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Main Left 4 Dead Discussion
I can't see the pictures on the main page. I am using Safari 4.0.5 on a Mac OS X 10.5.8. I can see the rest of the pictures on the site, are these just broken, or is my computer weirding up on me again?
Okay, so I want to know. Does the hunter appear in the Zombie Survival Guide intro/trailer for Left 4 Dead 2? I recall someone saying he appears with the mud people, but then that "hunter" could've just been... the mud people. So I'm just not sure.
Bad Boss: The Director in Versus only? I don't think so. I mean, he controls all the items, where the zombies spawn, everything, so even though he loses some control in Versus, it doesn't solely apply there. A lot of times when I play versus, I rarely get any items. So, change?
Hollywood Silencer: Averted with the silenced submachine gun? Zombies are still attracted to players and the gun makes a moderately loud crack when fired
Article needs some cleaning up. Anybody got time to do it? I've got a few others on my to-do first and don't think I can get to it this week.
I've been thinking about it, and the entry on Germans Love David Hasselhoff was incorrectly tagged as YMMV. It is no less a fact that Left 4 Dead has a fanbase in Japan than it is that The Hospital is an Abandoned Hospital.
So, I'm going to reverse it's deletion from the main-page despite the system-tag-thingy until someone can explain exactly where the variance is
Hey, is it possible to make a Useful Notes tab? I thought it might be cool for us to have one for this game, not for strategies or the like (that can go in Troper Tales) but just information. I figure that anyone who watches this page would care to know, for example, that the formula for health gained from First Aid is 0.8(100 - Current Health), or that if you're playing Campaign on the original, setting a tank on fire will make them run faster and will not damage their health (it just gives them a 90-second-killswitch).
Thoughts?
Since sometimes people get confused why tropes are removed...
- Anachronic Order: "Sort-of" doesn't work. It is or it isn't. In the case where a player can choose any level right off the bat, it isn't.
- Battle Couple: Ellis and Zoey are never actually together, so I don't think it's justified to have it in. It seems more like forced shipping(regardless of how canon it is) to me, but if someone feels that it's not just shipping you can just put it back in.
- Circus Of Fear: Merged with A Musement Park Of Doom.
- Bond One Liner: Well, it's also listed as Battle Cry...Not really room for overlap with those two.
- Deadly Lunge: Quote: "Note that the trope does not apply to the enemies which just have a surprisingly long attack range (e.g. stretching hands) or which are always fast (e.g. 28 Days Later)." Adding to characters page if not already there.
- Left For Dead: Doesn't belong. Especially not as a joke.
- Superpowered Mooks: Elite Mooks.
Can we have L 4 D 2 redirect to this page? I don't know how to do that...
More tropes removed...
- Art Evolution: Used incorrectly, rewritten for proper use since it does apply in its correct use.
- AscendedMeme: L4D isn't the source of those memes, so...
- The Dev Team Thinks Of Everything: It's incorrect. Idle infected(except witches) die after awhile no matter what. Hazmat uncommons are immune to fire period.
- Downer Ending: Doesn't apply to 2 directly as it's really a blatant Sequel Hook : we don't know what happens to them after they board the chopper and the comic's interpretation of the military makes it abundantly clear that the military is as broken apart and confused as the rest of society. Works for the Sacrifice, though.
- Dummied Out: The Conversation In The Main Page states clearly that this is wrong. Oy vey.
- Easter Egg: Game mods that add them in don't count.
- Five Token Band: Whoever added that in is completely missing several important points. Like how there's no groups of five in the game...Or that there's no group of token characters...
- Rule Thirty Four / Rule34: In mods and fanart only. Doesn't belong.
- Het Is Ew: In spite of the lack of a YMMV warning, this very, very obviously a YMMV trope. Doesn't belong on the main page. YMMV page only. Not everyone is homosexual or a YaoiFangirl.
- Leeroy Jenkins: It can happen in any game, doesn't belong on any Main page(other than World Of Warcraft; solely for originating it).
- Self Fanservice: I'm really leery about leaving it in, it just seems wrong to keep it in the main article but I can't find any real precedent for removing it...It just seems inappropriate since it can apply to pretty much anything.
- They Just Didnt Care: Fan-made GameMods only, shouldn't be listed.
- Artificial Brilliance / Artificial Stupidity: Merged into AI Is A Crapshoot.
- Back Stab: In The Back
- Groin Attack: Doesn't work.
- Pocket Protector: It only belongs on an L4D-related list of tropes as much as Gag Penis does, afterall.
- Super Happy Fun Thing Of Doom: ...It's a blank page...
- Breakable Weapons: That's more What Could Have Been than anything else.
The Schmuck Bait entry is a bit off, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Given that that the only path is through the wedding and you have to go uncomfortably close to the witch, playing the song is perhaps a good idea because it gives you a few seconds before the witch starts attacking.
Of course, it's not as good as the Frag round, or attempts to sneak past her when the action quiets down.
Did Not Do the Research: Possible. In the comic it's revealed that the gene for resistance is inherited from the father. This troper was lead to believe that fathers cannot pass male-only traits to their daughters. If only fathers can give immunity or the carrier gene, it would be have to be Y-linked. Immunity/carrier gene would have to be X-linked in order for Zoey and Rochelle to have it. I did not want to post this in case some Biology grad came along and proved me wrong.
If (special) infected spawning in the safe room doesn't qualify as a Kaizo Trap, then does the Church Guy not qualify since it's essentially the same thing? Hell, he doesn't even spawn in 2's port of the campaign.