Valve's Chet Faliszek sat down for an interview to promote their upcoming DLC called "The Passing" which unites the characters of both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. Here's what he had to say:
At the moment we're promoting the DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 called The Passing, which we first showed off last year. It features characters from the first game.
But we've also got DLC coming for Left 4 Dead 1, following on from [The Passing] that tells you how the Left 4 Dead 1 survivors got there.
The whole of Left 4 Dead leaves you in a little bit of a mystery as to some of what happens - not least when you kind of see a little bit of the tail-end of the Left 4 Dead 1 story, as you get on your way to [L4D2 campaign] Dark Carnival.
With that, we actually have a comic book coming out between the two DLCs, which will help us give a little bit more of a back story to explain what's happening in the world.
That's right, DLC for Left 4 Dead. Valve sure wants to fulfill their long-awaited promise, even after they've released a sequel!
We said we'd be doing this last summer, and I don't think anyone believed us... We've always thought of it as the Left 4 Dead world, and having new characters and expanding that world and point of view.
I'm a big fan of the idea that once fiction is created, gamers have it in their head and it's real. I go back to when David Bowie created characters like Major Tom - he made [Major Tom's] world feel like it was real, and each song gave another version of it.
To me, that was really cool. We wanted to do that in Left 4 Dead: There are all these things going on in this world and its stories that feel real to players, so let's have them interact with one another.
Look at the Dead Rising guys, with the Frank West fiction and the bees. That fiction doesn't quite gel exactly, because Frank West showed up in a campaign - it doesn't fully make sense. We want to make all those rules [of plotline] are real to us because they're already real to the players.
And will PS3 users ever get to play the game?
This all gets back to [something] we've been trying to clarify. So people know we were going to come out this Fall on the PS3. We mean it - I wasn't lying.
I have a PS3 at home, I play PS3 games. We like the PS3. Down the road, sure you'll see stuff coming out from us. We just thought that the Orange Box didn't put our best foot forward with that community. We don't want to do something like that again on the PS3. We want to give PS3 owners the best possible experience.
With Left 4 Dead 2, we're updating it on the PC and we're updating on 360. We want to be able to do that on PS3 as well. Some of it is about learning from us and us getting better. Before we can go onto the PS3, we want to make sure we're better at [developing] for it.
Sorry PS3 players, however, you won't have to worry too much if you own a Mac, since Steam is finally coming to Apple. If you don't have a Mac, or a PC, then you're fucked. And living in the dark ages. Get a damn computer!
Source: CVG
