DEAD ISLAND (Zero Punctuation)

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This week, Zero Punctuation returns to the zombie apocalypse, again, for Dead Island.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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[@coconuthead1361]

I actually learned an interesting tidbit about this game. The other day I got to speak to Phil Lamarr, the voice actor for the character Sam or something, and he said that originally he played a comic relief character, but after that trailer dropped they called him back into the studio to re-record all his lines in a much less funny, more serious and grim fashion. So what the game was originally like and could have been if that trailer didn't come out, we'll never know.

[@etangbose4755]

Which ones sam?

[@dryoghurt8015]

@@etangbose4755 the black one

[@collieee2957]

How did you meet him?

[@mikedawolf95]

Cool, Phil does so many famous animated characters, like Hermes Conrad and Static Shock

[@djbidd007]

@@mikedawolf95 vamp from MGS too I think

[@Tyranno]

"...the entire world gets covered in carnivorous jam..." And thus was born a wonder of literature.

[@aisakataiga5200]

I was just wondering if this was before the book

[@joaquinmarichal]

@@aisakataiga5200 published 23 oct 2012

[@mohamadhoumani5312]

Joaquin Marichal Iraola true but it take a while to write a book he might have just been starting it at the time.

[@jesuswhy5925]

"or if the entire world gets covered in carnivorous jam" Not only pushing his book but also predicting 2020 August in the same sentence.

[@congaheli4231]

"I tied a battery to a sledgehammer, I am now a god." - Me while playing Dead Island 2015

[@Nick-mp1zh]

+Conga Heli Praise Thor

[@marcosdheleno]

+Conga Heli then let me take advantage of the situation to thank you for jim sterling...

[@vladerag]

+Marcos Danilo lmao

[@TommyFilth1]

Spot on, although I was really hoping Yahtzee would cover the very bizarre game mechanic in which picking up alcohol replaces it in the weapon slot you happen to be using, if all your other weapon slots are full, and it's just then that you get rushed by a small hoard of zombies, and in a panic, you try to attack and instead end up drinking an entire fifth of Jack Daniels in one determined chug.

[@NipplesTheBrave]

That's what I'd do if I were say, in the sewer levels. But I personaly think it's a good thing, because if you don't take this game seriously and just dick around with good 'ol Tesla Sledgy it's really fun. And that Jack Daniels just helps that!

[@TommyFilth1]

To be honest, it's hard to take this game seriously. There's not single likable character in the entire game, and it absolutely does not matter which character you choose in terms of story, because none of them actually have a story arc of their own, as far as I can tell. But yeah, it is fun. I keep finding myself coming back to it. I also fully advocate drinking actual real bourbon while playing this game. I'm more of a Knob Creek guy, personally, but I do enjoy Jack Daniels.

[@NipplesTheBrave]

System of a Clown Ok, here's the character arcs. Sam B is black, Logan is a douchebag, Xian is Asian, for Purna see Sam B. There really is no character arc, you're right.

[@TommyFilth1]

Haha, exactly.

[@legion999]

System of a Clown As I found out the reason is that some idiot at techland made it so that you need hold the key for 0.1 second and it replaces the weapon you're holding with what you picked up, like alcohol. If you tap it super fast and super lightly it places the booze into the inventory.

[@luisbo3]

i think he forgot the money feature... Who the hell is charging you cash for adding nails to my bat!??! WHO!?!?

[@Blackemperess]

I'd like to know who the fuck is repairing the weapons because they need a serious kick up the backside to charge that much for a god damn machete!

[@moraus4998]

Blackemperess question is: Why The FUCK do they even need money in a zombie apocalypse?

[@Blackemperess]

Mo Raus Zombie strippers?

[@IMALLTERRAIN]

Here in 2020, it's all about that cash for nail-bats!

[@mikedawolf95]

You paper mache the money into some kind of wonderglue

[@danielplainview2584]

This is one of Yahtzee's best videos imo. All the figurative language is on point.

[@scaper12123]

Ok but “Enough with the Zombies, Already!” would probably make for a fantastic parody game

[@SC3L3STUS]

2:07 and 3:45 LMAO, the ingenuity of Yahtzee's similes never ceases to amaze me.

[@PolarBear543]

Fun Fact, only 18% of players on steam have even completed the game.

[@ImShep117]

I can see why. It wasn't as fun as Borderlands in terms of co-op and the story was so drab and boring. my friends and I got halfway through it before we just said 'screw it' and moved onto something else. And since its so boring to do it solo, there was no point to finishing it alone.

[@daniiiba2633]

I actually finished it alone....twice. The quests sucked, but I loved beating zombies to death with a baseball bat.

[@ohtosweg]

I played it for about an hour, and then returned it. Worst game I've ever played. I didn't even bother with the sequels.

[@jordantang6332]

It was fun to laugh at with friends for awhile and stomping zombies. Story is shit and I stopped caring after I left the Resort.

[@HasidicKaiju]

I got tired of blowing one thousand fucking dollars repairing weapons (who is taking my money?), upgrading it for thousands (again), then throwing it away a couple levels later.

[@MickleThaPickle]

He's totally correct about every bad point he made about the game but the combat and exploration was so fun that it completely drowns it all out. I've had hours of fun just trundling about with no particular direction in mind just to explore whatever random houses I come across and smack zombies about with a paddle. My butt cheeks tingle every time it goes into a quick slow-mo as I whack a zombie across the face and watch his jaw hit the wall before the rest of his head does.

[@DainRiffgin89]

It's funny how this year we have the two sides of Dead Island that are now separate games, and should work much better: Dying Light, being more serious in tone and giving us moral pause, and Dead Island 2, which drops the pretense and lets you put a bowling ball on a baseball bat and whole-heartily says "Have fun!"

[@SuperLordGaming]

Pretty interesting.

[@BrainSeepsOut]

So you're saying Techland forked the Dead Island project?

[@DainRiffgin89]

BrainSeepsOut Sort of. The two studios that worked on Dead Island, Techland and Deep Silver, made DL and DI2, respectively.

[@1toncheese]

Daniel Griffin deep silver is the publisher not the studio. the studio is yager.

[@DainRiffgin89]

1toncheese Well I meant that the two groups involved. I honestly didn't know which was the publisher or developer.

[@FFXyvis]

I like how you can watch these multiple times and still not catch all the commentary coming at you at the speed of light.

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

More than a week? If the internet went down for more than an hour the world's population would go down by 2/3!

[@TroublingStatue]

Imagine if today's population was stuck in the 19th century...

[@redraven961]

DeMoN5377 it would be alot better for people but I would miss the internet

[@The_Crimson_Fucker]

KILLERDUBSTEP That is retarded. People lead much healthier lives now than in the 19th century, believe it or not. A factory in the middle of town and cocaine in your cola, public executions and what would your children's children have to look forward to? Well....I'm sure you've attended a history class...once, at least. Though, to answer DeMoN5377 it'd not be as you imagine. While the world population, which at the time was not exactly low, would grow by...about 7,4 billion(for which the world back then was not ready...not enough housing etc.) there is also explaining how all those people got there...which is going to be hell aside from that though...not much would change. All the scientists, doctors and engineers would know what they know now. You'd still have Ye Olde Ikea, Ye Olde Microsoft and Ye Olde World Wide Web. Except it'd be in the 19th century...though, that'd all probably undo the 20th century(what happened in it), which would create a series of major paradoxes. Effectively, it's impossible for a reason(even if a time machine were to be built, you'd only be capable of going back only as far as the machine had existed, probably).

[@andrewgilbertson6534]

DeMoN5377 There wouldn't BE a population if we were all stuck in the 19th century.

[@irishpunx76]

Criomorph *Clicks on Read More (14 lines)* *Sees how long your comment is* Nope.

[@wellonthebrightside]

One thing to note... The player doesn’t actually “have an altercation with themselves” in the intro because the POV of the intro isn’t a player-character. It’s Ryder White. Besides the point that you see all four players in the intro, you can literally see Ryder in the mirror (sure, it’s for a split-second, but dude, you can see his face, you can tell who it is) at one point in the opening cinematic. I’m not crazy about Dead Island (if I want a ridiculous shooter-type game I’ll stick with the Borderlands games, they’re at least self-aware and, ya know, FUN) but just a note there.

[@felisasininus1784]

''At which point you had an altercation with yourself, it's complicated.'' lol

[@alwaysangry2232]

what about a game about an apocalypse...of JJJAAMMMM

[@BoneBeastKimimaro]

This video makes me wonder, was this during the time he was writing Jam or has he been mulling over the idea for a long while prior? This is not his only reference to Jampocalypses in Zero Punctuarion, I'm pretty sure. Speaking of which, I'm quite enjoying the audiobook~

[@SAUglaz]

He was working on Jam since he finished Mogworld.

[@32bitosserc84]

He did mention Brisbane getting flooded in his Minecraft review, which might have been some inspiration

[@twottle1274]

Always angry I'd play that.

[@ShimyIa1]

Loved that book.

[@dionisietarlev7081]

Suicides notes if the internet went out for a week heh What if there was a game where you get into an abandoned apartment full of skeletons and decomposed bodies and the whole reason was because the internet went down Or an alien visiting a ruined city who has followed the same fate

[@tomsnider9213]

That would be awesome.

[@RuneForumwalker]

+Dionisie Tarlev (Silver) GotY that's what.

[@sheeshulex]

For me Dead Island was one of the very few zombie games I have enjoyed. Mostly because of the character I have chosen for my playthrough. I'm talking about Logan, sportsman who damaged his leg in car crash. The most "regular" guy in the pack, but insanely fun later on. Fights by throwing stuff at zombies, gets buffs from getting drunk (50% more damage, insane HP regen), and due to the way the throwing weapons work, the absolute ultimate weapon for him is a wakizashi strapped with batteries: one handed (+60% dmg), small version of the katana (highest damage, lowest durability, thrown weapons do not degrade), and shock damage stuns enemies on crits (+45% chance when weapon is thrown), and his thrown weapons create AoE around the guy hit, while dealing only 40% of the damage, all status effects are also applied to everything hit by splash. Also, his weapon returns to him after the throw 60% of the time, and has 9% chance for instagib on thrown weapons or their splash damage. The only bad thing about him for me is the fact that very often your weapons get lost, and often you have to look for replacements.

[@EnsignGeneric]

You know that standard scene in the first act of a movie where the protagonist is sitting in their boss's office, and the boss is reading news coverage of their latest failure in an exaggeratedly level tone? I wonder if that's ever happened in a real life publisher's office with a ZP closing gag.

[@flyingninjashark4169]

Time to start another hour long Zero Punctuation marathon

[@WHATISUTUBE]

''Bread Island'' I smiled

[@math6844]

Who would have thought that this video would be the inspiration for the 2nd best apocalypse novel ever.

[@jarrydwilkinson-garrett6428]

You must have been begging for a "what's the best apocalypse novel?" for nearly a decade now

[@04whim]

I wonder if the comment about the Apocalypse being carnivorous jam is what planted the idea for Jam in his head, or if it was an early allusion to it. It is a good book for anyone wondering, I'd recommend it and Mogworld.

[@monsterfurby]

I think it's pretty clear that this is what started it. Also I agree, Jam is a funny and extremely entertaining book. I also really recommend the audio book version read by Yahtzee himself. It's awesome.

[@J.Skyler]

I think it was an early allusion to it. Somewhere in an interview he stated Jam took several years ? I think? Too lazy to look up

[@skalty9868]

monsterfurby This was 8 months before the book so he probably was writing it and referenced it early

[@Selvurn]

Funny how Dead Island ends up becoming one of the free games on Live.

[@SonofTiamat]

Now I feel better about not downloading a free game. I think they'd have to pay me to play it, but that would just feel like work.

[@Selvurn]

Like having a 2nd job.

[@Horrorfreak106]

tiakpark It is work to play this god forsaken game. I played it for 5 to 7 hours of this game with my friends and most of the time it is really fucking repetitive. "Go here!" Okay..."Now go there!" Okay, I get it..."Lastly, go to the last area you were at!" Are you fucking kidding me?! Most of the time, me and my friends were just running each other over with cars because we were so bloody bored! This game sucks and thank god I downloaded it for free.

[@Selvurn]

Horrorfreak106 I deleted it right after. Lol

[@Horrorfreak106]

***** I still kept it because I didn't want to delete it then realize everything I did on that game was a huge waste of time.

[@Scalfar8]

0:42 I'm occasionally remember this quote & how painfully true it is

[@fsffda]

was that joke where the inspiration for jam came from?

[@paradoxacres1063]

I wonder if Jam is any good? It sounds hilarious.

[@fsffda]

jam is fucking amazing and i recommend it

[@paradoxacres1063]

fsffda Good to hear. Can't wait to read it.

[@AppleBiscuits]

That was the joke inspired by Jam.

[@fsffda]

Arcralf Indeed, my fault for not googling dates

[@Sonichero151]

Did anyone else feel like Yahtzee Lied about the kick attack? Cause when I used it A: it used Stamina B: it didn't ragdoll every normal zombie and C: at Some point the zombies would power through the kicks and get right back up.

[@jroldo8353]

When i played i could only keep two down at a time at best, then i'd just attack them on the ground. I'm pretty sure there's a way to buff your kick somehow, or maybe i'm thinking of one of the 4 characters in DI 2 >.

[@jackalmuldipuluscabal5288]

Danny Caracciolo PC mate? Mine didn't use stamina but mine was full of frigging glitches. Did you play on console?

[@tomsnider9213]

I did play on console and while the kick had been patched to use stamina, they sure as hell didn't patch anything else. That fucking game crashed more than a Bethesda Fallout game.

[@jackalmuldipuluscabal5288]

Tom Snider That was Tech;land all over though. They didn't patch anything then they had the cheek to make Dead Island riptide....which had the exact same bugs and crashes. Never touching a Techland game again.

[@ahmadday64]

Tom Snider ooooh snap

[@S4M4R1T4N]

And the guns take about 5 headshots to kill a zombie. So yeah...

[@S4M4R1T4N]

I quit playing that game about a week after its release.

[@bananamarijuana1469]

Once I found someone with modded weapons like rifles with 9999999 ammo with the addition of when you shoot the gun it lights them on fire and blows them up worth 9999 damage the game got a whole lot more interesting and I played the game all the way even the side missions. Quite enjoyable after that.

[@nohandlesplease]

Dead island - Where somehow boomerangs are more effective than sniper rifles.

[@hiblast629]

M3D13V4L That's how long it takes to finish the game...

[@FlintDragoon]

nachoguy5 that is until mr.explody bits shows up to scream EEEEH< then you have to start throwing everything from there on out.

[@furryletsplayersXtre]

They also made it so in an update, stamina use for everything was increased by such a wanton massive fuck ton you basically have to rely on weapons and tools for everything, I would even recomend them to use for pushing items if half of the games barrels weren't volatiiley explosive.

[@furryletsplayersXtre]

Oh by the way did I mention in this update the difficulty was increased but *NONE* of the bugs were fixed? I got knocked back into a building and my graphics went cyan and glowy like an bad acid trip through aquatic hell, and when in co-op my partner saw what I see during the cut scenes, so, not only was the difficulty increased drastically, I was pretty much blinded.

[@epicengies4342]

It wasn't just that. Most of the fun came from just role playing it. Scavenging for items, looking for I.D cards, recording, etc. And not to mention exploring new parts of the island with a friend along side. It was all really fun and immersive. I did all of that on Solo as well before I had internet and it was still fun, but there's just something about having a friend half way across the map and swooping in in a truck to save him from a crowd of zombies is just so... Zombie apocalypse.

[@jackwilliamtaylor5656]

"The entire world gets covered in carnivorous jam": nice self advertising, Yahtzee :)

[@NDOhioan]

0:36 I see what you did there.

[@davidfalloutbandit]

I'm really starting to hate games with deteriorating weapons in them... why can't they be alittle more accurate with them? I mean sledge hammer was MADE to destroy bricks,concrete and re-enforced walls over a coarse of years but according to Dead island a sledge hammer breaks after you hit 20 or so dead squishy rotten bodies with it

[@fcold9402]

I can confirm a story about carnivorous jam is more interesting than another zombie story.

[@danielpayne7194]

The trailer to this game remains the best trailer I've ever seen to a video game

[@GigglesYeahMan]

I personally thought this game was decent (On Playstation 3) as there where no bugs at all, but what Yahtzee said about the sewer levels is so fucking true it's unbelievable, you go through sewers so many fucking times that after completing the game 16 times with each person, that meant I went through the sewer missions well over 100 fucking times, to this day I still remember the entire layout of the sewer system. All and all, get this game if you're into the Destiny grinding area, in that you do so many sidequests to get a higher level its pretty much a grind, but hey, its a nice sky box after all.

[@thuggishcone1392]

The opening to this rings very very true now😂

[@IncertusetNescio]

The offhand comment about "carnivorous jam" was curiously right about 6-7 months before his book about exactly that. nice placement there.

[@fruitsalad5802]

1:13 whoooooa, that guy's face has perspective when he lies down on the bed. usually Yahtzee keeps it 2D, but just in that one moment we got a glimpse into what is evidently a government cover-up of the 3D properties of Yellow No-ArmsLand.

[@AllenShircliff]

Jam is a good Book. We need to Have a Apolypse of JAAAAAMMMMMMM

[@SimonCadel]

YAAAY JAM REFERENCE!

[@clansullivan6059]

Actually, this was before Jam, and may actually be the INSPIRATION for it. He thought about it and decided it would be a good plot.

[@nickj.648]

Clan Sullivan Bought Jam today.

[@wayfareangel]

Clan Sullivan I hope it's a good plot. I just got the audiobook. Either way, I get to listen to Yahtzee talk for hours on end, which isn't a bad deal.

[@clansullivan6059]

It is a SICK PLOT. It is a SICK EVERYTHING. Like, everyone go buy it.

[@wayfareangel]

I'm assuming that's good 'sick.' Lovely then ^_^ I must admit, I'm looking forward to listening to it and Mogworld. It sounds like a ridiculous concept, but it's the kind that I trust Yahtzee to write in a compelling way. It it came from anyone else, I wouldn't look twice. But from him, I desperately want to learn more.

[@glennballinas9326]

I got it for free on live, played with some friends not knowing what we were doing. We found some knives and started either prison shanking everything, dieing, or waiting for a person to respawn

[@Manabender]

0:42 Actually, Yahtzee, I've accepted the fact that, if I somehow wind up with a group of people in a zombie apocalypse, my role is the bait.

[@WeegeeSlayer123]

ENOUGH FUCKING ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know why all you want zombies, Yahtzee just said it. You all want to be some bad-ass survivor hero Rick Grimes clone. But let me tell you this, wanting a zombie apocalypse means you all don't care about the MILLIONS of people that will die, and being a hero take SKILL. Some of you might be a worthy survivor, but most of you do nothing but talk zombies, play zombie video game, and watch the walking dead. I know we live in a day and age where other people stand in the way of our hopes and dreams, but wanting a zombie apocalypse is just SELFISH.

[@christianbaltag4893]

Who the hell is sick in the head to want zombies for real,i LOVE zombie movies and games,but that doesn't mean i want that in real life...it's just a video game,i don't see anyone complaining "oh another in which you kill people" or "oh another racing game with cars" WTH is the problems with accepting the fact that zombies are more then a gimmick these days. You don't like them,DON'T FUCKING PLAY THEM,DON'T WATCH A REVIEW OF A FUCKING ZOMBIE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!

[@calebr699]

Christian Baltag WHY ARE WE ALL MAD ARHHHGGG

[@christianbaltag4893]

I dunno,seems like fun AAAARRGGGAAAAAAAHH

[@calebr699]

AAARRRGAAHHH IM MAD AT YOU FOR YOUR OPINION

[@christianbaltag4893]

HUEAAAARGGGHHAA I DON'T CARE (sarcasm,just in case)

[@thelonephilosopher855]

So where do I sign up for this army that wants to destroy all NPCs?

[@danielplainview2584]

Fallout 76

[@CaladonianQueen]

'Go spoon a fucking lave' is now officially my favourite insult ever.

[@AnthonyFlames275]

Dead Island is still one of the few zombies style games i love to play. When it comes to anything media related (shows, movies, games) i never take the trailers at face value and i go into the game/movie/show with an open mind. With Dead Island i saw the trailer but had no interest in any of that, all i wanted was to kill zombies and have fun. And thats exactly what we got. And im damn glad cause this game is so much fun if you look past the bad parts. How can you not have fun running around with a sledgehammer that does shock damage and sends zombies flying halfway across the map? 10/10

[@JCDenton2012Modder]

You forgot to mention that the zombies level up with you, so you are always equal in power to them.

[@SnowSniper98]

I remember while playing coop with a friend (which, by the way, being able to kill eachother with propane cannisters gets really old, really fast), we noticed that, halfway through the game, in the jungle bit, the devs just said to themselves fuck this, given that I managed to travel rhough several mountains and walls with little effort, and the textures began decreasing in quality. And the final boss was kind of disappointing given that me and my friend beat him in 5 seconds flat, even if he was a behemoth with supposedly more health and damage than any other zumble. A fun game, for the wrong reasons.

[@DuckieMcduck]

Quite, you can tell the decrease in game quality as the game progresses. First level was the best one.

[@pjf1997]

Brick Top I did the exact same thing. Turned on Rage mode (Sam B) when he can at me and I beat the fucker to death with my bare hands in about 5seconds.

[@SnowSniper98]

Pj Foley So silly...

[@jackalmuldipuluscabal5288]

Brick Top 5 seconds? I had a lot of glitches on this game and the last boss killed me three times and even with big hammer of Thor type weapons I struggled. Hated this game, swore never to buy Techland made game again.

[@Kiljaedenas]

Pj Foley I just unloaded my current machinegun into him then let rip with a shock-enhanced bat. When the shock triggers he friggin flies back and knocks on the ground where you can then do the head-stomp instakill.

[@QuitYourBiitchinMate]

"Go spoon a fucking lathe" possibly the best insult I've heard in my life

[@Helios8170]

Let's not forget the weird melee setup where you used the analog stick in attack mode to swing your weapon.

[@breasthound]

Still a fun game, though

[@jackalmuldipuluscabal5288]

breasthound No. No it really wasn't. Glitch fest galore awful story cardboard boring characters and plot holes to boot.....hated it.

[@SneakySnailyLad]

I love Dead Island :/ :)

[@qiff6667]

me too

[@missandry420]

Carnivorous jam! I forgot about that book. My aunt's boyfriend "borrowed" it, because he watched yahtzee's videos too.

[@nis5e]

04:20 "More power to you for getting your cardio, but you probably wouldn't be picking so much of your *sou'ad* out of other people's teeth if you got into the car"

[@nis5e]

Also, lovely foreshadowing at 00:35

[@CherryNobody]

Sam B only know one letter. Gaspedul.

[@TheThomasThomi]

Sam B don't know how to slow doahwn 😀😀

[@liampendergast8670]

I enjoyed it. It was unpolished as hell. But god-damn it! It's fun to beat a zombie's head in with a stick with nails in it!

[@Anaconda0389]

The worst part with sewers is that if you forget to get skull at that one store you visit during story, you have to manually navigate sewers to get there & sewers are oddly not "completely" linear.

[@Erik-qv5ue]

0:36 That was such a masterful plug

[@frxnix]

Sure it may have been a bad game but I quite liked it and had some fun.

[@mrduck5182]

He didn't even comment on the garbage aim with guns.

[@Melonizeable]

Tell her to take her time, she doesn't have to be in a rush. She has clearly took her time and effort to find out if anyone has done those things or not.

[@yoshithesurgeon5853]

Re-watching the video, my biggest problem with the game was the drastic tone shifts with the setting. From Island Resort to City to Sewer to Jungle to Prison. Only one of those was advertised when the game launched, and maybe 2 managed to be truly fun areas. If this was a more ‘fun’ style game, it might’ve worked better

[@trustworthytim4762]

I got this game along with CoD: Black Ops 1 and Resident Evil 6 to play with a friend. The latter was shit (to me, anyway) and my friend couldn't cope with the Zombies mode of the former (he's new to games). It was up to Dead Island to give us a co op experience that was worth the pain of the other two. Then there was no split screen co op. Doom 1 had split screen co op, and that game is over ten years old! Split screen should be a standard feature, not a once in a blue moon feature for people like me who disassociate themselves from the Call of Duty crowd. Add that to the fact that it was Borderlands without the semi engaging gunplay and an iffy melee system, and it was a bad purchase al around. The moral? Never pre order a game, no matter what shiny objects the developer promise.

[@TheBlarggle]

Fun Fact: Doom is actually old enough to legally drink in the US(21). It was released in 1993.

[@skysnow2495]

I got Dead island for the exact same reason, it pissed me off so much.

[@baronteapot4265]

I can't remember whether I pre-ordered it, but I know I paid almost full price. It was a waste of time. That trailer seemed interesting, though. Such a shitty game.

[@Manglet762]

"Split Screen should be a standard feature" 6 years later, ask and you shall RECEIVE! ....a middle finger, as even now there's still barely any split-screen games out there that aren't child-friendly or borderlands or COD. There's plenty of games that SHOULD have split screen but don't, that's how far we've come. I'm sure we'll be frequent split-screen games in about 3 generations, no biggie.

[@armourawesome9507]

funny I find the kick move to take up stamana

[@JohnMerdo]

im pretty sure an update after the game came out made the kick move take stamina

[@armourawesome9507]

John Merdo year it did and now it drain like about 1/4 of your stamina bar and about half for a jumping kick

[@JohnMerdo]

yeah

[@univelkaa]

Hello from year 2023. We still think "Enough for zombies already!"

[@makarlock]

"Go spoon a fucking lathe" is a fantastic insult that I am now stealing

[@shannonkerr2313]

Psychonauts and Portal. That's about it.

[@CrystalDemonSword]

wow all the bad comments... i love dead island... the ryder dlc is my favorite thing though.

[@mikebaker4847]

The game is bad ass. I've never taught myself to really play. Only when I am drunk then I want to play. I know what ya thinking here comes the violin! Nope nickel back song rock star. Yep I'm crazy! Lol! Its taking me five years to get this far. Yep one more song candlebox rock"far behind"!

[@mikebaker4847]

If you play and are chill then i will put my best game on.

[@epicengies4342]

Well when I started playing Dead Island, I didn't have online capabilities (I had no internet) so I was playing it on solo only. I thought it was a fun game, and quickly became addicted to it because of it's unique style (Zombie Apocalypse, free roam RPG without a dependence on campaign) and the fact that you can't just blow through it with a machine gun and a rocket launcher because ammo is scarce. It gives the game a bit of a fun challenge and always provides a goal for me.

[@Aybram_R]

I'm glad you've never changed

[@MrGarycharters]

I agree though that the escort missions are too many, too much and the NPC's are truly dumb.

[@ChilledRico]

The first Dead Island sucked but Riptide... There were parts in riptide where I just busted out laughing because of how bad the story is. Like where they guy gets bit and that woman randomly injects him with mutagen just to see what would happen. Like WTF WHY?! XD And when you're character gets that rage thing and you can go on a super hissy fit and just beat people up.. So random.

[@TheLashDog]

actually in riptide harlow pushed the guy who was bitten (Wayne) into a pool of mutagen not inject him

[@Jimpiedepimpie]

I was referencing JAM too, when they were shouting about how the sacrificed guy was REALLY dead. I recommend you re-read it.

[@matkaiser8288]

The only thing he forgot to mention is that there really is no save system, unless you get lucky at one of the survivor huts.

[@KnightOfAwesometon]

I could not stand Dead Island. I mean, even compared to other zombie games, it was goddamn shit. Chuck Green might have the personality of a crisp packet navigating its way through a sheep's bowels but at least Dead Rising 2 was fun as you could dress up as a particularly manly stripper while you mowed endless zombies down! This game made me want to start a club where you use cheese graters on each others balls. The story sucked, the graphics weren't exactly great, the zombies were just...awful, the "characters" were made of cardboard and I could go one forever but this is just my opinion. Everyone's entitled to theirs.

[@paradoxacres1063]

I wonder how anyone made it through this game. Played it for 4 hours and gave up on it, as there really was nothing in it that seemed interesting.

[@0racleisuppose]

why didnt u do this review

[@KnightOfAwesometon]

Because I can't talk fast.......And I'm not getting paid...

[@EndeAbgrunds]

I played this game for about 3 hours and then said: Fuck it... And that is my only experience with this franchise.

[@lucapiemonti3584]

I actually played it once, said "F@CK Y0U" and put it aside. Then, on a moment in wich my wallet was as empty as BIOWARE's general game-story, i went back on it. It was kinda fun. You get trough the first chapters of the game, you are awarded with a metric fuckton of stupid weapons to kill various kind of completely retarded OR overpowered zeds. the story was as boring as it coul be, but hey: I GOT BOMBS > (rounds up 50 zeds and starts spamming molotovs & 'nades). If you're one without high epectation and the gamebreaking bug that killed my game spares you, it Can be fun. Sort of.

[@SnakeMan448]

4:00 Given how fascists call other humans NPCs now, this part is uncomfortably prophetic.

[@Isaacel1]

I can't believe he had his first idea for "Jam" from this episode. Never thought about it.

[@Hiraeth91537]

Well, in some of his videos, there was a faint scream in the background, and people said the scream was Proctrastinator Brad locked in a dungeon.

[@procrastinatebrad]

I literally can't remember him saying anything about a dungeon. That was quite a while ago, and my memory really doesn't exist anymore.

[@burningdusk7861]

I'm more than five percent sure the kick requires stamina and can be interrupted. I'm replaying the game now, and no, that statement was entirely incorrect.

[@gunsniper0018]

it's not a full lock on, it's more of a semi lock where the reticule auto moves onto the nearest target. But it unlocks and switches to a different enemy when you move the right analog stick (note I use a pc usb adapter to use my 360 controller) in the direction of another target. So in a sense the camera is still semi free roaming while in combat.

[@PingyRules55555]

And many "show comments" later I was shocked and appalled to find that one of the original comment was deleted.

[@Hogwashh]

0:37 JAM reference, LOL

[@HatersGonnaHate1000]

"Carnivorous Jam" Nice foreshadowing/ Subliminal advertising for your second book there, Yahtzee.

[@CarbuncleWishes]

That one metaphor (or was it a simile, I don't remember) must have practically started his entire second book.

[@theONLYfudjud]

"carnivorous jam" sounds like an interesting premise for a humourous book

[@yegor2]

the best part is a character's race changes halfway through the game on the definitive edition i don't know his name because nobody has or ever will care, but it's the plumber guy that opens the sewer for you

[@yegor2]

@@ToxicBastard he's that forgettable

[@deathsparton]

that's why they added the auto adjust to the enemy's levels so that doesn't happen but you can turn it off

[@Jaceblue04]

He's right about one thing: in the intro you're in the first person view of a drunk guy and you meet up all 4 playable characters

[@mcglynn20]

I remember once, during co-op, we had a truck full of us, and an NPC to escort, and we had to choose who to ditch, because the NPC wouldn't fit in the truck otherwise. The vote that ensued was fucking hilarius, and when one person got out by accident, and the NPC wouldn't get out of the truck, his angry yells would humor us for ages.

[@Juniorfunny24]

I once had a bug where the entire sky was replaced by my mission, you know the piece of paper you get before every mission, it was scary and hilarious at the same time xD

[@99slayerhereicome]

saying your journey begins here is an understatement

[@PhanyPackStudios]

WAIT. WAS THAT A THURSDAY NEXT REFERENCE AT THE BEGINNING? I love you.

[@datscootusee213]

This is his 50th video in a row I have watched. Tonight. Oh dear. I love this.

[@Hmm_Ace_Attorney_Channel]

I was just informing people. When I was going through the comment war I was almost crying because it was so long.

[@danilolopez3005]

Actually the guy from the intro is just some drunk guy who happens to see every character

[@Hmm_Ace_Attorney_Channel]

I'm glad to say that linked comments are back.

[@Slagathor85]

Carnivorous jam...that sounds almost good enough to write a book about...