[Games] "Dead Island" thoughts

I haven't played this game, I've just watched leptir1's Let's Play on YouTube. Well, the first couple episodes anyway. If I had a good PC or Xbox360, I would buy this game instantly. The combat looks brutal and awesome. I'm not saying the game sucks. But honestly, it just proves how "dumbed down" modern games are becoming, "spoon feeding" every single little thing to the player. Dead Island, if made with some open-world style gameplay, could have been absolutely epic. Instead you find yourself picking up 2 energy drinks every minute, for "health boosts". You drink a shot of alcohol, immediately you're drunk and have blurred vision. Don't worry, in 30 seconds it will be worn off. Oh that's nice and realistic. Imagine if you could wander around the island as you wanted, trying to survive and find a way off, talking to the odd NPC but not being restricted by them ... Not doing stupid little jobs for them. "Bring back the keycard from location X" Oh SHUT UP! We've been doing stupid fucking missions like this for 20 years in games! Give it a rest.

Anyway, here is the bullshit things I saw in the first 20 minutes of gameplay:

- Bags everywhere in the hotel. Each one has a few dollars in it. So stupid and repetitive.
- Screen flashes up "Find a Weapon". Right next to you, a boat oar starts glowing. I mean come on! Let the player find a weapon themselves! Put them in a scary, survival situation, and then let them think and improvise their way out of it. Don't say "Find a Weapon" and then immediately shove it down their throats, "HERE IS YOUR WEAPON, IT'S GLOWING! PICK IT UP!" We're not idiots.
- Audio recordings to "collect". <sigh> This is being done to death in some many FPS now.
- You go outside to save some guy. Doesn't matter how long you take to actually go outside, he will still be alive and fighting off a zombie. Then he gets stuck in a "struggle" animation with it, while you kill all the nearby zombies. Then when you're ready, you help him out. Don't rush -- he won't die ....... Why don't they make it realistic and if you don't rush, he dies? Then have consequences in the storyline? Everything is so fucking A to B to C, no deviations, YOU WILL DO EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE SCRIPTED FOR YOU! .... Pathetic.
- The accents. Are they supposed to be Australian? I don't know. They're absolutely PAINFUL - go and watch leptir1's video if you haven't heard them. (leptir1 Dead Island on YouTube).

Cheers all, I'm out.

- Gray