Tue 30 Dec 2008
I have to admit, Left 4 Dead disappointed me on day one. I beat all of the campaigns on the normal difficulty setting in 5 hours on the first day. I played them alone since my wife didn’t want to try it and I didn’t know anyone else who had it on the 360. In general, I don’t like playing online with people I don’t know so I went solo. When it was all over, I felt somewhat unsatisfied. It was short and didn’t feel very different from a regular FPS.
Then I finally convinced my wife to try Versus Mode with me online and that was the end of my social life. Now we’re both addicted and play it daily yelling at each other to get the Hunter off or freaking out at the sight of the dreaded Witch! Valve, you’ve got a winner in Left 4 Dead and I hope you don’t take too long to come out with some DLC!
Now that that’s out of the way, I wanted to share my best moment playing Left 4 Dead. So without further ado, and in no particular order:
I launched the game on Expert mode and played online with 3 other ambitious souls. We’re trudging along at a painful pace as wave after wave of infected bog us down. In the end, there are only two of us. Francis (Me) and some dude playing Louis. We’re within a few steps of the safe house when Louis yells “I knew we’d make it … ARGHH!!!” as a Hunter jumps him out of nowhere! I try to bunt the hunter off when something wraps around me and pulls me away …. and it was all over so close to the finish. I should have felt frustrated at that point but the entire episode felt so much like a scene from a B horror movie that I was actually smiling to myself for the rest of the night!
For those of you who might not be aware, there’s an achievement in the game for getting a head shot on the Witch character and killing her with that one shot. I must have tried 20 to 30 times to no avail before that one fateful day me, my wife, a co-worker, and his girlfriend came upon a witch in a narrow alley. There was no way to get around her so we decided to double back when the ground began to shake and a Tank was upon us from whence we just came! It seemed hopeless since two of us were limping and we had no dodging room so I quickly turned off my flashlight, approached the witch from behind, and unloaded my shotgun in the back of her head killing her in one shot, nabbing my achievement, and eliciting cheers from my fellow survivors. Sadly, the tank incapacitated 2 of us and a boomer + 2 hunters finished us off but I was clutch for one magic moment, and I’ll never forget it!
We were in the hospital as the zombies this time in versus mode. I was a smoker and my wife was a hunter. The other two infected were nowhere in sight and all 4 survivors were headed towards the elevator. One of the survivors was making my life difficult by closing all of the doors behind the survivors as they progressed through the level. I got lucky enough to grab him with my smoker’s tongue just as he was about to go through the door. I dragged him all the way to me and it took a bit of time before one of the survivors realized he was missing and doubled back. My wife was getting ready to jump the would-be savior, who was still a good distance away, when I had a quick idea and asked her to jump my victim instead. She did so and I had just enough time to charge my tongue again and grab the newcomer before he had a chance to know what hit him. Then when the other two finally came back, my wife (having finished off the first and second survivor) jumped one at the exact same time as another hunter jumped the other. It was beautiful, 4 full-health survivors dead without a single special-infected casualty!
Anyone else out there have a memorable Left 4 Dead moment to share?
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December 30th, 2008 at 23:02
Once me and 2 friends were all hunters and we jumped 3 survivers atthe same time. It was great.
December 31st, 2008 at 00:23
Damn, now I have to get this game and play with you and your wife. I can scream a lot too.
December 31st, 2008 at 08:01
I find the smoker is the most useless of the infected. I can do a lot of damage as a hunter or a boomer but as a smoker I can never figure out when I can and can’t get someone with my tongue. I know I can get them when they circle is red but I saw youtube video where people get survivors as a smoker even when it’s not and I can’t,
December 31st, 2008 at 08:19
a lot of people have complained that there isn’t any story to the game. but there is! you just have to make the story yourself, just like those stories you told, they weren’t part of any pre-defined plot, which makes it so much more replayable, every time you play, you get a different story:)
December 31st, 2008 at 10:07
@Jean-Francois: YES! Get it man! You won’t regret it, I promise!
@James: It just takes some getting used to, really
@Rayna: I couldn’t agree more! I actually have more stories to tell but some of them are “you had to be there” moments and can’t easily be retold….
January 3rd, 2009 at 13:30
Best moment i would say was in the subway.
My friend barfed on 2 survivors and as they were being mobbed, my lovely smoker went behind the other 2 when they tried to help. I grabbed the first one while my friendx2 (hunter) jumped the other one.
Moment of shame is when as survivors me and my bud were in the red like 1 more hit and we die. Francis sets off the car alarm as we are right next to the safe zone. Louis goes down and me as Zoey kinda froze. Do i help out and die like a true heroine or do i try to help. I guess that moment of hesitation sealed the deal because Louis went down hard, i moved in pistols blazing trying to save my bud while the other 2 survivors, Bill and Francis decided that their lives were worth more then ours. All that was missing was a pipe bomb so i could pull a suicide attack.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:37
i dont like francis in the new Left4Dead
September 14th, 2009 at 12:13
Smokers are the best infected!! I was playing as one in death air chapter 1 and there was 1 human and three bots against me and my friend. I pulled the human player off the edge and what do the bots do – THEY JUMP OVER THE EDGE!!!! and the human player is lonely and helpless hangin in the edge and 3 bots dead under him
:D:D:D
November 12th, 2010 at 08:10
There was this one time when me and my friends were going about to make it to the boat and I was backing up into the boat and somehow the boat launched me across the map and I died when I hit the ground.