Morning Discussion

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    March 13, 2009 6:57 AM

    Spent a few hours playing Left 4 Dead today - bring on the 53,000 achievement!

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      March 13, 2009 7:00 AM

      I'm about 60% there.

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      March 13, 2009 7:18 AM

      I'd add you to my Friends list, but well, you're Australian. Bigoted pricksThe lag would be tremendous.

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        March 13, 2009 7:25 AM

        yeah me switching from cable to dsl (even with fastpath) prevents me from playing with shackers.
        this and the buddy going awol have pretty much held me back from playing any l4d.

        its possible to play tf2 with lag but left for dead is unbearable.

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      March 13, 2009 7:27 AM

      After I got that I abruptly stopped playing. I think I felt guilty for spending so much time playing that game.

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      March 13, 2009 7:29 AM

      took me about 2 1/2 months of steadily playing 20-25 hours a week to get there...

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      March 13, 2009 9:47 AM

      So felicia and myself have been racing each other towards that 53,545 zombie achievement in L4D, which got me thinking just how many e-people have I killed in gaming over the years?

      It's fun to track your progess in other scales. For example, I've killed just over 17,000 zombies in Left 4 Dead ALONE. That's about

      - 1,545 soccer teams
      - Almost the entire New South Wales Police Force
      - 18 times the population of my hometown
      - over 10 times the amount that died on the Titanic

      I've also killed more people than SARS has.

      DEFCON is just ridiculous.

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        March 14, 2009 11:59 AM

        Side note: Saint's Row 2 brings a similar idea up in one of the early missions (re: the hundreds of murders your character committed in SR1) - it sure was a bit of a fourth-wall breaking moment in its sheer absurdity.

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      March 13, 2009 9:51 AM

      What the hell is going on here.

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      March 13, 2009 9:57 AM

      damn, i've been playing since the first weekend and only have 20k kills. :(
      That said I've pretty much been only playing versus mode.

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      March 13, 2009 9:57 AM

      I need 2,000 more.

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      March 13, 2009 10:14 AM

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      March 13, 2009 12:35 PM

      Mwhahaha, that achievement was achieved 2 months ago for me, and I don't even play campaign.

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        March 13, 2009 3:15 PM

        Then you cannot get it unless the game fucked up.

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