Dying Light 1 vs 2

[Bee™]

curious to hear what makes 1 considered the better game by you guys, the active players.
I am currently playing 2 for the first time and really enjoying it, looking forward to trying this after.

[Heisenberg]

Crane
Brecken
Rahim
Parkour/fight animations

Everything else is done better in Dying Light 2

[Seba ツ]

Dying light 1 is better for me

[Fat Cat Cooper]

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

Crane
Brecken
Rahim
Parkour/fight animations

Everything else is done better in Dying Light 2

how so?

[Xytan]

The majority of the Dying Light community says that Dying Light 1 is the overall superior game. Better gameplay, memorable characters, very scary atmosphere which would fit a zombie game, and also more variety of weapons and the fan-favorite zombie-killer horde-attracting guns. For a game of its age, it's still pretty damn good Imo and has more players than the sequel. Can't say much about Dying Light 2 other than it's like a parkour game with zombies, and also looks like modded Skyrim because the graphics look really bright, no scary atmosphere.

[Pierce No Monitor]

The story in both is absolute garbage but dying light 2's story is a bit worse. I personally thought that dying light 2 had better movement and gameplay with the new updates. I feel like the first one has a much more difficult night and i actually feel worried ill die at night and often do. They fixed a lot of the things people hated about dying light and i honestly think dying light 2 is a better game minus the story, which they cant really update easily.
if you dont like dying light 2 being bright then chance the video settings lol you can make it look like the original game.

I liked the sense of desperation in dying light 1 more. in dying light 2 i feel like im playing a super human. I like them for different reasons. Its a close call for me but i think i like dying light 1 more just because of the sense of desperation i feel like the atmosphere is more like the world is ending. In dying light 2 it feels more like a young adult novel in the writing, which i guess isn't bad in itself but it isnt my cup of tea. I will still play both though and enjoy both. I think i even have more hours in dying light 2 but i have more memories of the first one.

TLDR: It depends on what you like. many of the problems people had with dying light 2 were fixed.

[Kweeb]

1 is better. the dark zones, and the fact the devs removed features makes 2 worse.
features such as, not being able to repair weapons indefinitely, exploation is worse because of dark zones.

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by Kweebsters:

1 is better. the dark zones, and the fact the devs removed features makes 2 worse.
features such as, not being able to repair weapons indefinitely, exploation is worse because of dark zones.

At the endgame you basically have a 10 minute long immunity + by that time I'm sure you've crafted at least 100+ immunity boosters lmao

[Draxuss]

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

Crane
Brecken
Rahim
Parkour/fight animations

Everything else is done better in Dying Light 2

1 is much better overall, graphics wise 2 is better.

[Darkstorm]

In DL1 main story is rather short(13 quests)where all you do is do some bs stuff. Learn running, fix traps, get packages, fix antenna, bring some stuff to brothers... Gameplay wise early it's kinda annoying as pipes break super easily, they do no damage, Crane after jumping across two rooftops or hitting few zombies is fighting for his life by trying to catch a breath... Gameplay only gets better, story is meh, and ending being a QTE festival where all your choices, lvls don't matter even a tiny little bit, characters are meh(comparing to witcher's 3 Yen, Triss and Ciri or Bloody Baron...), storywise I only care about the ending of the following as I am curious what could it end like afterwards(and it's strange that they didn't do whole DLC in DL2 about future of Crane yet)...music, is it there though? I liked so much Bozak Horde, I wish it would have some RNG as to where the bombs are, the parkour checkpoints, maybe entire stages being different every run...

I can't compare to DL2 yet, didn't play it(I got it installed already). But since many people prefer DL1 over DL2 then it can be problematic... I will return once I finish DL2.

[Bleydoka]

DL1 is better. DL2 is kind of a mess.

- The maps are super copy pasta. I can run 10mins in one direction and come across at least 7 times the exact same place
- The fight and parcour mechanics feel very wonky
- The obstacles on the roofs feel superartificial
- DL1 has better characters
- The difficulty of nightchases is very low in DL2
- I've come across many bugs and glitches in DL2 in a short time
- There are hiding places in DL2 like high grass or under tables, but they don't work correctly and serve no purpose
- The menu is very clunky because it was made for controllers and i'm missing options to turn of all the bad postprocessing effects
- Updating DL1 with DL2 ads is a scumbag move

DL2 is playable but you can notice that something went pretty bad in the production and it's an inferior product to DL1.

[Sarcasteik]

DL2 doesn't have proper co-op. Bought the gand and played like an hour. Felt janky and wrong.

[Fat Cat Cooper]

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

In DL1 main story is rather short(13 quests)where all you do is do some bs stuff. Learn running, fix traps, get packages, fix antenna, bring some stuff to brothers... Gameplay wise early it's kinda annoying as pipes break super easily, they do no damage, Crane after jumping across two rooftops or hitting few zombies is fighting for his life by trying to catch a breath... Gameplay only gets better, story is meh, and ending being a QTE festival where all your choices, lvls don't matter even a tiny little bit, characters are meh(comparing to witcher's 3 Yen, Triss and Ciri or Bloody Baron...), storywise I only care about the ending of the following as I am curious what could it end like afterwards(and it's strange that they didn't do whole DLC in DL2 about future of Crane yet)...music, is it there though? I liked so much Bozak Horde, I wish it would have some RNG as to where the bombs are, the parkour checkpoints, maybe entire stages being different every run...

I can't compare to DL2 yet, didn't play it(I got it installed already). But since many people prefer DL1 over DL2 then it can be problematic... I will return once I finish DL2.

Apparently in a stream they said the Cannon ending of the following is crane turning into a special infected

[Maximilian17]

Originally posted by Fat Cat Cooper:

Originally posted by Darkstorm:

In DL1 main story is rather short(13 quests)where all you do is do some bs stuff. Learn running, fix traps, get packages, fix antenna, bring some stuff to brothers... Gameplay wise early it's kinda annoying as pipes break super easily, they do no damage, Crane after jumping across two rooftops or hitting few zombies is fighting for his life by trying to catch a breath... Gameplay only gets better, story is meh, and ending being a QTE festival where all your choices, lvls don't matter even a tiny little bit, characters are meh(comparing to witcher's 3 Yen, Triss and Ciri or Bloody Baron...), storywise I only care about the ending of the following as I am curious what could it end like afterwards(and it's strange that they didn't do whole DLC in DL2 about future of Crane yet)...music, is it there though? I liked so much Bozak Horde, I wish it would have some RNG as to where the bombs are, the parkour checkpoints, maybe entire stages being different every run...

I can't compare to DL2 yet, didn't play it(I got it installed already). But since many people prefer DL1 over DL2 then it can be problematic... I will return once I finish DL2.

Apparently in a stream they said the Cannon ending of the following is crane turning into a special infected

Better put spoiler tag.

[Kweeb]

Originally posted by Heisenberg:

Originally posted by Kweebsters:

1 is better. the dark zones, and the fact the devs removed features makes 2 worse.
features such as, not being able to repair weapons indefinitely, exploation is worse because of dark zones.

At the endgame you basically have a 10 minute long immunity + by that time I'm sure you've crafted at least 100+ immunity boosters lmao

I just modded unlimited time. but still not EVERY interior has to be dark zone...

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Fat Cat Cooper:

Apparently in a stream they said the Cannon ending of the following is crane turning into a special infected

I kinda know that, but they could easily make some money on the only intresting thing in the DL1 story. "You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." Confirming it on stream is like blue pill. I prefer the red one aka DLC