pinning this comment for people to inevitably not read: when I talk about not knowing who the voice actors were, I was specifically referring to not knowing who voiced Zoey, Louis and Francis. The new survivors are pretty easy to find on google. Just pinning this one because this is like 50% of the comments since a lot of people seem to struggle with the listening comprehension of that part.
@@rossgaller960 Used to be super common, but now they’re a rarity. You don’t get much money from Quarters or a couple dollars from the old methods of arcade machines anymore. Most establishments with arcades have it as a *section* to coincide the regular business (could be a hotel, diner, pizzeria, etc.), and to make it profitable, they often lock them behind a dedicated card that you use for the machines that you can put funds into. I think they also manually set the prices for the card readers of the machines, so they might be a bit more expensive to play - though usually by just a couple dollars - compared to what it costed in the past (this is running off of memory from the last time I’ve been to a modern arcade).
@@Dr.Oofers damn , here in Japan arcades are like esports here ... From tekken 7, gundam extreme vs to other competitive DBZ or other shooter games etc etc ... u will even find a ton of arcade open world RPGs too .. The majority of Japanese gamers still play arcade rather than pc or console stuff .. Mobile gaming is also increasing these days
The thing I love most about this version is how they built up four new unique characters going into the same exact path that the original four American survivors did, while somehow writing it all from the ground up in such a way that makes sense for the most part: a bunch of exchange students and teachers on a trip abroad getting caught in the zombie apocalypse in a different country. And it works. All this effort... for an arcade game that didn't even last that long. I'm so glad it's possible to mod some of this into L4D2. It somehow made the same old maps feel fresh when you got entirely new folks running through them, bantering with one another, and dealing with the same stuff Ellis, Coach, Rochelle, and Nick did in their own way.
@@daegnaxqelil2733God I hate this pretentious cynical attitude. You see one Japanese school girl in a game, suddenly it's all stereotypes. They didn't need to do it. Still kinda cool that they did, because it's better than simply dubbing the American characters. Hell, if we go by this boring, soulless logic, making L4D at all wasn't necessary. Another zombie game? Using character and setting tropes obviously inspired by film? Who asked for that, amirite?
As a Japanese L4D player, I was impressed by the Japanese dubbing of the original L4D characters! (around 12:54) I regret not actually playing it... Valve always does Japanese translations when they release games, and I hope that someday when they release L4D3, they will include Japanese dubbing. Sorry for the machine translation. Thanks for the interesting video.
Fat chances having l4d3, Plus their "successor" (Back 4 blood rest in piss) didn't have an good time either... And yes, I regret it too, but since the game felt too much EA with microtransactions, well now... I'm not so sorry for not testing it out.
@@Unerbroken Left 4 Dead 3 WAS in development at one point, but Source 2 wasn't at a point where it could handle their vision so they scrapped it. Now that the engine is actually done maybe it'll see a revival.
I don't know much Japanese but in 13:03 did Louis say "Francis said he isn't coming back" or "Francis said they(the new group)won't come back/make it".
I actually played this game when I visited Japan in Akihabara. This was in the Sega arcade before it shutdown. They had a few mouse and keyboards setup and multiple screens for multiple players to join. I really enjoyed the experience!
I didn't play it but I did mess around with controllers in one of the big SEGA arcades! It was so cool seeing it there along side all the other games. If I wasn't so addicted to arcade rythm games at that time I prob would of played it more haha
A point of interest: The character models used in The Passing are normally based on whatever is set as the player model for L4D1 campaigns. That means if you have a mod that, for instance, turns Francis purple, Purple Francis will appear on the bridge. They must have done more than naive model replacement to get the arcade survivors into the L4D1 campaigns.
I didn't know that but are the models for L4D1 survivors on The Passing in this game were separate and copied files as Taito replaced all eight mains with the original characters exclusively on this game
As someone who knows a bit about L4D2 modding: They most likely just did a model and audio-swap for the L4D2 survivors. As for getting them into the L4D1 campaigns? Assuming they don't have campaign-dedicated voice-lines for the Arcade-Survivors in the L4D1 maps, they probably just opened the campaign.txt for each individual campaign, which has a bunch of parameters, one of which being which survivor-team is enabled (L4D2 being the default, in case the line is missing). The L4D1 NPCs in Passing are not affected by this, due to them being NPCs. So commenting it out or just changing the value to the L4D2-crew setting is all that's needed to swap the two crews. There are also other values (like if and how early Witches and Tanks spawn, if those should use a custom model, how much score a map is worth in Versus, ect.) which can be fun to mess around with, or used if you want some tweaking for your custom campaign yourself. Works in the PC version as well, and doesn't require much work. So if you want the L4D1 crew in the L4D2 cast, it's just a simple edit of a text-file and you're good to go. And if you don't feel like "replacing" the original versions, just save the text-file under a different name alongside one or two other things, and the game should treat it as a custom campaign which just happens to look for vanilla map files.
that's stupidly scandalous that valve don't care about making third episodes of their game series but they still do nothing better than releasing exclusive games in japan
Believe it or not, there _is_ precedence for a Japanese arcade game that just gives you a whole keyboard to use -- Typing of the Dead had an arcade cabinet with not one but _two_ full sized tenkey keyboards on it and it is just the silliest looking thing.
didn't realise how extensive the re-writing was. that's pretty cool! thanks for this! you have a really good presentation style. always happy to see this type of video from you
@@Deliveredmean42 I'm not sure if the VA actually speaks japanese, but the other comment might have been a joke cause there's a certain interaction between louis and Francis where apparently Louis canonically knows how to speak japanese
It's super weird hearing Louis speak japanese in a full conversation. These new weapons are so funny and the rpg skills remind me of the public steam group servers. I'm loving the mutation posters/banners, they're so over the top lol
I mean........if we put aside the entire "redub" thing it would kinda make sense for louis to talk in japanese because if I recalled correctly, he have some japanese speaking skills and were pointed out at some point in the game where francis asked him to say "hey, how do you say Bill is an idiot in japanese" and he did say the thing. Its kinda hilarious Edit: He did say the thing, its just that there's only two outcome which he directs it toward bill or francis and francis didnt even notice that it was directed towards him if he does
@@mrekozack7817 "He did say the thing" Well kinda, he did say someone was an idiot but it wasn't directed at Bill, he called Francis an idiot instead and Francis didn't catch on to it wich is pretty funny
Another thing worth mentioning about the voice acting is that it seems they’ve not only adapted every line of dialogue but they even re-recorded a lot of the unused lines for base L4D2 like the death screams, laughing etc. Also it seems like they’ve left Sara without any laughing lines as she has none.
It would be awesome to see these arcade-only assets ported to the base game so everyone can at least experience the characters/voice acting for themselves!
@@PunchyYT Oh yes, I did a cursory look at the workshop before posting this, but my search term didn't reveal many results except for one. Looks like most of them use L4DAC or L4D:AC in the names, now that I search that I see a bunch of stuff. That's awesome!
In case anyone sees this, I was just perusing through the Survivors mods on the workshop and it seems several of the special infected had a ''Baby'' skin variant. According to one of the comments of these mods, the ''Baby'' Special Infected were literally just tiny. That also explains why the Tank in that Versus clip was so small, they were playing as a Baby Tank.
9:58 H&K G36 10:08 AK12 10:45 AA12 11:07 Skorpion SMG 18:24 FAMAS 19:10 SVD 20:22 Thompson SMG 22:00 UMP That's all the new guns shown in the video that I could recognize. Yes, I am American.
9:58 H&K G36K (K for Karabiner -> carbine. Standart rifle of the Bundeswehr with the integrated optics) 10:08 AK12 (more modern Russian assault rifle, meant to replace the AK74) 10:33 Mk14 EBR (Enhanced Battle Rifle) 10:50 AW (Arctic Warfare, a line of sniper rifles produced by Accuracy International Ltd.) 10:45 AA12 (Atchisson Assault Shotgun or for Military Police the Auto Assault 12, an American automatic shotgun design) 11:07 vz.61 Scorpion (there are 4 modelnumbers, not sure if it really is the 61) 11:34 Sword from some other game, can't recall which 11:53 Barrett M82 (Anti material rifle, chambered in .50 Cal) 16:45 Saiga-12K (russian semi-auto shotgun) 18:24 Famas G2 (Can use Nato STANAG magazins and has an enlarged triggerguard for the whole hand, allowing the gun to be operated even when wearing mittens) 19:10 SVD (Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova, a russian sniper rifle) 20:22 M1928A1 Thompsen SMG 22:00 H&K G36 C (Commando)
Came to be aware that the L4D2 JP edition existed thanks to the workshop addon page. Since then I became fascinated about how it came to be, what hardware it ran on, and how the assets were obtained. Thanks for the mini documentary.
As you claim you aren't able to identify the guns lets list them by appearance in the video after you said that (Also not naming ones that are in normal L4D2) 9:52 The G36 9:59 The AN-94 10:33 The M1A (M14 variant) 10:40 The AA12 10:50 The L96A1 (Or as it is more commonly known for the more modern variant, the Artic Warfare. Or the AWP from Counter strike) 11:07 The Skorpion vz 61 12:06 The Barret .50 cal (Not picked up but on the ground) 16:45 The Saiga 18:00 The Famas G2 19:08 The SVD 20:20 The Thompson SMG (Not sure which variant) 21:51 The G36C I would be interesting in seeing what the remaining weapons that you didn't cover would be that was added.
As iWinchi pointed out, that's an AK-12 prototype, hence the arcade cabinet calling it "The Prototype Rifle". That Thompson is the M1A1 variant. The Barrett is an M82A1. You also missed the WA2000 at 14:35 . Lastly, it's a Saiga-12. There are other firearms produced that go by Saiga, so stating Saiga-12 helps people understand that it's a 12-gauge shotgun.
@@darthalvarez2046 i just noticed there's a flashlight stamped onto the m82's barrel. I was trying to make sure it wasnt a Serbu BFG-50A as those cutouts looked rounder in some frames.
@@CturiX.IREALLY It could be an amalgamation. I know some game companies make "mashup guns" to avoid copyright infringement. Take RGG Studios for example, they have made a few amalgamation guns for the Yakuza game series and they look quite strange. However, the Anti-Material Rifle in Left 4 Dead Survivors has the muzzle brake of an M82/M82A1/M107, so it's safe to assume it's one of those variants.
I imagine that all of this takes place in a universe where Coach, Rochelle, Ellis and Nick made it to the evac chopper in time, leaving a different survivor group behind.
Pretty wild that they got Sakura Ayane for Haruka and Sawashiro Miyuki for Sara, those are some pretty big names. I also have memories of seeing cabinets of this in Kyoto on my first ever Japan trip in the autumn of 2017... along with a notice that they were going to be removed the following month.
I think both Sakura Ayane and Miyuki Sawashiro has done lots of VA work in niche products. If you look at their credits they often lend their voices to small Chinese gacha games They probably do it for a nice quick buck, which is pretty smart. Gotta take all the work you can get.
man, it's crazy to think about the effort that must have went into this game version, particularly with how out of date is was and how little it actually lasted. Great video
Supposedly; Yusuke Kudo was voiced by Ryuichi Kijima(Nick & Bill) Haruka Hirose by Ayane Sakura(Coach & Francis) Sara Kirishima by Miyuki Sawashiro(Rochelle & Zoey) Blake Jordan by Hidenori Takahashi(ellis & Louis) According to the fandom wiki*
I knew it sawashiro after repeating scene. it's funny because I thought valve are able to apply cooldown to voice on their game but I guess the voice over engineering done by japanese studio
This was such an informative video! I went to Japan back in 2017 and played this machine whilst I was out there. I was confused of if it was just some L4D2 Workshop mod just slapped onto an arcade cabinet, so it's very interesting to learn the backstory behind the cabinet.
I got to play this at the Galloping Ghost in Chicago recently, and this illuminated a lot that I didn't quite catch in my limited time with the game. I can read some Japanese, albeit slowly, so I was just catching bits and pieces. It seems their cabinet must have been imported while the game was still live, as it was stuck in Nesica offline mode and could only access the aforementioned two levels. If anyone has the knowhow to get that final patch and install it on their machine, reach out to the Galloping Ghost! I'm sure they'd be happy to upgrade.
They can literally download the dump from the Internet and write it to a new drive. The dumps online are (obviously) decrypted and will play just fine on a Type X3. Didn't know they have an actual cab there, pretty cool!
0:14 But, I kid you not, one of the reasons I got hooked on watching vtubers when they were becoming popular was seeing Japanese people playing Western PC games, especially games that are on Steam since I was aware of how Steam, or PC gaming, isn't popular or well-known in Japan prior to that time. 8:09 Wild guess, but I think it's because it's an arcade game. They're gonna tone it down a bit since the machine could be seen by very young people. Though I'm not knowledgeable on how arcade places work in Japan so I couldn't say if it's correct.
I'll never understand why people like to watch 2D anime models or Vtubers as you people call them. They use this fake voice often high pitched like veibae and you can't see their reactions IRL. Mankind is doomed.
@@xPhantomxify you can say the same thing to many other things in life, too, like video games, and movies. Hell, I also will never ever be able to understand why people watch even normal streamers, or play games for more than 4 hours a day, or watch a movie in a cinema! But, since people have preferences and hobbies and whatnot, I say: just let them watch stuff like that, even if you'll never be able to comprehend why. Most of those people don't harm anyone else with those activities, nor do illegal activities, so why should we even care at all?
@@penebrook8330 Because it affects them negatively and it can affect their social/work life. These people get way too invested in their favourite VTuber/streamer, forming parasocial relationships with them. Then they spend hours on end in their Discord server, chatting with others similar to them and thinking they are their friends. They also hope to get the VTuber/streamers attention. Why watch and waste 4 hours(usually its more, like 8 hours) of your time watching how someone else plays a game, while earning money off of you and making you watch ads on top? Might as well play the game yourself...
@@xPhantomxify but that's another whole story, isn't it? besides, parasocial relationships can be formed even if the viewer is watching non-VTuber content (e.g: watching normal UA-camrs, streamers, etc...), can't they? everything in life has a downside or two, or three, or even more, mate. For example: some video games cause gambling addiction! (looking at you, Overwatch, Genshin Impact, and CS:GO) and so on... So, it's better if people know how to practice good discipline when it comes to doing leisure activities (like playing video games and watching VTubers, or whatever) and when to stop, etc...
@@penebrook8330 Not to the same extent as livestreaming on Twitch. The Twitch streamers can talk directly to the viewers and interact with them. On UA-cam it's one-sided. No interaction. People watch a video then like it or dislike it and move on to the next. You're right though in the fact that moderation is key. Watching someone play a game for 4 or 8 hours straight is not good.
You know, I played a Half Life 2 arcade machine in Japan around 2008 and the controls were wild. It looked like a flight simulator with a joystick, throttle, and 2 pedals. It was actually pretty fun!
Just plain interesting. It gives me that feeling I've had for ages like I wish arcade culture continued on, but knowing full well modern business would make it extremely monetarily icky. Good video, dude.
9:09 Translated text: "When the time reaches zero, the "Mega Zombie Rush" will occur, in which a powerful army of zombies will attack, and escape will be hopeless!" Now that's quite a tip if I've ever seen one
Thanks for the excellent video. Ever since the arcade files got dumped online, I've been hoping someone would figure out a way to add the arcade guns into the weapon pool, but so far the only mods are ones that outright replace existing weapons. Random fun fact: Left 4 Dead Arcade got referenced in the Umaru-chan manga, with a chapter where the title character and a couple of friends play an arcade game titled "Dead 3 Zombies".
OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO TALK ABOUT THIS I played it when I was in Akihabara back in 2015. Me and some teenagers got really far, I remember being so confused that you just chuck 300¥ into the PC but having a blast. Glad to know this wasn't a fever dream nor forgotten about
about the censorship: I seem to remember an article on House of the Dead (that had a uncensored version in some western versions, a censored one and a version there was an option for censorship) it's not that the arcade needs to be censored, but that uncensored games could not be visible by bystanders or something.
Nice video! I never thought much of the arcade version of Left 4 Dead as everyone who talks about it in English just gives a very barebones explanation. There's a lot of really cool ideas and I wish I could've played it, especially the god difficulty and playing around with the customization. Thanks for making this video, it's very informative and really interesting.
Ah that Nesica bit finally helped me figure out how stuff like the Kantai Collection Arcade game and other games similar to that worked. That's pretty interesting.
There is an arcade in Chicago that has this game. It’s called Galloping Ghost Arcade. Id highly recommend. You pay to enter the place and all the games are free.
I actually went to an Arcade bar last year and they had this game running. I had no idea the "wii nunchuck and razer mouse" was the actually product! I thought it was some sort of bootleg fix by the owner.
Woah that's insane, I had no idea this existed! What an absolute trip. I would've loved to give this a go at an actual arcade, but I don't know if it's worth trying to play at home when I can't read Japanese at all.
watched the whole video, I found it extremely fascinating, I really would love to have been able to see what the special zombies would have been like to play against and all those cosmetics and the boosts are really cool ideas.
I remember reading about this version online years ago and being really interested to see what it was all about. Great video! Brilliant look at this weird little bit of L4D history.
9:20 I imagine the bright signposting is because it is hard to focus on map layout when you have a DDR game blaring in your right ear, and a racing game roaring in your left ear.
thank you *so much* for making this video, ive been extremely interested in the arcade ports of l4d and also counter strike, theres hardly any english resources to learn about them and i was so happy to see this show up on my home page.
there's some genuinely interesting ideas on display here that scratch that old itch for a Left 4 Dead 3 like there is clearly room for some new L4D content even if it sucks. The idea of reverse charger (charges, grabs you and then runs backwards? Like a jockey but faster idk?) is just super interesting and I'd have loved to see those ideas on display
L4D2 Superfan here. This video was so much more in-depth than expected and you’ve earned yourself a new subscriber. Cannot wait for the Theatrythm video! Also; would you be willing to go through the nightmare of a Dissidia Arcade video?
I'm surprised I don't see many people talking about this arcade game, yours is the first. Glad I had to watch the entire thing. Would like to see more gameplays on it.
I got this video recommended to me and I watched all of it wondering why this guys voice is so familiar. just now looking at the comments section I realized he is Punchy and I watched his Illbleed speedruns before on GDQ : ) Anyway well done and thanks for this video. i had no idea there was a arcade version!
God I miss arcades. What I would give to have a profitable arcade somehow. It’s such a relic of modern culture. To be able to pay to play games was such a formative thing for me and my friends growing up.
Arcades are still very much a big thing in Asia. If you see the living spaces of the population there, it makes sense why they can't own home consoles and dedicated PC gaming setups.
@@SoldierOfFateIf I recall, apparently that's why smartphones, tablets and by extension, the Nintendo Switch are so popular over there. Limited space means compact devices are logistically attractive.
It’s funny because I live in the UK and there is an arcade I usually go in with my friends from time to time when we go to the cinema next door. It has your typical arcade machines except it’s split into two areas, one that focuses on your typical quick ticket machines to win prizes and the other are more your arcade shooters and basketball games. One day I went in to the arcade alone, I don’t remember why I was on my own, I think I was with with my parents that day and they didn’t bother coming in. Anyway there was on game I really liked which was a walking dead arcade shooter and I always played it. Until one day it was removed but surprisingly it had this game in its place. I was so shocked to see a Japanese left for dead game in a public arcade and it was this exact same game you’re showing here. Literally just 4 PC’s lined up against a wall where the walking dead machine was. I remember telling my friends about it and remembered how it worked so vividly because it was so strange to me that a game I have hundreds of hours in the normal version, now has a Japanese version just sitting (and strangely unplayed) in my arcade. Obviously I played the game when I saw it and was weirded out by the mouse and nunchuck controls but still I was definitely playing it. And yeah it plays exactly like left for dead just censored and on a timer. The sad thing is, when I came back about 2 weeks later with my friends it had been removed with nothing in its place. I think it was there for all of one month before it was removed and I was so sad that I wouldn’t get the chance to play it again but still, I’m glad I got the chance to play it just once.
Wow this was really fascinating! I've heard about the Half Life arcade game a few times, but never knew there was a L4D one too! Thanks for the video! Also I love that they made an offline patch for the game so people could keep playing it. More companies need to do that instead of just pulling the plug outright...
This was a great video. I’m glad someone finally decided to make a definitive look at this version of L4D2 as I’ve seen other UA-camrs discuss the JP arcade game but didn’t go into much more detail which was disappointing.
The green uniform riot cops are now in L4D2 after the Last Stand update. Speaking of L4D2, i'm surprised no one has tried to port some of this into the workshop. It would be right at home seeing almost everyone has a heavilly modded copy nowadays.
I actually saw and played this arcade cabinet in the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois a few years ago when I went on vacation to Chicago. It was a very interesting experience.
I was in Japan from 2013 to late 2017 and I remember seeing this in one of the SEGA owned arcades, like, only a handful of times (which is crazy since I used arcade hop in akihabara like almost every weekend. It seemed to not be very popular because everytime I walked around that area it was located, it was usually empty. Never played it, but I did hold the controllers to get a feel for it. Kinda regret not trying the real thing but hey, at least its still preserved! Also weird to hear my first name, Blake, being said in a L4D game and even more weird it being said with a japanese accent haha. Such a neat piece of video game history!
I played this game when I was in Japan on New Year’s Eve 2014/2015. It was the only game I could even slightly understand. I spent more money playing the arcade game than I spent on the pc version.
shame that the only L4D arcade I found in the US was in Galloping Ghost, where it was blocked off by other arcade cabinets. They also have a Half Life Survivor cabinet there, though the smaller one without the big chair. Still had the pedals though.
I personally want to more about these special names you mentioned in the video like calling the smoker the "licky licky man". I want to know more of these unique names as I enjoy the insight into what other people would call the special infected, it seems unlikely to me that everyone would unanimously agree and come to the decision that boomers are boomers. Much like how in TWD from Telltale you had "Walkers" and "Muertos". This stuff is flavor text eye candy to me.
Something I'd really like to know more about is the dialogue/new characters. Something I really like about the Left 4 Dead gams are the characters and their dynamics, so I'm super curious as to what these characters are like, how they differ from the normal survivors, and what kinds of things they talk about.
The 15 second player respawn is the weirdest thing. It would have made losing even on expert close to impossible. Very interesting video, thank you for making it.
I knew about this port for Japan but there were so many things I didn't know about it, content-wise like the new weapons they added or the mutations which are rather interesting. Man, you did a great job covering this not-well-known subject.
A L4D campaign that takes place in Tokyo would be amazing - this was a missed opportunity right here. The auto shotgun you mentioned was an AA12. I'm surprised the vanilla L4D game didn't have an AA12 added to it as a mag-fed tier 2 shotgun instead of the Benelli M4 and SPAS-12, which are loaded individually with shells. I do hope that Valve does release an update that ports all the JP exclusive weapons over to the NA port. The G36, Tommy gun, AA12, and Dragunov would be interesting additions.
In the USA Brookfield, Illinois there's a arcade called "Galloping ghost" they have this arcade there and I played it since im very much a fan of L4D series and running through it was very interesting because I never seen an arcade version.
Hey Punchy about the zombies in green armor, that color is there because it was a missing zombie and valve never fixed it and theres been mods that force that zombie back into the game :)
Oh, cool video. If anyone in the US is interested in trying this out in the arcade, I did play at a cabinet recently at Galloping Ghosts, an arcade in Illinois. The joystick was kind of in poor condition, and I didn't play long after confirming that it is pretty much just L4D2. But definitely a fun novelty to see that I'm sure some others here would enjoy playing. Though with this many comments someone else has probably already mentioned it, idk, worth bringing up just in case anyone finds this comment.
Weren't there weird SI variants in the normal gameplay? I distinctly remember things like the "special SI" from 19:54 being part of the base game. That would also be why the tank in the Versus Survival clip is so small, there were mini tanks, mini boomers, lightspeed hunters, and all sorts of ridiculous infected variants that spawned throughout the levels. I also remember that each gun had versions that dealt more damage but had less ammo, or had more accuracy but dealt less damage.
they seemed to primarily appear during events and I ran into a lot of descriptions while researching but no Complete list nor specifics on spawning. They don't show up at all in Offline play I am pretty sure, having played the thing through multiple times now
The version of L4D Survivors I had seemed to be modified to spawn in the new SI variants, I have definitely encountered these different types of SI in game, albeit had a horrible tendency to crash after a few maps.
Ngl id love to see a fan made mod with theses survivors dubbed in English and then having a few new maps like 5 new ones name like idk "Bio Valley" "Dam-It" "Astro Corpse" "Chill Punk" and "Flesh Fried" uncommon infected and weapons and theses guys meeting both the l4d1 crew and the l4f2 crew aswell
i've actually played l4d2 on xbox360 with a pair of random japanese guys waaaay back then. just 1 round by total chance. we voice chatted but my japanese was too broken, but we had a lot of fun. this video brought those memories back, thank you!
pinning this comment for people to inevitably not read: when I talk about not knowing who the voice actors were, I was specifically referring to not knowing who voiced Zoey, Louis and Francis. The new survivors are pretty easy to find on google. Just pinning this one because this is like 50% of the comments since a lot of people seem to struggle with the listening comprehension of that part.
Listening and comprehension lol
Sorry, I can’t read. Could you speak up?
they are called morons, can't read, can't listen.
And I just wanted to say this is an amazing topic and I’m really appreciative that you took the time to put together this miniDoc for us 🎉❤
@@GiggleFist720 this always gets me
This arcade version could definitely be recreated in the steam workshop
west dont have arcades ???
@@rossgaller960
Not as common
@@rossgaller960 Used to be super common, but now they’re a rarity. You don’t get much money from Quarters or a couple dollars from the old methods of arcade machines anymore. Most establishments with arcades have it as a *section* to coincide the regular business (could be a hotel, diner, pizzeria, etc.), and to make it profitable, they often lock them behind a dedicated card that you use for the machines that you can put funds into. I think they also manually set the prices for the card readers of the machines, so they might be a bit more expensive to play - though usually by just a couple dollars - compared to what it costed in the past (this is running off of memory from the last time I’ve been to a modern arcade).
@@Dr.Oofers damn , here in Japan arcades are like esports here ...
From tekken 7, gundam extreme vs to other competitive DBZ or other shooter games etc etc ...
u will even find a ton of arcade open world RPGs too ..
The majority of Japanese gamers still play arcade rather than pc or console stuff ..
Mobile gaming is also increasing these days
@@rossgaller960there are running league for BEATMANIA IIDX, and yes it is highly competitive esport
I will forever thank Zoey whenever I pick up a jerry can in L4D2 now
Someone pleaseee make this a mod in the workshop 🥺
She sounds kinda Mikasa from Shingeki no Kyojin, the one thanking Zoey.
@@user-11Il10I1attack on titan?
@@user-11Il10I1 Funny thing is the VA of Sara is the same one as Makoto Makimura, Majima's ex-love interest from Yakuza. Look it up.
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Gotta respect the absolute madman, Chami. Dude loved his waifu so much he topped the rankings
I killed a man in West Virginia and got away with it
Forever remembered as Haruka's husbando is pretty dope
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Imagine spending money on a date when you can pay for an arcade... This man is an absolute turbochad
why
21:44 I did some quick calculations based on the info of this video and that top player literary spend over 40,000$ USD + on the game.
The thing I love most about this version is how they built up four new unique characters going into the same exact path that the original four American survivors did, while somehow writing it all from the ground up in such a way that makes sense for the most part: a bunch of exchange students and teachers on a trip abroad getting caught in the zombie apocalypse in a different country. And it works. All this effort... for an arcade game that didn't even last that long. I'm so glad it's possible to mod some of this into L4D2. It somehow made the same old maps feel fresh when you got entirely new folks running through them, bantering with one another, and dealing with the same stuff Ellis, Coach, Rochelle, and Nick did in their own way.
Yeah, probably.
@@daegnaxqelil2733God I hate this pretentious cynical attitude. You see one Japanese school girl in a game, suddenly it's all stereotypes. They didn't need to do it. Still kinda cool that they did, because it's better than simply dubbing the American characters. Hell, if we go by this boring, soulless logic, making L4D at all wasn't necessary. Another zombie game? Using character and setting tropes obviously inspired by film? Who asked for that, amirite?
@@daegnaxqelil2733 lil bro talk as if the whole og cast and settings arent stereotypes lmao
@@daegnaxqelil2733 Not like the game was catered to be played you.
@@daegnaxqelil2733 as if Eliis is not an ultra stereotype at all.
ARIGATO ZOEY
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As a Japanese L4D player, I was impressed by the Japanese dubbing of the original L4D characters! (around 12:54)
I regret not actually playing it...
Valve always does Japanese translations when they release games, and I hope that someday when they release L4D3, they will include Japanese dubbing.
Sorry for the machine translation. Thanks for the interesting video.
@@daegnaxqelil2733Any reason why you're so miserable?
Fat chances having l4d3, Plus their "successor" (Back 4 blood rest in piss) didn't have an good time either...
And yes, I regret it too, but since the game felt too much EA with microtransactions, well now... I'm not so sorry for not testing it out.
@@daegnaxqelil2733 pal, get a life, you've been crying all over the comment section.
@@Unerbroken Left 4 Dead 3 WAS in development at one point, but Source 2 wasn't at a point where it could handle their vision so they scrapped it. Now that the engine is actually done maybe it'll see a revival.
I don't know much Japanese but in 13:03 did Louis say "Francis said he isn't coming back" or "Francis said they(the new group)won't come back/make it".
I actually played this game when I visited Japan in Akihabara. This was in the Sega arcade before it shutdown. They had a few mouse and keyboards setup and multiple screens for multiple players to join. I really enjoyed the experience!
I didn't play it but I did mess around with controllers in one of the big SEGA arcades! It was so cool seeing it there along side all the other games. If I wasn't so addicted to arcade rythm games at that time I prob would of played it more haha
A point of interest: The character models used in The Passing are normally based on whatever is set as the player model for L4D1 campaigns. That means if you have a mod that, for instance, turns Francis purple, Purple Francis will appear on the bridge. They must have done more than naive model replacement to get the arcade survivors into the L4D1 campaigns.
I didn't know that but are the models for L4D1 survivors on The Passing in this game were separate and copied files as Taito replaced all eight mains with the original characters exclusively on this game
As someone who knows a bit about L4D2 modding: They most likely just did a model and audio-swap for the L4D2 survivors. As for getting them into the L4D1 campaigns? Assuming they don't have campaign-dedicated voice-lines for the Arcade-Survivors in the L4D1 maps, they probably just opened the campaign.txt for each individual campaign, which has a bunch of parameters, one of which being which survivor-team is enabled (L4D2 being the default, in case the line is missing). The L4D1 NPCs in Passing are not affected by this, due to them being NPCs.
So commenting it out or just changing the value to the L4D2-crew setting is all that's needed to swap the two crews.
There are also other values (like if and how early Witches and Tanks spawn, if those should use a custom model, how much score a map is worth in Versus, ect.) which can be fun to mess around with, or used if you want some tweaking for your custom campaign yourself.
Works in the PC version as well, and doesn't require much work. So if you want the L4D1 crew in the L4D2 cast, it's just a simple edit of a text-file and you're good to go. And if you don't feel like "replacing" the original versions, just save the text-file under a different name alongside one or two other things, and the game should treat it as a custom campaign which just happens to look for vanilla map files.
I learned a lot about Arcade games in Japan today, thank you Punchy
Of course man. I love my community and making them videos for yall. Yours truly, Puxi. You misspelled my name BTW.
theres also a half life arcade
that's stupidly scandalous that valve don't care about making third episodes of their game series but they still do nothing better than releasing exclusive games in japan
Masocore difficulty for more coins
Believe it or not, there _is_ precedence for a Japanese arcade game that just gives you a whole keyboard to use -- Typing of the Dead had an arcade cabinet with not one but _two_ full sized tenkey keyboards on it and it is just the silliest looking thing.
didn't realise how extensive the re-writing was. that's pretty cool!
thanks for this! you have a really good presentation style. always happy to see this type of video from you
Missed opportunity to bring Louis's VA back in. He speaks Japanese!
@@TaRAAASHBAGSOh fudge, really? Missed opportunity indeed.
@@Deliveredmean42 I'm not sure if the VA actually speaks japanese, but the other comment might have been a joke cause there's a certain interaction between louis and Francis where apparently Louis canonically knows how to speak japanese
@@Ray_Moses Louis does speak Japanese
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@@TaRAAASHBAGS damn, yea missed chance
The fact that there was a underground community of l4d fans in Japan makes me happy 🙂
Makes happy what
@@superstar5123 me* probably
My bad for the error 😂
It's super weird hearing Louis speak japanese in a full conversation. These new weapons are so funny and the rpg skills remind me of the public steam group servers. I'm loving the mutation posters/banners, they're so over the top lol
I dunno, he said a brief blurb in Japanese to Francis.
I mean........if we put aside the entire "redub" thing it would kinda make sense for louis to talk in japanese because if I recalled correctly, he have some japanese speaking skills and were pointed out at some point in the game where francis asked him to say "hey, how do you say Bill is an idiot in japanese" and he did say the thing. Its kinda hilarious
Edit: He did say the thing, its just that there's only two outcome which he directs it toward bill or francis and francis didnt even notice that it was directed towards him if he does
It’s actually canon since he interned in Tokyo
@@mrekozack7817 "He did say the thing"
Well kinda, he did say someone was an idiot but it wasn't directed at Bill, he called Francis an idiot instead and Francis didn't catch on to it wich is pretty funny
@@TheAzureNightmare that's why he said in full conversation
Another thing worth mentioning about the voice acting is that it seems they’ve not only adapted every line of dialogue but they even re-recorded a lot of the unused lines for base L4D2 like the death screams, laughing etc. Also it seems like they’ve left Sara without any laughing lines as she has none.
She does...weidly say something in place of the laughter lines. Dunno why tho 🤷
It would be awesome to see these arcade-only assets ported to the base game so everyone can at least experience the characters/voice acting for themselves!
I think they mostly have been on the Steam workshop but it's spread over a bunch of packages
@@PunchyYT Oh yes, I did a cursory look at the workshop before posting this, but my search term didn't reveal many results except for one. Looks like most of them use L4DAC or L4D:AC in the names, now that I search that I see a bunch of stuff. That's awesome!
In case anyone sees this, I was just perusing through the Survivors mods on the workshop and it seems several of the special infected had a ''Baby'' skin variant. According to one of the comments of these mods, the ''Baby'' Special Infected were literally just tiny. That also explains why the Tank in that Versus clip was so small, they were playing as a Baby Tank.
9:58 H&K G36
10:08 AK12
10:45 AA12
11:07 Skorpion SMG
18:24 FAMAS
19:10 SVD
20:22 Thompson SMG
22:00 UMP
That's all the new guns shown in the video that I could recognize. Yes, I am American.
22:00 that´s not a UMP, it´s a G36C
9:58 H&K G36K (K for Karabiner -> carbine. Standart rifle of the Bundeswehr with the integrated optics)
10:08 AK12 (more modern Russian assault rifle, meant to replace the AK74)
10:33 Mk14 EBR (Enhanced Battle Rifle)
10:50 AW (Arctic Warfare, a line of sniper rifles produced by Accuracy International Ltd.)
10:45 AA12 (Atchisson Assault Shotgun or for Military Police the Auto Assault 12, an American automatic shotgun design)
11:07 vz.61 Scorpion (there are 4 modelnumbers, not sure if it really is the 61)
11:34 Sword from some other game, can't recall which
11:53 Barrett M82 (Anti material rifle, chambered in .50 Cal)
16:45 Saiga-12K (russian semi-auto shotgun)
18:24 Famas G2 (Can use Nato STANAG magazins and has an enlarged triggerguard for the whole hand, allowing the gun to be operated even when wearing mittens)
19:10 SVD (Snayperskaya Vintovka Dragunova, a russian sniper rifle)
20:22 M1928A1 Thompsen SMG
22:00 H&K G36 C (Commando)
Came to be aware that the L4D2 JP edition existed thanks to the workshop addon page. Since then I became fascinated about how it came to be, what hardware it ran on, and how the assets were obtained. Thanks for the mini documentary.
As you claim you aren't able to identify the guns lets list them by appearance in the video after you said that (Also not naming ones that are in normal L4D2)
9:52 The G36
9:59 The AN-94
10:33 The M1A (M14 variant)
10:40 The AA12
10:50 The L96A1 (Or as it is more commonly known for the more modern variant, the Artic Warfare. Or the AWP from Counter strike)
11:07 The Skorpion vz 61
12:06 The Barret .50 cal (Not picked up but on the ground)
16:45 The Saiga
18:00 The Famas G2
19:08 The SVD
20:20 The Thompson SMG (Not sure which variant)
21:51 The G36C
I would be interesting in seeing what the remaining weapons that you didn't cover would be that was added.
9:59 AK-12 Zlobin's prototype
As iWinchi pointed out, that's an AK-12 prototype, hence the arcade cabinet calling it "The Prototype Rifle".
That Thompson is the M1A1 variant.
The Barrett is an M82A1.
You also missed the WA2000 at 14:35 .
Lastly, it's a Saiga-12. There are other firearms produced that go by Saiga, so stating Saiga-12 helps people understand that it's a 12-gauge shotgun.
@@darthalvarez2046 i just noticed there's a flashlight stamped onto the m82's barrel.
I was trying to make sure it wasnt a Serbu BFG-50A as those cutouts looked rounder in some frames.
@@CturiX.IREALLY It could be an amalgamation. I know some game companies make "mashup guns" to avoid copyright infringement. Take RGG Studios for example, they have made a few amalgamation guns for the Yakuza game series and they look quite strange. However, the Anti-Material Rifle in Left 4 Dead Survivors has the muzzle brake of an M82/M82A1/M107, so it's safe to assume it's one of those variants.
its an M1 thompson
I would love it if they made these protagonists canon somehow.
I imagine that they'd just be coincidentally following the same route as the original cast except it's after the last stand
I imagine that all of this takes place in a universe where Coach, Rochelle, Ellis and Nick made it to the evac chopper in time, leaving a different survivor group behind.
@@melasauce9943That goes hard
no please
That actually makes logically sense! Though it don't make sense as to how they are on the l4D1 campaigns
Pretty wild that they got Sakura Ayane for Haruka and Sawashiro Miyuki for Sara, those are some pretty big names.
I also have memories of seeing cabinets of this in Kyoto on my first ever Japan trip in the autumn of 2017... along with a notice that they were going to be removed the following month.
Sauce plz 🙏
@@Sebastian36962 The fan made wiki linked in the description, and the Japanese Wikipedia articles of the voice actresses confirm it as well.
@@PedroTheHutt oh ok then , thanks
I think both Sakura Ayane and Miyuki Sawashiro has done lots of VA work in niche products.
If you look at their credits they often lend their voices to small Chinese gacha games
They probably do it for a nice quick buck, which is pretty smart. Gotta take all the work you can get.
Now I understand why that guy kills over a million zombies for his wife.
man, it's crazy to think about the effort that must have went into this game version, particularly with how out of date is was and how little it actually lasted. Great video
Supposedly;
Yusuke Kudo was voiced by Ryuichi Kijima(Nick & Bill)
Haruka Hirose by Ayane Sakura(Coach & Francis)
Sara Kirishima by Miyuki Sawashiro(Rochelle & Zoey)
Blake Jordan by Hidenori Takahashi(ellis & Louis)
According to the fandom wiki*
Ma/ri/ka Ko/u/no also voiced Zoey in the passing.
Not sure who louis and Francis's VA's are.
I knew it sawashiro after repeating scene. it's funny because I thought valve are able to apply cooldown to voice on their game but I guess the voice over engineering done by japanese studio
Man Miyuki Sawashiro really do have a distinguished voice here
@@akidamasu3128That's Raiden Shogun
@3agle280 Wait, how did you know who Zoey's VA was?
This was such an informative video! I went to Japan back in 2017 and played this machine whilst I was out there. I was confused of if it was just some L4D2 Workshop mod just slapped onto an arcade cabinet, so it's very interesting to learn the backstory behind the cabinet.
Man this brings back some memories of when I moved to Japan, I played a ton of this. The idea was particularly coolish at the time.
I feel like with the voices and the character models, you could make a whole ass new campaign set in Japan
They’re not going to spend money or effort on that. It’s literally just reskinned l4d to make easy money in the arcade
@@kevinc.cucumber3697
I think OP meant for the workshop
would be promising but you got custom campaign in steam workshop for that
From its urban environments to its mountainous wilderness, there is a lot of content to work with for 5 separate campaigns.
@@SoldierOfFatebruh now someone gotta do that fr
I got to play this at the Galloping Ghost in Chicago recently, and this illuminated a lot that I didn't quite catch in my limited time with the game. I can read some Japanese, albeit slowly, so I was just catching bits and pieces. It seems their cabinet must have been imported while the game was still live, as it was stuck in Nesica offline mode and could only access the aforementioned two levels.
If anyone has the knowhow to get that final patch and install it on their machine, reach out to the Galloping Ghost! I'm sure they'd be happy to upgrade.
They can literally download the dump from the Internet and write it to a new drive. The dumps online are (obviously) decrypted and will play just fine on a Type X3.
Didn't know they have an actual cab there, pretty cool!
What an excellent way to start a weekend. Thank you for documenting this unique bit of history.
The funny thing is with how crazy PC mods now this entire video could have been the PC version but with mods and nobody would ever notice.
0:14 But, I kid you not, one of the reasons I got hooked on watching vtubers when they were becoming popular was seeing Japanese people playing Western PC games, especially games that are on Steam since I was aware of how Steam, or PC gaming, isn't popular or well-known in Japan prior to that time.
8:09 Wild guess, but I think it's because it's an arcade game. They're gonna tone it down a bit since the machine could be seen by very young people. Though I'm not knowledgeable on how arcade places work in Japan so I couldn't say if it's correct.
I'll never understand why people like to watch 2D anime models or Vtubers as you people call them. They use this fake voice often high pitched like veibae and you can't see their reactions IRL. Mankind is doomed.
@@xPhantomxify you can say the same thing to many other things in life, too, like video games, and movies. Hell, I also will never ever be able to understand why people watch even normal streamers, or play games for more than 4 hours a day, or watch a movie in a cinema! But, since people have preferences and hobbies and whatnot, I say: just let them watch stuff like that, even if you'll never be able to comprehend why. Most of those people don't harm anyone else with those activities, nor do illegal activities, so why should we even care at all?
@@penebrook8330 Because it affects them negatively and it can affect their social/work life. These people get way too invested in their favourite VTuber/streamer, forming parasocial relationships with them. Then they spend hours on end in their Discord server, chatting with others similar to them and thinking they are their friends. They also hope to get the VTuber/streamers attention. Why watch and waste 4 hours(usually its more, like 8 hours) of your time watching how someone else plays a game, while earning money off of you and making you watch ads on top? Might as well play the game yourself...
@@xPhantomxify but that's another whole story, isn't it? besides, parasocial relationships can be formed even if the viewer is watching non-VTuber content (e.g: watching normal UA-camrs, streamers, etc...), can't they?
everything in life has a downside or two, or three, or even more, mate. For example: some video games cause gambling addiction! (looking at you, Overwatch, Genshin Impact, and CS:GO) and so on... So, it's better if people know how to practice good discipline when it comes to doing leisure activities (like playing video games and watching VTubers, or whatever) and when to stop, etc...
@@penebrook8330 Not to the same extent as livestreaming on Twitch. The Twitch streamers can talk directly to the viewers and interact with them. On UA-cam it's one-sided. No interaction. People watch a video then like it or dislike it and move on to the next. You're right though in the fact that moderation is key. Watching someone play a game for 4 or 8 hours straight is not good.
I love how this video was just a gateway to teaching about modern japanese arcade game releases. Lovely stuff as always!
You know, I played a Half Life 2 arcade machine in Japan around 2008 and the controls were wild. It looked like a flight simulator with a joystick, throttle, and 2 pedals. It was actually pretty fun!
Just plain interesting.
It gives me that feeling I've had for ages like I wish arcade culture continued on, but knowing full well modern business would make it extremely monetarily icky.
Good video, dude.
9:09 Translated text: "When the time reaches zero, the "Mega Zombie Rush" will occur, in which a powerful army of zombies will attack, and escape will be hopeless!"
Now that's quite a tip if I've ever seen one
I love the nickname "licking dude" for smokers lmao. great video enjoyed it a ton
Thanks for the excellent video. Ever since the arcade files got dumped online, I've been hoping someone would figure out a way to add the arcade guns into the weapon pool, but so far the only mods are ones that outright replace existing weapons.
Random fun fact: Left 4 Dead Arcade got referenced in the Umaru-chan manga, with a chapter where the title character and a couple of friends play an arcade game titled "Dead 3 Zombies".
OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO TALK ABOUT THIS
I played it when I was in Akihabara back in 2015. Me and some teenagers got really far, I remember being so confused that you just chuck 300¥ into the PC but having a blast.
Glad to know this wasn't a fever dream nor forgotten about
Wicked video mate. Had a blast watching this!
There's something about your video that feels very nostalgic to early 2010-2013 youtube.
about the censorship: I seem to remember an article on House of the Dead (that had a uncensored version in some western versions, a censored one and a version there was an option for censorship) it's not that the arcade needs to be censored, but that uncensored games could not be visible by bystanders or something.
Great video Punchy. it might be a niche topic but I was quite interested the whole way through. I love your presentation style too.
Nice video! I never thought much of the arcade version of Left 4 Dead as everyone who talks about it in English just gives a very barebones explanation. There's a lot of really cool ideas and I wish I could've played it, especially the god difficulty and playing around with the customization.
Thanks for making this video, it's very informative and really interesting.
Ah that Nesica bit finally helped me figure out how stuff like the Kantai Collection Arcade game and other games similar to that worked. That's pretty interesting.
There is an arcade in Chicago that has this game. It’s called Galloping Ghost Arcade. Id highly recommend. You pay to enter the place and all the games are free.
all the games are free... after you pay for it, of course
@@KiryuDude That's... what he wrote? Thank you for being able to rewrite what other people have written?
I actually went to an Arcade bar last year and they had this game running. I had no idea the "wii nunchuck and razer mouse" was the actually product! I thought it was some sort of bootleg fix by the owner.
Woah that's insane, I had no idea this existed! What an absolute trip. I would've loved to give this a go at an actual arcade, but I don't know if it's worth trying to play at home when I can't read Japanese at all.
watched the whole video, I found it extremely fascinating, I really would love to have been able to see what the special zombies would have been like to play against and all those cosmetics and the boosts are really cool ideas.
With such an enjoyable and well-paced video I thought you'd have more subscribers! Commenting and subscribing so the algorithm does it's magic.
I remember reading about this version online years ago and being really interested to see what it was all about. Great video! Brilliant look at this weird little bit of L4D history.
9:20 I imagine the bright signposting is because it is hard to focus on map layout when you have a DDR game blaring in your right ear, and a racing game roaring in your left ear.
thank you *so much* for making this video, ive been extremely interested in the arcade ports of l4d and also counter strike, theres hardly any english resources to learn about them and i was so happy to see this show up on my home page.
there's some genuinely interesting ideas on display here that scratch that old itch for a Left 4 Dead 3 like there is clearly room for some new L4D content even if it sucks. The idea of reverse charger (charges, grabs you and then runs backwards? Like a jockey but faster idk?) is just super interesting and I'd have loved to see those ideas on display
L4D2 Superfan here. This video was so much more in-depth than expected and you’ve earned yourself a new subscriber. Cannot wait for the Theatrythm video!
Also; would you be willing to go through the nightmare of a Dissidia Arcade video?
Dissidia arcade is unplayable now that the network support has ended. No one has bothered to try to make it work offline
I'm surprised I don't see many people talking about this arcade game, yours is the first. Glad I had to watch the entire thing. Would like to see more gameplays on it.
What a fascinating video, really enjoyed watching. Great job Punchy!
I got this video recommended to me and I watched all of it wondering why this guys voice is so familiar. just now looking at the comments section I realized he is Punchy and I watched his Illbleed speedruns before on GDQ : )
Anyway well done and thanks for this video. i had no idea there was a arcade version!
I got to play this at Galloping Ghost in Chicago, IL. It was fun and such a weird way to play the game. Great video.
The riot zombies I would assume are green because this is an arcade game and they have to make the weak-point more pronounced as most arcade games did
God I miss arcades. What I would give to have a profitable arcade somehow. It’s such a relic of modern culture. To be able to pay to play games was such a formative thing for me and my friends growing up.
Arcades are still very much a big thing in Asia. If you see the living spaces of the population there, it makes sense why they can't own home consoles and dedicated PC gaming setups.
@@SoldierOfFateIf I recall, apparently that's why smartphones, tablets and by extension, the Nintendo Switch are so popular over there. Limited space means compact devices are logistically attractive.
It’s funny because I live in the UK and there is an arcade I usually go in with my friends from time to time when we go to the cinema next door. It has your typical arcade machines except it’s split into two areas, one that focuses on your typical quick ticket machines to win prizes and the other are more your arcade shooters and basketball games.
One day I went in to the arcade alone, I don’t remember why I was on my own, I think I was with with my parents that day and they didn’t bother coming in. Anyway there was on game I really liked which was a walking dead arcade shooter and I always played it. Until one day it was removed but surprisingly it had this game in its place. I was so shocked to see a Japanese left for dead game in a public arcade and it was this exact same game you’re showing here. Literally just 4 PC’s lined up against a wall where the walking dead machine was.
I remember telling my friends about it and remembered how it worked so vividly because it was so strange to me that a game I have hundreds of hours in the normal version, now has a Japanese version just sitting (and strangely unplayed) in my arcade. Obviously I played the game when I saw it and was weirded out by the mouse and nunchuck controls but still I was definitely playing it. And yeah it plays exactly like left for dead just censored and on a timer. The sad thing is, when I came back about 2 weeks later with my friends it had been removed with nothing in its place. I think it was there for all of one month before it was removed and I was so sad that I wouldn’t get the chance to play it again but still, I’m glad I got the chance to play it just once.
Wow this was really fascinating! I've heard about the Half Life arcade game a few times, but never knew there was a L4D one too! Thanks for the video!
Also I love that they made an offline patch for the game so people could keep playing it. More companies need to do that instead of just pulling the plug outright...
This was a great video. I’m glad someone finally decided to make a definitive look at this version of L4D2 as I’ve seen other UA-camrs discuss the JP arcade game but didn’t go into much more detail which was disappointing.
I can listen to you talk for hours about video games punchy! You are truly my favorite speedrunner
really sick video, lots of cool things here
Now Im wondering what exactly attracted a Japanese high school to Savanna, Georgia so much to send a trip over there.
14:56 typical valve skipping 3 and going straight to L4D4
By the looks of them, its just Ashley Graham, Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield and Chris Redfield from Wish.
13:00 Louis does canonically speak Japanese, so this does work!
The green uniform riot cops are now in L4D2 after the Last Stand update.
Speaking of L4D2, i'm surprised no one has tried to port some of this into the workshop. It would be right at home seeing almost everyone has a heavilly modded copy nowadays.
It already in the workshop, just type left 4 dead survivor arcade in the search bar
I actually saw and played this arcade cabinet in the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois a few years ago when I went on vacation to Chicago. It was a very interesting experience.
I don't understand Japanese but those Japanese dubs sounds really good! I feel like this arcade port is kinda high budget.
I'm pretty sure most of the budget went towards the voices since they had Ayane Sakura (a big name VA) do Haruka's lines.
I like the cast of characters in these, wish they continued with it.
I was in Japan from 2013 to late 2017 and I remember seeing this in one of the SEGA owned arcades, like, only a handful of times (which is crazy since I used arcade hop in akihabara like almost every weekend. It seemed to not be very popular because everytime I walked around that area it was located, it was usually empty. Never played it, but I did hold the controllers to get a feel for it. Kinda regret not trying the real thing but hey, at least its still preserved! Also weird to hear my first name, Blake, being said in a L4D game and even more weird it being said with a japanese accent haha. Such a neat piece of video game history!
this was exactly the type of video I was looking for about this version, great work
I love watching or reading about western games in japan. Thanks for the video, really interesting material
I played this game when I was in Japan on New Year’s Eve 2014/2015. It was the only game I could even slightly understand. I spent more money playing the arcade game than I spent on the pc version.
shame that the only L4D arcade I found in the US was in Galloping Ghost, where it was blocked off by other arcade cabinets. They also have a Half Life Survivor cabinet there, though the smaller one without the big chair. Still had the pedals though.
If they changed the map to Tokyo or anywhere in japan, that would have been a game changer
I personally want to more about these special names you mentioned in the video like calling the smoker the "licky licky man". I want to know more of these unique names as I enjoy the insight into what other people would call the special infected, it seems unlikely to me that everyone would unanimously agree and come to the decision that boomers are boomers.
Much like how in TWD from Telltale you had "Walkers" and "Muertos". This stuff is flavor text eye candy to me.
Something I'd really like to know more about is the dialogue/new characters. Something I really like about the Left 4 Dead gams are the characters and their dynamics, so I'm super curious as to what these characters are like, how they differ from the normal survivors, and what kinds of things they talk about.
The 15 second player respawn is the weirdest thing. It would have made losing even on expert close to impossible. Very interesting video, thank you for making it.
what about on GOD tho?
I knew about this port for Japan but there were so many things I didn't know about it, content-wise like the new weapons they added or the mutations which are rather interesting. Man, you did a great job covering this not-well-known subject.
Francis: I hate Anime
A L4D campaign that takes place in Tokyo would be amazing - this was a missed opportunity right here.
The auto shotgun you mentioned was an AA12. I'm surprised the vanilla L4D game didn't have an AA12 added to it as a mag-fed tier 2 shotgun instead of the Benelli M4 and SPAS-12, which are loaded individually with shells.
I do hope that Valve does release an update that ports all the JP exclusive weapons over to the NA port. The G36, Tommy gun, AA12, and Dragunov would be interesting additions.
The mod Yama has this.
This was a fascinating video and I didn't even play any of the Left for Dead games.
missing out on some of the greatest games ever made bro fr
You should, great games
That's a crime
play them you wont regret it
Sucks to be you then.
In the USA Brookfield, Illinois there's a arcade called "Galloping ghost" they have this arcade there and I played it since im very much a fan of L4D series and running through it was very interesting because I never seen an arcade version.
Hey Punchy about the zombies in green armor, that color is there because it was a missing zombie and valve never fixed it and theres been mods that force that zombie back into the game :)
Oh, cool video. If anyone in the US is interested in trying this out in the arcade, I did play at a cabinet recently at Galloping Ghosts, an arcade in Illinois. The joystick was kind of in poor condition, and I didn't play long after confirming that it is pretty much just L4D2. But definitely a fun novelty to see that I'm sure some others here would enjoy playing. Though with this many comments someone else has probably already mentioned it, idk, worth bringing up just in case anyone finds this comment.
Weren't there weird SI variants in the normal gameplay? I distinctly remember things like the "special SI" from 19:54 being part of the base game.
That would also be why the tank in the Versus Survival clip is so small, there were mini tanks, mini boomers, lightspeed hunters, and all sorts of ridiculous infected variants that spawned throughout the levels.
I also remember that each gun had versions that dealt more damage but had less ammo, or had more accuracy but dealt less damage.
they seemed to primarily appear during events and I ran into a lot of descriptions while researching but no Complete list nor specifics on spawning. They don't show up at all in Offline play I am pretty sure, having played the thing through multiple times now
The version of L4D Survivors I had seemed to be modified to spawn in the new SI variants, I have definitely encountered these different types of SI in game, albeit had a horrible tendency to crash after a few maps.
Damn I knew about HL2 Survivor but never knew they made one for L4D2. Great video Punchy, you should have more subs!
We need this ported to L4D2
Wow, this video was really interesting! I would love to see someone go more in depth on the localization!
how bizarre, thank you.
Ngl id love to see a fan made mod with theses survivors dubbed in English and then having a few new maps like 5 new ones name like idk "Bio Valley" "Dam-It" "Astro Corpse" "Chill Punk" and "Flesh Fried" uncommon infected and weapons and theses guys meeting both the l4d1 crew and the l4f2 crew aswell
ARIGATO, ZOEY!
i've actually played l4d2 on xbox360 with a pair of random japanese guys waaaay back then. just 1 round by total chance. we voice chatted but my japanese was too broken, but we had a lot of fun. this video brought those memories back, thank you!
i'll take a shot at porting the 'events' to pc
you can load into the mutation that adds the reverse charger with 'map mutation17' in the console
using "find consumer" in console, you can see how it stored the.. upgrades?
That special infected mimicking survivors mutation sounds really fun! It's a shame they're not on PC.