Left 4 Dead

Post by **Erasmas** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:47 pm

I cannot believe that there hasn't been a post about this game yet!

I don't check the site for about a week (wife and new boy are in the hospital) and you all let this little gem slip through your bloody fingertips?!?!

I downloaded the demo and have been having a butt-ton-of-fun blasting the hell outta the undead left and right. Zomb-ocolyptic fun for you and three of your closest friends (or three random saps nabbed from Live)!

Just be careful of car alarms and obese, vomiting damned!

Post by **Bonn-o-Tron** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:15 pm

I played the demo for a couple days, and was blown away. I'm defintely buying this game when I get my next paycheck. If anyone has it for PC, and wants to play, you can find me in the Brikwars group on Steam.

Post by **Tzan** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:19 pm

Still working through Fallout and will be for a long while.

Folks on other forums seem to like it.

Post by **Bonn-o-Tron** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:22 pm

Glad I'm not the only one whose main priority is still Fallout. Left4Dead was a good break for the 3 days my demo lasted.

Post by **IVhorseman** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:44 pm

I locked myself in the same room for a week until I beat fallout.

Played the demo. While cool, the fact that a) zombies are fast and b) zombies can die from not-headshots kindof sets me off. Sure, it's a great game regardless, but it still has me arguing with the concept a bit.

Post by **Shaeph** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:14 pm

I played this for the first time today and was blown away.
In one word: Awesome.

Really like it because there is no real plot-line just get from point a to point b and fuck up some zombies in between!

Post by **IVhorseman** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:26 am

Incorrect! It turns out that Left 4 Dead actually has a plot: every cheesy zombie movie rolled into one.

Post by **Shaeph** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:18 pm

it never suggests how the infection started, all it says is some people are immune and you have to survive, yes its cliche but its not really a plot.

Post by **Erasmas** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:30 am

Yes!
I finally got a hold of the full game for Yule and have played through just over half of it. And cheesy or not, that game creeps the hell outta me and my friends - I watched one of them run to his car leaving my place after playing for an evening.

I think that they captured the desperation and feeling of being lost perfectly. There are times where you have no idea what to do or where to go, but you end up advancing the storyline anyways. The writing on the walls in the saferooms is what really makes it feel believable.

I'm enjoying the hell out of it!

Post by **Bonn-o-Tron** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:12 pm

I finally bought this game the other day, it's absolutely incredible.

Post by **OneEye589** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:22 pm

Erasmas wrote:I watched one of them run to his car leaving my place after playing for an evening.

I do that anyway because I = afraid of the dark.

Post by **pesgores** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:41 pm

Soon these games will be even more intense with VR.

Post by **IVhorseman** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:02 pm

Erasmas wrote:I watched one of them run to his car leaving my place after playing for an evening because he's a big baby. I had to change his diaper later.

Fixed.

Post by **OneEye589** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:36 pm

So I've been looking at this game and it looks amazing and wicked fun. I really like the zombie mod on CoD:UO and stuff and I really want to play this online. I have a few questions for those of you that have it.

Does it take a lot of computer power to run? I'm not that computer savvy so anything that you say with computer parts and things like that I will have no idea about. I will be playing it online the entire time and I probably won't play through the story at all. I have a year-old Toshiba laptop with Vista and an Intel Celeron processor (that's all I know).

Is it fun to play online and is it worth buying just for that? I really just like playing games online and the single-player doesn't interest me as much.

Post by **IVhorseman** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 2:40 pm

Don't think you understand how Left 4 Dead works.

There IS NO STORY. Singleplayer mode is just multiplayer mode with bots. Multiplayer is infinitely better than single player.