Character personality?

[Stefura]

I loved playing the last two with my friends, but my major pet peeve of the games were the lack of character with the main protagonists.

Are there any plans of making them more, well fun?
As a reference point the characters in Call of dutys zombie modes are actuall characters and not just skins.

[Undergrowler]

What? You want drama or something? There shouldn't be any drama in the way of sniping zombies!

[Lestrad]

I'm hoping for the same thing. Sure, in the manual it gives a brief two sentence description of each of the characters but, I am hoping the characters get a little more depth than that and at least get some banter. One of the biggest problems with games like Left 4 Dead is they never touch on several of the most important questions:

1. How did the individual characters survive the outbreak
2. How the hell did they manage to stay alive to find the other survivors
3. How in the heck they got together (and in this case without killing eachother....or at the very least, killing Sweiger and Wulff).

I hate it when games just dump you into the story in the middle and never flesh out the hows. Personally though I hope if they do put the characters into the story (as commentators on the plot, banter, etc) they take it farther than Left 4 Dead. Why? Because while L4D is sadly one of the best examples of PC to PC interaction by the characters, the characters never talk about themselves, or their personal story. I'd much rather have serious character development than "I hate stairs." Big flippin deal, Francis!

So, yeah, while I can't comment on the characters in CoD's "Nazi Zombies" mode, I do fully endorse making the characters actual characters and not just "skins".

[Stefura]

Originally posted by Tarm:

What? You want drama or something? There shouldn't be any drama in the way of sniping zombies!

Not drama, but personality.

Search youtube for character lines for Zombie character from Cod games and you'll see what i mean.

[Lestrad]

I think a cross between that and the kind of casual back and forth banter in L4D 1&2 would be great. Especially since I don't see the particular group meshing all that great together.

[Wakane]

I know what you mean. But I'm not sure how you're gonna put it in the game, except for the campaign.

During multiplayer, all characters are (and should) played the same. Unless, you say that some gadgets are only available to certain characters

[Stefura]

Originally posted by Wakane:

I know what you mean. But I'm not sure how you're gonna put it in the game, except for the campaign.

During multiplayer, all characters are (and should) played the same. Unless, you say that some gadgets are only available to certain characters

Gadgets? No no no no, you got me totaly wrong. I don't want to touch the gameplay at all, I just want the characters to have a personality. You know friendly and some unfriendly banter with eachother and stuff.

[Undergrowler]

Originally posted by Stefura:

Originally posted by Tarm:

What? You want drama or something? There shouldn't be any drama in the way of sniping zombies!

Not drama, but personality.

Search youtube for character lines for Zombie character from Cod games and you'll see what i mean.

I wouldn't say no to personality. As long as it isn't too over the top and stereotypical like action games tend to be.

[Meturoido]

Originally posted by Stefura:

As a reference point....Call of dutys.

Yup.