Left 4 Dead!

[senjuro]

Yes they have, look at the back of the box art.

Feh, European boxart. But ya got me there, it does say Zombies.

I would at least expect them to aim down the gun sight, if they can do it with the sniper then why not the assault rifle?

Realism, I would imagine. Nobody, not even professional marksmen, are 100% accurate 100% of the time.

>_> No they can't, at least not in any of the builds that I've played.

No Mercy, Rooftops, on the hardest diffculty. Myself, Ghostiemon and some of his friends ran back to the safe room and a tank took the door down. Don't believe me? ask Ghostiemon.[/quote]

Oh, I thought you meant the safe room door at the END of a level. Yes, tanks can take down >that door<, and for good reason: so teams can't turtle and take out a tank without it being a threat to them. Valve is always tweaking stuff to balance the game out.

Okay, but i don't give a crap for realism. Do you think i would play a game because it's realistic? No! Do you think i would play the game because of it's entertaining gameplay, variety of weapons and powerups, as well as having great interactivity such as sticking knives on rifles or mounting grenade launchers? Yes indeedy!

Games can be entertaining and realistic at the same time. Even fantasy has a basis in reality. Judging from most of what you say in your posts in this forum section, I don't think our taste in games overlaps very much, if at all.

And i think you will find that same team spirit exists in Nazi Zombies, which includes alot more weapons and interactivity then Left 4 Dead, as you actually have to hold out in a building as long as you can.

Left 4 Dead now includes a survival mode, which is essentially what you describe.

All i can say is that i think that L4D was a dissapointing title, it is what GTAIV is to Saints Row 2. Yes, it is a classic title and yes the gameplay is quite astonishing for the amount of effort that went into it, but there is a heck of alot more fun to be found in Nazi Zombies.

My only problem there is that you didn't say "in my opinion." Unless I am mistaken, there are very few, if any FPS titles that employ something similar to the AI Director that dynamically changes the game each time you play. Go through most titles of any genre once, and that's enough. The enemies will always be in the same place, the powerups will always be waiting for you in that next room. I mean, hey, if you derive enjoyment from a predictable gaming experience that you can whip through with little to no challenge because you have it memorized, then knock yourself out. L4D is designed such that, even if you DO know all the weapon and item hotspots, you're never guaranteed an easy ride, even on Easy difficulty.

In >MY< opinion, FPS titles that romanticize and endlessly rehash global conflicts are a waste of VG development money that could be going toward developing the next great idea. There hasn't been one in a really long time. All that's on the horizon lately is predominantly sequels with ever-increasing numbers.