Yea that right analogue combat option did it for me. Targeting a certain body part! It was revolutionary. I actually am playing Dead Island 2 now and I hate it. Just not enough improvement
Who Do You Voodoo is an unironic banger. I love the resort area of the first game. I've replayed the first act many times. 2 was mixed for me. I had a lot of fun, but still wanted more.
I completely see what you mean regarding Dead Island 2. In terms of graphics and gameplay, DI2 is just gorgeous to look at. I would've liked for the point of contact in weapons to be more visceral, like it was in Dying Light 1 where your attacks had visual weightiness to them. However, what lets the sequel down is the extremely abrupt ending. Also, I'm not a fan on developers relying on selling DLC story expansions to resolve any lingering questions regarding the main campaign. So yeah, DI2 is definitely a mixed bag for me too. I've also been hearing mixed things about the Sola DLC and how it doesn't expand on the main story all that much.
Great video man, you touched on something that I think has been going on for the last decade or so in gaming with the reduction of the "AA" game in the industry It's like it's not okay to make a solid game that's just fun. Everything has to be the next "something" or some kind of profound experience when it's okay to just have a fun ass game to play I had a ton of fun with Dead Island 2 and I really think that the Zombie genre has room to grow in gaming if there was a studio willing to take a risk and try some new stuff in the space
I'm playing through 2 right now and I kinda prefer the first game. Especially the skills. Cards are super boring and dont really add anything. If anything it makes it feel slower and a bit more clunky. Most eneimes just kinda ignore being hit by most things. Unless you knock them down or stun them, they just kinda windmill you. Ibe also noticed block is buggy as hell. It feels like dying light 2somehow.. sure everything looks nicer, but it feels less weighty.
Dead Island 2 was so good It made give up my X-Box One X to get a series X. I love it. I'm getting old and stubborn so I'll die on the "Dead Island 2 is amazing" hill.
It is good but modern gamers especially UA-camrs are never satisfied with anything I don't know what the "fall" he's talking about is because dead island 2 was amazing and plain stupid fun as it should be
I love the first one in a weird way. I got it and leaving the first area before i could do anything some hacker gave me a shotgun, rifle and pistol with enough damage to one shot every enemy no matter what level. They also had all effects and would throw zombies around. My buddy and i cheesed the whole game. You made me remember how buggy the cars were. You could shoot the interior as your buddy drove and make the physics freak out and glitch hard.
I don’t really see the fun in removing all challenge from the game. Like if you’re gonna cheat why not just not play the game and just say you beat it? Different strokes I guess.
@@DastardlyDavid69I don't really see the fun in making a game more difficult and frustrating. Like, life itself is already stressful and frustrating enough, so why make video games the same way? Also, what's the point? Different strokes indeed.
@@tehfan66 It’s a literal fact that humans get dopamine from accomplishing challenges. More challenge = more satisfaction. I don’t like brutally challenging games. But it’s silly to pretend you don’t know how the human brain works when presumably you own at least one.
The knives in the first 2 games are hilarious to use, love how your character does these little swipes and stabs, I thought of this game right away after I saw similar animations in the first Dying Light.
One thing I really like about this game is how gun feel very different when shooting at zombie vs at people/bandit. For human, 1-2 shots anywhere is usually enough to kill them. It makes gun felt really powerful and worth using since you only really get them in mid-late game. However, when you shoot zombie it does so little damage on body shot; you're forced to do head shot and it's not much better than just wack them with your melee weapon. I just find it very immersing how it works.
I loved both games. Theyre on my top 3 “realistic” zombie games. For the weapon locations (example you wont find guns on the beach but you will in the city or prison) the combo weapons, and the gore. The other two are dead rising (for the crazy yet logical idea that EVERYTHING is a weapon) and dying light for its parkour system (lets face it when the zombies come im learning to climb and jump and traverse properly)
What do you mean with "both games?" There are three (3) DI main line games (do not forget DI Riptide) and the two (2) Dying Light games that re-used a lot of DI Riptide assets. There are also the spin-off games 1. Escape Dead Island (2014, a crappy stealth game), 2. DI Epidemic (2015, a cancelled MOBA game) and 3. DI Survivors (2018, a shut down mobile game). There is also 4. DI: Retro Revenge (2016, an auto-runner) originally released with Dead Island Definite Edition Collection. If you are trying to imply that DI (2011) and DI Riptide (2013) are the same game, you are not being fair to either of those games.
Techland had a major disagreement with Deepsilver about the direction of the game. Wanting to make it more serious/gritty but Deepsilver wanted to turn it into another hence they left to make Dying Light
@@Morgan02Dying Light 2 is to this day the only game I've ever held enough excitement for to buy it the first week it was released. I was sorely disappointed, mostly due to gameplay changes and the overall more cartoonish and mainstream feel of the game, if that makes sense. I can't complain about graphics issues, I was playing on an Xbox One S after all lol. I have heard that it is actually very good now and I've been wanting to get it again as I sold my copy. Dying Light 1 tho, I will replay that game over and over until the day I die. The only things I don't like are the lackluster and generic plot and the inventory management is in my opinion poorly designed.
@gloopy-error35 They changed some cutscenes around to look better like new animations and such. The night time has roaming volatiles now the gore was improved and they even have votes for community suggestions on their website, that they will put into the game if it's voted alot one was guns and they're adding them soon. You'll be able to repair weapons instead of throwing them out once they're broken. A lot of quality of life changes. It's definitely better than it was. They changed the bloody ties dlc so that one character I can't remember his name he used to pickpocket you and then you chased him to start the dlc now you just go to the area and he introduces himself better so it doesn't feel weird becoming friends with him since he robbed you before. Yeah, I'm looking forward to what else they'll add. I really love the game now, but yeah, 1 will forever be amazing. Crane was such a good character! They kind of hinted at him being in the next story dlc, which is very exciting!
@candideoptimism8775 100% agree compare to first launch its night and day that dead island 2 is way better in launch no bugs and glitches like actually finish game.
Yeah the gaming media did it no justice. Reviews were all over the place and it was in development hell for years so many gamers like me wouldn't pull the trigger. Until it came to Gamepass and I got to try it out. 3 days ltr and I bought it on sale. It's a really fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously. It did a way better job at getting what right what B4B got wrong, haven't played DL2 so I can speak on that aspect. But I'd recommend DI2 to anyone interested
I agree! I like that it was streamlined. I have plenty of other games that overwhelm me with open world and multiple skill paths and everything else. DI 2 was just a great time
Dude calls his video the rise and fall of dead island only to point out the flaws of the first 2 games and follow it up by complementing dead island 2. He went completely of course through this entire video.
I always thought part 2 should have leaned into the irony and humor of if not taking place on the thing that is the freaking franchises namesake, and reflected that in it's actual name with a subtitle. DEAD ISLAND 2: CONTINENTAL LANDMASS Lol
Dead island was and always have been "So good in concept, Meh in gameplay, dogshit in execution." In my oppinion, currently the best zombie game in the market is Project Zomboid. It has been the best zombie game i ever touched. And sometimes i wish a 3d zombie game did half as well as zomboid did. State of Decay was decent, but not even in the ballpark of zomboid (again)
well since state of decay 3 is happening lets just hope it expands its base building and community management. SoD2 did a pretty good job but i do feel like its lacking a few things. tho SoD franchise is all about community building and surviving as a group. and zomboid all about ones survival. but i am glad there are some varieties in these zompocalypse games. all fulfilling a certain niche.
@CallForGrandPappy lmao tell me you’ve never played the game and only watched gameplay on UA-cam without stating so. PZ is easily the best zombie game. Sadly, something you don’t see on UA-cam content is how the game feels to play. PZ is one of the smoothest top down games ever. The combat is fluid and dynamic. And it’s game mechanics are deeper then the marina trench. But who am I kidding, we’re living in the age of adhd kiddos who need flashy colorful graphics to get their attention.
@@stuglife5514you virgins make up some weird shit to explain away you’re boring ass games, you’re not special or unique because you play some shitty top down game with boring ass gameplay.
*Can you please make a RED DEAD REDEMPTION retrospective please where you talk about the first game, the second game, and Undead Nightmare!? And can you also make a video about Bully please!?*
@@tazinboor3913 no no no, retrospective means that you would looking at all of their games and developing cycles since the befall the way up to red dead 2. A video about the downfall of rockstar would be cool but honestly it wouldn’t be that long considering their biggest problems came after gta 4
I think considering its development history dead island 2 turned out surprisingly well. Hope we get the same studio for desd island 3 with smoother development
As much as i love the dead island game, i've always said the trailer ran so the game could crawl. I love the game for it's fighting (it's a fun weapon and combat system).... Would have loved it more if matched the gravitas and story the trailer sold.
15:10 my first and only play through I was just about at end game until all my weapons broke and I didn’t realize the workshops cost money to use (I was poor). I was always upgrading bullsh*t weapons cause I had the supplies and that really blew up in my face by the time I got to the church area. Idky i never picked the game back up it was really fun Edit: (by the time i got that far in the game I had no money for repairs and the enemies were to hard to kill with any default weapons)
You and totallypointlesstv prob have the best style of informational and fun videos to these games. Always great to kick back and hear what others say about games that are both hit or miss from my childhood. Keep up the great work!
This a particularly contrarian take on these games. The guy does not seem to realize that Dying Light 1 is from the same guys and shares assets with the first two DI games. You should not trust that guy too much. He sounds like he single-playered these games, which is the worst way to experience the games. Having even one human playing these games in co-op makes them much less tedious. The bot AI is such that it does not do objectives for you, so you have to do most key things alone while the bots uselessly swat at the enemies. Also, they do not revive you like humans, so it is a needlessly crappy, slow experience overall to single-player these games. Dying Light 1 is nowhere as bad in terms of single-playering because of the missing enemy scaling with your levels and such.
It is not that nice. He's stating the obvious while also complaining things that he chose to have. For example, the waypoint tracking being there even though you can disable it by untracking the quest.
So would yall recommend this, to coop with my son? Me and him loved the first dying light, borderlands, farcry 5/6 ... and its i think cheap now on xbox.
I beat dead island 3 times back in the day. I still rememeber getting the game day 1 and just loving it. I didnt have friends to play with but playing with randoms was fun and made the experience even better lol
Honestly there’s only bit of dead island 1 I didn’t like was the city bit felt like I got swarmed way to much I wouldn’t mind a few hordes cos I mean it is a city but u constantly got rushed at by a infinite amount of infected that kept running at you like even if u killed all of the zombies around you they would just keep spawning no matter what just got more annoying than fun really fast
I actually really liked bruno Maybe it's cause I expected significantly worse, so his actual character ended up being a genuine surprise to me, but I found his personality actually very likeable. He actually comes acrossed way more serious than I was expecting. I went in expecting, basically that sound cloud rapper character from smiling friends and ended up with someone who was actually pretty pragmatic and kind of a voice of reason.
Hey, does this guy have a discord? this channel is ridicilously underrated and these community discord servers tend to be alot more reasonable in activity.
Xian Mei is always my GOAT. Love the series, have hundreds of hours in all three games. 😂 ❤ I adore the originals, and replay them all the time. I've replayed Dead Island 2 3 times to max out all the girl characters. Amy is my fave. The vibes of the original game cannot be beat. Like the unique vibes of DL1 vs. DL2. Also how come no one mentioned the mirrors in the trucks blocking all visibility 😂
I love your content... would you ever do a breakdown of a game that has had me just sweating to understand... F.E.A.R. video game series... Complex and dynamic GG
As someone who grew up when parkour became popular ,im still impressed by it ,dying light is fall of dead island as for me it was all dead island had plus awesome movement and traversal I can still get some enjoyment from DI , DI2 but i constantly thinks about dying light movement
The hype for this game was HUGE. It's not a bad game but it didn't live up to it. It was supposed to look even better though I think it actually looks better now than whem it came out
One zombie game series that doesn't get the attention it deserves is the Zombie Army series, which is basically a 3rd person version of Left 4 Dead, set during WW2.
only problem i had with this game was the FoV, which the game does not allow to adjust. The FoV is set too low and it caused motion sickness. thismis then exacerbated by the ridiculously hyperactive head bobbing and then when you get hit, it jerksmand sways the cerma uncontrollably, like it's literally yanking the controls away from you. and then when you're low health, the screen blurs, gets a red timt, the camera starts swaying slightly and all other sounds are drowned out by your character's heavy breathing. it's like it was deliberately designed to cause as much nausea as possible. . .
Dead Island 2 was pretty good for the most part. I don't like the cringe dialogue for most of the characters, it's like they came straight of Borderlands but from Borderlands 3 onward (ugh). I wish the story had a more serious tone (my preference of zombie media), but there are some dark and depressing stories/situations you find from journal entries scattered across the game. The gameplay is definitely the best part of the game, a mid story can be excused as long as the game is enjoyable to play. I hope Dead Island continues as a franchise, maybe a 3rd game after the DI2 dlcs are finished being made.
the Definitive Edition version's guns are different to the original's, for some reason they replaced the AK and M4-alikes with the guns from Dying Light, and I think that included the stats if memory serves? I always hated that change, I recall the guns in the original being pretty handy
I love dead island and riptide despite their shortcomings, the atmosphere and combat is so good that it’s enough to draw me back in every few years. Recently bought and played the second one while it’s on sale, combat and gore effects are great but quests and story still aren’t great
Oh yes, the Zombie Army Trilogy by Rebellion. The levels in the last game have so much debris crap in them. It is weird to do the one-man horde mode as the Sniper Elite.
Ayo, Dead Island (as an IP) is owned by Deep Silver, not Techland. Techland DID NOT ditch Dead Island for Dying Light as they weren't partnered with Deep Silver anymore to be even allowed to work on it.
You should make a full album analysis/explanation of Denzel Curry's TA13OO like you did with To Pimp A Butterfly or DAMN. because the album is very very deep and i wanted to see how you would do it because i loved the way you did it before
I remember back in the 360 days some dude with a JTAG (yes THOSE days) gave me an invisible infinite damage RPG that made no sound when fired. So I could just open a door to a super crowded room of zombies shoot an invisible silent RPG in the room then 2 seconds later everything just implodes it was amazing lol. Sadly I lost everything tho :(
I quite liked the first game. I just wish it had a true single player campaign/story and didn't have the weird co-op narrative forced upon it. It was always jarring playing singleplayer and reaching a cutscene, only to suddenly have 3 other people with you. Honestly the game really didn't feel like a co-op game, and I would bet that it didn't start out as one. Looking at it now it seems rather ho-hum and mundane, but a lot of the mechanics featured in Dead Island 1 were novel at the time. I never tried Dead Island 2, partly because I don't like any of the playable characters.
Really enjoy playing dead island 2 I think it’s improved upon massively since the originals very fun gameplay combat system story isn’t too bad either I like the numen story plot it kind of adds an bigger story plot to the smash and kill zombies drawn out plot
Dead Island 1 and Dead Island Riptide. They were both bangers. Dyiong Light 1 was a banger. Dead Island 2 and Dying Light 2.... They were okay but not on par with the first games.
I dont mind campy fun but everything with dead island was more emotional (even if they didn't make that initial trailer) cuz dying light had its moments of campy but they showed they find a balance if they could id say give techland another shot at it with the way they envisioned it and i really think it could cement itself along with dying light, resident evil, the last of us, the walking dead, etc. And no I am happy that we got wat got cuz we could have nothing its feels like techland is having a identity crisis they cant seem to tell if they want a pure hack and slash campy zombie game or something that takes itself seriously enough to make the story matter on an emotional level
Just thought I would throw this here because it was the funniest sh!t ever on the first game. Sam b + Gabriel's sledgehammer + Tesla mod + manual swinging = zombie golf. Try it.
I put tons and tons of hours into the first Dead Island game. I loved every bit of it. Picked up Dead Island 2 on sale and after about 5 hours, got a refund. I was bored out of my mind.
I already believe that writing video essays to make already great games sound amazing requieres skill. But to make one to make a really mid game sounds fantastic requieres even more
I think it's different for Everyone's cause I Bought DI2 like 2 months ago and i still play it from time to time and I still have a Nice Time and now even more since The New DLC is coming out
I loved Dead Island and I couldn't believe the second one could be as bad as I'd heard. I tried it recently and couldn't make it through the tutorial. Such a disappointment
I hate games that make quests that arent straightforward, i dont want to sit here for 10 minutes and wander around when all the quest wanted me to do was walk down the street and talk with someone. If you dont like the line in dead island you don't have to follow it on all of my forat playthroughs i explored every nook and cranny but on my second third fourth and many more i just want to get the quest done and get the items i need to get skill points and start running around slaying. When a game tells you what it wants you to do i respect that.
My proof is the ocean avenue quest. Jesus I was ON ocean avenue and I walked up and down that street 100 times I went to a basement garage and explored the whole map but I still had to Google where the fuck to go. It didn't make my experience better it annoyed the fuck out of me.
In my opinion the people that did dead island 2 know what they are doing. Way better then dying light 2. Better story also even if basic to continue what happened canonically in riptide with the virus spreading. Dying light 2's fake choices and story was really weak. The dead island 2 dlc so far are really good and they add good lore. Can't wait for dlc 2.
Dead Island, as an actual game, is rather mediocre. But as someone who really likes Dying Light, it's incredibly cool to see what is essentially DL's spiritual ancestor
I know its considered the worst dead island game, but I kinda wish they would revisit escape dead island. Maybe rework the story so that it doesn't have all that trippy hallucinations and stuff and put some work on the combat in that game.
The first dead Island is still my favorite
Absolutely!
These feelings you have may be confusing when reflecting on, but brother I’m here to tell you, you’re 100% correct to feel that way
Yea that right analogue combat option did it for me. Targeting a certain body part! It was revolutionary. I actually am playing Dead Island 2 now and I hate it. Just not enough improvement
Oh man! I love the first one. It still holds up too!
I might just fire it up again now. :D
Dead island riptide is much better than dead island
Who Do You Voodoo is an unironic banger.
I love the resort area of the first game. I've replayed the first act many times.
2 was mixed for me. I had a lot of fun, but still wanted more.
No Room in Hell was pretty good too. They even made a music video for it.
2 is way better.
I completely see what you mean regarding Dead Island 2. In terms of graphics and gameplay, DI2 is just gorgeous to look at. I would've liked for the point of contact in weapons to be more visceral, like it was in Dying Light 1 where your attacks had visual weightiness to them. However, what lets the sequel down is the extremely abrupt ending. Also, I'm not a fan on developers relying on selling DLC story expansions to resolve any lingering questions regarding the main campaign. So yeah, DI2 is definitely a mixed bag for me too. I've also been hearing mixed things about the Sola DLC and how it doesn't expand on the main story all that much.
Great video man, you touched on something that I think has been going on for the last decade or so in gaming with the reduction of the "AA" game in the industry
It's like it's not okay to make a solid game that's just fun. Everything has to be the next "something" or some kind of profound experience when it's okay to just have a fun ass game to play
I had a ton of fun with Dead Island 2 and I really think that the Zombie genre has room to grow in gaming if there was a studio willing to take a risk and try some new stuff in the space
Dead island 2 is pretty boring IMO. I just see fans coping.
@@loubloom1941imma a dead island fan and i have to say this game is forsure boring…. dead island 1 is way better
The dialog was dogshit, it's a game meant for kids. Gameplay good story and characters trash
Personally liked Dead Island 2 the most tearing zombies apart with the Flesh system was really fun.
I'm playing through 2 right now and I kinda prefer the first game. Especially the skills. Cards are super boring and dont really add anything. If anything it makes it feel slower and a bit more clunky. Most eneimes just kinda ignore being hit by most things. Unless you knock them down or stun them, they just kinda windmill you. Ibe also noticed block is buggy as hell. It feels like dying light 2somehow.. sure everything looks nicer, but it feels less weighty.
Hell yeah compared to Dying Light 2 it was so more fun to play.
It’s meh for me. I’m not super hype about it but hell it’s free on gamepass and that’s about it for me I’m just playing through it quietly
@@charaznable8072 DL2 in its current state is more fun imo. Definitely more replayable.
@@zachrohler1047I felt the exact opposite because I’m not blinded by nostalgia.
Dead Island 2 was so good It made give up my X-Box One X to get a series X. I love it. I'm getting old and stubborn so I'll die on the "Dead Island 2 is amazing" hill.
you’re not wrong. it is an amazing game
I love the acting. It's incredibly believable and real in the cutscenes. Doesn't get talked about enough imo
It is good but modern gamers especially UA-camrs are never satisfied with anything I don't know what the "fall" he's talking about is because dead island 2 was amazing and plain stupid fun as it should be
Thank God for game pass because I loved the 1st but and very happy I didn't buy this 2nd one
@@mgiebus1869Ok sad pathetic nostalgia junkie.
I love the first one in a weird way. I got it and leaving the first area before i could do anything some hacker gave me a shotgun, rifle and pistol with enough damage to one shot every enemy no matter what level. They also had all effects and would throw zombies around. My buddy and i cheesed the whole game. You made me remember how buggy the cars were. You could shoot the interior as your buddy drove and make the physics freak out and glitch hard.
I don’t really see the fun in removing all challenge from the game. Like if you’re gonna cheat why not just not play the game and just say you beat it? Different strokes I guess.
@@DastardlyDavid69I don't really see the fun in making a game more difficult and frustrating. Like, life itself is already stressful and frustrating enough, so why make video games the same way? Also, what's the point? Different strokes indeed.
@@tehfan66 It’s a literal fact that humans get dopamine from accomplishing challenges. More challenge = more satisfaction.
I don’t like brutally challenging games. But it’s silly to pretend you don’t know how the human brain works when presumably you own at least one.
@@DastardlyDavid69 tbf, you can also get it from watching zombies fly across the map when shot at, and with friends, it can be completely chaotic.
@@chrisnotpratt1903 That makes sense. I hadn’t looked at it that way.
The knives in the first 2 games are hilarious to use, love how your character does these little swipes and stabs, I thought of this game right away after I saw similar animations in the first Dying Light.
Techland made both games and reused alot of dead island assets in the first Dying light so they most likely are the exact same animations .
One thing I really like about this game is how gun feel very different when shooting at zombie vs at people/bandit. For human, 1-2 shots anywhere is usually enough to kill them. It makes gun felt really powerful and worth using since you only really get them in mid-late game. However, when you shoot zombie it does so little damage on body shot; you're forced to do head shot and it's not much better than just wack them with your melee weapon. I just find it very immersing how it works.
Dead Island 2 was my first game ever to get the Platin trophy! I had so much fun & I‘m lookin forward to de DLC, it‘s GOTY for me already😍
Same
I loved both games. Theyre on my top 3 “realistic” zombie games. For the weapon locations (example you wont find guns on the beach but you will in the city or prison) the combo weapons, and the gore. The other two are dead rising (for the crazy yet logical idea that EVERYTHING is a weapon) and dying light for its parkour system (lets face it when the zombies come im learning to climb and jump and traverse properly)
What do you mean with "both games?" There are three (3) DI main line games (do not forget DI Riptide) and the two (2) Dying Light games that re-used a lot of DI Riptide assets. There are also the spin-off games 1. Escape Dead Island (2014, a crappy stealth game), 2. DI Epidemic (2015, a cancelled MOBA game) and 3. DI Survivors (2018, a shut down mobile game). There is also 4. DI: Retro Revenge (2016, an auto-runner) originally released with Dead Island Definite Edition Collection.
If you are trying to imply that DI (2011) and DI Riptide (2013) are the same game, you are not being fair to either of those games.
Techland had a major disagreement with Deepsilver about the direction of the game. Wanting to make it more serious/gritty but Deepsilver wanted to turn it into another hence they left to make Dying Light
Glad they did Dying light is fantastic and ik it gets a bad rep but Dying light 2 imo is getting up there too with Techlands updates.
@@Morgan02Dying Light 2 is to this day the only game I've ever held enough excitement for to buy it the first week it was released. I was sorely disappointed, mostly due to gameplay changes and the overall more cartoonish and mainstream feel of the game, if that makes sense. I can't complain about graphics issues, I was playing on an Xbox One S after all lol. I have heard that it is actually very good now and I've been wanting to get it again as I sold my copy.
Dying Light 1 tho, I will replay that game over and over until the day I die. The only things I don't like are the lackluster and generic plot and the inventory management is in my opinion poorly designed.
@gloopy-error35 They changed some cutscenes around to look better like new animations and such. The night time has roaming volatiles now the gore was improved and they even have votes for community suggestions on their website, that they will put into the game if it's voted alot one was guns and they're adding them soon. You'll be able to repair weapons instead of throwing them out once they're broken. A lot of quality of life changes. It's definitely better than it was. They changed the bloody ties dlc so that one character I can't remember his name he used to pickpocket you and then you chased him to start the dlc now you just go to the area and he introduces himself better so it doesn't feel weird becoming friends with him since he robbed you before. Yeah, I'm looking forward to what else they'll add. I really love the game now, but yeah, 1 will forever be amazing. Crane was such a good character! They kind of hinted at him being in the next story dlc, which is very exciting!
It was a good decision. That first Dying light is still better than all of em
I’m happy they left the serious/gritty stuff was cringe only overgrown children trying to act a child idea of mature like that stuff.
I’m 30 minutes into the video and still haven’t come across how dead island rose and fell off. I guess I’ve been clickbaited 😂😂
I'm sorry but the hate surrounding dead island 2 is so unfounded (honestly I believe this could be contender for GOTY)
Me too, what is with the hate
@@tyresselittle747it’s the Dying Light fans lol
@candideoptimism8775 100% agree compare to first launch its night and day that dead island 2 is way better in launch no bugs and glitches like actually finish game.
Yeah the gaming media did it no justice. Reviews were all over the place and it was in development hell for years so many gamers like me wouldn't pull the trigger. Until it came to Gamepass and I got to try it out. 3 days ltr and I bought it on sale. It's a really fun game that doesn't take itself too seriously. It did a way better job at getting what right what B4B got wrong, haven't played DL2 so I can speak on that aspect. But I'd recommend DI2 to anyone interested
I agree! I like that it was streamlined. I have plenty of other games that overwhelm me with open world and multiple skill paths and everything else. DI 2 was just a great time
Who do you voodoo is still one of the greatest songs ever made in any video game.
I'll bump that shit from time to time. It's a great song.
@@thedude8526 ong
You should have mentioned the Developer weapons from Dead Island 1 and the uniques from Dead Island 2. Theyre my favorite part of the game!
The first game was really scary when I was a kid
I remember that trailer making me feel sickly sad as a kid
@@100StepProgram Yeah it was so traumatizing seeing the family get attacked and the daughter turning on her own dad
After replaying the first dead island, it feels dated now especially after playing every other zombie game like dying light 1.
considering that dying light is how they wanted to make dead island in the first place i'd say they had to walk before they could run
It's almost like it came out *Alot* sooner
Dead Island 1 does feel aged in many ways now, but it was quite something when it released.
This made me want to play dead island again, never would have expected anything would make me want to play this game again lol
Dude calls his video the rise and fall of dead island only to point out the flaws of the first 2 games and follow it up by complementing dead island 2. He went completely of course through this entire video.
Poor guy must be so hard
Omg man you been cooking lately! I’m so glad
Me and my bro been having a lot of fun with dead island 2 since it hit gamepass.
I always thought part 2 should have leaned into the irony and humor of if not taking place on the thing that is the freaking franchises namesake, and reflected that in it's actual name with a subtitle.
DEAD ISLAND 2: CONTINENTAL LANDMASS
Lol
Dead island was and always have been "So good in concept, Meh in gameplay, dogshit in execution."
In my oppinion, currently the best zombie game in the market is Project Zomboid. It has been the best zombie game i ever touched. And sometimes i wish a 3d zombie game did half as well as zomboid did. State of Decay was decent, but not even in the ballpark of zomboid (again)
Zomboid looks and plays like a flash game from 2007 lmao
well since state of decay 3 is happening lets just hope it expands its base building and community management. SoD2 did a pretty good job but i do feel like its lacking a few things. tho SoD franchise is all about community building and surviving as a group. and zomboid all about ones survival. but i am glad there are some varieties in these zompocalypse games. all fulfilling a certain niche.
@CallForGrandPappy lmao tell me you’ve never played the game and only watched gameplay on UA-cam without stating so. PZ is easily the best zombie game. Sadly, something you don’t see on UA-cam content is how the game feels to play. PZ is one of the smoothest top down games ever. The combat is fluid and dynamic. And it’s game mechanics are deeper then the marina trench. But who am I kidding, we’re living in the age of adhd kiddos who need flashy colorful graphics to get their attention.
@@stuglife5514you virgins make up some weird shit to explain away you’re boring ass games, you’re not special or unique because you play some shitty top down game with boring ass gameplay.
@@CallForGrandPappyOkay, so what? Flash games from 2007 were pretty damn awesome.
*Can you please make a RED DEAD REDEMPTION retrospective please where you talk about the first game, the second game, and Undead Nightmare!? And can you also make a video about Bully please!?*
Fuck it, rockstar retrospective
@@Z3R0NU11 Later, FIRST, Red Dead.
@@tazinboor3913 red dead and bully would be in the retrospective though💀
@@Z3R0NU11 OH! I THOUGHT YOU MEANT A *RANT* ABOUT ROCKSTAR CURRENTLY!
@@tazinboor3913 no no no, retrospective means that you would looking at all of their games and developing cycles since the befall the way up to red dead 2. A video about the downfall of rockstar would be cool but honestly it wouldn’t be that long considering their biggest problems came after gta 4
wake up babe new munt chunk essay just dropped
I think considering its development history dead island 2 turned out surprisingly well. Hope we get the same studio for desd island 3 with smoother development
Thanks for covering this game, Dead island 2 just has the edge for me. Subscribed
As much as i love the dead island game, i've always said the trailer ran so the game could crawl. I love the game for it's fighting (it's a fun weapon and combat system).... Would have loved it more if matched the gravitas and story the trailer sold.
15:10 my first and only play through I was just about at end game until all my weapons broke and I didn’t realize the workshops cost money to use (I was poor). I was always upgrading bullsh*t weapons cause I had the supplies and that really blew up in my face by the time I got to the church area. Idky i never picked the game back up it was really fun
Edit: (by the time i got that far in the game I had no money for repairs and the enemies were to hard to kill with any default weapons)
Ryan is genuinely the most likeable character in dead island 2
Ryan was cool. I liked Jacob to and surprisingly Bruno. Wasn't a fan of the females though. They seemed kinda forced in regards to how they acted.
So many great VAs out there; never thought I'd want more silent protagonists & npcs back.
You and totallypointlesstv prob have the best style of informational and fun videos to these games. Always great to kick back and hear what others say about games that are both hit or miss from my childhood. Keep up the great work!
This a particularly contrarian take on these games. The guy does not seem to realize that Dying Light 1 is from the same guys and shares assets with the first two DI games. You should not trust that guy too much. He sounds like he single-playered these games, which is the worst way to experience the games. Having even one human playing these games in co-op makes them much less tedious. The bot AI is such that it does not do objectives for you, so you have to do most key things alone while the bots uselessly swat at the enemies. Also, they do not revive you like humans, so it is a needlessly crappy, slow experience overall to single-player these games. Dying Light 1 is nowhere as bad in terms of single-playering because of the missing enemy scaling with your levels and such.
Nice review homie, Dying Light review when?
It is not that nice. He's stating the obvious while also complaining things that he chose to have. For example, the waypoint tracking being there even though you can disable it by untracking the quest.
@@ihavenoson3384too bad you have an F tier channel yourself
@@AC-hj9tv Whatever you say, Zero Videos Man
So would yall recommend this, to coop with my son? Me and him loved the first dying light, borderlands, farcry 5/6 ... and its i think cheap now on xbox.
It’s pretty fun in Co-op but as a kid I remember being quite scared at some moments, depends on age.
Absolutely! Both games are a blast and more fun when you play with others.
I beat dead island 3 times back in the day. I still rememeber getting the game day 1 and just loving it. I didnt have friends to play with but playing with randoms was fun and made the experience even better lol
Honestly there’s only bit of dead island 1 I didn’t like was the city bit felt like I got swarmed way to much I wouldn’t mind a few hordes cos I mean it is a city but u constantly got rushed at by a infinite amount of infected that kept running at you like even if u killed all of the zombies around you they would just keep spawning no matter what just got more annoying than fun really fast
I actually really liked bruno
Maybe it's cause I expected significantly worse, so his actual character ended up being a genuine surprise to me, but I found his personality actually very likeable. He actually comes acrossed way more serious than I was expecting. I went in expecting, basically that sound cloud rapper character from smiling friends and ended up with someone who was actually pretty pragmatic and kind of a voice of reason.
I played the first Dead Island/Riptide with rl homies and it was probably one of my favorite games of that era. So much fun
Just started playing it and I’m already having more fun than both of the other two
Hey, does this guy have a discord? this channel is ridicilously underrated and these community discord servers tend to be alot more reasonable in activity.
I think you should double-check what the guy is saying on your own. A lot of these "analytical" takes seem to miss the point of the context.
50:03 Did I hear that correctly? It's finished/ barely any bugs!?!?
That makes it better than most games these days.
Xian Mei is always my GOAT. Love the series, have hundreds of hours in all three games. 😂 ❤ I adore the originals, and replay them all the time. I've replayed Dead Island 2 3 times to max out all the girl characters. Amy is my fave. The vibes of the original game cannot be beat. Like the unique vibes of DL1 vs. DL2. Also how come no one mentioned the mirrors in the trucks blocking all visibility 😂
A gamer plays the game. Notices the flaws and finishes the game. This new era of gamers, all UA-cam content.
Dead island 1 is one of my favorite games ever and my favorite Zombie game. Dead island riptide and Dead island 2 were garbage in my opinion
Bro made a mediocre game sound awesome 💀
Ong
the game is older than you 😭
Dead island is like the mother of story/zombie survival games
@@MinecraftGamer23YTthat's great MinecraftGamer23YT
@@Shen7272 Thanks. Shen7272
Enjoyed the vid fam
I love your content... would you ever do a breakdown of a game that has had me just sweating to understand... F.E.A.R. video game series... Complex and dynamic GG
As someone who grew up when parkour became popular ,im still impressed by it ,dying light is fall of dead island as for me it was all dead island had plus awesome movement and traversal
I can still get some enjoyment from DI , DI2 but i constantly thinks about dying light movement
Dead rising 1 was top tier man I used to watch my older siblings play late at night the vibes🔥
I liked how your lol would transfer between dead island 1 and riptide
The hype for this game was HUGE. It's not a bad game but it didn't live up to it. It was supposed to look even better though I think it actually looks better now than whem it came out
One zombie game series that doesn't get the attention it deserves is the Zombie Army series, which is basically a 3rd person version of Left 4 Dead, set during WW2.
-"The chances are you're not picking these [playable] characters for their personality anyways."
Bruh, I don't treat my boy Sam B like I do my women.
I played it with my friends. Waiting for dead island 2 on steam.
Bro idr ever following you, but I amped up off a 40+ Dead Island video. Let's go
Let's go where ????
@@jinmark9453 to dead island, baby
it's surprising to me seeing how many dead island fans there are,I've loved this game since i was like 10 it's nice to know people still talk about it
there was no fall, dead island 2 was very good
I feel like some of your videos are missing? I thought you had two more uploads after this one but I don't see em. Am I insane 😭
only problem i had with this game was the FoV, which the game does not allow to adjust. The FoV is set too low and it caused motion sickness.
thismis then exacerbated by the ridiculously hyperactive head bobbing and then when you get hit, it jerksmand sways the cerma uncontrollably, like it's literally yanking the controls away from you.
and then when you're low health, the screen blurs, gets a red timt, the camera starts swaying slightly and all other sounds are drowned out by your character's heavy breathing.
it's like it was deliberately designed to cause as much nausea as possible. . .
Is it really a rise and fall if the 1st 2 games were mid and the last one was better in everyway?
Dead Island franchise was legendary.
Was? It's still around.
@@coltonwilkie241 it’s still is
When is the resident evil part 2 retrospective coming out looking very forward to it
Dead Island 2 was pretty good for the most part. I don't like the cringe dialogue for most of the characters, it's like they came straight of Borderlands but from Borderlands 3 onward (ugh). I wish the story had a more serious tone (my preference of zombie media), but there are some dark and depressing stories/situations you find from journal entries scattered across the game. The gameplay is definitely the best part of the game, a mid story can be excused as long as the game is enjoyable to play. I hope Dead Island continues as a franchise, maybe a 3rd game after the DI2 dlcs are finished being made.
the Definitive Edition version's guns are different to the original's, for some reason they replaced the AK and M4-alikes with the guns from Dying Light, and I think that included the stats if memory serves? I always hated that change, I recall the guns in the original being pretty handy
I love dead island and riptide despite their shortcomings, the atmosphere and combat is so good that it’s enough to draw me back in every few years.
Recently bought and played the second one while it’s on sale, combat and gore effects are great but quests and story still aren’t great
"I got a Zombie Army, and you can't harm me..."
Oh yes, the Zombie Army Trilogy by Rebellion. The levels in the last game have so much debris crap in them. It is weird to do the one-man horde mode as the Sniper Elite.
Ayo, Dead Island (as an IP) is owned by Deep Silver, not Techland.
Techland DID NOT ditch Dead Island for Dying Light as they weren't partnered with Deep Silver anymore to be even allowed to work on it.
Got every achievement on all 3 games and I was very disappointed with di 2 but it’s slightly grown on my so I don’t hate it anymore
You should make a full album analysis/explanation of Denzel Curry's TA13OO like you did with To Pimp A Butterfly or DAMN. because the album is very very deep and i wanted to see how you would do it because i loved the way you did it before
I remember back in the 360 days some dude with a JTAG (yes THOSE days) gave me an invisible infinite damage RPG that made no sound when fired. So I could just open a door to a super crowded room of zombies shoot an invisible silent RPG in the room then 2 seconds later everything just implodes it was amazing lol. Sadly I lost everything tho :(
I quite liked the first game. I just wish it had a true single player campaign/story and didn't have the weird co-op narrative forced upon it.
It was always jarring playing singleplayer and reaching a cutscene, only to suddenly have 3 other people with you. Honestly the game really didn't feel like a co-op game, and I would bet that it didn't start out as one.
Looking at it now it seems rather ho-hum and mundane, but a lot of the mechanics featured in Dead Island 1 were novel at the time.
I never tried Dead Island 2, partly because I don't like any of the playable characters.
Really enjoy playing dead island 2 I think it’s improved upon massively since the originals very fun gameplay combat system story isn’t too bad either I like the numen story plot it kind of adds an bigger story plot to the smash and kill zombies drawn out plot
Lore of The Rise and Fall of Dead Island momentum 100
DI 2 rocked played through with 4 different characters!🎉
Like your personality bro, make more retrospective videos.
Dead Island 1 and Dead Island Riptide. They were both bangers. Dyiong Light 1 was a banger. Dead Island 2 and Dying Light 2.... They were okay but not on par with the first games.
Thanks king 🤝
I dont mind campy fun but everything with dead island was more emotional
(even if they didn't make that initial trailer) cuz dying light had its moments of campy but they showed they find a balance if they could id say give techland another shot at it with the way they envisioned it and i really think it could cement itself along with dying light, resident evil, the last of us, the walking dead, etc. And no I am happy that we got wat got cuz we could have nothing its feels like techland is having a identity crisis they cant seem to tell if they want a pure hack and slash campy zombie game or something that takes itself seriously enough to make the story matter on an emotional level
i really enjoyed 2 i love the combat and style of the game i just wish it had more content it probably shouldn’t have been sold as a full priced game
Just thought I would throw this here because it was the funniest sh!t ever on the first game.
Sam b + Gabriel's sledgehammer + Tesla mod + manual swinging = zombie golf.
Try it.
There was a series? I only remember two games, and one was basically dlc. DI2 looks great
I put tons and tons of hours into the first Dead Island game. I loved every bit of it. Picked up Dead Island 2 on sale and after about 5 hours, got a refund. I was bored out of my mind.
5:44 can definitely see how this turned into Dying Light
Soo.. wouldn't this just be the steady rise of Dead Island? There wasn't really a fall.
Did I hear a god hand track halfway through? Thought I had it running in the background or something lol
I already believe that writing video essays to make already great games sound amazing requieres skill. But to make one to make a really mid game sounds fantastic requieres even more
im just glad they released di2 as a working fun game and not just some broken crap cash grab we have come to expect.
The only correct answer to the question as to who to choose to play as is Sam B.
The book, for the first game, is actually a good read
I fully agree, however I am glad Dead Island exists as it walked so Dying Light could run
I think it's different for Everyone's cause I Bought DI2 like 2 months ago and i still play it from time to time and I still have a Nice Time and now even more since The New DLC is coming out
I loved Dead Island and I couldn't believe the second one could be as bad as I'd heard. I tried it recently and couldn't make it through the tutorial. Such a disappointment
23:33 how did it shove you so far without hands?
I hate games that make quests that arent straightforward, i dont want to sit here for 10 minutes and wander around when all the quest wanted me to do was walk down the street and talk with someone. If you dont like the line in dead island you don't have to follow it on all of my forat playthroughs i explored every nook and cranny but on my second third fourth and many more i just want to get the quest done and get the items i need to get skill points and start running around slaying. When a game tells you what it wants you to do i respect that.
My proof is the ocean avenue quest. Jesus I was ON ocean avenue and I walked up and down that street 100 times I went to a basement garage and explored the whole map but I still had to Google where the fuck to go. It didn't make my experience better it annoyed the fuck out of me.
@@TheLegend-jp1vgjust learn to look at your screen… Lmao cope.
@@Frequent_jits Another retard using autistic lmao..
In my opinion the people that did dead island 2 know what they are doing. Way better then dying light 2. Better story also even if basic to continue what happened canonically in riptide with the virus spreading. Dying light 2's fake choices and story was really weak. The dead island 2 dlc so far are really good and they add good lore. Can't wait for dlc 2.
Dead Island, as an actual game, is rather mediocre.
But as someone who really likes Dying Light, it's incredibly cool to see what is essentially DL's spiritual ancestor
Dead Island 2 showed me how good we got it with Dying Light
Does munt mean something different in the UK cause thats a wild channel name
Someone don’t let this kid find out about the 90s
I know its considered the worst dead island game, but I kinda wish they would revisit escape dead island. Maybe rework the story so that it doesn't have all that trippy hallucinations and stuff and put some work on the combat in that game.
I absolutely loved dead island and riptide.