by Roody_Yogurt » Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:23 am
I was always curious about the Dead Island games, despite the lukewarm reviews. If people recall, the series first made a splash when they released their first commercial, a sad little story with a Devotchka soundtrack (back when there was a rule that all videogames and movies had to add this Devotchka song to everything):
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/ialZcLaI17Y[/media]
People were quick to point out that the commercial had almost nothing to do with the game itself.
Years later, I picked up their followup game, Dying Light, and I have to say, I loved the hell out of it. The plot is basically paint-by-numbers, but the setting feels lived in and exploration is fun. Even silly side quests like chaperoning a salesman as he visits all of his usual business stops (despite the zombie apocalypse) have a touching humorous humanity to them.
So when the previous games would go on sale for like $3, I picked them up, hoping for at least some saving graces. The first one starts off with a movie that makes you instantly hate your protagonist (although I guess which character you choose helps you decide the degree to which you hate them), and I couldn't really go more than 20 minutes before I gave it the mediocre-Netflix-movie treatment and read the rest of the plot on wikipedia- which all sounded terrible and made me uninstall the game in disgust.
I also gave Riptide a try, hoping that it had taken some steps in a good direction, but it also wore out my patience almost instantly.
I'm of the mind that Dying Light's brilliance was somewhat of a fluke, as Dying Light 2 doesn't seem to be as good as the first one, either. Still, as good as Dying Light is, I thought that its expansion, The Following, was even better (plot-wise and atmospherically), so maybe Dying Light 2 will somewhat redeem itself with some future DLC.
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I was always curious about the Dead Island games, despite the lukewarm reviews. If people recall, the series first made a splash when they released their first commercial, a sad little story with a Devotchka soundtrack (back when there was a rule that all videogames and movies had to add this Devotchka song to everything):
[media]https://www.youtube.com/embed/ialZcLaI17Y[/media]
People were quick to point out that the commercial had almost nothing to do with the game itself.
Years later, I picked up their followup game, Dying Light, and I have to say, I loved the hell out of it. The plot is basically paint-by-numbers, but the setting feels lived in and exploration is fun. Even silly side quests like chaperoning a salesman as he visits all of his usual business stops (despite the zombie apocalypse) have a touching humorous humanity to them.
So when the previous games would go on sale for like $3, I picked them up, hoping for at least some saving graces. The first one starts off with a movie that makes you instantly hate your protagonist (although I guess which character you choose helps you decide the degree to which you hate them), and I couldn't really go more than 20 minutes before I gave it the mediocre-Netflix-movie treatment and read the rest of the plot on wikipedia- which all sounded terrible and made me uninstall the game in disgust.
I also gave Riptide a try, hoping that it had taken some steps in a good direction, but it also wore out my patience almost instantly.
I'm of the mind that Dying Light's brilliance was somewhat of a fluke, as Dying Light 2 doesn't seem to be as good as the first one, either. Still, as good as Dying Light is, I thought that its expansion, The Following, was even better (plot-wise and atmospherically), so maybe Dying Light 2 will somewhat redeem itself with some future DLC.