L4D1s plot makes no sense

[Geebanger0]

if you just play the game that is. Up until Death Toll its ok (though it wasn't before Crash Course was added) since you go from Mercy Hospital, crash the helicopter, then drive the armoured van to Riverside. After that though, you're in the greenhouse, find your way to the airport, catch a flight, and now youre in the middle of the woods? And then you get rescued by the military but you're on a train? You literally have to read a comic book to understand how the campaigns are connected.

and I know about the Dam campaign but that doesnt help

[76561199522283621]

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[igames]

There was also a cancelled campaign called "The River" which was stitched in between Death Toll and Dead Air. Basically John Slater and his wife kicks you out in the Port skirts and you go through a coal tanker, and you find yourself way in to the "Union Tech Tower" place, kind of like a business company industry place. And then you end up in the greenhouse. As unfortunately as it gets, this is basically if the Sacrifice was meant to be that but it got scrapped and thus it went that way.

Also yeah I do agree the Dead Air airplane where in Blood Harvest they end up in the woods immediately, it doesn't make sense. Even if you played the Dam It! campaign, you end up with the military instead of going across woods.

Another one was also Redemption 2, a stitch between Blood Harvest and The Sacrifice; you would end up finding a route through the nature and canals and find yourself a working train station where you later end up in the Sacrifice.

This is just a whole clusterf#!@.

[SpongebobTheHedgehog (Soul)]

I'm actually okay with the connections between Death Toll & Dead Air considering Death Toll's finale shows the city of Newburg (where Dead Air takes place) on fire across the river. You could say that the L4D1 survivors got kicked off the boat and they had to break into a nearby greenhouse to recooperate.

Dead Air to Blood Harvest though, I agree that the continuity could be better. If Dam It! was an official campaign that was meant to bridge the two, it should end with them either walking into the woods to escape OR maybe taking some sort of Tram into Allegheny National Forest.

[chinless ellis]

Originally posted by igames:

There was also a cancelled campaign called "The River" which was stitched in between Death Toll and Dead Air. Basically John Slater and his wife kicks you out in the Port skirts and you go through a coal tanker, and you find yourself way in to the "Union Tech Tower" place, kind of like a business company industry place. And then you end up in the greenhouse. As unfortunately as it gets, this is basically if the Sacrifice was meant to be that but it got scrapped and thus it went that way.

Isn't there a cut survival map called highrise where you play in the union tech tower?

[kurochama]

It's kind of normal as L4D1 was the first game. Even I also had no idea which campaign was the first & the next on L4D1, as there's no connection between the rescue unit on each finale & the beginning of each L4D1 campaign, so I simply just played them for fun without caring for the plots . When L4D2 was made, the plots became clearer. Probably Valve got some criticisms on the L4D1 so they made L4D2 plots clearer even without having to read the comics.

[Demo]

L4D was best in 2008 when it was four unrelated, non-canon, playable zombie movies with no overarching narrative.

[Beowulf47]

At the end of the day it's just a fun, goofy @ss zombie game. Honestly, who cares about the story?...

[Geebanger0]

Originally posted by Beowulf47:

At the end of the day it's just a fun, goofy @ss zombie game. Honestly, who cares about the story?...

no, this is SERIOUS, i need deep lore and a cohesive, logical novel to accompany the game!!1!!

[Beowulf47]

Originally posted by Geebanger0:

Originally posted by Beowulf47:

At the end of the day it's just a fun, goofy @ss zombie game. Honestly, who cares about the story?...

no, this is SERIOUS, i need deep lore and a cohesive, logical novel to accompany the game!!1!!

This is obviously bait, but hey I'll take it, why not?. All jokes aside if an actual, half decent novel series was written for this game I would totally give it a read. Would be even better if an actual mini series (or full show) was created for L4D. Michael bay for special effects and either James Cameron or Steven Spielberg for narrative.

[Geebanger0]

Originally posted by Beowulf47:

Originally posted by Geebanger0:

no, this is SERIOUS, i need deep lore and a cohesive, logical novel to accompany the game!!1!!

This is obviously bait, but hey I'll take it, why not?. All jokes aside if an actual, half decent novel series was written for this game I would totally give it a read. Would be even better if an actual mini series (or full show) was created for L4D. Michael bay for special effects and either James Cameron or Steven Spielberg for narrative.

its not bait its a joke, unlike what youve been doing since you got here

[Tap W]

I've said this elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure L4D2's plot came first, and they just tacked on the L4D2 plot onto L4D1's campaign and characters later on, even though it didn't really fit

[R󠀡F]

Because there is no plot for L4D1. Connecting the campaigns was an afterthought after release. Original idea i guess was to make each campaign as their own seperate story.

[cyanide]

comic book literally explains all of this you get robbed after deathtoll and hide out in the greenhouse until you see the plane after dead air the plane crashes in a forest where blood harvest begins and after blood harvest ends the comic book takes off after which the sacrifice starts the campaigns would be too short to add which is why they chose comic book instead

[igames]

Originally posted by chinless ellis:

Originally posted by igames:

There was also a cancelled campaign called "The River" which was stitched in between Death Toll and Dead Air. Basically John Slater and his wife kicks you out in the Port skirts and you go through a coal tanker, and you find yourself way in to the "Union Tech Tower" place, kind of like a business company industry place. And then you end up in the greenhouse. As unfortunately as it gets, this is basically if the Sacrifice was meant to be that but it got scrapped and thus it went that way.

Isn't there a cut survival map called highrise where you play in the union tech tower?

Yep, you can play it as well, just like Coal Freighter.

[Geebanger0]

Originally posted by cyanide:

comic book literally explains all of this you get robbed after deathtoll and hide out in the greenhouse until you see the plane after dead air the plane crashes in a forest where blood harvest begins and after blood harvest ends the comic book takes off after which the sacrifice starts the campaigns would be too short to add which is why they chose comic book instead

I know the comic books explains it, but that’s the problem. I have to stop playing the game and go read a book to understand the plot of the game. L4d2 doesn’t have that problem.