Thursday, September 30, 2010

Left 4 Dead 2

On my birthday, my friend bought me L4D2 because he wanted me to play with him. Since then I've played a total of 3 times. I don't understand that game. I mean, I would like to enjoy that game because I enjoy playing with my friend, but, it just seems so.. redundant. It's the same maps, with the same spawns. When I played it, it just seems like a giant crapshoot.

One can argue that all FPS's are similar because you play the same handful of maps, with the same objectives, but I argue that there is strategy involved, different playstyles. In L4D, however, that all seems to be missing. It seems to be, "RUN AROUND UNTIL YOU GET TO THE SAFE HOUSE" or "SPAWN EVERYWHERE AND TRY TO KILL THE SURVIVORS," and while there IS some strategy involved, its seems to be very lacking. I also know that I'm not the only one who feels this way, I played the game with my other friend and he feels the same way as I.

Left 4 Dead, I would like to get to you know, for the sake of my friendship, but I can't. I find you utterly boring. I'm sorry. Can we still be friends?

GG definitely nore

11 comments:

  1. meh, it shoulda been left for dead, is what i think...

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  2. Some like tomato. Some like tomatoe. lol

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  3. Thanks for the insightful comments on my last blog post!

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  4. You talk about redundancy yet you've only played the three times. That means that even if you tried a new map each time there are still some out there that will be new to you, and each time you played a new one it was NEW...so I don't see the redundancy in that.
    Unlike other FPS games (let's use your beloved CS 1.6 as an example), things aren't the same every time you play l4d. For example, tanks & witches 1) may or may not spawn in any given level and 2) if they do spawn, their spawns are not always in the same spot on the map. Another difference is that items will also spawn in different spots throughout the map. Sometimes you'll have certain things and other times you wont. This means if a teammate is about to die you can't just assume that you'll find a defib soon to revive him so you better do your best to heal him up.
    No matter how good you are at l4d, 1 person can't win for the team (unlike 1.6). All it takes is for someone to get attacked by a special infected and that guy is screwed if he doesn't have a teammate to help him. Now this can be good or bad depending on which way you decide to look at the situation...good players will be upset because they'll always feel like their team is dragging down their potential while others will see it as a good way to even the playing field.
    As for strategy, having more special infected options than you can spawn at a given time means that you will always have a different combination that you will have to use together to mount a good attack. Timing is everything in l4d and it takes a lot of practice with a team to excel. Don't bash it 'til you've tried it...and playing it three times doesn't count as trying it.

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  5. The point of the post was I can't try it to its fullest extent because I don't enjoy playing it.

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  6. Also Rob, quit hatin on 1.6. You played it with me.

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  7. True, but I don't think you can base your opinion off of playing a game 3 times. If that was the case then I never would have gotten into starcraft or TF2.

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  8. It does take time to get used to it. It's a lot more strategery than camp and shoot.

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  9. Well, I'll force myself to try it more, just because I love you... assface. Kisses!

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  10. I agree on the lack of strategy part, but Rob's right about something, the game is never the same, no matter how many times you play it, the special zombees won't appear in the same order/place. I have L4D installed on my PC, and i play ir more as a time-killer than a strategy game. If you want a good strategy game you have stuff like Half-Life or Halo.

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  11. I think what it lacks in strategy it makes up for in teamwork. Properly executed attacks are amazingly fun. And if you are on the receiving end of an attack and you literally have a split second to save your teammate before all of you get timed it can be quite exciting.

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