Valve Releases the Four Minute Left 4 Dead Intro

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  Oh do be quiet. TF2 style? OK... (snigger) : slackshoe
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    His post was correct. They did change art direction to a less-gritty look. Why are you sniggering? : CRasterImage
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      "cartoony/TF2 style" : slackshoe
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        He said "half". The cartoony/tf2 style is partialy due to the smooth, solid colors used for texturing.... : CRasterImage
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          And that explanation was half bullshit. : slackshoe
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            Can you at least just debate the subject? All your posts so far consist of pithy comments. If you like ... : CRasterImage
            • Making the player models slightly cleaner is not a change in art direction. I see absolutely no paral... : slackshoe

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  True if we're talking about everything except CS: Source and DOD: Source. Those two games are shining exa... : lectR
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    You're wrong, they listened to their consumer base which is why there are still so many people playing CS... : kpxkrnjc
    • This --^ : erikman619
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      Uh, no. CS:S and DoD:S were not the games the majority of people wanted when they were released. Eithe... : synapse19
      • Uh, yes. : atom519
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        Please note that Half-Life 1 era CS became spray and pray after beta 6. : windowpane
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          do you have a reason behind that or did you just randomly throw out an old version to make yourself look ... : synapse19
          • From what I remember beta 6 was when CS popularity exploded and the community became less friendly. And t... : dookiebot
          • No, I'm dead serious. Go check the weapon accuracy cones between versions 6.1, 6.2 and 7. They totally ... : windowpane
    • Agreed. : BoKnows
  • DOD:S was/is still great : the rizzo
  • Cs :S is better than 1.6, as for DOD, I've never played the original. : shirif
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    DoD:Source is brilliant. You are very wrong. : Sturm08
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      Didn't you also say you never played the original? I'm pretty sure you did before. : synapse19
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        Yes, that is correct (stalker!). But even though I've never played the original, I've spent so many hours... : Sturm08
        • It's a decent game now that they've reverted some of their original additions they made during the transi... : synapse19
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  not really impressive when they release games between 4 year periods : doomed
  • I'm glad the games are good enough for me to ignore the 4 year periods : bigexplosions
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  wow, i hope this is a joke.....valves quality has really dropped down the past few years. : bbmar23
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    Portal eats your comment and poops it out and serves it back to you with a breath mint on the side. : dookiebot
    • Portal.....yeah.....maybe peoples standards have just fallen... : bbmar23

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  Good luck finding three others to play coop as serious as they do. I think I'll be playing through the ca... : Ghillie
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    At first maybe not, but after a while, it should be easy to find good players on pubs. : razlebol
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      I really wish it would be. But if my experience of TF2 is anything to go by - a supposedly very team-cent... : etherealrhythm
      • Then you boot them with the voting system. Seriously it's not a big issue. Don't bust a vein thinking... : kpxkrnjc
• fuck yeah! : timaste
• This might be okay in that sense. It's not like you can go to a far corner and snipe or something. I thin... : Vangoghs Ear
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  Super Hard mode + LAN = expecting to be awesome : ShadowRam
  • Oh hells yes. My hope (against hope) is for there to not have to be 4 xbox / 4 games to play on LAN. : getlefty

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• wow that sounds soooooo exciting... : caddytwix
• Yeah, you may be. November the sixth can't get here quickly enough. : bigfeet
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  I agree about the slow zombies, and especially with the "super" zombie...I wouldn't even mind fast zombie... : Dr Van Nostrand
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    You'd rather play as a regular zombie than the giant bosses? Every game needs boss characters. : ImageOmega
    • I dunno I would find it coolest as an experience if it were exactly like a lot of zombie movies...i.e. no... : Dr Van Nostrand
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  you just described Dead Rising : Korban
  • Which still isn't on PC.... : ShadowRam

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  Well... These aren't really zombies in the true sense. More like the infected of 28 Days Later movies. : lolife.se
  • Screams I am Legend (although those aren't zombies of the truest sense I don't think) Looks awesome th... : FuryVII
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  I hate nerds who over analyze this kind of stuff. It's a game, get over it. : kpxkrnjc
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    Also: zombies arent real... how do we know they can' run? : cyclonebee
    • *can't : cyclonebee
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      Because if they're dead, their hearts aren't pumping... which means no blood flow and no fast moving musc... : Edges
      • by that logic there would be no slow moving muscles either. : marmite
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  day of the dead would disagree... If i remember right (remember movie title anyway) when the little ... : riedlos
  • Fast zombies are really a recent invention in the genre, thanks to 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead... : kallanta
• Zombies running is fine; They're human bodies after all. Punching through steel doors and flying arou... : Theos
• It would be nice if there were slow moving zombies just for contrast. : mblissp
• Real life zombies have had their brains turned to mush, so the best they can do is drool a bit. In th... : goshzilla
• Ya.. I prefer "insane quantity"of slow zombies, instead of a few fast moving zombies, or high HP zombies... : ShadowRam

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  I'm going to assume that was sarcasm, because seriously, what has Valve done that hasn't been top-notch? : docholoday
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    Top notch: HL1, HL1DM, TFC, HL2, CS:S Not top notch: HL2 EP 1, HL2 EP 2, DOD:S, TF2, HL2DM IMHO Val... : boulder94
    • "becoming known for very cold and empty maps" {citation needed} : slackshoe

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• That and Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3, Farcry 2, Clear Sky and Aquaria. The last game is a total wtf, i know... : windowpane
• drop $300 and upgrade. : Jimbo Ro

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  Me too, the lack of DLC from day 1 kinda scares me, especially after it seemed like TF2 DLC was tacked on... : johngloid
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    If you're planning on getting this for the 360, prepare to be ignored all over again. Valve makes PC g... : carbontree
    • I don't want to get into the details but Microsoft is the reason you haven't seen a ton of updates on 360... : dookiebot

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• You should have someone do a DUKE vs. Zombies mod for DNF! :D : PlanetPerfecto
• Man, this poor bastard cannot speak without Duke being brought up. This is why we don't have hot chicks o... : Vangoghs Ear

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• It's definitely the guy that did the voice for the fisherman in Lost Coast. Same guy as Grigori too? I du... : slackshoe

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  Just? Valve owns the internet! : Mystery0000
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    Google owns the internet, Valve runs it. : leaked
    • Other way around. : Damodred

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  http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18199241#itemanchor_18199241 : Nick Breckon
  • i don't know why this made me laugh so much : Korban
  • nothing like repeating yourself. just don't buy it if it doesn't interest you. no shortage of good games ... : phil_mckraken
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  as far as I read they have tried to make sure that it wouldn't get repetitive. Can't remember the exact d... : humbleone
  • I.E. The AI Director allocates resources (zombies etc) in a way that is reciprocal to how your team is pl... : kpxkrnjc
  • There are a few things the game director does. * Monitors how well your team is doing. If they notice ... : Porkasaurus
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  This game has pretty much nothing in common with Dead Rising except zombies. There really are basically n... : Chris Remo
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    I love Valve games and have never been let down. But I am worried about this because I just picture wave ... : bozer
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      No, the crux of Left4Dead is the AI director. Instead of just throwing endless waves of increasingly diff... : carbontree
      • "for a different experience each time...." : carbontree
      • Also, knowing Valve, they'll keep crapping out free new levels every other month. : Splinebastard
  • ^^ Dead Rising = single player game. This is multi. HUGE difference. COD4, I still only played through... : FormerHPB
• I agree Chris...nothing in common with Dead Rising except for Zombies (Even that is a stretch). Atleast ... : SteelBee
• 4 player zombi co-op if done well shouldn't get old too fast. Playing with new players should change the... : boulder94
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  The PC version shouldn't get stale as long as the modders are hard at work. : The Campin Carl
  • l4d is a source engine game so that means people can start making maps right now if they were really ambi... : ballystix
  • I could imagine some amazing mods...and even maps will add a shit load of replayability to this fucker. : Vorlonesque
• That is freakin' hilarious. VERSUS mode gives you massive replay value - lots of fun. : andre GiANT
• virtualsinner, L4D has absolutely no reply value, do not purchase. Stick with Dead Rising, its actually q... : Lukiopimp

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• The levels are probably not procedurally random. The spawning and behavior of the AI though will be diffe... : Lukiopimp

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• ^ the way to watch this : SlamDunk
• Thanks for shortcut! : jodiuh

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• i loled too : caddytwix

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  It's not the original Source engine, though... It's had like a billion updates since '04. : Cihte
  • I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. The Source engine is "still going strong" precisely because... : MamiyaOtaru

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  Yeah those 3 map textures in TF2 are amazing. : boulder94
  • i know right? :D : i poop from there
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    You know boulder, people got it about 50 posts ago that you dont like these games, you really dont have t... : Flobster
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      Agrees with above : zooolander
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        and to piss him off more, i just hit Purchase to pre order L4D. get bent boulder :D : i poop from there
        • I just pre-ordered it tew. I'm giddy. : 69gooch69
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    Are you stumping for Official Shacknews Graphics Troll or something? Because you crop up in every single ... : carbontree
    • Disagreement is not bile. : boulder94

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• Did you know you can connect a computer to a TV as well. : FIGHTheSYSTM

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  I think the audio accidentally really badly in this video. : FlashIV
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    you forgot with guns : .ka`boom.zZz.
    • it doesnt even for me : doomed

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• You can download it on Steam. : Nitrium

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• Pretty sure they made it so that you're spending more time playing than scrounging for ammo. I think the... : kpxkrnjc
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  I read a preview that said that ammo isn't an issue. You'll have plenty of ammo up until the end of the l... : TheIneffableBob
  • It's mostly not a problem, but you do run out, and usually at the worst times. It's rarely annoying, beca... : Nick Breckon
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  This isn't a "run-out-of-ammo" survival horror game, it's a "run-out-of-space-between-you-and-the-endless... : carbontree
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    in that case i would have really liked to have seen zombies react to being shot by being blown back like ... : retarded talking dinosaur
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      They do react. By dying. Problem is, you may kill 1. You may kill several. Heck, you may even kill doz... : carbontree
      • BOTH! : disposition
  • The ammo is evenly dispensed amongst the weapons, there really isn't a strongest weapon. Most of the weap... : Porkasaurus
• Your backup pistol never runs out of ammo. At safehouses and various checkpoints they have UNLIMITED a... : Porkasaurus
• Let's hope they hide the best ammo fairly well, but leave the ammo for the shittier weapons lying around.... : Splinebastard

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• steam://run/5141 : Alegis of Light

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• ^^^^ This is what I came in here to post. : mrwolf710
• Really fucking awesome. : dasampla
• Yeah, I'm blown away. Want it now. : sneak
• the excact reflects i had when watched this (high quality at steam), i already had a big game boner for t... : ClawHammR
• Can't argue with that! : Alegis of Light

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  The Valve South team (formerly Turtle Rock) are the ones responsible for Left 4 Dead, they are in Irvine,... : Porkasaurus
  • Well basically yes. Everyone at Valve (Seattle and Irvine) worked on this product. Not just the guys in s... : -sk-