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Dying Light: The Beast - Gameplay Premiere Trailer (www.youtube.com)
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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

This will be the true Dying Light 2.

Let's. Fucking. Go.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

please i beg please god please

please have learned what made DL1 great and what made DL2 awful

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I havent heard this opiniom before (which means nothing lol) but I found them both to be really similar. Pretty fun gameplay and exploration, absolutely dog shit missions and story in general. What do people dislike about 2 over 1?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I disagree that DL2 was awful. It was different, and that pissed a lot of players off. But it wasn’t bad. My friends and I had a ton of fun just running around, blowing up Volatiles. The story was hot garbage, but you don’t play the series for the story.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not going to argue that you didn't, or can't, have fun, but people aren't upset because it was different. The combat and parkour are objectively worse.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Again, I think “worse” is pretty subjective. It was just different.

The first game’s parkour was extremely arcade’ish. The grapple being a Batman-style direct zip-to-point, that bypassed fall damage/gravity/objects in the way/etc, for instance. Once you unlocked it, fall damage became a complete non-issue because you could just grapple the ground and negate all fall damage via the zip-to-point. The only reason you’d ever take fall damage was because you fucked up your timing, and the only reason you’d fail to reach something was because you missed your grapple point.

The second game tried to dial back some of that arcade feeling. The grapple being a simple tug instead of a direct zip line, for instance. It just pulled you in the direction of your grapple hook, instead of zipping you directly to it. This meant it was still useful for mid-air navigation, but didn’t completely outshine the rest of the parkour mechanics like it had in the first game.