Left 4 Dead 2 soon?

Catchy title huh? I know, I’m so proud of myself(if by some chance someone else came up with this, please don’t sue me, I don’t have any money). Well anyway, if you’ve followed E3 coverage you’ll know that Valve announced that they were working on Left 4 Dead 2. It’s already scheduled for a Fall 2010 release. Now you would think that such news would be well received, but apparently not everyone’s happy about that. Why? Well, think about it. With the original Left 4 Dead, we got four maps, and two game play types. That was it. It was nice to see Valve provide some post release support with some updates, in particular removing the ability of the infected in versus mode to push that generator in front of the elevator in mercy hospital. It was an incredibly irritating move, to say the least. Sure, it was funny the first time, but that was it. So a little later, before summer, Valve decided to give us ONE more game mode and ONE more level, albeit only the end of the map it would seem. This all comes to a grand total of five maps and three game play modes. You still couldn’t even play every game type on all the maps either. Was Left 4 Dead fun? Yes! Was it great to kill zombies with friends? Yes! Did it provide hours of entertainment? Yes! Was it worth the price? Absolutely not. Yeah we got a lot out of the game, I can’t lie, but there wasn’t much content. Working on a sequel means that focus on follow up support and material will be divided, at the least. In my humble opinion, there is enough of a Left 4 Dead fan base to be fed extra downloaded material for the next couple years, it feels like there’s a lot of untapped potential to the game. To some people whipping out a new game is a slap in the face to the community. What we were given was great, but it feels like there should have been more. It’s not that I myself don’t want to see a sequal, it’s just that it seems a little too soon. Maybe more to others that to me personally, but still. Pray harder.