DIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLO!!!!

I'm going to skip this whole thread and simply come out saying I really, really didn't enjoy this game that much.  MAYBE on the PC for all the gloriously silly mods (Hulk Hogan as every normal zombie or Johnny Bravo as the Tank?  I'm fucking sold.)  But in all honesty, the game on it's own seemed boring and easy to me.  Not worth my money.  Too bad I can't sell anything from my collection…not even my bad stuff.  It isn't in me.

I probably wont buy L4D2 simply because I have a carbon copy being the original already… which I dont play anymore regardless.

I just wish they were what they promised.  Strategic.  They are most definitely not.    I wasted good damn money getting it when it came out and for what…”Mow down th'a exploding dum screaming dead exploding frail stupid things~!”  >w>  I'd enjoy it more if it were…you know…a challenge.  Or if it had substance.

What I laughed at most was how they put it high on GamerPro or whatever the magazine is you get with an Edgecard subscription:  they mentioned all the “positive points” that make it amazing…and from having played it with the exception of playing the zombies on versus, every single thing was a load of crap.

-The game does not modify itself to fit your play level:  It never got harder.  Ever.  It was the same easy shit.  I only died when a tank threw me off the side of the hospital roof.

-The characters were not well written or interesting:  they never clearly explain why these people are immune to the infection (which apparently they are).  They exchange no meaningful dialogue ever outside of one segment in one mission that could VAGUELY be considered a type of cutscene (the mutating priest).  The only amount of character they show is “Time to bandage ya up!” and maybe a bit of sadness if a team-mate dies (but don't worry, they revive in closets~!)

-The game was not strategic.  If a sniper rifle (or a scoped hunting rifle…basically should be the same thing) has the same pinpoint accuracy, semi-automatic fire rate, and ammo cap as an assault rifle.  And the shotgun in the game shares  these same traits, and the pistols do to except they have INFINITE ammo (on any difficulty, so I hear), and you can just spam fire into mobs and come out safe and sound after charging through, then there is most definitely not any amount of strategy. 

Honestly…I don't see what the big deal is.  The only reason you even need teammates is to help revive you.  And even that didn't make sense.  “Ho christ!  This giant invincible super mutant thing just hurled a giant piece of asphault into my ribs, which are all now powder!”  *Falls over not-dead*.  “Don't worry!”  *OFFERS A HAND!*

That's sorta a worse setup than the anime tradition of bandaids heal everything…

Anyway, sorry for the rant, I'm done for now.

To me it was just ugh you had 4 maps for 2 game modes and that was it. The patch they released gave you a new lighthouse survival map, but you HAD to do it with 3 random jerkholes you found online. And as for regular gameplay, expert mode and versus mode alike, 2 competent players could mow down any level with any number of zombies no matter if they were human controlled or not. Me and Devin watched our 2 team mates run ahead of us thinking wed get left behind and die but they got rocked. So we were left behind to clean up after their effing mess (which including a tank I juked out for 2 solid minutes while it died to fire slowly) and it didnt matter if the zombies (who were human controlled this was versus) had the best luck of the AI leaving us no ammo, no med packs, no grenades, no nothing or if they all spawned as hunters at the same time while a million zombies were about. We gunned them down like they were sitting prisoners waiting to be executed. And the sad thing is, we didnt go in the safe room half alive gasping for breath like the programmers intended. We went in sprinting and went back outside to shoot the car like retards out of sheer hilarity to rub it in. You equip a shotgun and hold down the melee button whenever you run out of ammo. The only thing that could do anything to you was a smoker because it wasnt close to you. Then again your shotgun had little spread so you could probably still kill it right off the rooftop from way down on the ground. And of course the tank would slow you down but as long as you werent horribly injured you could dance around it like a monkey taking easy shots at it. After a while you dont even need anything but a shotgun if you think about it, theres no sniping involved and any automatic weapon has the same range and less firepower as the damn thing. The whole game and all of its levels were pretty much just a speed course based on how fast you could run.

Even at a slower pace the game wouldn't be very challenging.

Make the zombies not die in 1 shot then we might have something hard rofl.

Yeah, that's how I'd be willing to play.  Also, Batot, back a few posts, you mentioned the AI director in 2 being better.  I heard that to from a friend who has it…the fact they made it SUPREMELY different.  I've only played 1, and that damn director thing never did a single visible thing.  That's what I meant.  I'm sure 2 is more polished…Valve is good about making sequels a bit better, from what I've seen.

I suppose.  Either way, I'm all for going for other things.  I may try 2 at a friends place, but that's likely it.  Or I'll get 1 for PC so I can mod the hell out of it.  :3

To Erik, the game is strategic if you're playing with the right people and not on an easy difficulty, i have a blast playing it every time.

Yeah…sadly you're right on all accounts Batto.  And honestly, I fail to see any potential strategy when the gameplay involves being able to just waltz through the mob of enemies without so much as a scratch.  I find it hilarious that there's more strategy involved in playing as the special infected in the versus mode online.  That's just fucking stupid in my opinion.