Will Left 4 Dead 3 Be Scary?
If you have been playing the Left 4 Dead series and started playing from the release of L4D1 then we all know how scary and nerve wracking it was during our first play through. There was something about those zombie hordes that seemed overwhelming at first when they appeared to come from out of nowhere. Or that time when that Tank came raging after you and your friends and you were clueless as to what action to take. Who could forget the cries from the Witch waiting for you to turn a corner? Left 4 Dead 1 had the campaigns to provide the right atmosphere, sounds, and ambiance for a horrifying zombie apocalypse.
When Left 4 Dead 2 was released it didn’t have nearly the same amount of horror and scare factor as it’s successor. Maybe it was the campaigns taking place during the day, or the jazz sound when a zombie horde was coming? I think if Valve tried to make L4D3 darker and scarier than the first two, gamers still would not be as frightened as the first time. My reason for this is because people become immune to the elements over time. What we experienced during L4D1 was new and never before seen. We didn’t know what to expect. When the second game was released we knew how to handle the horde and quickly deal with the special infected. Compare it to this for a moment… Have you ever done something for the first time and had such an amazing time, when you go back to do it again it fails to live up to the first? Your second and subsequent experiences may not be bad experiences, but they never seem to match that first time. I believe this same principle holds true for games. I wonder if L4D fans will become numb to the situations encountered in Left 4 Dead 3 because they know what a zombie horde is like.
Did Left 4 Dead 2 have that same frightening feel the second time around? Is it possible for Valve to create an experience that tops what was felt that first time? Does that even matter, or is it more important for L4D 3 to provide new content, and gameplay?
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I think that if you add even more special infected you should maybe put the 2 groups from the first 2 left 4 deads together but allow them to die along the way and let them become infected.
I honestly think they should just keep it at 4 people people in each game they make, it we be way far to easy with more than 4 players. I love all the left4dead games! And I can’t wait till the third one comes out! I do have a couple ideas though, and I know it would be very hard to choose which ones. But,maybe for a new special kind of zombie you should call it Flamer or Flame Thrower! A zombie that can aim hot flames at a survivor from a certain distance.I know a lot of zombies burn into the flames but this special kind of zombie shouldn’t be able to get hurt from the fire. Or maybe a special kind of zombie like.. a zombie dog? That would be exiting! A new thing for many players, the dog should be able to sense human flesh from a certain distance. I really do think they should make a zombie dog that really would be great! The zombie dogs weakness could be pipe bombs or grenades! I think the pipe bombs would do better though. For the flamer possibly…the same thing or guns! The 4 characters maybe 2 girls and 2 guys? And where it should take place maybe the country like in the first 2 this time maybe kentucky or tennessee. They are just some ideas! Or maybe it could take places in some cities! Maybe new york would be good to try out! or chicago!
About zombie childeren,i hope they arent invincible like in Skyrim,you could shoot them with a nuke beacon and they wouldnt freaking die!
I thought it would be pretty cool if they stuck more with the eerie\creepy theme other than in Left4dead 2 when it was less creepy and more just zombie theme. Also thought it would be cool if they brought back Left4dead characters and they traveled around the world looking for a safe area. Big bad dude at end; evil bill tank or something like that, even though that wouldn’t really fit the storyline.
Or at lest tanks that look diffrent like there was mor than 1kind of boomer make a couple tank looks so they don’t all look the same
How about some more environmental damage? Breakable environment means that we could break open crates with crowbars, destroy weak barricades with axes and other sharp objects. Also, I think we should see some child zombies, as they were always nowhere to be found in Left 4 Dead.
I think there should be s speacial infected simaler to the spitter but it shoots fire. and fire mixed with spitter acid would do seriouse damage, and it would cause more teamwork on the speacial infected side
Zombie that shoots fire… sounds very interesting. It could spit the fire into Spitter’s acid to make an explozion!:) It’s a good idea, but how in hell the zombie could produce fire? The virus cannot hold or control the fire because it would burn it, that’s why we use molotovs.
It’s a great idea and it could add up new gameplay tactics, but i don’t know how could a zombie can ever control or withstand fire x(
I had thought of a zombie that spat a sticky, tar-like slime onto stuff. This slime would slow survivors when walking through it, making a deadly combination when added to spitter goo. He would already be soaked in this slime, allowing him to climb on walls and the ceiling, like spider-man. And other infected are able to climb up his slime if he spits it on a wall.
They should have a speacial infected that can do what Vinny said with the maiden thing, exept it should not fly or go through walls because then it would be a ghost not a zombie. they better not put ghosts in L4d
wow.. interesting idea all around. when will L4D3 be offically out?
Ideas-
Zombies: Should remain the same or maybe abit crazy and haywire.
Special: Blender and Zombie kid would be awesome. Or maybe a attacking female infected. female zombie or ghost are always scary.
Weapons: grenade or different type of launcher would be great.
Survivor: I’m thinking maybe one of the survivor would be half zombie and half human or A nerd Professor who fail on his work.. when he get to much damage he or she will turns to this zombie life form, like hulk..
Vehicle: Survivor able to drive away to survive huge zombies areas or attacks.
Maps: make it a worldwide thing. since there’s a japan map in it.. definitely it already infected the whole world.
Just sharing some ideas. hehe. But would love to know when will L4D3 be out. You know L4D addiction.
other ideas.
choice to silencer on your guns.
stealth killing.
at end of each chapter u gain another person or weapon.
Mission where u fly over and you’ve got to pick up more survivor’s
special that lurks in the shadows
body armor that u pick up but will slow u down
riot shield
be able to climb back up if u fall off a building
c4
and thats my ideas
Wait…if you gain survivors in every mission wouldn’t that mean you’d have 9 survivors during the final chapter? (not to mention the ones you’d pick up from the planes) In L4D, that’s a small army! It would make the game much too easy. You would have to triple up on the zombies and add every special infected mentioned on here, just to counter that.
Body armor: you already walk slow enough in L4D where you can just barely out run a witch(20% of the time); or a tank(5% of the time) even if it limits the damage, it still would be a problem, especially if you’re about to die, so unless you have the option to take off the armor whenever, it would be a big unpopular problem.
Riot shield: they already have a mod for that for L4D and L4D2.
Being able to climb back up: It would be a great idea, because every time Ellis falls of a ledge, I just yell, “go to the freaking gym, man!”
The riot shield isn’t a mod, it’s a legitimate weapon that valve made and put into the game, but they set its spawn rate to 0. it can still be spawned into the game with the console command, it doesn’t require any modding or hacking in any way.
@xenuLies
Eh, only way I could gat it to work
here’s a thought for a special or another witch.
it lies on the fall in or around a pile of dead zombies it will make no sound but it wont attack unless you stand on its tail or tongue that lies so far down a road.But if you stand on it be pretty much the same as a witch.
good or bad idea =)
Here’s idea:
Why not a zombie that runs away from you, but you have to kill or else it would alert the horde?
Kinda like a “Runner”
There is a zombie that’s running away from you. Unfortunately he doesen’t attract the horde but it’s really rewarding when you kill him.
I believe you mean the Fallen survivor Uncommon infected, he runs but drops lots of goodies upon death. And what John had said sounded allot like the Screamer, a special infected that was going to be added, but never was because play testers found it too confusing, so they gave the hoard drawing ability to the Boomer.
Yeah, it drops goodies when you kill it, but it draws YOU closer to the horde, rather than visa-versa.
I’ve played Left 4 Dead 1&2 every day since I got them (over 2 yrs ago). My only concern is if they try too hard to make the game have more suspense slowing the game down. Would love to see more special infected. And maybe checkpoints where all the survivors need to be inside a region before they can carry on, just to stop those idiots who decide to become a one-man-army and die once they turn the corner. Another idea that I would love to see in the game would be to be able to drag incapacitated/dead survivors.
Well, first of all the checkpoint idea… forget it. Why the hell are those Safe Rooms,man?
And second… well dragging the survivors can be useless, since on several servers the incapped survivors can crawl, but it could be really interesting to replace the crawling with the other survivors dragging. I like your idea.
What do you think of this: There are unreachable places for 1 man; it requires the help of other survivors to reach there. The reward should be Pills, guns, stuff like that. But i think these places should appear after a horde fight or two…
I know you can find stuff in houses, but I thought it would add a little bit of teamwork and should be rewarding though.
The best thing about left 4 dead is its split screen I don’t play online line because I’m not a …ing nerd I hate online every game these days are on ..ing line
I played dead rising that was slow annoying and real boring I played dead island it was anoying and slow killing zombies the best zombie game is left 4 dead I will like them to make a number 3
Fro L4D3 to be a huge success it needs to be more like ARMA day-z mod. An open world (not a set path), that is darker, has more scarier zombies and that is unforgiving for mistakes.
Honestly, we need a mmorpg for the 360. We should be able to create our own characters, have servers to choose from, and each server should have a big map to play on with a community of people. You have to break off into groups or just stick with friends; kind of like Walking Dead on AMC. I say this for about every game, being a huge mmorpg fan lol.
I think another cool but possibly complex feature would be specific area damage. In addition to having a health pack heal a survivors overall health, have items that heal specific damaged body parts. Meaning that the infected can strategically target limbs on a survivor. Attacking the legs will not only damage overall health, but cause the survivor to limp. Attacking the arms can prevent a survivor from using the larger weapons, i.e. assault rifle and shotgun. Attacking the head causes periodic blurry vision. These effects will last until the the area recieves attention. Just another possible way to add more strategy into the game, which is something the series prides itself on. It should also make a great new feature to bring back more life into the franchise, at least for thos who feel it make be getting dull. This of course in addition to any or all of the ideas mentioned below.
I also thought of another cool, non playable infected similar to the witch, who may be just as if not far more terrifying. And I believe if done right, would never ever stop being scary.
The Maiden: A gothic looking infected with long black hair who appears at random during play. She moves around very swiftly almost like she is floating. When she is near all the lights in the vicinty go out, making it so flashlights are the only way to see for the survivors, you can only hear her breathing. Her ability is she targets one survivor (of course the survivors don’t know who she is after) But she picks one target out. At any time she screams and swoops in grabbing her target and floats away from the group while doing damage to her captive, (effectively splitting the group and causing them to break pace chasing after their kidnapped ally) When she is killed, the screams and disappears in a void of black smoke, at which point all the lights come back on.
Tell me when the lights go off and all you can hear is breathing while you desperately search for the Maiden you would not be scared. Especially because you don’t know if you are her target.
This could add some scary-ness to the game. And the maiden really looks like a fast boss to me.
I think they should add up a Butcher, special infected whom can wield a knife, something like that. Well your maiden is pretty d*** badass.
that is a hell idea =)
you mean like in fallout
exactly like fallout
Should they make it that u can aim down sites for all guns or no
I do think that some people would find that helpful, however I partially feel being able to aim down the sights would promote the survivors slowing down alot more frequently, which can be dangerous.
I think adding third person capability for both pc and console is a good idea though, seeing as how some people are better at 3rd person shooters, thereby opening the game to a wider audience to dislike fps games and only like tps.
My Zombie Idea:
Puppeteer: A special infected that can shoot his nerves from his hands or Tentacles to control one survivor to attack the others or just making him human shield or it can just choke him like a smoker..
Hp:500
Secondary:Clawing
Appearance:Has purple clothes(or a magacian vest or something).
Spawning:He should appear most likely hiding after furniture. It can be recognized by his Distinctive laugh.
Range: medium-low unlike the smoker
I really don’t want to copy the smoker but the Spitter copies a bit from boomer
That’s it! Tell me your opinion please!
Also like others said:
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Animals: Crows,Dogs,Mutated rats(maybe?), Wolves ( in forests).
And a weapon: Flamethrower, Shocking taser.
Please reply if you like or not,cheers
Where do u think the map should take place
@Brandon
Well, never thought about it, maybe(I said MAYBE!) at some windmills or maybe Las Vegas? I’m not very good thinking about maps…
@John.W
It came for me as random idea like… you know, I thought it can be good for something, nobody never said anything of that, but thank you for your opinion, maybe something else, like… mines or bear traps????
@ C. Alex
Mines sound good.
I would be afraid of the dumb bots running over the bear traps though. >.<
Excuse me for saying, but I don’t think a taser would work to well on a zombie…actually, it sounds like something you use to bug BOTS and online players.
Honestly new zombies being thrown into the fray would make the game a lot more “unpredictable” and “scary fun.”
My suggestions would be:
The Poisoner. Vinnie really had a great idea with that one, it really would make the game have a more intense feel to it…considering you’d have to worry about attack in all directions then. I’m 100% behind the idea!
At least a flying zombie would be cool, it would be shocking to those first playing the game and take them off guard. Well, because in a horror game isn’t that what you want?
As for animal zombies, it might be best putting in regular animals to, so you might not know whether it’ll attack you or not.
That’s about it! But to conclude everything, putting in new zombies would be a great idea, mainly because of “unpredictableness” i mean, isn’t not knowing what’s coming next one of the scariest things out there?
I also thought that u start out at a military base where they rescued u and zombies make it in the base and kill almost all of the soldiers and u get new weapons and u guys continue on what u think should go with it and what weapons they should ad not like RPGs or anything like that but shot guns or sub machine guns assault rifles or pistols??
Well the thing is brandon wouldnt that be too similar to the 28 days later scene when they are all in the army bunker and by night the zombies are atracted? Sorry if u are offended.
I think they should make it where u have to save people an they get added to ur team and durring the story mode u gain people and lose people to the infected
I also think they should add a map that u are in a calapsing skyscraper and u have to make ur way through it to the bottom but there are rows of sky scrapers and buildings and u make it quarter of the way down the one ur in and it falls into anothe skyscraper so u have to make it through some and lead on to roofs of building until u notice the airport and the radio in the office of the sky scraper says that there is a heli leaving in 10 mins then u have go to the airport and find out they left and crashed then finally u noticed a boat at the beach/ocean and u get on it and get away safely tell me what u guys think and hopefully u understand kind of where I’m going with this tell some maps u think they should make on left for dead 3
In my opinion what makes the game scary at this point isn’t the traditional horror like the first time around. What still gets my blood pumping is when you and your team are having all the odds stacked against you, and survival mode kicks in. Using evry bit of concentration to make sure all 4 of you make it out alive, or the feeling you get when you are injured and you hear a tank and know full well you can’t out run it. Then that rush of relief you get when the safe room door closes after a hard fight. THAT is what still keeps the game scary and fun. A few ideas to mix it up in the future:
The Poisoner: An incredibly fast infected that crawls on all fours. It can crawl on any solid surface, however to balance for Versus it cant jump,only a short leap at a targeted foe, but mostly just crawls on walls and ceilings at a fast pace. It’s primary attack is it clings to a survivor, leaving he/she immoble. Within a few seconds it bites injecting venom that does damage over time (similar to spitter goo, but on one survivor instead of all.) The rush for the survivors is to kill The Poisoner before it delivers the venom.
Introduce some animal common infected, i.e. dogs, birds, etc
Let the survivors be able to drag a downed ally for short distances, and of course the downed player can still shoot.
I have many more, but these are just some to start. Let me know what you think.
Hi it’s me again!
Well… honestly, my last ideas were the worst I’ve ever made… so I took a break and thought about new, original survivour ideas and…. here they are:
1. Greg: A scientist (about 38 years old). He has black, short hair. He wears a white lab coat stained with blood. He barricadet himself in his abandoned lab to find a cure. But then zombies overran his lab and he took his last chance to escape. He took a fireaxe and fought his way through it.
2. Dean: A 21 year old DJ. He has blond, long hair and wears headphones arround his neck. Dean was partying at a local country club when the infection reached the suburbs. He “luckily” drank to much so he had to throw up and ran to the toilettes. There he unintentionally locked himself up. That’s why he survived the first days of that apocalypse. After those days he climbed out he window and was looking for a safer place. He than took a pistol from a dead policeman and found other survivours.
3. Michelle: An actress (28 years maybe). She has brown, long and curly hair and wears glasses. She also wears a mini-skirt, black tights, black boots, a dark green shirt and a dark red scarf. Grown up in a very strict family, she never had real chances to do what she wants. But she fought for her rights and went to the acting-course at the highschool. She became a good actress and was ready for her breakthrough… but then zombies overran the Highschool and she hided at a book store nearby. Then she headed to the policestation to find help and found 3 other survivours.
4. Steven: A soccer player. He is about 30 years old. Steven is bald and has a beard. He wears his team uniform (blue with red stripes). He was one of the best players in his team. Therefore he is a bit arrogant… He was training with his team when suddenly zombies ran over the field. He left everyone behind, because he only took care of his own buissnes. He then took a baseball bat from a corpse and flee. He then met Greg, Dean and Michelle
I hope you like my ideas. I myself think they are way better than my last ideas… stay alive guys!
I’d be disappointed at an attempt to make it scary. plenty of that already. the fast pace of the left 4 dead series is what sets it apart from the others. To be scarier there would have to be more time dedicated to building suspense which means less time dedicated to cutting sick on a crap load of zombies. Of all the FPS, few, if any do rapid fire mayhem better than L4D.
Love the dialog as well – The comedic dialog takes the edge off the scary genre.
Zombie dogs and an ultimate boss – a mutation of all the zombies in the game encountered at the end. Love how L4D brought back the idea of a boss
For the most part leave it the way it is.
Also i think there shiuld be a storyline in future games cuz at the moment its bang bang try not to get owned and thats it,like maybe an evil genios that infects himself and u have to kill him as the final boss?
My idea
Beserker- huge boss,one every 5 levels or so,which is the size of king kong and has a weak spot on the back of its leg.
Trapper-special infected,which jumpes between buildings and corners isolated survivors
Please resond if you like or dislike my zombie ideas
you spelled “Hunter” wrong dude, sorry.
That’s exactly what he does, and for the berserker… I dunno, maybe spawned in large spaces, not little alleys or a cortyard ’cause the survivors would be doomed.
Look at this:
Puppeteer: Another special infected that can shoot his nerves from his hands or Tentacles to control one survivor to attack the others or just making him human shield. What do you think?
Im responding to, c.alex the beserker is desighned to roam large streets,so it will be an easy target,i think the best first encounter would be on a building top,patroling the block,and when it passes your side of the skyscraper you must crouch behind a stand in a bookstore or somthing similar that can conceal you until its weakspot is visible
Please tell me if u like my idea
If the Berserker would be raging and other stuff( a.k.a Dumb enough like a charger) it would be a very good idea. The slightest impact Blows away the survivor several meters, and incapped.
By the way,
What do you think about my pupet master?
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The pupet master is kinda too similar to jockeys with the whole set em up,knock em down idea and also the beserker should be a massive walking simpleton.lol
There was concept art for a giant infected. He was called the Meat Wall.
http://left4dead.wikia.com/wiki/Cut_Content?image=x130-jpg
Well, umm… kinda like jockeys but it would be good when controlling the survivor is to aim with their gun and shoot the others, not steering like jockeys xDD
Yes i would appreciate the fact that l4d3 will be a bit scarier but i like the way it is right now lol ive got an idia for special Infected : like it goes behind u and puts his hands on your face its like it grabs your heas ans u are in first person view and u cant see sh!t and then after 2 seconds it screams and attracts a horde lol sry if my idea sucks
No it is not a bad idea it is actually really different, it sounds like a mudman mixed with the screecher idea. really good.
will there actually be a left 4 dead 3?
Is there ANY word as to when-who L4D3 is coming? Anything??
i think it’s good to have a funny zombie game that isn’t so scary! L4D actually cured my fear of zombies and i’m trying to help my older sister out with her fear of zombies!
Of course it’s gonna be scarier than L4D2, they couldn’t POSSIBLY make it LESS!
i am agreeing 100% right their because honestly when the game designers make a game on what the fans like and when the fans want to help the game designers some great ! ideas we and other fans love it and agree with it meaning as we all fans that agree with our ideas we came up with and think its great for the part 2 of the game we assume and expect the game designers will agree with our statement for the part 2 of the new game but instead they listen to our fans great ideas …. the game designers turn around and do their own ideas and some of the times we fans like it and mostly of the times we fans dont liek their ideas they put in the game all the way so i hope this left 4 dead 3 game thats coming out i hope the game designer will listen and make our ideas very helpful to make the game SUPERIOR !
Also i dont realy care if its scary or not i gust want it to be fun and i like hannahs idea. Althog it would be a pluse i would rather it be fun. FOCUS ON FUN!!!!!
Make more levels. yes the game was fun and i beat the game around 3 times but i would like more levels.
i said the wrong thing i ment to say the ones before were fun.
I think that there should be zombie kids, they would run fast and when they get to you, the would wrap around your leg and bite you, it would make you really slow and hurt you. You would know they are coming because they would sound like they were laughing as if they were playing, but they sounded like zombies
could be ok, childrens laughter in horror movies and stuff is always scary.
Now, now, we have to be professional about this and call them “Midgets” because no one wants to go around slaughtering children. But all the same sounds cool.
Yeah but that wouldnt work considering the whole killing children in video games. Thats why there is not children in grandtheft auto or any other shooter games that would enable you to kill one
Sincerely…I think there are some good stuff here but i think i like it the way it is right now…
I also hate the fact that people here try to add RPG contents,over-powered zombies etc…
People here say what they think without reading facts,background history and uses no logic whatsoever
I saw stuff here like: “Unlimited Chainsaw”(Chainsaw runs on fuel okay?) “Catastrophic Weather” (Believe me…You wouldn’t like it much when you play it) etc…
(If you want to talk back to me,i’ll gladly reply to you)
By the way…STOP TALKING ABOUT SCREAMERS OKAY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? NO MATTER HOW YOU PUT IT,SCREAMERS WERE CUT FROM THE FINAL GAME!!!!!!!!!!(Testers found it too challenging to spot a Screamer before it alerted the Horde)
There should be a zombie that has an evil laugh and like really sharp teeth and will come out from shadows or like dark storage rooms and tear you to pieces instantly.
Or zombie kids.
Both are horrible ideas…
I have some ideas for some more special infected here are my ideas below
- Glider: i was thinking about a gliding or some kind of winged infected beast that comes down and maybe gets his wings and wraps it around a survivor and suffocates the target.
- Blender: what about a tall figure that is skinny and blends in with his surroundings and attacks people without them noticing very thrilling scare right there and like all special infected they all have a noise to tell if they are nearby i was thinking like a slithering noise or something.
I like your ideas for special infected!
Blender sounds like a pretty good idea.
not fond of glider at all though.
Those are some really good ideas!