The possibilities with Left 4 Dead are limitless. After all, during a zombie apocalypse anything is possible. Imagine in the next L4D game you start off as the Midnight Riders and your objective is to not only survive, but to make it to the next concert.
If you don’t know about the Midnight Riders easter egg in The Passing then I suggest you search youtube for the video and you will see a Midnight Riders van drive by during Part II of The Passing. It is unknown who is inside the van. It could be all four members of the band, only a couple, or some other random people such as fans or roadies. The point being, somebody made it out of Dark Carnival other than the main characters. Having this little easter egg in place gives Valve a nice story to tie into L4D3. The first Left 4 Dead 3 campaign could begin with that same Midnight Rider van which got away, running out of gas at some point. Another possibility could be one of the campaigns is at the Dark Carnival concert and they too must escape.
Anything is possible with the next Left 4 Dead 3. Nobody really knows, we may see a completely new setting with entirely brand new characters as we did with L4D2. If Valve does decide to tie together part of Left 4 Dead 3 with Left 4 Dead 2, as we saw with the L4D 2 characters meeting the original survivors, then using the Midnight Riders characters is the obvious bet. Or, Valve could throw us for a loop and L4D3 may be completely different from what we expect.
If Valve wants to keep to their word and continue to release DLC for the current Left 4 Dead games, then a new set of campaigns featuring the Midnight Riders would be nice.
The sound track to a new DLC pack or L4D3 could be the best yet.
Check out the Midnight Rider’s tour dates on their website. They may be infecting a city near you.
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For a specific game mode, it would be a great touch, but just once. I don't want to be stuck with chunky, bearded bikers as my only avatars, though, and they're not interesting enough to be an overly recurring theme. They don't look like they could outrun a turtle without having a heart attack and needing to eat half of McDonald's inventory, never mind outrun a world of monsters on a daily basis. Chances are they're Boomers now and the people in the van was another player-character foursome yet to be revealed, if anything :P
I'd like to see more choice of survivors in general, maybe 4 chosen volunteers from a convoy (or base depending on scenario) for each campaign. Maybe rescuing random survivors in campaigns could unlock them....? The Midnight Riders should remain as an Easter Egg type thing, though, or on some kind of alternative game mode (we need more of those too)...
I agree they shouldnt add the Midnight Riders.I think they should add Zoey,Francis,Luis,Ellis,Rocelle,Coach,Nick,and a new charactor Keith.Since Bill died in the Sacrifice they should add KEITH the one that Ellis is always talking about.But the Midnight Riders would sorta be a good story but every body has their own opinion.
Keith not KEITH
Didn't Keith have third-degree burns on over 90% of his body twice over according to Ellis? I don't think he'd be up to fighting Zombies...
i defintely agree with that i think if u unlocked more people through the levels it would be much cooloer heck id buy it :)
Hmmm. With the midnight riders I have an idea!! U kno there are two fat musicians right?? That won't fly with Valve so...say one of them died at the concert in Dark Carnival. Perhaps the Midnight Riders' manager is a chick so she replaces tht dude(Ox) bcause there has to be exactly ONE female l4d character. Then something happens to the second one(Dusty) and then when the Midnight Riders(what's left of them) run out of gas in their tour bus(If you've seen them in The Passing) they stop at a nearby town and find Keith!! Barricaded in his house or rather.
I think that sounds awesome :)
Thats solid bro :P
epi :P
I think its ok and kinda cool but i think it would be cool if you had some army men in there and all of a suden one of them gets lost and if you make a 4th one you could have the lost one come back ina group of like small kids lol i think that would be amazing. Cuz if you had lioke 10 to 15 year old kids running around with gun kicken the shit out of zombies i would totaly play that and then an army guy comes in! THAT WOULD BE AMAZING! Try it i'm sher that you would have that thing baut out in stors everyware! ^.^
They should make the game where you can play 4 players offline...it would make it so much better...And they should make a new variety of weapons, the other ones are getting old espcially the shotgun...they should change it up!!
thay gut to have the screemer in it that wood be awsome put him in
HELL YAH just like a ragging fan who loves the songs and gets more of his friends to lissen or eat them u know whtever lol
Awesome idea, Midnight Riders, there should be an option to use a Guitar Hero controller at the end to play your way through the ending ;)
midnight riders?? its ok but what about the gamer girls ???
One of them...maybe!
having a midnight rider theme would be awsome and it kinda makes sine cause in the 2nd part of the passing theres an easter egg when u leave the bar or pool room n get out to the construction site u go all the ay down to the fence and see the midnight riders van drive past so i guess they're rocking out in the zombie apocolypse and moving from town too town getting gas for their van or supplies or something who knows. the midnight riders would be perfect for L4D3!!
i totally agree with the idea of the midnight riders i am a bif L4D fan and love the games after hearing your idea of the midnight riders bieng playable characters i thought about the box art for the game and hence rememb ered that the sign for rock is 3 fingers. your index finger, little finger, and thumb stay up as your other two stay down. i think this is a brilliant idea as the three fingers saty up for the advertisement of L4D3 and also the symbol of rock for the midnight riders :DD
the midnight riders would be cool as an extra, nt through the whole game.my opinion is they should keep the same theme, 4 random people who dont know eachother have to team up to fight zombie apocalysp,but do it somewhere else besides the U.S like europe, or mosscow, or tokyo would be descent.
y not all those places, they could make it a world wide infection or something cool like that and maybe there could be more then just 4 or 5 levels