Will we get a quick look of dying light before its out or after? I would like to see what you guys think of it before I go and get it.

Probably after, given that it's nearly out and most of the guys are Paxing.

Apparently they have had a playable copy since the start on Jan, I don't know if it was pre-release, or not. Doesn't it release tomorrow?

this game looks like it will be terrible.

Yeah I remember Jeff saying on a Bombcast probably a couple weeks ago that he had a basically release version of the game already on PC.

But who knows. Not sure how the embargo is set up.

EDIT: okay well checked Arthur Gies twitter as he usually is very open about this subject and he says they haven't given out review codes or copies of the game to anyone.

I wonder if this will be good or not. I had zero interest in playing FarCry 4 but Dying Light looks a lot like it with better movement. Well, by better I mean 'seemingly better' as who knows for sure right. I like the idea of being able to parkour up and down places in first person. I don't really relish the idea of fighting zombies again.

@humanity: Brink had some cool auto-parkour stuff in it. I doubt this will be as good as Brink though :o

This game is just Dead Island, isn't it ?

@beachthunder: I don't know if I've ever heard anyone use the term "..as good as Brink" before.

They talked about it previously that they had the review copy of the game for a while but didn't get it to work properly.

Here is a pretty good look of it from the Best friends play guys. Should give you an overall idea of the game. Really just looks like another dead island.

This really seems like a 'wait for post-release reviews' game at this point. While I wouldn't call it a bad game, given what I've seen of it, I strongly recommend just waiting it out for some written impressions of it.

Well gotta say, I really didn't enjoy the commentary on that video but I did get a sense of how the game plays, more or less. Excuse the poor coincidence in wording, but it seems kinda lifeless.

@humanity: Interesting. Giantbomb and TBF are the only people I keep up to date with. I like both outlets for their personalities. As for the game, here in the UK, the physical copies were put on hold. Not sure if I should go digital in the PSN store for £54 (I know, it's pricey) or take a gamble, and hope to god it works on my PC. My processor blew and had to quickly replace it with a AMD Athlon II X2 250.

@thethingaboutmachines: I mainly didn't enjoy them constantly pointing out gaming tropes as if it was anything new or humorous to do so. Yes explosive barrels are always red, and wow they explode even if you hit them with a dull pipe and when you climb tall structures there are usually birds to show height. Like yes, I've played a video game before, and I've made these observations as well. It just felt whiny instead of funny, but maybe balancing between one and the other is their schtick - this is maybe the second video I've ever seen of theirs. It's like making those Back to the Future jokes because it's 2015, but in gaming form.

@ikilledthedj: thanks they're cool dudes I like them and never heard of them before they just got a new subscriber.

@humanity: That's fair enough. I suppose, I just enjoy listening to them and their lives. I've listened to their podcast for ages now, and followed them back when they were doing just Machinima short videos. I find the idea of following people and getting to know them, even though they don't know you personally, pretty odd. However, that's the draw for me with Giantbomb and the TBF.

I think RadBrad is pretty good for his videos because he doesn't talk during cut-scenes, yet fun to watch.

@thethingaboutmachines: Man that guy is a little too enthusiastic about stuff. Not sure if he's faking it or not but his "Oh gosh you guys oh god that was intense.. that was crazy!" is unbearable after a while.

@humanity: I think that's why I like him. In a world where mostly everyone is negative (me included), we need one dude who's being happy for the rest of us. I honestly think that guy is just that happy. Would hate to find out he's basically a pornstar and faked it all.

My guess would be that it depends on the embargo.

@ikilledthedj: That was a cool video thanks

There are a ton of twitch streams going that give you a pretty good idea of the game. It is a bit reductive but it looks like dead island meets asassins creed or mirrors edge. Since I haven't played anything like dead island since, well the first dead island it kinda got me pretty pumped. It looks put together WAY better than dead island, I didn't see any huge bugs or glitches and the game seems to run really solid on both consoles (pc seems good too from what I've found). Overall the technical woes of techlands original zombie game seem to have been squished into something that looks pretty good and polished.

So yeah it looks like dead island but there has really only been one core dead island game if you don't count the semi expansion that was Riptide so I think I may pick this up

What's the consensus? Better dead island with cool parcour and actually threatening zombies at night or riptide all over again?

Also watching a stream last night there was a section kinda reminiscent of something like Condemned. The music was really really great and the combat against humans looked pretty visceral.

I liked Dead Island mostly for the summer resort setting which was awesome, as soon as the game moved away from that setting it became a boring slog.

Dying Light appears to take place entirely in the slums, that is totally unappealling to me.

I want my zombie apocalypse bright and shiny!

Watching Arthur Gies play this made me wait. This looks bad. The analog combat is gone, so you just right trigger zombies until they die. They also take like twenty hits to boot, so it seems SUPER BORING. Of course, this could change later in the game with better weapons, so I'm waiting for a more full impression later in the week. Also - the climbing seems terrible. Arthur was unable to climb barred windows, a tower made out of cross piping, and a fucking chain link fence. That's inexcusable in a "parkour" game.

So there is a quick look on the site now.

Yup. Since there's a QL, let's go ahead and call this one done.