James Pikover reports:
''Left 4 Dead has been one of the most talked about games for the last few months, and for good reasons; a zombie survival game based around teamwork and cooperation that makes sure players aren't over- or underwhelmed.
It does this in several ways, most notably in what's called the "Director". The director is a system that takes information and assesses how much stress players can take. If they are low on health and ammunition, they'll face very few zombies. On the other hand, if they do have efficient amounts, then hordes will attack. This dynamic allows for players to have just the right amount of enemies to fight while still requiring teamwork.
This information was available before E3. After playing it for an hour because I couldn't stop, I can confirm that not only does the director work, the gameplay requires cooperation or bad things will happen and that it has the ability to be the game of the year. It's also a ton of fun.
Generally, previews are supposed to give an unbiased view of the game based around pure information. It has this feature, provides these weapons, etc. No, Left 4 Dead deserves more. Much, much more.''
Times are changing, and these games would have never been made in today's climate.
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.
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
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.
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.
He wants to launch all his projects initially through close beta.
TheGamer Writes "No game will ever surpass Left 4 Dead in the co-op horde shooter genre, so maybe it's time to move on."
It’s the simplistic design coupled with mod support that makes it unbeatable. I feel like it can only be succeeded by a remake or the same gameplay design with updated graphics, animations, weapons and new setting. Thing is, Valve doesn’t create or release games unless they feel it pushes the medium forward. They’re not interested in reselling the same content refreshed or not.