Poll: Fast zombies.

[BoxCutter]

I prefer the infected to any undead zombie that I could beat out just by jogging by. Zombies aren't scary, If I can outrun the damn thing by walking quickly why should I worry about it? Now if the infected can run after me with the stamina and speed of a damn cheetah, THAT is scary.

 

[Aunel]

I don't hate them, but I do prefer the slow, shambling ones. They seem more fitting for the undead.

fully agreed.

although I would like zombies that were not all under equiped 1 shot kill mindless beasts, who says that zombies cannot operate fire arms, sure under the undead context it might not work, but parasites taking over their branes, and keeping the memories will probably work.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I prefer slow zombies, don't like being rushed to make a headshot.

That, and fast zombies have an annoying habit of running up behind you and chewing on you when you're busy waiting for a priest to send over a VERY slow moving cart to transport you to a church from which you can escape by going down a deep hole into some mines and eventually return to your grey life in the city where aliens have taken over and you probably don't get paid for overtime at work.

But I digress.

 

[toapat]

Fast zombies are pretty new. Starting in 28 days later,these creatures were fast,terrifying and merciless. However,these zombies are often hated. I never got why these creatures were hated since I know only one guy who hates them and he isn't talking. Say why you hate them,and if you don't, then try not to start a flame war

people hate the HL2 fast zombies for one reason only: Ravenholme where they are likely to daredevil across rooftops only to dropkick you the second after a poison headcrab attempts to hump your face

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

They only annoy me if im not ready for them. Which is most of the time.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

In a game, fast zombies can be fun. In an apocalypse situation I'll take the shamblers any day. At least you can escape them o.o

 

[Verp]

I think there is room for both types of zombie or pseudozombie. I myself am a bit more frightened by fast "zombies", mutants, monsters, infected people, anything that come close to zombies in their lack of basic humanity but are more agile. I'm less frightened by a thousand slowly moving corpses that are falling apart than a smaller group that comes after you like a pack of hyenas but are actually humans that only act on hunger or will to frantically tear you apart limb from limb.

 

[Dingoman013]

True to all,but Dawn of the Dead zombies seam the most logical to me. They have are smart enough to use some of the memories to get through doors and such but are to dumb to open a door. Still though in Deadrising fast zombies would not work at all. And slow zombies in L4D would be farrrrr to easy. SO i mean it all depends......

 

[darkless]

An awful lot of people seem to confuse 28 days later with a zombie movie it wasn't a zombie movie at all.

Anyway fast zombies make less sense than regular one's.

 

[ssgt splatter]

I hate them...espeacially when they're smart enough to head you off like the ones in Left 4 Dead.

 

[Jacobistheshiz]

It's just horror trying to step up. The movies have to keep people interested some how.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Running zombies was what brought the zombie franchise back from the dead (see what I did there?)

Both work fine in there own way. But need way more slow zombies to create even half the terror of a fast mother fucker.

An awful lot of people seem to confuse 28 days later with a zombie movie it wasn't a zombie movie at all.

Anyway fast zombies make less sense than regular one's.

Well, that really depends on what you call a zombie. Danny Boyle really has stretched the term to it's limits. He went out to create a zombie flick and came out with something that many people wouldn't call a zombie flick.

He does that with a lot of movie franchises though. Slum Dog Millionaire broke one of the main laws of Bollyhood films with the kiss.

 

[Syndef]

I've always noticed that the slow zombies are the "real" zombies (that is, dead people coming back to life), and fast zombies are the result of a virus or chem experiment gone bad (people are still themselves, but suffered extensive brain damage, changing their behavior completely).

The fast zombies are oftentimes able to be killed like normal people are, but slow zombies need specific ways to be killed. In the world of slow zombies, usually you have to die before you yourself become a zombie. In the world of fast zombies, you can get infected and become a zombie. It's a trade-off really. Do you like harder-to-kill but safer zombies? Or easier-to-kill but dangerous zombies?

 

[Twilight_guy]

I hate them because they ate ate my brains before I could shot them. um, bbbbrrrraaaiinnnzzz...
Actually, I think zombies are better as a shuffling mass that completely encircles and then closes in on you. Faster is scarier to see, but the collective coming in an endless flood from all sides is pretty climatic.

 

[Rednog]

I don't understand why you only give us 2 options of either hate or not. I don't "hate" fast zombies, but I just think that they don't make sense.

Zombies by definition are the living dead, meaning that their flesh and bones won't be what they used to be, which can include decomposition and rot. It would make more sense (if zombies were real) for them to be slow lurching bodies rather than psycho crazy marathon runners. It's easy for someone to say "oh but a virus could improve their movement!" - no. Because someone that has died and come back to life as a zombie would still have the same, if not worse, physical capabilities or handicaps that they had when they were alive.

Sadly by using logic you kill both fast and slow zombies with a single blow. By the same means of them not being able to run, a dead person's physical strength would drop dramatically and it would be like fighting a bunch of senior citizens. You shove them, they fall over break a few bones and wither there.

 

[Gearran]

I hate fast zombies, but only for the fact that they make me frantically struggle to reload my suddenly uncooperative firearm before they jump on me and eat my ass (in short, exactly what they're supposed to do). Joking aside, I rather like fast zombies, because they're really, really scary. Sure, the traditional slow shambling undead are pretty scary in their own right, but there's just something about a guy who by all rights should be dead in the ground charging at you at the speed of an Olympic sprinter that makes your blood turn to ice. Keep those firearms close, kiddies.

 

[Aradiel]

Slow zombies - either kill them early on which will be very easy (run away from them and while their catching up you catch your breath. Then run away again, while placing a clever trap)shoot them from very very far away or you will be over run. Seriously you act like your already over run. In the begging their going to be vary few

Fast zombies - your always overrun. Running is pointless. Find some place and wait for them to starve to death. The good news about most of these zombies is you can out last them. Once their dead you can come out to reclaim the world. Unless their undead runners and your just doomed. Re redheads or 2004 dotd

I am legend zombies - bullet to the brain unless you like hiding during the day. Depending on the source, they can only be killed by destroying the heart/brain, can run, can heal their wounds and can drain your blood.

game wise I am legend trumps all. Slow is more fun then fast in game. It gives you thinking time. If you want to be scared though, fast zombies. Hard to be scared when the thing takes fifteen minutes to get to you.

I've still got to disagree. In films the slow zombies have always scared me more, mainly because the tactic you suggest never ever works - you do get over-run eventually. In the short term you feel safe, that you can keep them away, but in the end everything you do is futile and it takes a long time for you to realise that.
Fast zombies - don't have time for the psychological fear, it's just plain instinct. They make me jump, but they aren't anywhere nearly as chilling as slow zombies are.

Still, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

PS: Wasn't "I Am Legend" vampires, not zombies?

 

[Christemo]

i like the slower ones better, but the fast ones was pretty good in L4D.

L4D remade with 4x the zombies (that was slow) would be far more challenging. if they wasnt immune to the infection, that is.

 

[historybuff]

Traditional zombies are fun!

Just like I don't like vampires that can be in the sunlight. I like for my zombies to shamble around and eat brains like the mindless, instinctive animals they have become.