Is anyone else starting to get sick of zombies?

[Sion_Barzahd]

I like zombies, in fact one of my favorite forms of survival horror games are zombies, but they are on a major media infestation over the last year or so.
I think they've begun to lose their charm. Game developers should bottle their zombie urges for a couple of years and then bring them back again. Maybe do more things which involve giant robot suits, maybe make a new front mission game, rather than the shitty fail thing they released.

 

[suicide samurai]

I own a ton of Zombie flicks and have seen countless others. Comics, books, any media I can get, actually, but honestly, it's seldom done right.

As far as Zombies in gaming goes, the way they're using them is getting a little boring. I haven't seen a good one yet, though like some of the game-modes. They're not really the "Romero" style of story.

What I'd love to see is an on-line party system game where a person can stay alive and level up, or die and either play as a zombie (boring after a while), or have to restart their character.

There could be some fun dynamics too, like keeping an infected person with you just long enough, or an infected person deciding they're going to frag their party.

 

[Skeleton Jelly]

No, because there is so much untapped zombie related gold.

We haven't seen a true zombie survival game or any books or movies with a deep plot. Not artistically deep, but a deeper plot line other than just "ZOMBIES!!!?!?! WELL HURRR LETS GET TO THAT DER MALL. WAIT FIRST, WE NEED TO GO TO THE CITY AND GET MY GF!".

There is so much to do with the genre. Things like World War Z is a good example.

 

[Sam_Winchester]

I think I'm just sick of same old zombies. Yes, L4D 1 & 2 are fantastic games, and Nazi zombies is fun to play for awhile, but it seems like everyone is just recycling the same old zombies over and over again.

 

[LewisLongshanks]

Totally but this is because there are too many releases that are paying homage to the likes of Romero rather than doing their own thing. I like it when zombies are used in the comedy horror subtext like with Braindead.

 

[Stilt-Man]

I'm beyond sick of zombies. They've been overdone in films, video games, and the internet. It happens. Not too long ago, I was complaining about ninja overload. Before that, it was pirates. When I was in high school, it was robots/cyborgs. Something else will come along, and replace zombies, and it'll get overdone.

I've noticed a slight increase in dinosaur discussion around the internet lately...

 

[Leg End]

No. Because zombies are awesome. As proven by Panty & Stocking.

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Also, because zombies are the timeless videogame enemy.

Though I wouldn't mind having a few zombie Comrades...

LOL the zombie cat part was funny

And technically they're ghost zombies.

Same difference.

Because ghost zombies need love too. :B

 

[Leemaster777]

No. Because zombies are awesome. As proven by Panty & Stocking.

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Also, because zombies are the timeless videogame enemy.

Though I wouldn't mind having a few zombie Comrades...

LOL the zombie cat part was funny

And technically they're ghost zombies.

God, I love that show. That episode almost makes me love zombies again.

Almost.

 

[whycantibelinus]

I'm sick of Zombies and superhero movies and all vampires except the Trueblood series. We need some fucking badass shapeshifting movies and games to come out.

 

[hutchy27]

Zombies are being over used lately, and there undead charm are starting to wear of in my opinion.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Start-ing to? What is this starting to?

I'm so damn sick of zombies at this point I've been there, done that, bought the tshirt, outgrown it and handed it down already... and I haven't even played most of the zombie games, watched the zombie movies or read the zombie books. Just the second hand exposure alone has been enough to nearly induce vomiting when a zombie is mentioned.. and not in the way that a zombie should make you want to vomit.

 

[TheAceTheOne]

I'd personally like to see a proper zombie survival game, Fallout New Vegas Hardcore mode style.

Seconded. And I'm not sick of zombies, except when they're just thrown in for a giggle (MW2 and World at War, are my examples of choice.)

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I was sick of them at Left 4 Dead 1.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

It seems to be the same thing over and over again with them. Just mindless enemies content on following you, and attempting to galdge your eyes out.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

No. I am, however, getting sick of people getting sick of Zombies.

Sure, people talk about them a lot, but in the past two years there's been a couple movies, a half dozen games, and one TV show. Hardly overexposure, when you think about it.

 

[macfluffers]

I wouldn't say I'm sick of them, but it would be nice if they took a back seat for a couple years. After such a wonderfully deconstructive work like Zombieland is a sign that the trend is slowing down, and we'll see fewer zombie movies and games for a while.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Now, Army of Darkness or Warhammer/Warhammer 40k style undead, which are controlled by an intelligence, and have enough of their own to be able to use weaponry...that could have potential.

Unfortunatly, they wouldn't seem much like 'zombies', i reckon. Zombies are mindless corpses, running or walking, that try to devour the player. If they use weapons and tactics... they can be swapped with aliens, or the evil army mooks, or the typical terrorist, and the only difference is the textures.

Personally, I'd like a zombie survival game where you must get head shots to kill them, or blow off all their limbs and leave them like the black knight - make them soulless (one l or two?) horrors that only stop because they physically can't continue.
Make them slow, steady, a biomechanical devourer, something that is irrevocably not human - just the appearance.

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

wait,

"is anyone else starting to get sick of zombies?"

OT:no

 

[Thaluikhain]

Well technically the things in L4D aren't zombies as they aren't dead atleasr to our knowledge so far. Also the new fast zombies like 28 Days Later aren't zombies they are infected. A zombie must of died a some point and then come back alive to be a zombie that is how zombies work by definition.

Actually, no, the word "zombie" covers alot of ground. It has real-life roots...I think in Hawaii there are laws against making zombies, which are people you've magically robbed off willpower to use as your slaves...which you can sorta do with certain drugs nowdays.

Now, Army of Darkness or Warhammer/Warhammer 40k style undead, which are controlled by an intelligence, and have enough of their own to be able to use weaponry...that could have potential.

Unfortunatly, they wouldn't seem much like 'zombies', i reckon. Zombies are mindless corpses, running or walking, that try to devour the player. If they use weapons and tactics... they can be swapped with aliens, or the evil army mooks, or the typical terrorist, and the only difference is the textures.

Personally, I'd like a zombie survival game where you must get head shots to kill them, or blow off all their limbs and leave them like the black knight - make them soulless (one l or two?) horrors that only stop because they physically can't continue.
Make them slow, steady, a biomechanical devourer, something that is irrevocably not human - just the appearance.

Admittedly, yeah, those kinds of undead would be different from you average zombie, and hard to make different from humans. Unless, perhaps, you also had human enemies in the game, to contrast them to. A mixture of human(ish) and zombie enemies to fight might work, as, IMHO, zombies are rubbish enemies.

I'd like to see zombies where headshots didn't work on them like they do on everywhere else...what's a zombie need a head for, anyways? Alternatively, they just lose their eyes and have to use other senses.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I'd personally like to see a proper zombie survival game, Fallout New Vegas Hardcore mode style.

Agreed.

The boring bit about zombies these days itn's the zombies themselves, but that they have basically been devolved to some kind of mooks in videogaming that you can kill in droves just for fun.

Consider games like Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2. The zombies don't even pose an actual threat to you, they're just there for you to test a bunch of homebrewed weapons on.

This philosophy is incredibly boring and it's starting to get incredibly old.

I miss the philosophy of the early Resident Evil games, where just a single zombie could bit your head off if you weren't careful, and facing them in large numbers was something you'd have to break out bigger guns for, but at the same time make sure that you conserve ammunition, because you never know when some biofreak mutant shows up and needs to be put down.

It's supposed to be zombie SURVIVAL, not nerf-cornered zombie killing amusementpark.

Bring back the SURVIVAL please!