I played it to the finish many many years ago. Have no desire to ever do so again, though I have fired it up expressly for Shadar Logoth once or twice in the intervening years. 

Yep, the first 1/3 is good. It goes downhill the further you play I thought, so if your still not enjoying it, don't bother continuing. It was good for it's time. 

I'm going to pretend that I don't see this blasphemy and just carry on with my day. La la la... 

So after which level exactly does it stop feeling mediocre and boring?
- The same could be said about Quake. 

 

1/10 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnmfMQBIbw

Though I hope the glow doesn't make it too easy for the survivors in the end. 

I believe the first one has that glow as well. Do you mean the effect where you see team mates through walls? 

Yeah being able to see your team mates trough walls has always been in...

Damn I can't wait to play it! 

Hmm, I guess I should play it more often. :P
But there's no such effect for items, is there? 

You focus on it and it outlines. 

 

That looks so good I don't even mind the dumb phong shader choice. 

...but do I have to have all those messages on the screen and all those 'buddies' getting in the way. I just want to kill things, I don't need to be clever about it! 

Those hints can be disabled, they're meant to be help for beginners. Some people do leave them on though, because it's a clearer cue that something happened to your teammates than the sounds/other HUD indicators. 

...well that's me sold then :)

Axe looks well brutal. Incendiary shotgun looks good for lighting up Zombies for others to shoot. 

Yeah, the melee stuff looks cooler than I was expecting. And, yes, incendiary shotgun plz! 

You can't play L4D without buddies, be they real people or bots. Any random special infected is capable of incapacitating you, and someone needs to be there to free you.

The 2 new infected look good, they will stop people stacking up in corners when a swarm comes. 

Or does the player kill a special with a single hit from a frying pan? 

Melee kill special infected with on hit except for witch and tank. 

I can imagine how this will affect my Versus experience. 

Actually in an interview they said that will probably be tweaked. Killing the charger with one frying pan hit looks weird. 

And they might change the rules based on how you're playing. Players vs Players could never have 1 hit kills but Players vs AI might... 

are awesome! 

Hey, they can be. As long as it's made clear what's happening to the player.