can take bombs and slashes, and the not so dark and frightening nights. There was so much potential, but everything got so messed up.
I do love this game, I just wish it got to stick with it's original style and story, not with whatever state it is in now.

I watch this video in 2023 and I am really impressed that Techland solved nearly all problems you mentioned.

WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT THE DL1 SOUNDTRACK

My main gripes with the game is that they changed stuff that didn't need to be changed compared to the first game.
-Volatiles dont patrol the streets anymore.
-The overwhelming focus on living people instead of making the infected the real threat.
-The fact that night time is extremely safe. You have to go out of your way to make is threatening.
-Chases dont happen naturally. They come down to Howlers spotting you... even if you kill them before they scream, the chase still happens. I assume because they spot you so the chase happens automatically.
-The chase is like a GTA wanted level. You dont get volatiles until chase level 3. Which is dumb.
-The enemies that tie into the level system. Instead of new skills allowing you to kill zombies in different ways, you just level up and brute force your way past them. In the first game, you had to rely on your environment a lot at the start. In DL2, you are either very over levelled for old areas or too under levelled for new areas which gives the game an artificial barrier. Its not to make it difficult, it is to block the play from exploring where they want to without instantly dying. Also, shooting someone in the head and them either not instantly dying... especially them taking little damage is stupid. So stealth is basically pointless in this game.
-NO WEAPON CRAFTING - This was a massive sin. You had to buy weapons instead of scavenging parts and creating new stuff.

Thank you for this review. You made a video that's exactly what I'm looking for. A review that isn't hate filled and so against the game in every shape and form. I'm hoping you'll do an updated version with the patches and soon to be dlcS

Worst part of the story was Lawan

No offence but i can only listen to you pronounce the end of your sentences over and over for so long,no one talks like that. Sorry i just find it annoying. Nothing personal because like i said i doubt how you actually talk to people in real life

bro obviously didnt play the book club x mission

😂 it's like you ate what you said on the pre- release demo

I like both games the parkour in the second one is much more fluid where in the first one it wasn't bad but it did seem a little unrefined and I like the map just a little more in the second one. In DL1 i found myself on the ground more than I liked, and I'm kind of torn between the night. on one hand I like running around with my friend and realizing it's getting dark and freaking out, DL2 it's fairly easy to survive the night if you're careful.

i'll make this quick
i first dying light zombies could fall from ledges and when you broke their bones game was doing x-ray with slow motion
second game doesn't have those would seem BASIC features, even dead island had slow motion on bone breaking hits...
and it is supposed to be "next-gen" the better one...
and it's main hero get's suckerpunched almost every cutscene wich compared to crane who was a badass is lame - i don't want to play as a weak pathetic fool

Put over a hundred hours in loved every hour crazy good time ❤

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The Ubisoft video was great sure it was the wrong word but the point is still understood it’s not like we’re sitting here with the wrong definition in hand scratching our heads

So what the fuck was the shot at garlic powder out of nowhere ??

I never used stealth lol I just always used boosters and op weapons to just murder everything even volatiles

Matt actually was not a bad character at all. In some endings, you can actually see his personality really good. He has clearly issues like thinking to much of himself, or getting angry when he doesn't get what he wants

They are improving the combat and adding roaming volatiles in future updates

It's a strange mix of interesting and lack-luster. The thing you pointed out. how hateful the companions you're forced to do missions with are, is why I stopped playing. I was getting ready to do a mission with these people and I found I just wanted to murder every single one of them. I stopped playing and haven't been back.

The worst part of dl1 (in my opinion) is that the story is way too short, by the time i got to what felt like the halfway point of the story (the part where you go to the radio tower to call off the firebombing in the city) i was at like, 80% story comoletion.

Dying Light 2 is a mess of a supposed game. It is unfinished, was sold that way, and Techland lied about the state it was in at release. Where to even start....Dying Light 2 is not a sequel in the true sense of the word as it does not build on the original. Why try to reinvent the wheel? In other words..if it ain't broke don't fix it. It's not only the streets that blow....All everyone wanted was more Dying Light. Open a blocked tunnel in Haran or Old Town, and Crane goes to find Brecken and whole new missions (with air drops). Thats asking too much? But do they really care what the fan base wants? Dying Light 2 is a joke. It is boring. I don't care about anything in it or anyone. It is not scary, has dumb puzzle's, and is not fun. My opinion but I know many others agree. Dying Light was and is a masterpiece. It deserves better.

I got this at release and played for maybe 15 hours before deciding I need to put it down for a while and give the Devs more time to improve it. I liked the world but felt like they'd gone in backwards direction with alot of the mechanics.
Edit: Has anyone played it since the recent updates and if so is it much better than launch?

The world in Dying Light 1 seems it can really exist in the real world that makes it realistic. In DL 2, the world feels like a playground and unreal. Also DL 2's so colorful. 1 has that gloomy atmosphere. Hope it'll change.

We already had decapitation and dismemberment with lots of blood in DL1. You could even use some weapons like axes or nail bats and take chunks off from zombies, leaving the thoracic cavity or other parts of the body like lower half exposed. Even cut them in two and see guts. You could mangle bodies even more in depth in 1 and the twitches after taking the head off was also there.

Just finished it 2 days ago. Exactly how i feel. AMAZING but DISAPPOINTING.

There is one side quest, a side quest which makes up the rest in my opinion. There is one guy called Damien, he sends you to a certain hide out and the people there try to kill you, when you kill them and come back Damien tells you he didn’t know what happens when he sends new people to die, if you believe him he tells you that they captured his twin brother, when you go to find him it turns out that the brother works for waltz, when you kill the brother and come back to Damien, he is on the roof and about to kill himself, then you have to choose the right option and if you don’t… he kills himself. In my opinion that is the most hard hitting side quest in the game.

the only 2 ways for this game to be perfect i;d say drop survivors for nightrunners and keep peacekeepers also discard howlers for volatiles chase

I’m sorry but the story in games is one of the last things I care about. The most important thing is the gameplay and atmosphere. This game seemed like it was an amazing game that they were not able to live up to.

I think none of you have unlocked parkour combat in your own Brains. Combination usage of the parkour moves with weapons creates huge combo chains between multiple enemies, physics objects and arenas, and if you are paying attention you can throw spears and blow shit up too.

They've done a lot to bring this game up to snuff in 2023. Weapons feel better, everything feels better really

The change to volatiles alone ruined the thrill.

I legit played 3 hrs hated the combat so much i got a refund and got dying light 1 instead

This game was laughably bad, stale, by-the-numbers, open-world gameplay that's been done to death. The story and characters were terrible. I enjoyed the first Dying Light, but I never even finished this one, abandoned it near the end of the first part of the city. Most fun I had was drop kicking survivors off roofs.

the sad thing about dl1 is they removed most of the kyle crane's lines which gave him personality

The glider should definitely use stamina what are you talking about, if it didn't use stamina then people would never do anything else it adds more balancing and keeps you from relying too much on the glider.

I really wish they took more time with the story. There was so much they could've done and spent more time with but the ending felt rushed. I enjoyed the story and wished the dialogue wasnt 90 percent of story missions. Overall game was ok 👌

idk if its just my system (My pc is a beast), but my main issue with the game is the parkour. I had no issues with DL1 (or any other games with parkour or climbing). In DL2 I mostly die from falling off building, missing ledges, or when jumping off buildings the roll animation isn't triggered. Parkour in fights do not work 90% of the time. Fighting at night is a grind and eventually boring. I don't mind the story and thought the vo acting was decent. I think it would be more appropriate to call the game Looting Hoarder in Zombie Land - since that's mostly all you do. Regarding Caesar in Fallout - I met him way too late in the game and I killed him (your not supposed to be able to at that part of the story) - this broke the game so I was never able to finish the game since my auto save happened right after I killed him.

Just removing guns made me skip this game. And I loveeeee the first game. It was just significantly better overall. Perfect balance of exploration, fun, fear and firepowerrrrr

This game wasn’t even scary compared to the first game. The way the movement felt compared when running in a chase was lame the map on dy2 was a pain to get around .. always found my self running outta parkour room. The first game I was always worried about running outta stamina

Looking back at this video it’s nice to see all the improvements that have happened since launch such as the improvements on making weapons both more special/different from each other, for example the katana and the long axe have different animations and ways of interacting with enemies, and making weapons impact and get stuck on enemies more while also making hits more faster. I can’t wait to see how much this game grows and evolves to its fullest potential. Sad that we have to wait for it instead of getting it from launch.

Lawan I rank with Barney. Ugh.

The real reason the second dying light wasn't as good as the original is because of the physics engine the combat was much more satisfying in the original because of it's superior physics.

The weapon's and impact of them was much more realistic and impactful and weapons didn't go through enemies it hit them and bounced off of them like it would in real life in the sequel the weapons go through enemies the physics are antiquated and it brought the whole experience down.