Is anyone else starting to get sick of zombies?

[Grabbin Keelz]

One thing I enjoyed about L4D was the special infected. They weren't just your average shambling corpse. They were monsters that required both skill and strategy to defeat. I think why your getting sick of zombie games is because they don't require much skill to defeat. All it takes is a few shots or one nice swing from a crowbar to kill. Zombies are predictable, stupid, and in many games slow. We (that is to say I) kill them probably because I can kill as many of them as I want without feeling morally guilty since they're trying to kill me. In Deadrising 2 the zombies closer resembled gooey bulls eye targets than they did actual threats. What zombie games need to do is make killing a zombie a difficult task. Make it so a zombie is a major threat rather than a small nuisance. I liked "The Zombie Survival Guide" because in some cases, just one or two zombies could take a team of five people to kill.
They need to put the 'horror' back in Zombie survival horror.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Actually I got sick of it a long time ago, got over it and then got sick of it again. Now I'm kind of inbetween sicks.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

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!

Dang, I wish I had read your post five minutes ago, most of mine is pretty much this.

 

[Mimssy]

I'm pretty sick of the obsession. It's getting tiring.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

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.

Definitions of zombie on the Web:

* zombi: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
* zombi: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
* automaton: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"
* several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
And yes what you said is also a correct definition but L4D and 28 Days latter do not fit into any of these as they non controlable which is an important point in the voodoo zombie. So while mindless human can count they really need to be controlled.

So yeah I'd go with the Las Plagas as zombies or the Flood as zombies but not the rabies like strain that is in the others.

 

[xDarc]

Me too. But from 1990 to 2002, there were hardly any big budget apocalyptic zombie movies; and I don't ever wanna have to go 12 years without a decent zombie movie ever again.

I knew 28 days later was going to kicks-tart the zombie thing back up when I saw the way people reacted to it in the theater, and I couldn't be more happy about the wealth of movies and books that have exploded from that. That said, things definitely feel over-saturated lately.

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

Um. Nope.

 

[Kenko]

I try not to overexpose myself to zombie material as one might catch the virus! Well, I dont want to get bored of it and only take it in, in bite-sized chunks.

 

[Treeberry]

I'd like to see a zombie game that focuses on survival. By that I mean, working with other characters as well as on your own and zombies (and other creatures) posing genuinely difficult threats. But the thing I'd really like to see is survival being something beyond hoarding all the medikits and ammo - like building and maintaining a refuge.

Unlike something like The Walking Dead (which I am sick of) I want hope. I miss hope.

Although this may have already been done and it's just flown over my radar. (If it has please tell me.)

I honestly think that a lot of things can still be explored or can be done with zombie media, we're just overrun (*cough*) with too much of the same.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I've been tired of zombies for a while now, I think the last zombie thing I enjoyed was Zombieland.
Anyhow.
If I were to get back into zombies, I'd probably start with The Walking Dead. I here The comic and the show are really good and I'm sure they are but I'm just not interested enough to get into them.