Did you buy the game? Have you played it extensively? Still think the same way?
You're wrong.
The game is bigger than the original. There are many new gameplay modes. There are scores of new weapons and items. Four totally new campaigns with new play mechanics, pacing, and intensity. Re-tooled AI director that does more than zombie placement, but also weapon placement, world entity placement, weather effects, and more. Completely redesigned gore system. New matchmaking systems. New in-game assets and models - no entities were re-used, returning zombie types were re-skinned and modeled.
That is quite the expansion pack.
Everyone is so quick to bark at Valve for releasing a new game in a single year's time. Why? Is it because we've become accostomed to 'Valve time'? If they don't take 3/6/10 years to develop a game, it's a ripoff? Even if they plan on supporting both the new and old products?
It is no different than a yearly call of duty, or Prince of Persia, or any other franchise that produces yearly products. People don't complain about those titles. But Valve tries it ONCE, and everyone becomes indignant. How dare they break their cycle of multi-year development cycles.
To assume a one year development cycle means a shoddy, re-used product is ignorance at it's best.
Bobby have you played the game a lot because the AI director isn't as revamped as you think. The demo easily showed that if a team strings out over a map they can easily block the AI director from spawning common over the map. The director used to spawn pills, med-packs, weapons, and supplies in different locations or not at all before until they limited it. Though it seems they have corrected the lop sided nature of the director so that both teams get the same resources now just generally not spawned in the same locations.
I don't BELIEVE anyone has spent time saying that there is not enough content to justify a second game. Though the weapon ammunition changes are really strange, boomer nerf sucks, few decent hunter pounce areas(25s), common can't be damaged some times while getting up(old issue), and clipping issues with melee weapons.
The game still feels really sloppy in accuracy to me, I went back and played a l4d game at a LAN and the quick twitch and accuracy that I was used to was still there and showed exactly how evident its lack in L4D2 was.
Just so you guys know, it's possible to have an incorrect opinion.
What if it were my opinion that the sky isn't blue? Would you agree then, that because it's my opinion, that I have the right to think that the sky isn't blue?
In other news, the UK seems to be all about online petitions. I wonder what the implications are for that.
Hardly. That is the usual skewered BBC reporting.
The e-petitions incentive has been operating for a number of years in the UK and so far has achieved nothing. It's a slick marketing campaign from the government to make the UK people believe they actually have a say. Trust me, we have about as much say as you guys do with your government.
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Logic fallacy. Come on, Bobby. Opinions can't be inaccurate, and sales don't disprove opinions.
You're wrong.
The game is bigger than the original. There are many new gameplay modes. There are scores of new weapons and items. Four totally new campaigns with new play mechanics, pacing, and intensity. Re-tooled AI director that does more than zombie placement, but also weapon placement, world entity placement, weather effects, and more. Completely redesigned gore system. New matchmaking systems. New in-game assets and models - no entities were re-used, returning zombie types were re-skinned and modeled.
That is quite the expansion pack.
Everyone is so quick to bark at Valve for releasing a new game in a single year's time. Why? Is it because we've become accostomed to 'Valve time'? If they don't take 3/6/10 years to develop a game, it's a ripoff? Even if they plan on supporting both the new and old products?
It is no different than a yearly call of duty, or Prince of Persia, or any other franchise that produces yearly products. People don't complain about those titles. But Valve tries it ONCE, and everyone becomes indignant. How dare they break their cycle of multi-year development cycles.
To assume a one year development cycle means a shoddy, re-used product is ignorance at it's best.
In other news, the UK seems to be all about online petitions. I wonder what the implications are for that.
I don't BELIEVE anyone has spent time saying that there is not enough content to justify a second game. Though the weapon ammunition changes are really strange, boomer nerf sucks, few decent hunter pounce areas(25s), common can't be damaged some times while getting up(old issue), and clipping issues with melee weapons.
The game still feels really sloppy in accuracy to me, I went back and played a l4d game at a LAN and the quick twitch and accuracy that I was used to was still there and showed exactly how evident its lack in L4D2 was.
What if it were my opinion that the sky isn't blue? Would you agree then, that because it's my opinion, that I have the right to think that the sky isn't blue?
(ps, i'm not colorblind)
If you claim a fact that is not true, you are wrong.
-Bobby
But my opinion is that the second is lacking by comparison.
And Chip, what are you basing your opinion on if you've played neither? Just wondering.
The e-petitions incentive has been operating for a number of years in the UK and so far has achieved nothing. It's a slick marketing campaign from the government to make the UK people believe they actually have a say. Trust me, we have about as much say as you guys do with your government.
NIL.
Absolutely nothing. I just wanted to join. I'm a joiner.
Plus I wanted to illustrate the fickle nature of opinion. For kicks.
Fantastic! One million bonus points to you for using this phrase.
You sir, are a bloody liar.
I have played either near enough to draw any sort of conclusion as to their quality. Not reliably, at least.
You have played either? Hmmm? HMMMMMMMMMMMMM?
Sir, is that meant to correct my diction ("neither" would have been a more apt choice), or are you calling the truth of my statement into question?
I will paint this town red with your injun blood either way.