Comments on: Left 4 Dead is Ridiculously Fun!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:38:30 +0000

Played it on Xbox 360. I don't have a gaming PC any more.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:06:36 +0000

in total agreement on left 4 dead.

do you play on console or pc, though?

im curious to hear someone's thoughts on a console version of the game.

By: sharlyne

sharlyne — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:55:46 +0000

Great game. Enjoyed playing it with my little brother (who is suprisingly good at headshots).

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:30:31 +0000

Not sure if I have you on my list. If not, send me an invite (PlainBlack) and let me know who you are, if it's not obvious by your profile info. I've had at least one person on my list playing L4D since its release. Usually play a few rounds each week myself – mostly on the weekend.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:29:15 +0000

Great recap! I've had several similar experiences, but like you said… never the same, which is part of what makes it so great!

You can never really known what to expect, and a tactic that worked last time, might not work this time.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:27:05 +0000

Indeed, it wouldn't be much fun for anyone if you don't work together. With people getting incapacitated and taken down so often, you wouldn't get too far otherwise.

I'm yet to play any public matches of L4D, but experienced a similar situation while playing COD: World at War last night. I was in a co-op match with 3 other dudes, but this one dude kept running ahead and getting killed. We were constantly reviving him. It got to the point where we just said, "fuck it, let him die." Then we were all forced to restart at the last checkpoint. Problem being, we had all joined his game, so we weren't able to boot him. Stuck it out until the end of the level then bailed.

By: Raphael Essoo-Snowdo

Raphael Essoo-Snowdo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:06:18 +0000

I need a group of friends to actually purchase this game so I can get to blasting, I've had it since release and haven't even played it due to this reason!

By: Jake Vance

Jake Vance — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:59:09 +0000

Just had an amazing round with a great team in Dead Air on Advanced. After 5 tried on the finale, we finally made some good progress and just had one tank to kill before the escape. As soon as we go to attack the tank, two hunters and a smoker all pounce at once. Each one kills one of us easily with the paltry remaining life we have left, so the survivor is left to run around in circles until the tank runs through the fire enough to pass out.

Next, a mad dash to the plane, a pipe bomb chucked in a random direction, and the last man standing leaps onto the back of the plane covered in boomer bile with less than 10% of his life left.

And this kind of stuff happens ALL THE TIME. That's why I love this game.

I remember watching an interview with the Halo devs when they talked about their game design philosophy of distilling gameplay to 30 seconds of pure fun and just repeating that over and over. L4D NAILS that. When you crank of the difficulty you're constantly on edge, surviving wave after wave of zombies, but none of them are EVER the same due to the killer AI Director, so it never gets old. You have no idea what to expect, except that you'll be expending LOTS of bullets.

Sometimes you're the team that gets the molotov at just the right moment to take down the Tank, and sometimes you're the team that gets f'ed 8 ways to sunday by a sudden rush of Hunters and Smokers 10 feet from a medkit cache.

By: Scott Williams

Scott Williams — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:11:27 +0000

Got a lovely free copy of Left4Dead yesterday and I can safely say it's brilliant, easily the most fun I have had playing on xbox live in recent memory (and that's saying something considering Gears of War 2 only came out a matter of weeks ago).

I did however get a couple of douchebags join my game that just run off and left everyone to die. You need to make sure you have at least one person on your team that you know you can trust. Altogether an ace game (:

WANTED, reasonable left4Dead players that don't mind me screaming down the mic when a wave of zombies attack please add. gamertag: Mr Cheeese

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:43:24 +0000

If you look at the user review scores across the internets, they're low. It seems some people feel burned by the short campaigns and simplistic gameplay and give it a score of 10%-30%. I saw quite a lot of that on Metacritic, which is totally unfair. There aren't many games that deserve a score that low, and Left 4 Dead is definitely not one of them.

The same sort of thing happened with Spore. People were pissed about the DRM, so they gave it a super low review score. It's currently sitting at 1.5/5 on Amazon, which is totally fucking ridiculous.

I see a lot of this on the iTunes App Store as well. Usually on apps that have short or no demo versions, or are considered to be priced too high.

I guarantee, if that kind of thing keeps up, we (users) are going to lose the privilege to review products all together.