Left4dead

[Bluntknife]

Heh, if I ever do get the game (I would if I could) I'm going to jump straight into Expert mode

Sorry to say, but you'll get raped in the ear...without lube, or even breakfast the next morning!

I found it to be pretty hard on expert, and I'm pretty good at shooters. (beat Crysis on max difficulty first time around)

You'll want to get a feel for things on meduim or so, just in case you set off a car alarm and get swarmed.

 

[RhinoTuna]

I've played L4D on both the PC, and the 360; and I have to come to one singular conclusion:
Valve doesn't care about (or for) consoles. Whatsoever.

They also hate people who like melee.

You'd really want to have a selection of melee weapons in L4D? You'd be a liability.

Heh, if I ever do get the game (I would if I could) I'm going to jump straight into Expert mode

Sorry to say, but you'll get raped in the ear...without lube, or even breakfast the next morning!

I found it to be pretty hard on expert, and I'm pretty good at shooters. (beat Crysis on max difficulty first time around)

You'll want to get a feel for things on meduim or so, just in case you set off a car alarm and get swarmed.

Shooters played on single-player aren't really that hard. The only one i found the least bit challenging was CoD4 (That freaking ferris wheel event was a biiitch). Besides, you can't really compare Crysis to L4D in terms of difficulty.

 

[Zac_Dai]

Sorry, I posted this rant before I noticed this thread:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.77892#955844

Yeh thats why I'm always going to stick to PC for online multiplayer, the level of retards and kids is much lower. I luckily have 3 decent friends to play with on l4d, it just makes the experience so much better.

 

[Jumplion]

Heh, if I ever do get the game (I would if I could) I'm going to jump straight into Expert mode

Sorry to say, but you'll get raped in the ear...without lube, or even breakfast the next morning!

I found it to be pretty hard on expert, and I'm pretty good at shooters. (beat Crysis on max difficulty first time around)

You'll want to get a feel for things on meduim or so, just in case you set off a car alarm and get swarmed.

I'd be setting off dozens of car-alarms and getting barfed on many many times then >_>

Obviously I'd play on lower settings to see which character I liked the best and what weapon, and I promise to you that if I could get this game I would, but since my PC's crap and there's no PS3 version in sight, I'm going to have to wait till I can upgrade my computer somehow.

 

[Blind0bserver]

Actually the demo was discontinued by Valve the day that the full game was released. While I'm sure there are more nefarious ways to still get it, the demo is no longer supported by Steam.

 

[Jumplion]

Heh, if I ever do get the game (I would if I could) I'm going to jump straight into Expert mode

Sorry to say, but you'll get raped in the ear...without lube, or even breakfast the next morning!

I found it to be pretty hard on expert, and I'm pretty good at shooters. (beat Crysis on max difficulty first time around)

You'll want to get a feel for things on meduim or so, just in case you set off a car alarm and get swarmed.

I'd be setting off dozens of car-alarms and getting barfed on many many times then >_>

Obviously I'd play on lower settings to see which character I liked the best and what weapon, and I promise to you that if I could get this game I would, but since my PC's crap and there's no PS3 version in sight, I'm going to have to wait till I can upgrade my computer somehow.

TsunamiWombat is playing it in a very bad computer (at least that's what I understood).
You should download the demo and try it out, you may be surprised.

The demo is still out? I thought it was gone when the game is released?

Though, now that I think about it, I probably should have tried to download the demo >_>; Though it's my graphics card and RAM that are crap, the graphics card is intergrated in my Dell compy and I need about 1GB or RAM or something to meet minimum requirements.

 

[Lord George]

I and my friends found out that I make a great coward, as shown by the fact that whenever we get mobbed my zombies I throw a Molotov at my feet set everything on fire(including my companions) and then run screaming in a random direction, and occasional I flee the right way

 

[Bluntknife]

Heh, if I ever do get the game (I would if I could) I'm going to jump straight into Expert mode

Sorry to say, but you'll get raped in the ear...without lube, or even breakfast the next morning!

I found it to be pretty hard on expert, and I'm pretty good at shooters. (beat Crysis on max difficulty first time around)

You'll want to get a feel for things on meduim or so, just in case you set off a car alarm and get swarmed.

I'd be setting off dozens of car-alarms and getting barfed on many many times then >_>

Obviously I'd play on lower settings to see which character I liked the best and what weapon, and I promise to you that if I could get this game I would, but since my PC's crap and there's no PS3 version in sight, I'm going to have to wait till I can upgrade my computer somehow.

Can you run any other source games? like half life2, portal? and other assorted goodies

 

[Jumplion]

Can you run any other source games? like half life2, portal? and other assorted goodies

Nope, all bullshit. My computer struggled to play the Half-Life 2 demo so I'm fairly sure that most things are out of reach for my poor computer.

But hey, I can wait, I've got LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2 to keep me occupied till then.

 

[Bluntknife]

Can you run any other source games? like half life2, portal? and other assorted goodies

Nope, all bullshit. My computer struggled to play the Half-Life 2 demo so I'm fairly sure that most things are out of reach for my poor computer.

But hey, I can wait, I've got LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2 to keep me occupied till then.

Damn that sucks, it's pretty easy to upgrade though if you ever felt like it.

 

[Caliostro]

Can you run any other source games? like half life2, portal? and other assorted goodies

Nope, all bullshit. My computer struggled to play the Half-Life 2 demo so I'm fairly sure that most things are out of reach for my poor computer.

But hey, I can wait, I've got LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2 to keep me occupied till then.

If there's a demo or you have a friend who can borrow you the game a day (and steam account) give it a go on minimum... Might work)

 

[Turtleboy1017]

Graphics aren't too much of a problem for me, I cope with them at about 20-40 FPS but w/e.

As for the difficulty of the game, expert IS extremely hard. On advanced each hit from the normal canon fodder infected do 5 damage. On expert they do TWENTY!! It's like crawling, standing, learning your first steps, and then being thrust into a 24 hour marathon with the intention of running 80 miles minimum at a constant pace (for me at least). If any any of you actually managed to beat one of the two levels you can play on versus on expert, WITH human's playing as the zombies, I tip my hat to you.

 

[Spleeni]

Graphics aren't too much of a problem for me, I cope with them at about 20-40 FPS but w/e.

As for the difficulty of the game, expert IS extremely hard. On advanced each hit from the normal canon fodder infected do 5 damage. On expert they do TWENTY!! It's like crawling, standing, learning your first steps, and then being thrust into a 24 hour marathon with the intention of running 80 miles minimum at a constant pace (for me at least). If any any of you actually managed to beat one of the two levels you can play on versus on expert, WITH human's playing as the zombies, I tip my hat to you.

I'm pretty sure they increased the difficulty of expert from the demo....and made the NPC's a bit more stupid.

I tried going singleplayer in No Mercy, on expert. I got killed fifteen times before calling it quits.

 

[RhinoTuna]

Expert is definitely doable. I tried a few rounds of Death Toll with a friend of mine and two comps to see how we'd go. We were doing really well until Bill and Zoey (Note: computers) decided to be retarded and spread out a little too much, especially during hordes. Needless to say they became a liability and a tank ended up killing them, and by the time we got to the second tank we were limping around and weren't fast enough to outrun it.

Moral of the story; never do expert with computers. A competent group can do expert without finding it too difficult, just as long as you don't startle any witches (One hit from them incapacitates you), get barfed on, or trigger any car alarms.