Will you be picking up Dying Light?

[HydraForce]

Personally, I won't be, for various reasons. Some I've stated in another thread, but I'll re-iterate them here so someone doesn't have to search through my post history. So, Dying Light, yet ANOTHER zombie game that offers "Free roam" capabilities. Now, looking at it, the first thing you'll notice is that it's pretty much using the same exact engine that Dead Island used, and it's sequel, so right off the bat we shouldn't expect anything fantastic to come from this game. The "Game Play" videos all seem to have parts of the HUD Disabled, but I'm more then willing to bet that once the actual game is released, we'll all see the familiar damage indicator and the magical health bars that appear above the zombie's heads, along with their level. Following that, Dying Light is using an exact clone-copy animation set from Mirror's Edge. While it's kind of cool to see those climbing mechanics in a game that's actually focused on action and fighting, it's still incredibly lazy to use the EXACT animation set. Go check out a video of Mirror's Edge, and then watch Dying Light, you'll see they are the same.

Moving on from that, this game is supposed to be based around "Survival" much like Dead Island claimed to be, but from the videos they've released so far, it's still the same type of game. You can meet and save random NPC's, but after doing so they just give you some cash and maybe a weapon upgrade, then stay inside the broken down building you just killed 15 zombies in. There's no type of escorting, or bringing them back to your camp as there is in Dead Rising 1 and 2 that we've seen yet. Simply put, I won't be picking this up because without a doubt in my mind, it's Dead Island 3, just with a new name and location.

 

[Legendoflore]

I want to but I think that I reached my quota for zombie games with The Walking dead. I honestly don't think I could handle another one without screwing and I have really bad feelings towards Dead Island so I'm not sure about that. I think it'd be cool if parts of it took cues from Mirror's Edge but your right in that those segments look pretty sloppy. It's a pass for me.

 

[aperture7]

I think I agree with you. Unless it's vastly different, which we won't be able to tell until it's out, I see it as basically a Dead Island. I know some have compared it to Last of Us, but I don't see that at all. It's a Dead Island game to me, which I couldn't finish.

 

[mevsthor]

I've actually been anticipating Dying Light for some time now. Zombie Games are some of my favorite and even though most of them are exactly alike I still enjoy them. I don't own Dead Island 3, nor have I played it so Dying Light will be a brand new experience for me. It does remind me a lot of "I am legend" though with the night fall thing. We will see though, it looks pretty good too me.

 

[desarijulian]

I'm not really sure. We'll have to see what happens to it, and what trailers they release but I'm also not really convinced by the fact that they are attaching the game to Dead Island. That alone makes me cringe and think that I need not play this game. I might be open but I'd have to wait to hear more about the game and the campaign before I make any decisions.

 

[desarijulian]

I'm not optimistic as to how could Dying light is going to be but I won't judge it until I get my hands on it or see more information about. I'm also not thrilled about the Dead Island connection but I'm willing to be open minded about it for now. But if it looks to much like one of my most hated series then I'm going to have to take a pass.

 

[dragoonblade]

I'm not optimistic as to how could Dying light is going to be but I won't judge it until I get my hands on it or see more information about. I'm also not thrilled about the Dead Island connection but I'm willing to be open minded about it for now. But if it looks to much like one of my most hated series then I'm going to have to take a pass.

 

[Legendoflore]

I'm not a fan of yet another zombie game but I would make an exception if they somehow switched up the genre. We've had games do it in the past, look at what happened with The Walking Dead Game or The Last of Us. There are ways to use zombies that makes the idea fresh, I'm just afraid that with Dying Light being based on the Dead Island series that is not what they are planning to do.

 

[desarijulian]

I want to be open minded about this but it's hard to prejudge it when they are lumping it in with Dead Island. To stand a real chance they need to do something innovative, something to get our attention because people are really sick and tired of just the same old zombie games. These days if you don't have a good story or really interesting gameplay then they tap out.

 

[irockfitteds]

I've only seen one trailer. I'm kind of torn. It looked pretty dope and I'm desperate for a good zombie game. My wife and I thought it looked promising but I was/am skeptical of how alarmingly similar it seems to be to Dead Island and I was not a Dead Island fan.

 

[hellsing006]

It's hard to know what to feel about a zombie game. So many of them are bad that you can't help but judge the entire genre. It's rare these days to get an original zombie genre game that has it's own theme. I hate Dead Island and I'm not happy that they are comparing it to the series but we'll see what happens.

 

[andy103]

From the trailer it looks interesting. My boyfriend is a bigger fan of zombie type games than I am, but it looks interesting. I simply don't really know what the point of it is yet. It just looks like a free running zombie game so I'm not sure if the story will be enough to keep me too interested or not yet.

 

[hellsing006]

I want to believe that this will be good. The zombie genre needs more games to think out of the box and reinvent it and there have been games that have been successful. But invoking Dead Island doesn't make me to hopeful that this will end well. But I'm willing to wait to see more before I completely throw in the towel.

 

[IncredibleGamenerds]

Saw some gameplay of it. the action is pretty good, must see what the end result will be.

 

[EVILDEAD333]

will be picking this up when it comes out love these kind of games

 

[Oberon]

will be picking this up when it comes out love these kind of games

With a forum name/PSN ID and avatar like that I expected as much :grin

 

[Oman]

this game looks awsome ive seen the trailer but nothing to me is known about the game i hope its a 4 man run online or maybe 8v8 who knows i juts cant wait to get to experiance zombie runins in firts person

 

[Sekelani]

Who is getting dying light?

Hey guys, I've been watching the gameplay of this game and wow I'm impressed. The graphics, story and gameplay looks awesome. This game has me at the edge of my seat.
In case y'all wana see the video I'm talking about here is
http://youtu.be/RLHR5smxbsc

This game looks gorgeous.
Apparently it's getting released on January the 27th, so it'll probably be here on the 28th Australia time.

Who else is thinking of getting this game?

 

[Oberon]

Defo think about it.
It sure looks good though.

 

[Alex_68]

I've watched the video, thank's Sekelani. I'm not sure if I am going to buy it because there's no 3rd person view... uhmm... -]