it was obviously inspired by left for dead...
What games Influenced Killing Floor?
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*chucks Zoridium Jack off bridge*
Now that we have that settled...
(I don't feel like doing my usual speech; I have done it so many times, its no longer amusing)
The original Killing Floor mod was made LOOOOONG before Left 4 Dead, in reality Left 4 Dead stole a bunch of ideas from Killing Floor.
OK, I loved Quake, therefore having played it a lot, the original Lovecraft Quake, not its sci-fi sequels. So i can say i can kinda see a bit of resemblance in the monsters, the twisted flesh, the way the gore goes on their bodies. (Though i would laugh my *** off if a clot started throwing its organs at me)
I think L4D2 was inspired by Killing floor. Watch the m79, the spitter,...it was before in KF (spitter reference to the husk of course and we aren't gonna say why there was implented into the game...)
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It is possible that l4d was originally influenced by killing floor but it's not obvious that Valve must have taken the ideas from KF. KF's formula barrows heavily from Unreal's invasion gamemode with lots of modifications so that they finished product played differently while still retaining a lot of the elements.
L4D, on the other hand, plays more like Resident Evil mixed with Dead Rising (since it was released mere months after L4D entered production), where the goal isn't to defend yourself and kill everything; survival is the means not the end.
The spitter might has some influence from the bloat (though it seems like the boomer is a much more derivative idea), the husk and M79 had no effect on L4D2. The "level up" update was released one month before L4D2 was released, and 5 days before the L4D2 public demo.
L4D, on the other hand, plays more like Resident Evil mixed with Dead Rising (since it was released mere months after L4D entered production), where the goal isn't to defend yourself and kill everything; survival is the means not the end.
The spitter might has some influence from the bloat (though it seems like the boomer is a much more derivative idea), the husk and M79 had no effect on L4D2. The "level up" update was released one month before L4D2 was released, and 5 days before the L4D2 public demo.
@Zoridium JackL
I...what? If you are trying at sarcasm then it is very bad. If not, they I would point you to here
and here
Killing Floor was "first released in 2005 as a demo, and full version, later that year.
"Development on Left 4 Dead started in mid-2005."
I...what? If you are trying at sarcasm then it is very bad. If not, they I would point you to here
and here
Killing Floor was "first released in 2005 as a demo, and full version, later that year.
"Development on Left 4 Dead started in mid-2005."
