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How poop jokes could increase Dead Island’s popularity. (Random Headline Challenge)

How poop jokes could increase Dead Island’s popularity. (Random Headline Challenge)

Note: This story is a parody for the latest Bitmob Writing Challenge.

 

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In recent years, homoginization has run it's course and affected a number of consumer markets. Of course, it was only a matter of time before this same process reared it's indistinguishable head in the gaming world. But what form did it ultimately decide to take? Luckily for us, it avoided the all-too-common vampiric teeange heartthrob route, and opted for a tried and true concept – Zombies.

Whether they're part of the Nazi regime or in a furious tussle with your garden, you're going to see zombies one way or the other. Bought a game without zombies in the intial deal? Just wait for some DLC. Following suit, the developers at Techland decided to throw some eggs in the undead basket and churned out Dead Island. 

As it stands, Dead Island is a rather satisfactory attempt to claw their way into the whole zombie-apocolypse scene, but what really makes it any more worth your while than Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising, their respective sequels, eventual prequels, or any other Dead things? Unfortunately, not very much. 

But there is no reason why that cannot be changed. As I pondered this very question, an exquisite solution came to me, perfect in it's simplicity. Poop jokes. An effortless addition so mind-numbingly obvious that I probably wouldn't notice a horde of zombies feasting on my delicious brain matter as I write. 

Consider it. What better way to indulge such a crowd? We search through abandoned towns and houses, ready to blow the undead to fleshy bits, so why not let us turn the corner and see a zombie on the john? Cheap laughs like these fuel our collective sense of humor and can give Dead Island that extra push it needs to be forever remembered as the one zombie game that was different. 

It's time we start demanding more innovations like this to help revive a gaming industry that seems contented with repackaging the same ideas over and over again. I may be the first to boldly make these assertions, but I hope others join me when I plead, give us more poop jokes!