I never get tired of watching Left 4 Dead glazing. One of the greatest games ever made. I don't know how many times I've watched the same total breakdown of the games. It's like a sermon at church.
It’s such a masterpiece of game design down to the most granular level! Big games these days are so often like interactive cutscenes like The Last of Us or God of War. I’m not saying those games are bad but it’s just refreshing to look back on this era when you had such innovative game design and Valve was so often at the forefront of that!
@@lordofthebuckets2676 I am saying those games are bad. They strip out gameplay to be a movie. God of War took a million steps backwards in the most important part of being a game: being a game. The story isn't even good either.
@@alastor8091 I actually do like the combat in modern God of War a lot. I just hate the way games are so starkly segregated into the story and gameplay sections. That’s not taking advantage of the medium of videogames. When gameplay and story are intertwined is when videogames are truly special. The story of Left 4 Dead is the time you barely survived a Witch attack and made it out with almost no health. The player creates the story by playing the game you know?
It’s literally the perfect zombie killing game. It’s been made soo unpredictable, fun, scary and satisfying. Also, incredible storyline, characters, even the comics.
Left 4 Dead Content in 2024? Grab me a pint, a copy of 28 Days Later, and a theater to put this video on, so I can wait for it all to blow over like it’s the 2000s again.
I think the reason why The Sacrifice is so weird is that it's actually the last official campaign made by Valve (since Cold Stream and The Last Stand are fan-made), releasing after L4D2 and The Passing had already released. The Campaign was designed for L4D2 and just backported to the first game
yes i agree, there’s a certain vibe that i get playing that campaign now after figuring out the map’s canon events and overall history. always will be my favorite campaign to play too its an eerie experience everytime Valve really said we’re gonna go out with a BOOOM 💥 on this one
awesome video. Rochelle's characterization in the opening of 2 is her saying "Hey, kill all sons of bitches, right?" and her reading the map. She's a bit more reserved but I think she's sweet and supportive. honestly the more I think about it, her being drastically different personality wise from Zoey and the rest of the playable cast, inadvertently made her the least "overtly quirky" (a positive thing imo)
At 48:50 where your talking about the environment id like to add something, I’m from where L4D1 takes place, Pennsylvania, and I’ve been to a lot of these places the game takes place in real life (fun fact, the city with no mercy IRL is actually a small farming community not a big city) and the cutscene at the beginning of that level is the old abandoned PA Turnpike tunnel, a famous landmark due to all the band albums that use it and all the graffiti. I digress, your comment about the fog is accurate. That time of year, especially in my part of the state, it gets very foggy for large parts of the day. They really got what PA looks like during fall. Something L4D1 does great is translate the feel of what Pennsylvania is like.
I love your videos bro, I'm sure I'll enjoy this one a lot. In a time where every video seems to be 30 seconds to catch your attention span, we've lost long-form interesting content but you are saving us
I don't know what your feed looks like, but I promise you there are like 300 youtubers making good, long-form content with a lot of it being about games.
3:16:33 on versus its much more potent against the special infected, it creates a blinding effect, outlines the target and of course common infected attack for you. it also just lasts longer than a pipebomb, and is better than the other throwables if used tactically
2:02:00 everything changes between each weapon; the range, attack speed and whether it's blunt or sharp, both having different properties. Read the wiki. This game is much better crafted than you think
@@sabo1789Yea i noticed he didn't put much work into this video when it comes to info like his other videos especially the part on how he doesn't know why there are so many witches in hard rain it sucks wish he would've took more time to analyze these two masterpieces of games
@@sabo1789 It's the same thing with his nitpick of Dead Air not making sense in the timeline, although there's a free comic telling exactly what happened in between. Another thing is him saying that the dialogue in The Sacrifice influenced dialogue in Left 4 Dead 2… even though The Sacrifice was made after Left 4 Dead 2's release.
7:34 "We made it!. We're alive!" "Son, we just crossed the street." The L4D1 trailer is everything. Those two lines really sell how Intense this game can get and feels. It's amazing lmao. It's crazy to believe there is a story in this game at all.
Im glad you really gave the time to talk about left 4 dead independently from left 4 dead 2, the original is so great and its just not the exact same experience playing the same maps in l4d2. Thats not to undermine it, theyre just different experiences !
@@VRVegeta They ruined the layout of the L4D1 maps in L4D2. Also, I'm not a fan of chargers or jockeys (jockeys being the worst special infected in the L4D franchise). Character movement is also far more janky in L4D2 than the original.
Seeing a video of such high quality be so long and only have 60 thousand views is painful, this video alone should be getting hundreds of thousands if not millions of views. ❤️
Haven't watched yet, but l4d is a game that holds such a special place in my heart. Never experienced anything that was as compelling or as original as that was for me in a video game before or since.
Its so weird that I randomly decided to play this game after not playing for over a decade, and this brand new video shows up. Is everyone getting back into this game or something? Its like we all got pulled back in at the same time.
I guess the problem with Cold Stream is that it's mostly a lot of back to back hordes that you need to push through. It's a lot of action without the down time so you can get a bit burnt out by the end. Also it's a very scripted campaign and doesn't change much from different playthroughs. It's not a bad campaign it just doesn't have the same flow and polish as the others.
Cold streams level design is great, but it’s pacing is awful. Like the level *look* polished, but it’s entirely ruined by the lack of any real randomness in paths or loot generation and the back to back hordes with no real breather.
I wish that there was a Left 4 Dead 3 man. If I made the Left 4 Dead series, here is what I would do next. I would make Left 4 Dead 3 -- the characters would be a members of a university in Philadelphia, there will be the 4 characters; McGiaver: A professor, he is white, 5 foot 9, like 32 years old, kind of has a gut, but not that fat, he has a checkered light blue and white button up shirt with a red tie, and black dress pants, a slick-back hair style with red framed glasses, and kind of a long face, he has a kind of trying to be tough persona, but he does want to be there and do what's best for the team, and he will be there for his team. Alice: A young freshman female student who is white, 5 foot 6, 18 years old, has a black and blue stripped sweater, (stripes going from left to right, or horizontal), blonde hair to her shoulders, glasses, a wide nose, (I don't know why I thought of that), she wears joggers, and skinny jeans, she is shy and scared of the situations, so she is clingy with her teammates and she looks at them for support, but she will not hesitate to retaliate and shoot if her or her teammates are in danger. George: A security guard who is black, 5 foot 8, 47 years old, is fat, like a little fatter than Coach, he has a white uniform on with a name tag, and his shirt says "Campus security" on the back of it and he has a radio on his right shoulder, and like dark blue pants with a silver line down the sides of them, with what looks like a utility belt of standard security gear, although there is nothing in any of them, and he has a very serious attitude and is determined to tell people off and put them in line if they ever step out of line, but he tries to hold the team together. Rodney: A skinny boy, 5 foot 7, he is 20 years old, he is like a delinquent drinking and using drugs, and partying, just a delinquent college kid, so he has kind of an attitude, kind of like Nick, even worse than Nick, he has long curly black hair, and a light green shirt, with like a picture of a grizzly bear on it with red words in cursif saying "Hunter" with a black sleeveless jacket, with the zipper open, and brown shorts with like 6 pockets, and he wears black shoes with a red trim on the sides -- They start at the university, and the university has football players, so they keep fit, and they work out on their legs, like running and stuff, so there would be a mutation where it is the early charger designs, but a hunched over figure, a big head with increased bone structure to ram into things, arms on the sides like a dinosaur, and big legs that just let it make sharp turns and things like that, like if you turn a corner it will immediately follow you swiftly and make those sharp turns everywhere. And so they go down through like Georgia and Florida and places like that to get to New Orleans, and they go to beach resorts, and farms, and woods, and things like that. Like going on the docks at Miami, calling it "Dead Sea" or "Peer Pressure" or things like that, and through all of the resort buildings, and then on a farm, to the barn and then running through the woods behind them. Next I would make Left 4 Dead 4, and that would be like -- The characters would be city occupants from California; Malinda: A police officer, she is a hot blonde, pointy nose, (I don't know how I came up with that), hair length to like the middle of her back, and she has two bands of hair on each of the sides of her head slinked on her shoulders, she is 5 foot 11, 42 years old, has a black police uniform, a round star badge, a radio on her right shoulder piece, and a police utility belt on her uniform, she is serious at times when it calls for seriousness, but she can also be gentle to her teammates. Orion Barn The 2nd: A small time crook, he is skinny, black, 5 foot 6, 18 years old, he has a black beanie on his head, he has a white shirt with the picture of a sunrise on it, with green italics saying "Sun shine" he has a leather biker style jacket over that, he has black jeans, he wears black and white shoes, and he has a fingerless glove with spikes on his right hand, and a glove with only a finger slot on his index finger for his left hand, he is a wild person, always saying something, even in the most inappropriate of times, and sometimes he acts like he wants to leave, but when push comes to shove he is there for his team. Jancarlos: A construction worker, he is 5 foot 9, 27 years old, decent weight, he is spanish, he has a light mustache, like it is just growing in, he might have a small mole on his left cheek, he wears construction suits, like a red shirt with a contruction vest over it, he wears a white hard hat, white shoes, and jeans, and he is a team player, relying on his teammates, and being there for his teammates, because he believes that sticking together will help them to survive, and he is able to use a sludge hammer as a malee weapon. José: A taxi driver, he is spanish, he is 5 foot 9, 31 years old, decent weight, and he has like a red long sleeve sweater, and skinny cackies, with white shoes, he is a team player and is there for his teammates, but he will put people in their place if they get out of line -- They all have to go around the United States, because the states closest to them are blocked off from public access by the military and stuff like that, so they have to go around through upper states by Canada, like Michigan, and moving around to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Georgia, Florida, and so on until they get to Texas, and they go through buildings, subway stations, train stations, some gated communities, other suburbs like areas, police stations for like guns and stuff, a little bit of everything. And I would make special zombies, like... Sick zombies. Like if someone had the flu, or a cold, or mainly mucus, like how mucus becomes bronchitis, where it becomes thick and sticky, and give that to a zombie, like both males and females and they have runny noses and big looking pimples or sores with puss or the mucus, and things like that and they can sneeze and spit out this sticky, gooey, thick yellowish-green mucus, and the mucus won't hurt survivors, it will just slow them down, like when you are on low health and you becomes slow, it has that effect, just you could be at full health and the gooey mucus just slows down your moment to that extent for about 5 to 7 seconds, during which common infected can catch up faster and beat up the survivor who has been covered in the mucus, and that sticky mucus can going into and gam guns and chainsaws, so it can also relinquish survivors of their weapons, however malee weapons like bats, axes, swords, machetes, and crowbars, won't have that kind of effect, and should you kill one at close range it will explode, a little like the boomer, except you will get covered in the sticky mucus and that will trap the survivor in a vulnerable state, like where they cannot move at all, they can't pull out any weapons, they are just stuck to either the floor or walls, and this will last for 20 seconds, and during that time other normal infected can beat up the survivors, but burning acid from a spitter would dissolve the gooey mucus if a spitter spits on someone who is already trapped in mucus. And like if these sick zombies are seen, they will behave kind of like common infected, staggering around the place, but it will be sneezing almost all of the time, and releasing some of the sticky, gooey mucus onto the floor or walls, depending on where it is sneezing. Tell me what you all think.
Also, I would make a Left 4 Dead 5, with 4 characters from Dallas Texas, who would be - David: A young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is like 6 feet tall, he has a white shirt with a red line across it, like from his upper right chest down to his left hip, and above that line would be the King, from like cards with red dimonds around him, and below that same red line would be the Queen, from cards with black spades around her, and he has a black jacket, and blue jeans, and red, white, and black shoes, and he has a pointy hair style, like what looks like dreadlocks, but short and they only stick up in every direction, he is good at focusing and dealing with people, and he listens and is willing to listen, he can be hard-headed at times, but he gets serious at times when it calls for it, and he is there for his team Kaliea: A young teenage girl, she is 16 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she has a purple short sleeve shirt with golden glittery things around her chest area, and she as a light black short sleeve cover, like a jacket, but it has no zipper, and it looks like it is netted, with like spacing and stuff like that, and she wears skinny dark blue jeans, and high heel boots, and she has short brown hair down to her shoulders, and she has eye liner, and other sorts of makeup, and lipstick, and she is well mannered, and she tries to keep it together although she is scared, but she functions better with her team, and she is a team player, and she sticks with and is there for her team. (David and Kaliea are a couple, and they are good people, like David worked at movie theater, and he had part time jobs before that, and he is alright in school, and he was a former boyscout and camper, so he can opperate in some things, like the woods and things like that, and Kaliea is very good in school, she gets mainly straight A's most of the time, and was pursuing a legal career, and she used to babysit people and her younger brothers and sister, so she is good with dealing with people, and under stress) Abriann: He is a young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is 6 foot 1, and he wears a red short sleeve shirt with white lines up and down and a small blue shield on the upper right chestal area, but he also has that short sleeve shirt over a long sleeve white shirt, and he wears jeans, and white shoes with red trims, and he is knowledgeable and understanding, and he comes up with some ideas to help the team, and he is there for his team. Dainnia: She is a teenage girl, she is 17 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she always tries to look on the bright side of things, and she tries to keep the team together, and she keeps with her team, and she is there for her team, and she can becomes strong willed, confident, and serious when push comes to shove, she wears a green lepord pattern short sleeve shirt, with tight light purple pants, and short high heel boots with like fur on the ankle part, and she has eye liner and other makeup, and purple lipstick, and she has long black hair, and she has golden water droplet earrings. (Abriann and Dainnia are a couple and they are good people, Abriann is a good student, he gets mostly B's, he does not have any job, but he is knowledgeable about things like cars, because he always liked cars, and he used to help at his uncle's mechanic shop, and he also used to help his dad with the car, so he is knowledgeable about manual labor, and he used to take care of his little brother so he can deal with people and comfort them to an extent, and Diannia is a good student, with A's and B's and she is knowledgeable on many things like science and math, and she has knowledge about some other languages, history, locations, laws, and other useful things) They go through the states, from Texas up, going through the middle of the United States, and then around to like New York, and other states like that, and they are a young, but strong and knowledgeable team who can overcome anything together. Left 4 Dead 3 would be from 2011 to 2012 Left 4 Dead 4 would be 2015 to 2016 Left 4 Dead 5 would be in modern day I would create more special infected as well, like: 1. Shagg-Rat; The Shagg-Rat is a person who has been infected with the Green Flu in the game who will go through a mutation where their hair just grows out rapidly and all over, like their hair on their head, their facial hair, hair on their back, hair on and under their arms, hair on their legs, just hair everywhere, either men who grew a lot of hair pre infection, or even older individuals who use hair growth supplements to grow more hair, so the virus takes that and makes hair grow rapidly and all over and the hair will strengthen a little bit a little like quills, but the Shagg-Rat will also lick and rub bile on their hair so that it can stick up their hair kind of like a gel, and when it dries it will become harder and pricklier like a quill. Now, because of the amount of hair on this special infected it can not run, otherwise, it will trip, so it is a lie and wait kind of infected where it will hide in bushes around corners and behind doors and things, and when a survivor gets close to it it jumps up and grabs them in a bear hug digging it's pointy hairy quills into the survivor, which will do 2 to 5 points of damage every 2 seconds that it is still holding on, it has to be knocked off instead of shot off, and even after it is off the bile will stick some hair quills to the survivor's body which will lead to irritation and pain, which will cause 2 points of damage for 5 seconds. 2. Hunch-barrier; The Hunch-barrier is an individual with Hunchback who was infected with the Green Flu and the virus mutated them to where their hunchback is increased along with their body composition, so they mutate to walk on all fours, their heads are sucked into their body to where they don't have a neck anymore, they get big kind of like the Tank, but more like a turtle kind of thing where their back is hunched and added skin and muscle and stuff, but they are slow moving and really they are what other common and even special infected can hide behind to avoid gunfire, because it acts as a blockade and it has 12,000 health. 3. Lengthers; The Lengthers are individuals like basketball players who are really, really tall and lengthy, and they get infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutates them to grow and extend and elongate their arms, legs, torso, and neck, to where it is like a Slenderman lengthy type of appearance, it would be the tallest infected ever, like 15 maybe 20, feet tall, (that is an exaggeration, but they would be taller than 6 foor 6, maybe up to or over 9 feet tall, but they are still really tall nonetheless), and because of their pre infection life of being a basketball player they can turn and weave and jump high and things like that and so that is boosted for the lengther where they can out maneuver and out-run certain things like some gunfire, like jumping out of the way of a one shot type of weapon like a grenade launcher or a shotgun or a sniper, things like that, and they are too skiny and lengthy to the point of being a little like a stick or a twig to where it is not like the Tank where it is just a whole big target, you have to be precise on where you shoot or you will miss every hit, especially if it is jumping around and maneuvering everywhere. Now they don't usually scratch and attack like the typical stuff, they could do that and it would cause 5 points of damage because of their elongated fingers and fingernails, but they mainly use their size and length to be scouts, like looking for survivors over rooftops, when I say "rooftops" I mean rooftops of 1 story houses, but they can also look into the windows of 2 story houses, and over trees and just over taller areas, and it is better to take them out descretly with a sniper or something before they spot you and they then inform the horde, and with their long arms and hands they can pick up things if they aren't heavy and throw them at survivors, like Gas cans, gas tanks, maybe even some common infected or body parts of common infected, or maybe even the small jockey. Just things like that. Lengthers can be male and female depending on how tall and how active they were in their pre infection life. 4. Rider-Souge; The Rider-Souge is a person in a wheelchair who got infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutated them into this thing that is like keeping the upper body, like the chest and stomach areas, and strinking and strivling the lower body and especially the legs to where the legs are just strivled up tiny things hanging from the tailbone lower body area, and extending the arms so that they become the main point of locomotion and the neck extends outward as well kind of like the spitter, it will look like a zombie human ostrich, but this thing can do several different things, it can attack you just like the Jockey except it bear hugs you with it's arms and bites you instead of riding you, and the bite causes 7 points of damage every 4 seconds. It can ride on the backs of common infected and jump on you if you shot the common infected that it is riding on at close range or if it gets into close proximity to you, and it can alert the horde if it gets away from you, like if you see it on it's own and you don't kill it or if you kill a common infected that it is riding on and it gets away, things like that.
2:18:10 As someone who lives in hurricane central in the southeast US, your vision can absolutely get that bad depending on the severity of the storm. I've had some intense storms where I can barely see my mailbox from my car.
Surprised you didn’t mention the whack-a-mole mini game in dark carnival. You said you wanted more fairground games and you missed one. That makes 3: shooting gallery, strong man game, and whack a mole
while the gauntlet crescendo event at the end of the barns chapter of Dark Carnival can frustrate me, I feel it makes a lot of narrative sense because the stadium was likely filled with hordes and hordes of infected that never got rescued, so when the gates are opened they all pour out of the stadium's entrance which just so happens to be the safe room we need to reach
At the height of my L4D experience, my brother and I collectively had a group of several other guys that we frequently used to play with via TS2. We would Versus everyday for hours.
mad respect for more l4d content. one thing to note tho, you might wanna tone down the volume of your gameplay segments. especially the sound of gunshots.
Great video overall, though I found the part about the instructor a bit strange, most of the pop ups it gives you stop showing up after a while, and there is actually an option to outright disable the instructor in the settings.
A few things I noticed about the game instructor is that you can turn it off but it no longer tells you who startled witches or set off car alarms and the instructor seems to reset whenever you change hardware which is pretty annoying because I've played this on the same account for years and have been playing these games since they came out and know what to do
I really like the option to play each mission from the start, as solution to different progress the players made in the story or generally a way to save the run. These things could have been difficult to figure out in any other way at that time
I understand your criticism of the game instructor, but i think you miss the fact that it works as a accessibility feature. The text pointing out some obvious things can be annoying if you have perfect hearing, but it might be what makes the game playable to deaf players or, players with bad hearing. Same with the icon popups and outlines for players with weak eyesight.
Also, I would make a Left 4 Dead 5, with 4 characters from Dallas Texas, who would be - David: A young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is like 6 feet tall, he has a white shirt with a red line across it, like from his upper right chest down to his left hip, and above that line would be the King, from like cards with red dimonds around him, and below that same red line would be the Queen, from cards with black spades around her, and he has a black jacket, and blue jeans, and red, white, and black shoes, and he has a pointy hair style, like what looks like dreadlocks, but short and they only stick up in every direction, he is good at focusing and dealing with people, and he listens and is willing to listen, he can be hard-headed at times, but he gets serious at times when it calls for it, and he is there for his team Kaliea: A young teenage girl, she is 16 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she has a purple short sleeve shirt with golden glittery things around her chest area, and she as a light black short sleeve cover, like a jacket, but it has no zipper, and it looks like it is netted, with like spacing and stuff like that, and she wears skinny dark blue jeans, and high heel boots, and she has short brown hair down to her shoulders, and she has eye liner, and other sorts of makeup, and lipstick, and she is well mannered, and she tries to keep it together although she is scared, but she functions better with her team, and she is a team player, and she sticks with and is there for her team. (David and Kaliea are a couple, and they are good people, like David worked at movie theater, and he had part time jobs before that, and he is alright in school, and he was a former boyscout and camper, so he can opperate in some things, like the woods and things like that, and Kaliea is very good in school, she gets mainly straight A's most of the time, and was pursuing a legal career, and she used to babysit people and her younger brothers and sister, so she is good with dealing with people, and under stress) Abriann: He is a young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is 6 foot 1, and he wears a red short sleeve shirt with white lines up and down and a small blue shield on the upper right chestal area, but he also has that short sleeve shirt over a long sleeve white shirt, and he wears jeans, and white shoes with red trims, and he is knowledgeable and understanding, and he comes up with some ideas to help the team, and he is there for his team. Dainnia: She is a teenage girl, she is 17 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she always tries to look on the bright side of things, and she tries to keep the team together, and she keeps with her team, and she is there for her team, and she can becomes strong willed, confident, and serious when push comes to shove, she wears a green lepord pattern short sleeve shirt, with tight light purple pants, and short high heel boots with like fur on the ankle part, and she has eye liner and other makeup, and purple lipstick, and she has long black hair, and she has golden water droplet earrings. (Abriann and Dainnia are a couple and they are good people, Abriann is a good student, he gets mostly B's, he does not have any job, but he is knowledgeable about things like cars, because he always liked cars, and he used to help at his uncle's mechanic shop, and he also used to help his dad with the car, so he is knowledgeable about manual labor, and he used to take care of his little brother so he can deal with people and comfort them to an extent, and Diannia is a good student, with A's and B's and she is knowledgeable on many things like science and math, and she has knowledge about some other languages, history, locations, laws, and other useful things) They go through the states, from Texas up, going through the middle of the United States, and then around to like New York, and other states like that, and they are a young, but strong and knowledgeable team who can overcome anything together. Left 4 Dead 3 would be from 2011 to 2012 Left 4 Dead 4 would be 2015 to 2016 Left 4 Dead 5 would be in modern day I would create more special infected as well, like: 1. Shagg-Rat; The Shagg-Rat is a person who has been infected with the Green Flu in the game who will go through a mutation where their hair just grows out rapidly and all over, like their hair on their head, their facial hair, hair on their back, hair on and under their arms, hair on their legs, just hair everywhere, either men who grew a lot of hair pre infection, or even older individuals who use hair growth supplements to grow more hair, so the virus takes that and makes hair grow rapidly and all over and the hair will strengthen a little bit a little like quills, but the Shagg-Rat will also lick and rub bile on their hair so that it can stick up their hair kind of like a gel, and when it dries it will become harder and pricklier like a quill. Now, because of the amount of hair on this special infected it can not run, otherwise, it will trip, so it is a lie and wait kind of infected where it will hide in bushes around corners and behind doors and things, and when a survivor gets close to it it jumps up and grabs them in a bear hug digging it's pointy hairy quills into the survivor, which will do 2 to 5 points of damage every 2 seconds that it is still holding on, it has to be knocked off instead of shot off, and even after it is off the bile will stick some hair quills to the survivor's body which will lead to irritation and pain, which will cause 2 points of damage for 5 seconds. 2. Hunch-barrier; The Hunch-barrier is an individual with Hunchback who was infected with the Green Flu and the virus mutated them to where their hunchback is increased along with their body composition, so they mutate to walk on all fours, their heads are sucked into their body to where they don't have a neck anymore, they get big kind of like the Tank, but more like a turtle kind of thing where their back is hunched and added skin and muscle and stuff, but they are slow moving and really they are what other common and even special infected can hide behind to avoid gunfire, because it acts as a blockade and it has 12,000 health. 3. Lengthers; The Lengthers are individuals like basketball players who are really, really tall and lengthy, and they get infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutates them to grow and extend and elongate their arms, legs, torso, and neck, to where it is like a Slenderman lengthy type of appearance, it would be the tallest infected ever, like 15 maybe 20, feet tall, (that is an exaggeration, but they would be taller than 6 foor 6, maybe up to or over 9 feet tall, but they are still really tall nonetheless), and because of their pre infection life of being a basketball player they can turn and weave and jump high and things like that and so that is boosted for the lengther where they can out maneuver and out-run certain things like some gunfire, like jumping out of the way of a one shot type of weapon like a grenade launcher or a shotgun or a sniper, things like that, and they are too skiny and lengthy to the point of being a little like a stick or a twig to where it is not like the Tank where it is just a whole big target, you have to be precise on where you shoot or you will miss every hit, especially if it is jumping around and maneuvering everywhere. Now they don't usually scratch and attack like the typical stuff, they could do that and it would cause 5 points of damage because of their elongated fingers and fingernails, but they mainly use their size and length to be scouts, like looking for survivors over rooftops, when I say "rooftops" I mean rooftops of 1 story houses, but they can also look into the windows of 2 story houses, and over trees and just over taller areas, and it is better to take them out descretly with a sniper or something before they spot you and they then inform the horde, and with their long arms and hands they can pick up things if they aren't heavy and throw them at survivors, like Gas cans, gas tanks, maybe even some common infected or body parts of common infected, or maybe even the small jockey. Just things like that. Lengthers can be male and female depending on how tall and how active they were in their pre infection life. 4. Rider-Souge; The Rider-Souge is a person in a wheelchair who got infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutated them into this thing that is like keeping the upper body, like the chest and stomach areas, and strinking and strivling the lower body and especially the legs to where the legs are just strivled up tiny things hanging from the tailbone lower body area, and extending the arms so that they become the main point of locomotion and the neck extends outward as well kind of like the spitter, it will look like a zombie human ostrich, but this thing can do several different things, it can attack you just like the Jockey except it bear hugs you with it's arms and bites you instead of riding you, and the bite causes 7 points of damage every 4 seconds. It can ride on the backs of common infected and jump on you if you shot the common infected that it is riding on at close range or if it gets into close proximity to you, and it can alert the horde if it gets away from you, like if you see it on it's own and you don't kill it or if you kill a common infected that it is riding on and it gets away, things like that.
22:35 There's a term for that actually, picked it up a LONG time ago in a 2-player game I liked to play with one of my best buds from high school; Co-opetition. Literally co-operative competition. You both worth together (or in this case all 4 of you) for the same goal, but you try to be the best along the way. :P It really does make the entire experience that much more fun. I can't say that I'd have enjoyed playing quite as much if the leaderboards weren't there during loads.
Youre a genius On a side note, i contimplated using windows xp for my possible windows xp rig for my own sick and demented reasons i wont get into. But one of the reasons for this was getting to experience older games i wouldnt otherwise have an excuse playing for such as the first left 4 dead. In hindsight its dumb but uhmm yeah i cant rlly defend myself
As someone who's beaten the whole campaign of left 4 dead 2 on expert realism... and oh man.. this video would be almost a year long if he played it on expert realism 😂
right? i agree. tier 1 weapons have very noticeable shortcomings like the uzi or the hunting shotgun having less shells than the automatic. and this is exacerbated on higher difficulties
The differences with the weapons matter a lot less when dealing with common infected, it’s more of something that matters with special infected. In real life, and video games, I prefer AK rifles. Irl I find them more fun to shoot even if they have worse ergonomics. But in L4D I tend to trade out the AK for an M16, just because the M16 being more accurate really helps when dealing with smokers and jockeys
AI director, environmental storytelling, character and world building, visual direction, audio cues, interactivity, resource management, sound motifs, ..etc theres a ton. and im glad co-op survival PVE titles follows that. and im glad games that follows tries to achieve checking the list.
Nice video, but it’s apparent that you aren’t a diehard or very well versed player to be making such a long video. You could have used some more research on many topics throughout the video. Enjoyable nonetheless
I agree this kept me from fully enjoying the video besides it being about my favorite game + 4 hours, I couldn't help but notice that it seems like he didn't do much research into the game or play a whole lot before making the video
I feel the same way. Between the subpar gameplay footage running in the background (not the worst I’ve seen, but definitely not up to par for someone attempting a retrospective meant to showcase the game) and a few odd, somewhat off-base statements that a veteran L4D1/2 player wouldn't make-or even a quick Google search could have corrected-it felt like a missed opportunity missing the deeper insights that would resonate with longtime fans or anyone seeking a thorough analysis. It was clear that some research was done, but it felt rushed or perhaps done under a tight deadline. That even reflects in the script, where he’ll often start discussing the campaign, then veer off into talking about weapons, only to switch back to the campaign moments later, making the flow feel disorienting. Key details were either glossed over or misrepresented, and it showed. A bit more digging or even a collaboration with a L4D content creator could have gone a long way toward creating a more accurate and, in my opinion, engaging perspective. But overall, the video was decent-ish. Just could’ve used a bit more spit-shine tbh. And while he did spend a fair amount of time between recording, coming up with a script, then editing and posting. If this what is to be expected from past/future videos, I'll pass.
four hours? omg. please tell me you bring up Halo Infection gamemodes (because they were HEAVILY inspired by L4D from how that Terror Strike demo. from what I can tell) everyone on one team, low health, energy sword only, one infected who's really fast.
do you know about the WAN show? a podcast from LTT the thing is i hear it every weekend, and this week lasts 4h, yeah i'm going to be very busy this weekend between your video and the WAN show
I never get tired of watching Left 4 Dead glazing. One of the greatest games ever made. I don't know how many times I've watched the same total breakdown of the games. It's like a sermon at church.
hopefully it never gets out of hand...
It’s such a masterpiece of game design down to the most granular level! Big games these days are so often like interactive cutscenes like The Last of Us or God of War. I’m not saying those games are bad but it’s just refreshing to look back on this era when you had such innovative game design and Valve was so often at the forefront of that!
@@lordofthebuckets2676 I am saying those games are bad. They strip out gameplay to be a movie. God of War took a million steps backwards in the most important part of being a game: being a game. The story isn't even good either.
@@alastor8091 I actually do like the combat in modern God of War a lot. I just hate the way games are so starkly segregated into the story and gameplay sections. That’s not taking advantage of the medium of videogames. When gameplay and story are intertwined is when videogames are truly special. The story of Left 4 Dead is the time you barely survived a Witch attack and made it out with almost no health. The player creates the story by playing the game you know?
It’s literally the perfect zombie killing game. It’s been made soo unpredictable, fun, scary and satisfying. Also, incredible storyline, characters, even the comics.
Left 4 Dead Content in 2024? Grab me a pint, a copy of 28 Days Later, and a theater to put this video on, so I can wait for it all to blow over like it’s the 2000s again.
Nice Shaun of the dead reference 🤣
@@furry_aids4946one of the two great British zombie flicks
I’d say Zombieland, since that film was supposed to be the Left 4 Dead movie that we never got.
no cornettos?
I think the reason why The Sacrifice is so weird is that it's actually the last official campaign made by Valve (since Cold Stream and The Last Stand are fan-made), releasing after L4D2 and The Passing had already released. The Campaign was designed for L4D2 and just backported to the first game
yes i agree, there’s a certain vibe that i get playing that campaign now after figuring out the map’s canon events and overall history. always will be my favorite campaign to play too its an eerie experience everytime
Valve really said we’re gonna go out with a BOOOM 💥 on this one
@@high_higgywhen you have an entire multi-part comic to build up the story behind your level, you’ve got to go all-out
awesome video. Rochelle's characterization in the opening of 2 is her saying "Hey, kill all sons of bitches, right?" and her reading the map. She's a bit more reserved but I think she's sweet and supportive. honestly the more I think about it, her being drastically different personality wise from Zoey and the rest of the playable cast, inadvertently made her the least "overtly quirky" (a positive thing imo)
I see what you did with that time length
Ahha
Really puts the 4 in left 4 dead
Genius, He put the 4 hour time length because Left "4" dead get it? HAHAHAHA... Haha
It's the extra one second that gets me
@@zelex1456it’s the 1 that was left ….for dead
At 48:50 where your talking about the environment id like to add something, I’m from where L4D1 takes place, Pennsylvania, and I’ve been to a lot of these places the game takes place in real life (fun fact, the city with no mercy IRL is actually a small farming community not a big city) and the cutscene at the beginning of that level is the old abandoned PA Turnpike tunnel, a famous landmark due to all the band albums that use it and all the graffiti. I digress, your comment about the fog is accurate. That time of year, especially in my part of the state, it gets very foggy for large parts of the day. They really got what PA looks like during fall. Something L4D1 does great is translate the feel of what Pennsylvania is like.
I love your videos bro, I'm sure I'll enjoy this one a lot. In a time where every video seems to be 30 seconds to catch your attention span, we've lost long-form interesting content but you are saving us
I don't know what your feed looks like, but I promise you there are like 300 youtubers making good, long-form content with a lot of it being about games.
This game blew my mind as a kid whenever I played it after school.
3:16:33 on versus its much more potent against the special infected, it creates a blinding effect, outlines the target and of course common infected attack for you. it also just lasts longer than a pipebomb, and is better than the other throwables if used tactically
2:02:00 everything changes between each weapon; the range, attack speed and whether it's blunt or sharp, both having different properties. Read the wiki. This game is much better crafted than you think
A bit of stuff in this video is just nitpicks or just incorrect that can be corrected via wiki reading it seems
There is no difference in range though there is difference in effective range cause how much hitrays a weapon has and swing pattern
@@sabo1789Yea i noticed he didn't put much work into this video when it comes to info like his other videos especially the part on how he doesn't know why there are so many witches in hard rain it sucks wish he would've took more time to analyze these two masterpieces of games
@@sabo1789 It's the same thing with his nitpick of Dead Air not making sense in the timeline, although there's a free comic telling exactly what happened in between. Another thing is him saying that the dialogue in The Sacrifice influenced dialogue in Left 4 Dead 2… even though The Sacrifice was made after Left 4 Dead 2's release.
@@LeleiTheTigress The video really just seems to be a cash-in on video essays about a popular game
1:46:28 That offline bot Boomer sure knew where to position himself for a cutscene giggle.
Absolutely mental the amount of effort you put into this. Top stuff, man
7:34
"We made it!. We're alive!"
"Son, we just crossed the street."
The L4D1 trailer is everything. Those two lines really sell how Intense this game can get and feels. It's amazing lmao. It's crazy to believe there is a story in this game at all.
Im glad you really gave the time to talk about left 4 dead independently from left 4 dead 2, the original is so great and its just not the exact same experience playing the same maps in l4d2. Thats not to undermine it, theyre just different experiences !
Not really, same engine, different characters, and updated graphics. Better controls and more special infectioned.
@@VRVegeta bro let the cat have his nostalgia
@@VRVegeta They ruined the layout of the L4D1 maps in L4D2. Also, I'm not a fan of chargers or jockeys (jockeys being the worst special infected in the L4D franchise). Character movement is also far more janky in L4D2 than the original.
@@Gloomy_Knight-dw5pm Character movement is literally the same, don't know why people think this when its very similar to L4D2.
@@brendendonohue2746 Character movement is a lot smoother in the first game. Aiming and shooting feels much better in the first game too.
Seeing a video of such high quality be so long and only have 60 thousand views is painful, this video alone should be getting hundreds of thousands if not millions of views. ❤️
Haven't watched yet, but l4d is a game that holds such a special place in my heart. Never experienced anything that was as compelling or as original as that was for me in a video game before or since.
Its so weird that I randomly decided to play this game after not playing for over a decade, and this brand new video shows up.
Is everyone getting back into this game or something? Its like we all got pulled back in at the same time.
4 hour video about my favorite game…this and some napkins plz
With lotion?
@@kestrel4360 you know it
I guess the problem with Cold Stream is that it's mostly a lot of back to back hordes that you need to push through. It's a lot of action without the down time so you can get a bit burnt out by the end. Also it's a very scripted campaign and doesn't change much from different playthroughs. It's not a bad campaign it just doesn't have the same flow and polish as the others.
Cold streams level design is great, but it’s pacing is awful. Like the level *look* polished, but it’s entirely ruined by the lack of any real randomness in paths or loot generation and the back to back hordes with no real breather.
I wish that there was a Left 4 Dead 3 man.
If I made the Left 4 Dead series, here is what I would do next.
I would make Left 4 Dead 3 -- the characters would be a members of a university in Philadelphia, there will be the 4 characters;
McGiaver: A professor, he is white, 5 foot 9, like 32 years old, kind of has a gut, but not that fat, he has a checkered light blue and white button up shirt with a red tie, and black dress pants, a slick-back hair style with red framed glasses, and kind of a long face, he has a kind of trying to be tough persona, but he does want to be there and do what's best for the team, and he will be there for his team.
Alice: A young freshman female student who is white, 5 foot 6, 18 years old, has a black and blue stripped sweater, (stripes going from left to right, or horizontal), blonde hair to her shoulders, glasses, a wide nose, (I don't know why I thought of that), she wears joggers, and skinny jeans, she is shy and scared of the situations, so she is clingy with her teammates and she looks at them for support, but she will not hesitate to retaliate and shoot if her or her teammates are in danger.
George: A security guard who is black, 5 foot 8, 47 years old, is fat, like a little fatter than Coach, he has a white uniform on with a name tag, and his shirt says "Campus security" on the back of it and he has a radio on his right shoulder, and like dark blue pants with a silver line down the sides of them, with what looks like a utility belt of standard security gear, although there is nothing in any of them, and he has a very serious attitude and is determined to tell people off and put them in line if they ever step out of line, but he tries to hold the team together.
Rodney: A skinny boy, 5 foot 7, he is 20 years old, he is like a delinquent drinking and using drugs, and partying, just a delinquent college kid, so he has kind of an attitude, kind of like Nick, even worse than Nick, he has long curly black hair, and a light green shirt, with like a picture of a grizzly bear on it with red words in cursif saying "Hunter" with a black sleeveless jacket, with the zipper open, and brown shorts with like 6 pockets, and he wears black shoes with a red trim on the sides --
They start at the university, and the university has football players, so they keep fit, and they work out on their legs, like running and stuff, so there would be a mutation where it is the early charger designs, but a hunched over figure, a big head with increased bone structure to ram into things, arms on the sides like a dinosaur, and big legs that just let it make sharp turns and things like that, like if you turn a corner it will immediately follow you swiftly and make those sharp turns everywhere.
And so they go down through like Georgia and Florida and places like that to get to New Orleans, and they go to beach resorts, and farms, and woods, and things like that. Like going on the docks at Miami, calling it "Dead Sea" or "Peer Pressure" or things like that, and through all of the resort buildings, and then on a farm, to the barn and then running through the woods behind them.
Next I would make Left 4 Dead 4, and that would be like -- The characters would be city occupants from California;
Malinda: A police officer, she is a hot blonde, pointy nose, (I don't know how I came up with that), hair length to like the middle of her back, and she has two bands of hair on each of the sides of her head slinked on her shoulders, she is 5 foot 11, 42 years old, has a black police uniform, a round star badge, a radio on her right shoulder piece, and a police utility belt on her uniform, she is serious at times when it calls for seriousness, but she can also be gentle to her teammates.
Orion Barn The 2nd: A small time crook, he is skinny, black, 5 foot 6, 18 years old, he has a black beanie on his head, he has a white shirt with the picture of a sunrise on it, with green italics saying "Sun shine" he has a leather biker style jacket over that, he has black jeans, he wears black and white shoes, and he has a fingerless glove with spikes on his right hand, and a glove with only a finger slot on his index finger for his left hand, he is a wild person, always saying something, even in the most inappropriate of times, and sometimes he acts like he wants to leave, but when push comes to shove he is there for his team.
Jancarlos: A construction worker, he is 5 foot 9, 27 years old, decent weight, he is spanish, he has a light mustache, like it is just growing in, he might have a small mole on his left cheek, he wears construction suits, like a red shirt with a contruction vest over it, he wears a white hard hat, white shoes, and jeans, and he is a team player, relying on his teammates, and being there for his teammates, because he believes that sticking together will help them to survive, and he is able to use a sludge hammer as a malee weapon.
José: A taxi driver, he is spanish, he is 5 foot 9, 31 years old, decent weight, and he has like a red long sleeve sweater, and skinny cackies, with white shoes, he is a team player and is there for his teammates, but he will put people in their place if they get out of line --
They all have to go around the United States, because the states closest to them are blocked off from public access by the military and stuff like that, so they have to go around through upper states by Canada, like Michigan, and moving around to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Georgia, Florida, and so on until they get to Texas, and they go through buildings, subway stations, train stations, some gated communities, other suburbs like areas, police stations for like guns and stuff, a little bit of everything.
And I would make special zombies, like... Sick zombies. Like if someone had the flu, or a cold, or mainly mucus, like how mucus becomes bronchitis, where it becomes thick and sticky, and give that to a zombie, like both males and females and they have runny noses and big looking pimples or sores with puss or the mucus, and things like that and they can sneeze and spit out this sticky, gooey, thick yellowish-green mucus, and the mucus won't hurt survivors, it will just slow them down, like when you are on low health and you becomes slow, it has that effect, just you could be at full health and the gooey mucus just slows down your moment to that extent for about 5 to 7 seconds, during which common infected can catch up faster and beat up the survivor who has been covered in the mucus, and that sticky mucus can going into and gam guns and chainsaws, so it can also relinquish survivors of their weapons, however malee weapons like bats, axes, swords, machetes, and crowbars, won't have that kind of effect, and should you kill one at close range it will explode, a little like the boomer, except you will get covered in the sticky mucus and that will trap the survivor in a vulnerable state, like where they cannot move at all, they can't pull out any weapons, they are just stuck to either the floor or walls, and this will last for 20 seconds, and during that time other normal infected can beat up the survivors, but burning acid from a spitter would dissolve the gooey mucus if a spitter spits on someone who is already trapped in mucus. And like if these sick zombies are seen, they will behave kind of like common infected, staggering around the place, but it will be sneezing almost all of the time, and releasing some of the sticky, gooey mucus onto the floor or walls, depending on where it is sneezing.
Tell me what you all think.
Also, I would make a Left 4 Dead 5, with 4 characters from Dallas Texas, who would be -
David: A young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is like 6 feet tall, he has a white shirt with a red line across it, like from his upper right chest down to his left hip, and above that line would be the King, from like cards with red dimonds around him, and below that same red line would be the Queen, from cards with black spades around her, and he has a black jacket, and blue jeans, and red, white, and black shoes, and he has a pointy hair style, like what looks like dreadlocks, but short and they only stick up in every direction, he is good at focusing and dealing with people, and he listens and is willing to listen, he can be hard-headed at times, but he gets serious at times when it calls for it, and he is there for his team
Kaliea: A young teenage girl, she is 16 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she has a purple short sleeve shirt with golden glittery things around her chest area, and she as a light black short sleeve cover, like a jacket, but it has no zipper, and it looks like it is netted, with like spacing and stuff like that, and she wears skinny dark blue jeans, and high heel boots, and she has short brown hair down to her shoulders, and she has eye liner, and other sorts of makeup, and lipstick, and she is well mannered, and she tries to keep it together although she is scared, but she functions better with her team, and she is a team player, and she sticks with and is there for her team.
(David and Kaliea are a couple, and they are good people, like David worked at movie theater, and he had part time jobs before that, and he is alright in school, and he was a former boyscout and camper, so he can opperate in some things, like the woods and things like that, and Kaliea is very good in school, she gets mainly straight A's most of the time, and was pursuing a legal career, and she used to babysit people and her younger brothers and sister, so she is good with dealing with people, and under stress)
Abriann: He is a young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is 6 foot 1, and he wears a red short sleeve shirt with white lines up and down and a small blue shield on the upper right chestal area, but he also has that short sleeve shirt over a long sleeve white shirt, and he wears jeans, and white shoes with red trims, and he is knowledgeable and understanding, and he comes up with some ideas to help the team, and he is there for his team.
Dainnia: She is a teenage girl, she is 17 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she always tries to look on the bright side of things, and she tries to keep the team together, and she keeps with her team, and she is there for her team, and she can becomes strong willed, confident, and serious when push comes to shove, she wears a green lepord pattern short sleeve shirt, with tight light purple pants, and short high heel boots with like fur on the ankle part, and she has eye liner and other makeup, and purple lipstick, and she has long black hair, and she has golden water droplet earrings.
(Abriann and Dainnia are a couple and they are good people, Abriann is a good student, he gets mostly B's, he does not have any job, but he is knowledgeable about things like cars, because he always liked cars, and he used to help at his uncle's mechanic shop, and he also used to help his dad with the car, so he is knowledgeable about manual labor, and he used to take care of his little brother so he can deal with people and comfort them to an extent, and Diannia is a good student, with A's and B's and she is knowledgeable on many things like science and math, and she has knowledge about some other languages, history, locations, laws, and other useful things)
They go through the states, from Texas up, going through the middle of the United States, and then around to like New York, and other states like that, and they are a young, but strong and knowledgeable team who can overcome anything together.
Left 4 Dead 3 would be from 2011 to 2012
Left 4 Dead 4 would be 2015 to 2016
Left 4 Dead 5 would be in modern day
I would create more special infected as well, like:
1. Shagg-Rat; The Shagg-Rat is a person who has been infected with the Green Flu in the game who will go through a mutation where their hair just grows out rapidly and all over, like their hair on their head, their facial hair, hair on their back, hair on and under their arms, hair on their legs, just hair everywhere, either men who grew a lot of hair pre infection, or even older individuals who use hair growth supplements to grow more hair, so the virus takes that and makes hair grow rapidly and all over and the hair will strengthen a little bit a little like quills, but the Shagg-Rat will also lick and rub bile on their hair so that it can stick up their hair kind of like a gel, and when it dries it will become harder and pricklier like a quill. Now, because of the amount of hair on this special infected it can not run, otherwise, it will trip, so it is a lie and wait kind of infected where it will hide in bushes around corners and behind doors and things, and when a survivor gets close to it it jumps up and grabs them in a bear hug digging it's pointy hairy quills into the survivor, which will do 2 to 5 points of damage every 2 seconds that it is still holding on, it has to be knocked off instead of shot off, and even after it is off the bile will stick some hair quills to the survivor's body which will lead to irritation and pain, which will cause 2 points of damage for 5 seconds.
2. Hunch-barrier; The Hunch-barrier is an individual with Hunchback who was infected with the Green Flu and the virus mutated them to where their hunchback is increased along with their body composition, so they mutate to walk on all fours, their heads are sucked into their body to where they don't have a neck anymore, they get big kind of like the Tank, but more like a turtle kind of thing where their back is hunched and added skin and muscle and stuff, but they are slow moving and really they are what other common and even special infected can hide behind to avoid gunfire, because it acts as a blockade and it has 12,000 health.
3. Lengthers; The Lengthers are individuals like basketball players who are really, really tall and lengthy, and they get infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutates them to grow and extend and elongate their arms, legs, torso, and neck, to where it is like a Slenderman lengthy type of appearance, it would be the tallest infected ever, like 15 maybe 20, feet tall, (that is an exaggeration, but they would be taller than 6 foor 6, maybe up to or over 9 feet tall, but they are still really tall nonetheless), and because of their pre infection life of being a basketball player they can turn and weave and jump high and things like that and so that is boosted for the lengther where they can out maneuver and out-run certain things like some gunfire, like jumping out of the way of a one shot type of weapon like a grenade launcher or a shotgun or a sniper, things like that, and they are too skiny and lengthy to the point of being a little like a stick or a twig to where it is not like the Tank where it is just a whole big target, you have to be precise on where you shoot or you will miss every hit, especially if it is jumping around and maneuvering everywhere. Now they don't usually scratch and attack like the typical stuff, they could do that and it would cause 5 points of damage because of their elongated fingers and fingernails, but they mainly use their size and length to be scouts, like looking for survivors over rooftops, when I say "rooftops" I mean rooftops of 1 story houses, but they can also look into the windows of 2 story houses, and over trees and just over taller areas, and it is better to take them out descretly with a sniper or something before they spot you and they then inform the horde, and with their long arms and hands they can pick up things if they aren't heavy and throw them at survivors, like Gas cans, gas tanks, maybe even some common infected or body parts of common infected, or maybe even the small jockey. Just things like that. Lengthers can be male and female depending on how tall and how active they were in their pre infection life.
4. Rider-Souge; The Rider-Souge is a person in a wheelchair who got infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutated them into this thing that is like keeping the upper body, like the chest and stomach areas, and strinking and strivling the lower body and especially the legs to where the legs are just strivled up tiny things hanging from the tailbone lower body area, and extending the arms so that they become the main point of locomotion and the neck extends outward as well kind of like the spitter, it will look like a zombie human ostrich, but this thing can do several different things, it can attack you just like the Jockey except it bear hugs you with it's arms and bites you instead of riding you, and the bite causes 7 points of damage every 4 seconds. It can ride on the backs of common infected and jump on you if you shot the common infected that it is riding on at close range or if it gets into close proximity to you, and it can alert the horde if it gets away from you, like if you see it on it's own and you don't kill it or if you kill a common infected that it is riding on and it gets away, things like that.
sounds pretty sick
epic thank you for sharing
.. you need something healthy and productive to do with your time energy and ideas.
Define autism
Another banger 4 hour video 💪🏽
7 beers down and im watching this thanks bro
53:22 Is because a LOT of their lines and NPC lines have been cut with the only remains being left in the subtitles.
2:18:10 As someone who lives in hurricane central in the southeast US, your vision can absolutely get that bad depending on the severity of the storm. I've had some intense storms where I can barely see my mailbox from my car.
Personal bookmark 2:30:00
Surprised you didn’t mention the whack-a-mole mini game in dark carnival. You said you wanted more fairground games and you missed one. That makes 3: shooting gallery, strong man game, and whack a mole
I am leaving this comment for youtube to atleast consider putting this video in more peoples feed. Im doing my part! Keep up the great work.
The fact that people are still regularly talking about and playing this game to this very day is amazing
Why didnt this video exist when i had my maintenance job 😂😂😂
Digging the Rimworld soundtrack in the beginning
while the gauntlet crescendo event at the end of the barns chapter of Dark Carnival can frustrate me, I feel it makes a lot of narrative sense because the stadium was likely filled with hordes and hordes of infected that never got rescued, so when the gates are opened they all pour out of the stadium's entrance which just so happens to be the safe room we need to reach
2:50:58 HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!
1:46:28 LOL that Boomer xD
I love seeing l4d content, even though the games are 15/16 years old now. One of my favorite games of all time ✌️😀
TH-camrs are really pushing that ten minute Mark...
At the height of my L4D experience, my brother and I collectively had a group of several other guys that we frequently used to play with via TS2. We would Versus everyday for hours.
mad respect for more l4d content. one thing to note tho, you might wanna tone down the volume of your gameplay segments. especially the sound of gunshots.
4 hours is crazy much respect bro
Already watched the video twice, based content
24:24 that was the most majestic boomer I've ever seen
Great video overall, though I found the part about the instructor a bit strange, most of the pop ups it gives you stop showing up after a while, and there is actually an option to outright disable the instructor in the settings.
One of the only reasons i got an xbox one was to play splitscreen left 4 dead 1 and 2 with my friends. No regrets.
Every time I wait and I am never disappointed
3:15 into a video about one of the greatest zombie games of all time and he’s even added some niche sonic unleashed ost
Munt Chunk: 4 hours L4D vid
Me: Guess I'll give this video 20 hours watchtime
Munt Lad has done it again 🎉
im honestly surprised he doesnt have more subs since these video essays get pumped out all the time and theyre always great to watch lol
Dude fr. Slept on 😭
wooooo i love left 4 dead content i hope youtubers never stop making it thank you for 4 hours!!!
A few things I noticed about the game instructor is that you can turn it off but it no longer tells you who startled witches or set off car alarms and the instructor seems to reset whenever you change hardware which is pretty annoying because I've played this on the same account for years and have been playing these games since they came out and know what to do
IGN tier gameplay footage.
I’ve always loved Left 4 Dead more than Left 4 Dead 2 and i don’t really know why. There’s just something about it.
Great work as always milord
I really like the option to play each mission from the start, as solution to different progress the players made in the story or generally a way to save the run. These things could have been difficult to figure out in any other way at that time
say it when and do it all agaaaiiiin. yaaaaaaaaaa
I understand your criticism of the game instructor, but i think you miss the fact that it works as a accessibility feature. The text pointing out some obvious things can be annoying if you have perfect hearing, but it might be what makes the game playable to deaf players or, players with bad hearing. Same with the icon popups and outlines for players with weak eyesight.
Perfect background noise for my sleep :)
you deserve more subs 👍
Absolute Glaze Master of the highest order. I salute the Glaze Lord!
What an awesome retrospective. Thank you very much :)
I’m gonna try to speed run L4D1 and L4D2 while listening to this video.
100% underrated
3:16:13 Something i like to do, is combo the bile jar with fire. It automatically kills the zombies while allowing me to focus on something else
Damn it zoey! We trusted CEDA! We trusted the military! And we were left for dead!
thank you for feeding my lfd video addiction
Also, I would make a Left 4 Dead 5, with 4 characters from Dallas Texas, who would be -
David: A young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is like 6 feet tall, he has a white shirt with a red line across it, like from his upper right chest down to his left hip, and above that line would be the King, from like cards with red dimonds around him, and below that same red line would be the Queen, from cards with black spades around her, and he has a black jacket, and blue jeans, and red, white, and black shoes, and he has a pointy hair style, like what looks like dreadlocks, but short and they only stick up in every direction, he is good at focusing and dealing with people, and he listens and is willing to listen, he can be hard-headed at times, but he gets serious at times when it calls for it, and he is there for his team
Kaliea: A young teenage girl, she is 16 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she has a purple short sleeve shirt with golden glittery things around her chest area, and she as a light black short sleeve cover, like a jacket, but it has no zipper, and it looks like it is netted, with like spacing and stuff like that, and she wears skinny dark blue jeans, and high heel boots, and she has short brown hair down to her shoulders, and she has eye liner, and other sorts of makeup, and lipstick, and she is well mannered, and she tries to keep it together although she is scared, but she functions better with her team, and she is a team player, and she sticks with and is there for her team.
(David and Kaliea are a couple, and they are good people, like David worked at movie theater, and he had part time jobs before that, and he is alright in school, and he was a former boyscout and camper, so he can opperate in some things, like the woods and things like that, and Kaliea is very good in school, she gets mainly straight A's most of the time, and was pursuing a legal career, and she used to babysit people and her younger brothers and sister, so she is good with dealing with people, and under stress)
Abriann: He is a young teenage boy, he is 17 years old, black, he is 6 foot 1, and he wears a red short sleeve shirt with white lines up and down and a small blue shield on the upper right chestal area, but he also has that short sleeve shirt over a long sleeve white shirt, and he wears jeans, and white shoes with red trims, and he is knowledgeable and understanding, and he comes up with some ideas to help the team, and he is there for his team.
Dainnia: She is a teenage girl, she is 17 years old, black, she is 5 foot 7, she always tries to look on the bright side of things, and she tries to keep the team together, and she keeps with her team, and she is there for her team, and she can becomes strong willed, confident, and serious when push comes to shove, she wears a green lepord pattern short sleeve shirt, with tight light purple pants, and short high heel boots with like fur on the ankle part, and she has eye liner and other makeup, and purple lipstick, and she has long black hair, and she has golden water droplet earrings.
(Abriann and Dainnia are a couple and they are good people, Abriann is a good student, he gets mostly B's, he does not have any job, but he is knowledgeable about things like cars, because he always liked cars, and he used to help at his uncle's mechanic shop, and he also used to help his dad with the car, so he is knowledgeable about manual labor, and he used to take care of his little brother so he can deal with people and comfort them to an extent, and Diannia is a good student, with A's and B's and she is knowledgeable on many things like science and math, and she has knowledge about some other languages, history, locations, laws, and other useful things)
They go through the states, from Texas up, going through the middle of the United States, and then around to like New York, and other states like that, and they are a young, but strong and knowledgeable team who can overcome anything together.
Left 4 Dead 3 would be from 2011 to 2012
Left 4 Dead 4 would be 2015 to 2016
Left 4 Dead 5 would be in modern day
I would create more special infected as well, like:
1. Shagg-Rat; The Shagg-Rat is a person who has been infected with the Green Flu in the game who will go through a mutation where their hair just grows out rapidly and all over, like their hair on their head, their facial hair, hair on their back, hair on and under their arms, hair on their legs, just hair everywhere, either men who grew a lot of hair pre infection, or even older individuals who use hair growth supplements to grow more hair, so the virus takes that and makes hair grow rapidly and all over and the hair will strengthen a little bit a little like quills, but the Shagg-Rat will also lick and rub bile on their hair so that it can stick up their hair kind of like a gel, and when it dries it will become harder and pricklier like a quill. Now, because of the amount of hair on this special infected it can not run, otherwise, it will trip, so it is a lie and wait kind of infected where it will hide in bushes around corners and behind doors and things, and when a survivor gets close to it it jumps up and grabs them in a bear hug digging it's pointy hairy quills into the survivor, which will do 2 to 5 points of damage every 2 seconds that it is still holding on, it has to be knocked off instead of shot off, and even after it is off the bile will stick some hair quills to the survivor's body which will lead to irritation and pain, which will cause 2 points of damage for 5 seconds.
2. Hunch-barrier; The Hunch-barrier is an individual with Hunchback who was infected with the Green Flu and the virus mutated them to where their hunchback is increased along with their body composition, so they mutate to walk on all fours, their heads are sucked into their body to where they don't have a neck anymore, they get big kind of like the Tank, but more like a turtle kind of thing where their back is hunched and added skin and muscle and stuff, but they are slow moving and really they are what other common and even special infected can hide behind to avoid gunfire, because it acts as a blockade and it has 12,000 health.
3. Lengthers; The Lengthers are individuals like basketball players who are really, really tall and lengthy, and they get infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutates them to grow and extend and elongate their arms, legs, torso, and neck, to where it is like a Slenderman lengthy type of appearance, it would be the tallest infected ever, like 15 maybe 20, feet tall, (that is an exaggeration, but they would be taller than 6 foor 6, maybe up to or over 9 feet tall, but they are still really tall nonetheless), and because of their pre infection life of being a basketball player they can turn and weave and jump high and things like that and so that is boosted for the lengther where they can out maneuver and out-run certain things like some gunfire, like jumping out of the way of a one shot type of weapon like a grenade launcher or a shotgun or a sniper, things like that, and they are too skiny and lengthy to the point of being a little like a stick or a twig to where it is not like the Tank where it is just a whole big target, you have to be precise on where you shoot or you will miss every hit, especially if it is jumping around and maneuvering everywhere. Now they don't usually scratch and attack like the typical stuff, they could do that and it would cause 5 points of damage because of their elongated fingers and fingernails, but they mainly use their size and length to be scouts, like looking for survivors over rooftops, when I say "rooftops" I mean rooftops of 1 story houses, but they can also look into the windows of 2 story houses, and over trees and just over taller areas, and it is better to take them out descretly with a sniper or something before they spot you and they then inform the horde, and with their long arms and hands they can pick up things if they aren't heavy and throw them at survivors, like Gas cans, gas tanks, maybe even some common infected or body parts of common infected, or maybe even the small jockey. Just things like that. Lengthers can be male and female depending on how tall and how active they were in their pre infection life.
4. Rider-Souge; The Rider-Souge is a person in a wheelchair who got infected with the Green Flu, and the virus mutated them into this thing that is like keeping the upper body, like the chest and stomach areas, and strinking and strivling the lower body and especially the legs to where the legs are just strivled up tiny things hanging from the tailbone lower body area, and extending the arms so that they become the main point of locomotion and the neck extends outward as well kind of like the spitter, it will look like a zombie human ostrich, but this thing can do several different things, it can attack you just like the Jockey except it bear hugs you with it's arms and bites you instead of riding you, and the bite causes 7 points of damage every 4 seconds. It can ride on the backs of common infected and jump on you if you shot the common infected that it is riding on at close range or if it gets into close proximity to you, and it can alert the horde if it gets away from you, like if you see it on it's own and you don't kill it or if you kill a common infected that it is riding on and it gets away, things like that.
22:35 There's a term for that actually, picked it up a LONG time ago in a 2-player game I liked to play with one of my best buds from high school; Co-opetition.
Literally co-operative competition. You both worth together (or in this case all 4 of you) for the same goal, but you try to be the best along the way. :P
It really does make the entire experience that much more fun. I can't say that I'd have enjoyed playing quite as much if the leaderboards weren't there during loads.
Oh cool a L4D2 appreciation video
*Sees TF2 level time stamp*
Oh, it's the L4D2 appreciation video.
L4D taught me to say reloading when im reloading.
Left 4 dead 1 doesn't have melee weapons because you are the melee weapons
This vid makes me wanna say "tHeSe ArE nT zOmBiEs, tHeYrE iNfEcTeD☝️🤓" type of thing
Youre a genius
On a side note, i contimplated using windows xp for my possible windows xp rig for my own sick and demented reasons i wont get into. But one of the reasons for this was getting to experience older games i wouldnt otherwise have an excuse playing for such as the first left 4 dead. In hindsight its dumb but uhmm yeah i cant rlly defend myself
41:19 have you ever changed the difficulty?
As someone who's beaten the whole campaign of left 4 dead 2 on expert realism... and oh man.. this video would be almost a year long if he played it on expert realism 😂
right? i agree. tier 1 weapons have very noticeable shortcomings like the uzi or the hunting shotgun having less shells than the automatic. and this is exacerbated on higher difficulties
LEFT 4 DEAD MENTIONED!!!
L4D2 has a special place in my heart, thanks for the retrospective :)
The differences with the weapons matter a lot less when dealing with common infected, it’s more of something that matters with special infected. In real life, and video games, I prefer AK rifles. Irl I find them more fun to shoot even if they have worse ergonomics. But in L4D I tend to trade out the AK for an M16, just because the M16 being more accurate really helps when dealing with smokers and jockeys
Perfect timing
a 4 hour long video for a 15 year old game...
fuck it, i'm in.
AI director, environmental storytelling, character and world building, visual direction, audio cues, interactivity, resource management, sound motifs, ..etc theres a ton. and im glad co-op survival PVE titles follows that. and im glad games that follows tries to achieve checking the list.
20:45 i thought i was tweaking when i heard the downwell ost
Would love to see a video on Cry of Fear
3:46:13 I could even call it... The Last Stand... *The Monsters Within plays*
This video could've been an email
Nice video, but it’s apparent that you aren’t a diehard or very well versed player to be making such a long video. You could have used some more research on many topics throughout the video. Enjoyable nonetheless
I agree this kept me from fully enjoying the video besides it being about my favorite game + 4 hours, I couldn't help but notice that it seems like he didn't do much research into the game or play a whole lot before making the video
I feel the same way. Between the subpar gameplay footage running in the background (not the worst I’ve seen, but definitely not up to par for someone attempting a retrospective meant to showcase the game) and a few odd, somewhat off-base statements that a veteran L4D1/2 player wouldn't make-or even a quick Google search could have corrected-it felt like a missed opportunity missing the deeper insights that would resonate with longtime fans or anyone seeking a thorough analysis.
It was clear that some research was done, but it felt rushed or perhaps done under a tight deadline. That even reflects in the script, where he’ll often start discussing the campaign, then veer off into talking about weapons, only to switch back to the campaign moments later, making the flow feel disorienting. Key details were either glossed over or misrepresented, and it showed. A bit more digging or even a collaboration with a L4D content creator could have gone a long way toward creating a more accurate and, in my opinion, engaging perspective.
But overall, the video was decent-ish. Just could’ve used a bit more spit-shine tbh. And while he did spend a fair amount of time between recording, coming up with a script, then editing and posting. If this what is to be expected from past/future videos, I'll pass.
holy glaze
I will be playing L4D3 in heaven, I know they’ll never make it here on Earth 🪖
Yes Left 4 Dead is really epic and everyone should play it.
Now we deserve L4D3 after Valve releases HL3
hell yeah bruther
Left 4 Dead 2 is the Ocarina of Time of PC games when it comes to youtube
Look at the video length
I miss the days of Left 4 Dead 2 on the Xbox 360😢
four hours? omg. please tell me you bring up Halo Infection gamemodes (because they were HEAVILY inspired by L4D from how that Terror Strike demo. from what I can tell) everyone on one team, low health, energy sword only, one infected who's really fast.
I'm not a subscriber yet I see your video mere hours after it being uploaded
TH-cam knows I like my long form content
I am now a subscriber
I think DayZ popularized the battle royale mode before H1Z1
I LOVE L4D2
I’m listening to the closing thoughts regarding sequels and hear music from Chrono Trigger… are you trying to say something with that music choice?
2:33:54 "when we journey UPwards like when we go DOWN the slide
I see what you did there👀👀👀
3:30 What are you mean by this?
Right like Im pretty sure MGS3 was perfectly fine and wasn't really that rushed, it did all it needed to do, maybe bar some of the ending levels
Left 4 Hours
(look at the length of the video)
4 hour video should've been 4 minutes ngl
What do you mean there's no option to turn the game instructor off? That can't be
do you know about the WAN show? a podcast from LTT
the thing is i hear it every weekend, and this week lasts 4h, yeah i'm going to be very busy this weekend between your video and the WAN show