Comments on: RPS Left 4 Dead 2 Review

By: r4i

r4i — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:48:22 +0000

Your first one’s free, but to get others, you’ll need to spend currency you earn from beating other players.

By: DJ Phantoon

DJ Phantoon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:31:09 +0000

BUT WALKER WAS WRONG!

Hard Rain is easily the best campaign set.

In Versus, they’re all about even.

By: ttcfcl

ttcfcl — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:26:18 +0000

Yes, DISABLE vsync if you want a smoother rate. I had performance issues starting in Swamp Fever until I disabled VSync. Some tearing might be noticable, but with a game like this you need the FPS and response times.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:37:14 +0000

Shouldn’t you be trolling on Kotaku or something?

By: Zyrxil

Zyrxil — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:58:42 +0000

If you get someone in the US to gift you a copy they bought in their region, it will get to you uncensored.

By: Jayt

Jayt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:13:42 +0000

I wonder if I bought it, would there be any way to uncensor my Australian version

By: TheStripe

TheStripe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:17:11 +0000

You’re running a multi-core processor, yes?

The source engine as used in half life, l4d and tf2 was never developed to take full advantage of multithreading. They could sort of tack on special effects to the second core, but this ended up janky and inefficient (see the TF2 forum at steam and the hackers that enable multicore support through hacks and the console). L4D2 uses the new version of source, written on and fore multicore processors, and that’s probably the difference you’re seeing.

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:54:34 +0000

So far I’m HATING the (all-too-regular) “let’s spawn endless waves of zombies until you transport item X from location A to B” routine. The friendly AI is simply not up to the task — you need it to surround and protect you, moving together as a team, but it doesn’t/can’t/won’t — so unless you are online, L4D2 is turning out to be a pretty sucky experience.

I know the online play is the bigger focus, but L4D(1) was just fine as a single-player game. For a company who has always been happy to take their time in order to get something right, I’m really disappointed at how badly they’ve screwed this aspect up.

By: rageofthemage

rageofthemage — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:58:14 +0000

Damn PHeMoX troll enough today? Seriously fella, go outside, and eat a taco or something.

By: Skinlo

Skinlo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:05:17 +0000

Well to be fair, the trees are pretty impressive for a 6 year old graphics engine.

And yes, he is good at it. The gushery is well deserved in general, it is a great game. I would recommend it for anyone who has played L4D1, as well as those who have never played it.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:27 +0000

ROFL you are bashing someone’s grammar for reviewing a video game? Honestly… you need to grow up and go outside some. Maybe meet a friend or two. A real one perhaps.

All-in-all though, this game is pretty flippin’ awesome. Been playing a lot between work and “lady time.” This game takes everything that’s good about L4D and improves on it. Takes everything bad about L4D and throws it out the window. If you are looking for a challenging game with very high replay value, get this. Very few games have the replay value that the L4D series has if you are into FPS games.

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:31:31 +0000

The worst piece of gushery ever. You must have been a terror for your high school English teacher.

And your thing about the trees? Goodness, that made me ashamed to even own a computer, just for fear of being associated with people as stupidly disingenuous as you.

I realize reviewing games is easy (yes, it is, don’t lie) and it’s sort of “your thing,” but you are not good at it.