Left 4 Dead 2 leaked intro

[source-maps]

they scrapt the opening cinematics, thats why the trailer has stuff from each campaign in it

[nikholai-chan]

Love how it's the same person getting picked on by the zombies every time.

[oneups]

I wish I had money.

[staberas]

At 2:00 there's an infected that seems to take Ellis' weapon out of his hands, is this a confirmed feature in the game or what?

i think yes

no it isn't

yes it is , thats why
http://www.l4d.com/blog/post.php?id=2081
they wouldnt go in that great detail if they didnt had a reason ie

....In subsequent versions, we cut Zoey's running out of ammunition, as this made her appear weak, which we wanted to avoid.....

they analyze every frame so that we get the right impression.
In the end he says

The four minute Left 4 Dead intro movie evolved from animatic to final product over the course of about 3 and a half months and we were extremely pleased with the result. We managed to meet our goals of subtly teaching players about important gameplay elements while building excitement

[source-maps]

no it isn't, not everything in the video is how its going to be like in game, you can't eat chocolate either

[staberas]

you can't eat chocolate either

WHAT

No it cant be real...

[MaK]

Awesome, even though I played L4D a less than I thought I would, this trailer is seriously temping me to preorder it.

at 1:43 or whatever, when the jet bombs the bridge, and the explosion is enough to knock Coach into the police car behind him, (which is very similar to the scene in the Mission impossible 3 trailer, by the way)

Dude I thought the exact same thing, I've seen MI3 at least 7 times.

Have Valve ever included a cut scene in a game before (im thinking no)? I always believed that wasn't their method of story telling...

EP2

[joe_rogers_11155]

I suppose you can call the G-Man chat a cut scene, but it fit very well into the storytelling standards they impose on themselves.

I watched some videos of Hard Rain...

http://www.l4dmods.com/index.php?option ... &Itemid=13

and that is the coolest looking campaign I've seen yet. The heavy downpour is totally thrilling and suffocating. I think I would truly feel a bit of terror in these areas. PS, there's some construction workers running around in some of these levels...I wonder if they are the uncommon commons in Hard Rain...I wonder what their ability would be.

[Jman]

The workers can't hear pipebombs because of their headgear says Chet in an interview.

[YokaI]

Are people here really complaining about cutscenes?

If they all have the quality of this trailer, fuck it I'm in.

[Gradius]

they scrapt the opening cinematics, thats why the trailer has stuff from each campaign in it

I thought they actually put them in this time, or atleast that was stated. I really doubt they'd go "nah, no cinematics after all" twice.

[source-maps]

they stated there would be a 'movie' for each campaign this time, they didn't tell they were going to be in-game.
I think they did started with those 5 and decided not to do it anymore and made a mix of all the campaigns in 1 video

[AverageJoe]

Are mappers/modder going to have the ability to have cutscene movies?

[Zipfinator]

they stated there would be a 'movie' for each campaign this time, they didn't tell they were going to be in-game.
I think they did started with those 5 and decided not to do it anymore and made a mix of all the campaigns in 1 video

I think it'll just be something a bit more extended at the beginning of each campaign that has some dialogue explaining how they got where they are. There's some dialogue at the beginning of The Parish in the demo where they talk with the captain of the boat (He's with them for 3 campaigns). Maybe it'll just be like that for every campaign or actually have a short half a minute cinematic at the beginning of each campaign.

[source-maps]

yeah zip I know there is going to be more dialog and more story telling in-game, I was only talking about the 'campaign videos'