Left 4 Dead 2 Forum

" Personally, I always thought that I'd keep a main gun, a pistol, and a melee weapon if there was a zombie apocalypse. Though I would take a gun over a melee weapon, any day. "

"Totally depends on the weapon.  The machete and guitar are good.  The frying pan and baton are too small making them ineffective.  Spamming melee weapon is the new spam melee in crowds or when surrounded.  Also when you get incapacitated, you automatically switch to a pistol, so it's all good. "

" After playing the demo for about 10 minutes I realized Valve had taken the serious, threatening tone of the first game and turned it into a hokey, campy, and corny rendition that doesn't look as good, doesn't control as well, doesn't sound as good, and doesn't even really even play similar to the first game.  I'm kind of suprised this forum isn't filled with topics giving similar observations, but I'm not concerned.  I personally was relieved to play the demo and find it awful, now I won't be tempted to buy it and in turn be subjected to hours upon hours of misery trying to play it the right way despite the idiot denizens of Xbox Live and their juvenile antics. "

"After playing the demo for about 10 minutes I realized Valve had taken the serious, threatening tone of the first game and turned it into a hokey, campy, and corny rendition that doesn't look as good, doesn't control as well, doesn't sound as good, and doesn't even really even play similar to the first game.  I'm kind of suprised this forum isn't filled with topics giving similar observations, but I'm not concerned.  I personally was relieved to play the demo and find it awful, now I won't be tempted to buy it and in turn be subjected to hours upon hours of misery trying to play it the right way despite the idiot denizens of Xbox Live and their juvenile antics. "

" @SolemnOaf said:

"  Xbox Live and their juvenile antics. "

Which version did you play?  I had almost none of those observations? "

" @Damien: Well, what did you mean then?  Have you ever tried playing L4D on Xbox Live?  It is truly frustrating to try to find a game where everbody is doing something like what they should be and playing the game the way it was intended to be played.  I can remember my last experience where I joined a game as a spectator, watched a round where this person with the tag "Right5Alive" was doing awesome, but then was basically left to die by his fuckwad teammates for no good reason.  The next round starts and I discover that I am now on this "Right5Alive" persons team with one other player and a bot.    Now, at this point I think to myself, "this is going to be a good game, potentially.  I know one of the players is good, hell, he's got a tag who's theme is the damn game!  How could it go wrong?"  Well, this Right5Alive person, mistakently thinking or perhaps not caring whether or not we had been responsible for his death in the previous round, just starts blasting the shit out of all of us.  By the time we get him booted from the game, he's downed the rest of the team with the combat-shotty and run out of the safe room.  This episode is typical of my experiences playing L4D.  I actually think L4D is one of the best games ever made, potentially, but the potential of it's formula for greatness is always vastly diminished by its immature and vindictive playerbase.  I admit that I didn't want to like L4D2, but also realized that it has far, far more problems than I could have possibly anticipated imagining.    As to the thread topic at hand.  Yeah, melee weapons are great, especially for all those players who, you know, have difficulty aiming and stuff. "