Dead Island 2 - Day One Edition (PlayStation 4)

Product Information

I think durability is done well in Fire Emblem, and is a great mechanic there. I've found it annoying in every other game I've played with it.

Playing a game for dozens and dozens of hours with literally thousands of things to open and search, yet what you find amounts to a small handful of crafting components you see over and over again, is the antithesis to immersion and feels just as lazy as copy and pasted and/or procedurally generated environmental assets. I'm another that believes weapon degradation is a poor mechnic forcing players into boring search/craft routines instead of offering genuinely interesting gameplay. Its inclusion lessens the appeal of this title to me, but I hope the rest of the game isnt overly tainted by this poor mechanic, which makes zero sense in any context. An axe might get bluntter after lots of use, but will always be useable irl. Always liked the idea of weapon degradation or your guns jamming. Made it more realistic. Though it always tends to happen to me when im mid fight and the gun jams or breaks! The latest Windows 11 update won't install for some users, and tanks gaming performance even if it does All weapon degradation does is tell you to save up the good weapons and not use them until a rainy day which usually never comes and spend the game with the crap weapons.In an interview with PCGamer, creative director James Worrall revealed that while the game doesn’t have a branching narrative, the six player characters offer different perspectives.

In all honesty, it kept me hooked. It's fun, the story is good enough, the maps are big enough to promote exploration but not so large as to make going from A to B a tedious task or even worse, big enough to cause the game performance issues. Dishonored29 Thanks for pointing that out, I dont normally turn to the pc first, but I guess some of these games would definately be better with those training options! Mauzuri Its not really a big issue if done right i just dont like it when stuff breaks the whole time and especially really fast.

Now that Dead Island 2 has been given what seems to be a final release date, we're starting to see more and more gameplay. In a recent showcase, a few minutes of new gameplay footage was shown off. Melee combat was highlighted, featuring hammers, blades, and DIY-modded gear. There are guns in the game too, and so far we've seen pistols, shotguns and assault rifles/SMGs. Dead Island 2 will amuse you for days with its stylish vision of a zombified LA, but it’s also limited in scope, and with skill systems that feel shallow and impersonal it won’t hang around long enough to achieve superstardom. This is one of 2014’s best zombie beat-’em-ups – it’s just a pity we’re in 2023. How do you feel about weapon durability mechanics, do you think they add to the immersion or needless busy work? Fall apart in the comments section below. It takes skill to develop a decent weapons upgrade path that incentivises the player to collect and experiment with upgrades. Khayl Adam is the second best video game journalist Australia has ever produced, and his ambitions of world domination have (thus far) been curbed by the twin siren songs of strategy games and CRPGs. He has always felt an affinity for the noble dachshund, the best kind of dog.