Comments on: Left 4 Dead Trailer

By: Zombie Games

Zombie Games — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:40:37 +0000

I’m very excited about the zombie game Left 4 Dead, unfortunately your video is missing. :P

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:16:40 +0000

Video is gone.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:58:36 +0000

I am more excited about this game than the possibility of life in the universe. But I am a Zombie nutter tbh.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:35:09 +0000

What happened to the vid guys?

By: sigma83

sigma83 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:17:53 +0000

then again, diluting tf2 playerbase? Or extending market share?

By: MisterBritish

MisterBritish — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:09:58 +0000

Holy crap, someone from Valve needs to see that video!

RPS, make it so!

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:59:25 +0000

I think whoever said that the problem is that this trailer isn't demonstrating what we think a zombie game should look like is pretty close to the money (Sorry I didn't weed back through the comments to find your name, you know who you are). After some consideration of this, 'd like to offer some contention, however: I don't think it looks how we want a survival game to look, and that's the real problem. The fast pace, zombie mobs, plentiful ammo and music that sounds more like we should be mowing down Nazis all indicate a hell-of fun, bombastic, exploding zombie fest. Which is all well and good, don't get me wrong, but still not really the reason I play games with monsters in them. If I want to feel all powerful, manly and not so much like the Beta male I am, nearly every first person shooter ever is designed to slake exactly that impulse. The fun of survival games (for me, anyway) come from feeling vulnerable. From getting by on my cleverness over my reflexes. When I first heard of Left 4 Dead and its focus on small team play, my immediate assumption was that it would have a slower, soberer pace than, say, Call of Duty 4 for exactly this reason. So it doesn't look like a bad game at all. In fact, I'm sure it'll be an outrageously fun game with loads of clever ideas. It just doesn't look like the game I've been waiting years for (which is, admittedly, just Condemned with multiplayer).

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:44:21 +0000

So, the video is dead, yes?

By: poullos

poullos — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:43:55 +0000

I don’t think the speed of zombies will affect the game that much. What will however is: easy, normal, hard and…intense.
This is what makes the whole difference. The whole game circles around the ‘different experience’ every time you play it. Nothing will ever be the same. This time the AI director attacks here, next time you get ambushed there.
I love valve games but I don’t know if I can drop TF 2 for anything. ;p

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:38:27 +0000

James T, thank you. Now I must find Yakety Sax, and play it on a loop when I eventually buy this game.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:42:53 +0000

I had a dream about Left4Dead last night. Does anyone else have video-game dreams a lot? I do. (After I played Portal I had a lot of really fun dreams involving a portal-gun.) In this one I was running around a terrifying post-apocalyptic cityscape, gunning down (fast) zombies. Then I dreamt that I woke up, and told my girlfriend “I just dreamt that I stayed up playing Left4Dead until 3 in the morning! I’m glad it was a dream because I have to be at work at 8!” and she said “That wasn’t a dream!!!” DUN-DUN-DUN! Then I woke up (for real).

Anyway, this game is going to rule.

By: Theory

Theory — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:35:36 +0000

Something must have gone wrong with the video. It actually looks like this. Also: James T, internet hero of the hour!