Dead Island does it again with Riptide CG teaser trailer

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  Jesus you guys get upset over the silliest shit. : Haku-Jin
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    i don't think it's silly at all. it's really disappointing at least for me. : kbnerd
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      ^ Bingo. A really good trailer that doesn't represent the actual gameplay at all is misleading. I conside... : Rehevkor
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        It's a CG trailer, I don't see how anyone could compare it to gameplay. It was about zombies at a resort... : Haku-Jin
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          It was a pre-release trailer, so it should have been intended to give people some idea of what the game i... : Rehevkor
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            I had a pretty good idea that it was a game with zombies that took place at a resort on an island. All o... : Haku-Jin
            • The game never really grabbed me, and not just because of the trailer. I'm not even sure why exactly, I j... : Rehevkor
          • You expected the the original game to be split beween the end playing backwards and the begining moving f... : dookiebot
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        Can you please link a few examples of CG trailers that accurately display gameplay? : deathofrats
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          I don't know what he was expecting. To play the game in reverse? : Haku-Jin
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            Ok, gameplay was a mistaken choice of word. The trailer gave the impression that the game would have a se... : Rehevkor
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              Yeah. The issue isn't "gameplay doesn't look like a CG trailer". We all know how that works. The compl... : Vincent Grayson
              • this^^^^^ : kbnerd
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                The tone of every CG game trailer is almost always overly dramatic or fishing for some emotional response... : Zoopy_Iscariot
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                  True, but eventually you can go and fight that massive dragon. Much like the MoP trailer which features t... : Vincent Grayson
                  • The thing is that most of your playable character were made for the players. Emotional scenes happened to... : Eternity07
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                  but a huge dragon does actually fucks shit up in WoW. : Nali4Freedom
                  • Oh yeah, just like in the trailer. http://www.shacknews.com/article/67581/evening-reading?id=253074... : pigvomit
                  • So do Kung Fu Pandas apparently : RobTheZombie
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          Prey 2 trailer/gameplay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a78kzAffb4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZva... : cptincognito
          • I had to watch that trailer again, it's so good! I hadn't seen the E3 vid...No MP! Concentrating on SP FT... : AxeMan808
        • Deus Ex: Human Revolution's CG trailer was at least in the same ball park. : Kojak2000
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    Seriously. Dead Island was a damn good game. Who builds his expectations for a game based on a CG trailer... : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Dead Island was awesome : kgargs
    • Seriously, Dead Island was so much fun in co-op. : Derringer
• Well, at least I'm fairly sure techland is doing this one on purpose...... : soundcreepy
• Yay happy ending ^_^ : dodob
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  Was Shacknews as critical about Blizzard's recent WoW trailer/commercial that is also nothing like the ga... : pigvomit
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    Noooope. Which is pretty silly why they'd be editoralizing this one.. : deathofrats
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      Ugh. I wish they'd stop trying to be like cinemablend/gamingblend. The scourges of Flipboard (I noticed... : pigvomit
      • Well they could just post the trailer without comments and everyone would be like "WTF is this shit? Is S... : Kojak2000
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      Are you going to have frantic combat with pandas in the new WoW expansion? Yes. Was Dead Island's story a... : sneakyalmond
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        You really bought that game thinking it would be an emotional tear jerker? : Haku-Jin
        • I didn't. But the trailer portrayed it to be so. : sneakyalmond
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          i can guarantee some people bought it because they thought it would be a story driven survival horror gam... : vitek r
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            Those people are fucking morons. : pigvomit
            • Pretty much this. : Haku-Jin
            • exactamundo : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H5i468XJzA lol : pigvomit
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        I saw people being attacked by zombies and people attacking zombies, just as you saw frantic panda combat... : deathofrats
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          If you want to put it that way, the people in the Dead Island trailer weren't really attacking zombies bu... : sneakyalmond
          • I don't think it has to match the tone. The Dead Island trailer was setting the stage for what the playe : pigvomit
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      He got his panties in a bunch and is now upset for life, despite any other people that have enjoyed the g... : ENHTheMaster
      • their editorials have a lot* : ENHTheMaster
      • The Wii U news on the shack has been sort of ridiculous. I agree commentary should be kept to the commen... : aethyr
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      I don't think there's really any editorializing in this. It is pre-rendered. It is sappy. And it is nothi... : AndrewYoon
      • you seriously can't see how your blurb comes off as editoralized and opinionated? : deathofrats
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        Editorial in where you choose to make those kind of statements though. I mean, for consistency sake, I'd... : pigvomit
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          BTW, I'm not defending Dead Island if it was a crappy game, I have never played it, but this just comes o... : pigvomit
          • opinionated un-opinionated : pigvomit
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        You should have taken a moral stand and not posted it at all. You know, considering how immoral it is to... : Haku-Jin
        • ...don't you mean mock it to the point that people take it off their buy list and move it to their gamefl... : dedgecko
      • While I honestly don't care that much about whether or not you editorialized it or not...it's pretty edit... : Rice-Rocketeer
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        faaq these guys Yoon.... I wouldn't have noticed the trailer this early had I not seen your post. Thanks. : Metasparks
        • Yep, if his editorializing hadn't inspired this thread, I would never have seen the trailer. : Kojak2000
      • Oh come the fuck on. supposedly "inspired" by The word "supposedly", and the quotes around inspire... : OverloadUT
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        It's definitely editorializing by selecting quotes that are critical of it and using some pretty loaded language. There's nothing wrong with that, per se, and I think having a discussion about the mood of the trailer weighed against the previous game is important context, but let's be honest that we're setting up that conversation and not just listing the bullet points. If you don't know that that's what you're doing, then you might be in the wrong line of work.

        Sep 18, 2012 4:16pm PDT
        It's definitely editorializing by selecting quotes that are critical of it and using some pretty loaded l... : BlackCat9
  • Supposedly 'inspired' by. : Haku-Jin
• I didn't see anything in the original Dead Island trailer that wasn't in the game. The trailer set a more... : vai90
• Wow - Lots of ass pain from white knighting fanboys ITT. I was glad I only paid $10 for it on sale. W... : wfalcon
• after watching the original trailer, i was not expecting what i got in the first game at all. i'm gonna a... : Mmmmmoo
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  WHO DO YA VOODOO BITCH?! : shwortdogg
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    I loved that intro a million times more than that overhyped emo trailer. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • Yeah, I was a big fan as well : shwortdogg
• Not nearly as bad as this http://www.shacknews.com/article/75452/final-fantasy-dimensions-to-cost-29-c... : Xulu
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  Come on! This is an awesome trailer. The Dead Island vibe isn't the pastel Borderlands easy-come-easy-g... : rms
  • Exactly. : vai90
• Holy shit my Jimmys just had the fuck rustled out of them. SOMEBODY THINK OF THE JIMMYS : Slowtreme
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  Haven't watched this one yet but the first Dead Island CG trailer was so bad ass I didn't care. I still h... : Simulacrum
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    Yeah, I love the original Dead Island trailer but never played the game nor do I have a desire to. Zombi... : pigvomit
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      I loved the trailer and loved the game, but hated the characters in the game and wished they were more li... : deathofrats
      • I would have to agree with you there. : Haku-Jin
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        The characters from the CG video were dead. They sort of lacked character actually. : Slowtreme
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          lol true. I just hated how cardboard stereotyped and low browly written the playable characters were. t... : deathofrats
          • yes, the playables were pretty brotastic : Slowtreme
          • WHO DO YOU VOODOO BITCH!?! I agree I disliked the character choices. : Simulacrum
      • I didn't care for the characters either... (welll 1 of them I did like). : dookiebot
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  ugh needs more dubstep : not work safe
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  • dupstep is so hot right now. dubstep : dookiebot
• I liked these trailers, and the game. : timaste
• I love those trailers. I would wager the aftermath of that scene is somewhere in Riptide, much like the a... : icon_of_syn
• Not really feeling it on this trailer. The music in the first one was way more emotional. The music in ... : jahulio2
• The overwhelming majority of games that have trailers may not reflect gameplay (which we forgive), but ab... : AKindMan