Up until this afternoon, a mere twelve hours before launch, no outlet had their hands on a review code for Techland’s open-world action-survival title. With a nearly 20 GB file size, potential power outages across the Northeastern United States, and the potential for a lengthy experience, getting a review up by the time Dying Light was released was out of the question. With all of that being said, any reviews posted within the next 12 or so hours should probably be taken with a heavy grain of salt.
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?
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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If only more reviewers had the balls to do an "actual" review instead taking shortcuts. When HCG's review is done, you'll get a click from me.
I personally never bother with reviews, In this day and age it's very easy make your own opinion of games just by being on the internet. Only reviews I take some notice of are steam user review's and even then I can tell if I'm going to enjoy a game or not just by gameplay videos.
for those of you that depend on reviews.
The media's got you by the b4lls lol. .
I don't need to be told what to play, or whether I should avoid a game like a plague.
#DyingLight
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I read the reviews not base on their opinions tho, coz most of the time, they would actually say how the game is, if the game doest make do same type of mission etc, that's what I looks for.
I refuse to purchase a game from an unproven developer like Techland until reviews come out. If this was Naughty Dog or Rockstar? Sure, They've built up enough good will for me to trust them. I liked Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood but Dead Island while fun for a little while was an extremely flawed game and definitely not worth $60.
Unfortunately Activision showed that you can purposefully delay reviews to improve sales and I'm sure that Dying Light is following Bungie / Activision's lead, and will not be the last game to hold back review copies until after the release of a game. We also don't get demos anymore so we're supposed to just trust the marketing material put out by a publisher that their game will be good.
I want to buy Dying Light but this practice bothers me, so I'll wait for reviews to see if I should give this a chance.