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Melissia wrote:Bah, Valve did gibbing zombies better.
Valve did good gibbering zombies, but I feel better killing a zombie that was once a communist or a nazi than one that was once a scientist at Black Mesa.
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FiRe SuPeRiOrItY wrote:Can't wait until episode 3!!!!!!!
Didn't they do the episode thing so they could release shorter expansions faster, the operative word being 'faster'?
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Melissia wrote:Bah, Valve did gibbing zombies better.
Valve did good gibbering zombies, but I feel better killing a zombie that was once a communist or a nazi than one that was once a scientist at Black Mesa.
I was talking about Left 4 Dead, which is THE zombie game that all these other zombie (mini)games wish they could be more like
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Melissia wrote:Bah, Valve did gibbing zombies better.
Valve did good gibbering zombies, but I feel better killing a zombie that was once a communist or a nazi than one that was once a scientist at Black Mesa.
I was talking about Left 4 Dead, which is THE zombie game that all these other zombie (mini)games wish they could be more like
Its just funny that Treyarch took Left 4 Dead(a full game in its own rights) and said, "Hey we could make that into a mini-game.". They then did and the differences between the two aren't too bad.
Left 4 Dead has larger levels where you're supposed to escape to and an ending. Left 4 Dead also has special zombies like the Spitter, Tank, and head humper.
CoD Zombies has levels where you try to survive wave after wave of zombies with no ending(until you die of course). CoD Zombies has special zombies, but not the same quantity as Left 4 Dead.
Both have a variety of weapons, which you purchase in CoD and find in L4D. Both have a story although I personally prefer CoD's zombie story over L4D's due to the fact that Dawn of the Dead is more prevalent in current media than any movie featuring Nazi zombies(Dead Sno is one from Norway).
Both have a revive system and both have four characters(no doubt you like L4D simply due to the fact that one of them is a woman) that survive a zombie world.
So for Zombies being a minigame it comes pretty damn close to being a game in its own rights.
You realize that L4D has the same survival mode as well, right?
And a versus mode.
And plenty of other minigames in its own right with its weekly Mutations.
And so on and so forth. No, CoD:BO's zombie game doesn't compare. The only thing really that I like about it is the weapon selection, but even then most weapons become useless after a while anyway.
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EDIT: You know what Melissia, we're never going to agree about these types of topics. I'm just going to go ahead and delete whatever argument I posted and call it off for the sake of the overall thread.
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halonachos wrote:EDIT: You know what Melissia, we're never going to agree about these types of topics. I'm just going to go ahead and delete whatever argument I posted and call it off for the sake of the overall thread.
Now, now children.
Play nice...
I'm just here to look at pretty pictures, and be an ass. W/D/L's:
Orks: 4/7/2
(Ex) BT: 1/0/13 <--- OUCH.
Iyanden: 2/0/2
FiRe SuPeRiOrItY wrote:WELL ITS DECIDED THEN. 70% of people think that the COD series has gone on for to long you money making b*****ds. Down with infinity ward, down with treyarch, down with call of duty
Infinity Ward no longer exists and Treyarch is pretty good at what they do.
fething up the franchise?
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Melissia wrote:You realize that L4D has the same survival mode as well, right?
And a versus mode.
And plenty of other minigames in its own right with its weekly Mutations.
And so on and so forth. No, CoD:BO's zombie game doesn't compare. The only thing really that I like about it is the weapon selection, but even then most weapons become useless after a while anyway.
Both zombie games are incredibly dissimilar, L4d is rambo and CoD is resident evil. You're arguing past each other and it's childish (also annoying).
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ShumaGorath wrote:
Both zombie games are incredibly dissimilar, L4d is rambo and CoD is resident evil. You're arguing past each other and it's childish (also annoying).
You're annoying.
That's the first time I've ever heard of a comparison between CoD and resident Evil.
Come on, stop tossing around insults, we're just talking about CoD.
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Melissia wrote:Bah, Valve did gibbing zombies better.
Valve did good gibbering zombies, but I feel better killing a zombie that was once a communist or a nazi than one that was once a scientist at Black Mesa.
I was talking about Left 4 Dead, which is THE zombie game that all these other zombie (mini)games wish they could be more like
Eugh left 4 dead sucks.
It completely and utterly fails to capture the sense of hopelessness that would be present.
If I wasn't so damn tired I would go into a huge rant about how much I dislike that game and how it abuses zombies but I really cannot be bothered right now.
ShumaGorath wrote:
Both zombie games are incredibly dissimilar, L4d is rambo and CoD is resident evil. You're arguing past each other and it's childish (also annoying).
You're annoying.
That's the first time I've ever heard of a comparison between CoD and resident Evil.
Slow moving, low number of zombies, high health on enemies, very low ammo counts, very little health, dark mansions as settings, impossibly bad dialogue. This is both resident evil and CoD zombies.
Fast moving, near infinite ammo, high health, hordes of enemies mowed down, fun one liners, rapid indoor outdoor travel and lots of forest encounters, one shot kills aplenty. This is both Rambo and L4D.
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Melissia wrote:
halonachos wrote:
Melissia wrote:Bah, Valve did gibbing zombies better.
Valve did good gibbering zombies, but I feel better killing a zombie that was once a communist or a nazi than one that was once a scientist at Black Mesa.
I was talking about Left 4 Dead, which is THE zombie game that all these other zombie (mini)games wish they could be more like
Eugh left 4 dead sucks.
It completely and utterly fails to capture the sense of hopelessness that would be present.
If I wasn't so damn tired I would go into a huge rant about how much I dislike that game and how it abuses zombies but I really cannot be bothered right now.
I hope you realize zombies aren't real.
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ShumaGorath wrote:Slow moving, low number of zombies, high health on enemies, very low ammo counts, very little health, dark mansions as settings, impossibly bad dialogue. This is both resident evil and CoD zombies.
There's a low ammo count for sure, but there can be a high level of zombies and they begin with low health. In the beginning a single melee attack can kill a zombie while later on it can take about 15 or so attacks. Little health, dark settings, and slow moving zombies I'll give you as well. Well, sometimes the zombies are slow and other times they run at you.
As far as dialogue goes they have some good one liners, especially Richtofen and Nikolai. You should check out the CoD wikia, they have most of the quotes there.
corpsesarefun wrote:It completely and utterly fails to capture the sense of hopelessness
Stop playing it on easy.
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corpsesarefun wrote:It completely and utterly fails to capture the sense of hopelessness
Stop playing it on easy.
I think that he's alluring to the faint hope of rescue at the end of each level, even in The Sacrifice there was a hope at survival for three of the four survivors. CoD cheats this by not having a specific end for the levels, they end when you die and have no scripted ending other than that.
corpsesarefun wrote:It completely and utterly fails to capture the sense of hopelessness
Stop playing it on easy.
I think that he's alluring to the faint hope of rescue at the end of each level, even in The Sacrifice there was a hope at survival for three of the four survivors. CoD cheats this by not having a specific end for the levels, they end when you die and have no scripted ending other than that.
The inference that this is somehow "incorrect" or "anti zombie" is pretty off though.
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corpsesarefun wrote:It completely and utterly fails to capture the sense of hopelessness
Stop playing it on easy.
I think that he's alluring to the faint hope of rescue at the end of each level, even in The Sacrifice there was a hope at survival for three of the four survivors. CoD cheats this by not having a specific end for the levels, they end when you die and have no scripted ending other than that.
... so don't play the campaign mode?
Play Survival.
On Expert Realism.
You're fethed and all you can do is take out as many of them as you can before you die.
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I think it is possible to do more great CoD games they have to be done better than the previous title Black ops.
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KamikazeCanuck wrote:Left for Dead is more fun. Is there even a debate on that?
Yes there is, I much prefer Nazi Zombies over L4D. I like the confined territory choked with zombies more when you can't escape it. They can improve it though, Ascension showed us that, speaking of Ascension it finally came out on PS3.
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