Left 4 Dead Interview

Craig · #1 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 04:08 PM

The guys at Shacknews got another interview with the folks at Valve where they talked about everyone's favorite upcoming game, Left 4 Dead.

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On the differences between the Xbox 360 and PC versions:

"I know someone on Shack or Left4Dead411, someone was like, 'Oh you can see they slowed it down on the 360.' Did it seem slower to you? Yeah. We didn't slow it down at all for the 360. Our tech guys, our really smart guys, did a ton of work so that the 360 users see the same things the PC users do.

Everything's the same. When we do split-screen, we do a couple little things just graphically there to smooth things out, but it's still the same speed, same match, same number of zombies. So as we were working on it, guys were like, 'We have this big hammer, we can make less zombies.' And we're always like, 'No, we can not use that hammer. We must fix it in other ways.'

There is a little bit of auto-aim that happens. You can either do an auto-aim by helping you to track a target, or by helping you to shoot what you think you're aiming at. We wanted you to shoot what you think you're aiming at. A lot of times your friends are there, you have friendly fire on but you just want to shoot.

We also do little cheats, like if you're helping someone up, you don't get hit by friendly fire. If you're down, and a Hunter's on top of you, you don't get friendly fire. We want friendly fire to add to the fun, and not be this big negative. So on Normal [difficulty] it does barely any damage."

There's lots of good stuff in the article. They even discuss the possibility of a flamethrower in the game. And hell, who doesn't like one of those?!

akabaloo · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

They even discuss the possibility of a flamethrower in the game. And hell, who doesn't like one of those?!

I don't. That's why our gas prices are so high right now. People put these flamethrowers in videogames, and the market speculates that people will go out and try to build their own, so they raise the prices.

But this game does look pretty sweet! Maybe I''ll buy it if I'm not still too busy playing Spore.

Craig · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 05:27 PM

LOL nice akabaloo

DennyCrane · #4 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 06:08 PM

RTCW proved the epic awesomeness of flame throwers.

CoffeeShark · #5 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by akabaloo

But this game does look pretty sweet! Maybe I''ll buy it if I'm not still too busy playing Spore.

spore is for spare time. L4D is for happiness.

Tao · #6 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Craig

...flamethrower... And hell, who doesn't like one of those?!

Uh...you?

Craig · #7 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 08:48 PM

holy shit...how did i not catch that one!

oh so true :-|

vipertcu · #8 (**permalink**) 09-01-2008, 10:51 PM

way to ruin L4D for craig

Craig · #9 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 07:20 PM

Left 4 Dead Preview and New Video: Calling It - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads

holy shit! look at this video of the XBox version of the game!

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So even months away from its release, I may as well declare what some already know: Left 4 Dead is going to be a major fucking hit. The developers have nailed this thing in every way possible. The pacing. The polish. The guns. The zombies. Even the console port is great.

J-Mix · #10 (**permalink**) 09-04-2008, 08:57 AM

This game to me right now, I am jus weird like this, doesnt seem amazing. I dunno why, plus my parents proably wont let me play "All you do is run around and kill things"