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Icrontic: Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Review, or "Fight Me Like a Man"

The Icrontic Gaming crew played through the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, with one question on all of our minds: Is there enough content here to justify a sequel?

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WildArmed5309d ago

oh man. I wanna try the demo out after reading this.
Looks like L4D2 definitely has alot more content. When does the Demo go live for everyone?

Serial_EDX5309d ago

I think it goes live for everyone 1 week from the 27th. I played it last night, both with a friend in split screen and some online. Game was fun as heck, I love smashing zombie heads with my guitar.

StanLatMarveldotCom5309d ago (Edited 5309d ago )

It was fun but honestly, I hope Left 4 Dead 2 has more of a back story to the events that lead to the outbreak. I want the semblance of a story to tie it all together.

HolyOrangeCows5309d ago (Edited 5309d ago )

Cola stated “The melee combat alone is enough for me to consider it a new game.”

-_-

I can't understand this mentality at all. Adding Melee weapons are enough for people these days to spend $50/$60 on a game?

It's another full priced DLC. I know I'm going to be a hypocrite and buy it, but come on.

Serial_EDX5309d ago

Holy you didn't play the demo did you, I Loved it, its 1000 times better then L4D1, the melee weapons, theres also changing areas, I ran the first level and both times I had to change my route due to either the door being blocked off or a bung of crap in the way, not to mention the new special infected are a blast to try and fight, and the witch also moves around the map now instead of just sitting still.

That and all of the new weapons changes things, I had the scar, *three shot burst* the AK which had more power but bad accuracy.

The game itself is just so much more polished then the first game.

Worth a full 60$ price to me.

If you want to argue against a game not worth the price go to the sport games sections, leave great games like this alone.

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Blow Out Your Brains5309d ago

The demo is awesome. I love how Valve reward their customers that pre order their game by giving them early exclusive access to the demo. I will be playing it up until the midnight release :D

GQueen5309d ago

I'm way more excited about playing L4D2 now. The melee stuff sounds awesome.

Cliff Forster5309d ago

Takin gross to a whole new level.

LeonSKennedy4Life5309d ago

I actually really want to buy this now. Win!

I love Steam.

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15 Xbox Games That Should Make the Multiplatform Jump

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.

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GamerRN57d ago

Single A games and live service games. Those make sense

S2Killinit57d ago

None of it makes sense. But its happening.

Ps5conehead56d ago

That’s up to Microsoft they want return on there investment. From buying up those publishers. That’s what there in business for. And they made a mistake putting day one exclusive on game pass. So now Microsoft wants to profit any way they can.its called buisness . Just like Sony putting games on pc a year are two after ps5 launch.
So if they can make money off PlayStation and Nintendo. They will do that. And I bet soon real soon they will release some aaa exclusives .and I bet one day it will be same day release

TheEroica56d ago

Sony gamers begging for Xbox games.... Who would've thunk it?

BISHOP-BRASIL56d ago

Yeah, because random site off the internet represents all Sony gamers, they have the letter of attorney and all...

S2Killinit56d ago

Lol what a spin. You dizzy?

AsunaYuukiTheFlash56d ago (Edited 56d ago )

We don’t care about shovelwares. Get that junk out of PS5

StormSnooper56d ago

More like MS begging to put their games on PlayStation.

TheEroica55d ago

Keep begging Sony gamers!

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Friendlygamer57d ago

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

S2Killinit57d ago

Even more indies skip xbox. We know that right?

Friendlygamer57d ago

Quality over quantity, Microsoft got some really interesting and curated niche games on their machines, maybe in part because of gamepass

S2Killinit56d ago

Quality and MS are not things you bring up in same sentence.

shinoff218356d ago (Edited 56d ago )

Alot of indies skip xbox to. It goes round and round. Personally I think your off base on that but no need to have the argument.

Friendlygamer56d ago

Between katana zero, valheim, Battletech, el passo... I don't feel off base. maybe ps got a million of light novel games that will never release on Xbox but like I've said, I'm talking about niche games highlights, the 10%.

  Heck, it's probably thanks to Microsoft that the s.t.a.l.k.e.r games came to console ps included, meanwhile Sony backwards compatibility continues to be extremely anemic.

And I'm sure most ps5 users are happy to ignore these games and just play wathever new 3rd person action game is trending but it's cool that Microsoft gives some love to smaller audiences and software preservation

shinoff218356d ago

Again your off base just to be snide. All it's showing though is your ignorance.

One light novels wtf is that even. Ps has plenty of pretty damn good indies.

Speaking of indies and ms being responsible. You know F.I.S.T. of course you do alot of you guys just support gamepass. Well here's a history of Sony being responsible for helping indies. Look up the China project from Sony.

Lastly lol your ignorance showing again. Sony has plenty of games. Personally third person is better then first anyway but that's besides the point. Sony gets so many games that xbox doesn't get because yall don't support the games. Jrpgs being a great example. I personally am not into every Sony first party game. Alot of us aren't. On the other side you don't get to eat often so you gobble up everything. Me personally God of War not my cup, etc. For me I'm into jrpgs and ms just can't touch Sony on those. Again because the Xbox base doesn't support it. Devs dont wanna waste their time or money. Hit me up when falcom develops a game over there.

Speaking of third person narrative games. Aren't yall drooling over hellblade 2. The first one was Sony exclusive at one point. Another not my cup game. Showing we don't have to fall in line and agree we love everything Sony puts out. The facts are they sell though unlike elsewhere(not nintendo)

StormSnooper56d ago

You are same person as GamerRN, yes?

Abnor_Mal57d ago

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.

TwoPicklesGood57d ago

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.

shinoff218356d ago

While indont agree with the games. I agree with the point. Your not wrong.

DarXyde57d ago

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.

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Valve Made Left 4 Dead 2 Because The First Game Was A Broken Mess

Left 4 Dead lead Chet Faliszek describes the original Left 4 Dead game as "such a broken thing that nobody wanted to touch it."

Number1TailzFan168d ago

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.

cthulhucultist167d ago

Valve is allergic to number 3 it seems. It would be easier for them to release a Left 4 Dead 2.5 enhanced version instead of releasing a game with "3" slapped on its title.

rakentaja166d ago

They stopped making games a long time ago. Steam brings in so much money that it's really not worth the effort. Nowadays, people only look for faults in games, and spend more time whining on Twitter/X than playing the game anyway. Valve says a big fat no-no.

anast167d ago

Value is the Blockbuster of video games. They have no need to invest in deving a game, when they can make handfuls of cash renting them.

-Foxtrot168d ago

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.

shaenoide167d ago

I want broken games like L4D all day long...

GhostScholar167d ago

Well the first game was by far the best

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The Best Co-Op Horror Games You've Missed in Halloween

Try to cope with your friend through terror with this list featuring the best horror Co-Op games you can play today.

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