I know, it was dark, gritty, had fantastic levels and the mood it set in the game was amazing. Not to mention the characters were better.

L4D2 seemed more comic like, bright day time levels, too much humor, not taking things seriously, average/horrible characters, light hearted. It seemed like a parody of L4D. I mean using a frying pan against these kinds of infected....a bloody tank for god sake

It's the only thing Valve has f***** up on in my opinion, something I'll never forgive them for. They told us to buy L4D, an unfinished, bug filled game because they would do a TF2 and update the crap out of it, 6 months later L4D2 was announced because they "couldn't fit into DLC" which is a load of bollocks, they just didn't want Turtle Rocks game to be the better game, they wanted a fully developed L4D game created by them.

They promised us DLC for the first one...we got one DLC, crash course which was really short and then exclusive DLC was added to L4D2 aswell......oh but it didn't stop there they wanted to kill L4D off for good so they decided to kill Bill off instead of Rochelle who no one liked and made it seem the original survivors got away.....aka, THE END.

I want them back, I don't care how I just want to see Zoe again and even Francis and Louis.

My favorite idea is that they just make The Sacrifice DLC, non cannon, like a what if scenario if the survivors went South instead of North where they were originally going.

So really if they did that, Bills alive and they will set L4D3 in Canada, some nice snow levels would be in the game aswell :)

The news will die here in its current state, while Valve reconfirm in Steam Forums that it was fake like everytime. I wonder if the company even exits anymore. /s

I know the games and the new engine exist bu they need to show them someday with SteamBox too. They missed great opportunities, but now they are very careful, it is a new engine and they don't the HL2 leak scenario to happen again if showed before being finsihed.

@ Mr. Nuts - You're STILL upset about L4D2? The game has been available on Steam for about $5 on multiple occasions, and it pretty much includes L4D1 in its entirety. It'd be unlikely that any of the previous characters would make a re-appearance.

L4D2 is like the Saints Row 2 of open-world crime sims. Not completely off the wall insane, but still fun because it doesn't take itself too seriously. There are enough gritty zombie games out there to last a lifetime.

Well Microsoft isn't have a good time at the minute and Valve see's things wrong with consoles that they think they can do better themselfs so I'd say they should go for it. With their games like Half Life, Portal, L4D, Counter Strike, Team Fotress, the modding community on their side like Garry's Mod for example they have some killer games.

They would then expand if successfull, more amazing IP's would be introduced while having third party support going for it.

I mean imagine if they could get Fallout 4 on consoles with mod support. Where console players could download PC mods or even extra maps in L4D people have created....theres one MASSIVE advantage they have over Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo.

Guys there's just one problem your not seeing here. A steam based system.... It's all DRM.

@alaghinghorse so.. my steam account can move to any computer or multiple computers. DRM is not a problem

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse