| Darc Requiem said: The reason there is so much furor over L4D2 is Valve themselves. They made so many promises for additional content for L4D1 and then they release a sequel that has all of the things they were promising for L4D1. I never really go into L4D but the reason there is so much backlash is because Valve pulled a Peter Molyneux. If they had never made the promises about additional content for L4D1 they wouldn't be dealing with all this furor. |
That is definitely part of the issue. In fact, one could say Valve released an incomplete game with L4D1, one that they promised to not only finish via updates, but also substantlially improve via patches ala TF2. They barely got around to finishing the game by the time the announced the sequel, and a lot of people (myself included) felt burned.
The issue was never so much of a lack of improvement via a sequel, but rather a lack of content in the first game to begin with. You have to figure, the game launched with four short campaigns (~one hour each) and an incomplete Versus mode that was "finished" via patches a few weeks after release. That's basically it.
I was rather annoyed by the whole ordeal, but once I got around to playing the L4D2 demo, I realized that there's no way I could not buy the game because it improves upon the first substantially, and the first was an absolute blast regardless of the dearth of content upon release.
