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Dead Island Devs "Were Not Super Happy" With the Status at Launch, Open Worlds a Nightmare to Plan

Despite being a surprising sales juggernaut when it launched, the original Dead Island wasn’t without its issues. The most talked about were the bugs that plagued the game, which caused freezing, slowdown, screen tearing, and more. - PSLS

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TrendyGamers3938d ago

I wasn't happy either, so I just put it on the shelf and waited a year for most of the major issues to be fixed.

zeal0us3938d ago

The problem(s) with DI imho you spend majority of your time with gopher missions. Deep Silver rushed it out probably ignoring pleas of their QA team. So this resulted in bugs, glitches and etc.

Now they want to make Dead Island Moba. Which I'm pretty sure no DI fan ever thought about wanting.

GreenRanger3938d ago (Edited 3938d ago )

"Open Worlds a Nightmare to Plan"

What planning did they do?

They just took Borderlands, mixed it with Left 4 Dead, and added in more melee.

MattyG3938d ago

...And also had to design the layout of the whole game world and make sure it ran on the console (which it didn't do very well). You make it sound like they did zero work when it's really not that simple.

Bleucrunch3938d ago

I didn't play this game because I was told by other gamers about how intensely bug laden the game was. As far as I am concerned ever since we have moved over to the high def gaming with the PS3/Xbox developers have gotten lazy with the programing. They rely so much of the fact that these new consoles have the ability to apply patches that these developers do not do much testing because they can always send a patch to fix it up. To me that is disgusting and unprofessional to the highest degree. Now maybe the publishers have a lot to do with this with adding pressure to the devs because I know publishers can be some evil cats, but if you want me to pay 65 bucks for your game that you took how ever long to create then I should not have to worry about how lax you were about making the sure the product your creating is up to par as best you can. Their is no excuse for this kind of laziness.

SillyYou3938d ago (Edited 3938d ago )

Maybe they learned from it and release a good game like the upcomming Dying Light, which has an awesome idea of freerunning + zombies. I hope they don't mess it up.

byeGollum3938d ago (Edited 3938d ago )

It's got free running? O_o

SillyYou3938d ago (Edited 3938d ago )

Yes. Its basically Mirrors Edge + Dead Island.

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Dead Island 2 devs believe a Dead Island remake would be a “mistake”

We might be in the age of remasters, but it doesn't look like the Dead Island 2 devs believe remaking the original game is the right move for the series.

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Duke19431d ago

but remakes require far less effort for these companies and they can still charge $70 for them!

Feel like everyone makes fun of Skyrim re-releasing like 18 times yet applaud these remasters elsewhere. Would much prefer NEW games

CrimsonWing69431d ago

Making sequels really is the way to go. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing only the first entry, forever!!!

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Dead Island's 2011 reveal is still the best game trailer of all time

Josiah Motley of KnowTechie writes: "I love video game trailers. While I don’t believe they are an integral part of a game’s success (especially these days), there’s something about a well-produced trailer that really just reminds me why I like video games."

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Exvalos842d ago

Also the most misleading of all time

SDuck842d ago

How so? Because it focused on a family that you see dying? (innocent question, haven't gotten a chance to play any Dead Island game yet)

aconnellan842d ago

More the tone of it - the tone of the trailer suggested something personal and dramatic, but the game was very much reminiscent of Left 4 Dead in that you were just there to kill zombies and nothing more

Ashby_JC842d ago

You play as a singular character there is no family involved at all in the game. Still a stand out trailer that I remember clearly from years ago.

Fntastic842d ago (Edited 842d ago )

Did you not like the game?

I remember going in expecting a L4D style of game, but the excessive camera swaying honestly made me feel ill, and it's rare for a game to do that to me, still don't understand why the need for anything other than maybe a subtle slight camera movement when doing melee attacks etc. Other than that i didn't really find the game that good. In all honesty i had more enjoyment out of DNF, and i know many people crap on that game.

BioShockGX841d ago

I still remember this misleading controversy

RickRoland842d ago

It’s the music. It’s perfect. I agree with this for sure, it is well choreographed….unfortunately the game didn’t live up to the trailer.

brewin841d ago

Maybe not, but it was still a good game. I liked how they expanded things with Dying Light, but Dead Island was a great first attempt! I really liked all the Easter eggs and homages to other horror franchises sprinkled throughout. Sure it was a little cheesy and over there top, but it was a good happy medium between Far Cry and Fallout with zombies.

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EmperorDalek842d ago

I'm gonna heavily disagree with that.

CrimsonWing69842d ago

Have you ever seen any of the MGS 3 or MGS 4 trailers? Those blow this out of the water for me.

TricksterArrow842d ago

They require prior knowledge of the franchise, tho. You show this trailer to anyone, and I mean ANYONE, and they can understand what's going on and relate to the family dynamic almost immediately. No need to know who is Snake, or Fox Hound, or Raiden, or Metal Gear...

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Top 10 Xbox 360 Games That Need to be Backward Compatible

Kevin F. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Many of the best Xbox 360 games are playable on the Xbox One and Series X|S consoles. Some even with some enhanced visuals and performance. Unfortunately, not every game from the Xbox 360 library has received this glorious feat of being able to be played on more modern Microsoft consoles."

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Orchard1056d ago

Max Payne 3 needs to be on that list.

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autobotdan1056d ago

The Spider-man games will never happen. The xbox 360 Marvel Ultimate Alliance games have a better chance of happening than Spider-man titles but won't happen. The Xbox One Ultimate Alliance games delisted years ago

Vits1056d ago

Yeah... you can totally forget about those entries that got delisted because of licensing issues. Those are not happening.

MetalProxy1056d ago

Wait everything isn’t BC? You guys act like it is lol

porkChop1056d ago

Almost all of the games people want to play are BC, and that's a hell of a lot better than having none available.

ApocalypseShadow1056d ago (Edited 1056d ago )

Almost all the games people want to play? Not true. Majority picks screw over the minority who have games collecting dust. Metal is right. Fans make it seem that it's all. 39/997 games from OG Xbox is NOT all. 568/2154 from 360 is NOT all. But you guys play it up like it is.

And from my count, there are 4,000+ PS4 BC games on PS5 that I see. And almost every VR game. Series X has no Kinect games or Kinect 2. But you played that up too. No more dancing.

As for the article, some of the BC games make sense. The others with Spider-Man aren't happening.

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