By John Walker on November 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pm.
You know what’s quite good? That Left 4 Dead game. I quite like it. Also, you know who’s a nice guy? That Chet Faliszek – you know, the one that isn’t Erik Wolpaw (he loves it when people say that!) off of Old Man Murray. Apparently he had something to do with Left 4 Dead. I imagine he wrote a joke for it or something. There’s probably a joke in it somewhere.
Eurogamer are having a live chitchat with him today at 5pm. You’ll be able to submit questions and everything.
Here are some questions we suggest asking:
“What is it like working with Erik Wolpaw?”
“Is Erik Wolpaw as funny in real life as he is on the internet?”
“What’s your favourite joke Erik Wolpaw ever told?”
“Which bits did you write for Portal?”
You might have your own questions, obviously, but these are the important ones. Their place, 5pm (-4.45am, Tuesday 15th March, 1766 US time).
21/11/2008 at 14:55 ChaosSmurf says:
“So I heard you like zombies…?”
21/11/2008 at 14:58 Pags says:
“So you haven’t updated OMM in a while…”
“What’s Tim Schafer like?”
Poor, poor man.
21/11/2008 at 15:00 plastictrash says:
Totally unrelated, yet important:
“How does a polar bear know what apples is?”
21/11/2008 at 15:00 ChaosSmurf says:
“So, what would _you_ do next were you in charge of TF2?”
21/11/2008 at 15:07 Malagate says:
@plastictrash, easy, from the rubbish tips. Polar bears are most readily found at the rubbish tips in the arctic circle, and because people who live in the arctic circle hate Mr Jobs any Apple products that get sent to them immediately go to the rubbish tip. That’s why there’s a big problem with angry polar bears, it’s very hard to get the iPod ear buds on with only paws.
I would ask this Chet fellow, “Why is everyone talking about Eric Wolpaw?” and “Do you know a good way of getting a Chinese passport?”.
21/11/2008 at 15:27 Catastrophe says:
“What is waplow cire spelt backwards?”
21/11/2008 at 15:44 JakeB says:
“Why is Chicago Ted so Badass?”
21/11/2008 at 15:54 theleif says:
“Have you seen the future, baby? And, if so, is it murder?”
21/11/2008 at 16:02 ron says:
i just came across what may be the most awesomely obscure reference in left 4 dead, graffiti stating that “no zombie is safe from chicago ted” which is related to this long ago article by erik and seanbaby: http://www.seanbaby.com/cleveland/part5.html
21/11/2008 at 16:16 Another one says:
“Will Vavle/Turtle Rock ever make an adventure game?”
“What would you make Gordon Freeman say to GMan if you could?”
21/11/2008 at 16:20 theleif says:
Btw: I played the Airport level “Dead Air” as Zoey yesterday. When i looked on one of the graffiti, the “God is dead”, Zoey shouted: “Oh no, Zombies killed God!” Made my late, late, night!
21/11/2008 at 16:34 Tei says:
What L4D need is this:
Francis: I hate crates.
21/11/2008 at 16:45 Elyscape says:
@ron: In the church, one of the people whose listed on the Wall of Dead People is one Chet Faliszek. I’ll get a screenshot up shortly.
21/11/2008 at 16:48 Pags says:
“What’s your highest score on CrateMaster?”
21/11/2008 at 17:02 Nahual says:
BTW guys, if you wanna listen more from Erik Wolpaw, he was on GFW Radio back in February, here: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://download.gamevideos.com/Podcasts/CGW/022108.mp3
It’s a hilarious podcast and it’s sure to provide material for questions for this upcoming interview with not Erik Wolpaw.
21/11/2008 at 17:30 John Walker says:
Nahual, I assume you’re not suggesting it’s as good as OUR podcast with Erik Wolpaw?
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/11/11/the-rps-electronic-wireless-show-episode-6/
21/11/2008 at 17:47 Elyscape says:
Have some screenshots.
21/11/2008 at 18:06 ChaosSmurf says:
heh, October 1969. That’s the fuck up date if you look at updates for a game that’s never been updated on steam.
21/11/2008 at 18:19 Kast says:
I just have to say: Thank you, Tei, for the strongest belly laugh I’ve had since… since escaping Mercy Hospital by the skin of my teeth last night, actually.
21/11/2008 at 18:20 fearian says:
ha. I made him feel un-smart :)
21/11/2008 at 18:34 shon says:
The other night I was in Dead Air in the lobby. I saw the statue of Atlas and I was struck by how much it looked like it belonged in Bioshock. That’s when Franics said “I hate Ayn Rand.”
It’s moments like that which make the game truly awesome.
21/11/2008 at 19:03 Alex says:
Mark my words, L4D fans are going to run that Chicago Ted reference into the ground just like they did with the Cake and the Companion Cube.
21/11/2008 at 20:15 Noc says:
Oh snap.
21/11/2008 at 21:01 Nahual says:
Oh shit, there’s a RPS podcast with Erik Wolpaw!?
To be honest i haven’t listened to podcasts for almost 3 weeks, so I have some catching up to do, this goes first, downloading it now. :)
21/11/2008 at 21:04 MarvintheParanoidAndroid says:
@Noc:
Haha, I laughed out loud when I saw that :D
21/11/2008 at 23:17 Krupo says:
Speaking of L4D, has RPS seen http://www.videosift.com/video/Fortress-4-Dead ? :)
21/11/2008 at 23:50 subedii says:
Freaking scout rushes.
22/11/2008 at 00:20 Leeks! says:
Does anyone know what Jay Pinkerton is actually doing these days? I know it was something game-related, but he kind of fell off the radar after a couple posts to the MTV multiplayer blog (I think that’s what it was, anyway). He may actually be working at Valve, for all I know.
Funny guy. It was sad to see his writing go downhill when he started at Cracked, and I hope whatever game he ends up working on sees him return to form.
28/11/2008 at 01:35 JPH says:
Jay’s working at Valve. They’re forming a comedy super team over there. http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=1889