"Left 4 Dead seemed like a near perfect game to me, and the fact that I love it so damn much makes the comparatively sudden arrival of its sequel an extremely hard sell. Until recently I'd have been hard pressed to name specific ways in which I'd want to change the first game. I suppose if there were a gun held to my head I'd be able to rattle off a few requests, and maybe, after an extended torture session, I'd eventually manage to make out a list that'd resemble the changes that have gone into Left 4 Dead 2. Thankfully no such violence has been necessary. L4D2 delivers multiple improvements over its predecessor, and I get to keep all my fingers and toes.
"It's a lot to catalog. Honestly, it's probably stupid to try. The point is, yeah, there's more than enough to call this a complete sequel. If there was any concern going into this thing, it was that maybe it'd represent a collection of tweaks and touches that'd be better suited to expanding the first game, and there are sure to be a few who hold on to that opinion. Personally, I think this sucker earned the 2 at the end of its name."
- Scott Sharkey (1UP)
November 16th, 2009
While there’s likely already a list behind closed doors, one can still speculate and offer logical suggestions for titles new and old that should find their way into the PlayStation and Switch libraries.
Some of these seem to be exclusive for lack of enthusiasm of the publisher rather than because of deals. A lot of cool indies skip ps for some reason like katana zero, el paso, elsewhere and gunbrela
They really think PlayStation fans would want to play Redfall? Pfft.
Personally nothing on that list would be any game I’d want to play.
I’d absolutely love Hellblade 2, Palworld, and Quantum Break on ps5 as I’m sure tons of others would too. There’s nothing wrong with wanting games from another console and its sad that people try to act like they aren’t interested in them.
Sunset Overdrive makes very good sense. Palworld might.
Don't know about the others. Hellblade II does make sense given the original launched on PS4 first. Quantum Break was a massive letdown for me. I absolutely hated the whole TV show thing and I don't think anyone should have to relive that on modern hardware.
Left 4 Dead lead Chet Faliszek describes the original Left 4 Dead game as "such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it."
And then couldn't be arsed to make a third game.
If they can add a lot more stuff to a 2nd game in just 1 year why didn't they make a third game a few years later with tons of stuff extra? Because that shows they could've.
I know Source 2 was kind of broken and was a reason they cancelled L4D3 but it seems wasteful to just toss it away.
Don't know what Valve were thinking.. it's like nobody wanted to fix the issues to get going. They certainly aren't the Valve of 2004 that released fun games with pretty cutting edge graphics.
What are they talking about? Seemed pretty alright to me at launch it just wasn't supported the way Valve promised us
They should have just worked on a revamp / massive update to the game but they didn't they jumped straight to a sequel with brand new characters despite having some sort, if small, story about where the original survivors were heading.
I didn't care for the direction they took the sequel, the original games tone and atmosphere was missing in the second game and is still unmatched. Daytime levels, more whackiness, melee weapons where you could attack a Tank with a frying pan...just wasn't the same to be honest and the new survivors just didn't hold up the originals.
Here's my speculation. I think they did a sequel because they didn't want to update a game co-developed by Turtle Rock, they wanted the franchise to be known as a Valve game only and knew if they updated the first one Turtle Rocks name would still linger on it.
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look at all these great reviews swarming in like what I will be experiencing with 3 of my homies in a couple of hours. Swarm of Zombies..blasting away..great time indeed.
VALVE FREE PASS ACTIVATE!!!
Played the demo, was as boring as the first L4D. I wouldnt be able to put MW2 down anyway :P. I still have Uncharted 2, Dirt 2, Borderlands, Forza 3 and OF:Dragon Rising to complete too. Should keep me going till next year, (MAG, Gran Tourismo5, BF:BC2)
recall the first game got good reviews... I bought it and it fell off my bud list as fast as any game I could recall.
this game will be 40 bucks in a few weeks, if you must buy hold off.
MO(most overrated) GOTY...hands down for the previous game, released how many months ago ?
Could someone tell me why Metacritic adds this as 100% when it is an A/A+? Should be a 92 or 95%, should it not? They've done this before: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, God of War Collection, etc. If a F is the lowest grade and they are reviewing on a scale of 13 due to D-, C+, etc, the score should be a 92 when crunched out. I'm guessing this is how 1UP wanted it, which I would say is extremely low considering how hard it is to pull off the rare A+. They deserve to be appropriately scaled.