Left 4 Dead 2: The Bill Consipracy
R.I.P. Bill
Now that I’ve taken a few days to morn the loss of one of the best characters to ever bless a game with his presence, it’s time to discuss the tragedy (or should I say conspiracy?) of Left 4 Dead 2′s The Passing. If you didn’t already know, I’m here to tell you that Bill does not make it. If this is news to you and I’m spoiling it for you, then I apologize. However, I’m only discussing this openly because I’m assuming that all the people that really cared to know have fired up the game by now and discovered this as I did, and I think many of us are just plain mad at Valve. If you aren’t, you should be.
Why Bill?
In trying to make sense of this I keep asking myself, “Why Bill damnit?”. It just makes no sense to pick Bill as the guy who bites it. Sure, he was famous for quotes like “I’m gettin too old for this s#%t”, but Bill really had no quit in him. He was a grizzled old vet, and he was just the kind of guy you want with you when the zombie apocalypse starts.
Think about it. The world implodes in a zombie apocalypse. You are struggling to stay alive and get to somewhere safe. Who do you want with you the most? You want the guy who is already wearing his military issue gear for Christ’s sake. Bill is ALREADY prepared for war, and experienced from fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. He might be crazy, but in a zombie apocalypse you need a little crazy with you to make it. I don’t want the whiny office worker in a shirt and tie. I don’t want the questionably gay biker looking guy with me. I might want Zoe if we have to propagate our species again, but damnit there’s still no one better to have with me than Bill. We can’t win this without Bill people. We have been robbed of hope, the zombies will surely take us now.
The Conspiracy
I’m calling Valve out now. A large company is surely pressured to make “politically correct” choices nowadays, and this is one of them. Here’s why it had to be Bill. If you kill Louis, the African American community gets offended. Sure, kill off the black guy like every other white movie ever made. Too cliche, so Louis lives to continue politely whining to zombies. If you kill Zoe, the feminists and gamer chicks come out of the woodworks in protest. Cries of sexism will rain on Valve HQ. Zoe lives, and we keep our female audience in tact. If you kill Francis, either the biker gangs light your building on fire or the LBGT community pickets in front of your facility. Neither is an appealing option, and Francis lives to parade through zombieville. That leaves Bill.
Perhaps it’s our fault. Who cries now that Bill is gone? Who cares if a half-crazy old guy dies? Just another disturbed Vietnam vet buried in Arlington right? Wrong. Some of us care. Some of us are just as pissed off as I am that Valve chose Bill to die:
Time to Take a Stand
It’s time the old guys stand up and made some noise too. It’s time we picket Valve HQ to defend those that defend us, the Bills of the world. Sure we may need to take some pills and a med pack to be able to picket for hours, but someone needs to do it. This travesty cannot be tolerated. Bill has to have died for something, and we need to be heard.
R.I.P. Bill, you’ll be missed.
Good bye Bill, you will be sorely missed. It’s a better place up there. Zombie free and beautiful land scape’s! Just Don’t worry about us, we’ll be fine and if we miss you that bad, we can alway just fire up L4D for some classic zombie killing action. (gun shots ring off in the back round to a sole taps being played) Farewell Bill. You grumpy zombie killing old man.
You knew it had to be Bill. Why? Because he’s the only hero on the team. When it comes down to it, Bill is the only character who’d say, “Oh well, who want to live forever? Now get out of my way!” run down and make that last ditch effort to save the rest of their sorry asses.
Bill’s death was inevitable. I just hope the DLC for L4D that comes out in conjunction with the comic has an awesome cut scene at the end where we get to see Bill go out in a blaze of glory.
Oh now that would do him justice. Good point on the hero thing too. There’s a story to be told about his death that The Passing leaves out, hope we get to see that in some form.
Evidently his voice actor went to prison so they had to kill him off? (Total rumor)
Still, I’m pissed. I loved Bill.
I guess that would certainly explain things and put my conspiracy theory to rest. Here’s to hoping we get a lore update or something to explain how his death went down, cause Francis, Zoe and Louis sure didn’t seem too upset by it.
It sucked real bad when I found out when Bill died, he was the best Servivor.
I heard from one of my Xbox friends that the reason they picked Bill to die
was because Valve couldn’t contact the person who spoke Bill’s voice. It
sucks but its true, Coach might live up to Bill’s reputation.
Francis sucks!!! and its not Zoe its Zoey
Bills a true O.G.
Bill is a LEGEND.
What Valve did was unacceptable. They can kiss my arse. I refuse to support Left 4 Dead until I’m standing alongside Bill once again. They can take their download and shove it.
I realized one thing though…YOU CAN’T KILL BILL!!
“Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die.”
Part of Bill is in that combat rifle. As long as I hold it, he lives on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEbMesrnHY – A respectable video
They killed Bill because his voice actor did not want to make more lines (or something like this…).
What I think about it? Really unfair! Why Valve didn’t take another voice actor for Bill?
1- Kill Bill because of his voice actor
2- Let Bill survive with a different voice
If you had those options in front of your face, YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT HIS VOICE!!
Well, this was my opinion.