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Left 4 Dead 2 Announced, Dated November 17
by Alice O'Connor and Chris Faylor, Jun 01, 2009 11:10am PDTA sequel to Valve's cooperative zombie shooter Left 4 Dead was just announced at Microsoft's E3 Media Briefing, slated to arrive November 17 on PC and Xbox 360.
New survivors in new locations--the trailer teases Louisiana--gain melee combat with weapons such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe and baseball bat to fend off new zombies.
Valve promises "a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, and maps for Survival mode available at launch." The gameplay-controlling AI Director is also ramped up, now able to change weather effects, world objects and pathways to keep players on the edge of their seat.
Check back later this week for our impressions of Left 4 Dead 2.
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That's such a slap in the face for L4D 1 owners. They release this half-finished, 4 mapped game that has less content than a decent mod (even CS has more maps). It takes them a year to release an update that adds versus to the 2 of the 4 maps.
And now you're out of $50 and a new game is coming out to make L4D outdated.
Gee gee? Here comes another $50 choo-choo train.
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Valve doesn't owe you your happiness.
K thx bye.
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I got my moneys' worth playing the 4 coop campaigns on expert with friends or random pubbies and that entertained me for what, a month? Then I moved on to vs mode and have been utterly hooked ever since... essentially for free.
Until the recent update, that pretty much consisted of me playing No Mercy over and over again.
Did I have fun? Fuck yeah. Every single game was different and I played with some truly funny, really good or absolutely terrible players. I had - and still have - a fucking blast.
The amount of hours I sunk into this game before survival mode and the 2 vs campaigns being made available alone means I probably actually owe Valve more money for literally hundreds of hours of fun I've had with this game.
Here's an educated assumption: people complaining about lack of free content for an already massively fleshed-out game which has had and will continue to have support from it's developer fit one or more of the following points:
1. Don't actually enjoy the game
2. Have a severely misplaced sense of entitlement
3. Are probably 12
4. Join lobbies then leave them if they can't play infected
4a. Play infected for one round then ragequit when they fail
4b. Ragequit as soon as they're losing because of #2 "But mummy said I'm special and I'll always be a winner! Bawww I don't want to play anymore"
5. Can't get over the fact that games are games and they're there to have fun
5a. The Internet is serious business
You spoilt little children can stick to your whining and bawwwing and I'm going to stick to loving every moment of L4D and buying L4D2 with the disposable income I have from being an adult with a job.
The "M" rating is there for a fucking reason.
Deal with it.
so if you're not gonna pay 50 for L4D2
what GAME are you gonna buy with the 50 bucks you earned this morning?
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And by scoop, I mean theory.
I heaby predict, over the next few days, Valve will go on to announce Portal 2 (which has already been slipped is in development) and EP3 (which we know is) and upon announcing the last one, they will tell us that ALL 3 will be part of The Blue Box.
BAM!!
Any takers?
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L4D was $50, missing two VS campaigns because they were unfinished, got one update with those and a new mode that consisted of reused level sections, and now I'm supposed to drop more cash?
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The gaming industry is full of franchises which push out a game every year/two years with minimal changes. Rarely do those games get any free DLC.
When it comes to supporting the gaming community, can anyone really say Valve is not way way in the positive end of the scale? Just look at TF2, how much stuff you get for the price of one game. L4D, while it didn't have all that much content, has replayable quality content and I dare claim the average player has put more hours into it than most games they've bought. Valve also supports the modding community much much more than they'd have to.
No-one if forcing you to buy L4D2 either. All you are really saying is "waah waah, they're making a new game instead of making free stuff for me". I can't believe I'm reading this crap about a company which provides quality games time after time in an era where going for the easy money is the standard, not an exception.
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I still can't believe I paid $45 for l4d in november. What a rip off for what you get.
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Only thing I don't like so far? The Incendiary Ammo. Looks lame, and feels out of place to me.
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"Just wanted to insure you all l4d created maps will instantly work in l4d2. There are some new things you can do and director changes you will be able to take advantage of in l4d2 when it is released, but l4d maps will work."
Now what this indicates, at least to me anyways, is that this is basically going to be a massive content patch for people who own L4D and a stand alone product for those who don't. Similar to the Guild Wars model, you get what you pay for, but it's all compatible with each other. There's no reason to run around screaming that the sky is falling just yet.
Team Fortress 2 is an aberration. No other company would be giving away this many extras for free except Valve. Just because they haven't done the same for L4D doesn't entitle you to whine about it.
Also, I'm surprised no one has leapt to the "OMG BLACK PEOPLE SHOOTING AND CHAINSAWING WHITE FOLK, RACIST GAME RLRGLRLGLGG!!!"
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LOL get over it people.
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Yeah. So tier 2 melee weapons? That's cool. I guess this means no new campaigns for L4D1. That's a shame.
I only played L4D during that recent free steam weekend and I loved it and have been waiting for it to be on offer again to buy it, but since L4D 2 is coming real soon I guess I'll wait and see how things are going to pan out.
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This confuses and angers me!
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I ask why (I own it for the PC and love it)
They say they can't beat a level due to the common xbox 360 user spitting out racist comments, killing them and then logging off.
I smile
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Left 4 Dead rolls around and I play the demo, preorder it for $45, and figure that the deficiencies it has (like DA/DT Vs. not being there) will be rectified and then some. Finally they got the Survival Pack out which fixed that and added Survival Mode which was hmk but Killing Floor has L4D beat there. With Valve essentially indicating that L4D was to have the same kind of support as TF2...
Anyway, from what I've seen of the trailers and etc so far, imo this has to be the best practical joke ever- better than any April Fool's joke ever. The gameplay atm looks so terrible- hell, even the graphics look worse (not that broad daylight for a zombie game helps them much). I mean, as far as Expansion Pack vs. Mod goes, it tips even more towards the Mod scale than Battlefield 2142 did. If this keeps up, it's easily on track to be the worst thing Valve has ever released and meh, Valve strikes me as being smarter than that so I'm putting money on this being a joke of some kind.
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Does anyone have an extra copy they don't use to gift? I could use it...
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