Dying Light 3

[Crypt Kicker]

What would make a Dying Light 3 really good? I thinking Dying Light 1 was a tad better than 2, but only in the sense one could argue Red Dead Redemption was better than RDR 2.
There was more in DL 2 than 1 but 1 has a charm to it that current day games can't replicate.
I'm replaying DL1 with all the bells and whistles before going onto DL2 and invite others to either praise it or shit on it, and to see if a Dying Light 3 could even work and what would make it good or bad.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

DL2 was a pile of shit, and its not a patch of DL1 which is a great game.

It suffered losing the main guy half way through development because of some woke nonsense. So you have a nice selection of non-whites who have the most generic reddit tier storylines for the majority of the game.

Save yourself the headache of suffering through the shitty story, awful cast and generally weak gameplay and just play 1 again or something else. Make sure you played the DLC for 1, its pretty great open area driving in your buggy.

 

[Flying Meat Wagon]

Not to derail, but how is DL2 almost as good as DL1? DL1 was the perfect blend of zombie action, parkour, and cars. Simple and tasteful.
DL2 is some unholy nightmare of Ubisoft gameplay. The game feels like having a nightmare after binge-drinking and playing Farcry and Assassin's creed.

All I would want for DL3 is DL1 gameplay with the taller and more interesting buildings from DL2, and probably some of the extra parkour moves from 2.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

DL2 was a pile of shit, and its not a patch of DL1 which is a great game.

As far as gameplay goes I didn't mind DL2, it certainly took some getting used to though. I think they tried too hard to make it "realistic" and it made it more annoying. Again, sort of the same complaints I had about RDR 2.

It suffered losing the main guy half way through development because of some woke nonsense. So you have a nice selection of non-whites who have the most generic reddit tier storylines for the majority of the game.

I've never heard about this? Isn't the main guy (Aiden or something? It's been awhile since I've played it) A white guy? I do agree with the reddit-esque story lines, but DL1 wasn't great in it's story either. I fucking hated Barry and I really wanted to like Rosario Dawson's character but she just came off like bitch for no reason even after you became friends with her.

Save yourself the headache of suffering through the shitty story, awful cast and generally weak gameplay and just play 1 again or something else. Make sure you played the DLC for 1, its pretty great open area driving in your buggy.

I hit a snag the first time I played through The Following, I'm gonna try it again after I finish the main campaign.
And by snag I mean I didn't have shit for weapons and my buggy kept getting destroyed and I'd get killed before I could find any. Similar thing happened in my Days Gone play through I rage quit. Maybe I'll try that again instead of DL 2.

Not to derail, but how is DL2 almost as good as DL1? DL1 was the perfect blend of zombie action, parkour, and cars. Simple and tasteful.
DL2 is some unholy nightmare of Ubisoft gameplay. The game feels like having a nightmare after binge-drinking and playing Farcry and Assassin's creed.

All I would want for DL3 is DL1 gameplay with the taller and more interesting buildings from DL2, and probably some of the extra parkour moves from 2.

After you get all the upgrades and shit the gameplay is similar, and the parkour might be ever so slightly upgraded. I hate the crafting system in 2 though.

 

[pyrogon]

Form a gameplay perspective dying light 2. The story for dying light 2 was ass though. Is it really a hard decision on who should have power when 1 faction can successfully control crime and zombie hoard outbreaks while the other is a bunch of drunk and disorganized retards who can only build shitty trash shanties?

 

[Flying Meat Wagon]

After you get all the upgrades and shit the gameplay is similar, and the parkour might be ever so slightly upgraded.

Interesting, my experience was the complete opposite. DL1 is one of my favorite games ever. DL2 was so gross to me that I dropped it after doing a few quests in the big city. I hated the parachute, the combat, and the weapon system.

 

[Heem 'em all.]

Aren't they putting out a new one with Crane?

 

[JamFlowMan]

Bought Dying Light 2 for cheap around Christmas time just to find every zombie wearing a santa hat for no reason killing any interest I had in the game. Don't do that shit.

 

[Miller]

I'd rather have Dead Island 3.

Aren't they putting out a new one with Crane?

Yeah, it feels like a quick cash grab after the shitty way they handled DL2 post-launch.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

Form a gameplay perspective dying light 2. The story for dying light 2 was ass though. Is it really a hard decision on who should have power when 1 faction can successfully control crime and zombie hoard outbreaks while the other is a bunch of drunk and disorganized retards who can only build shitty trash shanties?

"b..but law and order=fascism..." basically exactly what the game tells you.

Interesting, my experience was the complete opposite. DL1 is one of my favorite games ever. DL2 was so gross to me that I dropped it after doing a few quests in the big city. I hated the parachute, the combat, and the weapon system.

DL1 is in my personal Hall of Games, but the parachute came in handy a time or two, so much so I was expecting to find it in 1 but no.

Aren't they putting out a new one with Crane?

I think that's a DLC for DL2, I'm interested in that. I like how Crane in DL2 is kinda like a folk hero.

Spoiler

Tolga and Fatin return and they mention Crane, and there are other Easter eggs like children's drawings and such that kind spell that Kyle Crane is something of a forgotten legend.

Bought Dying Light 2 for cheap around Christmas time just to find every zombie wearing a santa hat for no reason killing any interest I had in the game. Don't do that shit.

Dying Light has done Holiday themed events for years. In DL1 they had the Easter event where you'd run around collecting eggs, and a Saint Patrick's Day event where you'd be rewarded for catching Leprechauns. They just run around like bolters.
Honestly TechLand has some of the best community events I've ever seen.

I'd rather have Dead Island 3.

I'd rather have Left 4 Dead 3 instead of that Back 4 Blood bullshit.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

I've never heard about this? Isn't the main guy (Aiden or something? It's been awhile since I've played it) A white guy? I do agree with the reddit-esque story lines, but DL1 wasn't great in it's story either. I fucking hated Barry and I really wanted to like Rosario Dawson's character but she just came off like bitch for no reason even after you became friends with her.

No the guy behind the scenes Chris Avellone. He was a major part of why the first game works so well, and he got hit with the metoo, but was able to sue the shit out of his accusers and they said it was all a big mistake and they never said anything bad. Either way, it fucked up the dev time and he was canned before he had a change to defend himself because techland are frail niggers. I dont think the first game was meant to become some epic long series of games, and they are ubitarded with their "we have added so many new things, all shit and annoying, but we can check list it for the mouth breathing masses who will gobble it up for the youtube videos. None of this will translate to sale, and thus, money, so it kinda means nothing!".

 

[Miller]

I fucking hated Barry and I really wanted to like Rosario Dawson's character but she just came off like bitch for no reason even after you became friends with her.

Speaking of Rosario Dawson's character, since they have added a chinese version of her as a bonus skin I wonder if Techland will release the original version, the one from the trailers.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

No the guy behind the scenes Chris Avellone. He was a major part of why the first game works so well, and he got hit with the metoo, but was able to sue the shit out of his accusers and they said it was all a big mistake and they never said anything bad. Either way, it fucked up the dev time and he was canned before he had a change to defend himself because techland are frail niggers. I dont think the first game was meant to become some epic long series of games, and they are ubitarded with their "we have added so many new things, all shit and annoying, but we can check list it for the mouth breathing masses who will gobble it up for the youtube videos. None of this will translate to sale, and thus, money, so it kinda means nothing!".

Ah, that's what you meant by "main guy". That fucking sucks. Dying Light is easily a modern classic, and it's like Star Wars without George Lucas or GTA without Leslie Benzies, you can slap the name on it but you can't recreate it. I'm not gonna say that Dying Light was perfect but Dying Light 2 lacked the soul. And you're correct, it was checkboxxy.

Speaking of Ubisoft, I had hoped that at some point Ubisoft would make a Far Cry game with parkour movement involved. A Far Cry 3 or 4 styled game (or even maybe 5 with baited breathed) with Dying Light style parkour? Sign me the fuck up. But instead Far Cry is now just a political whine fest about religion instead of an adventure/action series, and apparently they're adding in a Majora's Mask/Max Payne 2 time limit to Far Cry 7 as if Assassin's Creed Samurai Black wasn't going to kill them already.

Speaking of Rosario Dawson's character, since they have added a chinese version of her as a bonus skin I wonder if Techland will release the original version, the one from the trailers.

Do I dare even ask? The fucking "lore" behind the game is more interesting than the game's story itself.

 

[ParasiteSteve]

Mirrors Edge is a great game, but its just the parkour and no real combat. But yeah, somewhere in all these games is some amazing game if they would just put the parts together.

I dont think a DL3 is in the works, nothing any time soon. I don't think the sales for 2 have encouraged them to pursue this series any further, at least for the near future, who knows what they will do over time. I think we will see a DL remaster before we see a 3.

 

[Batko Bandera]

As others have said, Dying Light 1 was a perfect blend of mechanics. Dying Light 2 is just an OK game.

 

[Miller]

Do I dare even ask? The fucking "lore" behind the game is more interesting than the game's story itself.

I wish I knew all the shit that happened behind the scenes. My gayme theory is that after they fired Avellone, they rebooted the development and hired Dawson.

The original Lawan from the E3 trailer looked like this, although I don't think her name was orignally "Lawan":


The asian skin released for the mandatory Lunar New Year looks like this (I couldn't find a better pic):

I've seen people claim that she is like that in the Chinese version of the game which wouldn't shock me since Techland is owned by Tencent.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

Mirrors Edge is a great game, but its just the parkour and no real combat. But yeah, somewhere in all these games is some amazing game if they would just put the parts together.

I dont think a DL3 is in the works, nothing any time soon. I don't think the sales for 2 have encouraged them to pursue this series any further, at least for the near future, who knows what they will do over time. I think we will see a DL remaster before we see a 3.

I remember hating Mirror's Edge. I liked the parkour system but honestly I played for about an hour wondering when the tutorial was gonna end.
Maybe if I'd had gone into it knowing it wasn't going to be an action combat heavy game I would have liked it but I was expecting something else.
It's like when you're at a restaurant and you order a Pepsi, and the waitress oopsies and gives you a Dr. Pepper instead. Dr. Pepper is just fine, but when you're expecting a Pepsi, initially, you just think the Pepsi tastes wrong.

 

[Crypt Kicker]

I wish I knew all the shit that happened behind the scenes.
The original Lawan from the E3 trailer looked like this, although I don't think her name was orignally "Lawan":
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The asian skin released for the mandatory Lunar New Year looks like this (I couldn't find a better pic):
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I've seen people claim that she is like that in the Chinese version of the game which wouldn't shock me since Techland is owned by Tencent.

That is a lot of drama for a side character.
I did think it was weird that Rosario Dawson's character who LOOKS like Rosario Dawson, was named Lawan.
The name doesn't fit the character and it doesn't surprise me one bit of "Lawan" was supposed to be Asian instead of.. whatever the fuck Rosario Dawson is. Half black/half spic? Puerto Rican?
I like Rosario Dawson. I think she deserved a better role than what this game gave her.
I love Rosario Dawson and her big ol' mouth

Edited: Heavily. I fucked up a lot

 

[ParasiteSteve]

I remember hating Mirror's Edge. I liked the parkour system but honestly I played for about an hour wondering when the tutorial was gonna end.
Maybe if I'd had gone into it knowing it wasn't going to be an action combat heavy game I would have liked it but I was expecting something else.
It's like when you're at a restaurant and you order a Pepsi, and the waitress oopsies and gives you a Dr. Pepper instead. Dr. Pepper is just fine, but when you're expecting a Pepsi, initially, you just think the Pepsi tastes wrong.

True, and it is a game you need to be in the mood for. If you are looking for a good killing simulator like a Dying Light or some other shooty shooty, its a big let down. I really enjoy the aesthetics of the game though, story is kinda shite. So shite in fact, the sequel just acted as though the first game didn't happen.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

I'm looking forward to Dying Light: The Beast. Theoretically it should be a Dying Light 2.5 combining the best from DL1 and DL2 in a fresh location.

I hope DL3 has the atmosphere first and foremost from DL1. Harran was just creepy and atmospheric even in the day time. They should just keep doubling down on survival aspects and making the day and night cycle a significant obstacle to deal with. Maybe the game should take place in an American city? Maybe Seattle or Portland? I dont know I am not a game designer. All I know is I like both games despite DL2's faults and will be eager to play 3.