Back4Good Times
October 21, 2021 3:17 am Leave your thoughts
Again, like all these types of posts, if you are not a gamer…it still stands. Just quit yer bitchn and read.
I’m an OG gamer who weened themselves off and tried to get a life a little under ten years ago. I both succeeded and failed.
If you play games, you’ll know that sometimes you get douchebags on your team who are angry, high, or just one of those people who want to watch the world burn and antagonise others.
Most times, in my experience, there are good people to team up with and play. I’ve had a lot of fun with randoms on several games but the standouts in my life are Overwatch and L4D. (LEFT4DEAD, 2008 the classic, arcade-
like zombie shooter.)
Zombies are (mostly) overdone now…but get enter my time machine and come back to when L4D was a thing.
L4D was a very successful co-op. You could play with up to three other friends and take on zombies as you made your way through infected cities while ugly undead people tried to kill you. There was an option to have bots as your team if none of your friends were online, but they were frustrating. They’d go down so easily then the other two AI bots would run off to help them.
Being the only female in my core group, we had no problem selecting our characters. I was Zoey, and the guys naturally chose characters who reflected their personalities. We played every night for the better part of a year. We’d stay up late until it was early again. There were certain maps we liked and didn’t like, short ones, and other ones which dragged on and confused us. There were ones I was actually scared to play alone because they were very creepy. And most were nearly impossible to play with the AI bots as your teammates, unless you had the difficulty set to easy or normal.
I always played on ADVANCED, professional setting if we were going for certain achievement/awards for that category. But one of our teammates was unco and accidentally empty a magazine in out backs while we climbed up a ladder.
One of my friends now looks like Bill.
The game took over everything. It was so.much.fun. The story was interesting and so were the battles against hordes and strange mutants. But it was the team dynamics that gave me the utmost joy. Every single night meant barely being able to breathe because I was laughing so much. There are things that happen in-game that are so funny and only 4 people, and the FBI, will ever hear it.
It goes like this: do the missions and complete them, finish the games and do it over and over again, learn the maps you like. You redo campaigns you liked, or to wrap up achievements you haven’t been awarded yet and do it at your leisure and….you fuck around. A lot.
I’ve molotov-ed my friend after locking him in the “safe room.” I’ve deliberately let another one fall off a building even though his character was begging for help, slipping one finger at a time off the ledge…(LOL) I’ve done a speed-run and left the boys behind to deal with the zombies awakened by my flurry. My friends have deliberately blocked the ladder under a manhole so I couldn’t get down and away from zombies, and done things like see me limping and barely able to get to the saferoom ….then they’d wait and shut the door in my face, leaving me to die.
The other thing we’d do is wait until the credits rolled and the stats were revealed. You could see who died the most, who killed the most hunters or who had the highest FF score. (friendly-fire.) It was always hilarious to wait and all make bets on who sucked the most.
And then L4D2 came out…and my life was overrrrr. LOL All I did was play, if I wasn’t at work. My computer (shared with the household) was so shit…I’m surprised it lasted with the beating I gave it every single day. I played so much that I was seeing things. There is a witch in Left4Dead2. She is usually seen crouched on the ground and if you walk too close or make too much noise you “startle” her and she goes crazy, screams, and jumps on you. You fall, and she rakes your flesh with her long spooky nails in a frenzy that can kill you very easily if your friends aren’t paying attention to help you. There is no way to get her off you once she is on you, usually only someone else can kill her. Someone will startle her by not even realising she’s there sometimes, stepping on her or firing their gun too close to her.
So on a walk with my then main doggo, Stella, I walked around a corner at dusk, when the sky was blue-ing and the ground was starting to get shadowy…and I saw a fucking witch on the ground, cross legged and bent forward, waiting to kill me.
I had to stop and take a few blinks. I was actually looking at a stump, remnants of a small tree someone had obviously hacked and it looked spooky in the lowlight. It was then that I realised, I mayyy be playing just a little too much.
But that didn’t stop me from dressing up as Zoey for Halloween in a custom-made jacket from Etsy and a medipack I made with a red backpack I got from a thrift store. I had toy handguns and the same sneakers and everything!
We played for…YEARS. Literally. I have over 1000 hours on L4D2. And similar on L4D, the original. The guys and I have sayings and taunts we picked up from the game and still say to each other and sayings we made up back then.
The reason I’m writing this is because Back4Blood just got released and it is everything L4D was (so far) except the Bots don’t suck as much if you’re playing alone. They seem to be able to get themselves out of situations easier and come to the rescue much faster. AND it’s crossplay! (which means friends on other devices can join in if they have the same game.)
…So…I’ll see you next year…?
TLDR:
*I loved the L4D franchise
*Back4Blood is out
*It was a great time in my life
*It’s so funny being in a reality where you can set your annoying friend on fire.
*BACK4BLOOD is awesome. If you think it’s too expensive, look at signing up to Xbox app etc for a couple months instead and basically RENT it like I’m doing. *Zombies can still be cool…I think.
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