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).
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“So I heard you like zombies…?”
“So you haven’t updated OMM in a while…”
“What’s Tim Schafer like?”
Poor, poor man.
Totally unrelated, yet important:
“How does a polar bear know what apples is?”
“So, what would _you_ do next were you in charge of TF2?”
@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?”.
“What is waplow cire spelt backwards?”
“Why is Chicago Ted so Badass?”
“Have you seen the future, baby? And, if so, is it murder?”
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
“Will Vavle/Turtle Rock ever make an adventure game?”
“What would you make Gordon Freeman say to GMan if you could?”
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!
What L4D need is this:
Francis: I hate crates.
@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.
“What’s your highest score on CrateMaster?”
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.
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/
Have some screenshots.
heh, October 1969. That’s the fuck up date if you look at updates for a game that’s never been updated on steam.
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.
ha. I made him feel un-smart :)
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.
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.
Oh snap.
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. :)
@Noc:
Haha, I laughed out loud when I saw that :D
Speaking of L4D, has RPS seen http://www.videosift.com/video/Fortress-4-Dead ? :)
Freaking scout rushes.
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.
Jay’s working at Valve. They’re forming a comedy super team over there. http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=1889