My theory about Dead Island.

[OverweightWhale]

So far I've logged about 10 hours on this game and I'm loving every second. The combat reminds me of a mix of condemned and oblivion. I'm loving the character I chose too. Sam B is fun to play as for the first go. You charge down zombies, curb stomp them, and bash heads with a variety of blunt melee weapons. Although sadly I can't play online right now since it lags my game too badly. So I have to wait for a patch to come...

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I really don't plan on buying it because it seems to be Left 4 Dead.

And I don't think there hasn't been talk because people have been playing it, its because the people who really care are chatting among themselves about it, while others are just sitting there waiting for another game to come that will, basically, in a nutshell, blow the game to smithereens in a month or so.

Blow the game to smithereens in a month or so...you're waiting for Skyrim, aren't cha? ;D

OT: I'm tempted to get Dead Island soon, me and my sister have been following it and we've agreed it looks pretty alright. However...

Sup

Had to quote you, OP, because I know you'll be able to answer this for me: have they made the female asian character shut the hell up a bit more? Her talking drove me to insanity in the gameplay preview videos.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I'm not playing it and don't plan on it, the reason being that it sounds like horrible, glitch-ridden garbage.

That was just because they accidentally gave steam a pre-release version. That's fixed now, I believe.

 

[vrbtny]

It's not L4D. Trust me, I LOVE L4D. This is like L4d, borderlands, and Fallout all had a sex baby.

Well...not to be awkward here, but how else would you have a baby? The birds and the bees and whatnot.

 

[wfpdk]

i haven't played it, and i never really had any intention to. i really don't know anything about it other than it's not skyrim, so my money i will continue to save, but i'll have to remember to get this in a few years (once I'm finished with skyrim) when it's cheap.

 

[Sephychu]

I'm not getting it.
The gameplay trailer managed to fall terribly short of all my expectations. I think they set the bar far too high with that teaser trailer, because I expected the game it inspired to be deep and artsy.

From what I can see, it is not. That may be a problem with my expectations, but that doesn't mean I'm getting the game.

 

[devotedsniper]

I have a new friend, his name is mr machete...he chops those nasty zombies heads off and saves me...until he breaks...then i run away!

I'm loving every second of this game (except the driving could do with abit of tweaking), and as for you lot going on about the bugs, i haven't seen a single bug (provided you don't have the dev version installed). I like it alot more that L4D, never really saw the appeal in that but this is awesome!

 

[AlternatePFG]

I'd like to get it actually. Don't particularly care if it's buggy, I heard from some of the reviewers that I listen to that it's worth playing despite the bugs. Besides, bugs have never stopped me from liking a game before. (Pretty much any Obsidian game I've at the very least liked (If not loved) and you know buggy those get.)

I just can't afford it right now. I couldn't buy Human Revolution, the game I was looking forward most this year, I rented it. I'll probably rent this too, along with Space Marine.

It was patched pretty quick too, which is a good sign.

 

[Argtee]

I'll definitely be getting this game, but not any time soon.

I'm hoping to get it for Christmas, but we'll see.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

I really don't plan on buying it because it seems to be Left 4 Dead.

And I don't think there hasn't been talk because people have been playing it, its because the people who really care are chatting among themselves about it, while others are just sitting there waiting for another game to come that will, basically, in a nutshell, blow the game to smithereens in a month or so.

Blow the game to smithereens in a month or so...you're waiting for Skyrim, aren't cha? ;D

OT: I'm tempted to get Dead Island soon, me and my sister have been following it and we've agreed it looks pretty alright. However...

Sup

Had to quote you, OP, because I know you'll be able to answer this for me: have they made the female asian character shut the hell up a bit more? Her talking drove me to insanity in the gameplay preview videos.

It's pretty rare, and sticks to short phrases when she does talk. Of course, this increases during some cutscenes. But those can (if you must) be skipped.

 

[shadow_Fox81]

I'll be trading Deus ex in to play it.

and i hope to be surprised whith a startlingly mature experience.

its a gamble.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

Ok, I'm heading back into zombie territory. Feel free to pm me with any questions you may have. ^_^

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

It looked like an awesome game, but the reviews are in an apparently its half-finished, riddled with bugs and surprisingly shit.

I will not be buying

Who listen's to game reviewers anymore? They still say words like 'Rad', and insist that Xenoblade is the next evolution of the JRPG. Yeah, that statement has nothing to do with your resentment toward Nintendo of America.

I'm at a point now where I pretty much know what game I want just by looking the gameplay. And I want this game. It's like a deeper Dead Rising 2 except with no fucking timer.

 

[Samwise137]

I'm too busy playing Space Marine.
Sorry, s'truth.
Might pick it up for X-mas though.

I'm in the opposite boat personally. It all came down to which was gifted to me first. My buddies bought a four pack and gifted me DI before my other buddy gifted me my copy of Space Marine. Sadly, DI didn't finish downloading 'till after I fell asleep last night but I'm looking forward to some zombie-killing as soon as I get off work tonight!

 

[electric_warrior]

It looked like an awesome game, but the reviews are in an apparently its half-finished, riddled with bugs and surprisingly shit.

I will not be buying

Who listen's to game reviewers anymore? They still say words like 'Rad', and insist that Xenoblade is the next evolution of the JRPG. Yeah, that statement has nothing to do with your resentment toward Nintendo of America.

I'm at a point now where I pretty much know what game I want just by looking the gameplay. And I want this game. It's like a deeper Dead Rising 2 except with no fucking timer.

I do because they're usually right when it comes to the games I play. That is to say I go on metacritic and read the snippets. You may think I'm some sort of sheep, but I know watching gameplay isn't the best representation of a game and don't like wasting what precious little money I spend on games on bad games I don't like. Also, the user ratings are pretty bad, which is the final nail for me.

 

[EvanJO]

It's actually an absurd amount of fun with a friend or two. I played for 5 hours or so with a buddy of mine and had a blast. Not the developer launch version, just a straight up normal patched edition.

Yeah there are bugs and we had to find a work-around for VOIP always being on (seriously, if you're going to try and force us to use ingame VOIP, don't use some garbage codec like speex) but overall it's a blast.

Don't think we've encountered any game-breaking glitches and we've never crashed. Game runs like butter but the controls are pretty awful.

 

[krazykidd]

I dont plan on buying it any time soon , i'll probably buy it when it. Droppes price to 20$ , not before , i have no interest in coop games . Plus boarderlands with zombies doesn't bode well with me.

 

[Frostbite3789]

I'm too busy playing Space Marine.
Sorry, s'truth.
Might pick it up for X-mas though.

Pretty much this. Around the time an assault marine was jumping through the sky, about to land on my head and ruin my day, but instead of that, I was blasting him clean out of the sky with a heavy bolter I thought "Dead what now?"

 

[krazykidd]

Double post :/