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!
@pcgaming@lemmy.ca
Played it during and just after the beta. Gun play felt a bit strange and felt like the game was a bit too punishing when you failed a stage; thing second level of Hard Rain on expert type thing. The game does have a cool aesthetic and some cool zombie ideas though and it looks really nice. I think they shot then selves in the foot a bit by comparing it so heavily to L4D instead of just letting people do that thenselves. The game also used Easy Anti-cheat if that’s a dealbreaker for you. But! For $20 AUD or less I’d say it’s worth it as long as you don’t expect to pour hours into it.