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Fun fact: Rochelle had over 75% of her voice lines cut in the final release. The recent Last Stand update brought most of those lines back so she actually has a personality now
@plentyness nah honestly her character is boring anyways. I always think like “Coach, Ellis, Nick and....oh....her.” No disrespect to her voice actor tho, just valves fault really
I'll always remember lying on the ground yelling for my friend Zach to revive me and hearing "it's called left 4 dead not risk my neck saving your dumb ass". It was so perfectly delivered I couldn't hold a grudge
My first experience with Left 4 Dead was nothing but pure magic. Coming from Resident Evil: Outbreak, Re4, and Silent Hill. Left 4 Dead made me feel like I was in an actual zombie outbreak, where the whole city is in disarray. Chaos everywhere, and a simple, yet effective horde of zombies hunting you down. The adrenaline I felt running towards the first security door after accidentaly activating the alarm of a car nearby was out of this world. And the special infected? Man, what a ride.
My favorite part about the L4D2 Boycott group was the screenshot of the member's list when the game came out and they were all actively playing the game.
I love the fact that you can play this game over and over and still hear different dialogue from the survivors not to mention how in depth they all are
@@Slurpified I agree with you on that but you see the dialogue in l4d2 is random can be triggered in certain events so you don't have to hear it again for the rest of the playthrough, kf2 on the other hand despite me liking a lot of things about it, It just keeps using the same quotes as if they're some robots, I just kept hearing "this cat's back in the game" every time I heal myself and it gets a little annoying
"A masterpiece is something that is barely affected by the passage of time. Where many games age poorly or lose their appeal because something else comes along and does what they do better, a masterpiece is something you can always go back to, knowing you'll have a great time as if you played it like it was brand new." is such a good quote of yours that I will use it in numerous future debates
This is literally super well known. It's literally one of the main dev commentary points. "Players would be confused when dealing with the special infected at time, so we added music to each one to help good players who listened prepare before".
@@rickkroll how did you not know that playing since launch?? It's literally insanely unique for every special infected. Boomer low piano tune, witches high pitched singing, etc. You had to be playing with the music off to not notice it🤣
Valve in my eyes is the only triple A game studio that has made none true bad games (except artifact) but they quickly cleaned up their act with Half Life Alyx.
We took the 7th generation consoles for granted....holy fuck triple A games just aren't the same anymore in my opinion. Most of them are just monetized for years to come, rarely true passion is put in.
i once trapped a dude in the corner as a jockey next to the safe house. the others made it in but the horde was at the door. a zombie stopped the others from hitting the dude. eventualy they opened the door and died
L4D 2 is immortal. God tier. Its environment is legit scary with all the voices of zombies. The dialogues also are so realistic and we actually feel that we are surviving a zombie outbreak.
I remember when I first started playing Left 4 Dead 2 when I first encountered the tank I was terrified hearing the music seeing the shaking on the screen & then having a piece of concrete being chucked at me with a vicious roar yeah those were good times❤
I have so much nostalgia for Left 4 Dead 2 playing co-op with my friend in middle school. I (small Chinese boy) would always play Rochelle and my friend (skinny, white & nerdy type) was always Coach, that shit was so much fun. though the roleplaying we tended to do might have been verging on black face... (dont tell on me pls)
For me is that one witch that is blocking that one stairway in Dark Carnival and it's the only stairway you have to cross before going to activate the merry-go-round
Moved out of my parents house and had a hard time being able to talk to my younger sisters but one day i bought l4d2 for them on steam for like 2 bucks and played through the entire game in like 2 weeks. We had a absolute blast!
Left 4 Dead 2, a 2009 game that still has more than 10k daily active players. It ultimately proves its worth on a competitive environment where any AAA game will age quicker than a cheetah.
Bottar We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
This maybe true today but what happens as the old guard retires and dies off , I fear valve may never put out something like l4d ever again. I hope I'm wrong but I don't have high hopes.
i remember being absolutely terrified anytime i was alone as survivors, entire team dead, 25 health, and it being way too quiet, suspiciously quiet, nothing scares you in that game quite as much as that
Expert, you and a teammate, low health, and no ammo/supplies, it's realism difficulty so your team doesn't respawn and you can't see your teammate, and it's dead silent.
Imma rant list some things I loved while playing the game, that really showed me how much the developers cared as they made the game (keep in mind each point will probably be long): - An aspect of the gameplay that also makes it stand out from other games is the resource management. Especially in the advanced and expert difficulties, it can be extremely hard not to use all your healing items at the start, leaving you waiting for more. When you inevitably run out of heals, it gets extremely tense as you pray to the Director to spawn in less zombies and more medkits. You can’t revive forever without medkits, so you want to save them. But on the other hand, you may need to top up your health in case special zombies screw things over. The great thing is this game perfectly forces the player to ask themselves this dilemma for the sake of survival. - The insane amount of dialogue added into the game, often used in specific scenarios. For example they used completely new lines of dialogue for picking up items within the tunnel of love, a small area in the Dark Carnival campaign. (“Pipe bomb of love” etc). Completely random and very specific thing to add, yet surprising. Also, never got bored of the story dialogue when doing expert attempts. There would be sometimes up to 8 different lines that could be potentially spoken at any point, and often they’d give lines to different characters. For instance, after Ellis comes up with the idea of using the stock car in the mall to escape in the first campaign, a random person is chosen to react to the plan, and they react in different ways. - The fact that they made a fictional band and composed multiple songs for them to be played throughout some of the campaigns. I thought it was something very creative to add. The finale of the Dark Carnival, the Midnight Rider concert is always extremely fun to play. - Another thing I noticed when completing the mall in the first campaign was the fact that there are two paths made before starting the alarm on the third floor. One is always picked for you, the other is blocked. I noticed this because one path starts with you breaking the windows on the second floor, and the other floor was harder starting with you opening the door to the first floor area. - The game was extremely ahead of it’s time with teaching the players it’s mechanics. It shows the player small key points of information as you are slowly introduced to the mechanics. Small notes on the screen like “don’t disturb the witch” is infinitely better than spamming the player with information or taking away the control of the player. - Replayability. Besides the randomised spawn mechanics, this game has so much to do for each of the survival campaigns. Personally I loved the mutations, which often completely changes mechanics. Things such as last man alive, which forces you to play solo against special infected (common zombies removed), and gib fest, which gives you a L60 light machine gun with unlimited ammo. I also got around to playing a mutation that forces you to carry a gnome throughout the whole campaign that forces you to not use your gun and attracts zombies. It’s rare nowadays for games to add cheat codes to the end of games, but this is a step further. - Mad respect for the development team to work with the community last year to produce a new major update “The Last Stand”. It shows how even after a decade from release, the developers still care for the game enough to add new melee weapons, a new campaign and bonus achievements. I was fully expecting TF2 to get the continuing updates, while L4D2 would slowly loose it’s developers. Yet somehow it is the other way around. In conclusion, from the campaigns to any other aspect of the game, this is an absolute masterpiece and is one of the best games I ever played (a decade old game!).
still to this day, hearing the sound of a hunter growling gives me chills, especially when my whole team has died and im making a dash to the safe room
I love the drum sting that plays directly after you kill a witch, it defuses all of the tension as if the survivors let out a sigh of relief and and their heartbeat returned to normal
I'll never forget a l4d2 Dark Carnival game where I was downed just as the chopper arrived. Our Rochelle came to save me but I was yelling in the mic "forget me! Go! Go! Go!" But she saved me. I made it to the chopper so fast I didn't check for my team. I was the only survivor.
one time on that same map I told my friend to leave me and grab the gnome (we were doing THAT acheivment) he managed to revive me while inside of the chopper AND grab the gnome. It was awesome.
Left 4 Dead has cursed me from childhood by having amazing feeling guns with simplistic feedback that made me believe I had good aim, but now I can no longer adapt to recoil lmao
The fact that both the survivors and the infected both have to play tactical to me is amazing for a game from 2009. Most games can’t get that right today.
arguably playing special infected in versus takes more skill but most of it is just weird bugs/tricks so it doesn't really make that much of a difference.
@@andresemidey9679 so is trying to coordinate your teamates as special infected, I’m guessing you would say “the same goes for survivors” which I would agree BUT because of how playing special infected is designed, you get punished even more if you get bad teammates/ non coordinating people
Director: Mmmmm the survivors, are struggling and are about to die and we don’t even know where Rochelle is? So should I place a horde? Spawn a special infected? Spawn a witch? Place in an upcoming tank? Nah that’s too harsh, I won’t summon the witch But I will do the other stuff!
Men i remember play Dark carnival en Expert, i come to the safe room, all my teammates dead, i was so happy but in that instead i see a witch in the saferoom, it's a little saferoom so was "die or die buddy"
That was literally my favorite part of L4D. It felt like someone was telling the infected what to do sometimes. If someone was doing good, the infected chose to target them instead of the players who weren't killing as many zombies. Or if everyone was getting wrecked, the special infected would use their claws instead of their special attack.
I did not see that coming but I should have since they have a very similar way of analysing games not to mention their shared sense of humor. Of course these two are friends.
For me one of the great attractions was the seemingly endless dialogue you'd hear depending on the circumstances of the play-through. After 2 years of solid play I hurled a molotov at a witch playing as coach and started running, drawing the witch into the trap we had set and coach blurts out "outta my way - I've got a burning witch on my ass" like right on cue. Simply amazing. I'd never heard it before and this was after literally hundreds of hours of play. Laff'ed my fat coach ass right off.
I can't believe it's taken me all these years to realise that the zombies came for the survivors in the cutscene because Bill smeared Francis with boomer bile.
@@knightgallade8431 There's actually two hordes in the L4D1 cutscene. The one you mentioned is the second big one where a tank spawns. The other smaller horde shows up out of nowhere while Bill & Zoey were investigating crying noises.
Left 4 dead is one of those games where I’ll always have fond memories of. Amazing game, I hope everyone had a chance to play this game, because it is awesome.
@@Marinealver I can see Joe as Vegeta saying "I've been to your channel, Act Man. I know all about your viewers, your 1 million subs. You allowed me to believe i could beat you." Act Man: That's true. I did manage to get to a million subscribers. But hey, I've only had them for a short time! Joe: Bah! That's enough of your lies!
I love how such a simple game can have infinite replayability without getting boring I don't play a lot cause I have other games, but I always come back to it for a fun time once in a while but it doesn't feel the same as it did back in ~2010 with the boys :(
Yeah this game is so fun to play it almost never gets old I love it but remember first playing it in 2010 on pc with one of my old laptop’s great memories
Nothing like one of my favorite UA-camrs endlessly praising one of my favorite video games of all time. Act Man you killed it and I never fully realized how the encouragement of teamwork is what makes this game my favorite. You also got every meme and reference under the sun and I can safely say you're as much a hardcore fan as I am. Killin it dude ✌️
Imo they just went over board with mechanics trying really hard to make a new experience. Like act man said you don’t need tons of mechanics for a great game or replay value. That being said I still enjoy and play both games today.
@@TheRisible They failed to nail the basic features first though, that's the damning thing. The visuals, the physics, the attention to detail... L4D may be a simpler game, mechanically, but it's far more sophisticated overall.
I remember playing Left 4 Dead 1 and not knowing how the hell you get through the apartments on No Mercy Chapter 1, you actually used to be able to make that jump onto the air conditioning from the ceiling, took a bunch of health away but you could do it.
@@WolfQuartz Asymmetrical in terms of abilities and weapons: one team is normal people with guns and melee, grenades, and healing items, and the other is a bunch of zombies, with super strength, health, acid puke, explosives for stomachs, etc. It's really hard to balance all that stuff out to make the mode enjoyable, hence why the og commenter is impressed.
The music in this game is SO GOOD to the point Valve created the whole band of the midnight riders just for the game, wrote 4 songs for them, and made a freakin midnight riders website
It's not even the theme that is satisfying in the finale. It's when the tune kicks in and you know you have to get out of there making a dash for it through the horde with survivors panicking and telling you it's time to go and you see the transport leaving the scene with the infected chasing you before the theme plays. It's just awesome
L4D2 and Deep Rock Galactic remain the greatest coop shooters ever made. Nothing else comes close to their intuitive teamwork, excellent balance and endless replayability.
@@weaponizedautism3269 ...No. It had some nice ideas, but its pacing was relentless compared to the measured and varied pacing of both DRG and L4D, its class balance has been all over the place historically, its progression system is grindy and full of redundancy, and it has neither mod/custom level support - to my knowledge - nor procedurally generated content. As for teamwork, what I experienced was far less inherent teamwork and incentivization than in DRG or L4D.
And there are many custom mods and workshop shit for it too. And there is a good balance between characters too although it does kind of fell short and i agree with progression system . It's Grindy and a bit boring
*Doom music intensifies* oh wwait We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
@@TheActMan there is a lot of cool music mods, I have the republic commando theme modded for the main menu, Mr sandman as the tank theme, the horde theme is just "Fetch me their souls!"
Valve was so fucking good at *simple yet genius* game-design whether it's Counter-Strike or Left 4 Dead or their other games they would design a really simple gameplay and level design that has insane skill ceiling and insane replay value that you could play for years and it would still be fun but no matter how much you improved there was still room to improve more and every single little detail in the gameplay added to all that, nothing was useless and on top of that all of these components worked so fucking well together
I got a moment where i walked down a corridor in l4d1 and my team was little bit ahead of me and they were fighting a horde. So i started to walk to them, but two tanks just spawned behind me and i screamed RUN! RUUUUUN! I remember seeing my teammates flying by my head while im getting slapped by the zombies! We died, but we had so much fun. This is why i love left 4 dead so much.
The full game is pretty decent, but yeah missing some key L4D features *cough cough* arbitrary bullshit penalty to hipfire unless you have certain cards
@@haerfgvbag7050 Back 4 Blood is an improvement on virtually every aspect of the original L4D games, and that's no shot at Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, cause they were both phenomenal. But I would also agree that B4B has its issues. I for one, don't like the fact that there's hardly any dialogue or talking between characters outside of calling things out or pinging something. Quite boring when one of the coolest most likable things about the Left 4 Dead characters was the wacky, random conversations they'd have about some play they went to as a kid or a certain life experience or something.. needed more character dialogue in B4B for sure.
I played games as a kid (spyro, Mario, Pokémon, etc) but stopped gaming once I hit middle school. L4d and l4d2 is what got me into gaming as a adult. I played constantly and still keep up with the friends I met on there. We even all traveled to meet up, it was so fun.
I gifted it to my bud who’s never played it or heard about it, we played with two other homies for 4 hours straight and he loved it, and now it’s a consistent game we go to. Valve really do be making legendary games
My college friends and I bought this on sale, let's just say we found out who's the biggest screamer in our group. We're still playing thanks to the custom maps and there's never a dull moment (damn alarm cars and accidentally shooting/ fail crowning witches)
Arguably the best coop experience you will find in a video game (4 players coop with friends is something beyond amazing, seriously, you can only understand after you play it)
I remember my mom and my sister Sarah played l4d1 on our old xbox 360. In the 4th chapter of no mercy. Bill said to francis while healing himself in the elevator, "Stop staring at my ass!". I've only heard that line once. That was i think over 9 years ago. How many of y'all heard Bill say this line?
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I had an encounter with the director early in my experience of L4D2. I was in the tunnel of love and kept hearing this weird noise coming from above me. Searching around I found a hole in the roof, but it was too dark to see anything inside. As I was staring into this hole trying to figure out what was making those strange noises a smoker tongue sudden grabbed me from the darkness and in a panic I emptied half a dozen sniper rounds into the hole, killing the smoker. That was so funny and has so far been my favorite moment in L4D2, but since then I haven't encountered a smoker in that part of the level again.
its a litle bit like Dead space, yes some encounters are intentional but most of the time its completely random i gone through levels were nothing appeared and it was so damn scary and id replay and there would be that 1 enemy that appears in the most unexpected place, L4D2 does it better though its awesome like that alot of the time when replaying you would expect certain specials to appear and even hordes and other times they just dont show up and it gives a ominous feel knowing you have no idea where nothing is and you will never know.
One of my favorite moments was during the second level of Dark Carnival. I was entering this warehouse sort-of area and suddenly a horde comes out of nowhere. While I'm fighting this horde, I just hear a hunter scream over and over again. So I'm like "why is this hunter screaming? I can't see it, and no one's getting pounced on, so what's happening?" but ultimately I ignore it to kill the last of the horde. After I kill them all, I look to my left, where there's a wall and a shelf. A hunter had spawned INTO the shelf and was trying to pounce on me the entire time while I was none the wiser. I then shot it until it was dead, but in hindsight I should've filmed it
literally just a few days ago on no mercy had the director spawn a tank instantly. like the second we left the safe room it spawned and came in from the top of the building somewhere absolutely fucked but kinda funny
“Left 4 Dead 2 is best played in a semi-casual environment” *joins a session and immediately gets kicked because I didn’t respond to their string of letters and forwardslash with my own string of letters* *joins another session and gets kicked because I’m not running through the level at a speedrun pace*
I wish I was good enough with editing and had the time and would make like a mini video for gratitude and that would certainly be the title. Maybe use some of his videos to make like a greatest hits reel 🤣 a guy can dream.
My best memories from this game is when I was playing with my step siblings. We have had so many funny moments including having a sitting witch on top of a car, pausing right before he got hit by a charger, laughing out asses off at the voice lines. Staying up past midnight playing this game on a school night. Fucking around and acting like the characters we selected, accents and all. This game will ALWAYS have some of my best memories.
tbh for the whole 2500 hours I have on l4d2, a good 95% have been with randoms. And all things considered, playing pubs/randoms is not that bad, aside from a teamkiller every 100 games or so, or some guy with a vocalizer.
i met one of my best gaming friend on there over 8 years ago. at that point the game had be out for a while and ppl were modding it. but my friend invited me to the party bc my frying pan was still glowing and she was so pressed it wasn’t working for her on my end lol. she wasn’t a modder or anything but if y’all played online sometimes if you found a game with mods you’d be able to leave after a while and play in your own lobby lmao. those were the days for sure man. but glad L4D & L4D2 are viewed as a universal classic/ master piece all around. appreciate your content bro, you bring back so many good memories that i experienced in my childhood.
The start of left for dead one takes place near where I live. I hope you enjoyed your beautiful romp through Pennsylvania. I promise, the locals are only slightly less viscous in real life
Did I ever tell you about the time Keith and I did a Left 4 Dead 2 review?
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I heard that from Angry Joe
Thx I will check it out
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Fun fact: Rochelle had over 75% of her voice lines cut in the final release. The recent Last Stand update brought most of those lines back so she actually has a personality now
This makes so much sense, she always had really good lines but she was always so quiet. Never knew the reason
@plentyness what
@plentyness nah honestly her character is boring anyways. I always think like “Coach, Ellis, Nick and....oh....her.” No disrespect to her voice actor tho, just valves fault really
@plentyness Ohhhhh, my autistic ass thought you were being legit lmao
Over 75%? what? it wasn't even 7%, let alone 75%
I'll always remember lying on the ground yelling for my friend Zach to revive me and hearing "it's called left 4 dead not risk my neck saving your dumb ass". It was so perfectly delivered I couldn't hold a grudge
dang.
damm
dammm the North Sea.
How it should be
Damnmmnmnnm
My first experience with Left 4 Dead was nothing but pure magic. Coming from Resident Evil: Outbreak, Re4, and Silent Hill. Left 4 Dead made me feel like I was in an actual zombie outbreak, where the whole city is in disarray. Chaos everywhere, and a simple, yet effective horde of zombies hunting you down. The adrenaline I felt running towards the first security door after accidentaly activating the alarm of a car nearby was out of this world. And the special infected? Man, what a ride.
Silent Hill isn’t really a zombie game.
@@BLAM5980 eh it’s close enough, either way he spittin fax
Not to mention that the L4D infection and resulting zombies are actually capable of reaching cataclysmic capabilities.
Buzz MONSTOR jam was pure magic too you know
Midnight you didn’t comment about Bloodborne... (Unless it’s confirmed idk)
My favorite part about the L4D2 Boycott group was the screenshot of the member's list when the game came out and they were all actively playing the game.
this was one of the funniest things i ever heard about in the gaming community
Seriously the boycott was so damn dumb. Releasing a sequel to L4D within a year after its release? I mean... fuck yeah, dream come true!
lol
I don't understand why they were mad
@@guysmiley4830 Probably they thought valve was just repackaging l4d as l4d 2 and boy they were wrong
I love the fact that you can play this game over and over and still hear different dialogue from the survivors not to mention how in depth they all are
Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as bad as waiting for actman’s why skyrim is so awesome
Same for Killing Floor 2. You should try that game out has like over 12 hours of character and boss dialogues.
People keep saying this but i get the same dialogue begotten for years.
@@Slurpified I agree with you on that but you see the dialogue in l4d2 is random can be triggered in certain events so you don't have to hear it again for the rest of the playthrough, kf2 on the other hand despite me liking a lot of things about it, It just keeps using the same quotes as if they're some robots, I just kept hearing "this cat's back in the game" every time I heal myself and it gets a little annoying
@@SomeGuyWithABlueMask Oh yeah thats just battle chatter I have it turned off.
"Is left 4 dead 2 a masterpiece?"
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: fuck yes.
I don't care what you think, but this man right here is speaking fax
Lfd2 boycott community still in denial
And that right there good sir IS 📠
Actual long answer: What kind of stupid question is that? It's a masterpiece.
Longer answer: freakin friggiddy fucking yeah and yes
I'll never forget getting dragged halfway across the swamp fever map by a charger modded to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Good times...
I’ll never forget sliding down the stairs and through the sewers while play musical chairs in buzz monster jam
i will never forget my team being wipe out by the shrek tank with his magnificent song
@@birdinthewindow7438 DEAR GOD i fear hearing All Star for i know he coming....
nick cage faces on the flashlights
@@telamonthe3nd14 my tank is modded to be he-man and he yells heyyyyeeayeaayahh what’s goin on!
"A masterpiece is something that is barely affected by the passage of time. Where many games age poorly or lose their appeal because something else comes along and does what they do better, a masterpiece is something you can always go back to, knowing you'll have a great time as if you played it like it was brand new." is such a good quote of yours that I will use it in numerous future debates
I agree with you about that quote
Same lol
Been quoting Actman since 2017 he has genuinely decent opinions/quotes
Not a bad quote, actually!
Definitely not what B4B is for something that promotes itself as better than L4D 😂
wait a minute, aged cheese can be really good though
Late to the game Mr. Roanoke
oh hey roanoke
find me some dank aged cheese
He has a point
@@TheActMan Parmigiano Reggiano is aged for at least a year! :0
"Shoot anything that moves, especially your teammates"
Every multiplayer game with friendly fire on, in a nutshell
Hardcore mode
Buzz MONSTOR jam is the best multiplayer game
friendly fire is the epitome of "i can't see what im shooting at and you look like the enemy!"
That shit hits harder when you main a shotgun and some dumbass decided to go in front of you in expert mode
"Just say anything in the comments on any video"
Basically just some guy without a mustache in a nutshell.
Nick's "I have not, come this far, to die now." line is one of the rawest lines in gaming.
easily my biggest hype every time I fire up L4D2
Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as bad as waiting for actman’s why skyrim is so awesome
@@whiterunguard6415 Well that'll never happen because Skyrim is mediocre at best.
@@jffry890 O mediocre, that must be why it made it to game informers, screen rants, and polygons top 10 game of all time.
@@jffry890 skryim mediocre?
the explain to me in a way that makes it believable how Skyrim became the top 5 best game of all time. go on, i'm waiting.
Fun fact also the special infected have their own noises when they spawn as well and you could memories them to understand which one spawned.
This is literally super well known. It's literally one of the main dev commentary points. "Players would be confused when dealing with the special infected at time, so we added music to each one to help good players who listened prepare before".
@@MrAwesomeHero1 youre fun. Must not be that well none cuz i didnt know about it and i played L4D2 since launch
@@rickkroll if you've been playing since launch and never noticed that; that's actually pretty sad lmao
@@MrAwesomeHero1 music AND unique noises.
@@rickkroll how did you not know that playing since launch?? It's literally insanely unique for every special infected. Boomer low piano tune, witches high pitched singing, etc. You had to be playing with the music off to not notice it🤣
Left 4 Dead 2 aged like a rock cause its still a solid game.
@MrZomBIE16 I'ma be honest, I don't remember making this comment
@@JustASideAccount so this comment aged like a fossil as well?
@@commandrubix239 I gotta agree at this point
it was so well made that graphically it holds up and has so much replay value that it almost never gets old.
ROCK SOLID
Valve's golden age was one of the best gaming experiences you could've ever had, in an age where games were already arguably at their peak.
Valve in my eyes is the only triple A game studio that has made none true bad games (except artifact) but they quickly cleaned up their act with Half Life Alyx.
To have begun pc gaming with games like this was a god damn blessing. Thanks volvo.
@@apollorizingbsg9754 Didnt they make Dota 2?
But yeah in their prime there games were atleast ok.
Valve or Volvo lol
We took the 7th generation consoles for granted....holy fuck triple A games just aren't the same anymore in my opinion. Most of them are just monetized for years to come, rarely true passion is put in.
Surprised Act Man doesn't mention the number 1 tactic for messing around with teammates:
Closing the safe room door before they can enter.
Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as bad as waiting for actman’s why skyrim is so awesome
@@whiterunguard6415 stfu spammer
Bruh what about playing on a hard difficultly and downing your teammates before they get in the escape vehicle thus giving a quick end to the level.
i once trapped a dude in the corner as a jockey next to the safe house. the others made it in but the horde was at the door. a zombie stopped the others from hitting the dude. eventualy they opened the door and died
Omfg my buddy did that to me lol
L4D 2 is immortal. God tier. Its environment is legit scary with all the voices of zombies. The dialogues also are so realistic and we actually feel that we are surviving a zombie outbreak.
Other than Back 4 Blood, Left 4 Dead is still scare something out of me even though I know the surprise many times.
"Shit, okay. Yes, we are vampires, all of us are vampires."
I remember when I first started playing Left 4 Dead 2 when I first encountered the tank I was terrified hearing the music seeing the shaking on the screen & then having a piece of concrete being chucked at me with a vicious roar yeah those were good times❤
Another completely underrated aspect of this game: offline co-op!
"ive been flipping off my british audience all this time"
"sorry about that mate" in aussie accent
I have so much nostalgia for Left 4 Dead 2 playing co-op with my friend in middle school. I (small Chinese boy) would always play Rochelle and my friend (skinny, white & nerdy type) was always Coach, that shit was so much fun. though the roleplaying we tended to do might have been verging on black face... (dont tell on me pls)
@@Scroolewse you sound cool as hell
split screen was possible xD
Except ai was dumb asf
getting Gnome Chompski to the end of Dark Carnival is a true medal of honor
I still remember doing that, was honestly really fun but I bet I didn't think so when I was actually doing it
great memories with these games and early xbox live in general
Did it on expert a few months back
It’s the gaming version of saving private Ryan.
I remember just trying to do it to screw around and I actually did it
I'm so glad that you pulled off what everyone was thinking by getting Angry Joe onboard for the intro
I’ll be glad when it’s buzz MONSTOR jam instead
I chose the impossible
@@TheActMan hey mr. Act or Mr. Man whichever u prefer could u tell me the music at 31:28?
@@TheActMan yes
@@twtad4551 the sleepy piano music? I think it's super mario 64
i still play left 4 dead 2 on PC. it get's an average of 13,000 players at a time which is insane.
It's the one game I keep coming back to. I don't get bored of it
Good to know it's still active
I try and play 1 but it’s dead unfortunately
@m 25,000 players few days ago.
Really? It might be time to cross over to pc. I'm annoyed that this game is not on Xbox game pass??
I love how in left 4 dead, you never quite feel safe. There will always be that one hunter that will take you by surprise
For me its smoker, who appear out of no where
@@dragonbane44 in dark carnival. Me and my friends where about too escape but a smoker grab me in a split second I was about to leave
Or that one smoker that pulls you away from your homies 😂 damn smokers
I swear to god the hunters only ever attacked me
For me is that one witch that is blocking that one stairway in Dark Carnival and it's the only stairway you have to cross before going to activate the merry-go-round
Nothing quite like a fully modded playthrough of L4D2. you know, airhorne deagles, "free ice cream" horde sound, sexy legs coach, thwomp shotgun...
@@donventura2116 i’m gonna have to say no to the anime weapons
@@changeit000 those too
Wow lol. Never tried a single L4D mod besides the obvious Lewd4dead servers. Maybe it’s time to start haha.
@@donventura2116 omg shrek tank 😂
Sexy legs coach? Haha that's so crazy. Do you know where I could find such a mod... So I can you know avoid it?
Playing L4D in 5 parts:
1. Load a game
2. Run away from team
3. Get hunted
4. Get hunted
5. ...
6. Wait for your teammates to rescue you
Or jockey'd,or charg'd,or smok'd,or boomer'd,or spitt'd,or witch'd,or tank'd
@@L0rdswaggy 7. Where are my team?
@@redsoldier6828 8. Remember you left them 4 dead
@@Tegrius88 9. Restart the map?
✅✅✅✅
Moved out of my parents house and had a hard time being able to talk to my younger sisters but one day i bought l4d2 for them on steam for like 2 bucks and played through the entire game in like 2 weeks. We had a absolute blast!
Left 4 Dead 2, a 2009 game that still has more than 10k daily active players. It ultimately proves its worth on a competitive environment where any AAA game will age quicker than a cheetah.
Ya the longevity proves how good it actually is. 90 percent of games die really fast.
That is because it cost 0.95 euro 🤣🤣 for broke people
@@iLaeyes Or maybe just because the game is better then 95% of all modern shooters released today.
Now playing it in vr
@@iLaeyes Laughing at people in poverty? Low blow. Really low blow.
L4d2 still has one of the best gore systems I've seen, the gut shot with entrails hanging out is phenomenal
Agreed.
You’re right, L4D2 also has one of the gore systems I’ve seen.
it is
@@boyloftus true it really is one of the
So true, I also agree L4D2 still has one of the gore systems.
my first online multiplayer experience on xbox 360, so many fond memories ;v;
Hey Butters!
Buzz MONSTOR jam would be a hell of a lot better multiplayer
My first Online Xbox 360 multiplayer experience was Titanfall but my first offline/local multiplayer Xbox 360 experience was Halo CE/Halo 2.
Bottar
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Hai butters
Want a game to be a masterpiece? You need Valve. Valve will always find a way to make a masterpiece
Artifact fk yeah
@@rinkashikachi Not that kind of masterpiece. Not that it was one to begin with.
This maybe true today but what happens as the old guard retires and dies off , I fear valve may never put out something like l4d ever again. I hope I'm wrong but I don't have high hopes.
@GoogleDancingIsraelis I doubt it the L4D1 fan base made damn sure of that
That's such an insane reputation to live up to. I do not envy those devs.
I re-visited Left for dead 2 like a month ago with a friend. I don't regret even a single second.
Good man
I played it again last year with some friends when lockdowns first started, was just like 2009 again.
@@RebZoomer ^_^
I was spamming this game forever with my family members, we was being petty and competitive best moments of my life.
Playing this game with all of my class m8. And yes discord is full ppl screaming TANK
Char 1: Guys I hear a witch. We have to be very quiet.
Char 2: Okay.
Char 1: RELOADING!!!!!!
Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as bad as waiting for actman’s why skyrim is so awesome
@@whiterunguard6415 stfu
@@whiterunguard6415 0 people care
😆
@@freewillygoss ):
i remember being absolutely terrified anytime i was alone as survivors, entire team dead, 25 health, and it being way too quiet, suspiciously quiet, nothing scares you in that game quite as much as that
Expert, you and a teammate, low health, and no ammo/supplies, it's realism difficulty so your team doesn't respawn and you can't see your teammate, and it's dead silent.
Imma rant list some things I loved while playing the game, that really showed me how much the developers cared as they made the game (keep in mind each point will probably be long):
- An aspect of the gameplay that also makes it stand out from other games is the resource management. Especially in the advanced and expert difficulties, it can be extremely hard not to use all your healing items at the start, leaving you waiting for more. When you inevitably run out of heals, it gets extremely tense as you pray to the Director to spawn in less zombies and more medkits. You can’t revive forever without medkits, so you want to save them. But on the other hand, you may need to top up your health in case special zombies screw things over. The great thing is this game perfectly forces the player to ask themselves this dilemma for the sake of survival.
- The insane amount of dialogue added into the game, often used in specific scenarios. For example they used completely new lines of dialogue for picking up items within the tunnel of love, a small area in the Dark Carnival campaign. (“Pipe bomb of love” etc). Completely random and very specific thing to add, yet surprising. Also, never got bored of the story dialogue when doing expert attempts. There would be sometimes up to 8 different lines that could be potentially spoken at any point, and often they’d give lines to different characters. For instance, after Ellis comes up with the idea of using the stock car in the mall to escape in the first campaign, a random person is chosen to react to the plan, and they react in different ways.
- The fact that they made a fictional band and composed multiple songs for them to be played throughout some of the campaigns. I thought it was something very creative to add. The finale of the Dark Carnival, the Midnight Rider concert is always extremely fun to play.
- Another thing I noticed when completing the mall in the first campaign was the fact that there are two paths made before starting the alarm on the third floor. One is always picked for you, the other is blocked. I noticed this because one path starts with you breaking the windows on the second floor, and the other floor was harder starting with you opening the door to the first floor area.
- The game was extremely ahead of it’s time with teaching the players it’s mechanics. It shows the player small key points of information as you are slowly introduced to the mechanics. Small notes on the screen like “don’t disturb the witch” is infinitely better than spamming the player with information or taking away the control of the player.
- Replayability. Besides the randomised spawn mechanics, this game has so much to do for each of the survival campaigns. Personally I loved the mutations, which often completely changes mechanics. Things such as last man alive, which forces you to play solo against special infected (common zombies removed), and gib fest, which gives you a L60 light machine gun with unlimited ammo. I also got around to playing a mutation that forces you to carry a gnome throughout the whole campaign that forces you to not use your gun and attracts zombies. It’s rare nowadays for games to add cheat codes to the end of games, but this is a step further.
- Mad respect for the development team to work with the community last year to produce a new major update “The Last Stand”. It shows how even after a decade from release, the developers still care for the game enough to add new melee weapons, a new campaign and bonus achievements. I was fully expecting TF2 to get the continuing updates, while L4D2 would slowly loose it’s developers. Yet somehow it is the other way around.
In conclusion, from the campaigns to any other aspect of the game, this is an absolute masterpiece and is one of the best games I ever played (a decade old game!).
Act Man & Angry Joe the most ambitious crossover in history
Not as ambitious as buzz MONSTOR jam and act man
Joe is Corny
@@denisn8336 true but still awesome
@@denisn8336 he used to be but I feel his channel has found it's footing now with OJ and Alex backing him.
This is an Endgame.
still to this day, hearing the sound of a hunter growling gives me chills, especially when my whole team has died and im making a dash to the safe room
Nothing and I dare to say nothing will beat the cry of a witch, if you with good teammates a hunter is a bitch, but a witch?
I wish she was playable in versus multiplayer
Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as bad as waiting for actman’s why skyrim is so awesome
@@greenpenguin0763 you can easily just run past it
@@whiterunguard6415 stfu spammer
*Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for The Act Man to do a "Why the Mass Effect Trilogy was so awesome"*
He has returned.
The legend has once again returned.
Andromeda should be legally considered a hate crime
Act Man was right. You are damn fast
Haha how about “why is buzz MONSTOR jam so awesome?!
I love the drum sting that plays directly after you kill a witch, it defuses all of the tension as if the survivors let out a sigh of relief and and their heartbeat returned to normal
Left for dead versus is literally just the definition of “moments before disaster”
It boggles my mind how a casual game with no progression system can have toxicity that rivals LoL or CSGO. Damn, I wish I could play it more.
@@Dustyoo10 and it only has 8 players max and yet becomes so toxic so fast without needing a ranked system
What? I thought it was get banned simulator
@@alybadry203 yes
the more mods downloaded, the more accurate the definition
I'll never forget a l4d2 Dark Carnival game where I was downed just as the chopper arrived. Our Rochelle came to save me but I was yelling in the mic "forget me! Go! Go! Go!" But she saved me. I made it to the chopper so fast I didn't check for my team. I was the only survivor.
Your team's sacrifice will not be forgotten
It's experiencing stories like this why I play Left 4 Dead
one time on that same map I told my friend to leave me and grab the gnome (we were doing THAT acheivment) he managed to revive me while inside of the chopper AND grab the gnome. It was awesome.
"I've won, but at what cost?"
F
69,000 zombies were harmed in the making of this video.
Also, IMMA BE A ONE MAN CHEESEBURGER APOCALYPSE!
Hahahahahaa more like one man cheeseburger buzz MONSTOR jam!
You should change your YT username to that:
A one man cheeseburger apocalypse
You mean 69,420 zombies.
Left 4 Dead has cursed me from childhood by having amazing feeling guns with simplistic feedback that made me believe I had good aim, but now I can no longer adapt to recoil lmao
the smg and machine pistol feel broken with little burst headshots crouched or stopped standing
The fact that both the survivors and the infected both have to play tactical to me is amazing for a game from 2009. Most games can’t get that right today.
arguably playing special infected in versus takes more skill but most of it is just weird bugs/tricks so it doesn't really make that much of a difference.
@@poopyjoe7435 idk flick skeeting wallkicking hunters is kinda hard
@@andresemidey9679 so is trying to coordinate your teamates as special infected, I’m guessing you would say “the same goes for survivors” which I would agree BUT because of how playing special infected is designed, you get punished even more if you get bad teammates/ non coordinating people
@@poopyjoe7435 idk brother man, you ever play novice cedapug on dark carni 1? Terrifying stuff
Imagine the game had rankings so people wouldn't leave after being charged once. Games would actually happen I suppose.
Director: Mmmmm the survivors, are struggling and are about to die and we don’t even know where Rochelle is? So should I place a horde? Spawn a special infected? Spawn a witch? Place in an upcoming tank? Nah that’s too harsh, I won’t summon the witch
But I will do the other stuff!
Men i remember play Dark carnival en Expert, i come to the safe room, all my teammates dead, i was so happy but in that instead i see a witch in the saferoom, it's a little saferoom so was "die or die buddy"
@@justdem1490 Were there any Shotguns?
@@brothercharanus1927 The witch can't be killed in 1 one shot in expert, unless you shot in the head but im really bad shooting in the head xD
That was literally my favorite part of L4D. It felt like someone was telling the infected what to do sometimes. If someone was doing good, the infected chose to target them instead of the players who weren't killing as many zombies. Or if everyone was getting wrecked, the special infected would use their claws instead of their special attack.
@@justdem1490 Bollocks. Special infected, including the witch, can't spawn in the safe room.
The angry joe cameo was a splendid touch
I did not see that coming but I should have since they have a very similar way of analysing games not to mention their shared sense of humor. Of course these two are friends.
Yeah that was cool as shit
For me one of the great attractions was the seemingly endless dialogue you'd hear depending on the circumstances of the play-through. After 2 years of solid play I hurled a molotov at a witch playing as coach and started running, drawing the witch into the trap we had set and coach blurts out "outta my way - I've got a burning witch on my ass" like right on cue. Simply amazing. I'd never heard it before and this was after literally hundreds of hours of play. Laff'ed my fat coach ass right off.
I can't believe it's taken me all these years to realise that the zombies came for the survivors in the cutscene because Bill smeared Francis with boomer bile.
Same
Ayo hol up this is new to me
Wasn't it the car alarm that was triggered when the hunter was capped causing the corpse to fall on the car?
@@knightgallade8431
There's actually two hordes in the L4D1 cutscene.
The one you mentioned is the second big one where a tank spawns. The other smaller horde shows up out of nowhere while Bill & Zoey were investigating crying noises.
Lol I thought it was the director being a bitch
Hearing the tank theme on expert with a red hp bar and no meds is quite possibly the most horrifying thing known to man.
Or:" ⚠️ You startled the Witch" God just saying that reminds me of the Sugar Mill in hard rain 😳
@@danbent9559 at least you can draw-crown a witch if you have a shotgun. a tank can just fuck you below ~40hp
as someone who played with complete newbies back then, I can agree that it is too stress inducing
Or his grunts in the distance before he notices your there
@@VanessaMagick nah it just fucks you any hp on any difficulty higher than advanced
Hey Joe, Wanna play another zombie game?
Edit: i commented this before the skit with joe in the beginning lmao
I’d rather play buzz MONSTOR jam, the best masterpiece ever
"NO i don't want to play another god damn zombie game"
True
Press X to doubt
GOTTEM
One thing he forgot to mention about the maps is that they almost never feel like a closed off one way path.
Insta-like for including the “Hey Joe, wanna play a zombie game?” part with Angry Joe himself.
Haha yeah “wanna play buzz MONSTOR jam
That part made me smile lol
@@lightningbolt4419 report for spam
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 obsession.....
Left 4 dead is one of those games where I’ll always have fond memories of. Amazing game, I hope everyone had a chance to play this game, because it is awesome.
It's a comfort game for me. It was there in my childhood and hearing the dialogue and even the music cues brings me back... good times...
@@ryantabor9582 just played it yesterday with my family 😂 it’s a chaos. Just running for the damn safe house.
Couldn’t agree more. But 1 thing that sucks about it is the toxic community.
I played yesterday and every game a I played I was the only one with a mic
My uncle and I played it every Friday and Saturday when I went over to his house. God I miss him so much.
Seeing Angry Joe and Act Man in the same video is a treat I never knew I wanted.
Same I Wanna See More of Them
I called the lack of Joe in the DBZ parody subscriber video was a missed opportunity.
@@Marinealver I can see Joe as Vegeta saying
"I've been to your channel, Act Man. I know all about your viewers, your 1 million subs. You allowed me to believe i could beat you."
Act Man: That's true. I did manage to get to a million subscribers. But hey, I've only had them for a short time!
Joe: Bah! That's enough of your lies!
Couldn't agree more!
I love how such a simple game can have infinite replayability without getting boring
I don't play a lot cause I have other games, but I always come back to it for a fun time once in a while
but it doesn't feel the same as it did back in ~2010 with the boys :(
L4d,l4d2 and tf2 will always be legendary games
Yeah this game is so fun to play it almost never gets old I love it but remember first playing it in 2010 on pc with one of my old laptop’s great memories
Nothing like one of my favorite UA-camrs endlessly praising one of my favorite video games of all time. Act Man you killed it and I never fully realized how the encouragement of teamwork is what makes this game my favorite. You also got every meme and reference under the sun and I can safely say you're as much a hardcore fan as I am. Killin it dude ✌️
The UA-camr of my childhood is literally in the same comment section as me.
Dude I watched all of your Nerf videos when you were a kid. I know you've gone on and done your own thing, but its a great surprise to see you
You’re my nostalgia brother, I guarantee you are on to something bigger and better than UA-cam and even yourself you seem like a bright man.
Thanks bro! Awesome comment!
He should endlessly praise buzz MONSTOR jam
I never actually realized how much I wanted to see AngryJoe and Act Man in one singular video.
That was a brilliant scene in the beginning
Act man isn’t cringe though
@@NealFowler can you not
Haha not as much as you’d love a review on buzz MONSTOR jam
@@R3in_Ch hes right tho angry joe is prime cut cringe
The fact that you can chop a whole groups of zombies, with axe...is already the thing that make this game legend.
Have so many good memories in this game as a kid. Even online with randoms it was always a blast and bonding experience
The Act Man uploaded a video *"Why Is Left 4 Dead 2 A Masterpiece?!"*
Every L4D2 fans : *_"Hell, it's about time"_*
2,000 hours and still playing it nearly every other day. Safe to say it's a classic
Almost at 2k same
Do you keep track or?
@@fabyanserrano00 uhh yeah? Steam tracks it for you
@@airpods3198 uhh, ok not everyone plays games on steam
Taking an arrow to the knee is almost as bad as waiting for actman’s why skyrim is so awesome
It's incredible, the older games have so much emotion and cinematic elements in them that B4B can't compare. Turtle Rock tried but they needed Valve 😂
It honestly needed ranked matchmaking. Would be way more buzz around it if there was.
Imo they just went over board with mechanics trying really hard to make a new experience. Like act man said you don’t need tons of mechanics for a great game or replay value. That being said I still enjoy and play both games today.
@@TheRisible They failed to nail the basic features first though, that's the damning thing. The visuals, the physics, the attention to detail... L4D may be a simpler game, mechanically, but it's far more sophisticated overall.
@@ZacklFair You’re joking right? Ranked matchmaking for a casual co-op horde shooter? How much fluoride do you drink?
@@stuglife5514 bro anything above veteran is everything but casual the game fucks you so hard sometimes your power will just cut out
I remember playing Left 4 Dead 1 and not knowing how the hell you get through the apartments on No Mercy Chapter 1, you actually used to be able to make that jump onto the air conditioning from the ceiling, took a bunch of health away but you could do it.
I love how during the whole “wanna play a zombie game” skit, it was only zombie themed music, a remix of the tank theme, and dead rising mall jams
Haha id love buzz MONSTOR jam music haha
Yea I really loved how he added the dr2 mall music. It's very relaxing
Louis laughing and screaming for pills will always be a masterpiece.
*Grabbing pills.*
*Pills here!*
*Gr-gr-gr-grabbin' pills!*
*Grabbin' Pills*
MANIAC LAUGHTER
And Ellis stories.
The Vs. Mode was really the most impressive thing. Asymmetrical competitive modes actually working are pretty damn rare.
How is it asymmetrical? It is 4 vs 4.
@@WolfQuartz it isnt just dudes with guns vs dudes with guns
@@WolfQuartz, humans vs. very much nonhumans. Normally only MOBAs and RTSs do that, not team FPSs.
@@Keithustus ok
@@WolfQuartz Asymmetrical in terms of abilities and weapons: one team is normal people with guns and melee, grenades, and healing items, and the other is a bunch of zombies, with super strength, health, acid puke, explosives for stomachs, etc. It's really hard to balance all that stuff out to make the mode enjoyable, hence why the og commenter is impressed.
I remember that the quicker you do the levels the easier they are bc the director will send more hordes the longer you stay.
I can't describe how great Left 4 Dead 2 really is. I could go on for hours, maybe even days.
thats not what she said to me
@@SpuddyWesker
She would say that after I got with her sister.
@@SpuddyWesker your ex is temporary, Left 4 Dead 2 with the bois is eternal.
@@RealDavidChipman fuckin a right! stay strong king.
Same
The music in this game is SO GOOD to the point Valve created the whole band of the midnight riders just for the game, wrote 4 songs for them, and made a freakin midnight riders website
Not as good as the music in buzz MONSTOR jam
God damn that's crazy. But the good kind of crazy
This game is such a gem. Truly a shame they never continued the series.
@VinAr Run yeah but it runs on unreal engine, and isn't released by valve, trust me, it will be bad
Mhm
Back 4 Blood says hello
Source : Trust me bro 😂
Back 4 blood dum dum
It's not even the theme that is satisfying in the finale. It's when the tune kicks in and you know you have to get out of there making a dash for it through the horde with survivors panicking and telling you it's time to go and you see the transport leaving the scene with the infected chasing you before the theme plays. It's just awesome
I always named my character "your sorry ass" so anytime the survivors interact with me, as an example, it'll say:
"Nick protected your sorry ass."
ABSOLUTE CHAD
I love it
“Coach saved your sorry ass”
"A charger is pummeling your sorry ass"
Pog
Acting Male and Furious Vargas is the crossover we need.
Yeah aswell as buzz MONSTOR jam crossover
Furious Vargas? 😂😂😂
Praise the 7 deities!
Patrolling the act man’s comments makes me wish that NCR trooper was still here
😔
The NCR trooper fulfilled his duty as a proud soldier of the New California Republic. May he rest in peace
He actually is
He commented about mass effect
He was here, but you know what I wish was too? Buzz MONSTOR jam
L4D2 and Deep Rock Galactic remain the greatest coop shooters ever made. Nothing else comes close to their intuitive teamwork, excellent balance and endless replayability.
Vermintide 2?
@@weaponizedautism3269 ...No. It had some nice ideas, but its pacing was relentless compared to the measured and varied pacing of both DRG and L4D, its class balance has been all over the place historically, its progression system is grindy and full of redundancy, and it has neither mod/custom level support - to my knowledge - nor procedurally generated content.
As for teamwork, what I experienced was far less inherent teamwork and incentivization than in DRG or L4D.
Vermentide 2 requires more teamwork on cata then drg and l4d2
And there are many custom mods and workshop shit for it too. And there is a good balance between characters too although it does kind of fell short and i agree with progression system . It's Grindy and a bit boring
Sitting here a year later, I am torn as to whether or not Helldivers 2 deserves to be up there as well.
UA-cam notification: is sent
"you alerted the horde"
*HORDE THEME INTENSIFIES*
@@TheActMan PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT BUZZ MONSTOR JAM
*Doom music intensifies* oh wwait
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
And if you ask me how I'm feeling
Don't tell me you're too blind to see
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
(Ooh, give you up)
(Ooh, give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up)
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching, but
You're too shy to say it
Inside, we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
@@TheActMan *wandering the safe shallow in your sea moth make you wish act man would do WHY SUBNAUTIC IS AWESOME*
@@TheActMan there is a lot of cool music mods, I have the republic commando theme modded for the main menu, Mr sandman as the tank theme, the horde theme is just "Fetch me their souls!"
Valve was so fucking good at *simple yet genius* game-design
whether it's Counter-Strike or Left 4 Dead or their other games
they would design a really simple gameplay and level design that has insane skill ceiling and insane replay value that you could play for years and it would still be fun but no matter how much you improved there was still room to improve more
and every single little detail in the gameplay added to all that, nothing was useless and on top of that all of these components worked so fucking well together
It's what helped Valve carve out Masterpiece after Masterpiece.
Valve is Like Tecmo Koei simple and masterful game design, but lack of strong sequels.
@@magnuscritikaleak5045 they got lazy and fat off steam. its so fucking sad man, pc gaming really hasnt been the same since they fell off
@@branchy1186 Eh Alyx was amazing
@@branchy1186 true just like Gabe Newell's Belly Bulge.
I concur
You should make more left4dead2 coaching
We all do pal, we all do.
Ey I knew you would show up for L4D
Buzz MONSTOR jam
finish the campaign review series!
I got a moment where i walked down a corridor in l4d1 and my team was little bit ahead of me and they were fighting a horde. So i started to walk to them, but two tanks just spawned behind me and i screamed RUN! RUUUUUN! I remember seeing my teammates flying by my head while im getting slapped by the zombies! We died, but we had so much fun.
This is why i love left 4 dead so much.
Was playing the Back 4 Blood Beta. It doesn’t have that Left 4 Dead’s flare. It’s definitely fun with others but sucks if you solo unlike L4D
Yeah back 4 blood beta sucks ass
The full game is pretty decent, but yeah missing some key L4D features *cough cough* arbitrary bullshit penalty to hipfire unless you have certain cards
@@haerfgvbag7050 Back 4 Blood is an improvement on virtually every aspect of the original L4D games, and that's no shot at Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, cause they were both phenomenal. But I would also agree that B4B has its issues. I for one, don't like the fact that there's hardly any dialogue or talking between characters outside of calling things out or pinging something. Quite boring when one of the coolest most likable things about the Left 4 Dead characters was the wacky, random conversations they'd have about some play they went to as a kid or a certain life experience or something.. needed more character dialogue in B4B for sure.
@@christiangamer3628 literally never seen a worse analysis of a game hahahah
@@TrueGamer22887 Okay, that's your opinion. 👍 everyone has one.
Only OG Angry Joe fans know why he got pissed off when asked to play a zombie game
"JESUS CHRIST HOW MANY ZOMBIE GAMES ARE YOU BUYING JOE!?"
nostalgia
How about a MONSTOR game?
I think dying light was Joe's breaking point
Lmao yeah I laughed so hard when I saw Joe cause I knew what Act Man was going to ask
Act man: *calls angry joe*
“Top ten biggest anime crossovers”
Oh an anime joke. How original and funny.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom How witty and keen. You're definitely the captain of something, but doing as one pleases has nothing to do with it.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom it’s a comment bro, it ain’t that serious mate
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom Captain killjoy, reporting for duty
@@NeoReoxis Just a prank, bro!
I played games as a kid (spyro, Mario, Pokémon, etc) but stopped gaming once I hit middle school. L4d and l4d2 is what got me into gaming as a adult. I played constantly and still keep up with the friends I met on there. We even all traveled to meet up, it was so fun.
Holy shit, Act Man and Angry Joe? The best crossover in history
Ikr!
He missed out on the DBZ subscriber parody.
Not as good as buzz MONSTOR jam
Ew angry Joe is a weirdo
Heck, throw in TheRussianBadger and his buddies, and that’d be hilarious!
I gifted it to my bud who’s never played it or heard about it, we played with two other homies for 4 hours straight and he loved it, and now it’s a consistent game we go to. Valve really do be making legendary games
My college friends and I bought this on sale, let's just say we found out who's the biggest screamer in our group. We're still playing thanks to the custom maps and there's never a dull moment (damn alarm cars and accidentally shooting/ fail crowning witches)
its $1,63 now 😂
@@palamera4860 I got it on bundle 🤣🤣🤣
Arguably the best coop experience you will find in a video game (4 players coop with friends is something beyond amazing, seriously, you can only understand after you play it)
I remember my mom and my sister Sarah played l4d1 on our old xbox 360. In the 4th chapter of no mercy. Bill said to francis while healing himself in the elevator, "Stop staring at my ass!". I've only heard that line once. That was i think over 9 years ago. How many of y'all heard Bill say this line?
God that angry joe cameo was perfect
ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid doom
I was expecting Angry Joe would show up,
But at the same time I wasn't
@@AxxLAfriku fucking hell not you again
Rd2
Haha just like buzz MONSTOR jam
I had an encounter with the director early in my experience of L4D2.
I was in the tunnel of love and kept hearing this weird noise coming from above me. Searching around I found a hole in the roof, but it was too dark to see anything inside. As I was staring into this hole trying to figure out what was making those strange noises a smoker tongue sudden grabbed me from the darkness and in a panic I emptied half a dozen sniper rounds into the hole, killing the smoker.
That was so funny and has so far been my favorite moment in L4D2, but since then I haven't encountered a smoker in that part of the level again.
Damm, thats sounds like a scene of a horror movie, the director of l4d2 really lives up to its name
its a litle bit like Dead space, yes some encounters are intentional but most of the time its completely random i gone through levels were nothing appeared and it was so damn scary and id replay and there would be that 1 enemy that appears in the most unexpected place, L4D2 does it better though its awesome like that alot of the time when replaying you would expect certain specials to appear and even hordes and other times they just dont show up and it gives a ominous feel knowing you have no idea where nothing is and you will never know.
One of my favorite moments was during the second level of Dark Carnival. I was entering this warehouse sort-of area and suddenly a horde comes out of nowhere. While I'm fighting this horde, I just hear a hunter scream over and over again. So I'm like "why is this hunter screaming? I can't see it, and no one's getting pounced on, so what's happening?" but ultimately I ignore it to kill the last of the horde.
After I kill them all, I look to my left, where there's a wall and a shelf. A hunter had spawned INTO the shelf and was trying to pounce on me the entire time while I was none the wiser.
I then shot it until it was dead, but in hindsight I should've filmed it
The director is the only thing on the game that scares me the most, this shit spawned 2 tanks at the same time at me
literally just a few days ago on no mercy had the director spawn a tank instantly. like the second we left the safe room it spawned and came in from the top of the building somewhere
absolutely fucked but kinda funny
“Left 4 Dead 2 is best played in a semi-casual environment”
*joins a session and immediately gets kicked because I didn’t respond to their string of letters and forwardslash with my own string of letters*
*joins another session and gets kicked because I’m not running through the level at a speedrun pace*
Why is Act Man channel a masterpiece
Damn right
Omg yes
😎👌 ye
I was only 3 min
I wish I was good enough with editing and had the time and would make like a mini video for gratitude and that would certainly be the title. Maybe use some of his videos to make like a greatest hits reel 🤣 a guy can dream.
"Get my back now, and I'll have yours later. You leave me, I'm rooting for the other team."
Truer than true
I’ve never been more happy at seeing someone having fun in the game, even when they’re losing. Adds more depth to why this game is a masterpiece imo
My best memories from this game is when I was playing with my step siblings. We have had so many funny moments including having a sitting witch on top of a car, pausing right before he got hit by a charger, laughing out asses off at the voice lines. Staying up past midnight playing this game on a school night. Fucking around and acting like the characters we selected, accents and all. This game will ALWAYS have some of my best memories.
"Is it worth revisiting with your buddies, or even solo?"
Me who's been playing it for over a full decade at this point: good question 🤔
Buddy's
@@irvinmorales6307 buddies
@@zachsnyder7021 ok
Same, i’ve been playing since 2015
I m still playing .....this game will never die,not even in metaverse world.
“You’re here to kill zombies with your buddies”
*laughs in no friends*
Is random people count as friend?
same
I felt that
The bots are your friends
tbh for the whole 2500 hours I have on l4d2, a good 95% have been with randoms.
And all things considered, playing pubs/randoms is not that bad, aside from a teamkiller every 100 games or so, or some guy with a vocalizer.
As a wise cheeseburger apocalypse once said, "We ready to get it on?"
Buzz MONSTOR jam is better
i met one of my best gaming friend on there over 8 years ago. at that point the game had be out for a while and ppl were modding it. but my friend invited me to the party bc my frying pan was still glowing and she was so pressed it wasn’t working for her on my end lol. she wasn’t a modder or anything but if y’all played online sometimes if you found a game with mods you’d be able to leave after a while and play in your own lobby lmao. those were the days for sure man. but glad L4D & L4D2 are viewed as a universal classic/ master piece all around. appreciate your content bro, you bring back so many good memories that i experienced in my childhood.
That Hillary "I hear a Boomer" part fucking destroyed my lungs.
LOL
*smoker intensifies*
Lol
@@TheActMan have ya played deep rock galactic? It's on gamepass
Just like buzz MONSTOR jam
I'm British and I never EVER knew that there was a different official cover art for the UK version of L4D2 🤯
The start of left for dead one takes place near where I live. I hope you enjoyed your beautiful romp through Pennsylvania. I promise, the locals are only slightly less viscous in real life
@@stuglife5514 I would think that humans being more viscous would be preferred. Puddle humans are gross, irritating, and they get everywhere.
11 years later and this game is still kicking ass!
14 years later and buzz MONSTOR jam is still kicking ass
no
Fuck yeah
@@thetiesthatbinds3216 you stalk me here too? Can you stop the harrassment?
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