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
      • It's definitely editorializing by selecting quotes that are critical of it and using some pretty loaded l... : BlackCat9
  • Supposedly 'inspired' by. : Haku-Jin
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  I didn't see anything in the original Dead Island trailer that wasn't in the game. The trailer set a more emotional atmosphere, which may have been a bit misleading because the game was more action-oriented, but it did indeed show much stuff that was very prominent in the game: a beach resort, zombies and people using melee weapons, fighting for their life.
  
  I don't see anything wrong with this trailer either. It's essentially a very similar presentation of the setting.

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  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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• 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