For the same reason you would choose to use the melee weapon when you also have a primary weapon.
I do wander what happens now when you get incap. seeing that the melee replaces the sidearm and while we don't know what difficulty level those videos are from, or what tweaks they retail version...
In that case it does seem to be overpowered then. The trade-off as far as i saw it was disposing your main weapon in favour of the gore and fun of the melee combat. There was sort of risk and reward tied into it. Going up close and personal without a firearm, but with the abillity to one-kill...
Did they change how melee works? If i remember right, picking up a melee weapon would replace the main firearm, leaving you only with pistol. In these vids you can have them both, switching back and forth between them.
Obviously if there were to be a firesuit for the Spy, it would have downsides to balance it out. And if these ideas are approved by the competitive players, then hopefully, the winers will shut up.
Valve always say how much they appricaite the fact they have a vocal fanbase to let them know when they got it wrong.
Well, Valve: you got it wrong with L4D2. Pretty much because all of the reasons mentioned eariler.
* This can change if they announce some sort of a bundle \ low-price point...
Considered a guilty pleasure? By who?
All Whedon's shows are ace and it all points out that Dollhouse will be a hit too. Finally, Joss returns to T.V, his work was greatly missed.
The MMO was cancled in favour of BTVS MMO. Dont see it turning out too well. Just bring back the show if they are so interested in the franchise still.
Anyhow, I hope you all will be watching Dollhouse come January.
Demo is bad, nothing to see there. It kinda begins cool, with a Nazi raid over NY but the gfx are just not on par so it makes it all look lame. That, and the player is a skyscraper worker. The game soon slides to the realm of meh and clunkiness.
Best thing in it is the possibilty to do...
Want:
-Chopper action
-Creamators
-New weapons
-Returning Xen lifeforms
-Giant Itchy synth swimming around the ship -> epic fight.
On top of what have been mentioned.
There has been a info\media blackout for a decade. You better expect that when you finally release an official teaser\trailers\screenshots, people are going to judge it. "So, let's see what they were doing in the last 10 years".
Thing is, it seems they got stuck in the 90's, the duke model...
The piracy argument is too much of an easy scapegoat. NPD numbers show continuing increase in pc games' profit and that's w\o online purchases and MMO monthly subscriptions.
Of course piracy takes it's toll, but really when you release a pc game with no mouse support of the option to change...