Poll: Is Left 4 Dead better off with or without story?

[Willwillwritehiswill]

I won't say there isn't a story, but less exposition is certainly good.
for what it is, a repeatable multiplayer experience, the last thing you want is repeated set pieces.

 

[ZiggyApplepie]

Story might get in the way as they add more and more campaigns. It might be a little depressing that Bill, Zoey, Francis, and Louis have to fight zombies for the rest of time, occasionally in very strange, ugly, and badly designed places.

 

[MartinPeiM16]

its nice to feel that ur going throught all this zombie hord killing for a purpose, specially on the final levels when u have to run for that boat or helicopter or whatever, and ur friends r right behind u, and when u do escape u feel this feeling of achivment.

 

[a stranger]

there was a stroy

 

[a stranger]

story

 

[Neverhoodian]

I think Valve made a smart move by omitting any type of complex storyline. Left 4 Dead was designed with replayability in mind, and lengthy cutscenes or any similar game mechanic would make the game somewhat monotonous.

If you're dying for a bit more background information, you can glean a little bit from an early press release on the Steam forum:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=535896

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

For a story-crazed RPer like myself, I can honestly say that L4D does brilliantly without a complex plot, and that adding one would likely only slow it down. I like the current plot of, "You are here, zombies over there, KILL THEY ASS".