Dying Light: 8 Years Later… (2024 Review) 

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Playing at night for the first time was one of the most scariest moments in gaming history for me no other game has made me feel scared lol

The ambience at night when you’d be on a roof in dying light was just perfect, the quietness but also the small noises that would scare you. They literally crafted dying light 1 perfectly in terms of the world, music, and environment as a whole

I avoided nighttime for aaaages, until I experimented with going out at night to double my agility points. That's when I discovered nighttime wasn't so bad and I could easily avoid the volatiles with a little environmental awareness. That's how well done the first introduction to nighttime was!

Everyone told me the story (for DL1) was garbage, but I didn't get that. I feel like all the elements of the game pulled me in and I felt like I was truly there. Like the choices I made (the ones that should have been there but felt like they were there anyway because Crane made them) really seemed to impact myself rather than just the character I was playing. The choices in the second game I feel like are just different paths to take so I can get more out of the game. The first game had me feeling like I truly was Crane, he didn't feel like a character to me it actually felt like I was doing those things and that's what made the first game so amazing for me.

We were being really inconsistent with our demands from Techland. We say that DL2 nighttime cant even be classified as horror because of how toned down it is, but then the numbers showed that most of us, including me*, skipped nighttime in DL1 because of how terrifying it was. I don't blame Techland for making a change to a problem they saw. I still prefer DL1 night time though.

I was one of those players. I was so terrified of the night I just didn’t want to deal with the stress and never once went out at night. This game and dead island are to this day still the only games to give me this weird tingling feeling on my lower back.

*Hot DIGGITY DOG, this place is MAGINFICENT*

This game holds up even today. The support it still gets by the dev is impressive. I consider it a more polished and less clunky version of Dead Island. It's really a fun, rewarding game.

Ngl i think one of the strengths that made me love Dying Light is the music. Especially that loading screen music that gives me that zombie apocalypse vibes.

I can still remember how hard I tried to avoid the night, it's STILL terrifying even fully equipped.

Really wanted a hardcore zombie looking horror game succeeding this mighty gem.

I'm glad I found you when I first started playing Dying Light 2. Your content is amazing and only gets better and better. You inspire my future content so much and I'm here to stay. Keep up the incredible work.

I love this game, waaayy better than most horror games. the second one doesnt even compare...

I enjoyed dying light 2 but there’s something about this game that keeps bringing me back

Phenomenal video Oni! Dying light will always be amazing!

man this makes me wanna replay dl1, think it may be time. Enjoy the vacation Oni!

7 years ago when I was 7years old, I used to watch my dad play. When the screaming little zombie kid ran up and started screaming, it was just something that frightened me at that time. And I was so scared to play that part of the game, when I started playing the game… LOVE, IT

Awesome review! The Negan references are hilarious!

The first volatile chase was so intense i spent half an hour to get to the tower

The feeling of its going to be night so you prepare which safe house you are going to be near and I remember what I did in the old town was to stay on one of the safe houses in which is placed at the top and positioned myself near the ledge to make volatiles chase me to just kick them off falling with a molotov at the bottom. That is where my level boosted bc Ive killed a lot of volatiles that play style, what a good times. Dying light 2 tries but as much as I also did love the game, nothing compares the first night run.

OUTSTANDING Explanations! Keep up the great work!

Hearing the sounds as you first come out of the tower, then the run back in 😮

I played this game blindly into it, never heard of it before in that time (2017 to be exact). Fast forward, its in my fav game of all time list.

I sent this to my friend who has never heard of Dying Light and this convinced him to buy it

love the vids

Techland misunderstood their data. Just because I avoided jight it doesnt mean I want nights to be a cakewalk. The horror of night was something that kept me playing even though I was scared.

one thing im sad you didnt mention was that the final volatile chase was the exact route that brecken took in the run boy run trailer!

The one thing other than that quick time button bash boss fight , was the water animation, it was hard to see even tho the surface was clear 😢

excellent video! Thank You for the great Work!

This video is very well put together and the points are articulate and well presented, very very good project :).

Something that is super underrated is the amount, variety and creativity of the weapons and how you can modify them. When I finished the story I installed a mod to unlock them all and holy moly was it worth it. Weirdly enough there is no complete list online and it's really a shame

I remember watching the gamplay walk through when e3 was going on and it captivate hard with the zombie killing parkour

This is a great video,I've been playing the definitive edition on series X with all the dic constantly for couple of weeks,game has aged brilliantly and so much content,still got the following to do after I've finished the main story and bits and pieces

Bro, what an incredible video I didn't miss a second of it, I loved it, as a good DL fan I was surprised by everything you included... maybe you just need to include something that is very good for me and they are the "Workshop Maps" or "mods" too... what a crazy game for almost 10 years and it's still incredible I keep playing and getting friends to play and they all remain open-mouthed because of the graphics and the atmosphere of it... greetings from Argentina! (you have a new follower) haha

That Negan transition is great, thank you

I got this for Christmas and finished it today and I have to say I loved it it felt like my parkour fantasy’s had a bio shock villain a bunch of punching bags Skyrim’s upgrade system and an mix of mine-crafty-RPG upgrade loot-craft premise.

the first chase sequence is the most intense gaming experience i ever had, still remember my ears was spreading wide

Watched a youtube tutorial on how to clear a vollie nest. The video showed the train tunnel having only biters and no vollies at night. At that point, i was nervous to encounter a vollie, So i went to attempt it at night. There were 2 or 3 vollies around the entrance of the tunnel but i managed to sneak in. I killed a biter, camouflaged myself and destroyed 3 spawn points, no sweat. Until i saw a volatile in there. I paused the game and thought about how to avoid it. I camouflaged myself a few seconds earlier so i just tried walking past it but it still saw me. I ran, tried to kill it, but it killed me. Heart rate was high and i was scared to even drive my buggy past a nest. I am not someone to get easily traumatised, but the vollies, they are nightmarish

Dying Light will always have that special place in my heart that Dying Light 2 will never match. Just being on the main menu brings back waves of nostalgia and good times that I’ve had while playing the game.

Really good video, especially appreciated the point about the build up and general tension around night time. I don't think being scared of the night is inherently a negative, really frightening when you're caught out at night with no safe zones around. The contrast between feeling powerful during the day and helpless and scared during the night is a great dynamic.

The sewage chase sequence at 20:30, while terrifying by itself, also gives me PTSD from Carnage Doc Ock in Spiderman on the PS1 as the final boss chasing you through the underground tunnel. Scariest thing in my childhood and that has the same vibes and similar enough look 👀. Anyone else remember that or know what I'm talking about? If you don't then I REALLY recommend looking it up!

Guys, got a question. I completed the game and now are there a pack of zombies in de leftcorner of Old Town. But I can't find them. Their should be like 30 zombies but I don't know where to go to find them. Can anyone help me please?

I enjoyed every second of your video! Maybe because DL1 is a gem that can never be repeated! I wish DL2 reach that one day...

I played this again after playing number two and still loved it, definitely in my top 10 of all time...

Great sum up of the original + the following, its truly a wonderful game in terms of gameplay and atmosphere that puts pressure on you and makes you feel the seriousness of this world, i also loved the following story

Watching this has made me want to complete this game again for the 10th time this game holds a special place in my heart

Happiness is starting and playing Dying Light every year. One does not speedrun such a game. One simply enjoys every second of it.

Best zombie game EVER. Such a great game, completely blew my mind. I was watching and waiting and when I finally got my hands on it, whew. Perfection. I spent a night in a bus once and it was nerve wracking but so awesome. The following blew me away, straight into outer space. I had the enhanced version too, with Hell raid and all the dlc's. Loved it.

Wish we had something like those air drops in dying light 2, opening one of those just felt so satisfying

I’d like to see this game get a kickass remaster in the sub-10 year future with graphics that’ll make Danny Devito’s Jersey Mikes sun look like old news.

But you're going back and playing dying light (1) after 7 years of patches... Disconnect your system from the internet and install and play it from an old version of disk, and you'll see that this game took 7 years to get where it got to(which is an amazing game) I remember how meh the game was when it first came out .. to the point for the first 3 years I'd play like 2 hours a year until the giant DLC "the following" came out and added quite a bit, and added quite a bit in the base game with patches at that point... Because if you find a disk from the first run, and make sure it doesn't update (I just disconnected my PS4 from the internet playing version like 1.X you'll realize just how much post launch effort techland put into the game after launch, for free, all these added patches and features, they really turned it into this amazing game after launch by listening to the community, down to even making community events and repeating the ones people asked for/were super popular....so in 7 years see where dying light 2 is, as even 1 year after launch it's a *much* better game with more features, including ones the community asked for(like the legendary system being added in 2 like it was in 1) That said though #1 is almost a perfect game, not a perfect zombie game, but an almost perfect "everyone who has a system that can play it should own it" game Kinda like how the last of us was, if you owned a PS3, or a PS4 you have to own it, much like a version of halo for the 360/one So I feel this review should be preceded with a "this is a video about the final version of dying light 1" or mention how dying light 1 was at start versus what you're doing the review on Idk if dying light 2 will hit the same status as dying light 1 did, or if it'll just get that status with dying light 1 fans, but in 6 more years(since it's a year old) could make #2 as good a sequel as dying light 1 deserves... If anything the amount of free patches and events and just how much time and energy techland put into listening to the community needs to really be emphasized as dying light would not be the game it is, if techland didn't listen to the community and also didn't keep putting out patches for 7 years, as it showed how much the devs themselves loved the game, how much the devs and community loves the game, and how much effort they kept putting in to making it the best game it could be But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong, I guess

Watching this has made me start to play at night, I recently bought dying light for the first time and have competed it, I’m still working on the following and love the car and the locations. Thank you for making this! I had such a scary and thrilling chase sequence running in old town 😂

It gets to a point where your trapped outside with the volatiles to the volatiles are trapped outside with you while you just grin and watch

I love the night in Dying Light. Really well done

I love this game. There is nothing like the nighttime in DL1.

Night time is where I shine baby. Especially on Nightmare difficulty.

you've motivated me to play the following, I played dying light back in 2015 (I was in grade 10 then) now Ive graduated university and dying light 2 was kind of a let down... (or maybe im just getting old...) either way, I've never played the following though so thank you for motivating me to play this. it looks fun

the moment the shotgun touched my hands i never saw night time the same again

Dude when u talked about night time I got flash backs and I was panicking just from watchin the game play💀

I'm playing it rn for the first time. Just finished the pit mission. Loving this game

Wow. What a review!

This is probably one of my favorite reviews ever ngl

Been playing it since day 1. Still my favorite game of all time. It really needs a proper sequel.

Great Video

I love the intro /main menu song Horizon

I feel like the Be The Zombie mode is a concept that was a few balance changes from being great. All of the Night Hunter mechanics were great, playing against 4 maxed out survivors was ridiculous though

night time. I'm pretty used to stealth, Love it

Since I believe Crane turning is the true ending I hope we see him again and how he has been dealing with everything that happened

DL1's first night traumatized me so bad that I actively avoid night in OTHER games.

Thank you for this

Beautiful video ◕‿↼ I love it!!! ❤️

You forgot the amazing intro cutscene, it really establishes a mysterious yet intriguing way to place you in the now dreadful harran.

It took me almost a month to survive first night, I almost had given up playing this game. Now I only go out during nights whenever I start afresh.

I liked the story buy main negative for me were big distances (second map were better because it was safe to use parkour than walking the streets which were the requirement in the original map) between missions which made side-quests a waste of time because of it (they weren't good anyway)

I love dying light. I have it my main original save on my xbox one. But have been addicted to the switch port for 20 bucks or less you get the base game and all the dlc which is tons. Btw what you said is spot on about night.

Fun fact about the night time it was so scary and difficult techland had to nerf the night a lot it used to be terrifying back then now,it is just very scary

Your content is constantly getting better

I just started to play it last year and right now im starting to play The following DLC, great game.

Pro tip: if you skip the first night time cutscene the volatile's doesn't spot you

14:07 actually there is a skill called tik tac that makes it so you can end up wall running, not exactly like in dl2 but its really damn close

Waited 50 years for this

I bought DL this week and at first the night time scares me alot. But as time progressed and I've gotten used to the parkour aspect of the game, night-time has turned into fun running time for me. Sometimes I deliberately get seen by volatiles just to get that rush of running away from them, it's amazing.

Give this man an award for the most entertaining content creator on youtube!!!

I mean, when you said its underrated that isnt very true it sold 17 million copies, but to be honest it could've garnered more

That very first night-time sequence alone makes the whole Alien Isolation game feel like The Sims.

Anyone also think what would happen to brecken because after reaching oldtown we never heard from him again

I just bought it yesterday and been hooked ever sense

Just got my friend to buy it and we have been running it for probably 2-3 weeks and it’s honestly the best coop game Iv played and I’m positive my friend would agree. Game ages greatly and I would highly recommend it to anyone who hasn’t played.

I still can't believe Techland is reworking the parkour system and combat just because of us :DD can't wait for a more grounded parkour and brutal combat experience.

When I finally got to kill Rais I felt so amazed about the entire experience. The graphics were well for its time, and still are. The night is so eerie about how quite it is, and then there’s the one volitile behind you. Amazing game, and forever will be.

This game has always got a special place in my heart one of my absolute favorites🤟 The sequal however is kind of disappointing so I barely play it.

i can't believe you didn't talk about the side quests!!!

17:38 i'm not sure i agree, Gazi is the best

the goon minding his own business: me with my police rifle: Sensational.

Playing at night was a very terrifying experience for me, yet the next night, i did not try to avoid going out then.

I related when he said he don’t tolerate lazy

Fun Fact: A particular game with possibly the best parkour mechanics in the history of gaming YET, known as Mirror's edge, inspired Dying light with its movement system.

Base Edition of Dying Light is now free on EPIC from the 6th of April 2023.

My first time playing the Airdrop mission was the day I turned from a boy into a man. I was 14 at the time. I just made it into a building and lost the chase, hid in the building for a little bit until I built up the courage to head to the tower again. Nearly as soon as I left the house, a volatile spotted me. They almost got me, bought me down to 1hp, but I saw the purple lights getting closer. I finally got back to the tower full of adrenaline, knowing that I had just grown up and that I could do anything. For those of you wondering, dying light is my first new gen (at the time) horror game. Techland changed gaming in my eyes forever.