Around The Ring: The Actual Good Stuff Podcast

Around The Ring Episode 13: Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Impressions
for the week of November 8th, 2009

Hosts: Lancelot,TheCrazyCommie, Funnyboy


Order of Discussion

Submissions

obsidianchao

Hey, Lance. I just saw your post, and I wanted to chime in.

Left 4 Dead 2 is amazing. First of all, the new weapons add so much to the experience. The guitar decapitates, all four shotguns can blow holes THROUGH zombies, and the Bile Bomb is the coolest thing ever. The weapons that were in Left 4 Dead now have variants, too, like the Tactical Shotty (old auto-shotty) has the Combat Shotgun conterpart. The new pistols are sweet (The starting USP looking thing is decent, the added Glock 18 looking thing that you get with dual wielding is decent, and the Magnum is freaking AWESOME), and the brand-new stuff is epic, too. The Triple-Shot Assault Rifle slaughters zombies, the new sniper can make standard horde evaporate, and I’ve had a ton of fun with the melee weapons. Also, the graphics are beautiful. They’re definitely a tone up from the original, just like the sounds. The new voices ain’t bad, and are actually funny sometimes.

Well, that’s my wall of text. Keep on fraggin’ Valve because I already got to places I shouldn’t be in the Left 4 Dead 2 demo.

Longrange950

Hay podtac,IT IS I Longrange950 returning from the dead to share with you the most awsome story EVAR! LOL jk, the only thing I found was the hidden easter egg in the jukebox. John Coulton FTW. Well anyways, shout out to everyone in my friends list and the guys at Bungiehq.com. Keep on fraggin them trucks. (OH! p.s.It would be awsome if you guys would join Bungiehq. We have few active members.)

ZonTheGreat

After playing the demo, I do no believe I will be getting L4D2. It’s essentially L4D with a few new weapons and special infected. It could’ve been a DLC, but apparently it has to be a full fledged game. L4D2 reminds me of Halo: ODST, both of them have very little “new” content but both are selling for $60.

Shoutouts to myself and no one else because no one I know still listens to the Podcast. It makes me feel lonely

GLewis

As lance knows; I’m a huge Left for Dead noob. I’ve never played or thought about playing the game; however I do love free things and since this demo is free I decided to try it out. I was pretty happy with it for some aspects but I was pretty unhappy for many others.

I did enjoy the game overall, I wont be buying the game anytime soon for the Xbox360 or the PC but the demo was cool. I liked the fact that you have four people and that there are different types of Zombies that come and attack you. Playing through the demo I still have not figured out how to master any of them but it still seemed refreshing compared to Vegas 2 and ODST like i’ve been playing alot of.

I see the potential of this series and I understand that a lot of people enjoy the game however, you guys are gonna have to count me out unless there is a great deal this black friday for it; or i get it for free somehow.

Happy Zombie killing!

Keep on fragging noobs who think XBox Live is better than Steam.

GLewis out!

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Wisemanofhyrule

Hey, It is Wisemanofhyrule, the one who reminded Lance to do the show. I was very surprised that the demo actually did not lag up to much on my computer.(INTEL GRAPHICS FTW) Anyway, more weapons, Director 2.0, the defibrillator, and new infected definitely make it work the $50. Though ill stick with Modular Combat. Thanks for reading my submission. Keep on fragging people who are too lazy to try DnD. THANKS!

Fungus Oz

ZOMG! Left for dead 2 is a game that I’m going to buy the day it comes out. Actually, scrap that, I’m getting it imported from New Zealand. Stupid piece of **** Australian classification states that an R-rated game must be refused classification. Sounds reasonable…ish, if the non-gamers of Australia who want to tell the gamers what to do want to be all poxy and reserved, thats OK…ish, but the same rule does not apply for any other sort of digital media. Playing the demo, I’ve been tired of headshotting zombies and their faces staying intact, and then their bodies dissapearing as soon as they hit the ground.END RANT

Now, for what I enjoyed about the game. It seemed a lot smoother and graphically pleasing than the first Left 4 Dead, and the new weapons fit very well into the game. The level supplied in the demo was quite a bit of fun in single player, but was absoloutly awesome with friends, as we camped in the area where you have to deactivate the alarm, watching the horde spill in around the buildings to eat our brains before we died after about 2 hours.
I am pleased to say fart juice that melts your face has been given a role in the game, as the spitter is the most common relative to the fart juice monkey.
All the other special infected are awesome, and I had a lot of fun playing this game.
That’s all for me so

Keep on fragging censorship in Australia that makes me want to tear out my hair whilst being drowned in fart juice and punching a wall covered with spikes then falling into a vat of angry hornets and seeing evry copy of Halo 3, Half-life 2 and Left 4 dead 1 and 2 burned in front of me.

from this submission you can safely say there is fungus amongus. Fungus out

TheSlayerMayor

Hello it is I, TheSlayerMayor. First let me start by saying that I did not like the first Left 4 Dead. It was the same thing over and over again. The Left 4 Dead 2 demo is pretty much the same. Although I did enjoy it more. Probably because of the new weapons. I highly recommend anyone to download this demo. That is all. Shout outs to me, PrivateChurch, obsidianchao, Wooof, and my cat,Becky.

xAWx SpRaYnP4Y

I have to say, from what I have played at my friend’s house so far, Left 4 Dead 2 is an outstanding game! The melee weapons are great, especially the Machete. It’s still banned in Australia though :( Hope it gets unbanned really soon.
Its still that great zombie killing game it was last year. The new zombies are going to be great too.

soccersac

First it is the best demo ever. The campaign looks amazing. The funnest part of the whole campaign is where you have to open a door and the alarm goes off. Zombie moedown time!!!!

keep on fraggin trucks so the foo mo will have less competition and finally beat halo 3 on legendary (sorry foo mo about it on episode 200)
ps. are chargers mini tanks???

Old Regime

Hey Podtacular! It’s Old Regime here with a lot of tips for everyone’s favorite zombie survival game Left 4 Dead 2.

The Left 4 Dead 2 demo was utterly amazing. Valve took the original game and made it 10X better. I’m going to talk about some of the new weapons there are in the game. There are some new features like adrenaline, AED, and a bottle of boomer bile you can use. The classic Molotov Cocktail and pipe bombs also make their return in the sequel. A shot of the adrenaline makes you do everything faster-run, reload and shoot faster. The AED is surprisingly useful. It lets you revive DEAD players. It came up very infrequently in the demo, which was somewhat annoying. The boomer bile is my favorite new addition. It works just as well as a pipe bomb in a cluster of zombies. Drain the whole vile on one of them, and the others won’t stop until they’ve torn each other apart.

The addition of chargers really pissed me off. They come out of nowhere, and on expert drain your health in two seconds. The only reconcile is that they have very low health themselves and are easily killed. Jockeys are somewhat easier to deal with, as I found that it was not very challenging to shake one off. I think valve was too concentrated on these new infected forms, because smokers and hunters (everybody’s favorite) barely appeared at all.

The new melee system is effing SWEET! The machete and guitar are hands down the best tools to use. In my OPINION the frying pan and police baton (night stick) did not kill zombies right away. Continually holding down right trigger for the 360 will allow you to perpetually swing the machete and when backed into a corner, it is very challenging for the zombies to get at you. We did not get to experience the fire-ax but I’m sure that it will soon become a favorite.

The new weapons are ok. There’s no auto-shotty which was sad, but there are two new pump shotguns. I found them a waste of time and stayed near the submachine guns like the Uzi, and AK-47. The new tricked out sniper is something you’d pull out of CoD: MW2 and is a head-shot machine.

The characters themselves are ok. I think I became attached to the original four (Zoey, Bill, Louis, and Francis), so I was sad that they didn’t re-appear in this one. The new four though are pretty cool. Ellis and the white jacket dude (what’s his name) are my favorite. They say the most hilarious things when you friendly-fire shoot them.

That’s all for now, I know who ever is reading this is probably out of breath. I hope you didn’t shorten it, Lance.

Keep on fraggin that retarded green gooey noxious acid that the female boomers spit and you get incap in it because it takes health away as fast as an ODST pod coming in to New Mombassa.

Shout-outs to ChuckieJ, Cron0s117, TheSlayerMayor, and odstspartan for being the only people to help me on legendary when I asked.

End transmission.

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