Poll: 5 Year Ban on Zombie/Vampire related media, who's with me?
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Where's the "meh" option? Cuz really that's the only one that anyone should be clicking. If you don't like something, stop exposing yourself to it. If you don't expose yourself to it, nobody makes any money off it. If nobody makes any money off it, it stops being made.
It's a simple chain of logic. Ignore the shit you don't like, pay attention to the shit you do like, and stop making threads like this.
It didn't help any that Twilight is/was incredibly popular and with that comes the inevitable hipster backlash.
Not to mention the terrible, erratic, and migraine-inducing writing and prose that it was presented with.
It's a simple chain of logic. Ignore the shit you don't like, pay attention to the shit you do like, and stop making threads like this.
To be fair, Twilight vampires take the vast majority of the symbolism of "Vampire" (read: immortality, predators of man, the power of faith, etc) and shits all over it. I think the primary reason there was such a negative reaction to it wasn't the new aspects like being sparkly, but instead that the core concept of the vampire was completely subverted.thaluikhain said:
It didn't help any that Twilight is/was incredibly popular and with that comes the inevitable hipster backlash.
Not to mention the terrible, erratic, and migraine-inducing writing and prose that it was presented with.
I haven't tried this myself, so take it with a grain of salt, but if you use the combo \' for your apostrophe, it should work then.OlasDAlmighty said:
If my guess is correct, the poll parser thing reads " and ' as the same thing, and so when it hits the first apostrophe it ends the string. Standard programming work around to that is using \' , which basically stands for "character value of apostrophe".
Like I said, I haven't verified it, but it should work.
Zombies have been driven into the ground. I get that they're an easy target because they're mindless, already dead humanoids that no one can disagree with them needing re-killing. They're like Nazis and Aliens which we can kill without guilt.
Notice that in almost all modern shooters, our targets rarely have uncovered, human faces. Even men and women will be masked with helmets or balaclavas and/or in some sort of uniform to dehumanise them. But still, zombies are done to death now. If there wasn't another zombie title for the next 5 years, then MAYBE we can think about re-xploring this area.
But Vampires rock. There's not been nearly enough of them in media, let alone games. Apart from the recent Dawnguard, what else in the last 3-4 years has had a vampire in it? Only vampiric games I have are TES series, VTM: Bloodlines and Bloodrayne series that is sorely in need of a sequel, though at this stage, I'd prefer to wait till next gen for it.
TES isn't really a vampire game though. Even when you are one, it's secondary, not particularly important to the game and mostly just for storyline/RP purposes. I would love another game like VTM: Bloodlines, but with more interaction and consequence. It had a great feeling of being undead among the living and vampire society, the need to feed and so on. Sadly CCP bought the license though so we'll never, ever see an offline game, just the MMO :-\
More vamps, less tramps! (I don't have anything against the homeless, they just happen to rhyme with "vamps").
Notice that in almost all modern shooters, our targets rarely have uncovered, human faces. Even men and women will be masked with helmets or balaclavas and/or in some sort of uniform to dehumanise them. But still, zombies are done to death now. If there wasn't another zombie title for the next 5 years, then MAYBE we can think about re-xploring this area.
But Vampires rock. There's not been nearly enough of them in media, let alone games. Apart from the recent Dawnguard, what else in the last 3-4 years has had a vampire in it? Only vampiric games I have are TES series, VTM: Bloodlines and Bloodrayne series that is sorely in need of a sequel, though at this stage, I'd prefer to wait till next gen for it.
TES isn't really a vampire game though. Even when you are one, it's secondary, not particularly important to the game and mostly just for storyline/RP purposes. I would love another game like VTM: Bloodlines, but with more interaction and consequence. It had a great feeling of being undead among the living and vampire society, the need to feed and so on. Sadly CCP bought the license though so we'll never, ever see an offline game, just the MMO :-\
More vamps, less tramps! (I don't have anything against the homeless, they just happen to rhyme with "vamps").
I'm all for this, zombies are waaaayyy overused (plus, they scare the bejeezus out of me). As for vampires, well, let's just remove Twilight and it's knockoffs and call it a day, alright?
Only let Dead Rising through if they get rid of timed gameplay.Tony said:
Anyway I like Zombies, when they're done right. Zombies are slow creatures who stumble at you - they DO NOT run. They simple get you by sheer numbers.
EDIT: I watched Twilight the other day and couldn't stop laughing at such a poorly made, terrible story. You can't get rid of it, I haven't laughed so much since I've seen comedy live!!
What about just banning new zombies related material? An outright ban would be banning Left 4 Dead and the Walking Dead series!
While intriguing, it wouldn't do much. It doesn't really address the problem so much as it simply passes it somewhere else. Even if such a ban existed everyone would just hop onto another topic, like sea monsters. Next thing you know we're getting constant rehashes of sea monsters, and even studios forcing sea monster films into the market.
Yes, but we don't use torches and pitchforks - we go use our claws. During the fucking day. Can't hide from us, we can turn to mist and bats.Helmholtz Watson said:
But I'm also a Vampire fan, so I'll use my influence in the local police to silence OP. Or just Dementate/Dominate him into believing everyone is a zombie.
No.
I hate the fact that every single person has to make a zombie mod of every game and I hate the pretty boy vampires that girls (and some men I guess) have created to fawn over but censorship is not going to help anything. I've learned to ignore the gaglling band of idiots who thinks adding zombies to something improves it immediately and there constant stream of crap and so can you. Let people make what they want and ignore what you don't like. They will beat that dead horse forever but that's just the way it is.
I hate the fact that every single person has to make a zombie mod of every game and I hate the pretty boy vampires that girls (and some men I guess) have created to fawn over but censorship is not going to help anything. I've learned to ignore the gaglling band of idiots who thinks adding zombies to something improves it immediately and there constant stream of crap and so can you. Let people make what they want and ignore what you don't like. They will beat that dead horse forever but that's just the way it is.
I'll settle for one month without seeing anything vampire-related on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
Is there really nothing else going on in the entertainment industry that every other issue has to have effin' True Blood/Vampire Diaries on the cover?
Is there really nothing else going on in the entertainment industry that every other issue has to have effin' True Blood/Vampire Diaries on the cover?
