Left 4 Dead 2Follow

I downloaded the demo on steam and played through it. I distinctly remember thinking to myself "So, this is it?" on numerous occasions.

Don't get me wrong, I love mowing down hoards of zombies, and I love the idea of getting together with a few friends to mow down hoards of zombies, but I just don't get why these games are so popular. Are there like a bazillion different maps, or will there be user made content? Is there a good plotline, or campaign mode? Or is it really just replaying maps with a group, and pitting yourself against the director?

Even listening to the AI controlled people whenever a "Special Zombie" showed up wasn't very inspired. They all speak in a flat disinterested tone, as if they've grown bored with slaying. Does having another human control the special zombies make them that much more of a threat?

I guess I just don't love multiplayer as much as the average gamer, but after playing the demo, I don't feel bad that I missed out on the first game, and probably won't be spending fifty bones to play the second.

I think it can. I swear, I went through this one campaign, and the next time I tried to take the same route there was a freaking soda machine blocking the way! It was horrid!

Dont know how many expansions youve played that have more content than the base game, L4D2>>>>L4D for pretty much everything.


Was it heavy rain? my friend said it was full of witches, the others werent really.


Versus id imagine is the main draw, its incredibly fun, and i dont know how anyone could play either of these games without playing it, it would be like buying MW2 and only playing the single player.

I'd rather play the NES version of the original game.

I played the free demo for Xbox360 and it looked god awful.


Looked like playstation level graphics almost.


I hope the final product was way way more polished and looked more like the original?

So...if l4d2 is just an expansion, than what would qualify as a sequel?

That's just how Hard Rain is. There are a ton of witches on that run though the mill.

Very enjoyable game so far though.

That there is, though I haven't played it since that first time. For some reason this game was honestly harder on PC than on Xbox for me, even though I'm far and above better with a mouse/keyboard than a controller. Also, oddly enough, when I play multiplayer with a friend of mine, the campaign keeps spontaneously changing difficulty on us, so on a few occasions our Normal game has bumped itself up to Expert and killed us. It's an oddly buggy game.

On one occasion I kept getting sent to an AU server for a Dark Carnival campaign where we all had 400+ pings, so I hosted it myself and everyone else dropped down to ~100. Other than that I haven't had an issue with lag. Also, half the time I just play with my friends and they're all pretty decent at it at worst, the other half of the time I've been getting some pretty good people in advanced/expert lobbies. It's only when I just join a normal/easy/quick game that I get stuck with idiots.

Right now I just wanna figure out how you can cross the bridge at the end of the Parish in under 3 minutes.

Edited, Nov 25th 2009 3:16pm by bsphil