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I disagree. It's just too late to save the game now. It really is. They made their choice to abandon the first game as soon as it was released and the game suffered greatly for it. The community is dead. The gameplay hasn't changed at all since release and it was half stale then. Little has been done to try and balance or fix the gameplay. Fundamental problems with the game that have been there since day 1 are still present.

Adding a new campaign is going to do nothing for the game at this point. It's just too late. The game is beyond repair.

Well I say beyond. I mean beyond anything they're going to do. Merging 1+2 into one large game where everyone has everything and the community is whole once again would go a long way towards making up for their disasterous past choices, but they're not going to do that. They killed the first game by releasing the 2nd. Releasing a campaign isn't going to help anything at this stage.

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And before anybody accuses me of complaining for the sake of it, deciding that nothing is ever going to be good enough etc, how about a good old analogy. You promise someone you'll look after your horse. You promise that you'll look after it and feed it loads of lovely carrots! instead you half starve the horse for a whole year, and then shoot it in the head exactly a year after you took it into your care.

Then you start giving it the carrots. They're not very much use now are they?

Last edited by Spidery_Yoda (2010-02-11 14:15:09)

Meh, since L4D2 came out I've never been interested in L4D1.. the game is dominated by the auto-shotty, nothing compares to it, and every level is about finding one and then killing everything with ease until the end of the level. At least the auto-shotties in L4D2 are balanced with the other weapons, I'd much rather take a SCAR-L over a Spas, for example.

Last edited by Finray (2010-02-11 15:50:53)

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

I disagree. It's just too late to save the game now. It really is. They made their choice to abandon the first game as soon as it was released and the game suffered greatly for it. The community is dead. The gameplay hasn't changed at all since release and it was half stale then. Little has been done to try and balance or fix the gameplay. Fundamental problems with the game that have been there since day 1 are still present.

Adding a new campaign is going to do nothing for the game at this point. It's just too late. The game is beyond repair.

Well I say beyond. I mean beyond anything they're going to do. Merging 1+2 into one large game where everyone has everything and the community is whole once again would go a long way towards making up for their disasterous past choices, but they're not going to do that. They killed the first game by releasing the 2nd. Releasing a campaign isn't going to help anything at this stage.

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And before anybody accuses me of complaining for the sake of it, deciding that nothing is ever going to be good enough etc, how about a good old analogy. You promise someone you'll look after your horse. You promise that you'll look after it and feed it loads of lovely carrots! instead you half starve the horse for a whole year, and then shoot it in the head exactly a year after you took it into your care.

Then you start giving it the carrots. They're not very much use now are they?

I'm not saying it's good, but I am willing to forgive.

If they realized from the community reaction to L4D2 that they fucked up and this is their way of acknowledging that and trying to make amends, then I'm okay with that. Everyone screws up every now and then. If Valve looks at this and understands it is a blemish on their otherwise good record, then I'm willing to buy another game similar to how they released L4D, giving minimal content at release date but promising more to come.

If they hadn't done something like this or if this turns out poorly, then I really doubt I would buy a product like that again. It's a sign of goodwill to me if nothing else.