Dead Island

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  1. EniGmA1987
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    I feel like this game would work better on XBox 360. Kinda wish I had bought it for that instead. I know one of my friends will get it eventually for the 360 so we could have played together then. I think menus would work far better on the 360 as well and just small bits of things that just dont feel right on the PC.


    Someone convinced me this game was like a mix between Fallout 3, Borderlands, and Left 4 Dead. IMO, it is sort of like L4D but not nearly as much running around and killing lots of zombies, at least not yet. It is sort of like Borderlands in that you look everything you see and have tons of stuff to grab and use as weapons with slightly different stats, but not like Borderlands story or combat or the joy of mindless killing. And it is sort of like Fallout 3 in that its big and "open world" and you get quests and level up and stuff. And can combine weapons and parts to make better versions of a weapon. But not like Fallout 3 in how well it plays, or story, or exploring. So it takes a few elements from each of those games, but it is the worst elements of all of them.
     
  2. Yizelin
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    I wouldn't say that it takes the worst elements. I would say though, that it takes those elements and then executes them all ranging from Poorly to passable.
     
  3. EniGmA1987
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    ^^^ Ok thats a bit more accurate
     
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    SOOO a pc game comes out and isnt flawless on launch. the world is ending
     
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    i see enough playing it and i could use a new CoOp, how does it work on someone playing and then joining others they didn't play with with difficulty and levels (if there are any)? Do you pretty much have to keep a save with the people you started with and not explore on your own or with others?
     
  6. EniGmA1987
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    No wonder there are so many bugs and weird things:


    I wondered what happened when I went to turn on my flashlight yesterday and somehow was flying through the game instead... Must have hit Y instead of T




    Found a wonderful little bug today that caused me to start the game off with a weapon and at lvl 2 (almost lvl 3). I used my weapon to kill one of the zombies at the very start that is lvl 10 and grew a couple levels :)
     
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    i was about to ask if i should pick this up but im gonna hold off i think for now ... kinda broke anyways
     
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    It says that you can join in with pretty much anyone, and essentially it'll be set to the lowest progressed person's setting. So if you're on the 4th leg of the main quest and I'm on the 10th and we team up, it'll have those quests active.

    I tried to get one going with Pestie/Spootan/Burnages but the server magically went down when we tried, and thus NO coop was available.
     
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    Played for an hour or so, it's a lot of fun so far. I will try co-op tomorrow with a few friends, should be awesome.
     
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    Just an FYI, Space Marine (came out today, well yesterday), is awesome. Buy it.
     
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    Fuck the Astartes, bunch of assholes.
     
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    weapon switching is annoying. is there a way to keybind certain weapon slots or turn off auto-switch from looting? arg
     
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    anyone else have this for PS3, if so add sam_hamwich , really enjoying it, havnt found any bugs yet really for this version, i love just going out and smashing zombies at my leisure, no limits zombie killing is the best. Collecting items and gaining exp is just a bonus!
     
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    Yeah I got it for xbox, and Haven't had any major bugs yet. Except this one time where I came out of a building and was drowning and on fire at the same time until I reloaded.
     
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    atually just got one, they released a patch last night and it ended up resetting all my achievement progress to zero, like the cardio one and so forth, not that big of a deal, but kinda lame.
     
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    Sounds epic.
     
  17. Eillwyna
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    was fun till i lost about 20 grand
     
  18. EniGmA1987
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    Something with a new patch? Or you just died pretty hardcore?
     
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    Well if you lose 20 grand from getting killed you obviously have nothing to spend it on anyway :p
     
  20. Eillwyna
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    No I mean it repeatedly killed me until I lost 20 grand and reloaded.
    And there's never anything to buy because the venders only have like 3 items, which are never the ones you need.