Over the past week

1. PANIC!! 
2. Hide until everyone goes away. 

Speaking of Marcus Fenix

What else happened today?

COULD YOU? 

Should just be Bill every time. He's the worst character in L4D1.

" Should just be Bill every time. He's the worst character in L4D1. "

No Mercy is the best campaign.

"Should just be Bill every time. He's the worst character in L4D1. "

Fucking can't wait for anvil gate!
 
And and actually the opposite, I love stealth games.  Those two are pretty great and I like sneaking past people and using gadgets and stuff like that, its just my kind of game.

I'm also currently playing through Splinter Cell: Conviction. So far I've found it to be really good, but fumbling over the game's interface has lead to being spotted more times than I wanted. For the most part, I really like the game, though I've had a few issues. For instance... it seems there's no way to reload... The game shows me that if I push in the left stick, that's how to reload. Except it never once has worked for me. So occasionally I'll enter a gun-fight and only have 1 shot left before needing to reload, and then I could be getting shot at while trying to reload my weapon. Kind of lame. What is going on there?
 
Anyway, yeah. Being stealthy is cool and all, but a little too slow. I almost feel like a slow Batman in Conviction, with a gun. Especially when I keep throwing guys through windows. The stealth in the game seems to be used best in short bursts. I try to be stealthy all the time, but considering how easy it is to go back into hiding even after being spotted, I feel like I'm rushing at times. Oh well, I'm having a good time with it.

I swear they original announcement of the DLC stated it would come out a month after LFD 2's. Perhaps I'm making that up.

I didn't know that one of the Old Navy mannequins was a playable character in the original Left 4 Dead. Keep in mind that I've played that game.

Man Sweep if I didn't actually know you better, the fact that you care about Gears of War books would make me totally disregard everything you say. But I do, and I know it's just a small character flaw, no biggie. Also I read all the WoW books, which I'm sure is only marginally less terrible. Though some of them are quite good! Anything with Christie Golden's name on the cover, anyway.

" Man Sweep if I didn't actually know you better, the fact that you care about Gears of War books would make me totally disregard everything you say. But I do, and I know it's just a small character flaw, no biggie. Also I read all the WoW books, which I'm sure is only marginally less terrible. Though some of them are quite good! Anything with Christie Golden's name on the cover, anyway. "

I could never kill Louis. He gives me my pills.

You should play

I cannot finish Metal Gear Solid 4 because of a level that requires complete stealth.  Thanks to my suck-ass vision, I can't pick out the guy I'm supposed to follow, and when I miraculously do, he inevitably gets blown away or discovered by goons I can't see.  Fuuuuuuck.

Splinter Cell Conviction wasn't a stealth game.  It pretended to be, but it definitely wasn't a stealth game.  Don't feel bad just blasting your way through that shit.  Metal Gear Solid 4 had some good stealth bits, but overall, the convoluted nature of storytelling in that franchise still turns me off...as well as the clunky-ass controls amongst other things.  That microwave sequence was such bullshit that I just put the controller down and said "fuck it". 
 
I'm super fucking excited about some more L4D/L4D2 DLC!  I still haven't played The Passing.  Actually, I think I might need to pick that up with the 800 points I've got sitting around on my account.  I was debating between that and Warden's Keep since it's on sale, but I think your blog has sold me on getting The Passing!  Thank you, Sweep.

I haven't played a good stealth game since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Die and learn gaming, unless you succeed the first time.