Re: Left 4 Dead
Here comes the BW whineage about this game...
I simply dont like it, I have now played through 2 stages, 1 with Yuki and one on single player and I simply cant find anything in it... So lets start from beginning...
There are no "zombies" in game... they are humans that have mutated throught rapies or something... and there are few types of them. First are normal zombies these are everywhere and you can stand 1 feet from them and they do nothing unless you harm them in which case they turn to zombie type 2... type 2 is rapid zombies these moves very fast running towards you coming over fences etc. they are mad and usually comes in packs, they are very weak and even if you shoot them to arm or leg they just die. Their strength is in mass and in speed, making all kind of machineguns usually useless. Then there are few types of super zombies, 1 which explodes, 1 which has long tongue, 1 jumps over you and beats you, 1 very very strong one that can hit you way back and 1 which kills you with 1 blow if you get her attention. All supers are more or less strong but majority of them can kill you very easily without you being able to do anything unless teamie saves you.
Then to actual whining...
First of all I dont get any kind of feeling for battling for my life, theres bunch of zombies here and there and they dont do **** unless you fire them to their face, and if you do then the next guy doesnt do anything.
When they do attack, you just keep hammering them down and firing when you will, usually whole idea is that zombies comes from behind, from holes, from rooftops here and over fences there, from places that you have just cleaned up. I have always hated respawning enemies coming from behind my back, so no thanks I really dont like it. Also they are way too weak and whole playing is more like spray and pray and blasting all around without any aiming or idea in it. Whole gaming feels more like mess than actually fighting for your life and defending yourself from letting them get close.
Then theres those "super zombies" FFS... When I played with Yuki or when I did it alone nothing changed... The one going first always gets trapped, your team doesnt really scatter around and have troubles finding each others and be alone anywhere, and even if they do only power those zombies have are those super ones. No matter of what super zombie there is they are way overpowered, maybe the idea was that they can trap you and kill you if others wont help, I just dont like how it works... 99% of time you fight against mindless mass which cant do smeg and then that 1% of time you are trapped without being able to do anything waiting for either friend or stupid AI to "run" (read spawn) beasides you to help you. In mean while those super zombies are doing insanely good damage to you and you can just sit and watch and wait if you are saved in next 3 seconds or not.
Then theres those guns... USELESS! Whole game has what 6 guns and exactly one of those is usable gun, in mean while you are trying to get that gun, after you do theres nothing you should worry. Sniper... useless as only thing it is good for is for situations where you can kill them with pistols or by hammering them down with fists/back of your gun. Uzi is useless not enought damage and not enought bullets, and when firing you miss 90% of time, same goes to machine gun. So only working gun in whole game is shot gun. Which is doing way too much damage for you to feel like being in real troubles.
Then there is that super "AI" which is tracking your going and keeping it "interesting", after 10 buildings and not finding any bullets/bombs or anything you just get frustrated. Sure it is nice that I have 95 health and all kind of stuff already but hey my shotgun has only 5 bullets left why do you think I am running from house to house? It just doesnt work, either enemies are coming with huge masses or they dont come at all... I was expecting thousands of zombies coming from everywhere and guns blazing all the time, not walking to middle of the street and firing all zombies down without them even doing anything and then spending next 5 minutes without single enemy trying to find more bullets/ healing packs.
Then there is the whole story thing, I pologiese to anyone who thinks that it is fun to play with 4 people against mindless coputer, but I dont. I was hoping to get some kind of story which would be full of black humour and all kind of stupid zombie jokes... nope I didnt. Instead I got no explain for what is going and why I am fighting.
Then there is this "I keep re playing" thing. Well I dont, maps are like mazes at first time, it took me very good while trying to figure where I was supposed to go next, way too many times. "Noo you must go to upstairs throught that window and over this alley on that wooden bridge you barely could see from below". It may be that there is some kind of map somewhere but I have not found it. And next time you know where to go and what to do and lose all the fun of even that lost feeling.
I dont get what is the fun/idea in only 4 maps and then zombies summoning to different places, all statical "here they come" stuff is still on same places. Why dont maps alter? Different doors and routes open? Also you dont get any cool "here is Tank for you from there comes 1500 zombies, kick their ass" feelings you get some mounted guns which are more or less useless 99% of the time and if they are not they are so overpowered that no zombies can come throught from there. I dont see much re playing in that if the zombie is behind same door on left or right.
You have simply nothing to aim for, there are no cooler guns or grenades if you play game throught 100 times and there are no miniguns waiting if you play throught 10000 times. So what is the point?
I simply couldnt find myself enjoying of "zombie" blasting with 3 stupid AI friends or with 2 stupid AI friends and Yuki. We both came to same conclusion that actually whole game is pretty darn boring, unless you like of very fast attacking zombies and helping others against super zombies... Maybe if you would be there alone fighting or just with your friends and no super zombies but 10 times more normal ones which would be insanely agressive but not even nearly as fast and you would be fighting for your life all the time and then when you were just about to die you would find some medikits etc. it could be fun...
I really was expecting stuff like you have long long road in middle of the town with some mounted guns and then you see insane mass of zombies coming towards you from other end of the road and you and your friends try to blast them with best of your skill before they get too close. All that kind of stuff you see in zombie movies where they just keep coming and coming and you keep firing them down and then they keep crawling and theres tons and tons of them and you just fire and fire and back away and try to keep them away...
Now it is just mindless blasting from entrances of alleys from rooftops etc. untill whole area is cleared of zombies or just walking to them 1 by 1 and killing them while next 10 which are 3 feets away do nothing, and waiting where is next super zombie that will trap you down or kill with 1 blow. Whole game is based on that zombies can do anything else but shoot with guns... they are way too fast (when AI thinks that zombie must be fast angry one) and they come over walls, from holes, summon behind corners etc... and they die with couple of shots without whining back. So they are more like humans with bare hands coming to you than zombies. There is no such intensive feeling like in movies where zombies are mindless slow moving mass that no matter how hard you fire just keeps coming.
I/we just dont get our kicks from games like that.
