so i've been doing some research on this game, and the opinions are split down the middle. big fans of games like L4D are calling it "shit" already, whereas fans of games like FALLOUT 3 & FALLOUT NV are a little more optimistic.
IMO this game ain't gonna be the best thing you've ever played, but will be quite satisfying. i love sandbox games, i love RPGs, i love FPS's, and i love zombies. this game has
all of that (well actually its more FPP than FPS) but still sounds pretty kick ass. just wanted to hear more opinions from gamers XD

I think it will be great.. I hope so at least.

I hope not. I finished preloading this morning and I don't have the money to waste on a game I don't like. As long as it has serviceable combat, good RPG elements, and a story/characters that I want to learn more about I will be happy.

I am looking forward to it Fallout with zombies sounds amazing to me!

To be disappointed you would have to have expectations in the first place.
I don't think the average gamer even knows what Dead Island is.

No idea, I don't know and care about them. But having played some of it at some events I can say that I will enjoy the game a lot and I'm one of those people who enjoyed both Left 4 Dead games and all of the Fallout Games (not just 3 and New Vegas). I do talk to a few people every day who really likes Left 4 Dead though and have never touched Dead Island and only watched videos of it who already call it shit. You know those types of people right? The people who just call stuff shit without having even been near the game

I'm betting a shitload of Brad bucks that Dead Island is going to be shit

@Zacagawea said:

I'm betting a shitload of Brad bucks that Dead Island is going to be shit

Get with the times man, we're using Space Brad bucks now :P

I like that a game having a nice CG trailer and then turning out to be bad is now a "disappointment". I don't know anyone who's actually excited about it, it's not even out yet, and already about half a billion people have called it a disappointment. 
 
Personally, I have zero expectations. So, I guess I'll just see. 

No, because most gamers don't have any hype for Dead Island. Can't be disappointed with a complete lack of expectations.

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@kingzetta said:

To be disappointed you would have to have expectations in the first place. I don't think the average gamer even knows what Dead Island is.

Fuck...

@ssc604: Going up against zombies(I regret that these types of freaks have become "Zombies" though!) with a gun is boring anyway. Even in the L4D games you mostly see me going up against ANYTHING with a melee weapon :P

Edit: Actually, for Dead Island it will probably be Melee weapons and, you know, cars.

Hmm IDK can't say one way or the other. From the trailers I've seen it looks like Left 4 Dead and the trailers seem to be able to have any song synced with it. So there's that...I guess. Though there is also the talk on a few podcasts I listened to(Rebel.FM and the such) seem to be really disappointed with it but that could just be Arthur Gies being a cynical a hole.

We can't speak for all gamers.

I dont have high expectations or even any at all? so ill see myself getting this when its around 25 / 30 bucks

I actually haven't seen much of it past that one trailer with the dead girl. You know, the one that made practically everyone cry? 
 
Admit it. If you know what this game is, you know which trailer I'm talking about it, and if you watched it then there were tears behind your eyes just ready to come out. 
 
On a more serious note, I think people are expecting something to live up to that trailer. Like I said, I've not seen much beyond that, but there hasn't been many games that can bring that sort of a response out of anyone.
 
A chance I shall give it, but not at launch.

No, because most gamers don't have any hype for Dead Island. Can't be disappointed with a complete lack of expectations.

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@kingzetta said:

To be disappointed you would have to have expectations in the first place. I don't think the average gamer even knows what Dead Island is.

Fuck...

@believer258: That trailer was good but no, it didn't make me cry or even make my eyes wet in any way or form. It did leave an impact on me though since it was a great trailer I just didn't feel sad enough to cry for this girl and especially not when I found out she was a "zombie".

Who goes on a vacation in a place called "Dead Island" anyway? that seems like a terrible idea right from the start

I'm betting a shitload of Brad bucks that Dead Island is going to be shit

I actually haven't seen much of it past that one trailer with the dead girl. You know, the one that made practically everyone cry? 
 
Admit it. If you know what this game is, you know which trailer I'm talking about it, and if you watched it then there were tears behind your eyes just ready to come out. 
 
On a more serious note, I think people are expecting something to live up to that trailer. Like I said, I've not seen much beyond that, but there hasn't been many games that can bring that sort of a response out of anyone.
 
A chance I shall give it, but not at launch.

Its going to be nowhere near as polished as something like L4D2, but there will probably be some coop fun to be had if you can accept the layer of jank.

@believer258: That trailer was good but no, it didn't make me cry or even make my eyes wet in any way or form. It did leave an impact on me though since it was a great trailer I just didn't feel sad enough to cry for this girl and especially not when I found out she was a "zombie".

Who goes on a vacation in a place called "Dead Island" anyway? that seems like a terrible idea right from the start

I haven't seen anything from that game that I consider to look good or bad. It just seems fine, OK, just right in the middle. I don't understand what people see that makes them so excited about this. Then again, I don't understand why people get excited for a new Halo. Maybe this just isn't my kind of thing.

@kingzetta said:

@ZeForgotten said:

@believer258: That trailer was good but no, it didn't make me cry or even make my eyes wet in any way or form. It did leave an impact on me though since it was a great trailer I just didn't feel sad enough to cry for this girl and especially not when I found out she was a "zombie".

Who goes on a vacation in a place called "Dead Island" anyway? that seems like a terrible idea right from the start

Well it's actually a peninsula

Well, Dead Kind-of-but-not-really Island would be a terrible name

When the trailer came out, I was turned off by it being another zombie game. I'm not a fan of horror/zombie games so I had zero interest in it. Over the past week, I have started to see videos posted and read more about the gameplay and my inrerest in this game has increased a little. I've gone from not going to get it, to might get it after the price drops. Like other users have said, you have to have some sort of expectations for something before it can disappoint you.

Futurology... -_-"

the gameplay videos ive seen, the player character says stupid crap everytime you hit something. it looks annoying as hell

No. Most gamers seem to be the kind of people who would lap up yet another zombie shooter regardless of quality.

I think the game will get decent reviews and generally people will either dig it a lot or will think it's alright.

Hi. Representative of "Most Gamers" here.  
 
We at Most Gamers feel that Dead Island will be a fun, if hollow, diversion. Our expectations are not high, but we are interested enough to give it a try.  
 
(This opinion is subject to change during Most Gamers' merger with Cynical Bastards, who feel that Dead Island is a shitty game made for "sheeple", like all games made after 2001 or so, but they'll keep playing them anyway because there's nothing else to do when you hate everything. But they won't play Dead Island, regardless of its actual quality, because they can tell it is shit already, having seen shakycam footage of the alpha build last year.)

I don't think it'll live up to the reveal trailer, so I guess it'll probably be a disappointment for me.

I get an overwhelming feeling the press is going to shit all over Dead Island.

Also, just purely based off of the video I've watched the game wasn't exactly blowing me away. Looked a tad jank, even. But, we'll see...

yes

No, it's not going to disappoint me, because I canceled the pre-order ages ago and unless general consensus turns out to be that it's the greatest shit since sliced bread, I'm not going to buy it at all. The initial trailer spurred a lot of possibilities in people's minds, but it turns out to be just another L4D game (which I was tired of by the point I reached the broken Amusement Park level in L4D2, which is the point where I took the game out, put it on the shelf, and never touched it again). The zombie genre still has a great deal of potential. It's not played out. What is played out is the same two styles of play that every zombie game falls into.

@ssc604 said:

@ZeForgotten: yeah i don't understand why people just step on the game before its even out, seems like the main reason from haters is that guns aren't gonna be the main zombie killer.

I'm not new to this planet. I've had enough experience with certain things to pick up on tell-tale signs of suckage. The same way I don't need to wait until I watch "Scary Movie 5" to know it's going to be miserable shit and the same way I didn't need to wait until Bodycount was released to suspect it wouldn't be terribly great. There's always the chance that something can defy expectations - and when they do, that's great - but part of being sentient and having cognitive abilities is the capacity to learn from the past and I've learned that this looks like a very minor variation on L4D games, which I don't really want any more of right now.

I'm pretty sure that comparing this mediocre game to Fallout is a death penalty in some countries.

@believer258

If that trailer genuinely emotionally affected anyone I'd be surprised. It was okay I guess? I don't get the hype for this game at all.

It looks great because theres a story and literally drop in co-op.  Left for Dead is cool but just not my thing I suppose as it's sorta like a gauntlet.  I like the idea of a freeroam island with zombies and you just walk around doing "quests" and objectives to get off.  As far as I know theres no time limit either which is great because I hate those.  The RPG-ish leveling aspect of your abilities is another feature that I love in games - just love stackable progression so at the end of the game you feel like you've come somewhere.   
 
People on the internet are always ready to load up 10 seconds of a trailer and already start typing out "this game sux" before it even ended so I wouldn't put much merit into those online opinions.  There is a real vehement hate for Modern Warfare 3 right now online as if that series has raped someones parents in a shack or something - people are just stupid.

I don't know. I'd want it to be good, but after the piece of shit Call of Juarez was and the janky gameplay they've shown, I'm not hoping for much.

i went from not caring about this game at all to being incredibly hyped about it in the span of 2 or 3 days. When i found out its a open world melee game with lvling, quests and talent trees i was hooked, i thought it was just a L4D clone at first... when aparently its not a shooter at all, since guns are rare. Tidbit from IGN, for what its worth:
 
"I can tell you that this has replaced Deus Ex as "the game" around the IGN offices, this week. It's what we're playing, what we're talking about, etc.

But... I can also tell you that it's going to be divisive. This is an RPG, through-and-through. Even after folks know that, I'm still not sure they fully understand what they're getting into. As an RPG, combat is a bit clunky, etc. But the game makes up for this in other ways."

No, it's not going to disappoint me, because I canceled the pre-order ages ago and unless general consensus turns out to be that it's the greatest shit since sliced bread, I'm not going to buy it at all. The initial trailer spurred a lot of possibilities in people's minds, but it turns out to be just another L4D game (which I was tired of by the point I reached the broken Amusement Park level in L4D2, which is the point where I took the game out, put it on the shelf, and never touched it again). The zombie genre still has a great deal of potential. It's not played out. What is played out is the same two styles of play that every zombie game falls into.

I'm not new to this planet. I've had enough experience with certain things to pick up on tell-tale signs of suckage. The same way I don't need to wait until I watch "Scary Movie 5" to know it's going to be miserable shit and the same way I didn't need to wait until Bodycount was released to suspect it wouldn't be terribly great. There's always the chance that something can defy expectations - and when they do, that's great - but part of being sentient and having cognitive abilities is the capacity to learn from the past and I've learned that this looks like a very minor variation on L4D games, which I don't really want any more of right now.

@ShaggE: It looks shitty because of footage released this year. Animations look terrible, combat looks janky, and the whole island resort juxtaposed against 28 Days Later zombies is more annoying than it is scary. If they want to be scary, they should be scary. Bikini zombies chasing me down a sandy beach on a hot day is not scary, just tiring. 

Demoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I consider the lack of pre-release reviews on this game a bad sign. I wouldn't mind another game to keep me busy before Rage drops, but I think that game might have to be the copy of Bulletstorm I picked up for $15 the other day.

I really hope it will be good but I got a feeling it won't.

After hearing that the game is like Fallout with quests and stuff makes me a little excited for it now. I was never interested in it before, though. It seemed like just another zombie killing game. 
 
Still, I'm waiting for the reviews first.

@KingWilly said:

@ShaggE: It looks shitty because of footage released this year. Animations look terrible, combat looks janky, and the whole island resort juxtaposed against 28 Days Later zombies is more annoying than it is scary. If they want to be scary, they should be scary. Bikini zombies chasing me down a sandy beach on a hot day is not scary, just tiring. 

zombie games aren't supposed to be scary, just plain entertainment. was nazi zombies in COD scary? how about dead rising? oh wait theres L4D sooooooo scary lol   you dumb...so dumb that its "SCARY"