Proof Dying Light Is the Real Sequel to Dead Island

Dare I hope that this is Good Techland?

@rorie: Yah I'm on Chrome, and to be honest this is the first time I've ever had issues with the on-site player. Luckily I can just hit download and it just streams it in a separate window.

@rorie: Yah I'm on Chrome, and to be honest this is the first time I've ever had issues with the on-site player. Luckily I can just hit download and it just streams it in a separate window.

Agreed. I think this looks pretty promising. And while Dead Island had its issues, I thought it also had some good ideas that will hopefully carry over in what appears to be an overall improved package.

I'm incredibly impressed by the lack of HUD (possibly just an in-development feature though), the apparent smoothness of the running and even the diversity of the melee attacks - with some Dead Island moves making an overt return. Perhaps a decent British accent was too much to ask, never mind.

Also, co-op or don't bother, IMO

Just once I'd like to enjoy a game like this without some annoying bitch in my ear.

I've gotta say, I wasn't expecting anything near this good when I first heard about this game. I'm really hyped for it now.

So scripted. So, so scripted.

The night parts look like they might be a real pain to play through. No visibility coupled with fast and deadly zombies doesn't make me want to suffer through that. Perhaps they're expecting players to savescum their way through.

Oh god that little girl's face what's wrong with it

I loved Dead Island... right up until I left the resort, which is when love turned to hate. I'm hopeful that this turns out well, still, I'm not going to be fooled again, so I'm cautious with my interest.

what a horrible night to have a zombie

This looks not bad!

"Each choice has different consequences, and the world reacts to your decisions." I'm not sure I've ever heard a more generic and meaningless statement in my life. Every PR video for every video game is starting to blur together for me.

This looks really good.

Ok, I know it's supposed to be wind, but every leaf and blade of grass in this game looks to be having a damn seizure

THIS SHOULD OF BEEN RIPTIDE!

Holy crap! I was watching this trailer with a friend of mind, and just instant hype.

This looks pretty good but there's quite a few similarities to Dead Island so I hope this Dying Light can rise above and become a much better game.

I hate British accents, probably because i'm British, and don't really have an accent.

Otherwise i like first person platforming and the combat looks advanced over Dead Island so thumbs up... for now, PC version better be well optimized.

The similarities are going to be a non-issue if Techland actually delivers on a true free-run, open world game.

All I got out of the night time thing was that the zombies turn into runners and special form zombies appear.

this looks cool

Isn't that an Australian or New Zealand accent? I could understand them so I'm leaning towards New Zealand.

You'd think that Warner Brothers could Warn-a-brother

I like the idea of gameplay mechanics changing based on if it's day or night.

Well it looked like if he had maybe skipped the girl then those dudes wouldn't have been at the air drop. I dunno though.

Mirror's Deadge. Sign me up.

Now that's an interesting concept.

At night zombies turn into vampires from Blade 2.

How unique.

I've been using the Zombies 5k running app lately, and I swear the voice actors sound exactly alike.

Don't get me wrong here: i looove violent videogames. Not because they're violent per se, but some of the best games i've played are way more brutal and gorey than this.

That said, just like in the first Dead Island, the violence in this game just... i don't know, rubs me wrong, I guess. Maybe it's because the zombies look too human or maybe it's because they look pathetic and not dangerous at all. It somehow makes me sick.

I think, in a way, to me it looks like murder more than anything. That doesnt necessarily make sense either because i've quite enjoyed my share of murder in recent games. I don't know.

Like I said, I can't quite put my finger on why I feel this way when, for instance, MK9 is one of my favourite games at the moment... Anyone feel the same way?

I think there's definitely something quite stomach churning about the way violence is handled in Dead Island and this, but I can't say it actually puts me off. It's way more up close and personal than something like MK9, which is very cartoony and not really approached in a particularly serious manner, whereas this is going more for something approximating realism. In real life, IF zombies were a thing and you had to attack them with baseball bats with bits of nail coming out of the end, it wouldn't be pretty, it would be fucking traumatising and you'd probably end up with post-traumatic stress disorder or something.
Considering the tone they're going for here, I feel like its sickening quality is more of a good thing.

@benderunit22 said:

You're that unwilling to suspend disbelief? How can you even play games, thinking like that? Does everything have to be 100% grounded in reality?

I'm not trying to have a go or anything, I'm genuinely curious.

Day one.

cardio killing zombie machine!

Still looks boring.

Do you play games with enemy's other than humans then?

grow up

Should "have" been.

How did that girl shut the doors of the cupboard, when the cupboard didn't have handles on the inside?

Looks awesome, can't wait!

@mak_wikus: Danny Wallace? Nope, not even close.

@kidavenger: I'm also getting batman telling me to grow up. What's going on here?

Combat still looks like shit though I'm digging the free running stuff.

Beat me to it. This is was pretty much my response. Are English accents really that indistinguible from another to the untrained ear?

Agreed. Pre-Alpha with this frame rate, these awesome graphics, no glitches, no bugs, no 'jank', and completed (and impressive) animations...There is a good chance the finished product will be like this, or at least close enough that no one really notices, but there is no way this is real-time, un-manipulated gameplay footage.

Looks like it could be interesting, though. I hope there's an option to play parkour zombie!

The problem is that zombie movies and games play out in our reality and thus, would be bound by things like laws of physics. I have no problem with zombies and ghouls in, say, a fantasy game (Baldur's Gate, etc). But if you ask me to believe these reanimated corpses can function for months without any energy input via food (brains, flesh, whatever) or that somehow society instantly crumbles because literally the most brain-dead thing on the planet could potentially shamble up to you and take a bite out of you, I think it's pretty dumb.

I see the combat still looks just as bad as Dead Island. Also the visuals are very underwhelming if that demo is runing on next gen console/high end PC that is.

Different people can suspend disbelief for different things. For example I can never take sex scenes seriously in games nor most media because they are never as awkward as real life.

I never really understood why zombies manage to overtake so much (even the military) when some dude can just kill hundreds of them with his bare hands.

Ahahah

This still looks too much like Dead Island for me to really be excited about it. Dead Island can look just as nice as this if you cut it up into a short demo reel.