listeninggarden

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lowercase trans lesbian. queen of the stone age. makes (& makes love to) weird music, weird games, and weird women
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erica
@erica

I don't know how long I'll make this but I want to write about Dead Island 2 because, by all accounts, this game shouldn't even exist, let alone be as good as it is. When was the last time that happened? When has that ever happened? Something that's been in development for over a decade through multiple developers and comes out the other end as not just a playable thing but something so fun and charming until its very last moment?

I finished the game after about 22 hours of mostly mainlining the story but doing about a third of the sidequests. It was almost distracting how much, the entire time, I kept thinking "How am I still having this much fun?" I kept waiting for the game to like, blindside me by just some bullshit story twist or new mechanic that made things worse or, like the first game, shift to being entirely a first-person shooter set in claustrophobic levels that feel completely at odds with what made the earlier game so fresh and fun.

But it never happened! It stayed fun the whole way through. There's just so much to pick apart about why that was the case. I'm not a great writer for this kind of stuff. I just want to put it down on paper somewhere.


listeninggarden
@listeninggarden

as a long-jaded, "please valve i just want you to make left 4 dead 3 already" zombie game gal, i am finally excited about another zombie game


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