SomeBritishDude said:
Anticitizen_Two said:
Looks awesome. Looks like Valve will be redeeming themselves for fucking up Left 4 Dead 2 so bad.
I don't see why Left 4 Dead 2 is a fuck up. It took everything that was great about the first game, fixed every problem and inproved on almost every other aspect. The game was needed IMO and it has a lot more staying power than the first.
I found that the atmosphere, one of the best parts of Left 4 Dead for me, was drastically reduced in the second game. Maybe it was just the inclusion of daytime levels or the overdone gore, but L4D just
feels more like the actual zombie apocalypse. L4D2 became less about survival and more about watching the almost cartoon-like death animations, and because of that it was really lacking a lot of the great atmosphere of the first. It feels almost comical, as opposed to the gritty, apocalyptic feel of the first. I also felt like the new weapons and items added were extraneous. The new guns felt very similar to the old ones and the defibrillators/energy shots weren't as good as the items they replaced, and I very rarely found myself using them. Boomer bile was so similar to pipe bombs that I also found it a little extraneous. Melee weapons were the worst part for me, though. They were just too easy to use, and ultimately way too good. It became rare to see anyone using pistols, because melee weapons were just too effective. And there really didn't need to be ten of them. Two would've worked just fine.
I guess the main problem I have with L4D2 is that it betrays the atmosphere and the simplicity of the first. But you know, that might just be me. A lot of people seem happy with it.
