Dead Rising was fun. It was REALLY fun. Until it came to the story, then it fell apart. This was because the many bosses all had ways to insta-kill you by stun-locking you in certain corners of their arenas... I can't remember how many times I had to restart because i couldn't get up after they knocked me down with their knife/cleaver/sword/chainsaw/shotgun (cletus was my worst nightmare)
it wasn't until i unlocked infinite mode, the laser sword, and the megablaster that the story mode became fun. Because i got to take my revenge on all the bosses by insta-killing THEM with these mega-weapons.
but i digress because i was watching my brother play GTA 4 after i just got done playing Red Dead Redemption, and was thinking to myself... what if GTA was set in a zombie apocalypse?
I don't mean literally, but i mean, what if there was a big city, with varied environments LIKE Liberty City or San Andreas, with some vast, open areas like in RDR, and done realistically beautiful like Red Dead or Mass Effect 2, but with a REALLY gory engine that allows for "over-the-top" violence like the severing of limbs and the chopping up of bodies (like the gore effects in Left 4 Dead 2) with melee weapons and guns.
But i want it to have the "feel" of a "toy"box like how Yahtzee described Red Dead Redemption, a bunch of things you can mess around with. Like how in Red Dead had a bunch of random events where you'd see someone getting robbed or about to get killed and you could choose to help them or not. That'd be SO fun to me if it could be like that and have some sort of "morality" system. Or if you could even choose to play as a zombie (like some lord of undead or something and you have to unite the horde under your control)
Ive thought of a bunch of gameplay ideas, but they're not really fleshed out, and i can't exactly MAKE the game since im one man and dont own any 3D rendering software (nor would i know how to use it if i DID have it anyways
) or even an engine i can build all this off of
well, i just wanna know if it seems like a good idea, i know there are a MILLION sandbox games out there, and there already is a sandbox zombie game (and an upcoming one), but i think this would be much better than anything Dead Rising promises (even though i pre-ordered it and im gonna buy it and everything)
it wasn't until i unlocked infinite mode, the laser sword, and the megablaster that the story mode became fun. Because i got to take my revenge on all the bosses by insta-killing THEM with these mega-weapons.
but i digress because i was watching my brother play GTA 4 after i just got done playing Red Dead Redemption, and was thinking to myself... what if GTA was set in a zombie apocalypse?
I don't mean literally, but i mean, what if there was a big city, with varied environments LIKE Liberty City or San Andreas, with some vast, open areas like in RDR, and done realistically beautiful like Red Dead or Mass Effect 2, but with a REALLY gory engine that allows for "over-the-top" violence like the severing of limbs and the chopping up of bodies (like the gore effects in Left 4 Dead 2) with melee weapons and guns.
But i want it to have the "feel" of a "toy"box like how Yahtzee described Red Dead Redemption, a bunch of things you can mess around with. Like how in Red Dead had a bunch of random events where you'd see someone getting robbed or about to get killed and you could choose to help them or not. That'd be SO fun to me if it could be like that and have some sort of "morality" system. Or if you could even choose to play as a zombie (like some lord of undead or something and you have to unite the horde under your control)
Ive thought of a bunch of gameplay ideas, but they're not really fleshed out, and i can't exactly MAKE the game since im one man and dont own any 3D rendering software (nor would i know how to use it if i DID have it anyways
) or even an engine i can build all this off of well, i just wanna know if it seems like a good idea, i know there are a MILLION sandbox games out there, and there already is a sandbox zombie game (and an upcoming one), but i think this would be much better than anything Dead Rising promises (even though i pre-ordered it and im gonna buy it and everything
)
