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I’m about to play Back 4 Blood, the “spiritual successor” to Left 4 Dead. (atomicpoet.org)
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I'm about to play Back 4 Blood, the "spiritual successor" to Left 4 Dead.

This game has mixed reviews. And based on comments, it looks like the online co-op and PvP is dead.

Now whenever I see blowback on games like this, I wonder if it's because Back 4 Blood is simply not exactly like Left 4 Dead even though it was made by the same developers. It's what I like to call the Yooka-Laylee Phenomenon.

Or is this more like the Mighty No. 9 Phenomenon where, it's not so much the spiritual successor isn't exactly like the original, but nowhere near as good as the original?

Hard to say without playing.

I do notice that, for whatever reason, Steam reviewers tend to privilege indie releases over AAA titles. So that might be something to do with it too.

I don't know. This is all conjecture from someone who's yet to play it yet. However, last Steam sale, I bought this for C$3.99 -- which was 95% off. So how bad can it really be?

Well, you know what they say -- YOLO!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I played it back when it came out and I didn't enjoy it at all. Game just felt flat and unsatisfying.

Maybe it's better after updates but I don't really see how they could fix the issues I had with the game without completely overhauling the game in major ways.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had the same experience, "flat" is the right word for it. There's a lack of precision to it all, zombies just come from anywhere and the actual combat is somehow unsatisfying, something to do with the time to kill and weapon feel maybe? Kind of hard to pinpoint why but it just doesn't feel anything like L4D.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah. It feels like you're playing a better game with saran wrap on your mouse or something. It just FEELS off.

I think for 10-15 bucks it would be fine but for 60 bucks it just wasn't worth it to me.