Left 4 Dead Release Date

Leroy · February 25th, 2008, 12:43 AM

Rainbow six vegas 2 is going to be released next month so not that long at least 3 more weeks or 2.

AzH · March 2nd, 2008, 03:02 PM

Left 4 Dead News » Left 4 Dead release date

30th September, apparently.

MyNameDidntFit · March 2nd, 2008, 03:12 PM

Amazon?

Pft. Like hell I'm believing what they say before VALVe confirms.

Leroy · March 3rd, 2008, 01:28 AM

Amazons is just estimating.

Leroy · March 8th, 2008, 04:20 AM

RPS L4D Interview with Chet

RPS L4D Interview with Chet - 3/5/08

RPS: Do you think gamers really "get" Left 4 Dead? The survivor stuff is pretty straightforward, but there’s this whole asymmetric FPS thing going on… it’s different.

Faliszek: When we describe it people say "yeah, we get the zombie game idea", and then they actually play it and they say "oh, now we understand". It’s hard to translate that fact. It’s a game where you know where your team-mates are and you know what they’re doing, and you always have to be aware of them. More than any other game it has that thing where you have to work with the other players. When gamers get that they click and have the "oh wow" moment. That’s what it’s about: four guys trying to survive together. It’s not about the zombie thing, or the horror, it’s about these four characters.

RPS: It’s not like a survival horror experience, though. It’s more intense, less scary.

Faliszek: Yeah, I liken it to the final moments of Counter-Strike. It’s that bit where you’re the last one or two guys on the team and everyone is watching. If you screw up then everyone knows. In Team Fortress you can have a bad day and no one will really notice. You can be off somewhere spamming rockets and no one cares. But in Left 4 Dead you’re always on stage. You throw a grenade into the middle of everyone and they’re going to know it. That’s the intensity of thing.

Chet explains why all of the campaigns happen at night - the infected are still part human and therefore have worse vision when it's darker, so the Survivors only move at night to avoid more infected. More TF2 shorts are coming, and Chet says that "we'll do something like that for Left 4 Dead. We have a bunch of guys working on it." You heard it from Chet first. Other topics include Call of Duty 4, the writer's guild, Chet's job, moving Valve's properties to movies, Xbox 360 version developer Certain Affinity, and how much work is put into audio. Chet describing the Valve development process:

RPS: How are you guys feeling about the changes ahead for TF2?

Faliszek: Awesome! Robin Walker is a gaming God, according to PC Gamer [US] anyway. These guys play a lot and they know what they’re doing. I mean you see this stuff and react to it, but... did you ever see that painting guy, Bob Ross?

RPS: Sure.

Faliszek: Well it’s like that. He’s painting and puts this huge black splat in and you’re all, "Oh, you’ve totally ruined it now," but then suddenly it’s a painting of a duck. It’s the same with TF2. The changes end up making sense, even if you don’t get it right away. I have total faith.

MyNameDidntFit · March 8th, 2008, 06:59 AM

^ Good find. For those interested here's the link to the complete interview.

MyNameDidntFit · April 12th, 2008, 09:29 AM

Left 4 Dead delayed until Fall '08

There is no enemy · April 16th, 2008, 02:32 AM

I say this game will be the bomb that ftw and I wanna play this game so BADLY!
I salute you producers of Left4Dead.And I hope you release an alpha and beta so we can do the bug checking and you guys do the repairing

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Leroy · April 16th, 2008, 02:51 AM

Originally Posted by There is no enemy

I say this game will be the bomb that ftw and I wanna play this game so BADLY!
I salute you producers of Left4Dead.And I hope you release an alpha and beta so we can do the bug checking and you guys do the repairing

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Thats Turbines and you could say valves job.

MyNameDidntFit · April 16th, 2008, 03:47 AM

They've had "betas" so to speak at things like QC...

I wouldn't play a beta any way; it'd subtract from the full experience of playing it when its released.

Dangar^ · April 16th, 2008, 04:13 AM

I played the Tf2 beta and at first I was all like "YEAH THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME!" But then they fixed it and stuff when it came out so then i was like "HEY WHAT? WHY DID YOU TAKE THAT OUT.. THAT WAS SO KEWL!

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There is no enemy · April 18th, 2008, 12:21 AM

Excuse me players who test left4dead I am so jealous and I just wish you guys would finish checking the game for bugs and glitches real fast because this game is my dream game along with COD4,Crysis,Halo 3,and Halo Wars and if you guys finish the game and it is released on August I'll salute you with a promise to never forget this Awesome Game.

MyNameDidntFit · April 18th, 2008, 05:58 AM

Haha! Wishful thinking mate!

The earliest its likely to be is late September.

MadRagingZombieMan · April 30th, 2008, 12:37 AM

Are you serious late september AHHHHHHHH! F*** That is'nt cool man not at all... Iv been looking forward to this game sence they advertised it lazy, ungrateful, slow, moronic game designing Bastards!

MyNameDidntFit · April 30th, 2008, 07:56 AM

Just think of it this way man:

Released now or earlier: Buggy, constantly needs updates/patches, isn't as good.

Released when they're ready: Clean cut and perfect.

emiac38 · June 1st, 2008, 11:04 PM

uuhhh quick question,
i heard something, (not sure where)
is steam going to release the pc version of left 4 dead earlier (late summer) than the xbox 360 version on steam purchase?