I forgot. I’m sorry.
Ok, ok. I’m sorry. I got all caught up with the “best time to be a gamer” thing and have been too busy playing Fallout 3, Gears 2, Little Big Planet, Far Cry 2, and Super Job Search 3 (to name a few games) to remind myself to keep tabs on Left 4 Dead. But luckily it caught up with ME, and reminded ME that this was November. The best time to be a gamer as all the Quadruple A titles – I’m coining the term – launch a full out offensive on store shelves in preparation for the holiday season.
Anyway, this post isn’t really concerning Left 4 Dead. It’s more about what’s being shipped out with Left 4 Dead. Valve has recently announced Steam Cloud, an upgrade to your existing Steam client that will allow users to save their config and save files to one of their many servers. Well ain’t that something? Now you can game on any computer running Steam.
I find this heartening too, because it encourages people to get out of the house 
DON’T BE A SLAVE TO YOUR SAVE FILE. Wow I feel gay.
You can read a more profession article about it here.
Thought I’d add this commercial, just to spice things up. Thanks Amrit.
Do you think this commercial is indicative of the check-mark attitude used to market video games?
Bullet points on the back of a box?
Perhaps this was intentional. It’s got teh zombiez! The kids will love it!
Mmm … That’s a good question. While I think it could be, it certainly can’t be better mocked by any other company than Valve (or possibly Blizzard). Valve has never been an developer to cater to publisher whims, mainly, I suppose, because they’re their own publisher.
If anything, I think the first two check marks are indicative of what they think players want. Zombies? Check. 4 Player Co op? Check. Really, I think they could have been as confident (or cocky, read it how you want) to make the final check box: Valve? Check.
What do you think? Is this a case of checkbox marketing? or is Valve just saying “we know what you want”?
I like it. it reminds me of the beginning of Dawn of the Dead with the Johnny Cash theme!