The last friend on my steam friend list who had originally boycotted “Left 4 Dead 2” has finally caved in and bought the sequel today. I was caught by surprise because he was furious beyond imagination to discover the announcement. He has gathered up all his crew and boycotted this game. I felt betrayed when his status reads “Ardyes is now playing Left 4 Dead 2” today. A bit sad thou, as we usually pwn noobs and beat the living crap out of them in versus, now it’s just me all alone waiting... begging to at least have one person to join the lobby. Soon, I realized it’s all over. As I wait in my lobby, patiently, I have written some of the memories I had playing this game. Here is to you, sweet prince.
I remembered the first time I had my hands on the “Left 4 Dead” demo and I played it for hours without end. My steam friends list kept adding up, eager in anticipation preparing to find loyal and faithful friends to play with as soon as the game is released. This pisses of most of the crew in “the geeks” because I kind of abandoned them whenever I play “Left 4 Dead” and play with some other people.
The Campaign was great, but what really hit the spot was versus. It was a fresh idea, revolutionary even. What can be more super satisfying then covering people with bile and see the horde ripping them to shreds. Or a high dive with the hunter, where you sky hug survivors eliminating a quarter of their life as well as ripping them to shreds. It’s fun, but requires players that can co-operate and you need a microphone.
The more I play, more people added me to their friends list. Probably because I am really good at this game, or probably because of my accent. But after a while, I started to play with people that would regularly play every week end. Every Friday I wait in anticipation at mid-night in my lobby. It’s almost instantaneous to see the lobby get filled up with 8 players. The drawback to this is to apologize to the other mates who couldn’t get a spot.
I don’t know how much I screamed in this game, screaming for help, screaming for pills, ammo or the word TANK. This game is like a dream come true, a magnificent work of art that I thought would live on like the almighty “Team Fortress 2”, promising new maps, guns, monsters etc so that players will play this game. Sadly, it didn’t live the expectation.
When the announcement was made for a new “Left 4 Dead 2”,it brought joy to my heart. I was thinking, “Hey, we are going to get those add-ons”. When they said it was a full price retail game, I was just utterly disappointed. My steam buddies was outraged, and protested to Valve about this. I stood by their side all the time.
When the demo came out, it changed a lot of people’s minds. The game turned out to be better than the previous one and pre-orders doubled the amount of the original game. Two weeks ago was probably one of my last versus session with my remaining Left 4 Dead buddies and we had a lot of fun. This was the last time we had a fun at a serious game with each other.
On the 17th of November 2009, Valve finally unlocked “Left 4 Dead 2” for steam players. All my steam friends’ status changed to “Some guy is playing Left 4 Dead 2”. I am the only survivor left here who has not succumbed to the sequel, faithfully waiting in my empty lobby for another Left 4 Dead player to come and play with me. It was usually me and Ardyes who stood by, but today it’s only me.
So to the original Left 4 Dead casts, I bid farewell and will always remember the number of times failing to finish a finale on expert, the stupid exploits used to get thru a level, closet camping, Shiva stacking, getting gold on survival, getting triple pounced plus smoker, DOING a triple pounce plus smoker and knocking survivors off rooftops in No Mercy.
TANK TANK TANK TANK
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