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There's Not Much Hope in Dying Light's World

You won't find anything like Dead Rising's humor here. Yikes.

Feb. 11 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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moar zombies always zombies hey fellas let's make another zombie game with zombies

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This is starting to not look very good.

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This looks like a Techland game.

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Ever since I watched an LP of that last Call of Juarez game it's kinda turned me off of the idea of any new Techland games, but uh, the gameplay in this one looks kinda cool I guess!

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Exclusive game mode for preordering is kinda gross.

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Ever since I watched an LP of that last Call of Juarez game it's kinda turned me off of the idea of any new Techland games, but uh, the gameplay in this one looks kinda cool I guess!

Call of Juarez Gunslinger is awesome.

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@sasnake: Whoops, I meant the one before that.

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@sasnake: Agreed. It was $15 and it was the best one they made.

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It's easy to dismiss it as just another zombie game, especially when that genre is so over-bloated these days. But the tone and atmosphere seems interesting enough, that I'll stick around and see just what kind of mechanics it has. Cause that's what it'll need to blow me away, and make a judgement based solely on this trailer would be too premature.

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Zombies are serious business.

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@xeiphyer: Sort of, but it just means that that mode will be underpopulated and hardly supported post-launch. Kind of a stupid decision on the dev's part, but pre-order bonuses outside of aesthetic stuff usually is.

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Looks interesting, though I was hoping they would develop the base of operations of Dead Island more whereas this looks like a "man is the worst monster" type narrative.

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moar zombies always zombies hey fellas let's make another zombie game with zombies

i'm with ya, man. zombies were way overdone years ago, yet they are STILL in freaking everything. ugh.

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Read it as 'There's not much hype in Dying Light's world.'

And I agreed.

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Hopefully this trailer won't also be thematically and tonally inconsistent with what the game actually is. Y'know, like that other Techland zombie game.

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I want to play this just because the parkour animations seem almost like they were recycled straight from Mirrors Edge.

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Did I just hear the Wilhelm scream in that trailer?

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Awesome. Hope the gameplay is as interesting as the angle they took in that trailer.

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And after all that, the exclusive 'Be the Zombie' mode.

Only if it includes sad piano also.

That, and I think they ought to use electricity everywhere.

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So will this be the good Techland or the bad Techland? I am a big fan of Call of Juarez 1 & 2 and Dead Island so I hope it's good Techland. This just looks like a darker Dead Island though, I'm not seeing anything to peak my interest.

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Kinda hoping this isn't going to be another example of Techland doing much better trailers than games where Zombies are concerned.

After all there was nothing in Dead Island that came close to that astonishing first trailer.

"Every day is a battle... Every night I go to A and press B to pick up a battery before going to C"

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@snail said:

Did I just hear the Wilhelm scream in that trailer?

How did they not catch that and if they did WHY IS IT STILL IN THERE?

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They should probably call this Dead Metropolitan Area instead.

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It isn't going to come close to the Last of Us. Pass.

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Don't care much for the design of the zombies, they look to much like generic monsters. Either make them look like actual human corpses (Shaun of the Dead, Dead Rising 1, Dawn of the Dead) or like batshit crazy, decaying hellspawn (Return of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead)

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moar zombies always zombies hey fellas let's make another zombie game with zombies

Yup.

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Age gate?? WTF Giant Bomb ?!?

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I really enjoyed Dead Island so I'm looking forward to this.

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Well, I'm interested, I think...

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Have I played this game before?

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they might just be making the game they wanted dead island to be

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@vuud said:

Age gate?? WTF Giant Bomb ?!?

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Someone needs to take the zombie genre behind the shed and put it out of its misery. Games like Rust are smart to move away from zombies at this point. Haha.

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Can Techland not use a kid to tug at our heart strings please? Terribly easy.

Otherwise, amazing trailer.

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Ok everytime a zombie game comes out I swear them off forever but DAMN this looks cool. Will probably get this!

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I wish this game would come out and not be a buggy mess. But knowing Techland...

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I'm not a huge zombie fan, but honestly, when it comes to zombie games, even though they've put so many out now, I'm just starting to get into them. While I wouldn't consider it a zombie game in the same way other zombie games are because it, to me at least, wouldn't do it justice, The Last of Us; while I thought previous two had great aspects, I didn't care for the time constraints they had because I like exploring the games setting at my own pace, but Dead Rising 3, that's an overall really great game to me, and this, this looks like a good game too, though pretty derivative. I can look at this and see a whole bunch of games put in one, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad. I didn't play the previous zombie games from this company, but this has me interested. I just hope it has a decent enough story.

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I'm on to your games... play as you might to look AWESOME I know video game. Fool me once... but fool me twice...

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@altairre said:

@snail said:

Did I just hear the Wilhelm scream in that trailer?

How did they not catch that and if they did WHY IS IT STILL IN THERE?

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Getting a little tired of the Zombie genre but I will still be picking this one up. Thoroughly enjoyed Dead Island, the bugs and quirks added to the charm in similar fashion to Bethesda games (except Skyrim on PS3, fuck that broken mess).

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@assinass: Why would that be the "best Wilhelm Scream joke in a game"? And I thought Vinny and Brad had quick-looked that game, how is Jeff in that extract?

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@mrsmiley said:

@herbiebug said:

moar zombies always zombies hey fellas let's make another zombie game with zombies

i'm with ya, man. zombies were way overdone years ago, yet they are STILL in freaking everything. ugh.

Then make something else? No one makes you buy zombie games, and zombies are atm the best monster to fight. Unless you want another Aliens game or how about a vampire game? How about Streets full of goth kids running around drinking clamato juice? Dont post stupid. K thx

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@snail said:

@assinass: Why would that be the "best Wilhelm Scream joke in a game"? And I thought Vinny and Brad had quick-looked that game, how is Jeff in that extract?

Haha I usually listen to podcasts while playing, and that sometimes sneaks in to the captured footage. It's a bad habit. Best use of the scream, imo. That loud yelp is so unexpected for such a low key game.

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What an awful voiceover.

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Had a lot of fun playing through Dead Island cooperatively and found plenty to laugh at, although I doubt most of its humor was intentional. It too was a bit overly self-serious. Cautiously optimistic about this one.