PS Plus Premium Adds Three-Hour Dying Light 2 Trial on PS5, PS4

Only need 497 more hours to complete it.

Found it quite underwhelming compared to the first game.
Hoping dead island 2 might be enjoyable but will definitely be waiting for reviews on that

Took me $60 and 2 hours to find out it was not very good.

I’ve been enjoying it. I’ve been playing co-op with one of my kids. I talked to a dev last night on Twitter and he said that soon the flashlight with be getting improved to work better with the dark graphics settings. Currently, dark looks good but the flashlight is too weak. He also said they will be adjusting the normal and gritty colors as well, or at least with one of them.

The amount of negativity people have with this game boggles my mind. I think it’s probably a Days Gone situation again.

I might actually check it out then

Awesome then I can try it. I liked the first one so probably will like the 2nd one as well. Otherwise I probably would have bought it in a deep sale anyways

3 hours is roughly the amount of time it took for me to realise this game was awful compared to the first one.

I actually realised this within the first 30 minutes but I really hoped it would improve. It never did.

I don’t know how they got it so wrong when the first game was so good? They had a great foundation to build on and chose to completely abandon it for something way worse 🤷‍♂️

Can't see it on the list at the moment. Is it restricted to certain territories only?

When do the rest of the extra / premium stuff get announced? Not that I don't have enough to keep me going.

I can't see this one on there but I didn't know Steelrising was on there, so i'll give that a go. This isn't advertised that well by Sony

@nookie_egg
It seems to be random. Which Is
quite annoying to be honest. I like looking forward to the reveal, not just aimlessly wonder until it drops suddenly.

@thefourfoldroot1 yeah old ps plus had set times and days. Ah well, like I say I've definitely got enough to keep me going.

@nookie_egg It should be announced about halfway through the month. That's how it was for the first few months of Extra / Premium. It's just that Sony broke the pattern in September by announcing all of the PS Plus stuff at the same time.

Bah, I'm still waiting for the new games for extra, I can play dying light 2 when it eventually gets all the dlc anyways which won't be for a while yet

I’m going to buy this eventually but until they fix the huge trophy errors its a no from me

@ShogunRok cool thanks for the info

@OmegaStriver Not quite. Days Gone is actually good and didn't deserve the negativity.

I don't know what Techland did, but they butchered the combat against Zombies in Dying Light 2. Each swing of my weapon feels like it only hits one zombie at a time, in early game, that's understandable, but mid to late game? Nah. In the first Dying Light, most swings would connect with 2-3, maybe even 4 or 5 Zombies at a time, but in Dying Light 2, most swings will rarely hit more than one Zombie at a time. Why change the combat when it was already perfected in the first game? GRANTED they DID improve the combat when dealing with other Human Survivors, but the combat against Zombies was a step backwards. The idea is to improve upon what already worked, not downgrade it and make it worse.

Hopefully Dead Island 2 ends up being good, really enjoyed the first game despite some graphical issues and horrendously bad cutscenes, but I didn't enjoy Riptide, because I wasn't a fan of the swamp-like setting versus the Resort & City settings, didn't care for the Forest setting in the first Dead Island either, but that was near endgame, so I could deal with it.

@OmegaStriver - Glad you're enjoying it, I wanted to go away from Dying Light 2 loving it, as I love most Zombie games, they're a guilty-pleasure genre for me, but Dying Light 2 pales in comparison to the first game in my opinion. For me, the combat against Zombies saw a significant downgrade compared to the first game, they did improve combat against humans, but took a step backwards with the Zombies, and I just don't understand why Techland messed with the combat against Zombies, when the perfected it in the first game AND Story DLC. Messing with the combat against the Zombies was a significant turn-off for me, the combat against Zombies in the first game was oh so damn satisfying, I replay Dying Light on a yearly basis solely because of how fun it was killing Zombies.

@TheKurgan - I agree, Days Gone really was a great game, I truly did not understand those that said "It's just another generic zombie game", I'm sorry but if there was another zombie game out there like Days Gone, point me in its direction so I can play it.

Plus a lot of the negativity was veered toward stupid SJW BS, like "Why do I have to play as a gruff white male protagonist" or "Where's the representation for Gays & Lesbians" even though there was a lesbian couple in the damn game, proof that these dumba$$ reviewers didn't play the game, and those 'issues' weren't even legitimate criticisms, just forced Pro-SJW Agenda's.

I can accept the bugs and glitches criticisms, because there were quite a few of them at launch and post-launch, but most of them were fixed in the first 2 weeks of the games launch.

But to say Days Gone was 'just another generic zombie game' as so many did, was absolute BS, I admit it does take a while for the story to pick up steam, but once it does, it's a really good story, I liked most of the characters, the world was beautiful and fun to explore, with diverse environments, and there was always this tenseness to the atmosphere as you were playing in the open world. Facing a Horde is never not intense and terrifying, especially when the music kicks up when nearing a Horde AND dealing with the Horde directly.
Days Gone was an 8.5 out of 10 for me, and much like the first Dying Light, I've replayed Day Gone every year since its release in 2019, such a fun game that I don't mind revisiting again and again on a yearly basis, also tried out the challenges for the first time this year, and those are surprisingly fun too.

@JustPlainLoco I'd give Days Gone the same score as you. I've only played it once, and that was at launch. It was performing at what seemed like 20 fps on my PS4 towards the end and I still loved it. It was also my first Plat. I wondered how close I was to the Platinum when I was nearing the end and I was surprised to find that I only needed a small number of trophies for 100% completion. That says a lot about the game.
It's not just another zombie game, the hordes are unique. The soundtrack is wonderful, too.
Such a shame that there won't be a Days Gone 2. I'll replay it on my PS5 at some point.
I gave Dying Light 2 15 hours before I gave up. I enjoyed the first Dying Light.

@TheKurgan

I think it’s release was the issue with that game.

It released in a very poor state relative to most other Sony 1st party games. It ran bad, was plagued with texturing issues, and was buggy.

After a few patches it became a very good zombie simulator game. One of the best Zombie simulator games out there in my opinion.

But its initial release is what really hurt it long term.

But people who haven’t played it should give it a go. It’s a good game now.