Do i need to play DL 1 before i buy DL 2?

[ez]

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[trooves]

Nope though I recommend it the game is great!

[Maxihzb]

if you don't want to play it you can watch a recap on youtube

[clarkeveritas]

You can get DL1 cheap enough now to where I'd say it would be a GREAT idea to get it. A very, very cool game. You have different skill trees that you get XP for by doing certain actions (fighting gets you combat XP, running around and climbing on stuff gets parkour XP, and there is another more "general" tree.... but if DL2 looks good to you I'm not sure I could recommend getting DL1 more highly. Such a fun game.

Oh- if you were referring to the story it's supposed to take place quite a few years after the first game but I'd imagine they'll have a lot of references for people that did play DL1. It's probably not necessary but you can get a few hundred hours out of DL1. Lots of cool stuff to do/places to go.

[Groone]

Not needed but 100% recommend

[GeGe]

No you dont, but you defenietly should play first dying light, its just such an awesome game. and you can get it for cheap on third party websites

[Vedrafjr]

DL1 is a superb game, and still holds up well visually today, you'll need a chunk of time to get through the base game and The Following expansion, but well worth it before DL2 released.

[MrSuneko]

Just like everyone else that it isn’t required but a recommended game to get too if you want.

[TheOneButter]

https://youtu.be/wKRtbn6Ic6Y
if you want a recap this ones really good. i highly recommend playing it though, storywise it has little to do with dying light 2 and the story is super generic but its worth playing imo.
the video covers the dying light book "Nightmare Row" and both campaigns for dying light 1, and the dying light 2 comic from a few months ago

[DELTA]

not really they seem to be pretty differnt games, second game is alot more RPG based, with all the other mechanics seem to be redone to be very different to the first game and the story isnt connected with the first games at all so if you just want the second game you can jump right in.

First game is great fun and basically the best first person open world zombie sand box out there as it lets you do and use pretty much anything as a weapon including your self and lets you have great freedom of movment but also lets you use a vehicle to if you want and it has 3 very different maps catering to different ways of play with the countryside being vehicle based and the old town being very high level parkour while the slums is about scurrying though tight alleys and across old railyards .

[Monochrome]

Nope. Basically no reason not to though, great game.

[Bastila Shan]

Im currently playing dl1 and i would highly recommend.

[TremorMonkey]

Originally posted by Maxihzb:

if you don't want to play it you can watch a recap on youtube

dont even really need to do that, doesnt follow the same characters or anything, its set so many years after the first one, there really is no need for a recap

[BigshotMagee]

very good game but i'm imaging for the story it doesn't matter that much

[Jade]

kinda hard to tell at this point but the trailer is proof that the game references some big events in 1 but you don't have to play the game (although you should as the gameplay has aged rlly well imo), the story is rather simple and kinda sucks in all honesty so you can just watch a summary on youtube if you really want.