Zombies are dead unless you are gigantic brand for AAA and AA games.
Plus the name alone tells you what it will be (open world action RPG with zombies), they aren't gonna make a puzzle game..
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Are people still waiting for “the” Dead Island sequel?
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Plus the name alone tells you what it will be (open world action RPG with zombies), they aren't gonna make a puzzle game..
Zombies are never dead. At no point have zombies stopped being popular.
Yeah you're right the zombie rush of the late 00s early 10s slowed down for no reason.
the series burned me with a fantastic trailer that really wasnt the tone of the main title. So I lost interest in it.
You're conflating short term fads with long term viability. Zombies are basically eternal. Audiences alternate between crushing zombies and running from them. Have you not seen the immense popularity of Call of Duty Zombies? World War Z 2 is in production. You think that film won't make bank? The so-called "zombie fatigue" is imaginary. It's a genre that always reinvents itself and keeps making money because it feeds into audience fears and social conflicts.
This !
It sounded fun tbh, dead island with demons and stuff.
DL has fantastically realized parkour though. It's really good and got a crazy amount of post-release support.
The Yes answer is even odder because it's harking back to Dead Island 1's marketing. Half of the posts in this thread are related to Dead Island 1.
People are so caught up on Dead Island 1 for some bizarre reason. Dead Island 2 is not Dead Island 1. It's a completely different game from a different studio. We know nothing about it other than that it will probably involve some kind of body of land surrounded by water, and zombies.
Dead Island is simply a brand name. One that still carries some weight, hence why it's called Dead Island 2. We know nothing about Dead Island 2's setting, gameplay, storytelling, or anything. We don't know if it's open world. We don't know if it's co-op. It's a completely unknown zombie game.
It's like going back in time and saying that Crysis made Far Cry redundant, when you you know absolutely nothing about Far Cry 2, a game made by a completely different studio.
yes, I enjoyed both dead island games a lot more than dying light. I was really looking forward to the original vision and setting, but that seems to have been completely scrapped. Im looking forward to finding out anything new.
You consider Dead Island AAA?
Me being tired of the concept of zombies is in no way tied to the release of console hardware. There's been enough of them to fill a lifetime for me...
Where are they though? Show me zombie games worth playing this generation.
What is it you don't understand? I was tired of zombies five years ago when the generation started and I'm still tired of them now. For me, it doesn't matter how many or few of them actually have come out in that time, only that I have little to no interest in playing any of them.
https://gamerant.com/dead-island-2-developer-switch/
Apparently, Dead Island 2 might now in the hands of Dambuster. Who even knows what's going on behind the scenes. This would be the third developer change if true.
Apparently, Dead Island 2 might now in the hands of Dambuster. Who even knows what's going on behind the scenes. This would be the third developer change if true.
Well, never mind I guess. Though maybe Dambuster was brought in for support.
I wanna see what it is. Dying Light seems to be going in a direction I'm not that interested in, so I'd like to see what they can do
There have been (or "I have played") too many zombie games for me to ever get excited for another one, yes.
Oh fuck no I forgot about this damn I absolutely loved the concept it's a true shame we will basically never get to see that again. I dunno I pray it just randomly gets released this year.
Yeah it looked like a lot of fun but from what I was told about the actual game it was super fucking janky and handled a lot like dead island 1
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I really, really dislike when people uneccessarily add stuff to poll option's when it;s not needed.
Pretty sure Dying Light killed Dead Island...........killed it,decapitated it and left it's rotting corpse never again to rise from the dead.
With the direction that DL2 is heading, which is extremely interesting and exciting but also completely different, there definitely is room for a Dead Island 2.
Yeah, I'm still interested.
Yeah, I'm still interested.
It ran pretty poorly but I don't know if it really felt janky with what little I played of it.
Well I'm talking about the actual game and what I've seen and know of it. A friend of a friend actually has access to the game. And the one he has was Yagers. That particular build seemed to have been beyond jank.
