Rumor: New Left 4 Dead 2 CG trailer leaked, epic

I found it ironic that a game with little content compared to a game like CoD gave me so many hours of pleasure. I've lost count how much I've played L4D.
In fact I've put myself on a break from L4D untill 2 comes out because I play way too much.

A five-hour game? Jesus wept, with all respect, I can't believe people still think about L4D in this way.

It's clear to *anybody* who spent time with the game that those levels weren't meant to be played once and then forgotten about forever. In most FPSs, maybe that's the case: after all, enemies and items are in the same place every time.

Play a L4D level a thousand times over, and I can guarantee no playthrough will be exactly the same. The AI Director will throw different beasties - common and Special - in at different stages every single time. The result? Different situations and obstacles each time you play. Several hundred hours of gameplay later, L4D still produces hilarious stories and anecdotes of heroism and stupidity *all the time* for me.

It is not a "five-hour game," and if you feel it is, then I'm afraid you are missing the point quite spectacularly.

Didn't realize that a design structure that promotes replaying the same content over and over again and an AI system that randomizes content was a justification for a serious lack of that content.

If you wanna sit here and say that the AI Director justifies a $60 purchase, then by all means, you do that. I spent quite a bit of time with Left 4 Dead and enjoyed playing it, but at the end of the day it was something that got horribly repetitive both with co-op and versus because it was the same four 1+ hour campaigns OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

That game needed more content, and they promised more of it, both free and affordably priced, and they scrapped most of those plans to try and convince me to drop another $60 on a brand new game. THAT is why this is fucked up.

It's got five hours of original content. And by simple numeric standards that makes it a five hour game. Get over it.

You have to boycott it first.

zombie in a hazmat suit

It made me laugh. I thought "Oh phew, now that zombie won't catch whatever's going arounWAIT A MINUTE!"