This just in, Dead Island sucks

[Manwë Súlimo]

It's definitely not even worth the small price I paid for it during a Steam sale. I've never been more bored in my life and it's a game about the freaking zombie apocalypse! How do you screw that up? I hope you like looking at your foot, because that's what you'll see 80% of the game as your character kicks, kicks, kicks his way to victory because melee weapons and combat blows.

Maybe it's better in multiplayer, but it should be able to stand up in singleplayer. And it doesn't.

[Darth Executor]

I take it you didn't play more than 5 minutes? There's nothing more satisfying than carving through a pack of raging zombies with a machette. The whole "realistic" movement/fov gets on my nerves in a lot of modern games but you get used to it eventually.

[Brandalf85]

A lot of people don't seem to like it. It is very much like Borderlands in many ways. It really is more fun with others though. The people I've talked to who don't like it don't care much for Borderlands either, which tells me it is more or less due to the gameplay than anything else and by that I mean the fetch quests which people seem to dislike.

[Manwë Súlimo]

I take it you didn't play more than 5 minutes? There's nothing more satisfying than carving through a pack of raging zombies with a machette. The whole "realistic" movement/fov gets on my nerves in a lot of modern games but you get used to it eventually.

I played about 2 hours.

[Darth Executor]

I played about 2 hours.

[Manwë Súlimo]

If a game can't hook me in 2 hours, it's failed somewhere. I didn't think I was buying a kicking simulator.

[Darth Executor]

You won't get through even a fraction of the game just by kicking. Kicking is good to buy you some time later in the game and save durability/ammo by headstomping downed zombies but you'll run out of stamina way too fast if all you do is click. IIRC it took me a lot more than 2 hours to get used to the game and experience some of the more entertaining parts. Once you have some decent weapons, played with crafting a bit and gained some levels the game gets much better.

[Manwë Súlimo]

I've been playing it some more and even had some fun, but there's a trillion little things about the game the irritate the hell out of me. Can the game be modded?

[Darth Executor]

Try this:
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/m...sland/mod.html

[Manwë Súlimo]

Oooooh, sexy.

[Manwë Súlimo]

To be fair, the game has grown on me a bit. I can see it being fun especially in multiplayer. But if they make a sequel, they have their work cut out for them. It needs to be streamlined and tweaked quite a lot.

[Darth Executor]

It needs to be streamlined

What did I do with my shotgun?