Producer Says Dead Island is More Borderlands than Heavy Rain

[NathLines]

Good. An artistic/deep/emotional zombie game? Wut? I can't imagine how people could even expect such a thing. Because of the trailer? I sure didn't.

I'm really glad that they say it's more similar to Borderlands, I wasn't even interested in the game before. Now I am.

 

[qbanknight]

What baffles me is why the developers are so surprised people got the wrong idea of the game's tone by the trailer. The trailer was pulling everyone's heart strings. This is like showing me a trailer to Bad Boys 3 that is meant to look like Scorcese-esque crime drama when really it's about blowing shit up

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Good. I like Borderlands enough to play through it SOLO. Possibly my favorite game of 2009.

Besides, I'd hate a narrative driven zombie game.

 

[michael87cn]

Good. I like Borderlands enough to play through it SOLO. Possibly my favorite game of 2009.

Besides, I'd hate a narrative driven zombie game.

Ick, I hated borderlands for it's solo gameplay. It felt like I was playing an MMO by myself.

Everyone knows friends are what make these type of games shine.

May I suggest some better games?

 

[Jumplion]

Fuck you Deep Silver/Techland.

You release a trailer that tugs the strings of people's hearts everywhere. It looked like it would take the zombie concept further into the story of a survivor, how people really would react in an emergency situation. It doesn't have to be Heavy Rain, why the hell would it? It draws some parallels, sure, but then again you're the ones who made it.

You are all disgusting. You used the death of a little girl to promote your game through both emotional appeal and shocking appeal. You paint your game as a somber tale, that it would go into the situations of a zombie emergency that, if done right, could be very interesting. You don't just make a trailer like that and immediately go "Oh! Yeah, dude, we're totally going to make it, like, Borderlands and shit, dude!".

Screw you, Deep Silver/Techland, for screwing with us and manipulating the public.

Geoff Keighley was right. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-SQc6LA2E&feature=player_embedded#at=174]

[sup]I know we haven't seen gameplay of it, but if the game was nothing like the trailer then they shouldn't have made it so.[/sup]

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Good. I like Borderlands enough to play through it SOLO. Possibly my favorite game of 2009.

Besides, I'd hate a narrative driven zombie game.

Ick, I hated borderlands for it's solo gameplay. It felt like I was playing an MMO by myself.

Everyone knows friends are what make these type of games shine.

May I suggest some better games?

Nah. I fucking love loot-RPGs.

A solo was fun, at least as a Siren or Soldier. It's ass as Hunter or Berserker.

Co-op ruined the game for me, as we had to stop and swap our loot every 15 minutes.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Man, I absolutely hated Borderlands. Even in split screen co-op, and for a game to manage that, well that's something.

Still, I wasn't expecting it to be like the trailer at all anyway.

 

[ccesarano]

Color me highly disappointed, but not surprised. Bungie and Microsoft have mastered the art of "trailer that's better than the game", at least in tone/story. In particular, Halo: ODST's commercial says so much without any dialog at all (at least, comprehensible dialog), and yet the game's writing and story is just meh.

It's just another studio that teased everyone with providing an emotional impact on the player they've never experienced before in an interactive medium, and then... WHOOPS! That's not how our game plays at all! You just tear shit up and have fun as a bad ass! Isn't that great?

No, it's not great. I'm sick of it, in fact.

 

[michael87cn]

Good. I like Borderlands enough to play through it SOLO. Possibly my favorite game of 2009.

Besides, I'd hate a narrative driven zombie game.

Ick, I hated borderlands for it's solo gameplay. It felt like I was playing an MMO by myself.

Everyone knows friends are what make these type of games shine.

May I suggest some better games?

Nah. I fucking love loot-RPGs.

A solo was fun, at least as a Siren or Soldier. It's ass as Hunter or Berserker.

Co-op ruined the game for me, as we had to stop and swap our loot every 15 minutes.

I guess I just got lucky. I found a decent gun early and never needed anything else I found. Besides, having only one type of loot (weapons) and no armor make it a pretty poor loot game. :/

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Good. I like Borderlands enough to play through it SOLO. Possibly my favorite game of 2009.

Besides, I'd hate a narrative driven zombie game.

Ick, I hated borderlands for it's solo gameplay. It felt like I was playing an MMO by myself.

Everyone knows friends are what make these type of games shine.

May I suggest some better games?

Nah. I fucking love loot-RPGs.

A solo was fun, at least as a Siren or Soldier. It's ass as Hunter or Berserker.

Co-op ruined the game for me, as we had to stop and swap our loot every 15 minutes.

I guess I just got lucky. I found a decent gun early and never needed anything else I found. Besides, having only one type of loot (weapons) and no armor make it a pretty poor loot game. :/

Well, as a Siren, I was DESPERATE for an ammo regen mod...The best I managed to get was a shitty +7 SMG regen.

 

[BrunDeign]

It's a zombie game people. Not a zombie book like World War Z. It isn't going to be as "deep" as most emotional games.

And I'm glad that, as far as game design will go, the game is like Borderlands. As long as the plot and story aren't similar in tone, I'll be fine.

 

[Dana22]

Sandbox Zombie killing Simulator similar to Dead Rising ? I dont mind.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I just don't get why they did such an artistic trailer and then not follow through. I'd have rather played the trailer game in stead of the real game, even if the real one does seem really fun.

C'mon, played forward instead of backward along with a little pulse-pounding funk rock that trailer would have fit in right next door to Left For Dead's if not Dead Rising. I'm not saying it didn't contain the work of artists, but tonally it could be taken either way, couldn't it?

Of course if you change it around it isn't the same. The music set the whole tone and the backwards thing was impactful. I really liked the music. But it's just the idea of an emotional zombie game, the mélange is delicious!

I'd have to agree, a game that creates an experience that is maybe, I don't know, akin to Left 4 Dead but focusing on the more emotional aspect of your fellow human beings being turned into shambling monsters that only want to eat you...THAT is the zombie game I want to play.

 

[Hiphophippo]

Borderlands? Ew. That was just passable for the occasional multiplayer romp but as a single player game is was just terrible.

Opinions and all.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

hurry up and bring out some gameplay trailers then honcho.

 

[v3n0mat3]

I, for one, loved Heavy Rain. That said, I don't think I'd want a zombie game to be like Heavy Rain. I just can't see it as one. Borderlands, on the other hand... well, we all know about Borderlands. I'd rather see this game go in the direction of Left 4 Dead. We can have each character controlled by one person, and each has their own strengths and weaknesses.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

The best thing about that trailer was how sad and powerless it made you feel. I hope THAT stays in the game. If there are 400,000 guns in this game (like a cetain other game, color me "officially uninterested about this game" from here on out....

On the other hand, If it focuses more on the fact of Survival (Fingers crossed for Food/Water Meters; and EXTREMELY rare ammo, forcing you to use stealth and melee) then it doesn't HAVE to be like Heavy Rain to live up to it's Trailers reputation since you'll still feel sad and powerless whilst playing the game....