Comments on: Left 4 Dead 2 should not have been set in New Orleans

By: Valve attempts to explain its way out of New Orleans Fiasco | LazyGamer .:: Console and PC Gaming News ::.

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:19:16 +0000

[...] Earlier this year Valve announced that Left 4 Dead 2 was going to be set in New Orleans and instantly some obscure group started screaming racism. This was quickly ignored but I did also say at the time that setting a zombie game in a city that is still recovering from Hurricane Katrina is possibly a stupid idea. [...]

By: easy

easy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:57:20 +0000

there is not a place on the planet that hasn’t been struck by some sort of disaster.
plus there’s the fact that there are no such things as zombies… or are there

for that matter, ghost might exist too… thats it i’m gonna burn my copy of ghostbusters. what an insensitive game towards the deceased.

:alien:

By: dewej

dewej — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:33:00 +0000

:pouty: oh, Soz :tongue:

By: WitWolfyZA

WitWolfyZA — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:22:59 +0000

HEY THATS RACIST! What would E.T say???

By: WitWolfyZA

WitWolfyZA — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:22:12 +0000

I always wanted to kill a midget zombie.. Wonder if that is racist as well :whistle:

By: dewej

dewej — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:15:12 +0000

holy poo, people are such whiners, you know what happened? they got a fat hat with a bunch of places in it and new orleans was pulled out, and i mean come on, racism? hurricanes? zombies? how the hell can that be realted???? the only place a game like this can be based on without offending some one is the moon, and then thier would have to be alien :alien: zombies with venuerable limbs, and thier would be low gravity and lazers and space ships and men in funny suits, i mean that would be lame, so stop complaining and just give valve your money.

By: Janrik

Janrik — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:26:13 +0000

And have the same people cry over black zombies in africa.
Having just white zombies would be racist…

I’m a Equal opertunity Zombie slayer.

On that… why do we never see kids or baby zombies?

Drop kicking a wee zombie would bring a smile to my face…. :w00t:

And that will get the bleeding hearts out in the open for sure! :devil:

By: RonaldMcDeath

RonaldMcDeath — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:18:44 +0000

I definitely think some people are overly sensitive about the race issue, although I do question the setting of the game, especially given what happened during Katrina and the US governments failure to respond quickly enough to the disaster. I hate to say it, but in that instance race clearly played a huge roll, therefore a zombie game set in New Orleans so “soon-ish” after the event is definitely in bad taste. Why not rather have it in Africa? Or some made-up African state? :blink:

By: Kale

Kale — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:10:21 +0000

Personally I think Valve have a winner idea.People just want to wine about something. What is making a game set in a place like New Orleans going to do to the people of New Orleans?No matter where you set a game that you are trying to get people to relate to you will offend people. We’ve all seen it on TV so it’s more ‘real’, the decay and disaster now Zombies. It’s brilliant! I’m sure a lot of people have thought “what would I do if this really happened” when playing L4D, this is all part of the experience of gaming.

You wanna be insensitive get photos of the deceased and put them on the Zombies then I might consider having an issue…

By: V@mp

V@mp — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:14:37 +0000

New Orleans is Voodoo central. Why NOT set it there?