Should I get Dead Island Riptide or Metro Last Light?

[Martin Yao]

Hello dwellers of the forum,

I would like to ask if I should pre-order Dead island: Riptide. Is it worth a try? Even if just to get dead-island for free?

Or

Should I just get Metro Last Light instead,(I have the first game though), to finish the story as a whole?

 

[The Cliffe]

I would say go with Metro Last Light, if for no other reason than Deep Silver's terrible track record for correcting flaws in their own product. Dead Island was a game with a ton of promise that was quashed in large part by some pretty outrageous bugs, many of which weren't addressed after four full patches totaling well over a gigabyte of data. I still enjoyed DI enough to play through it once, though.

Haven't actually played Metro LL, but everything I've heard has been generally positive.

 

[wintercoat]

Metro: Last Light. Definitely Metro: Last Light.

Metro: 2033 was an excellent game(barring one stretch of bullshit near the end *cough*amoebas*cough*). I really didn't like Dead Island all that much. It was a very mediocre game.

 

[Doclector]

Even I'd say metro, and I actually do like Dead Island. Sure, it's flawed, but it had enough good ideas to become one of my favourite zombie games.

Still though, Metro last light is a pretty safe bet for a good game. Dead island riptide? We haven't even heard an awful lot about it except that it appears to be kinda like the first game.

 

[GoaThief]

Without knowing how Last Light is going to turn out exactly, I'd still put it miles ahead of Riptide or any other Deep Silver game.

Metro 2033 was a great game, Dead Island was pretty much shit.

 

[Auron]

I'll be the odd man out who didn't play Metro(though I have it actually, backlog ftw yay!) and actually hates Zombies... I really like Dead Island though! It's fun and fast paced but requires a higher modicum of strategy than Left4dead in general, I have no idea how the expansion is coming along and I know it gets pretty cheap on sales though so you might want to wait on getting a game you don't know if you'll like. Incidentally I didn't play DI at release so didn't really encounter any major bugs and... Was it that bad? The critique I hear around sometimes is completely off the game's great and it's a zombie game no less!

 

[aguspal]

I'll be the odd man out who didn't play Metro(though I have it actually, backlog ftw yay!) and actually hates Zombies... I really like Dead Island though! It's fun and fast paced but requires a higher modicum of strategy than Left4dead in general, I have no idea how the expansion is coming along and I know it gets pretty cheap on sales though so you might want to wait on getting a game you don't know if you'll like. Incidentally I didn't play DI at release so didn't really encounter any major bugs and... Was it that bad? The critique I hear around sometimes is completely off the game's great and it's a zombie game no less!

I really like Dead Island though! It's fun and fast paced but requires a higher modicum of strategy than Left4dead in general

Dead Island requires a higher modicum of strategy than Left4dead

I LOL´D!


Spekeaing as someone who enjoined both games, this statament is just so fucking hilarious...not even close to begin true at all...LOL. This was awesome, thanks mate...


But seriously... I would like to know how you come to that conclusion


Oh, the thread itself... well much like the guy I just quoted twice, never played Metro nor do I intent to, so I am obviously biased when I say: Dead Island wins. Even if it was glitchy as fuck and all... it was decent, and definitivly has alot of potential.


EDIT: Also Left 4 dead beats Dead island by quite a difference. That is not to say than Dead Island dosnt holds on its own, its a pretty cool game but, as I already said, could have done A LOT more... If they do manage to do that correctly in the sequel then it MIGHT just rival Left 4 dead/Borderlands for best co-op games in my book.

Oh yeah. Another thing. WTF is a "Pulitzer Laureate"?

 

[GlorySeeker]

Metro. I dabbled in Dead Island, it never really hooked me. Metro 2033 was a fantastic game, despite some flaws. Its got very good elements of horror, suspense, action, and realism to it. Its a believable setting to a degree. And the story will pull you in from the start. Im hoping that Last light will be nothing but improvements upon the first.

 

[Zeldias]

Never played the original Metro, but I beat the original Dead Island by one shotting the final boss with my electrified sledgehammer, and it was the most crushingly anticlimactic shit ever. Dead Island in general gets worse and worse once you leave the city IMO, and Riptide looks like it'll be more of the same, but with base defense missions. I'd go with Metro, honestly. Seems safer.

 

[The Cliffe]

WTF is a "Pulitzer Laureate"?

Pulitzer refers to the Pulitzer Prize, an award handed out for excellence in writing-type things (journalism, literature, musical composition, etc.)

Pulitzer Laureate is a play on words derived from the term "Poet Laureate", which is a government-appointed poet who's job it is to document current events as they happen in poetic prose.

 

[TheProfessor234]

But, if you preorder Last Light and not Dead Island, you won't get a disembodied female torso!

Really though, I'm glad to hear Last Light is still a thing and I hope it'll come out strong.

 

[AT God]

Since neither has been released I can't say for sure, but given each game's predecessor, Metro Last Light sounds like the obvious winner.

Plus its about post nuclear war in Russia, two great settings for games.

 

[SecondPrize]

I enjoyed both Dead Island and Metro 2033. It'd be difficult to pick one of the sequels to preorder, but I'm just going to wait till they're both under 10 on steam anyways so there's that problem solved. Don't factor a free Dead Island from preordering into your decision, you can pick it up for a song in the next steam sale.

 

[Seventh Actuality]

If in doubt, go with the game that didn't try to get you to wank over truncated corpse.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

Metro: Last Light.
Metro: Last Light.
Metro: Last Light.
Metro: Last Light.
Metro: Last Light.
Metro: Last Light.

Have I mentioned that you should get Metro: Last Light instead of Dead Island: Riptide? Because you should get Metro: Last Light instead of Dead Island: Riptide.

Dead Island requires a higher modicum of strategy than Left4dead in general

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cant breathe

just

cant breathe

Was it that bad?

Yes.

The critique I hear around sometimes is completely off the game's great and it's a zombie game no less!

1. Criticism, not critique.
2. If you consider laughable racial and ethnic stereotypes, schizophrenic tone, terrible animations, glitch-ridden multiplayer, and an utter disregard for game balance to be great, then yeah, it's great.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

not keen on jumping on bandwagons, but I'd say Metro: Last Light, though I never played Dead Island I don't really intend to when I saw a friend kick zombies to death for two hours, not a single weapon was used. :/

then again, why preorder? surely you can get one of either three days after release and the reviews give you more of an idea what it's about.

Don't go near IGN though, I still got beef with them because Metro 2033 "couldn't compare to Fallout". <.<

 

[Auron]

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l4d = kill everything, follow the directions in the 100% linear levels.

DI = Watch out for your stamina, keep your ammunition, skip unnecessary enemies it's far from survival horror but not as twitchy or direct and linear as l4d.

It's in fact by design and not necessarily a bad thing, but keep ridiculing the game and I by all means.

 

[aguspal]

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l4d = kill everything, follow the directions in the 100% linear levels.

DI = Watch out for your stamina, keep your ammunition, skip unnecessary enemies it's far from survival horror but not as twitchy or direct and linear as l4d.

It's in fact by design and not necessarily a bad thing, but keep ridiculing the game and I by all means.

Fair enough.


Althougt what you said about DI is certanly true, the MASSIVE glitches, errors, bad desing decitions and just overall a "meh" experience when it could have been "pretty damn good" instead, just makes me side with l4d.

I DO agree l4d can get a bit repetitive at times, but hey, in DI all you do is kill zombies as well... I mean, looking at just what you said:

Watch out for your stamina: Yeah I honestly dont see what is the point here. IT was a bit annoying...thats all. I guess it adds alittle strategy, but the game was so stupidly easy and broken (< THIS IS A KEY POINT) that it usually dosnt matters anyways
keep your ammunition: Again, game begin broken and easy as hell means this dosnt really matters. And munition was really mostly for human enemies anyways.
skip unnecessary enemies: Um... Well you yourself said it. Nothing to add here.


Again, not hating on anything here, just my opinion, and despiste all of this DI was an enjoyable game, decentish... While l4d is THE co-op game imo.

WTF is a "Pulitzer Laureate"?

Pulitzer refers to the Pulitzer Prize, an award handed out for excellence in writing-type things (journalism, literature, musical composition, etc.)

Pulitzer Laureate is a play on words derived from the term "Poet Laureate", which is a government-appointed poet who's job it is to document current events as they happen in poetic prose.

Oh ok that was funny dude thank you for the information xD.

 

[Costia]

I would say neither
Wait until they are out, read the reviews, watch some gameplay videos and decide based on facts, not speculations.

 

[Laughing Man]

Can only really go with my play through of Metero and DI. I played through Dead Island two or three times, really loved it and would happily play through it again. Metero on the other hand, gave it two tries separated by around a year and a bit and a good system upgrade or two and I still hate the game with a passion. It is an awful FPS.

A quick sum up it can be described as such.

The core mechanic for the game is strongly balanced towards conservation of ammo and stealth, ammo is limited so you only use it when you really have too. Yet the enemies in the game have an advanced form of ESP that not only allow them to spot you when you are hiding, but once you have been spotted EVERY enemy in that part of the level knows exactly where you are and will find you even if you try to hide again. Then when you actually have to get in to a fire fight the weapons feel like total and utter crap, it's like firing a BB gun at a wall. Oh and pray you never have to do an escort mission in this game because your escorts AI is beyond retarded.