Dead Island: Riptide Review - Better Off Dead
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Guess who pre-ordered this game on Steam?
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Hope they patch most of the bugs.
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Hope they patch most of the bugs.
I don't think that's possible, especially as I've already given the pre-order bonus (a copy of Dead Island Game of the Year edition) to a friend.RejjeN said:
meh, paying off my preorder before work in an hour or so for the PS3 version.
I played the first one before any patches and most of the issues complained about here are "Waaaahhhh its tooooo harrrddd!!!" which were, frankly, issues the first one had too. And I had a blast with it and have few doubts about me enjoying this game too.
I played the first one before any patches and most of the issues complained about here are "Waaaahhhh its tooooo harrrddd!!!" which were, frankly, issues the first one had too. And I had a blast with it and have few doubts about me enjoying this game too.
Dang, really disappointed to hear this. I also really enjoyed coop in the first Dead Island (despite its flaws) and was looking forward to more of the same, at least. A friend already gifted it to me, so hopefully there will be some enjoyment to be had here. If I pick up alcohol and it STILL replaces the weapon in my hands though, I'm gonna be all 
That reminds me, I also still have the pre-order bonus copy of Dead Island GOTY in my Steam inventory. If anyone's interested, send me a PM and the first one I see gets it.
That reminds me, I also still have the pre-order bonus copy of Dead Island GOTY in my Steam inventory. If anyone's interested, send me a PM and the first one I see gets it.
Honestly, I was expecting more of the same from this game. I'd be fine with that as I really enjoyed the first. This review saddens me but not enough to not buy the game. I'll definitely wait for a juicy Steam sale though.
Like with the original Dead Island, I'll pick this up once the modding community has gotten its hands on it and made some awesome stuff.
Man, I am now very disappoint.
The first one reminds me of Alpha Protocol: An excellent game if you're willing to overlook a lot of stuff...
This has so much potential and it's just getting thrown away. If anyone needs me, I'll be over here having a sad.
The first one reminds me of Alpha Protocol: An excellent game if you're willing to overlook a lot of stuff...
This has so much potential and it's just getting thrown away. If anyone needs me, I'll be over here having a sad.
So, complaining about the copious bugs, the bad story, and the repetitious design is me saying the game is "too hard"? Yeah, ok, sure.Kroxile said:
Dead Island mods? Any I should look for? I didn't even know mods existed for the game.Azaraxzealot said:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/02/the-10-best-dead-island-mods/Xan Krieger said:
here you go
I haven't been able to try these yet, been too busy with school and work but the crysis one looks really badass
I'm not too surprised, bought GOTY Edition of the first one for $20, was good for about 20 hours then I got bored, barely made it halfway through the second chapter. It's a shame though, they could have done something really emotional and fresh with this series.
I was not the least bit surprised by this game being bad. Just based on the idea that Dead Island's game-play was repetitive and got boring after awhile made the game pointless to me, but this game was shoving so many commercials to promote it that I decided to buy adblock for f**king once so I don't need to worry about that crap anymore. I'm just saying that this game was bad from the trailers alone for me and I no longer trust trailer sunless they show actually gameplay, and this one looked no different from its predecessor which sad because the ideas are good, the execution is just s**t.
Having played it for about 2 and a half hours it's more of the same Dead Island experience though with a few more bugs. In the first chapter I encountered one so bad I ended up in a part of the level you should never be in and had to load my last save. Also the new character has a special attack which is buggy as hell.
What were people expecting? Deep Silver were obviously going to put a minimum of effort into the sequel. Same engine, same characters, same tropical setting. I'd be willing to bet that Riptide even has the same bugs and technical slip-ups.
The first Dead Island was fun enough for all of its limitations, but playing that game should have told you everything you need to know about the developers' intentions for the second one.
The first Dead Island was fun enough for all of its limitations, but playing that game should have told you everything you need to know about the developers' intentions for the second one.
Oh come on, if they'd released it for $60 you'd have people ranting about paying "full price for a glorified mission pack". Seems like publishers literally can't win sometimes...Darks63 said:
As a fairly late adopter of the 360 version of the first Dead Island game I have to say I never really saw any of this "buggy mess" people rave about so much. Seemed fine to me. The gameplay criticisms, yeah, those were all fair.
Did the reviewer not play much of the original game? The "blueberry" whiteboard featured several times in there, too.
Sounds like Riptide is going on my "buy preowned in a year's time" list. Just quickly, is is pretty much the same game? Same mechanics, same skill tree, same 4 characters, same controls?
Also, did anybody play the Ryder White DLC for the first game? Is it any good?