How did you find out about L4D?

[black671]

I'm just wondering this because I found out through an ad on AOL. I've been writing a zombie horror story, and when i read the game's summary i was like "holy shit my idea!" lol. after overcoming the sense of euphoria, i looked it up even more, and found this site.


so, i'm wondering, how did u guys find out about Left 4 Dead?

[Icy Lemon]

Same here,just found an add on the net and then this site.

[Espier]

the first trailer

i think a lot of other people would have heard of this game from the ads in counter-strike 1.6 lol

[ynglink]

Left 4 Dead: I found out about through friends. Just simple networking, talking about upcoming games and engines and whatnot.

411: Messing around on google.

[unsungKhmer]

oddly enough, playboy had it picked as game of the month in december, so i researched it, and eureka! playboy rendered itself obsolete lol

[Infest0125]

Searching for a Dead Rising sequel, found a list of awesome zombie games and discovered this.

[iKissedABoomer]

Left4Dead found me, I did not find it.

[Dead Fish]

I found out by reading a "most anticipated games of 2007" feature on 1UP at the beginning of that year. Maybe I can find the article...

edit: Here it is. (http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=2&cId=3157509) Release date back then was Spring of 07. ^^ I was totally hyped.

[Grieverlionhart]

Saw a glimpse 3 years ago, thought meh FPS zombies sprinting wouldn't be tense but just clusterfuck, don't work for me (Huge classic RE fan) year later heard about this director that muddles things up and people struggling to complete the game on normal mode. Hyped for a challenging co op game. Bought it, friends thought it was pants, played by my own with bots and the occasional people from class who like to grief.

[Shrubberyjsc]

First steam Advertisement.

I was like, zombies? Co-op ?!

YYYYYUUUSSSS!!!

[SlainPwner666]

Saw it back in 2006 in a PC gamer magazine. Looked like a great horror game. Then I stumbled upon this website, since the actual website told me shit I had known for months, and this became my only source of left 4 dead info until release. About the time of the demo I figured out that there was this magical space called a forum, and I've been here ever since

[dethklok]

youtube o_O i was searching for zombie trailer movies

[Padfoot240]

Heard about it from a friend. Then my class got to Beta test. Been hooked since.

[Braniac]

Loved TF2 and researched other Valve games.

[Stupoider]

Since it was featured way back in PC Gamer, late 2006, I've been following the game on the Steampowered forums, then moved to here.

[The_Underscore]

A news on hlportal.de.

[SlainPwner666]

Saw it back in 2006 in a PC gamer magazine.
Since it was featured way back in PC Gamer, late 2006,
HEY

[Stupoider]

HEY

I've still got the issue with the survivors on the front 8D

[Dre]

saw a video on gametrailrs back on jan 07

[Stubbs]

found out when this site was being formed by looking up new zombie games

[SlainPwner666]

I've still got the issue with the survivors on the front 8D

Me 2. I've been a subscriber ever since their 2005 supreme commander issue

[Dog Eat Dog]

My home town was attacked by zombies. Myself and this girl from down the road were the only 2 survivors and I went online to research anything that might help us live through this. Luckily I came across this site which has a ton of information related to zombies.

In case you were wondering, yes we are repopulating our town.

[mshield]

I was talking with a friend in '07 after one of our exams, and we agreed it would be awesome to have a co-op zombie shooter. Next day, I google it, and low and behold I come across a website called "Left 4 Dead 411". The rest, they say, is history.

[mrbellcaptain]

i saw the ad on The Orange Box and i was thinking "meh zombies" but then i started getting into zombies and i was trying to remember what the game was till i finally found it and ive been watching it for a good 2 years before it was released

[XViper1534]

I read a review on OXM about a year and a half ago.
When I looked at the art, I thought Louis was white.
Then when I played the demo, I was surprised to see a black guy.

[SteadyEddy]

A friend told me about it, then I went looking for more information about the game and found some previews on this site around a year ago.

[G_X]

I heard about it at school. They said it was a co-op zombie game made by Valve, and I jizzed in my pants.

[Deadly]

I came up with the game, then emailed it to Gabe, who told Mike Booth, who started to create it. They stole my idea.


For real though, I saw the trailer when it FIRST came out and was so impressed. A little bit later I saw the steam update news about the preview for the game and read it, lingered for awhile, then finally registered and posted.

[hiryu]

I'd heard about L4D, but since I was pretty busy with other games, I kinda brushed it off...that is until my friend told me about this super-sweet zombie game he got for 360. We had four of us passing the controller in splitscreen and I was immediately sold. Snatched up PC version as soon as I could (no 360, though I still would've probably gone PC...hell, maybe both!).

As for 411, I found out about it from Valve's Developer Wiki.

[hunterhunter]

i found out when i read it in a game pro mag

[Valcron]

Started off slow by hearing about a co-op zombie game, and the possibility of playing as a zombie. Saw some gameplay and thought "Meh."

Then as the months by as it came closer to release, I realized I had to have it, so a few days after X-mas I went and bought it.

[Chocolate]

i remember watching that cut scene show one g4 and watching this thing called Left 4 Dead prototype .... or something like that

[Dioroxic]

Yea i saw it on gametrailers way back when

[Shunk]

I heard about it before I saw the ad on the Orange Box. i was driving my friend home and he said, "I heard about this game called Left 4 dead"

I googled "left FOR dead" and nothing came up. then a week later he showed me by googling it the correct way. and the rest is history

[nitro_hedgehog]

i keep up to date on everything valve does (updates to tf2 and otherwise). so i was there when the first announced left4dead.

[DethPenguin]

After a steam update I saw it in the updater news, back in early '08

[LiveCanon]

amazon when i got my xbox a few months ago, i went through all the games and got the ones i thought i would like l4d was one of them

[silens]

When I replayed the They Hunger HL1 mod, I looked for more zombie games. I found They Hunger Lost souls then found Left 4 Dead.

[silens]

Damnit. Where the hell is They Hunger Lost Souls anyway?

[Anthony]

Me friend preordered, and wanted someone to go online with... so I bought it.

[KitaYumi]

I work in a game shop so I saw it ont the list of releases. A little later microsoft sent out the advertisment disc to show instore and it was on it.
I saw it and just stared. It looked to awesome!

[DTard]

Shrub.

[Tyr]

Steam Update News announced the first teaser, I saw it and followed the game's development since then.

[Supremacy]

First saw about L4D when I left my Orange Box at the game menu. Then after a while, the trailer for L4D was playing. I am usually not interested in zombie/horror games, but I still checked it out. Turns out it was a 4 player co-op game. That wasn't so bad then, considering there are other players to play with.

[stev0hazard]

Demo on xbl, then googled L4D forums.

[Warhawk]

Ive been a valve fan for a long time i heard about it but i didnt think it would be that good [because it was so early in design had all these glitches and was low in graphics] until I heard like 50 people talk about the new left 4 dead game in team fortress 2. So i decided to investigate i put the bugs aside knowing that they would probably fix them and same with graphics and after 2 years [the first time the tried to say a release date for it in 2006] I bought a brand new computer just so I could run it for it's release. Now today im still on this computer i hope to have for a long time.

[Warhawk]

It was always funny to watch an older video with the old glitches and people calling it shit because of that glitch or whatever it happened to be.

[FHS_Justice]

I tried the demo and shat brix :P

[Frito]

I saw it being hyped online.

[Bl00dSh0t]

I saw it on a game informer magizine at walmart. zoey was runing with 2 pistols and shooting.