When games like Resident Evil and The Last of Us made them barriers for unskilled idiots. The irony is that Capcom made the villagers overpowered in RE4 and it pissed everyone off.
Because the market was oversaturated with it at a point a few years back. People got tired of it, so then they stopped making zombie games. Simple as.
Everyone spams this response but I don't think it holds. There aren't many interesting zombie games, and even at the supposed peak not many were being made and they were rather diverse.
We simply add a zombie apocalypse to a game like Kingdom Come Deliverance. Peasant wakes up as necromancer is invading the kingdom and narrowly escapes.
Aren't we still getting Walking Dead stuff? I think they're still around, but the fad is over. I mean we got that TLoU ripoff with Sam Witwer not too long ago and then there's the alien zombies (if you count them) from that Dead Space spiritual sequel (also starring Sam Witwer oddly).
I think they'll always have a place because it's a super easy faceless, nameless, mindless enemy force you can slide into your games/movies without much thought.
I'd have loved it as a child, but now I'm dead inside nowadays. Whenever I try to play it I get claustrophobic because I have to literally force myself to play it... goddammit this is so depressing
Aaa don't have balls to make anything other than re clone and indie doesn't want to make zombie games, atleast we have project zomboid, sure it's an EA game since god knows when but still better than most zombie trash in the market
Most zombie games fall out of "style" when the zombies are not a threat anymore. If the zombies are not dangerous, there is no point for the entire game. Even with the whole "the real monsters are other human" stuff, the zombies still have to be very-very deadly, otherwise it makes no sense for the apocalypse to even exist.
There are exceptions mainly the in the ZomCom subgenre with games like the first few Dead Rising or the original Plants Vs Zombies, but it's a pretty narrow line and easy to frick it up.
>I wish there were options to change enemy in some games >like make it alien invasion or orc/goblin one etc
Damn, that's a good idea
I'd like to have Black folk as enemies in every game, so I could SHOOT Black folk in the head
After an entire decade of The Walking Dead, Resident Evil movies and countless low-budget knockoffs, people are just tired of it right now. Maybe in a couple of years the fatigue will wear off, but for now the farm is closed for winter.
>Resident Evil
The problem is that Hollywood straight-up refuses to give it a good adaption. Look how great Fallout is doing, but with Resident Evil they have to shit on everything and the end result is always trash. This is with the games also, that need more horror then being a COD-ish game with some body horror mad scientist shit. The RE team has it in them, but it'll never happen, and Hollywood will still frick with RE and it's fans just to do it. If "they" took the care that they did with Fallout, people would love it. The Netflix adaption was nothing but an offensive joke, literally and figuratively.
There was this but it never got off the ground, it's a test for an RE series that never got off the ground. They were going for the cop drama thing and I think that would have been interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0woBxyphE&ab_channel=ResidenceofEvil
How long have they been doing this Walking Dead shit? Well over a decade now? Plus, who the frick is still watching it? There's no way those spinoffs and everything have actual fans.
You'd be surprised. My ex claimed to hatewatch TWD since she followed it from the beginning and told me there were still Ganker threads about it all the time. Aside from a select few hatewatching I think it still has enough fledgling popularity worldwide to break even, you'd be surprised the shitty television normies will put up with.
The problem with most zombie games these days is that they aren't the actual focus anymore. They're more of a backdrop or padding to the game where dumb, shitty human drama plays out or it's based on post-apocolyptic settings. Bring back House of the Dead style zombie games where they're front and center. Make 'em scary, gross, nasty, go apeshit with the designs. Giant zombie mutant spiders, half-machine looking zombies. That's what I want to see again.
Stop making "realistic" zombie designs. I wanna go back to the day where some mad scientist butthole makes a chemical Z that might as well magic everything into a zombie.
NOOOO
EVERYTHING NEEDS AN ULTRA REALISTIC REASON THAT REFLECTS MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY
YOU CAN'T HAVE A 30 FEET TALL ZOMBIE MONSTER WITH A CHAINSAW THAT'S NOT REALISTIC
NOOOO
EVERYTHING NEEDS AN ULTRA REALISTIC REASON THAT REFLECTS MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY
YOU CAN'T HAVE A 30 FEET TALL ZOMBIE MONSTER WITH A CHAINSAW THAT'S NOT REALISTIC
I was beyond spooked by this game as a kid, I've beaten the first level as a young shit but when the headless knight boss came out for the first time I had to cover my eyes, and even then I still had nightmares later, what a game.
This but not this. I've been staring at the other picture trying to remember what the game was. It was some arcadey game I watched a friend play at a party when I was very young. Had nightmares for weeks because he kept getting mauled and dying.
>They're more of a backdrop or padding to the game where dumb, shitty human drama plays out or it's based on post-apocolyptic settings.
This only really applies to the last of us.
werewolves are too gay to have a good game and vampires are even gayer so you'll never find them outside of western rpgs which all you'll do is suck dick
Why was forbidden siren the only game using the trick of taking videos of people's eyes and gluing it to the models as a texture? It looks so real I loved it. I guess we can't have that today with homosexuals playing in 8K.
Bring back low resolution gaming with tricks and shortcuts and made by hand everything.
Oversaturation, just a decade ago they were stil really popular, the Walking Dead phenomenon was easily bigger than the GoT one and I wasn't big fan of it at all.
Can pirates get popular again, please?
Pirates of the Caribbean being a hit kinda gave them a boost but there isn't much out there in terms of pirate games, for big games, it's mostly just Sid Meier, Black Flag and Sea of Thieves over the past two decades.
The problem I have with zombies in most media today is that they're rarely used as anything but a generic humanoid body to shoot at. Barely do you see the unique characteristics of a zombie (over other monsters) get explored in an interesting way. For instance; the fact they're people who come back to life/can't be killed. I can only think of Siren and and REmake as games that actually do that, and it's fricking terrifying.
Yeah, you don't see RE-like mutants or anything like that. The undead is scary enough, but having something that just morphs into some badass monster would be cool.
Zombies have almost no unique characteristics other than someone dying and and coming back to life that can be explored in modern media because if you did the others you would be labeled racist for exploring african witch doctor religious bullshit
over-saturation
around 2010 - 2015 whenever zombies came up the response anyone would give is "OH GOD SHUT UP ABOUT ZOMBIES! I HATE SEEING THEM EVERYWHERE"
Zombie fad was fun at first then became incredibly dull, as the market was oversaturated with bare bones survival crap.
To this day I do not understand that massive fad created by DayZ which was the absolute most scum way to sell a video game. It was an easy way to cheap out on enemy designs, because they don't need to be smart, they are just recolored humans who make gargling sounds, and have some bare bones attack animation. The game runs like shit on gtx 1080's? its your Pcs fault. The game disconnects often? Your Isp is bad. Absolutely nothing happens in 4+ hours of gameplay and your most exciting thing is finding a can of tuna? Your spawn point was bad. And other massive cope-esque scenarios made sure that the average gamer is an absolute shit eater.
As much of a dogshit the battle royale craze was its still miles better than this.
I just wish the netcode wasn't so fricking bad
had to turn infection off with my bro because we both kept getting bit/scratched when we shouldn't have
neither of us had any issues in single player
we had <30 ping and it felt like what you would imagine <500 to be playing with infection off and getting lagfricked by the zombies turned out to be very fun in the end, actually got to interact with the medical system for the first time, and how severe injuries affect how you need to play
I personally have no interest in """science""" zombies and only like black magic zombies. Trying to give a scientific explanation for zombies is absolutely moronic and I'll be having none of it.
cause there's too goddamn many >franchises?
no, even in the damn games, zombies need to be threatening, killing 1000 per hour is ridiculous, you shouldn't even be killing 100 per hour
ZombiU was nice for making zombies feel threatening again.
Trying to take on more than one zombie at a time with your bat would get you overwhelmed and weapon ammo as well as inventory space was scarce.
Zombies peaked with Dawn of the Dead in the 70's. There's literally nowhere to go with the idea.
The next logical step is you do post-post apocalypse, which is what things like Fallout are. The actual zombies get phased out as an idea, because you end up focusing more on human society starting to rebuild itself.
The world after a zombie virus outbreak(with all zombies being dead) and rebuilding it would be an interesting concept, but people could frick it up bad, and make it too over-dramatic, or too silly. But NOT go the WD route.
That basically IS just Fallout at that point though. Or Metro, or any number of things. The only real difference is they aren't specifically zombie apocalypses.
Too many zombie games that were all style and no substance. Watered down, borderline family-friendly, power fantasy garbage.
Too many zombie games where you play as some walking death machine with magical food and ammo dispensers, not enough where you're just a regular person trying to get by in a horror scenario.
The genre got over-saturated and it lost the vibe completely. We went from Night of the Living Dead and The Walking Dead to stuff like this mobile trash.
If time was taken to create a proper setting, world-building, believable characters and interactions, something with depth and soul we could get something good, but right now it's all cashgrab slop like that Will Smith game.
Over saturation, but there's also enough of an audience obsessed with the sub-genre that zombie media will never die. Resi 4 remake and Dead Island 2 were two of the best selling games last year, and Dying Light 2 still has constant updates and a loyal player base two years later
>still no game that allows you to live the early stages of the outbreak with a prologue that's only you having a normal day with weird occurrences here and there
As long as this isn't done, the zombie genre will not peak to me.
Frick I really want that
No one can convince me otherwise but zombies are always the most interesting when it's at the start of the outbreak
Zombie media almost always becomes boring when it's years later and the zombies barely even matter anymore and it's all gay human drama shit
Zomboid with NPCs could MAYBE provide this experience but the devs already said they're not interested in doing that.
Best we can hope for is a small somewhat scripted game.
It's a shame because Dead Rising before the zombies break into the mall was one of the most memorable game introductions I've played despite being like 15 minutes long.
Does road of the dead or it's sequel take place during the early stages of the outbreak? I forgot what the details of the lore was but I remember things being very chaotic and having to avoid civilians who were just running for their lives.
remember when DayZ, a game about zombies, had no zombies in it for months at a time
remember how, ever since zombies were reintroduced, zombies were an inconvenience at best, and a threat only in very specific circumstances
it's not only a matter of zombie fatigue
it's also, like anon said before in this thread, the fact that more often than not zombie media is good despite of the zombies and not because of them.
furthermore, in every piece of zombie happening, only some moments are fun: the shit hits the fan moment and escaping it. very rarely I've seen zombie games that feature the post-happening being good
I just hate how every zombie game relies on jumpscares and mutant zombies.
If an ability you want to give your zombie requires it cause the dead human flesh to literally grow a new organ to perform its function, that's a stupid thing you shouldn't do.
I would love a 7d2d style zombie game where it's just walking corpses that are almost harmless because of the negative effects the decay has on their body. Blind, probably either deaf or close to deaf, probably can't smell. Just a shambling obstacle to shove your way through, make them as just one of the side effects of the event that lead to societal collapse, not the cause of it.
>I just hate how every zombie game relies on jumpscares and mutant zombies. >If an ability you want to give your zombie requires it cause the dead human flesh to literally grow a new organ to perform its function, that's a stupid thing you shouldn't do.
Yeah, I wish they used animals for zombie variety.
Does anyone else agree that crazy hordes(WWZ) suck and single zombies(RE1-3) suck aswell?
The closest to zombie perfection imo was RE4 and the Remake by virtue of being the remake of 4.
5 is also really good in this aspect.
I just want a medium group of not invincible zombies that I can kill! not a 100 or 1-2,give me 5-10 zombies,thats perfect
Because they ran them into the ground and did them to death. Every new show, movie, game, was centered around zombies, to where you had to actively seek out new stuff that wasn't about them. It's the same thing they did with superheroes afterward. Before capeshit, it was zombies.
Why is zombie media only ever interested in the apocalypse when it's years later after the outbreak and zombies don't really matter anymore?
Like Dying Light 1 was so awesome since the zombie outbreak was treated like a big deal it was just one isolated country infected and keeping the zombies contained and stopping the virus and saving people was the big deal. and it was fun and engaging.
But then look at Dying Light 2.
Years after the outbreak and no one gives a flying frick about the zombies.. they are treated like an inconvenience while the moronic human factions only care about killing one another over moronic reasons.
I just find it impossible to care when zombies are not treated as the main threat. cause then why should I give a frick? if no one in the story gives a frick?
When games like Resident Evil and The Last of Us made them barriers for unskilled idiots. The irony is that Capcom made the villagers overpowered in RE4 and it pissed everyone off.
>villagers overpowered in RE4
whut?
Everything that guy said was absolutely moronic. Like someone programmed a bot to say the dumbest shit imaginable.
He probably means that they don't die to a single shot in the head.
They were fricking cancer.
The genre has been explored completely. Think of a single original zombie game and I'll give you an example of it already being done
Zombie tactical response strategy game.
Everyone spams this response but I don't think it holds. There aren't many interesting zombie games, and even at the supposed peak not many were being made and they were rather diverse.
>Zombie tactical response strategy game.
Plants V Zombies
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I wish they made more zombie games where you are in control. Like in Undead Knight or Stubbs the zombie.
Sounds like a good idea, I have no why this hasn't really been explored more.
Normalfriends can't play games where you play the monster, they're very niche
That can apply to pretty much anything.
People don't care the idea has been done before so long as the execution is good.
I want to be the Zombie. Yes, it's been explored before, but not enough.
I want to be the main or leader Zombie of a Cute Necromancer girls army.
We simply add a zombie apocalypse to a game like Kingdom Come Deliverance. Peasant wakes up as necromancer is invading the kingdom and narrowly escapes.
goofy ahh graphics
Goofy ahh homosexual
because of that one movie where a zombie falls in love with a girl and becomes human again
Aren't we still getting Walking Dead stuff? I think they're still around, but the fad is over. I mean we got that TLoU ripoff with Sam Witwer not too long ago and then there's the alien zombies (if you count them) from that Dead Space spiritual sequel (also starring Sam Witwer oddly).
I think they'll always have a place because it's a super easy faceless, nameless, mindless enemy force you can slide into your games/movies without much thought.
That's less the brand being successful and more AMC bring massive israelites
overplayed all last decade in various media
Zombie games are still being made. Dead Island 2 came out last year, and a couple days ago on Steam. Resident Evil still gets games
Because zombies are the most generic and overused meme the horror/survival genre has ever had.
Resident evil and tlou killed the genre
Even days gone is better than both game
They fricking suck and they're the most braindead thing you can do.
Because the market was oversaturated with it at a point a few years back. People got tired of it, so then they stopped making zombie games. Simple as.
The perfect zombie game has already been made (Deadrising 1)
How has it not been beaten after all this time? Do a play through every year and it never gets old
I'd have loved it as a child, but now I'm dead inside nowadays. Whenever I try to play it I get claustrophobic because I have to literally force myself to play it... goddammit this is so depressing
Aaa don't have balls to make anything other than re clone and indie doesn't want to make zombie games, atleast we have project zomboid, sure it's an EA game since god knows when but still better than most zombie trash in the market
dunno
Most zombie games fall out of "style" when the zombies are not a threat anymore. If the zombies are not dangerous, there is no point for the entire game. Even with the whole "the real monsters are other human" stuff, the zombies still have to be very-very deadly, otherwise it makes no sense for the apocalypse to even exist.
There are exceptions mainly the in the ZomCom subgenre with games like the first few Dead Rising or the original Plants Vs Zombies, but it's a pretty narrow line and easy to frick it up.
Why State of Decay 1 and not 2 specifically?
Zombies are always cool as shit you fricking dork.
I kind of disagree
I wish there were options to change enemy in some games
like make it alien invasion or orc/goblin one etc
>I wish there were options to change enemy in some games
>like make it alien invasion or orc/goblin one etc
Damn, that's a good idea
I'd like to have Black folk as enemies in every game, so I could SHOOT Black folk in the head
After an entire decade of The Walking Dead, Resident Evil movies and countless low-budget knockoffs, people are just tired of it right now. Maybe in a couple of years the fatigue will wear off, but for now the farm is closed for winter.
>Resident Evil
The problem is that Hollywood straight-up refuses to give it a good adaption. Look how great Fallout is doing, but with Resident Evil they have to shit on everything and the end result is always trash. This is with the games also, that need more horror then being a COD-ish game with some body horror mad scientist shit. The RE team has it in them, but it'll never happen, and Hollywood will still frick with RE and it's fans just to do it. If "they" took the care that they did with Fallout, people would love it. The Netflix adaption was nothing but an offensive joke, literally and figuratively.
There was this but it never got off the ground, it's a test for an RE series that never got off the ground. They were going for the cop drama thing and I think that would have been interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0woBxyphE&ab_channel=ResidenceofEvil
>Posts Siren
>A series where it's explicitly not just normal zombie survival shit
what is your point?
What's yours?
>still no actually good zombie survival game
>Genre became a fad and subsequent laughing stock itself
When they overmatured the pop culture. Blame AMC.
How long have they been doing this Walking Dead shit? Well over a decade now? Plus, who the frick is still watching it? There's no way those spinoffs and everything have actual fans.
You'd be surprised. My ex claimed to hatewatch TWD since she followed it from the beginning and told me there were still Ganker threads about it all the time. Aside from a select few hatewatching I think it still has enough fledgling popularity worldwide to break even, you'd be surprised the shitty television normies will put up with.
The problem with most zombie games these days is that they aren't the actual focus anymore. They're more of a backdrop or padding to the game where dumb, shitty human drama plays out or it's based on post-apocolyptic settings. Bring back House of the Dead style zombie games where they're front and center. Make 'em scary, gross, nasty, go apeshit with the designs. Giant zombie mutant spiders, half-machine looking zombies. That's what I want to see again.
Stop making "realistic" zombie designs. I wanna go back to the day where some mad scientist butthole makes a chemical Z that might as well magic everything into a zombie.
NOOOO
EVERYTHING NEEDS AN ULTRA REALISTIC REASON THAT REFLECTS MODERN AMERICAN SOCIETY
YOU CAN'T HAVE A 30 FEET TALL ZOMBIE MONSTER WITH A CHAINSAW THAT'S NOT REALISTIC
I'd pay pretty good money to see a version of the walking dead where Rick and Crew gotta survive against zombie horrors like the Hermit.
I'd pay good money to see you whacked in the head like that asian guy on that show that pisses me off
I was beyond spooked by this game as a kid, I've beaten the first level as a young shit but when the headless knight boss came out for the first time I had to cover my eyes, and even then I still had nightmares later, what a game.
This but not this. I've been staring at the other picture trying to remember what the game was. It was some arcadey game I watched a friend play at a party when I was very young. Had nightmares for weeks because he kept getting mauled and dying.
>They're more of a backdrop or padding to the game where dumb, shitty human drama plays out or it's based on post-apocolyptic settings.
This only really applies to the last of us.
>Plenty of zombie games
>Plenty of vampire games
>But frick all werewolf games
werewolves are too gay to have a good game and vampires are even gayer so you'll never find them outside of western rpgs which all you'll do is suck dick
>he hasn't played The Order 1886
You're missing out
There are a billion zombie games and zombies have never been interesting
>the human is coming to get you but he has no brain ooOOOOooo
BORING
>zombies
>"quirky" homies on their way to ruin another genre
Why was forbidden siren the only game using the trick of taking videos of people's eyes and gluing it to the models as a texture? It looks so real I loved it. I guess we can't have that today with homosexuals playing in 8K.
Bring back low resolution gaming with tricks and shortcuts and made by hand everything.
Oversaturation, just a decade ago they were stil really popular, the Walking Dead phenomenon was easily bigger than the GoT one and I wasn't big fan of it at all.
Can pirates get popular again, please?
>Pirates
I'm all for it, they're cool as shit.
Pirates of the Caribbean being a hit kinda gave them a boost but there isn't much out there in terms of pirate games, for big games, it's mostly just Sid Meier, Black Flag and Sea of Thieves over the past two decades.
Zombies were so popular because deep down people know and fear that we are already zombies without having to be undead first
The problem I have with zombies in most media today is that they're rarely used as anything but a generic humanoid body to shoot at. Barely do you see the unique characteristics of a zombie (over other monsters) get explored in an interesting way. For instance; the fact they're people who come back to life/can't be killed. I can only think of Siren and and REmake as games that actually do that, and it's fricking terrifying.
Yeah, you don't see RE-like mutants or anything like that. The undead is scary enough, but having something that just morphs into some badass monster would be cool.
Zombies have almost no unique characteristics other than someone dying and and coming back to life that can be explored in modern media because if you did the others you would be labeled racist for exploring african witch doctor religious bullshit
you wouldn't have sex with a japanese zombie girl
They are boring. Pretty much anything zombie related that was good was good despite of the zombies, not because of them.
First person project zomboid with NPCs hasn't been made yet, so no the genre isn't done
Me and the boys are playing the new Dead Island 2 DLC, it's pretty fun
I need to check out Dead Island 2 at some point, Dying Light 2 was pretty underwhelming.
>Dying Light 2 was pretty underwhelming.
Understatement of the day.
I didn’t hate it, I just thought it was very weak.
Shibito are still cool
Gen X became obsessed with them.
Because the audience became zombies themselves.
YYYOOOOOO
over-saturation
around 2010 - 2015 whenever zombies came up the response anyone would give is "OH GOD SHUT UP ABOUT ZOMBIES! I HATE SEEING THEM EVERYWHERE"
Mark my words: Project Zomboid will SAVE the zombie survival genre.
Zombie fad was fun at first then became incredibly dull, as the market was oversaturated with bare bones survival crap.
To this day I do not understand that massive fad created by DayZ which was the absolute most scum way to sell a video game. It was an easy way to cheap out on enemy designs, because they don't need to be smart, they are just recolored humans who make gargling sounds, and have some bare bones attack animation. The game runs like shit on gtx 1080's? its your Pcs fault. The game disconnects often? Your Isp is bad. Absolutely nothing happens in 4+ hours of gameplay and your most exciting thing is finding a can of tuna? Your spawn point was bad. And other massive cope-esque scenarios made sure that the average gamer is an absolute shit eater.
As much of a dogshit the battle royale craze was its still miles better than this.
They are coming back
b...42........ onegai............
>predict the b42 stable release date
>hard mode : predict the 1.0 release date
I dont care about le latest update its just something for people to chat about. I just want to hoard ammo and axes
I just wish the netcode wasn't so fricking bad
had to turn infection off with my bro because we both kept getting bit/scratched when we shouldn't have
neither of us had any issues in single player
we had <30 ping and it felt like what you would imagine <500 to be
playing with infection off and getting lagfricked by the zombies turned out to be very fun in the end, actually got to interact with the medical system for the first time, and how severe injuries affect how you need to play
But they didn't...? People still make a lot of zombie media and the new Walking Dead spin-off series are still gaining viewers.
>the new Walking Dead spin-off series are still gaining viewers.
God has abandoned us.
I personally have no interest in """science""" zombies and only like black magic zombies. Trying to give a scientific explanation for zombies is absolutely moronic and I'll be having none of it.
best zombie game coming through
Ahhh dude we need 20 more seasons of the walking dead and 4 more dead rising games
Piss off with the zombie shit. It's do overdone
I swear that show is just laundering money, there's no way people are still watching it.
cause there's too goddamn many
>franchises?
no, even in the damn games, zombies need to be threatening, killing 1000 per hour is ridiculous, you shouldn't even be killing 100 per hour
ZombiU was nice for making zombies feel threatening again.
Trying to take on more than one zombie at a time with your bat would get you overwhelmed and weapon ammo as well as inventory space was scarce.
Zombies peaked with Dawn of the Dead in the 70's. There's literally nowhere to go with the idea.
The next logical step is you do post-post apocalypse, which is what things like Fallout are. The actual zombies get phased out as an idea, because you end up focusing more on human society starting to rebuild itself.
The world after a zombie virus outbreak(with all zombies being dead) and rebuilding it would be an interesting concept, but people could frick it up bad, and make it too over-dramatic, or too silly. But NOT go the WD route.
That basically IS just Fallout at that point though. Or Metro, or any number of things. The only real difference is they aren't specifically zombie apocalypses.
I think you could make it work.
Too many zombie games that were all style and no substance. Watered down, borderline family-friendly, power fantasy garbage.
Too many zombie games where you play as some walking death machine with magical food and ammo dispensers, not enough where you're just a regular person trying to get by in a horror scenario.
The genre got over-saturated and it lost the vibe completely. We went from Night of the Living Dead and The Walking Dead to stuff like this mobile trash.
If time was taken to create a proper setting, world-building, believable characters and interactions, something with depth and soul we could get something good, but right now it's all cashgrab slop like that Will Smith game.
Over saturation, but there's also enough of an audience obsessed with the sub-genre that zombie media will never die. Resi 4 remake and Dead Island 2 were two of the best selling games last year, and Dying Light 2 still has constant updates and a loyal player base two years later
>still no game that allows you to live the early stages of the outbreak with a prologue that's only you having a normal day with weird occurrences here and there
As long as this isn't done, the zombie genre will not peak to me.
Frick I really want that
No one can convince me otherwise but zombies are always the most interesting when it's at the start of the outbreak
Zombie media almost always becomes boring when it's years later and the zombies barely even matter anymore and it's all gay human drama shit
Zomboid with NPCs could MAYBE provide this experience but the devs already said they're not interested in doing that.
Best we can hope for is a small somewhat scripted game.
It's a shame because Dead Rising before the zombies break into the mall was one of the most memorable game introductions I've played despite being like 15 minutes long.
NO. You will get "Man who wakes up in a hospital two weeks after the start." and you will LIKE IT.
that just sounds like GTA
Does road of the dead or it's sequel take place during the early stages of the outbreak? I forgot what the details of the lore was but I remember things being very chaotic and having to avoid civilians who were just running for their lives.
remember when DayZ, a game about zombies, had no zombies in it for months at a time
remember how, ever since zombies were reintroduced, zombies were an inconvenience at best, and a threat only in very specific circumstances
it's not only a matter of zombie fatigue
it's also, like anon said before in this thread, the fact that more often than not zombie media is good despite of the zombies and not because of them.
furthermore, in every piece of zombie happening, only some moments are fun: the shit hits the fan moment and escaping it. very rarely I've seen zombie games that feature the post-happening being good
Rust also started as a zombie game before they decided to focus more on PvP interaction.
Something's off for sure, you could replace the zombies with anything else and stuff like this would play out the same.
No, the best thing about this game was it's gore and zombies are the best type of enemies to use if you want to show off your gore system.
I just hate how every zombie game relies on jumpscares and mutant zombies.
If an ability you want to give your zombie requires it cause the dead human flesh to literally grow a new organ to perform its function, that's a stupid thing you shouldn't do.
I would love a 7d2d style zombie game where it's just walking corpses that are almost harmless because of the negative effects the decay has on their body. Blind, probably either deaf or close to deaf, probably can't smell. Just a shambling obstacle to shove your way through, make them as just one of the side effects of the event that lead to societal collapse, not the cause of it.
>I just hate how every zombie game relies on jumpscares and mutant zombies.
>If an ability you want to give your zombie requires it cause the dead human flesh to literally grow a new organ to perform its function, that's a stupid thing you shouldn't do.
Yeah, I wish they used animals for zombie variety.
I want to see a zombie game set in times where guns don't exist yet
Does anyone else agree that crazy hordes(WWZ) suck and single zombies(RE1-3) suck aswell?
The closest to zombie perfection imo was RE4 and the Remake by virtue of being the remake of 4.
5 is also really good in this aspect.
I just want a medium group of not invincible zombies that I can kill! not a 100 or 1-2,give me 5-10 zombies,thats perfect
i just want my romero simulator
This, I need a zombie game before mobile phones, gps and the internet.
Because they were oversaturated to hell and back
Because they ran them into the ground and did them to death. Every new show, movie, game, was centered around zombies, to where you had to actively seek out new stuff that wasn't about them. It's the same thing they did with superheroes afterward. Before capeshit, it was zombies.
Why is zombie media only ever interested in the apocalypse when it's years later after the outbreak and zombies don't really matter anymore?
Like Dying Light 1 was so awesome since the zombie outbreak was treated like a big deal it was just one isolated country infected and keeping the zombies contained and stopping the virus and saving people was the big deal. and it was fun and engaging.
But then look at Dying Light 2.
Years after the outbreak and no one gives a flying frick about the zombies.. they are treated like an inconvenience while the moronic human factions only care about killing one another over moronic reasons.
I just find it impossible to care when zombies are not treated as the main threat. cause then why should I give a frick? if no one in the story gives a frick?
Its kinda funny how the new MW3 zombies doesnt have any pvp even though its an extraction shit now.
This is the best zombie game I've ever played.