Dying Light 2

Ah I fucking got it didn't I ffs. Reading Sifu reviews convinced me to wait for a sale on that one and get this now. Managed to get it for 41 quid which isn't too bad.

I don't know how far in I am - I have the feeling the next map will be unlocked soon-ish - but I'd say: not really, but it's okay. So far it's reliant on a MacGuffin driving the plot forward. And that goes on, and on, and on - and involves some implausible crap re: the faction dimension. 

But it's perfectly fine. It does the job and isn't anywhere near as awful as some reviews suggested. And the faction element does result in some intrigue and tricky decision-making. 

The gameplay and the whole loop, including upgrades to trees and to stats, is just hugely addictive. I'm really enjoying it. I'm guessing I've playing about 15-20 hours so far (family, what family?). 

Yeah, there’s nothing really connecting the two, and the story is gash anyway.

I’ve had some sound glitches and cut outs here and there but nothing physics wise.

I imagine I'll get a decent 20-30 hours out of this, then put it down and forget about it forever. It feels like that kind of game.

Which is fine! But it's something I'm happy to wait for; I've gotten a lot better at avoiding hype these days.

This game has made me realise my PC monitor has piss poor black levels. I can barely see fuck all in the indoor environments at night without the gamma wacked way up. Enjoying the game so far though.

I still chuckle at his Streets of Rage 4 turnaround. From best scrolling beat em up in years, to wanting to burn down the devs house and murder their families.

I had an odd experience. There was some early side quest - something about poisoned water or something - and I kept putting off going to the shopkeeper you were supposed to visit. Later I noticed the quest had disappeared from my list, but the location was still on the map (albeit not selectable, a glitch, I guess). I went there, had to climb through the roof down to the ground floor, killed 2 or 3 standard zombies and there was one left standing by the door - just staring at me. Whacking it did nothing. It just creepily kept looking. Looked like an NPC that had turned.

I don't quite know what to make of it (largely as I don't know how the quest panned out), but it could be a botched attempt at dynamic story-telling, I was too late, NPC turned etc. etc. 

At least I'll always have creepy staring invulnerable immobile zombie to visit whenever I feel like it. 

Ah, okay, so likely just a vanilla zombie glitch then :-D

They're aware of the PS5 flickering screen and it's being updated this week I think and yeah I've seen some glitchy zombies like a Howler being visible but not actually physically in the game. No weather effects unfortunately. Tbf they supported the original game for aaaaaaages so you never what will happen with this game.

Really enjoying this. I like that sense of being at ground level, everything's quiet, you're just checking stuff out - but there's that sense of threat, that you can't just hang around down there for as long as you like. The first DL had that same uneasy feeling. It's a rare thing in open world games - they're usually either (a) everything's happening or (b) nothing's happening.

Yeah man it's constant, I love it. Always start to panic if I'm lockpicking something like a vehicle at ground level. I know I've killed everything nearby but surely it's only a matter of time before something lurches over...

Kind of lame how once you get ranged weapons you can cheese anomalies ridiculously easy. There’s also a couple of map spots where you can just farm chases, alert a howler, sit in UV and swing away.

They probably weren't playing it on massive OLED TVs, because not many people can afford those.