Has the zombie craze finally died?
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You beat me to the pun!tippy2k2 said:I feel like it's been "Dying" forever now and yet, they keep....rising from the grave
Which I'm super happy about because I for one still really like zombies.
Although I will say I'm tired of running zombies. Shuffle or bust!
It's coming close to burnout, and despite the fact that I consider the first three Romero movies to be my cinematic holy trilogy, I'm glad it is. I say it needs to go away for 10-11 years, then come back with something distinctive to refresh it again.
I'm glad it's slowly going away for a bit.
Don't get me wrong, I like The Walking Dead TV show and the games, but I was getting a little tired of them.
Given them zombies a break people, they can only shuffle and stagger for so long. Zombies need breaks too.
Don't get me wrong, I like The Walking Dead TV show and the games, but I was getting a little tired of them.
Given them zombies a break people, they can only shuffle and stagger for so long. Zombies need breaks too.
Silentpony said:You beat me to the pun!tippy2k2 said:I feel like it's been "Dying" forever now and yet, they keep....rising from the grave
Which I'm super happy about because I for one still really like zombies.
Although I will say I'm tired of running zombies. Shuffle or bust!
100% agree
ZombiU is basically my perfect zombie game if that damn game had a decent story (and was longer than a few hours). Just slow shufflers and my zombie smacking weapons.
It just seems like the only zombie games still getting kicked out are the fast zombies (which I don't hate but I much prefer my Romero zombies) or the big MMO zombie things like "7 Days to Die" (which maybe I should give a chance, I just don't like multiplayer games unless I know who I'm playing with).
I like horde zombie games, like State of Decay. Yeah it had some running zombies, but it was mostly dealing with hordes of shuffle-fucks and the occasional unique zombie.tippy2k2 said:
Left 4 Dead I will admit is okay, because its an FPS. 3rd person hacking/slashing doesn't work well with running zombies.
A Triple A version of State of Decay (although again, with a better story as it didn't really have much of one) would also be close to my perfect zombie game. But for $15 (I bought the GotY edition during the Microsoft Winter Sale so I got the regular one and the Military DLC one for the one price and it may have actually been cheaper than that, I don't actually remember what I paid), I adored me some SoD.Silentpony said:
L4D is also very solid as I played it with a buddy.
The only other zed game that I am somewhat interested in for the Xbox One is "Dying Light". I'll probably get Dead Rising 4 at some point too just to scratch that zed itch but I'm not terribly excited about it as I've heard iffy things at best
They just signed on David Fincher to direct World War Z 2. There's a whole bunch of upcoming zombie movies if you google "upcoming zombie movies".IamQ said:
I agree the zombies have died down in popularity though. But that's how it works, it's a cyclical thing. They've been around forever but they always come back if you give them a new fresh spin. Like Romero in the 60s/70s and the 28 Days Later speedy viral zombies of the early 2000s. It's just a matter of time till somebody comes up with a fresh take on zombies.
Zombies, they're outta here!
What's replacing them in games though?
OPEN WORLD 'SURVIVAL' GAMES AND PROBABLY MOAR BATTLE ROYALE GAMES.
Buckle up, it's gonna be a fun few years for gaming.
What's replacing them in games though?
OPEN WORLD 'SURVIVAL' GAMES AND PROBABLY MOAR BATTLE ROYALE GAMES.
Buckle up, it's gonna be a fun few years for gaming.
I'm not one who was ever bothered by the zombie thing. I don't think a game having zombies makes it inherently more or less interesting than a game without zombies. Like anything it's how you use them and what their purpose is (i.e., in Dying Light, its human foes are more interesting opponents in a gun fight, but the zombies are used as the impetus behind its parkour traversal, and to make the games day/night system an interesting dynamic risk for the player).
The latest COD has a zombie mode (I think). The Last of Us 2 is on the horizon, as is Days Gone and State of Decay 2, and I'd expect to see a Dying Light 2 at some point. So it is still there in the AAA space.
The latest COD has a zombie mode (I think). The Last of Us 2 is on the horizon, as is Days Gone and State of Decay 2, and I'd expect to see a Dying Light 2 at some point. So it is still there in the AAA space.
Even H1Z1, a game that started as a zombie survival game, didn't really gain a lot of attention until it started focusing more on its King of the Kill mode, which pitted players against each other exclusively.
And then PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds kind of put that to shame anyway..
But if it indeed is going away, I at least want a Dying Light 2. The first game was the most fun I've had with a video game to this day, and I can only hope a proper sequel would improve that.
One thing I have to say though, we've still never got a proper multiplayer zombie survival game, have we? Or at least not a finisehd one. I mean...ffs, 7 Days to Die WAS my favorite for awhile, since it fed into my obsession with Minecraft at the time and zombies, but they've been trapped in Alpha hell since like 2013, right? And there's no signs of beta or even proper optimization.
And then PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds kind of put that to shame anyway..
But if it indeed is going away, I at least want a Dying Light 2. The first game was the most fun I've had with a video game to this day, and I can only hope a proper sequel would improve that.
One thing I have to say though, we've still never got a proper multiplayer zombie survival game, have we? Or at least not a finisehd one. I mean...ffs, 7 Days to Die WAS my favorite for awhile, since it fed into my obsession with Minecraft at the time and zombies, but they've been trapped in Alpha hell since like 2013, right? And there's no signs of beta or even proper optimization.
The craze is over so its more remission. I am glad that a zombie anything should be of better quality now since there should be less easy money/fame to be squeezed out of it. Since the latest zombie craze hit almost all media I am glad that we did get those green parachute cord wrapped knives and blades out of them. Those are always fun to have.
State of Decay with more character depth, maybe circa Bioware, so if Paul dies you really feel it, with more desperation for resources, 'cause by the end I was basically God with ammo, food, buildings, construction shit, weapons all of types and every single area trapped and ready to go. I was untouchable!tippy2k2 said:
Maybe take some elements of timed missions? Like Dead Rising, but less...intense? Like the girl dying of cancer who needs meds? You can put that mission off basically indefinitely to horde supplies.
Something like a 4-day wait before it expires and she dies would be nice.
And i'll just say it, more random events. Like you're prized CC fighter dies while you're not playing, or 10+ hordes attack at once, or special zombies attack the neighbors, or rats get into your food and you loose half. Things that add stress and tension to the resource gathering. And way way WAY more enclaves to find and secure, with more survivors to help and eventually offer sanctuary. And hell while I'm at it, raids from other survivors if you ever get too much of one resource.
All the while you have to manage your survivors, keep them sane and alive and focused, etc...
That'd be the perfect zombie game
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well 9/11 was the cause of the initial Zombie craze, you could say maybe it has something with us getting complacent.... or maybe who needs horror when the current state of the world is a horror show already?
I believe they're aiming for gold release next year. One of the main reasons they've been in Alpha for so long is because of how many work-heavy features they'd had on their Kickstarter goals.DeliveryGodNoah said:
As for optimization, the last two builds have had pretty spectacular performance, even though I don't have an SSD and am still running on an AMD Phenom II x4 (the game is very CPU and read/write heavy). This is of course also only including 5-6 players on a server. Frankly though, the game's design is probably more favorable to relatively small numbers anyway, realistically.
I'd actually hoped H1Z1 was going to use a very similar kind of gameplay model but on a bigger scale, unfortunately though they jumped on the same idiotic PVP focused survival bandwagon that so many other games have done.