Quick Look: Dead Island: Ryder White & Arena DLC

Sequel: Dead Island: Arkham City

@nail1080 said:

@BSw said:

I like Brad, I like Patrick, I like this QL.

It looks like this is mostly meant to be played with firearms, from the overwhelming hordes to the explosive tank at 17:02. I'm guessing they changed the way stamina works to encourage that sort of play over melee?

edit: and just sitting rifle at 19:54 or so. Yeah, guessing it is all firearms and evasive maneuvers.

Thanks for your sacrifice Brad, it looks like they removed basically everything fun and even remotely charming from Dead Island. Watching you play this shows me that I would never enjoy playing this dlc, so thanks for suffering through it so we don't have to

As much as I hated that sewer crawling...I could listen to that Machete noise all day

This new dlc looks like major suckage with this infinite spawning in the sewers. If I were Brad, I would have damaged the game, or maybe the game developers. At least make more slow zombies, not these bullet hordes. Screw that crap . . ankle biters spawning behind you like magic.

fun quick look for a less-than-fun looking game

I don't know if it's Brads fault or the games.

Brad is Bad FOR EVER

Can't say I am looking forward to this after watching this QL. It's focusing on all the worst aspects of Dead Island, without the stuff that made it great and seems kind of half assed as well. No RPG mechanics, they are reusing the worst aspect of the game (the sewer) and they didn't even have the voice actor read out the opening "crawl" for his character. It just feels like a lazy cash grab and not a good addition to the games universe.

I'm probably not the first to say this, but I think we found our next Breaking Brad.

@Kingloo said:

This looks execrable. A pointed case of a developer having no damn idea what made their game fun.

Wonderful use of vocabulary, and yeah, this DLC doesn't look that interesting.

How many times did Brad drop the F-bomb in this quick look?

You know what would have helped in those sewers? A truck.

Okay, the arena stuff actually looks pretty fun and has some environments I don't recognize from the main game. That might actually be worth getting, especially to get some extra stuff and levels.

This DLC looks absolutely horrible. No co-op, way too many zombies for one single man to handle, and stamina that depletes when you kick. Oh, and it seems to mostly take place in the sewers. Yeah, fuck this.

@cstrang said:

Hahah, Brad pulling Brads. And, honestly, relax about the spoilers thing. The story wasn't good in Dead Island anyways; if a story spoiler changes the game from a buy to a rent or a rent to a not rent, then you shouldn't play it anyways.

Exactly. Zombie apocalypse happens, military decides to blow up town. BIG MOTHER FUCKING SURPRISE GUYS.

Brad refusing to use ammo and guns. Never understood his fascination with analog melee. Only saw 3 minutes of combat, but Dead Island's combat blows.

Looks bad.

Think we all know what the new "Breaking Brad" game will be...

This looks bad.

And did Brad reaaaaaly have to spoil that. I mean, he could have just said "Hey you play as Ryder." I mean I'm not sure how many people actually give a shit, but it does make me wary of watching DLC quicklooks for games I DO give a shit about.

WTF is wrong with Ryder's eyes???

I had such a distaste for the game that I never even bothered to load the game up to try out the Arena DLC. I guess one day I'll give it a go. I do recall wishing a mode like that was in the game, since there was very little interesting about the non stop fetch quests.

Thanks for talking about the ending of the first game. That was much appreciated.

Dead Island was a prettty bad game. A real disappointment. The combat howver was pretty cool.

Also Brad is especially terrible in this QL, goddamn man, just shoot that blow up guy???

@BSw said:

My word, part of the GB community has gone sour as a lemon. Sure, he shouldn't have spoiled the ending of the original, but people make mistakes. Live with it. Send a PM asking nicely if he could refrain from doing so in the future, that'll get the message across, but don't go wining on an internet forum.

I like Brad, I like Patrick, I like this QL.

Couldn't have stated it better myself.

Would it have been preferable to not drop major plot elements?Perhaps.But then again,describing a character that you're going to play as for the duration of the DLC while trying to avoid key details can be easier said than done.

Also,to echo many prior comments,story likely isn't the main point of this game.It's not like he's going and running through Heavy Rain's beats or anything.

Free love people.

Lol this tells how horrible this DLC is if Brad has to quit it and play a different one.

@DrStrangepork said:

How many times did Brad drop the F-bomb in this quick look?

Not enough.

Wait... Why the fuck would they make the DLC focus on the parts of the game everyone hated?

No open world and removing the leveling and RPG aspects... Way to sell me on the DLC...

Too bad to hear this dlc is a bit lackluster as the game needed it with it being so much fun. Hopefully they will figure out what they did right & make future dlc better.

It's really unfortunate that Brad struggled so mightily with this part of the DLC. It certainly looks tough, but he wasn't helping himself with weapon selection and poor decision making. I hope it opens up a little more after the sewer area, but Brad may never know.

Abou zombies ganging up on you, I also felt that strongly in the main game. There were many times which seemed to be made for multiplayer, and playing alone meant that a lot of times there'd be more zombies than I could handle. At least the checkpoints were fair.

Or maybe I just suck at the game.

I played the hell out of Dead Island and I think it was a very bad decision to take out co-op and the RPG elements from the Ryder White DLC, but Brad was playing poorly in the sewers.

Brad...

this was painful to watch

So let me get this straight: the idea with this DLC is to take all of the hard work and investment you had in your character from the main game... And flip it the bird by sticking us with an underpowered version of the campaign's villain who doesn't benefit from any of the game's more interesting mechanics.

It's like Techland thought that what people liked about Dead Island was its story.

I hate when people are bad at video games and claim that it's a mark against the quality when the game gets more serious.

Pathetic how some bash this game for its difficulty but praise something like Dark Souls which only achieves difficulty through obscurity and artificiality. Also, i've lost most respect i had for Giantbomb after watching stuff like the Ninja Gaiden QL and now this, for NG they chose easy difficulty and then they bashed the game for being too easy and now that they play a challenging game they trash it for being too harsh *sigh*...

From what I've experienced, Brad and Patrick are the most likely to give spoilers away. If they're doing the quicklooks/reviews for a game I'm interested in, I make sure to play it as soon as it comes out. They're good for business : )

I know it would be easy to suggest that Brad was doing a Brad but... this looks terrible. Felt a bit sorry for him, not his fault at all. I have no idea why they've taken away the co-op and RPG elements, the main attractions of the main game. It would be like stripping Mass Effect of all interesting combat and dialogue wheels, putting an increased focus on mining random planets for ore.

Wow, I don't ever want to play Dead Island now.

@Dark_Lord_Spam: Why respond to me? My comment was in regards to Patrick and Brad's comments on how the game is dramatically worse after the first area because they don't have wide open spaces to route infected, which is not needed because you get better weapons/mods and learn how to manage large crowds of zombies while staying alive. Clearly something Brad failed to pick up on and holds it against the game.

Just get out, Patrick.

Wow, I'll never play Dead Island after this. Looks like utter shit.

Oh this community. I would pay double my membership for them to just disable all comments.

Wow, I don't think I have ever gotten angry at a game via Quick Look before. I felt really bad for Brad and wished he would have ended it 15 minutes sooner.

Man like 10 damn quick looks and no Vinny :(

Not that I care much, but it seems you guys are laying on the spoilers a little thick lately.

Anyone else think that Ryder White looks like an aged Frank West?

Yo Brad you kept getting infected spawned on you because you were in a hazard zone. You're supposed to blitz through them as fast as you can. The infected are scripted to spawn on you every 10 seconds or so.

@cyraxible: The fact that the game got much worse after that first island area is something a lot of players have expressed. If nothing else, I think that first area is where that game peaked and was the most fun.

Breaking Brad: Dead Island Ryder White