What do you think makes Left 4 Dead 2 still great to this day?

[Fisken]

Left 4 Dead 2 is about to turn 16 in November and Steam Charts show that the player count always stays in the tens of thousand regardless of the time after all these years. What do you think makes the game great enough for people to keep returning to the game?

[Zhamuel]

The workshop. It's literally one of the top reasons why players remain or comeback for the game.

You can sub mobs to change your characters, weapons, textures, etc... You could even make and upload your own.

additionally, the game itself is simple and easy to play. Does not require for you to think to much making it a great way to spend time. Some maps may be repetitive, but you can still download campaigns from the workshop.

[fatfudge]

-the community is still going strong, and every day there are players uploading their new mods (let alone every day. feels like every hour theres some random mods getting uploaded).
-nostalgia hits for sure. some players including me, are replayin the game for that nostalgic feeling (though honestly i dont feel as nostalgic anymore since ive been playing it pretty often with some of my friendlist for versus match lately).
-the replayability is impressive. sure, the game mostly tells you to go from point A to point B each chapter until the finale, but the ai director constantly throws unexpected events your way, even if youre playing the same campaign over & over.
-no grinding, no leveling up weapons or characters. but if youre into achievements, farming them can feel like a mandatory xD
-aside from coop and vs, you've got scavenge, survival, realism, and mutations. and inside mutations, you will find all kinds of minigame-like modes with lots of variety. you even can even install custom ones from the workshop.
-the characters are just lovable, whether theyre survivors or infected, it doesnt matter.

well these reasons been said a lot already, but imo theyre still valid.

[King Of Lolis]

free chat to say anything you want in game

[KHR3b]

Magic of a game from old VALVe.

[Deadmau5UltraAnimals]

I was playing insurgency and it is great and doesn't crash much it at all but the sheer volume of workshop inane stuff is crazy for this game, but there's a 90% chance your game will crash from mods at some point. I guess when this game crashes I go back to playing insurgency till i can be bothered to figure it out again. Game is good when it's good and a nightmare to fix when it crashes 0/10 when game crashes

[sʜᴀ]

Definitely the scout being available in versus mode

[Demo]

Mods.

[femboy cumstain]

Originally posted by Fisken:

Left 4 Dead 2 is about to turn 16 in November and Steam Charts show that the player count always stays in the tens of thousand regardless of the time after all these years. What do you think makes the game great enough for people to keep returning to the game?

IMO it's a split between the workshop and Sourcemod (vscripts are a joke in comparison) existing, allowing for huge total conversion level modifications for the game, and an endless supply of new maps on top of that.

A general example of how crazy the modification potential of this game is that I made a full-on Diablo/Borderlands/Destiny-styled ARPG Looter shooter inside of L4D2.

Few games offer a great amount of replayability, let alone have a supported and active modding community.

[geordiebroon58]

what can replace perfection?

Seriously tho no game has managed to get some sort of replication going and the closest thing to it being back 4 blood had just turned into a mess of a project that couldnt really decide what to be while having unessasery levels of monitisation being involved

which may i remind people that if you got the full bundle of the game you got a week early access to the game (Which gives a head start in levling and perk building too)

the only project that came close screwed its self over and thats simply the main reason its a unique team based arcade like game and with the way comp and balance takes over everything something like this remains refreshing

if more arena shooter like games were to exist etc i dont think this game would be alive as well as it is but being the only old styled game still thriving and the insane intention to detail etc it only makes sense

TL:DR nothing has and this point never will replace it and its one of the few arcade like games still going

[Defeye]

If a game doesn't hold without PvP or, the necessity for friend involvement, it's only as good as the spirit that was once in it.

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couch

[siddyt69]

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[yakreb]

Most zombie games are solo you cant play with a team and try to win. When you play as a team it is whole other story and valve made incredible job at left4dead2. This game is just perfect.

[Mina]

Its relaxing and easy on the mind and aesthetics are nice I play it on the xbox too

[G-Man]

I get to shoot those who annoy me.