It certainly would be... differen, if you ask me. If has good developers, I'd buy it without a shadow of the doubt.
P.S. Impressive Left 4 Dead type coop necessary.
P.S. Impressive Left 4 Dead type coop necessary.
Poll: What if a zombie game took place in 1916?
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I was with you in exploring different timelines UNTIL you mentioned more melee... which would be ridiculous, why would you risk meleeing a zombie which is undoubtadly not alone (espcially considering you arent super-human)? And then all that American stuff and anti-christian threat... that annoyed me. If I read that on a gaming box the American thing wouldnt have bothered me too much (only that you were claiming to be trying to break free from modern molds) but the anti-christian threat thing would have lost you a sale.
Please don't set it in America, that'd be boring. Set it on the battlefields of Northern France. During the First World War. German and British, French, American, Canadian, Irish, the few immune soldiers that remain, all united in a desparate struggle to survive and see their families again. Drawn together by a mutual foe.
That's what I'd like to see anyway. You could play with alot more Racism that way. While all the soldiers argue with one another constantly, they know that to separate would be a death sentence. So they stick together, despite their cultural differences.
That's what I'd like to see anyway. You could play with alot more Racism that way. While all the soldiers argue with one another constantly, they know that to separate would be a death sentence. So they stick together, despite their cultural differences.
actually I like this idea, I'm rather intrigued by the effects of musketballs on zombies. Which actually means I'm interested in something a little bit earlier than the Civil War but the idea remains the same in principle.Ashtovo said:
OT: Yes, I would like to see one on the western front, so you'd have Central Powers and Entente soldiers having to work together to survive wave after wave of their own undead comrades, some of them even coming out of the ground at random since alot of bodies were just swallowed by the earth (due to rain and such, most just, sank into the mud) and were naturally buried, so having some pop out at random at irregular intervals would work, not to mention the ones coming out of the extensive graveyards that either side hastily built, but those would be in waves at regular intervals. Quite frankly a WW1 zombie game would be great.
Also, Zombie bi-plane dogfights.
Thats the point he was making. It would supposed to be hard to survive, you wouldn't run around killing zombies left in right, and the game wouldn't focus entirely on guns. It would also incorporate melee, so close quarters wouldnt be a problem if you have an ax or something.ShadowSlayer73 said:
OK, dammit. You got me. Congratulations. I've practically made this game for you...Windexglow said:
Welcome to... Vimy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimy]. Vimy was a small rural village in Northern France that was spectacularly close to the front lines. It is noteworthy as being only aa short distance from The Battle of Hulluch [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hulluch], in which less than a thousand people died, and the Battle of Vimy Ridge [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge], in which the Canadian army raised the place to the ground. You might be asking, what does this have to do with my zombie game? Well, while the casualty reports for Hulluch were less than a thousand, that's only the people that stayed dead...
The gas used in the attack was not standard Chlorine gas, but rather an experimental agent that was designed to be used more as a weapon of psychological warfare. CL08x causes braindeath in less than five minutes of inhalation, and massive burns to exposed skin. Where it changes, however, is that it reacts to water, burning through it to create a small electrical charge that can restart the heart after death, leading to a state where motive and aggression centers of the brain are unaffected, but higher reasoning and anything beyond "kill everything" is removed. When the wind blew the gas out of the British lines and into the German lines, it created a third side in the war that didn't feel pain or fear, and existed only to kill. It's also worth noting that the chemical process that restarts the body also leads to a build up of greenish-yellow slime in the mouth - pure CL08x, and enough to poison, kill and reanimate a new zombie in a matter of minutes. Destruction of the brain is the only method of killing a human infected with CL08x, but anything removed from the portion of the body with the brain in it will stop working.
The reason why the zombies converged in Vimy is shrouded in mystery, but it is assumed that a large part of it is to do with a lingering memory of it being an objective for both sides. None of this matters to the several hundred inhabitants, who, in the beginning of May 1915, were assaulted by a horde of undead numbering in the thousands. Luckily, survivors from both the British and German forces took shelter in the town and fortified it as best they could in what is considered the most sterling example of cooperation in the war (the football match of Christmas 1914 is the most publicized, but the handful of people who know of this incident know otherwise). Five hundred people went into the Siege of Vimy, and managed to hold out for a full eleven months until the battle for Vimy Ridge obliterated the town, leaving no survivors on either side.
Vimy itself is a small village, comprised of a simple main street [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_keOSmNYmoVE/Rmz-wA9xhbI/AAAAAAAAAE0/xHZKX3yfZ94/s400/Village_of_Boudeville___Main_Street_c.1900.jpg], a marketplace [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_keOSmNYmoVE/Rmz_ag9xhcI/AAAAAAAAAE8/wHYNuw0pxsM/s400/Village_of_Boudeville_Egg_Market_c.1900.jpg] and several farm houses [http://www.kochersperger.zoomshare.com/files/Rittershoffen_ca1900_postcard_website.jpg]. The majority of the village is, for want of a better term, a street [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nolenancestry/town_of_ballinrobe_1900_ordnance_survey_map.jpg]. It has a few cottages that look like the farm house on the main street, but it's primarily just an inn, a small shop, a church (with village hall) and a marketplace. The streets are blocked off with sturdy wooden barricades and German Machine Guns [http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/attachments/other-military-firearms/18504d1234393670-world-war-i-german-heavy-artillery-relic-wwi-machine-gun-103.jpg]. The British Machine Guns [http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/gall/pix/images/226.jpg] are used to protect the nearest farm and the quickest route to it.
Characters;
Jaques Marceau (Shown here in a picture drawn by his daughter [http://www.uoregon.edu/~kimball/images/1910s%20Juares%20CIV152.jpg] - A good and kind mayor, Marceau is first and foremost concerned with the safety of his villagers. He is also a traditionalist and a stubborn man, refusing to flee his home when he could stand and fight. Despite his wishes that the rest of the town should flee, they have followed his example and stayed to defend their homes. He has the ability to recruit NPC villagers to follow him and fight the zombies.
Melanie Marceau [http://1000monkeys.com/img/basterds/shosanna1.jpg] - Jaques' daughter and current messenger. Her ability to outrun the zombies has meant that her initial fear has grown into confidence and, while she doesn't carry a gun, she is capable in a fight with whatever's lying around. She is by far the fastest of the survivors. (She is also Shosanna Dreyfuss. I didn't have a basic idea of what I wanted her to look like, and sod it, she's basically a French peasant, just twenty years into the future!)
Lieutenant Harold Cleftington-Smythe [http://www.sutlers.co.uk/acatalog/ww1-british-oficer.jpg] - A consumate coward who is only an officer because his family has money, Cleftington-Smythe's two claims to fame are that he is actually a good shot with his field pistol and his utterly ridiculous name. He ordered his men to "stand in defiance of the fiends that menaced their allies in France", even while he fled the field of battle. Now that he's trapped in Vimy with the rest of the survivors, he's found that combat can be quite fun. Everyone else has a pool on how long before he dies. He's a brilliant shot with pistols and an excuse for every American to try out their fucking annoying "upper class British" accent.
Captain Thomas Rutger [http://www.aef-doughboys.com/photographs/Marine.jpg] - An American soldier who is in Vimy on a "special mission". He tries to keep to himself, but is an amazing sniper and will frequently watch over supply missions from the church tower. He fills the weapons expertise gap between Cleftington-Smythe and Machrich, and is there because some developers won't make a game unless there's an American in it.
Pvt. Karl Machrich [http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/gall/pix/images/284.jpg] - A large German soldier who suffers from an acute form of Autism, meaning he can barely string a sentence together in German. He is, however, a polyglot, and can speak English, French, Spanish and Italian fluently. Considered simple by his superiors, he was put onto a Machine Gun emplacement and told to shoot anything that moves, which put him near several crates of ammo and weapons when the gas hit. Due to him carrying his gas mask on him at all times, he was able to put it on before the gas settled and therefore survive the initial attack. Having lived his life on the other side of the border and occasionally been taken by his father to trade in Vimy, he had fallen in love with the mayor's daughter and went to Vimy to make sure she was OK. He can move and fire with the heavier guns.
Yeah... This is what happens when I have an hour's train ride, a basic idea and access to wikipedia and google. I have recently realised that I really didn't answer your point, but I took ages writing that out so dammit I'm hitting post!
A zombie game where you're actually in danger because the weapons aren't hideously overpowered? Awesome. I'd buy this three times over.
