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Overhyped yet very underwhelming? Well, that's just the Dead Island brand for you.
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CuddleCryptid posted:Overhyped yet very underwhelming? Well, that's just the Dead Island brand for you. Yeah, that's fair. DI2 isn't a Eurojank mess like the original, or even much of a mess at all, but it definitely feels like a nine-year-old game.
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Apr 18, 2023 20:09
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I never actually finished the original Dead Island but tbh the line "... I can't hate any game that lets me dropkick a zombie into a power line." does a lot of work on selling me on DI2. Will def keep it on the radar for a co-op game with my bud.
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Apr 18, 2023 20:15
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Meowywitch posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yruQlZBeZyw Haunting Ground owns.
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Apr 18, 2023 20:53
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I feel like Dying Light just does everything Dead Island does but better since it has all the same mechanics + parkour
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Apr 18, 2023 21:12
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Every video game should have a grappling hook
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Apr 18, 2023 21:14
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CharlestonJew posted:I feel like Dying Light just does everything Dead Island does but better since it has all the same mechanics + parkour Because it totally does, Dying Light is hella fun.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:25
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Well, at least Dead Island 2 came out, that's more than I expected honestly. I only played to the jungle in the original Dead Island. I should probably pick up Dying Light at some point, but I have to admit I was always looking forward to Hellraid more than Dying Light.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:36
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Was the first Dead Island even any good? All I remember is that one artsy/emotional trailer coming out, and then people complaining that the game wasn't actually like it at all.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:38
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Captain Hygiene posted:Was the first Dead Island even any good? All I remember is that one artsy/emotional trailer coming out, and then people complaining that the game wasn't actually like it at all. No, it was not very good.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:42
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Captain Hygiene posted:Was the first Dead Island even any good? All I remember is that one artsy/emotional trailer coming out, and then people complaining that the game wasn't actually like it at all. I recall the general consensus being that the first section of the game (the resort) was great, but severely diminished in quality in part 2 (a city, I think)?
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Apr 18, 2023 21:46
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Captain Hygiene posted:Was the first Dead Island even any good? All I remember is that one artsy/emotional trailer coming out, and then people complaining that the game wasn't actually like it at all. Dying Light was basically "what if Dead Island was good". The map was small, weapons broke if you leaned on them, combat was clunky, and it was boring overall. Also, in a game about resource management and melee attacks they made four classes for characters, two of which were throwing weapons and firearms specialities. So half the human enemies in the later part of the game had guns but when you picked them up they sucked in your hands unless you picked the gun girl.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:47
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Dead Island is a fun with friends game, which is a pretty backhanded compliment. But you could get into a truck and run over zombies so that was fun. If only Dead Rising hadn’t come out five years before.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:52
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Isn't Dead Island the game where your character's dialogue started shaky and weak but got more confident later in the game, unless you went back to the starting area where it reverted back to weak?
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Apr 18, 2023 22:07
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:Dead Island is a fun with friends game, which is a pretty backhanded compliment. But you could get into a truck and run over zombies so that was fun. If only Dead Rising hadn’t come out five years before. Yeah, that's pretty much the DI vibe in a nutshell. It's a co-op zombie-smashing arena that falls directly on its rear end in solo play.
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Apr 18, 2023 22:26
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Kragger and I are the only people that like Dead Island. I've got over 120 hours in it, and another 50 in Riptide. It really clicked for me and I loved every minute of it. Most of that was played solo, I'd say.
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Apr 18, 2023 22:59
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No, I cleared both DI and Riptide back in the day. As a big zombie nerd, they kind of hit me where I live.
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Apr 18, 2023 23:16
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Dead Islands goofy tone is fine but also always made it way less appealing to me. Dying Light getting a little more serious with it went a long ways.
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Apr 18, 2023 23:19
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Yeah, Dead Island isn't good but it also isn't bad. It has some great bits, it has some bad bits, and it sorta settles down in the "fine, but will only think of it when reminded it exists" level.
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Apr 18, 2023 23:37
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I remember enjoying the beach and resort part but making a large part of the shanty town levels focused in sewers was definitely a choice. I did not care for the jungle at all
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Apr 18, 2023 23:43
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My friends and I played through Dead Island recently. It was not very good. The first area is a resort, which was fun. The second was a city, which was not fun and went forever. The third was a jungle with buildings, which was pretty terrible. And the fourth is a prison that was mercifully short. The weapon upgrades felt like they were all the same, quest tracking in multiplayer was weird, the writing was terrible, the final boss a joke (a slightly big guy that we just surrounded and wailed on for all of ten seconds before he died). Really the whole game should've been in the resort. There are driving mechanics, which you pretty much never use after the first chapter because the city is too cramped and the jungle doesn't have a lot of roads. And one of the cars has a sun visor that inexplicably covers half your vision. Oh and talking about the character skills, yeah there is one that is a gun person except they only have a couple skills related to guns but do have a skill that multiplies the XP earned from kills, ensuring they'll soon outlevel everyone else in the game. Especially the person that doesn't get any XP bonus skills at all. Just a wildly designed game all around. Like, there are collectibles that are ID cards, 100 of them to find. They are all uniquely numbered so that when you pick them up it'll say 'ID #38' or whatever. Except if you look in your inventory it will just say that you've collected, for example, 23/100 id cards. loving why?
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CuddleCryptid posted:Dying Light was basically "what if Dead Island was good". To be fair, all human enemies will die instantly to headshots barring I think like one or two exceptions, and the pistol was very accurate. It's using guns on zombies that was kind of a waste of time, or it felt like that to me.
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Apr 19, 2023 04:21
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My favorite fact about Dead Island is that you can just change values in a text file to give yourself infinite ammo and I don't think online checked it
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Apr 19, 2023 04:45
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Back when I played the remastered version on PS4, someone random online handed over a modded assault rifle, so I think if you can bother with the effort, the game doesn't give a poo poo. It's just save file editing that I think the game does not tolerate at all, or at least that's from what I can remember of the original version.
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Apr 19, 2023 04:51
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never forget Dead Island 1 opened with this goofy rear end track, my partner got it for the 360 and I was hanging out watching him start it up and when it got to WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH we loving lost it we still say that to each other to this day, truly the most memorable part of the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEJ5OJZbmc
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Apr 19, 2023 05:02
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The best hilariously stupid intro track that always stuck with me was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNbabKjKpA They took it out of the remaster and it was blasphemy.
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Apr 19, 2023 08:21
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CharlestonJew posted:I feel like Dying Light just does everything Dead Island does but better since it has all the same mechanics + parkour
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Zombies are already so not scary that I have trouble enjoying things that just go into full on joke mode with it. Doing zombies at all is already inherently lazy, so at least try and sell me on it being horror and maybe I'll sort buy it. but if you constantly try to wink and nod at me about how stupid your own game is I'm going to be inclined to agree that it's stupid. Dying Light isn't amazing but at least it feels like more than some self deprecating joke.
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just remembered dead island promoted the dlc by offering a headless and limbless big tiddy torso which was very much an artifact of its time  https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5Vi_U0YKCTp0raxxkpDCUSAjJMo=/68x0:1031x642/1820x1213/filters:focal(68x0:1031x642):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/6591657/torso-zb_uk.0.jpg
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A friend of mine has that proudly displayed as a "mistake that should never be forgotten" and tbh I agree. It's really funny.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:just remembered dead island promoted the dlc by offering a headless and limbless big tiddy torso which was very much an artifact of its time The link is broken but also I actually remember that now lmao. What a wild promotion.
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veni veni veni posted:Zombies are already so not scary that I have trouble enjoying things that just go into full on joke mode with it. Doing zombies at all is already inherently lazy, so at least try and sell me on it being horror and maybe I'll sort buy it. but if you constantly try to wink and nod at me about how stupid your own game is I'm going to be inclined to agree that it's stupid. The whole thing with zombies is that it's the fear of infection that form the basis of their horror. But if you're, say, a video game protagonist you can't get a scratch from one and then die. Project Zomboif did this well, but you can't exactly have Leon Kennedy dying from one bite. Then you have Dead Island which, like you said, is just a gorefest.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:just remembered dead island promoted the dlc by offering a headless and limbless big tiddy torso which was very much an artifact of its time This owned because it was such a stupid idea and because it pissed off a bunch of people.
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sigher posted:This owned because it was such a stupid idea and because it pissed off a bunch of people. why is it funny that it pissed off a bunch of people, sigher?
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Apr 19, 2023 18:35
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The link isn’t working please help
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Apr 19, 2023 18:49
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Consummate Professional posted:The link isn’t working please help I've sent you a link to my personal collection.
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Meowywitch posted:why is it funny that it pissed off a bunch of people, sigher? Because it takes the same amount of effort to laugh at the tiddy statue as it is to laugh at the people mad that a tiddy statue exists, Meow.
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Read After Burning posted:My partner just discovered Dredge and I think I'm going to have to force him off the PC so we can watch Succession tonight... Don't worry, it's a very short game I had fun I think, but man if I'd paid the £22 (someone bought it me as a gift) I'd be really miffed that it was so short and so VERY front loaded. I feel like they have an idea but didn't really know how to expand on what they'd made.
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Yeah, like I quite enjoyed the game but the narrative structure is pretty weak once you leave the town. I think it would've been a lot stronger if returning to the town for ship upgrades or advancing quests/plots or something was more prominent, rather than just having you go from biome to biome without really worrying about the main town. The game introduces you to a bunch of notable characters in this place and then you leave and only ever encounter one-shot characters from then on, which felt weaker. I think the fishing and exploration still keeps the game going strong (at least, for me - I loved going around islands to find points of interest, filling out my encyclopedia, etc) but the rest could've been better.
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ok here's a working link you pervs lol  maybe? https://www.yourprops.com/movieprops/original/yp58ac80c46b1606.81947723/Dead-Island-Riptide-video-game-Zombie-Baite-Torso-Bust-5.jpg
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