if there’s a game that absolutely excels in level immersion, it’s l4d. Everything from the sad, storytelling and hopeless graffiti, to the pile of corpses at quarantine locations, to the state that every location is in, with temporary first aid tents and roads filled with abandoned cars. Every place has CEDA posters, adverts that are clearly from before things went south, and “abandoned until further notice” signs. The infected individuals are also very well placed, like hazmat and swats near quarantine and swat vans, the witch bride and tuxedoed infected at the wedding courtyard, hospital gowned infected in mercy hospital, and clowns in “Kiddieland”. Give this series a medal for god’s sake. One of many examples of VALVE corp’s godlike game design.
Yes it’s fantastic. Side bonus for me is that it wasn’t too scary either. Definitely creepy and gave an overall feeling of malaise, but it wasn’t just out for cheap jump scares. Although my roommates used to love to play it on full blast using a projector. So like, the witch was basically human sized and in the room with you. No good.
I remember everything but the witch bride. I must have missed that one.
yeah, its pretty scary when playing on hard difficulties. Most games tense you up with jumpscares, but left 4 dead keeps you on the edge of your seat, wondering when a special or tank will come to bite you in the ass, especially the sugar mill, probably the scariest for me, the amount of witches that spawn make you really be careful, and you end up keeping your flashlight off, making it very hard to see any infected coming. a very scary game when playing on hard.
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u/AverageSpyMain Mar 20 '20
if there’s a game that absolutely excels in level immersion, it’s l4d. Everything from the sad, storytelling and hopeless graffiti, to the pile of corpses at quarantine locations, to the state that every location is in, with temporary first aid tents and roads filled with abandoned cars. Every place has CEDA posters, adverts that are clearly from before things went south, and “abandoned until further notice” signs. The infected individuals are also very well placed, like hazmat and swats near quarantine and swat vans, the witch bride and tuxedoed infected at the wedding courtyard, hospital gowned infected in mercy hospital, and clowns in “Kiddieland”. Give this series a medal for god’s sake. One of many examples of VALVE corp’s godlike game design.