Valve and Capcom announce RE6 Left4Dead crossover.

http://kotaku.com/5990832/capcom-and-valve-team-up-for-resident-evil-6-x-left-4-dead-2-title

That's...random.

Wat?

Wait...

Ok.

My exact reaction.

Don't do it, Valve. Nothing positive can come of this for you. Capcom is just using you. She'll hurt you like she hurts everyone else.

Not interested. Now a Valve Vs. Capcom game...

Sounds interesting? I guess

Wait, so when I play Left 4 Dead 2 I'm going to be getting Resident Evil enemies showing up after this hits?

This is actually pretty damn awesome. The best part is that it's all free!

I'm glad I have the PC version pre ordered... I had it on my PS3 before and had tons of fun co-oping with friends locally. On the PC though, I have a lot more dudes to play with online.

I CALL NICK!

You guys are about sixteen days early on this one.

Why?

@alexandersheen: Commenting on the crossover project, Chet Faliszek from Valve stated: "We're huge Resident Evil fans, so when the opportunity arose to work directly with Capcom to combine L4D2 and RE6, we jumped at it."

I guess this is cool but will the mod that lets me replace Ellis with a Raptor work in RE6?

I had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't April Fools.

Bullshit. That's the only thing I can say, because I'm having an honestly hard time believing this.

My reaction as well.

That's cool. I've been playing a lot more L4D2 lately.

Makes me think about the other crossovers like the Payday The Heist crossover and the cancelled Cabin in the Woods crossover. Super wierd.

No way. This can't be real. This'll be debunked. I can't believe that Valve would do that.

nah i'm good

My exact reaction.....Although I think if RE6 hadn't been so awful people might be a little less dubious of something like this.....I suppose the reaction most people have when a new Valve project comes along is 'why are the doing this when they could be working on HL3'

RE enemies in L4D sounds great.

Um. I just see going as POS anyway. If it was RE in L4D2, then yea it'd be cool. But, Its NOT.

So.. I mean. No super-cool melee weapons from L4D, so.. I just say: Nah, dawg. Just no. : /

Cool to see Capcom reaching out to western devs to collaborate on stuff like this. I hope other studios take notice and follow suit.

WHERE ARE THE HATS, GABEN

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE HATS

@blu3v3nom07: monsters from RE will be in L4D2.

@theht: Oh hey!, didn't read that. Almost alright.

@theht: At least the Payday crossover made sense; beyond the zombies, there really isn't much of a similarity between L4D and RE. Valve actually makes quality games for starters, lol.

Gears of Left for Resident Evil

Maybe Valve can fix Resident Evil... not that I thought RE6 was that bad, but still, I think RE needs a re-imagining much like 4 reinvented the series. Maybe every 3 games will be completely different...

Capcom did a nice job putting the L4D2 characters in RE6, they look good.

Or Valve, whatever.

I won't touch the RE6 content because that series blows, but I'll hop on L4D2 to check it out.

This technically makes sense I guess, but it seems super weird that Valve would want to associate themselves with a game as widely reviled as RE6.

Uhm what? I don't really see what Valve is getting out of this, connecting their generally well received game with one that is widely reviled. Has no effect on me though, i'm not much a fan of either franchise.

My personal feeling is that Valve kind of broke Left 4 Dead 2 where there is something different about the dynamics that makes it impossible to clear the game even on the easiest setting. We used to do a Thanksgiving/Christmas game with family doing L4D because is an easy enough game for *anyone* to figure out and succeed. We'd set it to the lowest difficulty and outside of the crescendo events it would be difficult to wipe out which definitely made the casual players feel good. The first holiday we tried L4D2 no game actually made it to the end let alone get through the crescendo.

There is something very approachable about L4D that is something that Biohazard/Resident Evil can't even do. What I do hope happens is that this "engine" constrains the Capcom/RE side from going crazy with irrelevant story and action elements. Keep the story simple ("My team is in this horrible situation. We got to get over there.") but let Capcom focus on zombie design.

I think "widely reviled" is a bit hyperbole. I know plenty of people who love RE6. If you're going to go by critical reception sure... but I don't think that hardly speaks for everyone.

Something as weird as this to be announced on the same day as Saints Row IV?.. There must be a connection!

Rio hat incoming, also probably a Cami butt implant for the Pyro.

Also new TimeSplitters, new Neverhood successor, new Civ V expansion. Am I missing anything?

It's not first of April is it?

Well i didn't say "universally reviled". Every critics response I've read has been negative, and two of my mates got the game and both disliked it as well (they were fans of the series till this point). True there are some who enjoy it, but some people also stand by the War Z, doesn't change the fact the general opinion of the product is low.

Huh... ok....? If I was ever going to play L4D2 again or buy the PC version of RE6, I'd... probably be excited by this completely unnecessary crossover?

"Capcom" and "most respected" simply do not belong in the same sentence.

As someone who just beat Resident Evil 6 today, I can say that... uh... Yeah.

Leon has a slick jacket.

How weird, next thing you'll be buying is Leon's jacket to wear in Team Fortress 2.

what

hey, good for them. At least they are trying to kick RE back into something fun. Capcom and Valve can both make great games. I'm looking forward to playing whatever comes out of this.

This is strange. I guess this will help the sales of RE6 for the PC, but how much effort is Valve gonna put in this collaborative development to make this worthwhile?

Next week, the announcement of Aliens: Colonial Marines x Ricochet! You heard it here first.

Was kinda hoping I could play as Leon in L4D2 but this is just as cool.

@live2brighteous said:

You had fun playing Resident Evil 6?

Teach us your ways. Please. I need to know how someone enjoyed that sack of shit.

As for this news, I....I just....what the fuck is this?