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How Dead Island Helped Deep Silver Become “Better” Than EA, Activision & Ubisoft

The Married Gamers staff writer, Addam Kearney, writes why he feels Dead Island and Deep Silver's way of doing business has made it a "better" company than EA, Activision and Ubisoft.

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Fire5251084032d ago

While I can agree with the sentiment of the article in regards to B grade games, I don't feel Dead Island was the polished game it's made out to be. It was released as a pretty buggy game, with one major issue in a cut scene that cropped up on every system.

My_Name_BTW_Is_Dante4032d ago

It's still less buggy than Skyrim.

Baka-akaB4032d ago

It's far more buggy than skyrim without even a quarter of its scope and quality

FlyingFoxy4032d ago

Dead Island's got nothing on Left 4 Dead, or Killing Floor in the fun department.

The game has bad collission detection, you slide off stuff you jump on, the game's camera swaying is sickly, too much bloom. I could go on, this is the only game i can't play for more than about 20 minutes before i start feeling sickly.

Badly made crap that i wish i could sell, but i can't because it's stuck on my steam list.. from now on i only stick with developers that know how to make good games.

TopDudeMan4032d ago

Are you kidding? The online multiplayer was near unplayable for months after release. Buggy is an understatement.

KwietStorm_BLM4032d ago

Polish and Dead Island don't even belong in the same country. If you played co-op with friends, you could look passed some of the bugs, but even then so many design decisions were glaringly present.

Neko_Mega4032d ago

Better then EA, maybe. But the others? I wouldn't push it.

kostchtchie_4032d ago (Edited 4032d ago )

good fun solid game after they fixed the save character issue, loved the mods PC version had also

Number-Nine4032d ago

this game was buggy as all hell, generic character models, horrible animations, terrible audio design, etc, etc...

ScytheX34032d ago

not to mention RETARDED AS F leveling up system, after first run made doing and 2nd, 3rd etc playthrough with an already leveled up character useless, 3/4 of the games missions did nothing to help level up wasnt until very last few missions that actually helped gained decent xp.

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Bethesda & Xbox To Meet Up With Laid-Off Deep Silver Volition Employees

According to a LinkedIn post, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studio representatives will meet up with Deep Silver Volition employees.

shinoff2183221d ago (Edited 221d ago )

That's pretty cool, but didn't they just lay of 10k as a whole. Reportedly some from the gaming division even.

Confused in pa.

Sonyslave3221d ago

Yes they did , it the circle of life in the tech bizz.

blackblades221d ago

Circle of life of meh games

mkis007221d ago (Edited 221d ago )

This is called good PR. And an opportunity to hire veterans over scrubs.

phoenixwing220d ago

Not to call them scrubs but yeah some veteran devs are more welcome than others with less experience

Flakegriffin220d ago (Edited 220d ago )

You can hire veterans all day long but it’s the talent Microsoft lacks.

Zeref221d ago (Edited 221d ago )

It was mostly outside of gaming. Most of the game studios weren't affected besides 343i and Coalition from what I recall

Charlieboy333220d ago (Edited 220d ago )

But of course. Just look at the latest Saint's Row....that is exactly the level of quality and writing that Xbox strives for these days.

Aloymetal220d ago

Nope, like Redfall, Craig infinite

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ravens52220d ago

There u go. This is way more acceptable than buying up studios. Buy individual talent until you strengthen your already owned studios. 👏🏽

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Plaion is restructuring, layoffs planned

Publisher formerly known as Koch Media will merge Deep Silver, Prime Matter and Ravenscourt under single brand.

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Dead Island 2 devs believe a Dead Island remake would be a “mistake”

We might be in the age of remasters, but it doesn't look like the Dead Island 2 devs believe remaking the original game is the right move for the series.

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Duke19406d ago

but remakes require far less effort for these companies and they can still charge $70 for them!

Feel like everyone makes fun of Skyrim re-releasing like 18 times yet applaud these remasters elsewhere. Would much prefer NEW games

CrimsonWing69405d ago

Making sequels really is the way to go. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing only the first entry, forever!!!