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Retailers Still Like Idea Of Left 4 Dead On PS3

Left 4 Dead came out last year on PC and Xbox 360. But not on PS3. Now, retailer GAME's Australian website reckons it's finally coming to Sony's system.

Before the game launched, Valve's Chet Faliszek said there'd be no PS3 version because, while porting from PC to Xbox 360 was a piece of cake, making a PS3 version would require starting from scratch.

Then a few weeks later, GAME's UK website advertised a PS3 version. Back then, Valve once again denied its existence.

But the following day, Valve did admit publisher EA were interested in a PS3 version.

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panasonic235485d ago

ps3fanboys wanted l4d to bad go buy a pc but like yall said pc cost 2 thousand dollars so yall best bet is to buy an xbox 360.

WildArmed5485d ago

my pc..
4 years old.. can handle L4D.
I dont know which world u live in, but no1 needs a 2k rig to play any game atm..
L4D is not the exception

Queers of War5485d ago

a 2 grand PC for a game running a 4 year old engine? yeah right. my dads ancient comp could probably handle L4D to the max.

Stubacca5484d ago

Game is good. But I'd rather have Sony's exclusives with the possibility of this title coming out.

Beats having no games this year.

Spike475485d ago

maybe a PS3 version for the sequel but a port would be a bad idea.

WildArmed5485d ago

I agree.
I've overplayed it (as most of other ppl) on my 360 and PC.
Plus, its the mods that will keep the game alive on the PC. Which is why i got it on PC first.
Unless they wanna do a 'expanded' version somehow i mite think of getting it 4 PS3

DrWan5485d ago

but we'll see how this one goes, I dont have alot of confidence in Valve+EA. Orange box left an bad taste in my mouth.

WildArmed5485d ago

@DrWan
possible and being implemented are different things though.
TF2 coulda had mods, but it didn't.
Im not gonna jump da gun and bet that ps3 will have mods. (for L4D)-- if it even comes out.

yeah i have ut3 and am currently playing it on ps3.
trying out a new cover system mod that my friend is working on

BWS19825485d ago

Even though I have a PC and plan to get it for that when I build my new one, I'd be interested if a PS3 version released with the new maps and some mod compatibility to boot....If that "edition" retailed, I'd be interested, I won't lie... but keyboard and mouse are hard to beat, however...

Raoh5485d ago

I disagree about it being too late to port to the ps3.

Left 4 Dead is such a good game in my opinion that if the ps3 gamer got Left 4 Dead in late 2010, he would still enjoy it as much as 360 gamers enjoy it now. its that good of a game. i would say that if the orange box had never came out to the ps3 and it was coming out now it would also be as enjoyable.

those two game are that good.

aaron58295485d ago

I played L4D on my PC...

Seems fun at first.. but it soon became a boring "shoot anything you see while heading in one direction" fps for me.

morganfell5485d ago

I have it on PC and the issue the game faces is huge. By that I mean a Sony lineup of exclusives that are shaping up to leave L4D in the dust.

ZuperAmazingCooKie5485d ago

Valve doesn't want money from PS3 owners anyway so they shouldn't care if PS3 owners pirate this game on PC or 360

evrfighter5484d ago

"Valve doesn't want money from PS3 owners anyway so they shouldn't care if PS3 owners pirate this game on PC or 360 "

You can be rest assured they probably don't care. Any pc gamer knows you'll get the most enjoyment out of a steam game on steam. Valve knows this also.

UltraNova5484d ago

Lets admit something here, L4D is not the best game out there, its not the best looking either but what it does it does with virtually no rivalry! Fun fun fun! I've played this at a local gaming lounge on the pc and I must say this game rocks!

Now my point here is that of course the retailers want to see it on the ps3 why? Piracy! Simple innit? The pc is overruned for quite some time now, the 360 is plagued as well but not that bad ( not even close to the pc actually ) so if the game is so good and addictive this could spell major sales on a non piracy suffering platform... I know for a fact that more than half of the guys at my local gaming lounge who actually own L4d its actually a pirate copy...

( what? wait did this guy just say a good game which is addictive etc would sell? Killzone 2 anyone? )

Well if you are wondering about that join the club!! Still 1+ million sales is far from bad! Its just it could do much much better...

SL1M DADDY5484d ago

Seeing it on the PS3 would make no difference to me. It was a good title but short lived to those who dislike repetition.

Odion5484d ago

UltraNove you are aware that L4D is closing in on the 3 million mark?

FlameBaitGod5484d ago

I wouldn't buy it even if it came with extra crap on it, this is the same company that laugh when people where saying L4D was coming to PS3.

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Spike475485d ago

last time I checked L4D's graphics are nothing special.

TheColbertinator5485d ago

Hahahahahaha no way.Left 4 Dead is not coming to PS3,its only for 360 just like bioshock,tales of vesperia,ninja gaiden 2,and eternal.Only on 360 b!tchessss.

360isthebestps3sucks5485d ago

continue dreaming ps3fanboys this will never happen ...

WildArmed5485d ago

Retailers aint fanboys.. unlike you.
they are just trying to make some money.
What a delusional world you live in my friend

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies7d ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

just_looken7d ago

Here here

Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.

I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing

CrimsonWing697d ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker7d ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing697d ago (Edited 7d ago )

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt7d ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.

just_looken7d ago

It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5

Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.

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Most Offensive Video Games That Would Never Cut It Today

Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.

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thorstein45d ago (Edited 45d ago )

Every single time someone uses this phrase whether it's music, movies, books, comics, video games, etc it's always the same claim.

The ubiquitous "they" won't allow it to be made. And every decade these claims are made the claimant completely ignores all the "offensive" material that is published when the claim is made.

In ten years, you can write a new article about how you can't make games like Helldivers 2, Resident Evil VIII, Mortal Kombat I, Dragon's Dogma 2, Alan Wake 2 etc etc etc any more.

MrBaskerville44d ago

Yeah, people wouldn't be constantly outraged if there weren't games that people found enraging. The whole SBI discourse shit wouldn't be a thing if all games were inoffensive. A game like Starfield can make a guy froth at his mouth, so there will always be room for a list like this.

0hMyGandhi44d ago

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but there are massive caveats.
TV shows like Venture Bros, Ren and Stimpy, and Aqua Team wouldn't/couldn't be made today. Hell, Ren and Stimpy was a *children's* show, same thing with Rocko's Modern Life.

It's not for some arbitrary reason, either. It's branding and IP alignment. Companies are far more risk-averse than they were when I was kid in the 90's. Of course, you have companies coming out of the woodwork to hell spur on similar content, but remember: Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and some incredibly provocative material.

And for movies? it's pretty obvious. American Pie/Wedding Crashers/Eurotrip among many other "raunch coms" have fallen out of style, and are absolutely outside what the modern day film industry is willing to stand by.
Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, Rat Race, Harold and Kumar, and Van Wilder follow suit.

Remember: I am not explicitly talking about films put onto streamers. I am talking wide-releases in actual theaters. Same thing goes for games: Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Manhunt, Six Days In Fallujah (with their original concept), Hatred, and so on and so forth. Of course, I'd be inclined to mention most tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Joint Ops as well, due to cultural sensitivity regarding *who* you are shooting and why.

And not all of it is bad (obviously). Tastes change, and perspectives change to fit the demographic.
I should add that I'm a lefty, living in L.A. Working in film.

thorstein44d ago

The Boys, Invincible, Jojo Rabbit, Deadpool, Gen V, Last of Us, Banshee... There are plenty of media being made today that people will claim "can't be made today".

Profchaos44d ago

Yeah but if you consider manhunt which was basically a snuff film could you seriously make that game with high than PS2 era graphics.

thorstein43d ago

The Outlast Trials just came out.

But the storyline of Manhunt was that you were executed. But then lived. And if you didn't do as you were told, you'd die. And the people you killed were not innocents.

It was all filmed by a psychopath.

As we speak GTA VI is being finished up for a release. You get to play a Bonnie and Clyde type of protagonist who run up against the law.

Bodycam looks so real.

People are making those games. Articles like this will always exist no matter how incorrect they are, no matter how many times they blame "them" for whatever it is "they" do to prevent "those" games from being made.

Number1TailzFan44d ago

The UK is the biggest junk country pandering to that nonsense as well, with laws against free speech and expression to match. It got so bad even Rowan Atkinson made a video on free speech about it.

Now the UK raises the age rating on harmless films like Mary Poppins, it's just a load of pansy weak ass nonsense.

MrDead44d ago (Edited 44d ago )

The right wing Tories have been in power in the UK for the 14 years you know the ones that are "anti-woke", blame them for your perceptions.

Killer2020UK44d ago (Edited 44d ago )

Are these snowflakes in the room with us now?

This is more faux outrage designed to get hits. The consequences are unfortunately creating hysteria amongst those willing to buy into it and blame "them" or "the left" or "liberals" meanwhile the left are kicking off about genocide, actual real world abhorrent acts. Nobody is campaigning to censor this shit.

Huey_My_D_Long44d ago

Not too mention the fact that some of these game are controversial for you know, underage porn and encouraging rape.

So either the guy just came in to comment snowflakes without reading anything, or he is calling people snowflakes for having a problem with said titles. Crazy how much brain rot someone can have.

banger8845d ago

Dead Island: "The early PC version of the zombie game swapped the playable character Purna’s Gender Wars skill with a prototype name, which shouldn’t be mentioned directly. The skill name made fun of both Purna as a character and feminists."

"Feminist Whore" lmao

gold_drake44d ago

ill add one more to the list.
drakengard 1.

its ridiculous tho, especially since they'd still be able to find their place in alot of places in the world. except america of course ha. and maybe Australia.

ppl are so sensitive these days. ha. but it is what it is.

Barlos44d ago (Edited 44d ago )

They're not offensive.

And we need another Fat Princess. Fantastic little game!

Some people just have no sense of humour if this sort of thing offends them. They need to lighten up and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Deeeeznuuuts44d ago

Would love a new fat princess game 🤟

CantThinkOfAUsername44d ago

Games literally about sexual assault, mass genocide, bombing civilians, and school shooting. None of which is satirical.

isarai44d ago

Actually it's about fat princesses

Huey_My_D_Long44d ago (Edited 44d ago )

Its crazy that people are fixated on Fat princess when clearly the list is going over controversies, and not all of them are equal. Like way worse examples but pretend the entire list is like that.

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Left 4 Dead Writer Explains The Drawbacks Of Releasing Games In Early Access

He wants to launch all his projects initially through close beta.