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Fold your hands. Next, turn your eyes skyward. You are now looking in God?s general direction.

Now thank him. Thank him so hard.

?There were a few failed starts to build Left 4 Dead,? Valve?s Doug Lombardi told PC Gamer.

?Well, there was the flying fairy game. Is that the one you were referring to?? Gabe Newell chimed in.

?It was so bad,? he said, ?you wanted to ask yourself: ?How could we make a game that was this bad? And how should we make a game?? And we said we should focus on what we do really well, so why are we doing this game which was kind of a? it wasn?t really an RPG? it was this action fantasy sort of role playing game that had no story. And then we said ?OK, that?s so horribly wrong. What we should focus in on is AI and playing in co-op, and that?s the interesting opportunity.? That was where Left 4 Dead came from.?

So, that?s where Valve?s babies come from. Fairies.

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Left 4 Dead in my opinion does Cooperative play better than any other game ever has. Period.

And they should play off the success of nailing that user experience by porting it to other games. I think we would all love to see a Half Life that had 2, 3 or 4 player co-op. It wouldn't be easy but then making games never is.

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I am known for my utter hatred of VG247, and crap/bs like this is exactly why.

Gabe Newell is a known joker in the games industry, and to take him so seriously as to to publish this kind of article only furthers my reasoning for hating them with a passion.

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I am known for my utter hatred of VG247, and crap/bs like this is exactly why.

Gabe Newell is a known joker in the games industry, and to take him so seriously as to to publish this kind of article only furthers my reasoning for hating them with a passion.

Yes, you whine in every thread with a VG247 article - We get it.

And it's an obvious joke, also funny VG247 posted it but it's all in good spirit and a bit of fun.

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Left 4 Dead in my opinion does Cooperative play better than any other game ever has. Period.

And they should play off the success of nailing that user experience by porting it to other games. I think we would all love to see a Half Life that had 2, 3 or 4 player co-op. It wouldn't be easy but then making games never is.

I hadn't thought of it before, but you're right. I think this probably does have the best co-op because you actually have to work together. As much as I would love to say Borderlands is great as well, it's just fun co-op, but you don't have to work together at all.

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I am known for my utter hatred of VG247, and crap/bs like this is exactly why.

Gabe Newell is a known joker in the games industry, and to take him so seriously as to to publish this kind of article only furthers my reasoning for hating them with a passion.

Eh it was originally published on PC Gamer I believe, then other sites caught on too.

But yeh its most probably a joke lol. Though a flying fairy game that involved killing things would be quite unique and well weird.

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