The Light is Dying

Hey everyone,

Scary here again. Happy new year to you all :)

It's been business as usual with the day job, not to mention the job at home as well - which is all to familiar to regular work (which I get paid to do) :P Nevertheless, a necessary thing to do.

Besides having all this on my plate, I've really been looking forward to some of the great games coming out in the near future.

If I haven't mentioned it before, I recently purchased a Playstation 4, and am thoroughly enjoying myself with it. Albeit there is a considerable lack of media features available at the moment (no doubt to be patched sometime in the future) it provides access to the games I've wanted to play most for a few months now. Games like Grand Theft Auto 5 next-gen (which by the way looks amazing and plays just as well as last-gen, if not better), The Last of Us (remastered) and many more.

Having beaten the Last of Us on Survivor (deep breath) I started working on GTA5 (having beaten that on my Xbox 360) but it's been a painfully long process. I've also tried a few other smaller games, including Trials Fusion, which I really enjoyed and continue to play. Thinking about all the fun I could have with the games I currently own, I thought to the future and per-ordered some games that looked very promising.

Here's one I just need to talk about - Dying Light.

Does Techland ring any bells? Well, it should. They were responsible for Dead Island. And, although fitting that they make another zombie game, I feel like they've actually learned some lessons from their previous titles and incorporated some of that genius into Dying Light.

Don't get me wrong - all games have their downfalls and drawbacks. But arguably, there were some terrible things in Dead Island. Specifically the hype created by one of the launch trailers that had us all salivating and foaming at the mouth only to realize....we weren't getting quite what was advertised. I still enjoyed Dead Island however; and feel that with a little more polish it could have really been a great game, instead of just a good one.

Looking forward to Dying Light, I will reserve some of that excitement and anxiety; not because I feel like the game's developers won't fully shine and come through on the hype this time. But, more so because I feel that if I set my expectations low enough, anything better than that will leave me happy. And I've started to approach many different things this way as well.

That being said though, I still have some hopes that Dying Light will deliver on some of the really cool things we've seen in trailers. The free roaming open world is always something I am looking forward to checking out. Who doesn't love blowing zombie brains everywhere? The animations in this game look fluid and believable- and that's the kind of attention to detail I can really dig. On top of that, the game just looks visually appealing and full of eye candy (not counting the semi-coagulated blood spraying out of decapitated zombie bodies and so on).

It's rare for me to go out and actually pre-order games nowadays; so I hope that at least this time, I've made a good choice.

Thanks for reading! Until next time, stay classy. :)

-Scary