vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
I don't know if it's been posted yet, but Giant Bomb finally put their review up. Totally deserving of that score. Definitely a sleeper hit.
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Dead Island |OT| Island of the Dead
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Manos: The Hans of Fate
Banned
Nice.....Snkfanatic said:
Just finished it. 22 hours, did the entire thing in 2 player coop with a friend of mine. Did every single side quest we could find.
The Good:
+ The world is fantastic. It's huge, there are tons of places to explore, lots of cool shortcuts and verticality to it, and it looks great.
+ Graphically the game can be really quite stunning at times on PC.
+ The combat is fun, the various weapons all feel different and the game does a good job of feeding new enemy types throughout the game.
+ The RPG mechanics are solid, the skill trees all have good things in them while forcing you to make some real choices about how to develop your character.
The Bad:
- Lots of little bugs constantly pick at the experience. Like randomly items will split into separate stacks, or become unusable entirely. For instance my friend bought a whole ton of metal scrap so he could make himself ammo when necessary, but partway in the game just stopped recognizing that he had any preventing him from making ammo and of course wasting all the money he spent on it.
- Pop in is pretty bad for enemies and the random spawns often don't work right. I had enemies spawn directly in front of me on several occasions.
- Weapon categories aren't balanced very well. Like blade weapons do more then double the damage equivalent blunt weapons do which is annoying if you're the blunt weapons guy.
- The story is garbage. It feels like the cutscenes were made separately from the game and they folks making the cutscenes were working from an outdated script. Things didn't mesh up right, many things outright made no sense.
Overall I quite liked the game. It certainly could have used some more time in the oven to polish up the various problems, but in the end the complaints are all small things that don't do much to tarnish what is one of the best games to come out this year. Well worth it.
The Good:
+ The world is fantastic. It's huge, there are tons of places to explore, lots of cool shortcuts and verticality to it, and it looks great.
+ Graphically the game can be really quite stunning at times on PC.
+ The combat is fun, the various weapons all feel different and the game does a good job of feeding new enemy types throughout the game.
+ The RPG mechanics are solid, the skill trees all have good things in them while forcing you to make some real choices about how to develop your character.
The Bad:
- Lots of little bugs constantly pick at the experience. Like randomly items will split into separate stacks, or become unusable entirely. For instance my friend bought a whole ton of metal scrap so he could make himself ammo when necessary, but partway in the game just stopped recognizing that he had any preventing him from making ammo and of course wasting all the money he spent on it.
- Pop in is pretty bad for enemies and the random spawns often don't work right. I had enemies spawn directly in front of me on several occasions.
- Weapon categories aren't balanced very well. Like blade weapons do more then double the damage equivalent blunt weapons do which is annoying if you're the blunt weapons guy.
- The story is garbage. It feels like the cutscenes were made separately from the game and they folks making the cutscenes were working from an outdated script. Things didn't mesh up right, many things outright made no sense.
Overall I quite liked the game. It certainly could have used some more time in the oven to polish up the various problems, but in the end the complaints are all small things that don't do much to tarnish what is one of the best games to come out this year. Well worth it.
well it looks like my save is fucked.
. Main mission timed out and when I hit load last save it brought me back to the fucking basement of
. so once i make it back to the resort by walking through the town, I end up back near the gas station that has all of the juice. The get back to vehicle meter then starts to count down and I fail the mission again. I cannot make it back to the vehicle in time and there is no other shortcut to the lifeguard station. I guess i will have to hope i can use co-op to correct it.
Failed the Devastator main quest (where you drive Jin to the jungle) by fucking around too much at the workbench and the get back to vehicle warning timed out.
City Hall
BattleMonkey
Member
So do you eventually find tons of ammo or something?
In act 2 now and my gf is playing the gun girl and greatly regretting it as we have found one little thing of 12 bullets so far and one gun
In act 2 now and my gf is playing the gun girl and greatly regretting it as we have found one little thing of 12 bullets so far and one gun
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
BattleMonkey said:
I keep killing guys and picking up their guns... but you can't use the ammo from one gun in a different gun... and you can't take the ammo out of a gun. So now I have like five shitty guns with ammo in them, and the one gun I have upgraded has no ammo. It's so fucking retarded.
:/
BattleMonkey
Member
Sinatar said:
Well they seem to be done for coop in mind, in single player its annoying as your weapon does less damage on average. The trade off with blunt weapons is that they generally have more Force attached to them so they are better for knocking enemies down while blades don't knock down or push enemies back as well.
Around the middle of act 2 at theBattleMonkey said:
police station
Sharp weapons have more normal damage but much lower durability and force compared to blunts. Blunts can do more damage than sharp if the enemy's stamina is zero and they're flat on the ground because it will then add the force value to the total damage.
ToyMachine228
Member
Now that I'm in Act 3 I feel a little better about the game again. The city just pissed me off. One question; Where the fuck are Mugambe's wife and kid for the quest "In Cold Blood"?
Phonomezer
Banned
ToyMachine228 said:
Funnily enough I was just bitching about this yesterday; loaded up my game and I was magically halfway through this quest, even though I hadn't even started it. lol.
Square Triangle
Member
I'm having customers call and ask if they could come in and return this game for store credit. What is going on? Is this game seriously that glitchy and bugged? No joke, three different people have asked our store the past two days.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Haunted said:
Thank you... dude seriously. I had no idea, and probably would have never figured that out. Now I don't have to carry around all these damn guns!
Square Triangle said:
This is the only game I've ever purchased where I feel completely justified in thinking I deserve a 100% refund.
Game (at least the PS3 version) should never have been released in its condition.
That said, I'm still playing it, because it's awesome when it works.
Haunted
Member
It's unpolished to the point of being frustrating (if you run into the right glitches), yes.Square Triangle said:
Ambitious and fun, but very buggy. Typical traits of Eastern-European mid-budget games. (Not Techland though, usually). It's clearly their most ambitious and complex title so far. Bethesda would've been proud.
anddo0 said:
Ah, thanks! Sure enough, I just played the first 20 minutes and it runs great. I'm staying at 720p so I'm sure that helps.
Now I just need to get rid of the screen tearing and I'll be content.
This is gonna be fun!
Edit: I'm also running GameBooster 3.0 to shut down all non-game functions in the PC. Couldn't hurt!
http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/fist-of-the-dead-star/360405?playlist=featured
Don't know if this got posted, but I can't stop laughing at it and wishing this was what the Fist of the North Star game was
Don't know if this got posted, but I can't stop laughing at it and wishing this was what the Fist of the North Star game was
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
The more I play this game the more I love it. I must say that I prefer it solo, though.
I prefer solo for right now, too. I just don't have time this week for any coop sessions. Solo is for mood, coop is for fun. I finally got tweaks working with my stupid version of the game. The latest Dead Island Helper allows for customization of your settings folder. For the minority of the people that your settings are actually in the game dir, rejoice.
BattleMonkey said:
There are a few spawn areas with guys carrying guns/ammo.
One spot always has 3-4 guys in the lower centre of the town, they are barricaded in with zombies attacking from both sides. It's just down and right from the guy that asks you to broadcast the messages.
WickedLaharl
Member
WickedLaharl said:
Same shit just happened to me. Game froze up during a co-op match and then when I try to load that file again my game starts loading for a bit only to end up hard locking my system.
25hrs down the shitter. Thanks techtards.
SlasherJPC
Banned
So I'm still waiting on my copy but is there anything in the game that ever explains why the zombies are in straight jackets?
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Killed (Easter Egg)
with a few buddies tonight, it's a shame his weapon can't be repaired.
Jason
Phonomezer
Banned
daviyoung said:
Crazy! I wonder how big the shipments of DI were.
BattleMonkey said:
I did as soon as I first entered the city. Punks will drop enough ammo to fill it up to the max and guns 1 shot kill them easily. Then i moved to a Deagle which uses even less ammo to kill them. Then I got given a Magnum that uses pistol bullets. I've also got an M4 fully upgraded and a special 590 shotgun.
Plus her fury move is great for bosses and crowds.
So the Chinese girl can`t even earn/equip firearms?....I did the escort Omar quest and the reward was the revolver,it was red because it`s level 10 required and I was level 9 but it`s not in my inventory anywhere...or maybe I was full and the game glitched or something???
Also,I switched over to analog attack but I can`t get it to work,how do you use it?
Still on the resort area and I`m dying quite often in this game,playing solo most of the times....I left the game co-op whith 3 slots open for 2 hours last evening and no one joined...
Also,I switched over to analog attack but I can`t get it to work,how do you use it?
Still on the resort area and I`m dying quite often in this game,playing solo most of the times....I left the game co-op whith 3 slots open for 2 hours last evening and no one joined...
weekendCONFIRMED
Banned
Been going back and forth about buying this game since launch, but just decided that until they add all the graphical options that people have to edit .pak files to change, I'm staying away from this game 
It's not worth getting VAC banned. Until a Valve employee comes out and says that copying the files in the .pak files to your Documents folder and editing them is totally legit and not VAC-bannable, I just won't believe that it is. "Probably" isn't good enough for my Steam account with ~$2k worth of games on it, with Valve games that I would love to play online still.
It's not worth getting VAC banned. Until a Valve employee comes out and says that copying the files in the .pak files to your Documents folder and editing them is totally legit and not VAC-bannable, I just won't believe that it is. "Probably" isn't good enough for my Steam account with ~$2k worth of games on it, with Valve games that I would love to play online still.
Acheteedo
Member
Love this game to bits.
About the analogue vs digital control, I spent the first 15 hours with analogue controls, but I struggled with the large mobs in Act II and so decided to try out digital... I'm never switching back, digital is the way it's meant to be played (at least as Sam B).
About the analogue vs digital control, I spent the first 15 hours with analogue controls, but I struggled with the large mobs in Act II and so decided to try out digital... I'm never switching back, digital is the way it's meant to be played (at least as Sam B).
ii Stryker
Banned
Why in the world is everyone trying to play this as a shooter?!?
The melee combat is really quite satisfying and gruesome.
Purna's rage mode lets her pull out a gun with infinite ammo(for the duration of her rage) her real benefit though comes with playing her in co-op. Several of her skills are supportive and give party buffs.
Gun ammo is more plentiful in the latter half of the game plus you can find mods that let you craft ammo.
The melee combat is really quite satisfying and gruesome.
Purna's rage mode lets her pull out a gun with infinite ammo(for the duration of her rage) her real benefit though comes with playing her in co-op. Several of her skills are supportive and give party buffs.
Gun ammo is more plentiful in the latter half of the game plus you can find mods that let you craft ammo.
I feel like I've been in Act 2 forever. Not that there's that many things to do, but I keep getting killed since even basic zombies do a lot of damage to me now and I only play solo, and there's a lot of running around the pretty large city area.
And the (location spoiler, just in case)
are AWFUL, like they are in every game that has one. Long winding corridors with multiple ways to get lost in and no map, UGH.
And the (location spoiler, just in case)
sewers
ii Stryker
Banned
Acheteedo said:
Not being able to circle strafe while in melee combat really kills the analog controls.
ii Stryker
Banned
Derrick01 said:
The mini map in the lower right corner gives you a breadcrumb trail.
I switched back to M+KB (more comfortable for me), but the game is lagging/stuttering while turning sometimes. Switching back to controller and the problem is gone. It is not a mousespeed issue as I tried different settings with controller and mouse. :/
edit: Also reached Act II - love it.
edit: Also reached Act II - love it.