This makes me appreciate how smart Valve is. They didn't stubbornly stick with a one-off idea, they changed it to one of my favourite video games ever.
Valve Canceled Fairy RPG to Make Left 4 Dead
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That actually sounds fairly interesting (or should I say fairyly interesting... LOL! get it? Because there were supposed to be fai... okay, sorry).Tom Goldman said:
I mean, if it sucked it sucked, If it was sailing for failing I'm glad they decided to do something else. But it sure would have been interesting if it had turned out differently. It would have been a bold move, had it succeeded I would probably gain so much respect for Valve for trying something bold.
Actually, if they used proper celtic folklore fairies with the child kidnapping and incredibly dark setting where everything is out to get you and whatnot, I could play that.
Can you imagine what the reaction would be like if Valve went through with this idea? XD Everyone would think Newell had gone mad and demanded that control of the developer be handed to someone else!
I am not a huge fan of Left 4 Dead and even I think things turned out for the better.
I am not a huge fan of Left 4 Dead and even I think things turned out for the better.
And we have a winner.Kraiiit said:
I'm still having a bit of trouble believing that this whole thing isn't a joke, but if it's not, I really would like to see what they came up with, even just as a short demo or an easter egg stuck into something else.
All the whining about how stupid it is is kind of silly, too. Yeah, yeah, L4D is fun and probably a better game and everything (especially considering Valve themselves said the fairy thing was crap), but it's not like your penis is going to wither, shrivel up, and fall off just from reading the word "fairy" on your screen. Macho posturing about hating fairies doesn't make you manly; it makes you boyish. There are plenty of perfectly good reasons to not like them or to think it was a stupid idea for a game, but you don't have to act like you're 12 when saying so. Yeesh.
Doesn't every study, opinion piece, and essay come to the conclusion that girls don't want "girly" games, they just want games where women aren't vapid strippers?Johnnyallstar said:
If so, Left 4 Dead was a rousing success. The girls in that game are either witty genre-savvy college students or, well, dead.
I think Valve have been systematically trying to retcon the history of Left 4 Dead and make it sound like they came up with it. They did it in the game's audio commentary too. I don't know why they would lie about something like that; maybe they're embarrassed that they haven't really come up with an original IP of their own since Half-Life. Knowing that their one attempt was an RPG about fairies, I guess I can't say I blame them.Ne1butme said:
Good thing Valve got its act together and made an awesome zobmie game instead,how could they soil their record of brilliant gaems with a 'FARYEE AR-PHE-GEE'
That's the second creepiest fairy I've ever seen. It looks like a demonic polly pocket with a banana on its head, not to mention that it appears to have been decapitated. Assuming this was also going to be a horror title, I think it would have turned out just fine.
