The High-Res Screenshot Thread!

Tummy · 29 Oct 2009 at 20:09

bushmins said:
If you look closely at the videos you can see the zombies 'float' along the floor, like you get when in a mmo and you get major lag. Thing is its very disguised when you have hundreds of zombies running at you.

Not really noticed this in game.

Try playing it.

Tobes · 29 Oct 2009 at 20:51

Source engine showing it's age? It's updated all the time.

September 10th 2009 was the last update to the Source 2007 engine.

titaniumx3 · 29 Oct 2009 at 21:19

Source engine is obviously no Cryengine 2/3, but it gets the job done and performance is very good.

Imagine if L4D ran on Cryengine 2. Sure it will look prettier, but the playability would have taken nosedive - not worth it!

MadMossy · 29 Oct 2009 at 21:30

Had a go earlier on, to me it just felt too much like L4D 1 and not like a true sequel.. Shoulda been an expansion pack imho and not a full retail game, doesnt have that "new" feel about it.

barmyllama · 29 Oct 2009 at 22:57

Left4Dead 2

FlukeRogi · 29 Oct 2009 at 22:57

titaniumx3 said:
Source engine is obviously no Cryengine 2/3, but it gets the job done and performance is very good.

Imagine if L4D ran on Cryengine 2. Sure it will look prettier, but the playability would have taken nosedive - not worth it!

But it would also only be rendering a much more closed in environment, and not a mile or two worth of forest.

4Play · 29 Oct 2009 at 23:15

Even though im not a massive fan of L4D i must admit its not just the graphics which make a game but the gameplay aswell. With all the new maps, enemies, weapons etc make this game so much more then L4D1.

As someone said above the player models look really realistic.

BFG_9000 · 29 Oct 2009 at 23:35

L4D2 same ole... nothing new same gameplay.

Tummy · 29 Oct 2009 at 23:38

FlukeRogi said:
But it would also only be rendering a much more closed in environment, and not a mile or two worth of forest.

So all games that don't have miles of forest aren't good looking?

The source engine looks stunning in L4D2, why don't you play it?

BFG_9000 said:
L4D2 same ole... nothing new same gameplay.

Have you played the demo?

It's everything L4D1 should have been and more, it's fantastic.

Craig R · 29 Oct 2009 at 23:46

Tummy said:
So all games that don't have miles of forest aren't good looking?

I think he was making the point that if Crysis was only rendering smaller street/building scenes rather than vast expansive rainforests, it would run a damn site better.

jcb33 · 30 Oct 2009 at 00:08

It looks prety good tbh, nicer than L4D 1 but then it is daytime so that would make a difference!

Jcb33.

grudas · 30 Oct 2009 at 01:47

Tummy said:
So all games that don't have miles of forest aren't good looking?

The source engine looks stunning in L4D2, why don't you play it?

Have you played the demo?

It's everything L4D1 should have been and more, it's fantastic.

as an update (even if not free) if would have been fantastic.. but now.. i dont really see the point paying the price they are asking for just that.. as it doesn't feel like a new game which they call it as..

so yeah ill wait till weekend deals.. x] played it on my brothers account!

Tummy · 30 Oct 2009 at 03:18

New characters.
New campaigns.
New weapons.
New enermies.
New game types.

What more does a new game need?

Princey · 30 Oct 2009 at 09:40

The Demo was awsome, too bad my 260GTX conked out. Hopefully exchange it tonight.

grudas · 30 Oct 2009 at 14:57

Tummy said:
New characters - new skins, sounds x]
New campaigns - moders have done more already
New weapons - new skins, sounds etc and meele weapons is just a little update.
New enemies - 1,2? plus a swat zombie not much
New game types - we had them as update anyway.. so why not make another... even if it's not free but at a reasonable price say 10 quid..

What more does a new game need?

to be a new game, not an update called new game

i loved l4d so you cant call me hater.. :] im just saying it doesn't have enough in my eyes to be called a new game for me it's l4d 1.5 with a price tag of a new game

it's kinda the same as cs1.6 compared to CSS

new gfx and same game play...

titaniumx3 · 30 Oct 2009 at 16:40

Would you call Modern Warfare 2 a new game? That has less than MW1, lol.

Amraam · 30 Oct 2009 at 19:13

Leodido said:
Is that with mods? I always though that Stalker serie looked really nice and realistic but I think the gameplay does not do it for me

I thought the STALKER gameplay is fantastic, I can't stop playing it!

Once I've completed the new Call of Pripyat, I'm going to install that mod. I've played the OL2 mod a few times but that SC2009 looks fantastic!

Amraam · 30 Oct 2009 at 19:31

titaniumx3 said:
Soya, maybe a silly question, but do you think you could fly a real plane? I mean, would you know enough to say, lift it off the ground?

This sounds big headed, but in the one in a million chance I was given the "keys" to either an F-16C or a Russian KA-50 helictoper, I reckon I would be able to start them up. OK, I don't know all the checklists etc, but I know the sequences to start them.

Falcon 4.0 (with open falcon add on) and DCS: Black Shark are shockingly detailed and realistic.

grudas · 30 Oct 2009 at 21:46

titaniumx3 said:
Would you call Modern Warfare 2 a new game? That has less than MW1, lol.

i wouldn't call it a game at all

FlukeRogi · 31 Oct 2009 at 02:30

Tummy said:
So all games that don't have miles of forest aren't good looking?

The source engine looks stunning in L4D2, why don't you play it?

Have you played the demo?

It's everything L4D1 should have been and more, it's fantastic.

Did I say that? No. The point being that the Crysis engine displays much more scenery than most games, and if used to run something like Left 4 Dead where the view distance is kept much closer, it wouldn't run anywhere near as slowly as when used for something like Crysis.

<edit> Just noticed that Craig_R already pointed that out (ta).