Dying Light 2 is the best sequel that everyone HATES

[@TheCoolJayMan]

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[@Jikuri]

1 too many couple fixing quest. 4 out of 10 compare to the GOAT the OG, D REALEST TO HAVE DONE IT ALL KYYYYLE CRAAAAAANE. Ain't playing this garbage. Gonna buy The Beast though 😘

[@RebellionBloodshed]

Why??? Reason number 1: SWEET BABY SHIT No more reasons.

[@spicydong317]

@@RebellionBloodshed Others: genuine criticisms of game mechanics and writing You : lE WoKe lE WoKe lE WoKe!!! People like you ruin game discourse

[@papamurphypizzeria2430]

Me when my light bulb is old

[@emulatorisland7417]

+2

[@TheCoolJayMan]

You won the comment section

[@CHARIF_Omar]

Didn't get it

[@TheDarkness5]

When Dying Light 2 first showed that demo it was like a fever dream. And what we got was a shell of what it could have been and should have been.

[@buliwuf8489]

Thank you.

[@Dorkeydaze]

Seriously the three we seen involving the water tower, the pumps in the PK territory and who gets the old swimming school looked so goated. Plus a lot more moral flexibility. In the water tower E4 showcase you could profiteer with the brothers allowing thugs to sell the water on the black market making yourself rich. You could be running around with the best loot, money and drip choosing the thugs, or side with the PK allowing water to be available on the ground level getting you no drip but helping stabilize the city and slowly help rebuild humanity

[@私の名前を翻訳しないでください]

​@@DorkeydazeYeah the story and choices seemed to be a lot more complex in the demos. It's so damn unfortunate they got rid of Chris Avellone, I feel like he would have greatly improved the narrative.

[@damek8576]

blame the two women lying about sexual assault

[@Noah_112]

​@@damek8576If they kept there mouths shut and not say anything then Dl2 would be the best game ever not that Dl2 isn't good now it is but There's gonna be more updates after the beast comes out so I kinda have hope still but yeah I blame them!!

[@williammcleroy558]

Nothing like being OP throughout the game only to have a cutscene take over your character and show what a chump you are. All Aiden's gasping, grunting, panting, and screaming makes it even more apparent. Also get weird looks from my wife while going into a dark area and Aiden suddenly starts making all those goofy sounds like he's about to... Well... You know... 😂

[@basedoki8154]

Oh shit 😂😂😂

[@Dorkeydaze]

The renegade ending is literally just a Diddy party 💀💀💀

[@bloodygekkon]

💀😂

[@MrAjking808]

Cringe

[@Dorkeydaze]

@ It’s funny and you know it

[@Noah_112]

​​@@DorkeydazeDiddy jokes in November 😒

[@JayRM714]

80 percent positive reviews on steam tells me that most ppl enjoy this game...

[@KaitoIsHere]

I think i have shared my fair share of criticism on this game, and while i still think the e3 version will always be the real dying light 2 im not ashamed to say i still love dying light 2 and i have over 1,300 hours on it, will always stick and support this franchise because it deserves the support the devs listen and they are good people!

[@Pajser-7c]

Is it worth buying it?

[@IANC4EVER]

@@Pajser-7c its sooo not worth buying it. Its awful. Truly awful. Worst part about DL2 is that its very boring. Imagine a zombie game with all the scares and horror removed. Maybe wait and get The Beast when its out, but that'll be £30. If you want scarier atmosphere DL1 is still better, in every way. Rule of thumb is, DL1 for older gamers who like survival and scares, DL2 for kids. Dont waste your money, even the devs are abandoning it to make a 'new' DL game (The Beast).

[@samuelrebolloza572]

@@Pajser-7c Dont listen to this guy, Dying light 2 is a solid game, yes the story sucks, and the world isn't as memorable, but the parkour is the best its been, the gore is awesome, and they are still updating the game while I'm typing this. I payed 100 dollars for it and don't regret it with all the improvements it has now, if you loved dying light 1, you bare minimum will enjoy dying light 2, get it when its on sale.

[@imagine_brata3012]

@@Pajser-7c I have 1600+ h in the game and never get tired, and play daily

[@chrisgr9050]

@@imagine_brata3012 damn. Tf do you do to play 1600 hrs. I have 250 hours over 2 years and i feel like i have milked almost everything. The parkour kept bringing me back but after 250 hours event that got a little boring

[@damek8576]

blame the two women that lied about sexual assault for the story being so bad

[@NotoriousB.E.N]

I liked the story besides some characters ne er being introduced again at later points I found the VAs for aiden lawan and hakon did so well that the relationships felt genuine the flirting from aiden and lawan and the masculine bro vibes with hakon was chefs kiss

[@doronharry2857]

What i found is that in old villedor you can climb everywhere, but in the loop, without the hook, you're relying on elevators. Ans sometimes even with hook you can't parkour everywhere

[@comfyphoenix]

Are you sure about that? I think you just suck at parkour if you think that

[@sadra5968]

Tbh, dl2 (gameplay wise) is great, lots of movement and attack moves ect, but yeah the story was always ahh. lets hope techland learnt from their mistakes and don't do the same with dl:tb T-T Also its nice to see someone make a well-edited video(s) of dying light lol

[@T0FFII]

Doesn't help when the original story writer gets wrongfully accused of some bad stuff, so they bin his entire plot & rush an entire new one. Prolly would've been okay otherwise.

[@DatAsianGuy]

@@T0FFII yeah, and its crazy how techland lied about how much was cut or how deeply involved he actually was. the ending of the game looked to be a mid point decision in the e3 showcase. it is crazy.

[@raskolnikov6443]

@@T0FFIIit’s a shame how they treated him.

[@malman_is_boiiii]

I like Lawan and Hakon but at the same time I'm kind of worried for myself around them since I feel like they want something from me but they never say. I feel that way since Hakon saved me from the bazarians for no reason and helped me so much for no reason and here comes another character called Lawan who caught me hanging out with her ex yet she saves me from Waltz and helps me out again and again and for what?!?! WHAT DO THEY WANT?!!?

[@TheCoolJayMan]

That's a problem with all the characters really even aiden only helps people cus he wants something from them, at least hakon is cool

[@malman_is_boiiii]

@@TheCoolJayMan and also what's with your title saying DL2 is the best sequel? Did you have that for extra clickbait or did you mean it's the sequel for the best game?

[@Snake_eyes0]

​@@malman_is_boiiiiHe just likes the game is all man

[@FnafFoxGirl]

Nah frank the best (Even if it's alcoholic!), I don't care what you say

[@malman_is_boiiii]

@@FnafFoxGirl I actually hated him in my first play through due to my choices of choosing Juan as the one who gets to have the radio from the VNC tower but in my second play through I loved him a lot since giving him the radio from the VNC tower gave him a big chance for redemption and he absolutely did redeem himself.

[@MojaveKnight17]

It's a bad game at launch

[@TheCoolJayMan]

Real

[@Erickhetfield]

It wasn't. Fanboys just had unrealistic expectations.

[@DARK_DEEP]

​@@Erickhetfield let me fix what you just sayd "game got in development hell, main script writer got fired, games vision changed alot, the gamedirector love ubisoft style games"

[@Decager]

@@Erickhetfield people had the expectation of a game at least on par with the original. i don't think that's too unrealistic

[@Jo_nis]

@@Erickhetfield💀

[@Antmonkey42]

I feel like Aidan is gonna start going: GIVE ME LEE at any moment

[@deccyhuh]

It looks like The Beast is trying to combine the best aspects of both games, so it will probably be peak 👍 peak video btw

[@zay_tiggygaming]

with the same engine as DL2 with a couple tweaks. I guarantee since Crane is coming back people will just ignore it

[@Noah_112]

​@@zay_tiggygamingI honestly don't care about crane I only care if the beast is a great game And the graphics are good and there's no cartoonish feel to the graphics like Dl2 and the World+parkour

[@zay_tiggygaming]

@@Noah_112 whatever improvements the beast gets and if they’re received well, dl2 will get those as well as mod support. So it’s looking good for dying light regardless

[@Noah_112]

​​@@zay_tiggygamingThat's A huge W! When I first heard that I was Like YESSSSS!! So I hope that the beast will be worth it! I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I'm just really excited man!! 🎉

[@alybadry203]

I feel like with all the updates. And the fact they're planning on taking the improvements they make when developing The Beast and impliment it in Dying Light 2. The game is pretty solid now. It does things differently which helps maintain Dying Light's charms to itself while the sequel can be its own thing too. I love both games cuz they have their stengths and weaknesses.

[@Noah_112]

When I Heard about The beast is taking those feature in Dl2 I got really hyped!! 🎉

[@kingkeytae999]

I was kinda hoping they would have expanded on the zombie storyline and why he would turn ultra infected every now and then I definitely thought there would be some gameplay mechanics for it like at night you can charge jump or a fling melee I thought it might even be an ultimate thing where you charge it over time and can unleash the beast

[@mankismelbournejay]

Needed to expand on the traps. Traps were ace on the first.

[@comfyphoenix]

There are plenty of traps if you sided with the Peacekeepers

[@clueless4150]

What i also noticed is that during the playthrough it is shown that Jack Matt has some kind of Illness indicated by his coughing, especially during the VNC tower mission. And its deliberately shown during the cutscene where the PKs enter the elevator however this never got picked up again and just seems like some plot point they just forgot about.

[@rockygingerstudio]

wrong it is picked up later on if you speak to him. He has uncurable cancer if I remember correctly

[@lucasmuller858]

The storytellinng in dl1 is so much better than dl2,like with the bug who make zombies disapear,you can have a full time exploring the maps and try to figure out what happened,thanks to the multiple blood marks or dead bodies,destroyed/crash cars,you can conclude this was a mess + with thr detail of the dead bodies which flies are all around,u can say it is hot in harran. In dl2,it is not that interesting to explore the map,it all looks the same

[@Snake_eyes0]

Dl1 has a really mid story but the following is really great

[@smellyeggrolls21]

​@@Snake_eyes0 I feel like all story for dl1 was traded for world building with how polished most side quests and collectibles stories were compared to the main one

[@Snake_eyes0]

@smellyeggrolls21 true the side content for dl1 was really well done in my eyes

[@MLG_Autumn]

From what ive played so far, i believe the D1 volatiles are more deadly than d2. You just outrun them most of the time, meanwhile D1 catch up, slash you and pounce . They seem way formidable and i never found myself ever dying to them in D2.. i never even heal in D2 ever because normal mode is still so easy.

[@comfyphoenix]

Are you sure? DL1 volatiles are an absolute breeze to deal with for me while DL2 volatiles are actual spawns of Satan. Huh.

[@DARK_DEEP]

I dont hate it, i had 200+ hours of fun, but it still give me felling i will never play the game techland showed us in 2018 on e3, i would love to try it as well. Before anyone says, no "DL the Beast" isn't even close to what was on e3 2018

[@PonyBoy1776]

5:35 that Avatar scene has me laughing more than I should. It really do be feeling like that though when running out of stamina😂

[@UmadDrnkCaffeine]

Well they did say some things and made some decisions that turned a lot a people away from the game. Now don’t get me wrong I pre ordered the game and ended up playing for 60 hours straight and enjoyed it.

[@duffinthemuffin5792]

watching this just makes me want to play DL1 again

[@Chada-uNîzam-îCedîd]

I just played dead island 2 dying light lacks unique zombies and the fact they gave certain equipments guns armor only with DLC is annoying other than that parkour is very fun both fun game imo

[@johnmiranda4587]

The dying light 1 story sucks. -Burned the antinzin knowing he could have kept it and used it for himself -Non-existence build-up of relationships between Crane and the main supporting characters that made their death weightless. -How the F did Rahim become Crane's best friend😂. -Crane having delusions of Jade giving him directions was pointless -Breken "victim of being white in the story"

[@melvin7086]

Man, I hope the devs cook with the Dying Light The Beast to make it even surpass the level of how Dying Light 1 was.

[@euuIgor]

The story in the first game wasn't that great, but it still managed to be much more memorable than the second, which is funny because they tried sooo hard to make it better in the second, only to mess it up completely

[@Skopy669]

really good video dude

[@devilzdandruff9199]

I love Dying Light 2!! It had a bit of a rough launch but they fixed the game since then. It runs and looks great!

[@johnycrawler]

Not having PvP killed the game for me. I achieved everything fast and there's nothing more just waiting for another update. In DL 1 I spent more than 800 hrs being a survivor in be the zombie mode. I really miss that.😢

[@scottmiller4587]

This game was meant for you to side with the survivors and forgive hakon and have lawon leave with you at the end

[@comfyphoenix]

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS: You can leave with Hakon if you save Lawan and nuke the city and there's one more requirement with the Butcher that I forgot.

[@EDGERUNNER737]

that vendor reference to Destiny 2 was hilarious :)

[@calebb7012]

They ruined most of the mechanics. No skeleton system, barely any ambient noise, hell even night time is safer in the second game; 0 to little tension unlike the 1st. You've done a terrible job of convincing anyone here to give this a try or another in my case.

[@Hewasnumber1]

Night time is way more dangerous in Dying Light 2 than in 1. You have to try really hard to avoid volatile lines of sight, and you still get into plenty of chases. In Dying Light 1 you’re able to break a chase in forty seconds, but in Dying Light 2 after the updates I’m scrambling up and down to try to break line of sight and get some distance. I even started ducking into bushes in an attempt to hide from the zombies, and it only works about half of the time. Night time in Dying Light 2 is way more intense than 1’s ever was now, you should try playing the game from the beginning again.

[@Hikaeme-od3zq]

​​@@Hewasnumber1 It's more dangerous (is it even?) for the wrong reasons tho: Since the game suffers from a CLEAR lack of direction, and it can be seen from the fact that they absolutely butchered the ambience and mood of the game, the nights are more "dangerous" only to compensate from the lack of actual good buildup. The nights in DL1 are just well made and are incorporated in this survival horror, open world, sandbox game that DL1 was. I can't help but feel as though if they actually nailed the ambience and mood of the game, the nights would've been REALLY better in DL2.

[@millia410]

Fuck techland whoever the lead game designer was for dl2 is a fuckwit game looks like it was designed by little kids. Nothing scary about it. No tense moments. Jenky combat and fkn SHITE PARKOUR MECHANICS.

[@jesusisking8502]

He did great considering he was trying to sell a crap sandwich.

[@comfyphoenix]

You seem to be living in the past. They added the skeletons and made the game way harder at night a while ago. Techland is all about community feedback.

[@TheBigO72285]

For it being given out for free, at least with ps plus or whatever they changed the name to, it’s a good game. I’ve just started but I’m not sure if things have been retconned or what is up with how the infection is working but it’s a cool game so far.

[@comfyphoenix]

They may have accidentally retconned a few small things and the infection in DL2 is an evolved strain of THV, which works differently to it's predecessor.

[@TheBigO72285]

@ thanks for the reply. I just found that out and it makes sense. I’m wondering how the two strains interact as Crain is still alive and infected but is also “cured” I’m interested to see how the new game handles the infection.

[@comfyphoenix]

@@TheBigO72285 Crane is infected with the first strain of THV, which means he doesn't need to worry about immunity

[@obSUde]

The thing I hate in DL 2 is the choose your destiny type of gameplay and and the floaty parkour but yeah otherwise it's good. Hope DL beast has developers merging best of both games 1 and 2.

[@TWGatorade]

dallas from dying light 2 from payday 2 from the paid dlc

[@timgreenwald1043]

The thing I absolutely hate about the game is the grinding to upgrade blueprints. When the game first came out it was an artificial way to extend gameplay, but also because you were farming volatiles it made the volatiles less scary. You started seeing the monsters as currency and would simply use the easiest methods to farm their materials. If you played the game normally and ran away from volatiles, or if you killed one during a chase, you don't really have time to gather materials to properly farm for upgrades. the Cycle of gameplay made no sense. Same thing with adding weapons with stats on it, no point in farming for the best weapon (with the best stats) if you are going to eventually lose it and can't repair it (which they eventually fixed by adding repairing). The RPG-like aspects of this game shouldn't have been added with zero forethought.

[@comfyphoenix]

I feel like this aspect is not very prevalent in Nightmare mode, as you are too busy fighting for your life to worry about grinding and also Legend XP is boosted very high so you don't need to worry about grinding for hours to get XP. Also Infected Trophies are not tied to type of infected now, so no need to farm volatiles.

[@TheShawPlays]

Shoutout to TheJayMan for chasing the bag fr

[@TheShawPlays]

(The add was peak)

[@blackister4768]

Cut the choices and consequences of the game and you already have a better game. Linear stories are not bad, its simple and straight to the point. You could probably still have multiple endings with hakon, lawan or solo but it doesn't matter anyway. The game is rigged from the very beginning, they started with a broken game that is still broken to this day, even tho they did some good changes but the player count can talk for itself, people don't care about this game anymore and barely no one is streaming, doing videos about it or whatever. Techland is not a bad company, but they F up pretty hard and should have not promised 5 years of content. I think it would be better if they just started to work on dl3 right after the game was released and maybe do some fixes for the game here and there, release a dlc and done, this game can't really be fixed and they proved it with the announcement of The Beast.

[@comfyphoenix]

There are many videos on Dying Light 2, and Techland said they're gonna add the improvements in DL: TB to DL2 if it does well.

[@unkwn6741]

My best bud told me it got a lot better but ive never gotten around to playing it again after the abysmal time i had with the demo when it came out. Just some of that no mans sky trauma, which he also plays and remembers as being great, whereas i hate it because of the memories i have with it.

[@Pilgrimetro]

The choices ruined many games, including mine, I accidentally sided with Juan, which for some reason locks you into him ruling the city for this one decision in the middle of the game, and you also get Locked out of the Hakon church fight which means Lawan dies during the blast, you are also forced to go against jack matt, and frank dies no matter what, all from giving Juan the radio tower, the problem is it makes the game very confusing from this one choice that 33% of the players made, they should have made it more clear that this would be the evil/kill everyone route but they don’t…

[@comfyphoenix]

In my opinion, I thought it was incredibly obvious which choice was bad.

[@ragnarfrost569]

We better see you wickedly slaying snow fishes in monster hunter soon😂

[@Erickhetfield]

DL2 has the same problem most modern AAA games have: it's to big and open. Dying light was a linear game, with a basic z straightforward story and "short". DL2 went the open-world route, with "500 hours of gameplay". I've never saying a single game be better with this jump in scale than it was as a linear experience.

[@Snake_eyes0]

The problem is to many people want these super long 500+ hour games and complain when they don't get it because the devs wanted to give actual quality

[@jesusisking8502]

@@Snake_eyes0 hahaha. Even Sh*t has levels of quality so I guess you are right.

[@void7837]

calling dying light 2 the best sequel is like calling hunt down the freeman half life 3.

[@Wraith_Of_The_Shadows]

my conclusion as of yet, both games are equally good but i like dl2 more ok, so i haven't finished the game yet, but i love the game, funny thing because the ai is different from dl1 it's way scarrier for me, i can set it from, no pain no gain lighting to aaaaaaa wtf the darkness is touching me cheecks! essentially i haven't played the game for like 6 months (some friendship issues) i played it and i was like, ah so volatiles spawn on roofs now, that's pretty cool, so i went inside a building and had an volatile jump and climb trough a hole in the wall and then clap my cheecks in a corner. peak gameplay honestly, altho we need a difficulty mode called ''realism'' essentially, get caugh in the dark? you get ur cheecks clapped, you can bleed out, actually you know what, just make project zomboid but dying light, imagine! you miss your jump and breake your leg now you have to limp to a safe zone, perhaps splint will speed up the healing? no clue, anyways words of wisdom, there are fun and good bugs, like dl1 borderlands 2,3 and just cause 2,3 but there are bad bugs like ur save being lost or getting stuck in a wall forever) also i like how colourful the game is, also there still is the setting to make the game more bleak, not sure how long it took you to make the video but fair enough

[@greggfridline4260]

I am doing a replay now, I am really liking the game. I can't put my finger on it, but it just feels different than DL1 but its still pretty good.

[@Gendor64]

Most things have thankfully improved. Ignoring the story (for very obvious reasons) my only issues last i played were the usual. Looting bodies taking way too long, especially with how often you had to do it for the infected trophies. Enemy deaths still being stiffer than DL1, using consistent animations most the time. And don't get me started on the weird semi live service daily/weekly quest stuff. Why techland? Beyond that it becomes increasingly minor stuff that sure would be nice to have addressed but i can live with. Like enemy lunge attacks being overly magnetized towards you. Making dodging virtually impossible at times.

[@conorcuthbertson532]

K so I never paid attention to the story and there the middle scence, and somehow I missed that part and my exact thoughts as I saw the rockets cross the tip of the buildings. ‘Is That a fucking nuke?’

[@vandalcreed]

For me the story in DL1 was just as meh as DL2. It was the environment, parlour, combat, etc, that made me love the 1st.the DLC was a beautiful cherry on the somewhat flawed cake. So when the second was released but, imo, it was a step backwards with no vechile, I was kind of expecting the map to have a big city that could only mostly be traversed by foot and surrounded by country side that was best traversed by a vehicle.

[@Muizemullard414]

I dont know why, but dying light 2 gameplay is the only gameplay ive actively disliked. I was getting to frustrated with bashing zombies, getting grabbed constantly, low health items, taking fall damage after each and every slightly tall fall, the night missions where so unbearable because of the constant spam of volatiles, the annoying need to have to collect stuff to upgrade my character, the still broken and janky animations the boring sidequests which already soured me when the first mission i got was a dude talking about fish and that was it! The horrendous dialog that didn't even make sense and usually made me cringe into oblivion, the fact its years later and they gloss over the world ending to a more generic apocalypse which skips all the good stuff, i dont even like the mc voice acting either it sounds like he is trying to hard and trying to sound hardcore or emo. And the story ugh... actually im starting to understand why i hated dying light 2 after typing for a bit.. yeah i dont think i like anything about dying light 2 which is kind of sad because i loved dying light 1.

[@jvsyoutube3298]

i got it on release on ps4, damn it was VERY buggy..... but fixes was pretty fast. Loved the game, but when "winning" the game, it just felt empty, so stopped playing pretty short after that. Should release more maps and missions.. Really like the series!

[@TheDemonGamerOfFleetStreet]

Well I am not even 24 hours in on DL2SH and up to now im enjoying the combat, traversing rooftops, looting, and the missions. What I ain't enjoying is Hakons jittery way he looks when he runs and how my flashlight keeps turning off whenever a cutscene starts. Yes you can turn it back on but why turn it off if I am gonna turn it back on again in order to see? Its fricking frustrating man and im already growing old of it. Apart from those two things which are not exactly greek tragedies I am enjoying it. The night I don't necessarily agree on it being a diluted down DL1 experience because I have taken chases already and they don't let up and seem more hell bent on catching you. Night Hunters seem more OP too, at least to me they do. I have both games and yes DL1 holds a special place in my heart, I will never forget how much I shat my britches on that first Night Hunter chase looking for Antizen, the drums start and you can almost feel them breathing and snuffling and grunting down ya neck. Talk about anxiety I almost papped out my liver and kidneys. And I died the first go too lol. The tension and terror and anxiety to get away was there, it was well made imo. As for its younger brother I am gonna see. Again im not even 24h in.

[@hasoonnine]

I'm the opposite of you I'm glad it turns off, it's quite distracting in the cut scene to just have this light on and it's a bit weird to shine a light on someone's face

[@TheDemonGamerOfFleetStreet]

@hasoonnine it's too dark for me bro, I can't see nothing sometimes apart from an outline. And it is weird shining a light in somebody's face but I do it so to see detail. I'm kinda learning to just ignore the fact I have to flick it back on to see now. I'm not sure why this game has had the hate it has? I'm finding it alright myself, I mean I ain't sure about it being as good as its older brother but it's still a cool game up to now. Night chases are pretty heart pumping and they seem like they actively search you out more, or the Night Hunters and Volatiles seem so. Do you still play the game like?

[@hasoonnine]

@@TheDemonGamerOfFleetStreet i literally started playing it last week as it became free on ps plus. and ive enjoyed it so much. usually i dont play games much as im busy but ive kinda got addicted to this game like i did to the original

[@cind_h_er5717]

Well, 'everyone' is a rather hard generalisation. It's my favourite of the two, and Hakon and the Nightrunners are a million times more interesting than Crane.

[@comfyphoenix]

Yeah, the Nightrunners are incredibly interesting. If they made a book that was just entirely Nightrunner lore, I would buy it immediately.

[@cind_h_er5717]

@@comfyphoenix Definitely.

[@beto4552]

This youtube channel is so underrated 😢

[@theperfectdesignoflife]

I think they’re both amazing games y’all stay safe tho

[@peterkujawski1370]

Dying Light 2 is a lot better when you skip the flashbacks entirely tbh

[@Mikito456]

I liked it, but I also didn't buy it at launch. I usually don't buy games at launch, every game needs updates. The story is not as interesting as the original, but the overall game itself is a lot of fun, and I enjoyed it a lot. That being said, a lot of the criticism is valid. The game had some pretty glaring technical issues at launch, and critiquing that is totally valid. Even after the fixes, the plot does feel a little weak, its just not as impactful as the original.

[@logankelly6807]

I hated it at launch, but I've replayed it about 6 months ago, and it's in my top 15 games

[@jesusisking8502]

You must play some pretty crappy games then.

[@logankelly6807]

@jesusisking8502 maby, but frankly, I don't care if a game sucks or not, just that I had fun playing it and I didn't have fun with my first dl2 playthrough but had a lot of fun the second playthrough

[@comfyphoenix]

​@@jesusisking8502Here is the thing, every single game has a lot of flaws. If the game is fun enough to the point where I can completely ignore the flaws, then it is good. Have fun with your miserable life of negative criticisms.

[@jesusisking8502]

@@comfyphoenix Spoken like a true Tencent executive or sold your soul Techland dev. hahaha. Have fun with your miserable game.

[@notaweeb4267]

I honestly just started watching KZbin videos on my second screen while playing through the game, The characters and story were boring af. Never had the urge to do that on DL1 even after 3 or so play throughs. Running around the world doing activities such as air drops and wind mills was fun like that though.

[@comfyphoenix]

You can turn off the power in bandit outposts if you go the top of their windmills so my favourite thing to do is turn off their power at night and throw a bunch of infected bait everywhere so a bunch of virals and volatiles start coming in. So many infected came in that they STARTED SPAWNING INSIDE THE OUTPOST

[@vexberetta7944]

I’m a firm hater,whole map and objectives are copy and paste,story is absolute garbage, dlcs are fun for 5 minutes then it’s just pointless mega farming.

[@ragingcroc1802]

the prefer dying light 2 since for me the over all gameplay is much better like the combat feeling funner and the parkour is smoother even tho the story sort of poopy atleast we got a final boss that isnt a qte. i like the stealth part since it does work not always very well. some people do complain that alot of the buildings are copy and pasted with i can agree with but most towns cities are close enough the same and the layout inside are also close enough like the ones in real life and its the same as the first game have the same problem but not as much yeah the first game is fun and the story is better the combat feels alittle less fun since once u get a gun ur more likely going to use that. in the second game i only use the guns on big boys or the nighttime boys i prefer using the bows one normal enemies. dont want to add more to this since dont want to make it too long

[@javarjv]

That is because they botched it, from the ground up the game is lackluster compared to the first in just about everything single way

[@Aga2522BrawlStars]

Waltz is Aiden's father tho, he says "son" in one of the lines during the boss fight

[@lilmacc]

I just got it for the first time I’m enjoying it…but the audio for voices keeps going out any fix for that? It’s making it un playable tbh.

[@winicjusz1328]

Try changing sound settings in game or just reinstall the game

[@lilmacc]

@ sound settings didn’t work 🫠so I’ll try to uninstall and reinstall. Thank you

[@winicjusz1328]

@@lilmacc if this wont work try finding other people with the same bug. Even though i enjoyed Dying Light 2 the game was buggy which might ruin some players expierience

[@lilmacc]

@@winicjusz1328 it does suck because I just played all of dying light 1 for the first time this last weekend and had a blast so I immediately jumped into the sequel I’m only 6 hours in but man that bug just killed all momentum.

[@deuchebaggins8660]

I still play Dying Light 1. It's an excellent game, but has some jank and a few bad design decisions. The Mad Max wasteland setting turned me off to Dying Light 2, and I think they squandered an opportunity to to turn this into a major series. Think about if they would've shown the virus escaping and infecting different countries, they could've set the game anywhere they wanted for as many sequels as they wanted to make.

[@josh1mark]

Crazy timing. I've been thinking about this game a lot lately just waiting for a big sale

[@malman_is_boiiii]

They've recently started doing %60 off instead of %50 off. Also Oct 30th might be when Tower Raid releases and the game goes off sale during big updates so get ready.

[@OpenAi-4]

Free now on PS+ extra

[@scottmiller4587]

Hopefully DLC 2 will be good like it's sounding like its gonna be good

[@22BROADIE]

I was looking forward to this game more than just about any other game that I can remember. When it came out I just felt betrayed....no other way to say it! They took my gritty zombie game, made it arcadey. With health bars above zombies and an agregious over the top UI. Doubled down on the Human combat. Which was the worst part of DL1 in my opinion. I loved the part in DL1 where u constantly felt like zombies were sneaking up on you from behind when u were in the city streets. Added real tension. I can't even bring myself to play this new entry. Have tried and just quit out. Still hurts to this day this betrayal if Im honest? Anyone else feel this way?

[@quademasters249]

I stopped playing because there wasn't a likable character in the whole game (well, Hakon was OK). I was supposed to go on a faction mission but my "team mates" were so unlikable, I just couldn't do it. I backed off and tried to snipe them but the game wouldn't let me take them out. I turned the game off and haven't been back. It didn't help that combat just doesn't feel visceral like DL1. Everything seems floaty and your strikes just don't seem to do much.

[@dimitriskotsis9254]

Wow, what a review, i had a lot of laughs but now i am confused, too much info for my little brain, but it was fun. Thanks mate, maybe i will try it again but i was a lot disappointed from dl2

[@zay_tiggygaming]

I love both. Have 500+ hours on the second, and about 160 on the first. I loved the atmosphere, physics and sunsets in the first but everything felt super clunky and there was no block button and lackluster parkour. The second feels much better for me with customization, blocking, parkour and combat. The hate used to be deserved but now it’s just a running bad joke. Both games are great and both are better than the other in specific areas, but you’re right this was a good sequel because it expanded on most elements in the first like sequels should do. They messed up by folding and adding guns instead of makeshift weapons. They should have stuck to their vision cuz people still complain anyway. I never thought it was a terrible game. I bought it after a year and gave it a 7. Now it’s a solid 8.5. I still give the first a 9.

[@jacksonmadero5416]

The only things that really bothers me is that E3 is now shown as what we could have but will never get and how they left out many important details that they could have at LEAST copy and paste it from the first game. How can the day and night cycle be the most lackluster thing in dl2 but be perfected in dl1? Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE both !!games as well!!

[@zay_tiggygaming]

@ I agree night isn’t the same. It’s missing the iconic sunset and shifters. Nightmare mode improved it but still needs work. Hopefully when the beast drops they keep their word and add those things into dl2 cuz it seems the night andAnd everything is more similar to the first one

[@DarshanBhambhani]

I hate this game, I’ve spent 100 hours on it

[@corvusgaming2379]

I've beaten both games, and I love both games. But it all boils down to something that was pretty much discussed already: DL1 has the better story, but DL2 has the fluid parkour.

[@calebb7012]

Nothing to run from in DL2. It's laughable there's better enemies in the 1st game.

[@Hewasnumber1]

Dying Light 2 has the better story for me. Crane is the only thing making the story even slightly tolerable; and it’s not from a high investment into Crane’s struggles and goals, no, it’s because he makes the awful story funny. Whereas Dying Light 2, for all its story faults, at least gave me a really good time with roleplaying. I think people have a more negative opinion of the game’s story when they try to do the "right" thing all the time. Being a goody-two-shoes is just boring and keeps the story shallow. I played the game making Aiden prioritize his quest to find Mia above all else (with a few exceptions at the end of the game). Playing the game with a morally grey Aiden who tries to navigate a treacherous political scene to get what he wanted, but still trying to do the right thing when possible made the game way more interesting.

[@corvusgaming2379]

@@Hewasnumber1 The difference in protagonists make quite the difference, as Aiden is a survivor, Crane isn’t. He’s an agent that becomes a survivor. He’s purely trying to help the original survivors, while Aiden has his own goals, but, of course, each to their own.

[@brandonhymes9343]

DL 2 Story to me was just boring but it’s not a bad game it has improved a lot tho I do wish we had E3 DL 2

[@FluentLucidDream3rd]

never saw the scene where juan gets hanged

[@flakokevo7834]

9:37 Apollyon!?!?!?

[@SethKnox]

Even though I prefer the first DL by quite a bit, I did very much enjoy DL2. An important factor, though, is that even from launch I rarely experienced any bugs in the game (and none of them significant) (it should probably be noted that I only play solo, not multi-player). Now, if I had experienced the issues others were reporting, I would have been extremely disappointed with the game. Re: the story--it's not good (nor was the story in the first game); that said, my expectations for story in the zombie genre (regardless of medium--game, film, etc.) are not high. I think my biggest complaint about DL2 remains the copy-and-paste feel of the map. There have been some minor improvements with recent updates, but it's still painfully obvious. I found myself using the map in DL2 much more than in DL1 simply because I couldn't tell where I was much of the time in DL2 (many of the streets and building interiors looked the same).

[@DC180]

Dying light 1 is 4 bucks on steam atm AUD. or $22 definite edition... or.. DL1 DE and D2 for $52 . Which should I get?

[@TheCoolJayMan]

Get definitive edition of one first and if you enjoy it play 2 afterwards 💪

[@Sinreven]

Not only a Dl2 fan, but a Fear and Hunger Fan.. Based

[@PoetDrac]

Despite what everyone is saying i actually enjoyed the story and i still play it daily. Im also bias because parkour is my actual hobby so parkour and zombies…like come in now 😂

[@reddeaddude2187]

Gameplay: Quite fun Protagonist: Great voice actor, terrible direction Intro: Promising Story: Meh at best Lore: Delicious Sidequests: Ten enjoyable ones and the rest are thinly-disguised time trials Side activities: Unfulfilling Factions: Fart sounds DLC: What the fuck? Setting: Cool, but EXTREMELY copy and paste Endgame: Non-existent Bugs: Yep Replayability: Minimal

[@Based_nargacuga]

be a zombie not being in the game is a lost opportunity

[@wwalton]

Literally everything i dislike "not hate" about 2 they said they were improving and removing from The Beast mainly the choice system

[@irvindness3488]

It was a bad game on release But a lot changed since then. Playing it now, I see that it's still pure trash, but a bit reworked

[@CaZuaLDeMoN]

Just got back into Dying Light 2 after around 2 years and I'm having a blast with it. Bought it on release and was so hyped but wasn't enjoying it and was pretty disappointed For some reason couldn't put my finger on it exactly. On paper it should have been a better game than DL1 but just wasn't. Now with all the updates I would say its a pretty solid game but with only 28 hours in I would say I'm still early on in the game. Since I played 15 hours 2 years ago, I can't really remember the story so I'm talking about everything else except story.

[@mitchh5596]

Take it slow, enjoy every moment, it's not very replayable sadly. I had an absolute blast with it, subsequent playthroughs don't feel as good.

[@CaZuaLDeMoN]

​@@mitchh5596 Well im going to try and get all the achievements. I'm just doing a bunch of sidequests atm and haven't touched the main story in ages. After I get the achievements I will probably just uninstall but that will take probably around 100 hours of game time which is good value i think.

[@VanethReaper]

I can't comment on story in its entirety yet, I just started the game cause it's 60% off on steam, but yeah it's bad. Terrible really but..... I didn't get the game for its story anyway. I got it to slaughter zombies, have some "OH F#&K" moments as a volatile jumps me, and explore a different take on a post apocalyptic world. So far it's well worth the $33 it costed me to pick up lol. There are still a ton of updates to come which is nice as well, seems they are sticking to the 5 years of support promise they made. Lots of community input is either being worked on, or in the queue. It's not a completely terrible game, but it's not a hidden gem either.

[@Drkfire_Yt]

Dl2 is btr gameplay wise but bassically evrything else dl1 is btr, theres sobmuch they need to bring into dl2 from dl1 to make the game evn half as good.

[@Haxkarl]

Pawal forced the DL2 release early after they fired Avellone so that he could get his 200m $ bonus for hitting the sales number and releasing on time. I still wonder what this game could have been if it wasnt for greedy suits as always...

[@shadowfox3392]

The one thing I like about Dying Light 2 is the Peacekeepers they are an awesome faction and they are the only ones to want to fully eradicate every last single infected in the city it's too bad that they have to be depicted as nazi dictators.

[@twiska1402]

It's a good game now if story doesn't affect your enjoyment, which isn't the case for me so no DL2 in my lib.

[@VenusExplorer]

W rage bait take. Props to you brother for taking this side.

[@thegamingdave5089]

Dying Light 2 was the first game I pre-ordered. I wasn't disappointed at all because I am very easily impressed. I loved the first game, I loved the second game almost the same amount. I give the first game an 8/10 without the Following dlc and a 10/10 with the Following dlc. The second game I give a solid 7/10 without any story based dlc. I don't own any dlc aside from cosmetic stuff, so I don't have an opinion on the dlc.

[@Gogohobbytv]

I am missing the most that the choices are irrelevant and that claim that every gameplay will be unique was a lie. At least they bring back the roaming Volatiles. The gameplay is ok, but the story is really meh.

[@elusiveir]

Jay i may not know you but dying light 2 has more good reviews then bad ones i will say dying light 2 release was terrible but its ways better now thats why its got more good reviews then bad ones an i quote “A monster of a sequel.” A monster of a sequel.” 9.5/10 - Game Informer “A massive, exciting sandbox.” 8.4/10 - PC Gamer “The most intelligent zombie game.” 4/5 - TechRadar

[@mr-fatji1491]

After all the updates the games a solid 8/10 in terms of gameplay (needs better ragdoll physics) but every time I play a story mission it drags the game down to a 3/10, there are some solid ones here and there but nowhere near enough to save it, also almost every character in this game makes me want to rip my own ears off every time they talk with their corny ass dialogue.

[@diogosousa7698]

I still hate some mechanics they put (like gloves having buffs thst don't make sence) and the map basically sence most times you can just run in dying light 1 you would love to parkour around and it would be faster than Simply running ....and let's not talk about the last boss fight that was straight up bs and i was olaying with a friend but still half the fight he was just running away. my i ther problem would be the volatile being easy to farm not kill FARM

[@Prinny.]

Dying Light 2 is pure downgrade to its 1st game with the only new thing is a different parkour system

[@comfyphoenix]

This is false in so many ways.

[@richieboy1997]

I really do enjoy playing this game. i just wasn't a fan of the story

[@amirali31317]

It's a good game but we deserved the 2019 version