Earlier this week, Techland announced that its new zombie-killing adventure Dying Light will have "50+ hours of gameplay." Some might considering this good news. Yannick LeJacq doesn't—at least at face value.
Why? Because 50 hours is a long f--- time to spend in any video game, and Yannick LeJacq doesn't trust Techland enough as a developer to believe they know how to guide me through such a slog gracefully. Yannick LeJacq took me roughly half that time to play their last zombie game, Dead Island Riptide. Yannick LeJacq loved the first few hours, and couldn't stand the rest.
It has been more than ten years since Dying Light was released, but what happened to the $386,000 'My Apocalypse Edition' of the game?
Wtf did this edition come with ? A real helicopter and a real zombie virus ?
For one lucky person willing to spend $386,000, the My Apocalypse Edition of Dying Light promised a staggering collection. It included the buyer’s face in the game, a human-sized ‘Volatile’ statue, and parkour lessons with a freerunning team. It also came with night vision goggles, an all-expenses paid round trip to Techland’s offices, and four signed copies of the game. Oh, and it also came with a custom-built, ‘zombie-proof’ survival shelter.
LOL but it was a stunt from the team:
‘It was a PR stunt and got a lot of media attention for its wild and over-the-top nature, it was designed to generate buzz around the game’s release. It did a great job of getting the game noticed, though! But nobody purchased it – thankfully, I guess!’
Techland is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Dying Light with updates and events for both games. The new The Beast game comes out soon.
It got a lot of shit from fans more not being as scary at night on release. I was in that boat. But once I gave it a fair shot I really loved it. The movement was so much more expressive to me. I enjoyed the story too.... for the most part. Was my game of the year when it came out. With all the updates for darker nights and all that, it's even better. I feel almost exactly the same about stalker 2 right now. The erojank games are scratching my itch.
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Despite being on Kotaku, and despite the poster putting the text above in third person like a ten year old, this is actually not a bad article.
I do agree that developers are delving into the grinding mechanic too much. An endless amount of dungeons to clear doesn't feel like extra content. A thousand collectibles (that's you Assassins Creed) do not add significantly to the game. There's too much filler, not enough 'content' has substance.
Game play length is important to a 15 year old with very little money. The type of gameplay length is also very important collectibles not so much (for most) length of core gameplay with unique backgrounds or game mechanics maybe.
When did collecting become a skill? Is this virtual consumerism? When are malls going to charge you $30 to find merchandise to buy? When did we forget what video games where. It's no wonder we would rather fight in forums than celebrate games. Many just are not having fun.
Bloody destiny! Talk about grinding!
then dont play that kind of game, other people love to do it.....