Comments on: Left 4 Crap or What’s Wrong With Left 4 Dead

By: Matthew Schultz

Matthew Schultz — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:30:14 +0000

About the story:

Like Half-Life 2, there are elements of the back story that can be discovered or implied through noticing the small details in the game. See, for example, this article on the nature of the infection at the Left4Dead wiki:

http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Infection

Is the story deep? No. Are the details open to some level of interpretation? Yes. But the game is not completely devoid of plot devices.

By: Disappointed

Disappointed — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:32:57 +0000

> helpless noobs

This is why I'm thinking about giving up on L4D. Maybe you're not talking about players like myself (just started playing two weeks ago–real life gets in the way of gaming), but the attitude towards new players is simply atrocious. This is exacerbated by the fact that there's no way to practice two-thirds of the game modes offline.

Back when I had more time to game, I could count the number of times I'd been berated by another player for my performance on one hand. I can't remember ever being kicked for not playing well enough.

L4D players, on the other hand, are rude, cowardly, and kick-happy. There's no room in that "community" for people who are new to the game.

By: chocolatewars

chocolatewars — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:13:54 +0000

I think criticizing the game for having no backstory is grasping at straws. And as a matter of fact, the big zombie movies such as NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD or DAWN OF THE DEAD (original) have no back stories to them. Why do you need a backstory? I think it's a lot more interesting if it's left to interpretation. That's one of the aspects I actually LIKE about the game. But I guess that's asking way too much out of a video game.

The worst things about l4d are:

dead servers
ragequitting
uncooperative players or helpless noobs
griefers and the community in general (l4d is seriously one of the worst gaming communities I've seen. The nature of the gameplay practically begs for griefers because it's so team-oriented)
lack of variety in campaigns
repetitiveness

By: Legend A47

Legend A47 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:18:27 +0000

I agree with pretty much every point Tamizander made. The game sucked after a while. It just got stale and repetitive with no variety.

By: Wr3cktangl3

Wr3cktangl3 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:59:36 +0000

I think that the idea of L4D’s story is the whole, you and your friends tell the story of what happened when you were playing. Since the game is different every time due to the infinite improbability drive or what have you.

By: Kale

Kale — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:20:08 +0000

I agree on some of your points, it definitely has a mod feel to it, especially sine Gears, COD WaW offer similar modes although not as fleshed out.
I think the community issue is not the fault of the game, the game never made people A$$ols. People are just people and when you do get a good crowd it’s a hoot.
Also your point on the modding community, granted PC owners get the benefit but there are other single player games on the console that last only 5-6 hours and then your done, so bearing that in mind that the replay value L4D does offer not to mention the upcoming free DLC I don’t think it’s such a bad deal.
Lastly for the story, I don’t see where they would have time to fit it in. Especially being so multiplayer centric, I bought RE for a story based zombie killer I bought L4D to get online with some people and kill zombies.

By: xino

xino — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:29:35 +0000

what’s wrong with L4D???

*No story to the campaign!
*Annoying trash players who run off, or show off!
*Limited game contents!

But Multiplayer is good:)

By: Fuller

Fuller — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:25:31 +0000

Epic read, keep up the good work mate Also the but about it feeling like a half life 2 mod…so true. Still an awesome game though!