Times of Plenty

[vanarbulax]

I think it's more likely that Activision is just squeezing every last drop of money they can by inventing new ways to charge for blizzard's product.

[MikeTheWookiee]

Maybe Blizzard are propping up the whole of Activision.

[Spacemonkey]

Left 4 Dead release tomorrow...

I have a long list of games I still want to play:
Bioshock (I decided to wait until I had a new rig to play it. Now that I do, I'm still working through other games first...)
FarCry 2
Mass Effect
Spore

Left 4 Dead is awesome, i've been playing it all weekend. Best game this year.


However Spore was a very big disappointment, they were talking about all this cool stuff that was going to be in the game and I was really looking forward to it. But when the game came out, it was not there. It's fun the first time you play through it, but after that it's just boring because you end up doing the same things over and over again, there is no replayability. What's even more annoying is that EA/Maxis have already released a 'parts' pack that costs money, yet they haven't even addressed some major game play issues yet.

[Xarlaxas]

Left 4 Dead is so awesome and addictive but I don't have enough people available to play with all the time. <.< >.>

[martin]

I play L4D quite a lot, add me if you like? (martindevans / [NC]harlequin)

[shinygerbil]

I don't play it online, I get such shitty framerates when there are lots of zombies onscreen, I'd only be a liability

[Xarlaxas]

I play L4D quite a lot, add me if you like? (martindevans / [NC]harlequin)

Added ye! Yay for more people to play with.

[Xocrates]

Aye, L4D is awesome, but I too don't really have many people to play with and playing campaign with unknowns can become tiresome really quickly as there is always some fool who goes charging through or one that keeps falling behind.

That's why I usually only play Versus online, despite the fact that it's usually a bit laggy and only No Mercy gets played, but since you're not even expected to survive, yesterday when some fool started to rush through on himself while we stayed back fighting some horde and then goes and disturbs a witch, when we were all way too far behind to help him, instead of being rather annoying it was actually pretty funny.

[Cooper42]

I think we need to arrange an IV L4D run-through. Playing with randoms can vary from being excellent (i.e: how it should be, a bunch of random survivors struggling with just how variously incompetent each of them is in various aspects.) To just crap when you end up with dickheads.

I've been playing it as much as I can, but my wireless here varies from crap to broken. I usually get a game in most nights though.

When I have managed to get a game in, though, it's been fantastic. I'm not fully convinced by versus yet, as, if the players are any good at the zombies, they can stop the survivors a bit too easily...

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Cooper42 if you want to add.

[Nimbus]

How scary is left for dead? I haven't decided whether or not to get it. Yes, I am a wimp.

[Cooper42]

How scary is left for dead? I haven't decided whether or not to get it. Yes, I am a wimp.

For me, it has that amazing ability to vary from seat-of-the-ants tension - Especially when you can hear, but not see a witch - to comically overwhelming chaos. There's rarely a game where I'm not laughing out loud as we (yet again) get stormed by hundreds of zombies, survive by the skins of our teeth, and then get pounded to oblivion by a tank.

Unless having lots of screaming zombies running at you would scare you. Have you seen 28 weeks later or the new Dawn of the dead - it's second-gen zombies, so if those films scare you, this will...

[Xocrates]

I would say the game is creepy, but not scary. The game doesn't so much attempt to make you jump out of your seat as it attempts to make you realize just how utterly screwed you are.

It helps that most stuff have sound cues before they happen, so you are never really caught by surprise.
However there are a couple sounds you really learn how to fear.

(yes, tank cue, I'm looking at you)

[Xarlaxas]

Yeah, I have a zombie phobia but this game doesn't scare me much, I think it's doing a good job of helping me get over my fear of zombies in fact, shooting them in the face is pretty cathartic.

And Xocrates I'll play with you sometime!

[MrBunsy]

Nimbus: For reference, I was pretty scared of Ravenholm in HL2 (took weeks and goodness knows how many saves to get through), but absolutely love L4D - you're with other people, so it's a completely different atmosphere.

I'm happy for anyone to add me on steam, btw

[xyzyxx]

One of the things I love most about Left4Dead is the improvements they've made to the animation system (compared to previous Source games); For example: when you shoot zombies, they actually stumble before they fall.

Also, ADD ME
http://steamcommunity.com/id/xyzyxx