Out of Pod Experience

A fan of the first trailer and downloaded the theme song to it.

I heard it was fun, but have enough zombie games to play already, and single player games I find are best to wait on for price drops.


That and im waiting for BF3 to come out...and thus suck up my life into a destructible environment shooting, bombing void.

I'm enjoying it quite a bit, too. Good break after some of the more complicated games i've been playing lately. Graphics are great, and just wandering around aimlessly is fun.

Only qualms so far is that weapons seem to break too easily and the world is TOO wide open, which is a good problem to have.

Huh? I enjoy the fact that weapons deteriorate so fast, makes you be on your toes and I feel that the huge world is the biggest appeal, a Dead Island with a more narrow "corridor shooter" perspective would just be terrible.

This game is epic.

I've been playing DAoC too much to really get into DI... probably shouldn't have bought it at all, but the game was fun for the little bit of it I tried at the start.

I was disappointed by the low field of view but later found you can play with the files and adjust that.

The doors being tied to story triggers bothers me. The very beginning requires you to do specific things before a hatch is clickable, and when you start there's a very interesting bunker down the shore but there's a gate you can't interact with between you and a 'portal' on your map to another location. I assume this is the same thing, and if I've seen two in the first ten minutes I don't think they're the only ones. It's strange to make a game so open, and then arbitrarily lock off some areas.

Weapons breaking extremely easily is annoying, but realistic for now. I wouldn't expect a wooden paddle or broomstick to be even as durable as it is in the game. I was surprised to see a shovel go to useless so quickly though. Hopefully purpose made metal weapons won't be so fragile...

Kicking is OP. At first it was very tricky trying to get used to the range and timing of fists but once I realized there was a kick button I went straight RTCWolfenstein on the motherfuckers and I'll probably just go ahead and set kick to my mouse 1 to save weapon condition. Too bad he can't just take his shoe off and put that over the end of a paddle because obviously those are indestructible.

Kicking becomes far less effective as you get deeper into the game. I have also discovered a few skills that help with the weapon degradation issue. It is not as bad anymore. At the point I am at the game is getting quite hard to play solo. I am finding that I really do need some friends to help me along in a few situations unless I feel like just dying over and over and losing all my money.

The only bug i've seen so far is the Y key one, which isn't really a bug at all, but something the devs forgot to disable before release. It's easy enough to just not press that key.

meh ... i downloaded the game tonight ... but for some reason it doesnt seem to like the scroll button on my mouse ...and its just a bog standard m$ mouse aswell

That's the big reason why I'm excited about eventually buying this game. The modding potential is enormous. I'm still finding awesome mods for games like Morrowind and Oblivion, and enjoying the heck out of them still because of it.

Wouldn't say i'm astounded there is none, but i do find myself trying to block now and then when panicked.

Not sure how well blocking would fit, though. Combat is pretty fast paced, and you'd probably find yourself surrounded or run over while you're standing there blocking. In games like Oblivion you could take your time.

There's also how zombies tend to grab your arms and try to bite your throat whenever close, which would make blocking kind of redundant.