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Dead Island |OT| Island of the Dead
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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Dead Prince
Banned
Mutagenic said:
The twist:
you're a zombie zomg
not real spoiler
Just put a little over 4 hours into the PS3 version and so far so good. A few hitches here and there, but otherwise it plays great. I admit the controls felt a little awkward at first, but soon realized that the sort of sway in the movement is there on purpose to give the feeling of body movement and weight. Like when you kick, you have the sensation of actually leaning back and when you swing or are hit the movement just feels... right. Really simple, but natural feeling and fun gameplay once you get into the flow of the mechanics.
Also of note is that I am not one who usually gets caught off guard, but this game has made me jump out of my seat on a fairly regular basis thus far and I love it. You can be looking around for loot and all the sudden hear one of those ungodly screams and before you can even spin around you are being rabidly beat down or have a zombie right in your face flashing their rotten teeth and glaring at you with that glance of sheer madness. They absolutely nailed it here.
The game may lack polish and production value in areas, but the brutality of the zombies, the atmosphere and feeling of tension from not knowing when you are going to be blindsided and savagely attacked carries the weight here. On top of that, it is loaded with quests, loot and a great location to explore with some fairly nice visuals at times.
There have been many zombie games, but I truly cannot say I have played another one like Dead Island. Lots of ambition here, to be sure and it is a foundation that I would very much like to see built upon and made into something truly great. As there is the makings of something of a classic in this game, you just have to be able to look beneath some of the roughness in order to appreciate it.
Also of note is that I am not one who usually gets caught off guard, but this game has made me jump out of my seat on a fairly regular basis thus far and I love it. You can be looking around for loot and all the sudden hear one of those ungodly screams and before you can even spin around you are being rabidly beat down or have a zombie right in your face flashing their rotten teeth and glaring at you with that glance of sheer madness. They absolutely nailed it here.
The game may lack polish and production value in areas, but the brutality of the zombies, the atmosphere and feeling of tension from not knowing when you are going to be blindsided and savagely attacked carries the weight here. On top of that, it is loaded with quests, loot and a great location to explore with some fairly nice visuals at times.
There have been many zombie games, but I truly cannot say I have played another one like Dead Island. Lots of ambition here, to be sure and it is a foundation that I would very much like to see built upon and made into something truly great. As there is the makings of something of a classic in this game, you just have to be able to look beneath some of the roughness in order to appreciate it.
GhostRidah
Member
You will find them later, think of it like this, you wont see much ammo/guns at a resort but you know sure as shit the more urban areas have them.Gez said:
Barack Lesnar
Banned
From Omar right... yeah I'd like to know as wellGez said:
Edit, Thanks above
Warm Machine
Member
SneakyStephan said:gtfonever heard of peripheral vision?
Stretch your arms beside you, now move each arm 10-20 degrees forward, tadaa you can stare at your monitor and see both of your hands at the edge of your vision.
So more like 140-160 degrees fov including peripheral vision.
When playing crysis or crysis 2 or killzone or any random console shooter it feels like I'm looking at the world through a toilet paper roll.
Your eyes map to a curved projection plane, the game to a flat one. The area out front of your eye that more resembles the flat plane, where we do most of our seeing is thought to be around 22mm to 24mm. That maps to a high to mid 70 degree zone. The fish eye distortion in a 90 degree setting is not at all like human eyesight.
gutterboy44
Member
Any word on a PS3 patch? The saving is so glitchy. Lost a few quests today.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=30780942&postcount=3289FallingEdge said:
Gez said:
I wouldn't call it fine, but it's better than it was. To have to change keyboard settings under Ease of Access Center, to get rid of stuttering using M+KB, is not fine. To hack into a data pack to fish out a xml file to change the FOV is not fine. But again, it's better than it was, but it's so far from where a proper pc port should be.
GhostRidah
Member
I go by mmo termsYerolo said:
White = Common
Green = Uncommon
Blue = Rare
Purple = Epic
Yellow = Legendary
No clue if that is correct but it seems that way so far.
FallingEdge
Member
FallingEdge said:
for the new page.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Still waiting for my copy to arrive here (Damn working in Afghanistan and its long shipment times) but anyone heard about the different skulls and stuff? Saw some things on gamefaqs and haven't seen anyone post here about it. Seems there is different skulls to place in different areas in the game and you get differnt things.
Puppet Shadow
Member
Posted just above:FallingEdge said:
Max said:
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Carm said:
Yeah, I don't know what people are talking about. I'm using KB+M and Digital controls and can target body parts no problem. Aiming for the head, disabling legs, chopping off arms on thugs, etc. and I'm not even using a crosshair. I disabled it with a HUD mod I found on Guru 3D.
The game is actually pretty solid on PC right now with the last third or fourth patch. Everything (mostly) is working fine, the game looks and performs great, and I'm having a blast playing cooperative. Stairs (especially coming up from the bathrooms in the bungalow area in Act I) are still totally screwed and your character falls inside of them constantly and gets stuck but I haven't had any other major problems so far.
GhostRidah
Member
Interesting, I did find a skill and was wondering what the hell it was for.slasher_thrasher21 said:
AgentOtaku
Member
Sorry to ask again
So is the PC version now ready for primetime?
I wanna buy on Amazon digital for $39
So is the PC version now ready for primetime?
I wanna buy on Amazon digital for $39
GhostRidah
Member
Yes, now all that is left is small minor bugs but for a majority of people the big bugs have been patched.AgentOtaku said:
SlasherJPC
Banned
GhostRidah said:
From what I read there is a purple skull, green skull, orange so far that people have discovered. I didn't know if people were making it up or what but seems legit from some of the posts I saw.
Marty Chinn
Member
Ok, I feel like I'm doing something wrong in the game. I have trouble with Thugs. It's not that I can't kill them but the way I do is painfully slow. I feel like I should be attacking them different. Getting too close to attack has them knocking me out. Throwing things at them is just slow since I have to fall back and wait to collect the weapons I threw at them. What am I doing wrong GAF?
Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I didnt know where else to ask.
Since the GMG deal is dead, has anyone tried ordering a PC steam key from this link:
http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/...id=CN6Xx9Gyj6sCFeUZQgodnWvXtw&setCurrencyId=2
I'd like to give the game a shot.
For those curious, they are offering steam keys for 35$.
Since the GMG deal is dead, has anyone tried ordering a PC steam key from this link:
http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/...id=CN6Xx9Gyj6sCFeUZQgodnWvXtw&setCurrencyId=2
I'd like to give the game a shot.
For those curious, they are offering steam keys for 35$.
Marty Chinn
Member
Max said:
Wait what jump back move? Or do you mean simply hit walk backwards and jump?
d0c_zaius said:
There's also http://buygamecdkeys.com/dead-island-preorder-p-186.html - It was $29 some days ago though.
Sethos said:
thanks! that site is confused though as they list US keys in stock and on the same page say its sold out.
For those curious about the link I posted, I'm not too sure how reliable they are judging by the comments on their facebook page.
Amazon is selling the steam PC version for 40$ as well.
AgentOtaku
Member
GhostRidah said:
thanks!
FallingEdge
Member
Puppet Shadow said:
I am an idiot. Thank you. Sorry for the spam posts.
i wanted to love this game so much... but i played for 15 minutes and got the worst motion sickness ever.
tried changing the fov, and it was about the same with how my stomach was feeling. good thing i got it as a gift and didn't have to pay for it. god bless you steam and awesome friends.
tried changing the fov, and it was about the same with how my stomach was feeling.
good thing i got it as a gift and didn't have to pay for it. god bless you steam and awesome friends.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Well, I finally decided to take the plunge and grabbed this on Green Man Gaming. Downloading on Steam now!
B-Dex said:
Getting diamonds:
Go to the hotel kitchen and get as much brand champagne as you can find then take it to Svetlana or something like that who is out partying in one of the farther out bungalows that are built on those piers in the beach section. I got like 8 or 9 off from the champagne I got from the kitchen.
So I just got 2 keys from the GMG e-mail, I figure the extra copy is useless since they're gonna de-activate 'em or whatever, but should I activate the DLC thing?
Also I don't know how well known this is but there's a bunker down the coast to the right from where you first start off on the beach that has a guy who'll reward you with some sort of weighted mod thing if you rescue him. I probably wouldn't have found it if my friend hadn't pointed it out, so I figure I'd pass this on to y'all since it's somewhat out of the way.
Also I don't know how well known this is but there's a bunker down the coast to the right from where you first start off on the beach that has a guy who'll reward you with some sort of weighted mod thing if you rescue him. I probably wouldn't have found it if my friend hadn't pointed it out, so I figure I'd pass this on to y'all since it's somewhat out of the way.