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    194: The Five Habits of Highly Addicted Gamers

    Disgustingly ignorant and disrespectful excuse for an article. The author should be both ashamed, and fired. Now unsubscribing from Escapist emails and deleting my account here. Seriously. F*** this s***. On a side note, robinkom who has posted on the second page of comments, writing...
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    Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead

    I thought he did that pretty well with this: "You can also opt to play as the special zombies themselves which transforms the game from tense survival horror into hilarious griefing engine. It's nice to see creative thinking rewarded when you successfuly leap on a human player and start...
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    Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead

    IMO Source zombie mods just don't compare to L4D. I have played a few of the HL2 / Source zombie mods available and nothing has come even close to the fun, the teamwork, the atmosphere and the carnage I've experienced in playing Left 4 Dead. Probably sound like just another fanboy but it's...
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    Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead

    The first video on this page has more details on all the things the AI Director does: http://www.left4dead411.com/news/2008/09/making-of-l4d-video/ (E3 Presentation by Gabe Newell on the making of Left 4 Dead.) It's a little more than for your average game, but I agree it's not *that*...
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    Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead

    Yeah I haven't had much to do with myself lately, but I haven't played L4D at all in the past 3 days so that must mean something... looking for work instead. Did you mean a whole world, or a whole world of games? Heh.
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    Zero Punctuation: Left 4 Dead

    He said "it is fun as a shared social experience" which to me translates as STONKING AWESUM... maybe just because that's what I think of the game. Played over 100 hours so far - very fun. As to the smoker's name, I hear he was originally also able to release smoke clouds on demand but it got...