Riptide or Dead Island 1 (Definitive Editions)?

[MaximB]

Riptide or Dead Island 1 (Definitive Editions)? which one is better and why?

[Marcel]

They both are good , Riptide is kind of shorter like an Add-on but i like it's story better.

[NOCTURNE]

It's worth mentioning that Riptide is the direct sequel of Dead Island 1, so storywise it doesn't make sense to play Riptide without playing Deas Island first.

[Weyrlock]

Aside from what everyone said, in Riptide you will get very powerful way faster, especially if you do side quests, but the presentation of the world, npcs and zombies is somewhat weaker, which is the opposite of the first game, with a slower (bigger maps and less xp) and more cinematic world, but not by a large margin. Riptide also has more types of weapons, but they butchered some weapon blueprints from the first game.

[Ybrva]

Dead Island 1 is way better I think. (and most people in general consider Dead Island 1 superior to riptide) Riptide is just played to know what happens next shrugs.

Why? All the story is presented in Dead Island 1. If you play Riptide without Dead Island you have basically no story so it will be feel stupid. On top of that at least so far the time I have played... everything is much better in Dead Island 1. The map is also better, prettier, more interesting, more places to use cars etc... Secondary missions make much more sense in Dead Island 1. Simply Dead Island 1 is much better than Riptide to the point Riptide feels like a rushed second part.

[JELIMINATOR1000]

Originally posted by Ybrva:

Dead Island 1 is way better I think. (and most people in general consider Dead Island 1 superior to riptide) Riptide is just played to know what happens next shrugs.

Why? All the story is presented in Dead Island 1. If you play Riptide without Dead Island you have basically no story so it will be feel stupid. On top of that at least so far the time I have played... everything is much better in Dead Island 1. The map is also better, prettier, more interesting, more places to use cars etc... Secondary missions make much more sense in Dead Island 1. Simply Dead Island 1 is much better than Riptide to the point Riptide feels like a rushed second part.

Very true. But yet I still prefer Riptide due to it having more jungle based map and I enjoyed the flooded jungle more than any other map in the series. Didn't care to much for Henderson though.