One Left 4 Dead Survivor Won't Survive The Passing

[Chunko]

One Left 4 Dead Survivor Won't Survive The Passing

Looks like we're down to Left 3 Dead now: One of the original quartet of Survivors - Bill, Louis, Francis and Zoey - won't make it to the DLC.

If you care about spoilers, time to leave this topic. Like, right now. Okay, consider yourselves warned.

Valve has had a knack for wordplay and double meanings when it comes to the titles of the Left 4 Dead campaigns, and it turns out that The Passing is no exception. While on the surface the name would seem to refer to the chance passing encounter between the Left 4 Dead Survivors and the Left 4 Dead 2 cast - and it does - it also carries a far more sobering connotation: Someone ain't making it through alive.

The tagline for The Passing is "No One Survives Forever," and as L4D writer Chet Faliszek told GameTrailers [http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/88?ch=1&sd=1_hd], by the time the Left 4 Dead 2 zombie-crunchers run into the group from the first game, that quartet will be down to three.

Interestingly enough, the death will play out in two ways. There will be a section in the upcoming L4D1 DLC (bridging the gap to explain how the cast got down South to meet with the other four for The Passing) where one of the players must sacrifice themselves in order to proceed. We're not talking about the sort of moment where you stay behind to cover your injured teammate as they hobble towards the boat on Hard Rain and get clobbered by a Tank, either - this is a 100% required death. However, the players will be able to decide who dies and who lives as far as the playthrough is concerned.

There will be a canon version of the death, however, as illustrated in a comic book - this is the "idealized version of how it works out," according to Faliszek.

Now, the only question is: Which of the foursome will be making their last stand? Is it the old veteran Bill, weary of life and ready to give the younger generation a chance? Is it Louis - thanks to the long and proud tradition where the black guy always dies? Is it Francis, who admits to the other three, "Y'know, I don't hate you guys" before riding off in a blaze of glory? Or is it Z--okay, let's be honest here. It's not going to be Zoey, and we all know it.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Let's hope Valve gives them a true Dying Moment of Awesome [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyingMomentOfAwesome].

(Via G4 TV [http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/703369/New-Left-4-Dead-DLC-Will-Have-A-Major-Plot-Twist.html])

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According to these forums: http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=167537

It's going to be either Bill or Louis. Supposed gametrailers somehow confirmed this.

 

[Elemental]

Valve has killed before, and it was the older mentor-figure (along with all of Black Mesa in HL1, but they were't main characters anyway).

Don't forget everyone in Aperture Laboratories. And possibly Father Grigori...

Father Grigori will never die, he never runs out of bullets.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Wowie zowie, a Linkara reference! Yay!

Anyways, I hope it's Bill. I can't really explain why, it just makes the most sense to me.

 

[Byers]

Well, it's not gonna be the black guy, as political correctness has rendered black people immune to death in video games. It's not gonna be the chick either, as that would leave only one female character alive in the franchise. So it's gonna be the old guy or the, uh, other guy.

 

[OrdinaryGuy]

Louis is going to die of a pill overdose. =(

 

[TheTaco007]

It's going to be bill.
He's the only one that doesn't have a meme attached to him.
Louis has pills
Francis hates everything
Zoey's just hot
Bill... is just old.

 

[VS60]

I think it will be bill because he touched the greenish stuff in the l4d 1's intro.

 

[redevlfan1]

my guess would have to be either bill or louis, francis is that kind of quirky where he wouldn't die, and zoey as stated above has a set story with ellis so she wont die

 

[MetalGenocide]

I will only allow them to kill off a character, if they replace him/her with Father Grigori.
Seriously, who got the idea, that a character must die?
At least make it so that the players can choose, in-game thorough votes. Or someone can volunteer. That way, all characters can be killed off, rather than just one.

 

[Nuclear Pancake]

I don't think it will be Zoey, there's only one girl as it is.

Bill seems to awesome.

Francis is just great.

So Louis i would say.

 

[Spacewolf]

so whens it coming out of L4d2 then?

 

[SextusMaximus]

And man, I don't get any of y'alls. I like the L4D2 guys better than the L4D1 cast

Really? You don't like the hot teenager, old drugged up war vet, scruffy business man or biker? They're AWESOME!

 

[Jamielordofgingers]

I'm foreseeing Bill or Francis. Bill due to the fact the game manuel for L4D says he's looking for one last fight, or the passing from generation idea that's been floating around, and Francis cause I see him doing a Tallahassee (see Zombieland), and marching to death's door with every gun he has out of shear badassary.

whatever character they kill off in the canon, gamewise i think this may be a bit that I volunter for every time i play, cause the scenerio sounds awesome. And there'll be less complaining and ragequitting cause no-one else wants to do it

 

[Dr. Paine]

And man, I don't get any of y'alls. I like the L4D2 guys better than the L4D1 cast

Really? You don't like the hot teenager, old drugged up war vet, scruffy business man or biker? They're AWESOME!

Eh. The only one I honestly cared for in Left 4 Dead was Zoey, I go through patches of indifference when it comes to Louis. Bill and Francis are just... there.

However, in Left 4 Dead 2? The only one I didn't pay much attention to was Coach, and that's just because he never said much x3 However, all four of them had much more personality (Even Rochelle) and were far more endearing than the original cast.

 

[waterhazard]

Francis.

I hate people with Tattoos.

Whats wrong with tattoos? Almost everyone in my family has one except for my bro and me(Im not legal)
OT: I hope it's bill He was always the "I'm not playing as bill get the hell off of louis you douche he's my character." guy

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

I hope it is Rochelle. I don't care what anyone says IT HAS TO BE ROCHELLE!

But Bill could make one hell of an emotional last stand.

 

[the idiot computer]

it'll be Bill because his voice actor is dead now which is why he had no new dialogue in dead air.

And besides Louis is the centre of many internet fads and is one of the most preffered charcters. Personally i want it to be Nick.

 

[Dr. Paine]

it'll be Bill because his voice actor is dead now which is why he had no new dialogue in dead air.

I don't know if the guy is dead or not, but the reason he wasn't in Dead Air was because Valve couldn't contact him in time to record new lines.

 

[Danpascooch]

It better not be Louis

 

[Kelethor]

Well....Lets weigh our options

Bill: an old man, a soldier, veteran...it makes sense for him to sacrifice himself for the others.

Louis: Hes a black guy. hes gonna die

Zoey: well, lets be honest hun, looks don't last forever. and your AI insists on picking up the HUNTING rifle. The Rifle of all things!!

Francis: Id honestly like to see him die. not horribly die a painful death cause I hate him, but I want him to die an awesome, bad-ass, zombie genocide death. like, dual-wielding chainsaws to a tank.