Left 4 Dead Comments by Kristan Reed
Impressions of the latest level and an interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi.
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OutpostCommand
01/03/08 @ 12:13
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This game actually looks great - like a FPS version of what Outbreak should have been those 4 years ago.
I very much look forward to this game - bit of a survival nut myself. I just hope that this game supports many players. Imagine a 50 man server !
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Nithron, they stick to Source because it runs on the most computers. Valve takes the approach of 'one size fits all' - they run a Steam survey every month and the results back their stance perfectly. It's why their games are still very popular. You could have Left 4 Dead competing with the best in graphics, but why cripple a multiplayer game by making it work on far fewer computers?
It's all about accessibility. Thank that clipping. |
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Tweakmonkey
01/03/08 @ 14:29
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I hope they allow players to drop in and out during the campaign because otherwise I can't see 4 strangers playing all the way through 90 minutes.
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SleepyMagpie
01/03/08 @ 17:11
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Ahhh! Ready for some zombiefied goodness! This cannot arrive fast enough.
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SleepyMagpie
01/03/08 @ 17:16
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@andyjack:
You DO NOT want to trade in your 360 for a PS3! While it is beginning to look slightly more rational to fork out for a PS3 (Blu-ray), hocking a 360 for one is a sure way of missing out on potentially a lot of great titles. Only trade it in if your favorite junk-bucket is glitching, and then - without letting on about it. ~_^
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themorganator
01/03/08 @ 22:04
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Great article Eurogamer!
Thank god I've got a 360 - this looks awesome! |
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stoopidgreg
02/03/08 @ 03:03
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6-7 hours? i can only hope this is a budget game. anyone know?
as for the weapons, i really like how he downplayed their significance... yeah real good. a game where you spend the whole time shooting and you don't bother about including interesting weapons or at least a diverse arsenal? i can imagine myself getting pretty damn bored hearing the same bloody gunshot over and over. everyone likes a bit of variety, it's the spice of life... or in this case, death. |
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smoothn00dle
02/03/08 @ 14:37
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Valve is playing it dumb. Without PS3's hardware, Valve will be out of the graphic race in three years.
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SleepyMagpie
02/03/08 @ 18:42
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@Nithron:
The hate towards the Source engine is mostly coming from pathetic PS3 fanboys who realize that they are not gonna see this goodness on their glorious Blu-ray player either. Gabe Newell (head honcho at Valve) has also sparked their ire well and good by mostly correctly viewing the PS3 as a very difficult and bothersome platform to develop for, and that Valve themselves can't be bothered (EA did the Orange Box for PS3). I have a PS3 btw, and the Blu-ray is glorious. The games? ...Nah, not so much. Who needs zombies when you got PS3 fanboys?! Now let's get another folding@home cycle done - it's for the benefit of mankind! |
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@SuperZee:
I think Valve had said somewhere that there would be bot support for offline play. I know that you can play against the AI if you're just with your friends, and this is Turtle Rock, who did the amazing bots for Condition Zero and CS: Source, so it's pretty much guaranteed that you can play alone. And I don't get the hate for the short game length. It's online, and almost infinitely replayable, so 6-7 hours would be one run-through for each scenario. On easy, most likely. And that wouldn't involve sampling the Infected. I can't wait for this. I built my PC with this game in mind...last summer. It's good to know that it's Valve so they won't up the requirements on me just because they delayed the game a year. |
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konstantinos
03/03/08 @ 08:03
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I obviously understand the love Valve gets (had a little HL2 Sunday afternoon, still plays and feels great...) but permit me to reiterate what every sane person who takes a look at L4D (without sentimental blinds on, yes, that is possible...), thinks of...:
this looks so P-O-O-R for a 2008 game... they just have to (seriously) upgrade their graphics engine... this might have worked if we talked about a science fiction story but a zombie story needs to look better than this... yes, I will be playing this... thinking "man, wouldn't it be great if this looked as good as it plays...?" while I am playing... GOTY, though...? get some perspective, people... Portal was (is and will be) an entirely different case... cheers... |
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hiddenranbir
03/03/08 @ 11:33
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Poor for a 2008 game?
Well, since Crysis was a 2007 game the bar must be pretty hig for a 2008 game! What nonsense. Left 4 Dead will look great and it will play great. In 2008 and in 2010. If it manages to sustain the playerbase CS has, then all the better. |
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muscleblade
03/03/08 @ 11:40
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@6-7 hours? i can only hope this is a budget game. anyone know?
Thats a good thing. I take quality over quantity any day. @sucks to be ps3 Old news isnt it. |
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creepylizard
03/03/08 @ 13:08
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this will end up being crap. i saw a demo of it and it looked really ropey and derivative..
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As much as I would like to place full faith in creepylizard's Clairvoyance, with him clearly being the Nostradamus of our time, I have to disagree with the prophecy. Partly because whilst graphics are a nice bonus, gameplay is always paramount, and partly because I can't quite see how the game is derivative.
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But it's co-op...gameplay should be more intense and unique than any other online game...anyway I wouldn't discount the graphics just yet. It's still in Alpha build and Source is very capable of putting out high-end graphics (see TF2 with "Very High" texture settings). I would imagine they're not worrying about that just yet, and that the final product will look quite good. I mean, there are quite a few missing animations from the teaser that was just released, so it would make sense that the texture work still isn't done either.
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creepylizard
03/03/08 @ 21:21
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that is true, I suppose. I like zombies as much as the next man but another first person perspective is just depressing...
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3william56
04/03/08 @ 04:10
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"Is it the same deal as Orange Box, pretty much, with EA UK handling the port duties?"
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! |
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I got the impression that Valve was handling the 360 version in-house this time.
"Valve's PC, and we just got our 360 team together" Sounds like Valve is doing it. They said if a PS3 port were to be made it would be with a third party, implying that they're not already dealing with one for the 360 port. |
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Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out at release. I only have 2 niggles:
1- Being Source it better handle better than CounterStrike: Source! Shooting people point blank in the stomach and scoring a headshot made me just stop and never go back. 2- The AI Director 'control' descriptions better be oversimplified to fit in the preview; I like the idea but just throwing more zombies(TM) doesnt make a game good, it makes it suck. If teams are doing well etc then it needs to respond with type and tactics not numbers. Typical hype will likely mean that it will boil down to throwing more zombies(TM). Also want to see a zombie survival plan version mentioned above :) |
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