The longevity of left 4 dead

Bengaboy

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I was contemplating buying L4D , but dunno if it has a good shelf life.

My brother has borrowed it from his mate for the 360, but I would be downloading it through steam. I think these games are best played on the pc anyway.

I would also be playing it on my macbook predominantly, and I have a 9400gt - I know source based games require a hamster in a wheel to run, but how does L4D fare with this?

P.S I apologize in advance, I know there is a big thread on it already, but thought this may deserve a new thread :)
 
L4D would run with a 9400GT no problems if you have a mixture of medium/high settings.

As for the longevity in L4D, once you played through all campaigns and practically know the way it works, it is quite a short game. But what makes it so fun and adds to the experience is playing with random people or friends, and trying out different things to spice up the gameplay a little. For example on the last map of each campaign, you'd probably figure out the easiest way to do it quickly, but if you want to have fun and make it more dramatic like in a movie, try out some other more difficult methods to survive it through. For example, the last map on Death Toll, you can either do in it the house, or try out the jetty so it makes escaping to the boat easier. And of course the Expert difficulty mode really adds to the experience due to how quickly you can die. Versus mode is a great way to learn about things too.

Somewhere down the line, there will be some new campaigns released to extended the game a little, its just a matter of when.
 
Ive played since th e day of release and still loving it. Vesus mode adds another dimension to the game and im sure the mods will fly out for this later in the year.
 
Stopped playing it about two weeks ago - the problem is the pick up groups, when youre on a random server (in versus) and your team either succeed wildly or fail miserably, half the team quits. PLus everyone knew the tactics and the tweaks and then add some &&&& hats...

Having said that it is well worth it for the unique gameplay, the great versus fun on good servers, the co-op mode and even single player as an intro. i would say buy it, play it. As soon as some new maps come out, im there.
 
I stopped playing a while back, versus mode adds huge life time to the game but unless you have willing friends to play it's pretty crap. You end up with morons who leave or just are generally rubbish. At the price the game is now though I'd say its well worth it, stonker of a game.
 
It's one of those games wher it lasts as long as you want it to. If it's something you really enjoy you can play it over and over online and never bore. Or you can get sick of it within the first hour or 2 of playing and never pick it up again.

Personally I enjoy it, but only play it when my 3 flat mates play it with me otherwise i cba.
 
Ok it's not gonna last as long as CS or TF2, however for the same price as a single player game it is easily gonna be excelent for 10+ hours, so therefore is worth it.
 
DampCat said:
It probably will once new map releases start coming.
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Indeed. At the moment I'm a little bored but that's just because I'm still waiting on the two other Vs campaigns and the SDK and community maps. Once those start popping up I imagine I'll be right back in there.

Aside from that, I must have put about 100 hours into the game since I bought it. *Well* worth the cash.
 
Well, over the last few years I've been getting bored with games quicker than ever, but L4D is the only one which has kept me coming back, time and time again. Mostly due to the OcUK community, but you soon hook up with other people and now I've got a decent-sized friends list - had 35 people playing L4D last Saturday night. It says I usually put in around 40-50 hours a fortnight - and since I got it way back in what, November....that tells you how much I've played (and I'm so easily jaded these days!). Considering a single-player game these days lasts 15 hours tops....... that's real value for money.

My tip for building a decent friends list - join the OcUK L4D group and add people up who are playing. Join their Friends-only games and add people from the game after it ends (open the Friends window, click Players and then Recent Games). If you get on at odd times, add players from random games who seem like decent types. Before long, you'll be in Friends-Only games 80% of the time.
 
Just had a little play on my brothers xbox - and it was pretty good!

Not sure wether or not to get it on that....

How do randoms fare with teamwork? I know its best played with mates - but I dont know anyone who has the game to play with.
 
ive put hundreds of hours into it and still play it every day, longevity is not an issue for me. Even with only 2 vs maps at the moment and 4 co-ops. Once the SDK is out the amount of custom content will be amazing, admittidely the quality will prob be awful for most of em but variety is what will keep this game going for years to come
 
Bengaboy said:
Just had a little play on my brothers xbox - and it was pretty good!

Not sure wether or not to get it on that....

How do randoms fare with teamwork? I know its best played with mates - but I dont know anyone who has the game to play with.
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If you're playing it on the PC you can join the OcUK left4dead steam group and there's loads of decent players on there :)

(and our own servers)
 
I only play with people I know (mostly off here) and it's still fun, although I think I am starting to get bored. I don't know what's taking so long - why are the other two campaigns not out in Versus yet? Are they much more difficult to balance?
 
Playing with random players is usually pretty bad, as mentioned by others, as half the time nearly all the team quits leaving you with the AI. Unless you've got some friends playing it, or are part of a decent Steam group then it's probably going to be a bit of a pain. Hardly anyone seems up for doing a whole campaign anyway.

Then again, when everything comes together and you get a team with mics and time to run straight through, then it's an awesome game. I'd say get it, but I can see why you'd hesitate. On release it was something like £35 for UK-ers, which is insane, it's not worth that; but now it's less I'd go for it.
 
snakeater said:
Playing with random players is usually pretty bad, as mentioned by others, as half the time nearly all the team quits leaving you with the AI. Unless you've got some friends playing it, or are part of a decent Steam group then it's probably going to be a bit of a pain. Hardly anyone seems up for doing a whole campaign anyway.

Then again, when everything comes together and you get a team with mics and time to run straight through, then it's an awesome game. I'd say get it, but I can see why you'd hesitate. On release it was something like £35 for UK-ers, which is insane, it's not worth that; but now it's less I'd go for it.
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I disagree. Crysis was about the same price and netted about 6 hours of play. This cost me £33 and I've had about 100 hours out of it, as have many on here. I know people talk about 'lack of content' or whatever, but loads of cack content is *not* better than a small amount of good content with huge amounts of replay value.
 
Aekeron said:
I disagree. Crysis was about the same price and netted about 6 hours of play. This cost me £33 and I've had about 100 hours out of it, as have many on here. I know people talk about 'lack of content' or whatever, but loads of cack content is *not* better than a small amount of good content with huge amounts of replay value.
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Yeah, I get what you mean, but considering how many fantastic multiplayer games are out there alerady which provide 100 hours of gameplay for so much less money; that was my point.

I'm not saying it's worth less money because it's multiplayer only/fewer maps. I'm just saying that the unreliable nature of it means that you might be better off buying something else for £35; a price way above most PC games.

Which leads me onto: Crysis for £33? What on earth. I'm presuming you bought it off Steam then. Considering PC games are supposed to be about £25, I don't think it's comparable.
 
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