Left 4 Dead...

[Spleeni]

Well, if we look at it as a co-op game, it seems to be at par with Resistance 2. Except that Resistance 2 co-op has cooler guns.

...I will eat your children. Out of pure rage. Infinite rage rushes through my veins!
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Mostly because you're dissing what could be an utterly awesome game. DON'T be like Yahtzee. Pessimism is bad. Optimism is GOOD.

 

[derpa]

Well, if we look at it as a co-op game, it seems to be at par with Resistance 2. Except that Resistance 2 co-op has cooler guns.

Not so much....on the guns.

 

[Perwer]

left-4-dead is awesome, but it sucks that they announced its not gunna be for ps3, so they're gunna force me to get a gold xbox-live account, or get a VERY new PC

It runs on ye olde source engine and I'm certain you won't need a super PC for it.

 

[milskidasith]

It's not fun if it's balanced. That's the whole point of zombie movies. You have a few people hell bent on surviving against an endless torrent of infected. That's what it's supposed to feel like. You can't just hold out until you kill all of the zombies, you have to hold them off until you can complete your objective. If there are 40 zombies, they can rush at you, but if you can defend against a single wave, it's over. You win. Wasn't that fun? If they respawn, you can know that you've held them off for now, but they could return at any moment. It's the feeling that infected could come from anywhere at anytime that gives you that feeling that makes it so fun.
The zombies are going to be weak, a zombie player will have to be clever in their plan of attack and how they utilize their NPC minions. A human player will have to be crafty in how they get to their objective and how they plan to keep their team alive against the zombie onslaught.
Either way, the game will be challenging, Zombie and Human will be completely different styles of play, and in the end the most skilled in their class will win.

One: There is a difference between "balance" and being hard. If the player zombies could do some broken combo of moves that made them invincible (and it wasn't patched) that would be unbalanced AND difficult to beat (well, impossible). But we don't know that. Two: You aren't saying anything new.

 

[pJaay]

Coor i can remember when steam first told me about this game, seems like an age ago!

i haven't read all the talk on this thread so sorry if it has already been mentioned however is there an official release date?

 

[42manZ]

I think this game has been on my list of games to get (haven't first heard of it a couple years back) that it's now at the top of my list.

 

[milskidasith]

I hope valve doesn't release it too late. They delay things a lot (valve time, everybody?)

I predict it's out before Christmas (and hope it is), but Valve might delay things beyond that to make it perfect.

 

[Vigormortis]

Is it at all, in any way or shape... a single player? (crosses fingers)

Yes. Yes it is. In fact, it's technically single-player all of the time. The AI Director controls the other survivors and boss zombies until another player joins and takes over. That is, unless, you play it offline and not over a LAN, in which case the AI Director controls the other characters indefinitely.

 

[Leon P]

I'm really excited for this game, I have my worries tho.

Steam has currently issues with people setting up listen servers(meaning people can only create lan servers) unless of course you pay for a monthly server.

so if me and my freinds want to play online would we have to buy a dedicated server to get any sort of multilayer service at all?

Also

Getting a good server with people who know what there doing May be near impossible.
I can imagine if I only have 1 friend online trying to find another helpful team mate could be very very annoying.

also We haven't seen much from the Zombie side of game play yet either
which leads me to my next problem. are people going to fight to not play as the zombies?
I know I personally don't care which side I'm on but I've noticed on other games such as "zombie panic source" people have quit because there forced onto the zombie side.


Also I want this game to be kinda difficult I don't want everyone to finish it with the first days e.g. portal. If I'm given infinite respawns and a bucket load of ammo to waste, the tension and fight for survival could just end up a joke. Unless the AI is incredible but from recent years AI has been anything but incredible
and it could just turn into average shoot em up featuring zombies.


Other then that Im looking forward to this game a lot!

 

[Leon P]

Thanks for the reply Codgo

But how about creating a private server you and your friends only play
don't you feel that intimate expirence will help the game to be even better?
I know I have a group of 4 freinds eager to play it!

Hell Im thinking about buying the 360 version and PC!
sorry I love to waste money

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

I wish I could be excited about this game since I love the whole Zombie genre but unfortunately too many of the zombies are too elaborate to be Zombies; seeming more like Monsters.

From all the clips I see it looks more like a Monster Shooter than a real Zombie game.