It will take 500+ hours to fully complete Dying Light 2

[midian182]

A hot potato: Open world games aren’t the best genre for those who don’t have much time to play games. That’s especially true with the upcoming Dying Light 2: Stay Human, which developers say will take a ridiculously long 500 hours to complete everything it has to offer.

The follow-up to 2015’s zombies-meets-parkour title is one of the most hotly anticipated titles this year. The first game also required a fairly hefty investment of players’ time, around 55 hours, but according to developer Techland’s recent tweet, fully completing everything in Dying Light 2 will take 500 hours. That’s the equivalent of over 20 days of continuous play, or, as the company puts it, almost as long as it would take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid (around 534 hours).

To fully complete Dying Light 2 Stay Human, you'll need at least 500 hours—almost as long as it would take to walk from Warsaw to Madrid!#DyingLight2 #stayhuman pic.twitter.com/Sk3KFpRJoA

— Dying Light (@DyingLightGame) January 8, 2022

Techland did emphasize the vital caveat in a follow-up tweet: 500 hours is how long it will take to 100% complete the game, “finishing all the quests, endings, and exploring every part of the world.”

The good news is that those who just want to finish Dying Light 2’s story and side quests will need a still-long but less life-stealing 70-80 hours.

It seems that Techland’s boast of a 500-hour game wasn’t as well-received as it had expected, hence the confirmation that it’s only that long for completionists. Many people want value for money from a game, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of it being stuffed with boring, repetitive filler. On the flip side, there were those who welcomed the news that they’d be playing Dying Light 2 for a long, long time.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human arrives on February 4 following several delays. Expect to work pretty hard if you want to finish it before Elden Ring launches on February 25. Techland recommends using an RTX 3080 if you want ray tracing effects in the game, even at 1080p.

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[QuantumPhysics]

It only took me 5 Hours to get annoyed with the first game, put it down and never pick it up again.

 

[gigantor21]

Is that a threat?

 

[DZillaXx]

Lets hope the main story line is not crazy long.

Sure younger folk may like long games. But for us working class folk with kids, game that are crazy long is too hard to keep track of.

 

[Aceseven]

500hrs? thats rookie numbers, 5000+ in ff14 so far.

but thats getting your moneys worth imo.

 

[Dimitriid]

500 hours of content sounds like a meaningless random number generator of items, luck to get those items and procedurally generated quests and such.

I seriously doubt there's enough hand-placed content and not the above examples.

 

[Tantor]

It'll take 500 hours if you know exactly what you're doing. That means you know the plot line, story tree, tech tree, and you have trained your fingers so that you can execute the key combos properly.

If, however, you do NOT know what you're doing, and your hands fumble. then it will take far longer than 500 hours.

I have over 2500 hours in DL and I regularly discover things I overlooked earlier.

 

[Kosmoz]

I rather have 20-30 hours of quality than 500 hours of boredom. I would not sit thru that even if you pay me.

 

[Neatfeatguy]

My brother and I easily put in 150+ hours in Dying Light. We beat it on normal, then beat it on Nightmare and then on Nightmare NG+.

Absolutely loved the game.

Here's hoping the second one is as good as the first and you won't have any complaints from us.

Watching the gameplay trailers kind of leaves a bit of concern in terms of the parkour/free running....the gameplay looks kind of sluggish. I'm hoping it's just how I'm seeing things and it doesn't actually feel that way once I get to play it.

 

[Mr Majestyk]

Just started DL last week and loving it. I can easily see it taking well over a hundred hours given the missions keep piling up and they aren't all simple.