Poll: WHAT'S WITH THE OBSESSION WITH ZOMBIES???

[Captain Pancake]

because their physical ineptitude makes the survivors feel more awesome?

 

[Bofus Teefus]

we like killing them. nothing else

Yes. Very yes. When you feel the need to kill masses of things, zombies are perfect. Whether shooting them by the thousand in Left 4 Dead, or plowing through piles and piles of them with a car in Dead Rising, killing zombies just doesn't get old.

 

[Brnin8]

There are cooler creatures out there but zombies provide an interesting view on society and how mindless people can be... if you look at it like that.

 

[Dalisclock]

Because they make a great faceless enemy with almost unlimited numbers and no quick and easy way to stop them. Oh, and they could be anyone. Your parents? Your SO? Your friends? No longer, now they just want to eat your brains.

That, The uncanny valley and the fact that right now Vampires are ruined by Twilight.

 

[Dalisclock]

we like killing them. nothing else

Yes. Very yes. When you feel the need to kill masses of things, zombies are perfect. Whether shooting them by the thousand in Left 4 Dead, or plowing through piles and piles of them with a car in Dead Rising, killing zombies just doesn't get old.

And, like Nazis, you can't feel bad about killing them.

 

[Furioso]

I personally think zombies are dumb. I don't understand why so many people love them.

We don't love them, we love to kill them!

 

[RTR]

We love Zombies because we hate each other but we don't want to kill anyone so we look for the next best thing resembling our fellow man. It's the same reason why there are so many WWII games

 

[JWAN]

pretty sure it stems from the same obsession with repeat threads

 

[Standby]

Seriously, I promise you all that if I see one more zombie thread, I may explode - leaving brain matter all over the beautiful whitewashed walls of the Escapist.

What is so great about zombies? Why does everyone seem to love them?

As far as I'm concerned, they're the most useless enemy in both games and movies, far surpassed by all other types of undead/evil/mutated/mythical creatures.

Please, somebody explain this to me before I lose (what's left of) my sanity.

It's primarily due to the genre's connotations with the downfall of humanity and society, in addition to it making it ok to bash the brains out of things that look essentially human.
As you can imagine it appeals to people who don't quite agree with how things are run right now, aswell as those who happen to be slightly sociopathic.
I'm not sure which category i fall into but even i know that multiple, repeat threads on any subject are bad.

 

[katsabas]

Hey, it is a fad. So is Miley Cyrus. What do you care? Simply do not click on those threads.

 

[Walkingreenman987]

4- Fear of zombies spawns good movies and video games.

But there's the problem: Zombies aren't scary. At all.

I laughed through Diary of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead and every other zombie movie I've ever seen.

well, i think it depends on the type of zombie. Theres loads of different versions, personally i think theyre scariest in 28 days later. i know they arent technically zombies but their concept is similar. The fact they run and practically touching you can turn you is pretty terrifying. The slow ones are not scary. For they are slow.

 

[DuplicateValue]

4- Fear of zombies spawns good movies and video games.

But there's the problem: Zombies aren't scary. At all.

I laughed through Diary of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead and every other zombie movie I've ever seen.

well, i think it depends on the type of zombie. Theres loads of different versions, personally i think theyre scariest in 28 days later. i know they arent technically zombies but their concept is similar. The fact they run and practically touching you can turn you is pretty terrifying. The slow ones are not scary. For they are slow.

How could I ague with you while Cloud is making those puppydog eyes at me? =D

Welcome to the Escapist btw. =]

 

[Walkingreenman987]

4- Fear of zombies spawns good movies and video games.

But there's the problem: Zombies aren't scary. At all.

I laughed through Diary of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead and every other zombie movie I've ever seen.

well, i think it depends on the type of zombie. Theres loads of different versions, personally i think theyre scariest in 28 days later. i know they arent technically zombies but their concept is similar. The fact they run and practically touching you can turn you is pretty terrifying. The slow ones are not scary. For they are slow.

How could I ague with you while Cloud is making those puppydog eyes at me? =D

Welcome to the Escapist btw. =]

cloud does have his ways.

and cheers!

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Because making up zombie survival plans is fun.

 

[Gbadude3]

People like zombies because if there was an actuall zombie apocolalypse it would mean that the Goverments would break apart and laws would be meaningless, letting people do whatever they what, like blowing apart undead corpses with a shotgun(, remember: it's not murder if they're already dead).

 

[Disaster Button]

Because people have different tastes to you and are allowed their own opinions? Just a thought.

I personally think they're okay

 

[dragonburner]

BRAINSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AndyVale]

So bored of them. Pirates are worse though, I am bored senseless with people thinking that speaking, dressing or doing anything like a pirate is in any way fun, original or amusing. It's just something to do when you've run out of ideas.

 

[DuplicateValue]

Because people have different tastes to you and are allowed their own opinions? Just a thought.

I personally think they're okay

Except in this case a ridiculous amount of people seem to have the same taste.

And "OMG ZOMBIES ARE AWESOME!!!" isn't really an opinion.

 

[DuplicateValue]

So bored of them. Pirates are worse though, I am bored senseless with people thinking that speaking, dressing or doing anything like a pirate is in any way fun, original or amusing. It's just something to do when you've run out of ideas.

I can withstand pirates because there are solid reasons why they're awesome.

Plus the concept of pirates (of the Jack Sparrow variety at least) is beautiful and romantic.