Before you get up in arms, this post is about Left 4 Dead, not the game so much – but a small oversight on behalf of whoever designed the in-game movie posters.

If you’ve never played the game – ignore me, but this bothers me just a bit.

Zoey, the female character in the game, is shown on two of the four campaign start-up screens aiming a pistol:

To the top left is an image from the Blood Harvest campaign. Everything looks fine and cheery. In fact, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this image. As this is the example of what it should be.

On the bottom left is a photo from the No Mercy campaign, noted as “the first” campaign, and also the one featured in the demo of the game.

As I’m typing this, I hate being into design, because otherwise I know for a damn fact that this would not bother me enough to post about, but anyway…

I’ve resized the images so that Zoey’s face is spot on the same size… and to my surprise, they’re the same exact image, at least that portion is… Awesome, I can see the value in saving man-hours on that. In fact, for consistency, I think it’s a great idea – make sure everything has the look of the characters, as planned. But it’s the hands in the image on the left that I’m focusing on.

Every time I play the No Mercy campaign, it drives me batty. She has 4 hands. Rather 3.5 hands. The face image that was gaffed from the Blood Harvest campaign start-up screen and plopped into the No Mercy campaign start-up screen is a poorly executed copy, paste, soft-edge-erase tool, Photoshop mashup…

It gets worse when I start to pay attention to the neck line of her jacket over the left shoulder. Anyhow, I love the game, and this might seem minor to anyone else other than me, but it was driving me nuts, and perhaps there’s 2 other people on the planet that have 1. noticed it & 2. give half a squat.

Takes all of 10 minutes of some TLC to make sure the smallest percentage of us people that pay attention to detail don’t get driven to ape shit over nothing. Damn you Valve. Portal mind-sodomized me enough as is. I don’t need mishaps working my brain too! Grr.

Ok, I’m done.