Go 8-Bit Zombie Hunting With the Left 4 Dead "Demake"
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Lame. Not because it's 8-bit. I think it would be funny as hell to see a real translation of L4D to NES style, but this person totally missed the point. I mean, good lord, it's just a standard isometric shooter. The zombies just stand around most of the time, and having the same hatless-Mario sprites for nearly every zombie isn't all that impressive. Plus, the other characters are totally absent. What the hell? I know, I know, programming AI is hard. But you know what? Flash programmers do it just fine all the time. I've seen tons of Flash games out there that have perfectly functioning AI from NPCs. There's no reason not to have all the characters there, or at least fully functioning zombies.
Really, the only novelty of this is just the idea. NES Left 4 Dead. The graphics are unimaginative and uninspired, and that's not because it's 8-bit. Oh no, I've seen some seriously nice colorful graphics in a lot of NES games. Castlevania III had beautiful, colorful graphics, yet it still pulled off the creepy, dark atmosphere. The gameplay is far too simple. The music was alright, and the fact that he made it so close to the original music is pretty cool. But really, it just draws out the blandness of the game. Having such good music would have made it fantastic if it was actually a good translation.
My problem is that this is far too gimmicky to make it worthy of play. He only got people to play this because it has the name Left 4 Dead on it.
Really, the only novelty of this is just the idea. NES Left 4 Dead. The graphics are unimaginative and uninspired, and that's not because it's 8-bit. Oh no, I've seen some seriously nice colorful graphics in a lot of NES games. Castlevania III had beautiful, colorful graphics, yet it still pulled off the creepy, dark atmosphere. The gameplay is far too simple. The music was alright, and the fact that he made it so close to the original music is pretty cool. But really, it just draws out the blandness of the game. Having such good music would have made it fantastic if it was actually a good translation.
My problem is that this is far too gimmicky to make it worthy of play. He only got people to play this because it has the name Left 4 Dead on it.
Oh wow, I haven't played that in a loooong time.scotth266 said:
Last thing I ever did was run around as Megaman.
As for the L4D demake, it sure would be nice to play it on the go.
Ok, I know that it hasbe said that some people do have an excess of time on their hands& for the most part the results are not always the most beautiful of things but in this case we have a Win ladies&gentlemen // Something like this is a thing of joy&should be shared with the world // So let's just hope that steam takes it in board as a free download
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That's what I meant. I ENJOY it, as in I play it frequently.wordsmith said:
My nickname on that is "rik," and I usually play Engie, Heavy or Spy.
He's playing it on Normal, I think the Advanced mode would contain quite a bit more zombies. They could've moved a bit more as well, if you ask me. But the 8-bit music really did it for me, awesome.Crossborder said:
Anyway, this looks great, people would've lóved this if it was released in the 80's. I laughed when I saw the shove ability, but was surprised that I didn't see a Hunter. I see why a Smoker or Witch wouldn't really work, but a Hunter is quite easy I suppose, sure it wouldn't pounce like a regular Hunter, but it would jump around like those fly things in the first Mario game.
I totally Youtube'd the shit out of that, and wow, that's even more awesome than the L4D one. Especially the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFlWw-7FnQ&feature=related] awesome [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRLUXBJjJIY&feature=related] TF2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2keLeYGeuQ&feature=related] music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gilxrVtyUpA&feature=related] in 8-bit form. Brilliant Youtube comments (*gasp* yes it is true!) under those video's, by the way.wordsmith said:
That doesn't mean I can't still judge it by today's standards. It was made recently, after all, and for who? Nostalgics who just play inferior games, because "it's meant to look like a 25-year-old console"?The Rogue Wolf said:
And yes, while "for teh lulz" is the reason anyone does anything, and it's a neat idea, I think they could've bumped up the number of zombies a bit. Also, most of them just seemed to stand there, when the player came up to them and shot them.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Even then, for a "retro game" it looks just too easy. I remember those classic games because they were balls-crushingly difficult. This game looks like a joke.Khell_Sennet said: