Valve Canceled Fairy RPG to Make Left 4 Dead

[Comma-Kazie]

MAN did we dodge a bullet with that one!

 

[SimuLord]

This is what sets Valve apart. Their stupid ideas never make it out of concept stage. It's reassuring to know they're actually human and have occasional bouts of "what the hell were we thinking?" to keep them awesome.

 

[Jared]

I love how fairies translated into the zombie game we all love XD

Intresting, but, I am glad they went for L4D!

 

[Kraiiit]

Valve Time and April Fools make for some interesting headlines.

 

[Woem]

And if EA wasn't busy releasing Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings games then we'd long have seen Dungeon Keeper 3. Sad but true.

 

[VondeVon]

it was this action fantasy sort of role playing game that had no story

So... instead they made an action zombie sort of shooter with no story?



I would love a fairy RPG. I mean, serious FF or DQ style epic RPG with many different species and stories. Why is this 'pretty' area so neglected? Because male developers are more numerous than female?

Ah, I suppose that's not fair. But still - I'd love to see something with faerie beauty but adult depth.

I bought Kameo for its looks alone, despite loathing the combat system.

 

[Buizel91]

I have one word for you Valve:

I'm guessing they were all taking acid at the time they thought this up.

That's 2 words...

well luckily they changed, seriously how can you go from Half Life and TF2 to this

 

[The Cheezy One]

This explains everything; the faeries are responsible for the zombies in Left 4 Dead!

By god! It all makes sense now!

haha

if you listen to the audio commentary in L4D (and i advise you do - you play through no mercy invisible to zomies! no achievements obviously) they got the idea from playing counterstrike, giving all the enemies knives, and having about 16 (not sure what numbers are in CS) rush the 4 players with guns

they said "whats something that will always attack melee?" i hope there a few humorous options before they hit zombies

 

[junkmanuk]

I have one word for you Valve:

I'm guessing they were all taking acid at the time they thought this up.

That's 2 words...

I think the caption was entered correctly. A Lolwut is a giant toothed pear that terrorises riverside villages. Yeah.... that works...

I'm sure every company have games which never made it past concept/prototype stage. I think the fact with this is Valve knows the IP over this game would be pretty much worthless so they don't mind talking about it. There are probably many other game ideas they won't talk about because there's some genuinely good steal-able ideas in there but they haven't developed them because they have other priorities.

 

[Fensfield]

Fairy games. Either awesome interpretations of the old stories, replete with sensations of looming danger and incomprehensible beings..

Or complete flops by people under the impression these things can only be cutesy vapid 'girl games' >.>

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Why didn't they combine the two? It's been done before:

Game called Fairy Meat

 

[imnot]

It's taking so long for ep3 because they keep making crappy game's, which get locked in a room when they realise they're really bad.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Meh, I still think it would've made a better game than any other AAA title released that year.

 

[tomtom94]

What could have been...

*insert WHERE'S EPISODE THREE fanboy here*

 

[Cliff_m85]

Good to see they were thinking of working on a Fairy Game instead of finishing HL2:Ep3.

 

[blankedboy]

I have one word for you Valve:

I'm guessing they were all taking acid at the time they thought this up.

Yeah, that's two words...

Also, this article makes me a happy panda.