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Inspiration can truly come from anywhere, and for Valve, it came in one of the most unlikely of places. According to PC Gamer, Valve stumbled upon their idea for Left 4 Dead, a game about surviving the zombie apocalypse, while making an action RPG about a flying fairy.  Valve boss Gabe Newell talks about how the fairy game inspired them stating “It was so bad 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.” Now Valve fans everywhere are left to wonder about the fairy game that could have been. |