What makes you keep playing KF?
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After buying l4d2 for 5$ on steam sale and playing for the last few hours I've got to report my list of comparisons between the two ( they are competitors yknow). l4d2 IMO was bland, I'm going to play it some more, but it just puts me to sleep. I think to start my dislikes in order of magnitude would mean to start with the weapons themselves. They look decent, however they sound like crap, and feel like plastic. I should also add that after gaming for the last 7 years without Xhairs, they get in my way and are hard to aim with, I am used to aiming with ironsights or centerscreening in some games; but crosshairs actually get in my way. Beyond that the ammount of zombies that can just 1 hit incapacitate you is rather annoying, getting tounged by a smoker who is over a fence and cannot see you ( and your teamates cannot see him ) is stupid. Something about how each "special" character is one who tends to lock on and take out one of your teamates before you can do much ( he might not kill the teamate, ie jockey ) is annoying. I guess what it gets down to in the end, is that valve figured that the best way to force a team to work together would be to put in gimmicky crap like that to kill the players if they arent by other players. IMO I love the way KF does the exact same thing, but just by making the larger zeds bad enough that you will only survive with your team. Giving people the chance to be lone wolves, but most lone wolves will all die, then go play with the team.
Perhaps its just exam time getting in my way, I'll try l4d2 again, but as it stands now even with the one game type that KF has, its base mechanics are so much more solid and it just works. I cannot even try to imagine getting over 350 hours on l4d2 without going insane...
After buying l4d2 for 5$ on steam sale and playing for the last few hours I've got to report my list of comparisons between the two ( they are competitors yknow). l4d2 IMO was bland, I'm going to play it some more, but it just puts me to sleep. I think to start my dislikes in order of magnitude would mean to start with the weapons themselves. They look decent, however they sound like crap, and feel like plastic. I should also add that after gaming for the last 7 years without Xhairs, they get in my way and are hard to aim with, I am used to aiming with ironsights or centerscreening in some games; but crosshairs actually get in my way. Beyond that the ammount of zombies that can just 1 hit incapacitate you is rather annoying, getting tounged by a smoker who is over a fence and cannot see you ( and your teamates cannot see him ) is stupid. Something about how each "special" character is one who tends to lock on and take out one of your teamates before you can do much ( he might not kill the teamate, ie jockey ) is annoying. I guess what it gets down to in the end, is that valve figured that the best way to force a team to work together would be to put in gimmicky crap like that to kill the players if they arent by other players. IMO I love the way KF does the exact same thing, but just by making the larger zeds bad enough that you will only survive with your team. Giving people the chance to be lone wolves, but most lone wolves will all die, then go play with the team.
Perhaps its just exam time getting in my way, I'll try l4d2 again, but as it stands now even with the one game type that KF has, its base mechanics are so much more solid and it just works. I cannot even try to imagine getting over 350 hours on l4d2 without going insane...
i agree with you about l4d2.......i played it sparingly for maybe 2-3 weeks after somebody gifted it to me and i've not touched it since then.
KF still manages to get me in game even 19 months after i first started....although the only real reason i keep playing is because RO2 has yet to be released
KF still manages to get me in game even 19 months after i first started....although the only real reason i keep playing is because RO2 has yet to be released
There isn't any other game in existence that I'd spend a few hundred hours on. KF is honestly the best purchase I've ever made, seeing as how I got it for a discount and has provided SO much entertainment. Hell, it SHOULD have been sold for $60 unlike L4D and CoD on release.
The guns feel powerful, have kick, sound great - unlike pop-guns of other games. Easy to play on a low spec PC, highly customizable, semi-regular updates of VALUE, good ol' gore, and.. of course.. the music. **** yes, the music. Makes me think of games in the past where they didn't play orchestral crap in an attempt to make their games feel like a true epic. Oh please Bungie, Halo isn't Homer's Iliad.
I end with this..
YouTube - Quake 2 - Gravity Well
The guns feel powerful, have kick, sound great - unlike pop-guns of other games. Easy to play on a low spec PC, highly customizable, semi-regular updates of VALUE, good ol' gore, and.. of course.. the music. **** yes, the music. Makes me think of games in the past where they didn't play orchestral crap in an attempt to make their games feel like a true epic. Oh please Bungie, Halo isn't Homer's Iliad.
I end with this..
YouTube - Quake 2 - Gravity Well
This. KF has awesome-feeling weapons, satisfying (to kill) enemies, and well-done mechanics and maps. But like any game for me, the people are what make it great. You can have a serious game or, as I often do, just shoot the breeze while killing Zeds.
I honestly don't know what keeps me playing this game. I have never raged as much at a coop game like I have with this one. I honestly think I've raged just as much at this game as I do at annoying MP FPS games like CoD or TF2, that's quite a feat for a coop game, which are usually laid back affairs.
While I do love this game, it is just insanely cheap at times, where no amount of skill can save you in certain situations where the game spawns 3 fleshpounds, two sirens behind them, a husk way down that can somehow hit you through all of that, and two scrakes behind you (an area that was completely clear when you just walked through it two seconds ago). I honestly feel like I'm at the mercy of the cheap random spawn system at times, and I fear it more than I fear the actual specimens.
Example is the bottom floor of offices, me and my group of friends usually hold out down there with one guy watching the back door and two up front with a medic in the middle blocking that red room spawn. If the medic moves at all out of view of that area, dudes will spawn there. It's STUPID.
I bought my coop friends (we normally play L4D, Borderlands,TF2) the game awhile back when it was for sale for 5 bucks and we've been playing it for awhile, we fell out with it a bit back and instead went back to L4D2, but we came back a month or so ago. I've been trying to help them beat the Suicidal maps since I've already beat them all myself, but it almost seems impossible, I mean we do literally EVERYTHING perfect to the point that I can't pinpoint at all what is going wrong. Almost every single time we've died it has been because of a cheap spawn which we can do nothing about. We've all been going to bed angry the last few weeks because we either die to a cheap triple fleshpound spawn or we get to the Patty and get wiped on him.
It just seems like this game doesn't at all reward you for doing well, instead it punishes you even more. And if you get that one bullcrap spawn you're dead. Nothing you can do. I don't remember the spawn system always being so crappy. Anyways, I do like the game but damn it is annoying sometimes. It's like that one chick who is really, really good in the sack, but she's horrible at every other part of the relationship. I just can't let her go for some reason. Dammit, Killing Floor. Inb4flames
While I do love this game, it is just insanely cheap at times, where no amount of skill can save you in certain situations where the game spawns 3 fleshpounds, two sirens behind them, a husk way down that can somehow hit you through all of that, and two scrakes behind you (an area that was completely clear when you just walked through it two seconds ago). I honestly feel like I'm at the mercy of the cheap random spawn system at times, and I fear it more than I fear the actual specimens.
Example is the bottom floor of offices, me and my group of friends usually hold out down there with one guy watching the back door and two up front with a medic in the middle blocking that red room spawn. If the medic moves at all out of view of that area, dudes will spawn there. It's STUPID.
I bought my coop friends (we normally play L4D, Borderlands,TF2) the game awhile back when it was for sale for 5 bucks and we've been playing it for awhile, we fell out with it a bit back and instead went back to L4D2, but we came back a month or so ago. I've been trying to help them beat the Suicidal maps since I've already beat them all myself, but it almost seems impossible, I mean we do literally EVERYTHING perfect to the point that I can't pinpoint at all what is going wrong. Almost every single time we've died it has been because of a cheap spawn which we can do nothing about. We've all been going to bed angry the last few weeks because we either die to a cheap triple fleshpound spawn or we get to the Patty and get wiped on him.
It just seems like this game doesn't at all reward you for doing well, instead it punishes you even more. And if you get that one bullcrap spawn you're dead. Nothing you can do. I don't remember the spawn system always being so crappy. Anyways, I do like the game but damn it is annoying sometimes. It's like that one chick who is really, really good in the sack, but she's horrible at every other part of the relationship. I just can't let her go for some reason. Dammit, Killing Floor. Inb4flames
I continue to play KF because I still have unfinished achievements.. For me a game isn't thoroughly beat until every achievement is done or you have achieved 1000+ hours in that game.. whichever comes first..
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