Zombie games

Oh, but I agree.

And that's exactly what they should be. Horror should be creative, zombies are as uncreative as a monster can possibly get.

Zombie genre is a lazy genre.

Yeah, you forgot about the recent ebola epidemic.

Pick one

Disgusting

Eh

The problem stems from shit games using them as easy magic plot-moving device like The Walking Dead where they appear exactly as needed and are only dangerous if needed. If you attach some more "complex" functionality to them be it "realistc", or magic it usually elevates them.

Wouldn't it be fun if something actually put zombies as a somewhat serious threat? I'm sick of the shitty cannon fodder zombies that go down in one round. What if there was a zombie game that turned every infected into something like pic related or worse?

What I want to question is, why can't regular zombies be a threat anymore? They made them sprinters to make them more dangerous but I prefer them slow. So you have shambling humans who feel no pain or emotion or anything at all that try to eat people, who then also turn into zombies.

The problem is that when you have guns, zombies become very manageable. So they haven't been able to be scary for years now.

slow but deadly like the Crimson Heads are fucking great

The horde becomes more of a threat when you give them excellent hearing, which makes gun use a necessary but dangerous tool.

On the other hand, I've never seen a zombie apocalypse story done in, say, the times of the Black Plague (perhaps with it replacing the Plague) and now I really, really want that.

Which was a thing in the Walking Dead, but then they kinda just stopped paying attention to it.

Though since you mention it, medieval zombies could work. Sure, you could just hide behind castle walls, but then you're trapped by a siege that will literally never stop, ever.

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But on the other hand, zombies probably can't bite through good chain mail.

Which means Paladins and Templars and knights and whatnot have special prominence again, even in a very realistic setting.A strong man who can wade through a zombie horde, skilled enough with a big enough sword to decapitate r with a mace to destroy heads, would be invaluable. Just don't get crushed by the horde.

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Pretty much any medieval weapon would be great on zombies. Axes for cleaving off heads or limbs, spears for puncturing brains from a safe distance, swords for a mixture of the two, and maces and war hammers for concentrated smashing.

Of course anyone who isn't a respectable knight who can afford a full suit of armor is probably boned.

Insert a comma after "thousands."

You call it shit, I called it wasted potential.

Fuck zombie games.

That coop f2p game on steam is the best zombie game ever, no super zombie bullshit, you are killed by getting serpated f rom the other p´layer and overpowered by sheer numbers

I hate this shit the most of all. If I was to make a zombie story, it would be a view into the strength of human nature and all that optimistic idealistic junk. It'd be like a disaster movie except the disaster is flesh-eating monsters.

Thanks Romero, for all this half-assed social commentary everyone's been doing for years.

1) Zombies would not be able to move after rotting to a certain point
2) Zombies would rot fast as fuck anywhere that isnt a frozen wasteland
3) Bugs and birds will literally eat all the flesh off their bones

Zombies do not work in the real world.

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I recommend that you play no more in hell and consider this sentence again

Fix'd

that one, i never remember the name of games

REmake was still the only game to do zombies right imo. Every encounter was personal and quite a few of the zombies even had diaries or fragments of story to who they were.

Now zombies are just hoard monsters and canon fodder. I can see where it's hard to do them right though. Making them move slow but be intimidating and not making the player feel cheated when they shoot them in the head and don't get an insta kill is a difficult balancing act.

Zombi U was one of the few games that got the shambling regular zombies right and were a true threat. hell, you ran into 2 at the same time and you might as well get ready to die if you were under prepared.

Niggers gonna nig

I liked zombiU but even they introduce "special" zombies, it's how I lost my first character. Saw a zombie crawling out of a sewer pipe, hit it and it exploded killing me.

Hollow point bullets might work better than an axe

well in stubbs, the zombie invasion starts in the morning and is over by the end of the day. The town was nuked

Is Zombi worth it? I mean, even without the whole tension of looking to the tablet and back to the screen thing and similars?

Its on the pc too

Completely misread that, yes I first played it on the pc and it has a nice tension.

I played the PC version of it. It was ported a while back, it's okay but obviously the tablet thing is a massive gimmick. I died once because I hit a gas zombie, then that shitty carnival thing killed me four times because you have to use explosions to survive and I kept blowing myself up.

It's too difficult for Goyim McJewlover to comprehend the existence of multiple threats or to parse the idea that humans might work against each other for their own goals. People have been brainwashed into neurological childhood.

Literally every piece of zombie media pulls this shit. It's the "Humans are the REAL monsters!" bullshit I was talking about. Pay attention.

I command this thread to come back from the grave!!!

then it wouldn't be a zombie game would it? it would be a zombie and werewolf and vampire game

you're implying all zombie stories are like the walking dead where it takes place over a course of many years

most zombie games start when the infection just occurs, so who gives a fuck about those "plot holes"

Japan usually does the Zombies + Mutants stuff pretty well.
Dead Souls is crap as a Yakuza game, but mediocre as a zombie game. In a word, it's a dumb little game but pretty fun.

You could play Gothic 1 and 2, it has zombies, skeletons, litches, goblins, orcs(the hairy type), fire-breathing lizards, molerats, scavangers, shadowbeasts, minecrawlers, and so on(pic related for the last 4).

You could also try Dragon's Dogma and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, since they both have zombies as regular enemies and in VtM you fight a lot of vampires and even fight a werewolf, if memory serves right, I know you can in Redemption, but there were no zombies in that game and in Bloodlines there is only one or two sections with zombies in it.

I remember reading a edgy comic about some virus that make people into sick psychopats.

wasn't it called crossed?

ye, next time just google it

They were also unkillable unless you blow their brains out or burn them.

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yeah, is crossed.
pretty edgy.

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But one of the characters you can play as is a national socialist except he isn't, he betrayed the Nazi party and decided to become the new ruler of the universe. A traitor is the main villain of the series. Nazi Zombies confirmed for redpilled

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Try playing battle brothers and fighting zombies. It's pretty great – sure, the zombies aren't too strong or tough, but there are shitloads of them, and they don't get tired ever. So while you dispatch the first few easily enough, the next couple proves more of a trouble as they claw against your armour and you're getting tired. Then more come and you get overwhelmed, too tired to properly defend yourself, and eventually die. Also, some of the zombies do have armour on them, making them yet more difficult to defeat.

what the fuck is this guy's problem?

Judaism?

You know I went in here wanting to talk about exactly that. Every unity-hocking indie artiste wants to revolutionize the open world zombie survival crafting genre, and yet not a single one thinks to throw in some zombie dogs or a zombie bear. I don't think I've seen a zombie dog in vidya since the old Resident Evil.
I can only assume nobody's made any good zombie animal models for them to buy off the unity asset store.

You do in the Left Behind DLC, and it's bad.

That's where I draw the line. Same reason I won't get into Berserk.

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Why? Ammo scarcity os barely a real thing. We have far more ammunition than it takes to shoot all of humanity

Guts accidentally kills a child, he puts his sword through a door as he thinks its a guard.

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Just play Space Hulk: Deathwing and enjoy your different, but still slightly similar "zombies." Don't worry though, some hae guns, some have rocket launchers, some shoot lightning while the rest charge you. Oh an don't forget the ones that run up to you while invisible or the ones that are fucking huge and take half of your dudes health away per hit.

laziness, with zombies you barely have to make functioning AI, you don't have to animate pain from impacts, you only need to make one special hitbox, and you can use them as a punching bag and no one cares if its bloody (assuming you put the effort in to add gore beyond a headpop)

the best part is normalfags will stillbuy it even though zombies have been done to fucking death and are more comedic than anything now

Why the fuck isn't this concept used more often? The whole end of the world/survival/craft bullshit gets boring as hell.

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where are the fuckable zombies

I want Zombie Kill Squads, the game. Do you know how easy it would be to mod as a RWDS game? Lets send this to those AGDevs

Didn't cross go full sjw a long time ago?

read the thread

Same thing for food, if I'm not mistaken, it's not about the quantity of resources but where they are.

Scarcity can be localized, that's mostly the case in zombie movies and games, you rarely see military groups as protagonists, but civilians or lonely operators struggling to survive with their owned or recently found guns, and/or hand-made weapons.

And going back to your and that other user's initial consideration, I think sprinters and others special zombies were introduced for the sake of trying something new, as well as making them more meaningful mechanically. For example, consider the versus mode in left 4 dead.

It was so bad, I didn't even remember this happening. Maybe my mental defense simply deleted it.

Who even reads this garbage?

The same people who watch Big Bang Theory and superhero movies.
"Nerd culture."

I dont give a shit about special zombies, pit me against other psychos who want your head off and will do anything for it
give me crazy truck drivers plowing through cities, rampaging anything in their way, including you
give me cults who want to cut me apart to sacrifice me while invoking otherworldly shit
give me former military trying to cleanse the land and wanting anything that isnt them dead
give me preppers who are completely ready to eat you to survive and know shittons of things about traps and tactics
give me automated bots gone wild
I know CDDA has some of these but the game itself is being fucked with bad
miss me with that gay shit

So Dead Rising, only more so.

I heard dead rising wasnt that good
I also very much enjoy realistic (tm) games, especially when it comes to driving/physics/shooting, which zombie games somehow never get right

Pics in order of the quotes, games in the filename

Also,
I remember this comic that I think it was based on 28 days later that has these 2 paranoid dudes who scavenge a city with LOTS of zeds, and then the whole plot is this one of them trying to a find a way to outsmart the other because he thinks the city is his territory, and in the end he finds out that zombies are attracted to "good smell" in other words if he was soaked with guts he wouldn't be detected, but if he smelt good than he was done, so he pours perfume in the other guy and he is obliterated. Fuck, now try imagining a game with characters and mechanics like this.

RE4 wasnt exactly about zombies and it was corridorland, sadly. Would've been baller as open world.
SCZ is one of my favorite games ever. It's the perfect arcade-style zombie game.
I am, and it would be awesome. There are many other ways to kill people than simply using weapons, and improvisation literally does wonders and is completely unused all the time.

7d2d did both of those, but its not great anyway by virtue of being the exact type of game you just outlined

It's because Zombies are never the point if the game wants to be good.
Much like in movies, they are a metaphor for the inevitability of death, slow but unrelenting, that you must put all your efforts into running away from, even knowing that one day it will catch up with you.

Zombies should always be the same, the background enemy and motivator for everything that is rarely seen but always on your mind.
Players should be forced to ration supplies and ammo because of zombies, even if the fights are sparse. They should be forced to migrate because of zombies, even if they see them rarely on the move. Enemies should contest resources with the players all the time, both sides trying to stem the tide, even if no zombies are near at the moment.

If Zombies are used as motivators and catalysts for everything else, you have a decent movie\game. If they are the main draw… Well, enjoy literal zombie AI and the easiest cheesing ever, I guess.

I guess its not a game for everybody but to say it wasnt good is just lying, dont listen to liars user.

Don't forget the zombie hornets.

And yes EA is a meme, but it's been in development by a small team for several years, and rather recently picked up backing by a more well-known company.

It's come a long ways and is a lot of fun to play, even without friends.

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I pirated Dead Rising yesterday because idea of parcouring through a ruined city sounds awesome but i found the controls and UI on PC complete shit because it's clearly opitimized for controller.
The fetchquest are boring and exploration isn't particularly fun either because i don't find it a box full of yarn and a busted wrench much of a treasure.

Why are you playing Infestation: Survivor Stories? Didn't it die in like, December a few years ago?

How come there is only one game where you are the zombie?

I think you're thinking of dying light.

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE

Because they perfected the idea with one game and never made another in fear of sullying it.

Isn't there a zombie game where you're a zombie on a game-show?

What happened to undead being corpses animated by evil spirits? Those have always been way cooler than "lol it's just an infection bro" zombies; I'd play the shit out of a game that has the basic premise of Xcom (albeit with zombies/cultists/monsters/etc. instead of ayys) and plays like R6S with magic.

I just want to play as a zombie, Stubbs was great but I want more

Project Zomboid has zombies be a fucking issue. About half the time I die being swarmed by a huge horde of of a hundred, but the other half it's my dying to the one zombie waiting in the fucking bathroom when I clear a house.

Pretty sure you're thinking of Ben & Ed.

Resident Evil: Outbreak has an infection meter that, when maxed out, turns you into a shambling zombie and you can try to kill your friends. The game also lacks voice chat and relies on voice commands. You can still use the "Help" voice command when you're a zombie to lure your friends to your location. The only issue is that it doesn't last very long. Couple of minutes of fun at the most.

that supposed to make him brutally murdering a child any better?

Why is it only zombies and dogs?
What about cats?
Zombie hawks? Dolphins?
Can trees be zombies? Bacteria?

Is Altered Beast still pure or has some studio (((modernized))) it with a 3D version?

I hate this meme when zombies get brought up where people act like zombies would be possible in reality because of some shit in a book they read. If I have to hear "oh user it's totally possible that zombies can run super fast without having brains to regulate posture, did you know your muscles are super strong and without your brain limiting your muscles you could totally rip off a car door!" one more time I'm going to shoot someone.

Play doom.
It has:
What's not to like?

Resident Evil Outbreak 2 had a zoo level where there are a few zombie animals. Depending on actions you took in the level, you could either end up fighting a zombie elephant or a zombie lion at the end of the level.
It's a interesting change from the usual prototypes/experiments made from human material and mixing things together as bosses.

There was a GBA sequel that was horribly dull, and some PS2 game that really had nothing to do with the original except the idea of animal transformations.

Zombie games should just be about various factions of survivors going to war with each other over remaining resources.
Make sure you put randomized 80s-esque thugs in denim vests/hockey masks, werewolves and vampires on the side of the zombies, make it like the vampires orchestrated the whole thing and use the zombies as their pawns against humanity.

I want a zombie game set in the dark ages.

Then it's not a zombie game now is it faggot?

Dead Rising 1 is an amazing game, and the port is decent.

I don't think Dead Rising is the game you're thinking of.

That's not murder though. Manslaughter is classified as killing an innocent person without the intent to do so, even if a weapon designed entirely to kill things is employed to do such.

Why buy a zombie game if you don't want just zombies.Idiot.

Most people in that audience don't even know Crossed exists.

> the real enemies are other humans

that would be really cool but then its not really a zombie game any more. who knows why people havent run with the concept.

all i can really think of is that solar eclipse event in terraria where a bunch of b-movie monsters would come attack you. it seems like a joke until you get hit for a quarter of your health.

My zombie game has zombies, robots, demons, and alien (and also slimes and a few other non-major monsters).

Also, does Zombies Ate My Neighbors fit your criteria?

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Yes? He even comforts the kid while he passes. It wasn't his intent to kill him specifically and he immediately regrets it.

looks pretty good. keep working on it user.

A virus will first get into you then start shown itself with symptoms, by that time a huge persentage of people would contract it, then if they die and get back will take a minimum of 8 month to let you decomposeusing average temp of Mediterranean area faster in hot place, slower in cold ones all that without cutting the concept of gov not collapsing or even shitting them self trying to contain the problem

With a >50kg gear? It will last a couple of hours then faint

As often as people give the 4th game shit, I'd like to point out that RE4 did attempt to deviate from the same old "zombie" shit that had already overwhelmed the market over ten years ago. It wasn't perfect, far from it, but at the very least Capcom did their best to produce something that was very much an archetype for "over the shoulder" shooters in years to come. Fucking thing was amazing on the GC for it's time.

You do realize that realistic zombies are impossible for the same reason that humans going without food and water is impossible.

If there were actually real zombies IRL the whole thing would be settled in 2 weeks as people just watch the infected dead be totally unable to move due to a lack of everything a human body needs to survive.

Downloaded CDDA because it was mentioned in this thread, fooled around with it a couple of hours. The idea of the game is great, but the gameplay kind of sucks cock, even as a roguelike. Particularly annoyed that I have to make what aounds like an OP character on paper in order to actually land a single fucking hit.
Any recommendations what I should do to make the game actually fun to play?

Look up Atom Zombie Smasher, it's pretty much what you described. Unless that was the one game you mentioned.

I want a zombie game where the zombie girls want to have consensual sex with you, is that so much to ask for?

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nigga just cause you weak means everyone else is
even modern soldiers are trained to carry 40+ kg on themselves for half-week long marches, git gud

dont
it's ass
if you use the vanilla limitations and dont go full tard on points your character sounds and acts like a retard
even a fucking elite bionic sniper can't fucking hit anything with any weapons at all it's retarded

what does he mean by this?

wait no I get what he means by this…!

Mate, that's the least of your problems, you can easily make an unarmed martial artist or a bow hunter or something that starts skilled in combat.
You can even grind skills to ridiculous levels if you want or just drive over zombies.

The problem is the ridiculous amount of knowledge you need to understand about the game in order to use anything at all or even make it long enough to grind the skills you need.

Like noise for instance. You use anything that makes noise at all, expect hordes of zombies to spawn out of thin air nearby and rush you. And guess what? butchering them so they don't rise again does make noise.
There's also 2 different settings for how spawning is handled and both suck since one makes cities deathtraps you can't navigate with too many zombies and the other makes them safer but now zombies spawn all the time everywhere.

Here's the actual problem with the game: there are a few specific ways that the authors play as and they work very well. They'll think it's not that limited since you can apply small variations to the prescribed way, but in the end you'll still either play the game the way they want you too or you'll die over and over again.

Proof that millenials and especially SJW cannot accomplish shit.
I wonder if they've brought this up at.

ALWAYS

how d solve the millennial problem? something must have went wrong during the time of their upbringing that made them this way. they have so little willpower in general its rare to see one accomplish anything. however the ones who are able to accomplish something tend to do so big league. it is as if they have all this raw potential but are trapped inside their own minds.

This is what happens when a generation is fenced in by people instead of frontiers. Massive depopulation is desperately needed.

need to get the fuck into space already