Zero Punctuation: Dead Island

[uzo]

I apologise for being a zombie fanboy, but I haven't played this yet. After the phenomenal preview movie that made everyone cry, I had a terrible feeling the game wouldn't live up to the preview movie.

I will play it eventually ... but I'd have to upgrade my PC first. So maybe sometime in 2013, presuming I'm not fighting off actual zombies in 2012 sometime.

 

[Discord]

He is right, All in did was use that Kick of Power move most of the time, I just hope they don't patch it cause it's a easy little tactic. IDK I'm playing alone a lot I wonder if it's better Left 4 Dead Style with 4 players.

Also, A Wolfman Apocalypse?

Me Gusta ^______________^

 

[DexterNorgam]

I have yet to see the review, as I am at work, but the comments have inspired me to make a few as well. First, I'll link the brief review I wrote a while back.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.313700-My-two-Kina-on-Dead-Island.

Since then I've played well into the 3rd act, and I've gotten more accustomed to playing around the wonky hit detection (and teleporting zombies) and such. I still don't hate it. Its solidly average. It's flawed but entertaining. Its clearly not the best purchase i've ever made but also far from the worst. (smash brothers brawl/tao feng)

As far as L4D goes. The first game was superior. The second game was better on paper but in practice it lost...something.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'm with Yahtzee, enough of the fucking zombies already! ...though that might come from my general disdain for the living dead.

Favorite Line: "And you'll do a lot of standing over a pile of dead bodies frantically doing the can-can until they stop moving."

 

[uguito-93]

Huh, why did he include Zeno Clash on the list when it was a first person game that focused on 1v1 melee combat, and implemented it well?

 

[Zing]

Aren't mummies essentially zombies?

Fuck yeah @ wolfman island.

 

[The Random One]

So it's not Fallout: Dead Rising as I had initially thought, but rather Dead Rising: Borderlands? This will teach me not to judge prematurely.

 

[The Bookkeeper]

Woo, Danger Mouse!

also I guess the game kind of sucked, whatever

 

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

Aren't mummies essentially zombies?

Fuck yeah @ wolfman island.

Embalmed zombies, indeed! Now, werewolves would be an interesting change. What other monsters could be used?


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[SithLibrarian]

I may be a minority, but I'm enjoying the game. I came in with low expectations and was surprised with a lot of different parts of the game. Sure it's buggy and there are some questionable respawns, but it is very atmospheric. I think all the knee jerk reactions are a bit harsh, especially since the game set the bar way high with the incredible trailer.

 

[daxterx2005]

I think I laughed a little to hard at "Bread Island"

 

[timelordrick]

Oh my, I nearly forgot about yahtzee this week, I was more concerned with Miracleofsound's new song.

OT:I have to agree with Mr. Croshaw on this one. This game was a waste of time and money. All it did was add to the ridiculous surplus of zombie gmaes.

 

[Keith Reedy]

I don't get all the hate for this game. I love it. Smashing heads is just great has an excellent feel

On a separate note L4D2 was better than one what with this silliness that thinks it isn't the same game with so improvements and additions cuz that's what it is

Anyway my biggest problem is the lack of split screen play whats up with this, its a minor easy thing to add and people seem to just be hatin on it c'mon, why do I need another xbox to play this game with my little bro.

 

[Something Amyss]

WEEEE FIRST PERSON MELEE!

I could go for a mummy apocalypse. Long as it wasn't First Person.

 

[Mangue Surfer]

So it's not Fallout: Dead Rising as I had initially thought, but rather Dead Rising: Borderlands? This will teach me not to judge prematurely.

The single player is more like Fallout than Borderlands. In fact, the game doesn?t fell much like Bordelands at all. I think that every fps RPG with coop will be "like Bordelands". You know, every fps until 2004 is "like Doom" and every open world game is "like GTA".

 

[-Dragmire-]

Aren't mummies essentially zombies?

Fuck yeah @ wolfman island.

Embalmed zombies, indeed! Now, werewolves would be an interesting change. What other monsters could be used?


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... Succubus Island... yep, I'd buy it.

OT: It looked interesting, I think I'll look into a couple user reviews before wiping from my maybe-buy list.

 

[rickicker]

Oh HELL yeah, Yahtzee! If they ever release a Wolfman apocalypse survival action game, I would play the SHIT out of it! At the very least, it'll be an interesting diversion from all of the fahking zombie bullshit!

Hey guys, if you're sick and tired of the zombie over-saturation, next time pick a Democrat for president. Why? I'm so glad you asked!

http://www.cracked.com/article_19402_6-mind-blowing-ways-zombies-vampires-explain-america.html

That way, you can look for more vampires that sparkles in the sun. Yaaaaay. -waves the world's smallest cheer flag un-enthusiastically-

 

[Jacob Iott]

Well, I guess there's no chance of Yahtzee reviewing an Insomniac game, now. Oh well. Resistance 3 just looks like a grittier, crappier (almost literally) version of Ratchet and Clank anyway.

 

[92Sierra]

One of these days I am going to calculate how many 50s and 10s Yahtzee has saved me.

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

*claps* every single word he said in this was exactly how I felt about this piss stain of a game.

I was really hyped for this but it was just awful, awful combat, awful voice acting, awful visuals (characters just don't look right), awful attempt to get me to care for the characters and....just...just SO GOD DAMN AWFUL.

I really hate this bloody game, Dead Rising 1 is a better open world zombie game and that game is 5 years old for goodness sake.

Dead Island for now is my personal worst game of 2011.

Funny you'd mention that, Dead Island got first shown at E3 2006, so it's been in development for ~at least~ five years, probably closer to six.