Tons of people love Left4Dead, myself included, and played with the right people, you can you have some of the greatest moments in multiplayer gaming you've ever had. But with the... wrong people... it's just a world of irritation and annoyance.



I've clocked about 25 hours on the game, with another 8 on the demo, and 90% of the time I've been paired with great people! People who understand teamwork, looking out for your friends and working together to fight your way to the next safehouse. But there have been times when I have been grouped with people who are completely missing what the game is about, as far as I'm concerned anyway.



I just got out of a session where I was playing the infected and 1 survivor was down, and I had just grabbed another one with my giant smokey tongue. Louis comes up and smacks my tongue away and i retreat to the center of the rooftop. Then I notice the 3 of them running for the safehouse.

"Where is Bill?" I thought to myself.

I look around and see him highlighted in red, being attacked by a hunter. This was happening literally just around the corner of the 3 other survivors, and they just ran, all of them with green health, just so they could "win" the game. After the match, the team boasted about how they won the game with full health and how shit we, the infected, were.



Call me crazy, but even though Left4Dead has an arbitrary score system, I don't even look at it. I pretty much just want to have fun fighting against a zombie apocalypse with a few like minded survivors, and I really don't see how "winning" the game by speed running or leaving your team mates behind is any fun at all. Am I missing something here, or is the point of the game working together to reach safety?



Another account was 2 nights ago, running across the bridge train tracks to the train door, with a tank and horde following close behind. We are all shooting at them, and we pick off most of the horde, and then I am shot by one of my team mates, I assume by accident, and I fall the the floor shooting at the tank, not worrying about the infected. Then I see another of my team mates threw a molotov, which explodes 3 feet away from my face. So I am on fire, shooting at a massive Tank that is beating down upon me, while the zombies go up in flames.



Despite all odds, I somehow KILL the fucking Tank with my pistols, and the fire burns out, and I am left with just over 40 Health, laying on the floor. My "team", I notice, is just sitting in the train and had been for the entire fucking time after they threw the molotov, and they CONTINUE to sit in there, even though there are no zombies and the Tank is dead.

They let me bleed out, so that they can "win" the match.

I know there will always been douchebags that take the game too seriously and think that winning is everything, but when the game you buy is called "Left4Dead" and it's a multiplayer based game that is designed around helping your team, wouldn't you get the fucking hint that working together is what makes the game fun?

I guess this is mostly a rant because I'm annoyed at the douch-baggery of some people, and I may be a little too serious about the teamwork aspect... but as far as I'm concerned, when I play, nobody and I mean NOBODY will ever be left for dead.


FYI: If you have Left4Dead on Steam, be sure to add me if you want another survivor on your team: Skribble

GEARS OF AWESOME



Just watch it.





I'm going to bed.

I like my iPhone, it's very handy, and I like playing games on my iPhone. But I don't really use my iPhone for gaming; at the very most, games on the iPhone are a fun diversion and have never really been anything but glorified cell phone games.

Enter Need for Speed Underground, the latest app in development for the iPhone and iPod touch.



Up until now I really didn't realize thel processing power of the iPhone. I new it was capable of a lot of things, but I never imagined games could look and play this good on a device this small. There is a demo on youtube showing an early build of the game that you can view here...

Need for Speed Undercover for the iPhone/iPod Touch

As much as I am interested in how far the iPhone can be pushed in terms of performance, personally I am still waiting for an RPG to utilize the touchscreen interface, or maybe a Warioware like game. Either way, it's exciting to see such awesome things being done with the iPhone, it's being used in ways I never would have imagined!

So as a lot of you may know already, Australia is an ass backwards dirt clod of a country that, in all honestly, I just don't like living in. Well that isn't exactly true, it is an amazing country...an amazing country run but complete fuck heads making it almost unbearable to have any fun, fuck heads like this douche right here, Michael Atkinson:



So yeah, that's him in all his goofy, black toothed, suspenders wearing glory. Up until recently, he has single handedly stopped Australia's video game industry from progressing to the standards of the rest of the developed world, by refusing to even debate the issue of an R18+ rating for this silly island, stating that the implications of games have a far greater effect and a blah dee blah dee blah some other fucking bullshit that has absolutely no evidence to back it up....

So as you can imagine, a lot of us have been seriously fucking pissed off.

As it turns out, Michael Atkinson tells us, is that it was all just a big misunderstanding, and that he simply wanted a fair debate by making sure both sides were represented! Ohhh well then! GamePolitics reports:

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"I believe the draft discussion paper did not adequately represent both sides of the argument. I voiced my concerns to other Attorneys-General and we reached agreement that some minor changes will be made to the discussion paper.

I am not opposed to a public debate on the merits of introducing a R18+ classification for electronic games--in fact, I welcome it. But it’s unhelpful to commence that debate with what I believe is a biased discussion paper. There is little point in seeking public comment on an unfirm footing that neglects one side of the argument. I look forward to contributing to the development of a fairer discussion paper."
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So in other words, you found nothing in the report to support your NONSENSICAL argument against the R18+ rating and scrambled to find any foothold about how people would for some reason sell R18+ games to children, or that children would somehow get them easier because they are video games. You sir, are, and always will be, a complete hypocrite with nothing to offer the community other than your severely outdated ethics and ideals.

You are a dinosaur, a fossil, you have expired and should be sent to an island to live alone where you cannot harm anybody with your horrendously skewed views on life. If anybody wishes to view you for some reason, then they shall do so through a powerful telescope.

In any event, this is great news for Australia. Hopefully with this event all attorney generals' will take note of how huge this industry is and realize we have been sitting on this issue for far too long, and that the only way to move forward and promote this growing multi-billion dollar industry is to back it with a rating system that incorporates EVERYBODY.

Hopefully...

Just a few small scribbles done 10 minutes ago. Dead Space is pretty much awesome, hence the necromorph inspired splatter shot, hands down the scariest and most impressive game of the year; the sound design makes that game, and it makes me angry I have not set up my speakers properly yet!

Also some Katamari and weird faces.



I'm pretty much meant to be in bed, need to wake up in 6 hours. Ughhh...

I really need to learn me some anatomy, I'm suffocating in ideas with no artistic outlet other than writing to express them. Drawing cartoon shit only takes you so far, only when you learn anatomy can you really start creating some messed up shit.

If you can be bothered, give me some good suggestions of non-human game related shit to draw.