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I'm starting to look for a specifically because of Horizon, so that would be what I would play if I can score one.

Good thing I don't care about these expensive collector edition stuff. But it's not good to have so many big games come out so close together. I will eventually buy all three of these. Its really hard to choose tbh.
Like if I got all three at the same time, I feel like I would rush thru them and not give them the time that each game would deserve. I will probably go with Dying Light and Elden Ring at first.

Yeah, it’s pretty rough, and I already have all three pre-ordered. I’m playing Horizon first, as I loved HZD. I’m in less of a hurry to play Dying Light 2, as I’m only a little bit into the first game and have a long way to go. Elden Ring seems like it’s gonna be great, but I also suspect it’s going to be brutally difficult, so I’ll have to be in the right mindset for that one lol.

I only have one pre ordered.

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@SilverOwl agreed, I feel like there's a rush to beat one to get to the next, not fully enjoying what you're playing.

I won't be getting any at launch, though if I did it'd be a tough decision on which to start first (well, between two of them at least).

I enjoyed Horizon: Zero Dawn very much, so much so that I took the time to get the Platinum Trophy for it and that's something I have done for very few games. I still need to go through the DLC and I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel, but I probably won't get it until I can get my hands on a PlayStation 5.

Dying Light 2, I played through the first game twice and then the expansion. I really enjoyed it, one of my favorite co-op games ever. Unfortunately I no longer play with the same friend I did all that with and I don't know if I'd want to play it with anyone else and I certainly don't want to play it single player. Maybe I'll see if I can reconnect with that friend at some point.

Elden Ring is not even a blip on my radar. It's something I see get talked about around here, but I have little interest in it personally.

And now targeted ads... But if this is for real, Holy crap. 500 hours for DL2? F that noise.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/amp/news/dying-light-...

Lots of fetch quests.

I've been working thru so many games on the backlog that I'm content to wait on new releases. I've been taking a break since I just beat Dark Souls Remastered (51 hours). Been catching up on streaming shows. Just finished The Morning Show - Season 2 (not good) and Cobra Kai - Season 4 (great), and just started The Witcher - Season 2.

Probably will play Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy next.

I’m kinda in the same boat as @Sun. Currently working on my backlog. I’ll have both Elden Ring and Horizon on day one, but I doubt I’ll play either right away. Pretty hyped for both, though!

Dying Light has just never really spoken to me for some reason. And that’s strange because it’s basically Mirror’s Edge with zombies and i love both those things. I remember watching footage of the first game and it just looked so…brown. And the main character just seemed like a glorified errand boy. It was an easy pass for me, but I know people really enjoyed it.

Dying Light is one of only two games I've played through twice in the past decades (other being Hollow Knight). It starts slow but man it gets good.

I couldn’t imagine playing Hollow Knight again. Probably because there were some tough optional bosses I could never beat. Amazing game though. Definitely looking forward to Silksong.

Silk Song is my top most look forwarded to game, legit can't wait! HK was so insanely good.

Didn’t finish Horizon 1 yet so I’ll wait until the summer to get it, it’ll probably be 39.99 or less on sale by then. Hyped for Elden Ring day 1, and will be getting Dying Light 2 once my friends all get it and have time for it

Dying Light 2 devs have clarified, 20 hours for Main Story, 80 for main and side quests, 500 for everything. 500 still seems absurd though.

https://twitter.com/DyingLightGame/status/14806332...

500 hours doesn't sound that unreasonable since I'm assuming it's multiple playthroughs.
The map on the first game was decently big as it is, then the expansion added so much more to it. I expect it to be even bigger again in the sequel.

500 hours is absurd unless they’re including some type of multiplayer component lol. I played dying light multiple times and the dlc and barely hit 300 hours doing everything and some MP

5 years of content support for DL2 - https://www.gamebyte.com/dying-light-2-dev-will-su...

So, I had no idea they were putting Dying Light 2 on the Switch. It's been delayed for Switch, not sure why anyone would want to play it there, but it'll eventually be there.

It feels like the DL2 devs hired CDPR's marketing team

https://twitter.com/DyingLightGame/status/14839222...

Kommie wrote:


They did a good job with the Switch port of the first game, even if it took them a few years more than it should have. But even though they promised 5 years of post-launch content for the game, I kind of don't expect that to include the Switch version since it's just one of those cloud games and it's probably not going to have a very large userbase because of that.

I'm extremely tempted to preorder Dying Light because I enjoyed the first one, even though it was very hard. I played solo which makes it a bit harder I think.
But I'm kinda itching to get into something like Elden Ring, but worried it might flop. If I had unlimited time I would buy both but I don't.

sinnie wrote:

Low chance. They released a closed demo, to pretty much universal praise. From Software have been making these types of games since 2009, it's not like they're a one-hit wonder studio like CDPR prior to Cyberpunk.

Wasn't Elden Ring the one that had George RR Martin writing stuff for too? (I rather liked Cyberpunk to be fair but no replay value.)
I haven't kept up with this one as I thought it was years out from us yet.

GRRM did some lore stuff, no actual writing AFAIK.

Could argue fantasy lore is writing. I know he was pushing it a bit last year on Facebook.

Ultimately I'll probably have to go with Dying Light because I'm currently on bed rest and will probably (hopefully) have a new baby in early March if I make it that long. So I might get Elden Ring and not have any time to play it. While right now I've literally got al the time in the world

Heads up, DL2 CE PS4 in stock at Amazon

Dying Light 2 Stay Human (Collector’s Edition) – PlayStation 4 https://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&lo...

@Dasgessabel

I'm probably going to immediately play DL2 the most due to playing co op with my son. We did DL1 together all the way through the main story, it's a lot of fun that way. Looking forward to Elden Ring as well

Am I dumb or is DL2 CE only PS4? It has a free upgrade but I don't see a PS5 version. I caved and got one from the Amazon restock (still in stock, surprisingly).

Reviews are saying Dying Light 2 is full of bugs. Someone at IGN on PS5 got a corrupt save file.

From IGN:

Bug Alert! If your tolerance for bugs is low, I do not recommend jumping into Dying Light 2 on day one. Or day 10. Maybe day 30? I was able to play it to completion, but only barely: leading up to launch it is absolutely drowning in a sea of upsetting technical issues, whether it’s crashing (which happened to me dozens of times in my more than 80 hours with it on Xbox Series X and to others at IGN on PlayStation 5 and PC), all dialogue stopping during cutscenes, all audio being replaced with a loud screeching noise, getting locked out of quests because a character won’t let you talk to him or being unable to finish because the objective never spawned in, uneven framerates making me seasick, and too many more to list here. Most glitches are temporary annoyances or even amusing wonkiness, but some are more dire – one IGN editor playing on PS5 had his entire save file corrupted, leaving him with a never-ending loading screen and locking him out of his save pending an upcoming patch. Normally I expect a certain lack of polish in ambitious, open-world games, but even with my expectation for jankiness set to maximum, Dying Light 2 has been really, really rough. The longer I played, the more frequent the issues seemed to become; by the end I was having to quit out and reboot multiple times per hour, and breathed a huge sigh of relief when credits rolled and something hadn’t catastrophically broken my save file. In terms of stability issues and the danger of losing progress, it’s been considerably more severe than our experience with the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077, where the bugs we hit were mostly visual in nature. Techland is aware of all of this and is reportedly hard at work on patches to address it, but if history is any indication it’s going to take more than a few real-world day-night cycles to sort out this many issues.


Can't say it's surprising.

They were too busy formulating a 5 year live service plan to release a finished product. The idea of patches/updates has given so many of these devs the license to release unpolished games. It’s disappointing but I’m honestly getting kinda numb to it all at this point.

I wasn't planning on getting it at launch anyway with Elden Ring at the end of the month. This just confirms my hesitancy.

Kommie wrote:

That's not really just cdpr - we heard the same crap for RDR2 and it turned out amazing.

I think that's becoming more the norm with these type of games now.

Interesting. Debating cancelling the CE in hopes it sees a price drop. They seemed to have made a lot of them. Amazon had it available last week for a full week. Won't play it till after Horizon and Elden Ring for sure with the above report.

Or just wait a few months and grab them for $20 a pop used. Hell, usually after a week, I see $60-70 games on Facebook Marketplace for $40-45.

Disappointing about Dying Light 2. I have not preordered it yet but I was planning on playing on PC.

Anyone experience Dying Light 2 yet? I read mostly good reviews on it but it is stutter-y on Steam/PC. I'm itching to get it but with my backlog have held off.

I've played about an hour or a little more on PS5 & PS4. I like it, but I really loved Dying Light 1 as well. I've had a few glitches but so far it's good.

only thing i learned the hard way (i could have googled it), was there's no cross gen, so now i have a save on my ps4 and a different one on ps5. strangely enough it kinda works out because i want one i play with just my son and one i play with other randoms. if anyone wants to play DL2 on PS5 add me! psn is akfamayn

Not sure I could swap between PS4 and PS5 with PS4's 30 FPS limit