Ok so without going into to much detail, in Dead island you wake up in a hotel (By yourself?) and are rescued from the zombies by a few survivers. Then about 4-5 hours in a cutscene plays that shows your character with the 3 other characters you could have picked from at the beginning of the game, this is just such bad story telling. At no point in the game if you are playing by yourself do these characters appear or even mentioned. But in that cutscene they talk to each other and everything, but up until this point I've never even seen them!

So yeah did the Dead island people think nobody would play by themselves, or did I miss a cutscene before this that explains who they are and why we are together?

If a word could describe this game it would most likely be janky.

In Dragon Quest IX, the exact same opposite happens: your party members are seen running around the world with you, but they are never acknowledged in conversations and they completely disappear during cut-scenes.

In another news, games are games. Stop trying to impose silly "logic" onto them. Just imagine the three other characters are doing other things when you're playing and you all four come together during cut-scenes.

@JoeyRavn: Yeah but that cutscene wasn't the first one, there had been a few before that, why were they not in those ones too? It wasn't even a good cutscene, it was just a small 30 second cutscene that showed off a new enemy type.

If stuff like that bothers you this game ain't for you.

What about playing WITH yourself?

technical constrains or pure laziness as far as them not wanting to create 4 or more unique cutscenes for the characters playing
 
Just imagine the other 3 people are 3 tyler durdens
 
It's all in ur mind :)

Hmm, makes me think this game is only worth if I am interested in playing with other people.
Never thought about that, not sure the developer did either :(

I'm with TC on this one, it's so bizarre that they appear in cutscenes and then are never seen anywhere else.

@Hizang said:

@JoeyRavn: Yeah but that cutscene wasn't the first one, there had been a few before that, why were they not in those ones too? It wasn't even a good cutscene, it was just a small 30 second cutscene that showed off a new enemy type.

You're putting way too much thought into this. The other characters weren't in the previous cut-scenes because they just weren't there. Your character was by himself then. I sincerely don't see why make such a deal about this.

This game is not meant to be played singe player, but it is still fun if you do. Ignore the issue brought up in this thread and go kill some zambies!

I recall an early cutscene were an NPC was referring to me as a group of people, and then talked to me as if I was a male character.

There is an early cutscene where, while in first person, I clearly saw the character I was playing as standing in the back of the room face palming. I felt the expression was very apt. But, yeah... It is a video game and a janky one at that.

Hmm, makes me think this game is only worth if I am interested in playing with other people. Never thought about that, not sure the developer did either :(

@EpicSteve said:

I recall an early cutscene were an NPC was referring to me as a group of people, and then talked to me as if I was a male character.

I came in here to post just this. There are some weird inconsistencies in the dialog, but I'm still enjoying the game very much.

now in the 21 century, the gaming community has overgrown with whiny bitches. if a game is broken and cant be played, then go ahead and bitch. if not youre only making yourself look bad, like a bitch

The game is completely lacking logic, I've just been ignoring it.
 
I'm assuming the intro video (that plays when the game first loads) annoys you as well. 

Heres the video for whoever hasn't seen it:
 

It doesn't make much sense when you play alone but neither does the intro if you wake up in the bed.

I've just come to accept that the stories pretty lax anyway

@EpicSteve said:

I recall an early cutscene were an NPC was referring to me as a group of people, and then talked to me as if I was a male character.

Ok I'm glad somebody else noticed that too, the person i was sitting with while playing it and I tried to figure out what was going on.

@hbkdx12 said:

Just imagine the other 3 people are 3 tyler durdens

This is what I've been doing.

While I don't let this bother me I was thinking that they could've simply done a single player cutscene version of the game when you were playing in single player and had your character following a ... well mostly similar story arch. You could've copy pasted so much to make those too... It's ashame, but I don't really care in the end. I was a tiny bit dissapointed with the ending... it reminded me, strangely, of Batman Archam Asylum

@sixpin said:

There is an early cutscene where, while in first person, I clearly saw the character I was playing as standing in the back of the room face palming. I felt the expression was very apt. But, yeah... It is a video game and a janky one at that.

Ohhhhh. I want to see that.

That sounds cool in the dumbest way.