It appears rumors of a L4D Prequel have been dismissed, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see anything new from Valve in regards to this franchise.
I question if the release of Left 4 Dead 2 had killed or played a on role on releasing a third title.
How so, you ask?
Left 4 Dead was released in Fall 2008. Six months later Valve announces a sequel will be released one year after the original. This announced stirred up controversy among L4D fans because many felt the sequel should have been part of the original, or been given to fans as free Downloadable Content. Fans had every reason to upset about a sequel coming so soon. They buy the first Left 4 Dead and then find out a few months later their game will be quickly outdated. For some games, yearly releases are quite common, accepted, and anticipated – thank you Call of Duty and EA Sports. However, this is Valve we are talking about. They don’t have the best track record of pumping out sequels to their popular games in a timely manner, so when a quick release is announced, it is going to stir some feathers – or zombies in our case.
Could you imagine the uproar if Left 4 Dead 3 was released a year after the sequel? I wonder what that would have been like? At the time of L4D 2’s announcement, fans were already talking about boycotting the game. How crazy is that when we reflect upon it now? Boycotting a game from being released? Making us wait longer for Left 4 Dead 3 is the perfect way for Valve to give a big “F* YOU” back to us by making us wait for the next game. I wonder if we will ever see Left 4 Dead 3.
It’s almost as though Valve is “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. A small few who enjoy playing both the original and sequel will be pissed off. Left 4 Dead 2 was supposed to bring us the DLC content promised to fans. Valve has delivered in this regards, with their DLC and mutations. These fans – mostly hardcore – are content with what they have. The majority of L4D fans have played the game to death and are ready for the next installment.
DLC was supposed to satisfy people’s craving for more zombie action and more content. Would you rather have more DLC being pumped out to give us new characters, game modes, and maps, or see a new title in the form of Left 4 Dead 3?
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I personally find the idea of Valve releasing a new game (L4D3) more exciting. I think it's been a long enough time. I have a feeling though that just like most of Valve's other games, there won't be a 3rd.
I think they should make a 3rd, 4th, 5th and so on. Who cares if the stories are different and don't follow each other. The truth is if a zombie apocolypes actually happens worldwide everyone will have different experiences and different outcomes, and the chances of someone surviving in Maine ever getting to meet survivors in California or any other country are slim to none. So if they keep making the games with different characters in different cities that would be great.
Left 4 dead was groundbraking fore me in terms of multiplayer strategi. Never have a first person game made me feal like when I do when i play chess (I play in chess in the Highest leauges). The game realy made u co-op. I was skeptik to the fast realis of left4dead 2 but that game is the best game ever made (yeas it is!).
if they release a 3rd, hopefully it'll be on source engine 2 like Half Life 3 would be.. add a lot of new infected/weapons/upgrades etc..
it would really suck is there isnt a 3rd..
ive just about played 2 to death. new maps are cool, but it is basically still the same game..
time for some new characters, weapons, zombies..
So what if some people complain about how close the dang realease dates are....the rest of us want to play. Ive played L4D 1&2 so many times I could do it in my sleep now. Been waiting and waiting for the next one. I say if people complain just let them...oh well guess what after they stop being dumb I bet you they go buy it and play it after all!!!! You cant make everyone happy so stop torturing the ones who are excited about a 3 rd and just realease the dang game already!!!!
My hope is on the release of the L4D3,,,,,,
If the stop making this game it would be sad, this is one of the best co_op game ever made, and it's actually the onlly one I keep play over and over and over and ..................................
I love the versus, and even there, this game offer the best competitive mode ever made, feels like actually going trough campain with the add of the score and you get to play infected.
I been playing bouth the original and the second one, and I still do.
I am hopping on a 3rd release, with new weapons, infected types, and even caracters if they like to.
Please VALVE don't SREW IT UP this time -_-
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L4D 3 should have infected animals that eat corpes so u cant use a defibulater,being in a building when it colapes and that part of the map changes to were your on the wall,a nazi zombie game mode (permision with the makers of call of duty of corse),being able to upgrade your character and weppons (zombie points?),a lot more weapons i dont want 2 be mean , but the last l4d didnt have much of weapons,you should be in the military for side missions (disc 2)and there needs to be more horror, there should be a boy and girl witch crying together or wondering together, zombies need to bite not punch and kick,and u should be able to sneak past them if u wanted to, and meet other survivers bad and you have a shoot out atraction the horde good survivers that might share supplies or they could be injered and if u help they can give the helper a rare gift,mabye an entire story line i'll give 1 out
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u were with your military friends and were sent to afganistan were u went to the base and the civillians were all getting sick, u and ur team were woken by gun shots and you gear up with only your choice of a pistol with only 5 clips,knife,2 gernades or muchine gun and adrenaline and knife, the citizens are attacking and they still look like normal people u and your team are going through tents shooting the zombies that still look like normal people trying to save people when your helicopter arives you and your team are about to get on when a smoker tounge gets your leg you grab your friends hand and both the players need to tap the A or X button, but that only keeps the bar on the screen from depleteing fast 3rd and 4th player needs to shoot the the smoker if the players do not complete this task 1st player dies then the helicopter gets shot down by bandits and each player gets up with 55 heatlth and you have a gun battle you walk into town thats infected you radio HQ to meet you on top of a 10 story building thats at the center of the town you go through levels when u get there its on fire you get 7 stories up the building and it colapses sideways thats alerts the horde now the sun is coming up at this time you make your way to the window and kick it then u throw a flare and dibre from the building makes it easyer to defend yourself on open ground helicopter comes and theres part 1 out of ?? how many they can fit in disc 1,
msg me back VALVE if u want any more ideas and the story is yours to use in the game (it might take me a while to respond back sence i have a lot of emails from youtube
z3ke... that doesn't make sense. if the zombies still look like normal people, then they haven't become "zombies" in the regular form yet. so if the special infected "smokers ect" are mutations from zombies, how can the go from human looking zombies to special mutation when they haven't even mutated normally yet. can't jump steps. first human looking, then they get to regular zombies, then they mutate.
I think they should make left for dead 3. It should take the perspective of
kids (ranging from 10 to 13 years of age) and how they are fighting the zombie virus.
i completely agree
A lot o people say valve can't count to three that's why there are never 3's
in any of their games!
Thus if they make a new left for dead it will be like Left for dead Military operations or something
Left 4 Dead: Back 4 More!