Chet Faliszek, a writer for Left 4 Dead and all around nice guy, recently explained why Left 4 Dead has no "evil mastermind" villain.
He claims that the "evil mastermind at the end is never as good as whatever you had in your head when you were coming up with it." He then went on to complain about the movie Twister and their use of evil weathermen to push forward the plot of the movie.
He claims that the "evil mastermind at the end is never as good as whatever you had in your head when you were coming up with it." He then went on to complain about the movie Twister and their use of evil weathermen to push forward the plot of the movie.
Evil weathermen.Evil weathermen, indeed. You can read more about Chet's thoughts on evil weathermen and other assorted goodies in his interview with Gamasutra.
What the hell? There's no evil weather men! We don't make evil scientists that have created a zombie infection to stomp out the USA — the evil Russian scientists or whatever post-Cold War enemy you want to use.
I think everyone knows what the zombie apocalypse is. They register what it is and they, playing it, make the story, because, since you're so close to each other when you play, you see the same things. You have the same experience. You can talk about it afterwards, and it's not like, 'You missed this. When this crazy thing happened, we were over here.' Instead it's, 'We were all right there, and we all saw that.' That's much better writing than I could ever do.