I've been playing this very small demo now for some 4 hours I am seriously surprised at how much fun the demo with it's limited amount of content already brings. There are 4 difficulty modes: Easy, Normal, Advanced and Expert. Now the first 3 won't pose any difficulties if you go only with any decent team of fps players, the first two being very easy and Advanced being rather easy. But Expert mode is really something else.

The Director, as Valve calls the AI engine, is a brilliant piece of engineering. If you think you can rest and camp out for 10 seconds somewhere the Director suddenly throws a raging horde of zombies at you. If it gets too easy it throws a Witch or 2 at you, and if it "feels" particularly nasty, the Director will throw a Tank at you. These babies look nasty in the downloadable movies, but they are bad when you're running around with all the hordes running around. Especially hard does it get when the Tank manages to take down 1 or 2 of your team mates. This boss really requires a team effort where there's strafing and shooting all around.

You can't be selfish in this game either, keeping health packs to yourself because if the team goes down the team goes down and you start the level all over again, with a total new challenge because the Director will spawn Bosses at different positions and responds to your reactions.

This is already a game I have no regrets in buying and I look forward to the full game in less than 2 weeks.

I cleaned out my now playing list. I prepped for Left 4 Dead, which will start taking up a lot of my time anyway in the coming months. TF2 will still be on there as the other multi-player I will probably play regularly. I have decided to just skip putting single player games on the list because I sometimes tend to take a while to finish them :p.

I downgraded Spore in my rating from 7.5 to 6. I stopped playing and actually have feeling at all to go back to the game. Some other games have had me on a break for a while but I always went back and finished them, but Spore just feels too much blah.

And looking at the huge amount of games both casuals, single player shooter, rpgs and adventure games I have more than enough time to waste on other titles before I should even consider wasting my precious game fun time.

I hope L4D is all it's promising to be, at least a lot of people around me are buying the game so I'll be able enjoy both the coop campaign and the versus mode in about 2 weeks.

I can't wait .

Since I bought Audiosurf for almost no money last week, I browsed through the Steam store bins and decided to buy some more nice goodies. Now I almost have that female feeling of satisfaction after having bought something, but I actually already have that after buying any new game, music CD, DVD or any gadget or PC item. This time I added Ninja Reflex, Everyday Shooter and the Best of Underground Pack which includes Eets, Rag Doll Kung Fu, Gumboy Crazy Adventures and Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. I love my kung-fu .

It's good to have some casual/indie titles to refresh my mind at times in-between my longer sessions playing either ETQW or TF2, which are my most played MP titles. TF2 probably takes the win atm though. After playing ETQW for 1400 hours I needed a little breather into another title.

The only thing still missing in DD is the true bargain bin. Just going to a store around the corner and finding a game dirt cheap because they need the shelf space. But maybe that also means my ever growing games collection will finally slow down and will allow me to be able to play the games that I have been buying.