Is anyone else SICK of the post apocalypse?

[Aesir23]

I can't say I'm tired of post-apocalypse games. I'm tired of certain types of post-apocalypse games but I still yearn for the one that will have some real survival strategy to it, not just have it as a fan-made addon or as an extra difficulty mode.

 

[Arina Love]

i don't mind post-apocalypse i just sick of zombie post-apocalypse. I'm no longer wish to play any game with zombies in it.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Hell no. Sick as fuck of the zombie apocalypse though. I thought zombies were boring before the trillion zillion games and movies depicting an almost identical version of the zombie apocalypse. Post apocalypse as a setting is something that can be portrayed in

Spoiler: so

Spoiler: many

Spoiler: different

Spoiler: ways

and I'm more than game to see it explored more.

 

[J Tyran]

Seriously, when am I going to get a city full of hovercars, hoverboards, and robot hover prostitutes to roam around in?

Better yet, when are we going to go back to that gameplay style where you're handed a ship, a few hundred credits, and a SINGLE PLAYER universe to run around space trading and space bounty hunting as we please?

Try any of the X games, the newer ones include X Rebirth X3: Albion, X3: Terran Conflict. You can do whatever you want from the owner and master of a huge interstellar trade empire to a paramilitary merc with a fleet of Capitol ships to a single guy running around doing whatever.

If a lack of shiny graphics doesn't put you off try Evochron: Mercenary, you can trade, fight, join factions or simply explore. It as a lot of cool features like atmospheric transition, I.E. flying from space down to a planets surface. It just looks like a game from 2002 but the gameplay more than makes up for it (it has a superb soundtrack too), its a sandbox space game very much like Elite and Elite 2: Frontier.

If you want 1 ship + a handful of credits Freelancer it is.

Or grab Evochron: Mercenary as its about the same as Freelancer in graphics but has much deeper gameplay, its basically Elite 2: Frontier with Freelancer quality 3D graphics.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Go and grab the good ole Freelancer then. Because it was the last space sim game.

And no, i don't count X3. X3 is a tycoon/eco game with some pewpew tack'd on. And yes, i know there's the option to just dabble around in a single ship missing 95% of the games content. <.<

If you want 1 ship + a handful of credits Freelancer it is.

Exactly.

Better yet, when are we going to go back to that gameplay style where you're handed a ship, a few hundred credits, and a SINGLE PLAYER universe to run around space trading and space bounty hunting as we please?

Basically a literal description of what Freelancer is. If we ever get a new game like that it's an instant buy for me. Freelancer is amazing and it's a damn shame that genre has pretty much died out.

 

[Drummodino]

Personally I'm not tired of it, however I would still like to see something different. I was thinking about this a few days ago. Everything is POST apocalypse, but what about an apocalypse in progress? Or how about anarchy? GTA 5 doesn't count, or APB Reloaded. Those games barely have anything that dynamically changes the world.

I mean a game where resources are hard to find not because it's all been destroyed, but because everyone is scrambling for it all at once. I mean, I'm sure a game like this has already been made, but I haven't heard of it then. I think is would be nice to introduce such a game as a typical open world, city environment, with your character going throughout the day, and then BAM, anarchy. (With a bit more explanation of course)

State of Decay might interest you. The beginning of the game has you controlling a guy who returns from a fishing trip with his buddy to find the zombie apocalypse has begun. The game is built around protecting your community. Here is a list of some of the things you have to do:

Scavenge for supplies
Take down infestations and hordes
Trade and interact with other survivor groups
Build improvements to your home base
Recruit more survivors
Relocate to new areas

It's a really fun game and you get to control almost everyone in your group (the game forces you to switch as your character gets tired after a while). They all have individual stats which you can level up. The combat is simple yet satisfying and if one of your crew dies, they stay dead.

I think the game is like $20 on Steam if you're interested.

 

[Gronk]

I am sick of UGLY post apocalypse. I got Fallout new vegas.. started it up, talked to some old guy in a house, got outside and was met with the ugliest landscape ever. Brown, brown and brown (with a touch of brown). Closed down the game and have never started it again. That's how ugly it was.

The post apocalyptic setting is overdone and they almost all look the same, brown and grey.. filled woth rubble with some vegetation over it and some tilting skyscrapers. And everyone wants to kill you instantly, because that what everyone apparently does in the future. Kill everything they see!

I guess it's popular partly because it's so much more easy to portray a futuristic world that doesn't work than one that actually DOES seem to work.

And the same goes for the Cyberpunk-style of world. Tall skyscrapers with slum below it, filled with people that do nothing except want to KILL you (sound familiar?). It is old and lazy and boring. Bleh.

What I would like instead is the "near future", where the world looks more or less like it does today (physically), but where technology is changing the way we live. I really like films like "Fahrenheit 451", "Gattaca" or even "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", that contain more low level futuristic visions. Sadly, the closest thing we get these days seem to be *gasp* Assassins creed IVs future, that is not grey or destroyed, but bright and slick. And no, Bioshock does not count

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Now if we could get out of the car, perhaps interact with some citizens, go into buildings. I'd be interested in that.

We'd like to as well. By the way do you have a million dollars you're not using?