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Post by Ryanar on Oct 14, 2012 23:17:15 GMT -5
First off, No im not making this thread because of Walking Dead. In fact this rant has nothing to do with Walking Dead. This has everything to do with Red Dead Redemption and its stupid DLC.
Why are zombies so popular? What happened to the days where not every game had them? I don't see the entertainment value in fighting them. I don't see why every game has to have them. COD, Red Dead, Halo (Flood), Gears of War 3 with the Lambent Formers. They're just a big waste of space. Somebody please enlighten me, What is so entertaining about zombies? I cant stand them at all. Undead Nightmare is not fun. Its not fun at all. Its annoying and stupid. And it's the first time i've ever been pissed at Rockstar for a stupid decision. I can't believe im saying this but i wish the "Game Du Jour" would go back to WWII.
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Post by Cela on Oct 14, 2012 23:27:22 GMT -5
Because they are the one creature that the majority of its fans could take in a fight.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2012 23:38:10 GMT -5
Probably since they're not at all scary under most circumstances. They're just brainless, weak, stupid foes you can mow down like crazy. Or maybe it's the kind-of human but not quite thing, I dunno - I'm not really that big on them personally.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 15, 2012 0:35:19 GMT -5
Still waiting for the dinosaur to rise up and take the zombies place in the public conscience
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Oct 15, 2012 0:36:24 GMT -5
I remember obsessively looking for zombie games on Newgrounds as a teen because there weren't many available games on PS1/PS2 outside of RE. Maybe it's a younger gen thing? Some people just dig 'em, though. It's definitely a little strange to see it blow up over the past year or two.
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Post by agent817 on Oct 15, 2012 0:39:28 GMT -5
In some ways, I can agree. I mean zombies were included in "Saints Row: The Third," at least at some point in the storyline and also when you do one of those survival missions. Also, why were they included in a CoD game at all? They were even used in Shellshock 2, when the first game was just a war game.
Sure, you may have horror-themed games like Dead Rising, Left 4 Dead, Dead Island, Resident Evil, etc. but at least zombies are part of the theme. The other ones are just games that delved into the world of the paranormal when the actual game isn't horror at all.
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Post by Knailsic From Now On on Oct 15, 2012 0:47:44 GMT -5
I don't know but I wish this new found popularity would rub off on The Zombies the band  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 1:02:57 GMT -5
I had an English professor that did a course on Zombies called "Zombie Madness" last semester. He said that he enjoyed teaching the course because it had a diverse class with people from a bunch of different majors that tend not to take higher level English courses. He taught Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year" among other things; I think that zombies have replaced vampires because there is more of a global scale since it's akin to a disease and it serves to rewire people, placing them in a precarious status between the living and the dead. Zombie films and fiction are almost never told from the zombie's perspective but rather focus on the people dealing with them and, moreover, it focuses on people dealing with a world that lacks other, non-zombie people.
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 15, 2012 1:29:15 GMT -5
You can have a lot of them on screen at one time. I think zombies basically tap into peoples fear of large crowds and over population.
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Post by The Sam on Oct 15, 2012 2:24:45 GMT -5
They look like humans but they are clearly not humans. Thus making it ok to kill them.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 15, 2012 2:37:44 GMT -5
They look like humans but they are clearly not humans. Thus making it ok to kill them. That, and you can kill hundreds at a time, yet they aren't intelligent enough to exploit their numbers advantage, making them an interesting choice for game villains. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 15, 2012 2:56:31 GMT -5
From a horror stance there is also a certain inevitability that comes with zombies. They will get you one way or another.
edit: That said I do agree with the over saturation of Zombies in video games.
Especially in games that have no reason for them to be there like CoD, Red Dead and Saints Row 3.
I'll give the Flood a pass at least they still seem to fit the overall narrative. I never played Gears but I assume it's similar.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 3:18:32 GMT -5
I'd rather someone explain the rabidness some people get against them. Undead Nightmare was great and you didn't have to buy it.
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Post by Ryanar on Oct 15, 2012 4:19:36 GMT -5
I'd rather someone explain the rabidness some people get against them. Undead Nightmare was great and you didn't have to buy it. The zombie hate didn't occur to me until i did buy it. I didn't like it at all so i looked at my collection to make sure its just the DLC thats the problem. Then i realized that i hate the undead. I hated Flood in every Halo game, I hated Lambent in Gears 3, I hated Draugrs in Skyrim, I hated Left 4 Dead and everything it stood for, I hated COD zombies in WAW, I hated Guardians in Uncharted 2, I even hated Zombie Liu Kang in MK Deception. |
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Oct 15, 2012 4:43:00 GMT -5
Because they wear fasionable clothes, sit at the cool table in the cafataria, and listen to hip music?
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Post by Mattification on Oct 15, 2012 8:42:36 GMT -5
You can get lots of zombies on screen without having to program complicated AI routines for them to follow.
No one complains about zombies being shot by the hundred in videogames.
They're fashionable at the moment away from videogames.
They're probably not going anywhere for a while. I'm not complaining though. I thought Undead Nightmare was fantastic.
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Post by Pervy Stone Cold on Oct 15, 2012 8:50:59 GMT -5
I heard a game designer once say that zombies are like the Borg, a classic horror trope.
The thought of being hopelessly assimilated into an unthinking, zombie person plays on people's fears, and people seem to enjoy that for whatever reason.
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Post by Banecat on Oct 15, 2012 9:40:33 GMT -5
Zombies are the new Nazis. Something you can fantasize about killing without feeling remorse. I liked Undead Nightmare ever more so then the original game. First, a wild west take on zombies made for a more unique experience with vastly weaker weapons then what we are normally accustomed to. Second, {Spoiler}John Marston doesn't die at the end. |
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Oct 15, 2012 9:43:47 GMT -5
Zombies require the least amount of creativity.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Oct 15, 2012 11:08:04 GMT -5
Zombies basically are to me humans at the most basic level, a sense of just wandering around eating things. Being vapid consumers that will just do as we are told and live our lives the way others try to get us to live. I love zombies personally. Even my wallet has a zombie design.
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