Valve's Lost Masterpiece: A Fairy RPG?

Valve Software's Gabe Newell, Erik Johnson, and Doug Lombardi dished about an ill-fated product you've never heard of in a recent interview with PC Gamer UK. The headline above isn't wrong. It was a fairy RPG. Yeah, the gossamer wings and living in trees kind of fairy.

“That was a useful failure to us,” Newell told PC Gamer, “because it was so clearly dumb that it made us say, ‘OK, what are we actually good at that we can do instead?’”

Turns out that what they are good at is Left 4 Dead, which is the project that was born out of the fairy RPG's ashes. I'm thinking we as gamers came out ahead on this one.