Should I get Dead Rising 2 or Left 4 Dead 2?

[Atmos Duality]

I bought L4D2 on Steam about three weeks ago for roughly $20 (USD).

I've had plenty of fun with it, and it costs a fair bit less than a brand-new release.

 

[Evilsanta]

Dead rising 2

Left 4 Dead 2 is an FPS with zombies
Dead Rising 2 is an insane game with zombies

there's too many FPSes and not enough insane games.

This. Sure L4D and L4D2 is fun but not insane as Dead Rising 2 is. You can combine a shitload of things to get better and more insane things to kill zombies with. You can kill zombies with a giand teddy bear!

 

[LightOfDarkness]

I like singleplayer but multiplayer shouldn't be the only reason I get a game. Thank god that L4D2 also has a great singleplayer (even if it does get old in a while).

But I still want to see the results of my and my insane cousin in coop DR2. Probably a lot of dead zombies. Deader than dead if it was stomped on by several Grim Reapers who were curbstomped by the One True Reaper.

 

[Svartfalk]

I have an interest in both games and both on the Xbox360, but if it's PC, I'd say L4D2. Good multiplayer, intresting courses and wicked good gamemodes. You can build a team or just play with random people, it doesn't matter. Plus, on th PC, the extra stuff is for free.

 

[jowo96]

Left 4 Dead 2 is cheaper and I prefer it, I think it has more replayability, I played the demo and it got old really quickly.

 

[Mista Miggins]

Lets keep this simple.

Do you like FPSes with fun co-op? L4D2

Do you like having a hoard of zombies crawling your way and you are out of ammo, only to spot a bowling ball in the corner, throw it through the crowd and karate kicking your way through. Dead Rising my friend.

 

[Naota_391]

Dead Rising 2 will make you rage. A lot. Some parts of that are, like the first, just fucked up.

 

[omega 616]

Dead Rising 2 will make you rage. A lot. Some parts of that are, like the first, just fucked up.

Such as? The loading screens are a little long, the difficulty spikes at the psycho's but none of it is rage inducing or fucked up.

 

[Naota_391]

I've hear d a lot of people say it's like the first one in quite a few ways. Like the bosses.

The bosses in the first game drove me bat shit insane. The shooting was terrible when you were fighting anything that wasn't a zombie. The zombies moved really slow, giving you time to work the reticle over their face and go boom-boom-boom. In a boss fight, you'd have a guy throwing grenades at you, and you're standing there trying to pop off a shot at him. I died a lot with things like that.

Or how you'd go through the court yard and see these gangbangin' thugs running around in a jeep, mowing everyone down. Even IF you managed to kill them, they'd just respawn the next time you came. It felt pointless. They were a huge pain, and even if you managed to finish them off, it didn't matter.

Saving survivors sounded fun at first, but I quickly got fed up with it. I'd be trying to fend off a fresh crowd off zombies with a base ball bat, crow bar, hammer, bench, or SOMETHING and the survivors would always get in the way. If I ran out of ammo, it was super hard to get zombies off of them without hurting them. They did a terrible job of defending themselves, and I'd watch them accidentally smack each other around until they died or just disappear in a circle of zombies because they strayed away for some reason. The map didn't really do me much justice, either.

The timer on the game made me feel like I had to star rushing through things at some point (until I quit), because sometimes I'd just want to have fun and kill zombies in weird ways. I wanted to dick around in-between missions, but then I felt like I couldn't. A mission would expire, the clock would be counting down, it'd be night time soon, I only had three days, etc, etc. It just added a layer of pressure that felt unnecessary and got in the way of my enjoyment.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I haven't played DR2, but I played the first DR. If it's anything like the first, I'd have fun for about a half hour. I like L4D2, so I'm recommending that.

 

[Chicago Ted]

i am not angry. i use caps because its easier than using bold. bold takes too much time and i am too lazy.

Sorry then. I normally read all caps as being anger or frustration, and bold as simple focusing it more. Sometimes hard to figure out emotions exactly on the internet, no?

 

[phoenix352]

i played both and in my opinion dead rising is boring as all hell and left 4 dead is fun as a group game so id go for left 4 dead....

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Well Dead Rising was never by cup of tea, due to my hatred of time limits.
I thought Left4Dead was a load of fun though.
My girlfriend was going to buy Dead Rising 2 yesterday but we ended up getting Left4Dead 2 instead, been having a great time with it so far.

 

[Chad Brumfield]

I played Dead Rising 1 and thought it was horrific. The voice acting and dialogue were garbage and the overall gameplay wasn't anything I was impressed with. I've greatly enjoyed L4D and L4D2 and even now I still throw them in and play them. I suppose it really comes down to a preference of what kind of games you like but being a fan of the FPS, I have to recommend L4D.

 

[CheckD3]

Do you prefer guns and co-op or beat downs and single player? L4D2 is a co-op exdperience that feels like being in the faces of zombies is a bad idea overall, but Dead Rising (from my knowledge of the first game) was about running up and beating them with any and everything you could, and the new game seems like more combos to use against the undead bastards

Both are worth grabbing if you want to fuck zombies up though

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

Left 4 dead 2 is one of the best games you can buy, I play it at least three hours a day since I got it way back in Nov 2009.
If you have friends to play it with there is no better experience in gaming.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Getting Left 4 Dead 2 guys, thanks for the suggestions. Although I played the 360 version at a friend's house and I thought it was magnificent. The pacing at the start could really use some work, but non-technical wise, it was a great game. Now about the fricking load times...

I've read a few reviews and they say that the load times have been cut to a factor of the 360 version, anyone know if this is true?

Lets keep this simple.

Do you like FPSes with fun co-op? L4D2

Do you like having a hoard of zombies crawling your way and you are out of ammo, only to spot a bowling ball in the corner, throw it through the crowd and karate kicking your way through. Dead Rising my friend.

The second sounds kickass, although it seems like more of an example of what you can do and not the full scope of the game. FPS+Co-op is always fun though.

FYI: I'm part of a fairly large gaming community and they have a Left 4 Dead 2 server up+almost all of the community plays. SO I guess Left 4 Dead 2 it is.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Left 4 Dead 2.
It's a damn fine game, damn fine.

 

[feeback06]

I'd actually argue that Left 4 Dead 2 has the higher replay value. Dead Rising 2 has a lot of replay, but the events that unfold are the same every time - everything is in the same place - and once you've done everything (which there is a lot of) there is nothing more to do.

However Left 4 Dead 2, thanks to it's random enemy placement system (and some level set-piece placement) is a different experience everytime. And even then, thanks to the glories of PCness, there are tons of high-quality user-made campaigns avaliable to play, so even after you've gotten bored of the official ones, you can download those for more fun (some are on par with the design and atmosphere of the official maps, but then you also get fantastic surreal ones, like Mario-themed maps).

As people have said though, they're very different games and both excellent for different reasons. Personally Left 4 Dead is my favourite because me and my friends have great fun on it - both of the satisfying kind on harder difficulties, and of the crazy messing-about-with-glitches or speedrunning and generally amusing moments we have by making up personalities for all the zombies - classic fun you tend to only have with friends.

Here's the best answer. She nailed it.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

Both game are great.