Poll: Fast zombies.

[FalloutJack]

According to the information provided in World War Z, the world will have a hard enough time with slow zombies as is. They will cause panic, murder, destruction, etc. There was a section in the book that had people thinking, for a second, that there were zombies running towards their secure place trying to get in. They were actually people desperate for a place to hide (lots of them), but for one moment...Max Brooks captured their panic over fast zombies perfectly. He described them as thinking "They can run?! Oh shit! Maybe if they can run, they can jump, and if they can jump they can do ANYTHING AND AAAAAGGGHH!!!" and so on.

You people couldn't handle a swarm of fast zombies. Not really. Fast zombies would spread faster. It'd be like fighting the Evil Dead, only more serious. We'd be dead. Just very very...dead.

 

[Jamash]

First and foremost, fast zombies did not start in the 28 series. They started in Return of the Living Dead.

Actually, the infected zombies in David Cronenberg's Rabid [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabid] moved pretty fast, and that film was made in 1977, 8 years before Return of the Living Dead.

 

[RobRush]

I first saw fast zombies in DOTD '04, and that completely revived my zombie interest. Old, slow, shambly zombies have become somewhat of a stale joke, just stay in the open and keep your distance, and you can laugh it off as you pick them out from miles away.
Fast zombies however, and I mean ZOMBIES, the reanimated dead through a virus or whatever, but ZOMBIES, are shit scary, and the idea works.
Particularly in the case of a newly made zombie (before the body has a chance to decompose), the undead have no brain capacity and feel no pain, just an urge to feed. In basic primal instinct they would run, and because of feeling no pain, would never tire, or at least not notice. To me it just seems to be the most complete idea, and the most pant-pissingly scariest. So both in game and in film I prefer this as it just creates a genuinely terrifying experience.

Although, agreeing with the above, if the zombie apocalypse comes, I hope I'm terribly, horribly wrong. Please just give me slow fuckers and a cricket bat

 

[KDBTV]

When I seen the first fast zombie in HAlf Life 2 I craped myself
Thank God for the shotgun!

 

[LitigationJackson]

ZOMBIES don't run, INFECTED do.

 

[ddon]

they make thing interesting so i like them.

 

[RobRush]

Infection could lead to zombification if the virus first causes death....

 

[Sovvolf]

Well I think its pritty hilarious that people are justifying there statements by saying "Real zombies dont run" and such, to my knowledge there arent any real zombies, its just based on voodoo folklore which is based on the symptoms of TTX poisoning from were bokors would put tetrodotoxin and datura in peoples wounds in hopes that it would cure them.

Anyways back to the real topic, I would be more afriad of runner zombies, Ive never been afraid of shamblers, they wouldnt be much of a threat unless one was in my house (Which is pritty small and narrow) otherwise they wouldnt be that much of a threat, I'd still be afraid of them and woudnt wish to be chased by them in real life, but like I said there not much of a threat, if one got too close a simple push kick would drop them on the floor. Its hard to get hold of a gun in Britain but I have a nice longsword sitting on my wall, I even own a few sharpening stones (though there for my Hatchet and I havent used them on my sword, its probably illegal to do so) so I'd just hack off some heads while making my way to some were like Meadowhall were I'd bunker down, then again if it was shamblers and it was spread via biting and such, then I'm pritty sure the millitary would have it taken care of pritty quickly.

However runner zombies, well thats a different ball game, you carnt just side step them, they chase you, they'd probably hunt in packs too so my Martial Arts or sword wouldnt help much, with shamblers even though they hunt in groups too I'd be able to take shots with the sword or throw puch kicks and keep pulling back, but with the fast one's well I wouldnt have time, they'd simply rush me. There usually alot more clever then shamblers too so I imagine they'd be able to climb so just getting to a high spot might not work as well. Again though, I would just make my way to Meadowhall with my family and other survivors and bunk up there. I doubt the place would be overrun before we got there, maybe some one might have cleared it before we get there lol. But that would be the safest place, find all entrances, lock them seal them with what we can, then baricade it, find as many weapons as we can, some improvised, and wait it out.

The worst thing that could happen in shamblers scenario isnt the zombies, its man, they'd be roiting and looting everywere.

 

[Jedoro]

I hate all zombies and anybody who says otherwise is a zombie sympathizer. Go on, give your zombie friend a big hug, just don't come complaining to me when your skin starts falling off and you develop an irresistible desire for brains.

This.

Fast zombie, slow zombie, infected- they're all catching a .308 or some 000 buckshot.

But fast zombies IRL would piss me off a lot more than the slow ones.

 

[magnuslion]

Fast Zombies=not the win for people who do not want their brains eaten.

 

[asinann]

The problem with fast zombies is that zombies are still dead. Complete with muscle and tissue deterioration. A fresh zombie (one that was just turned) would early on have rigor mortis and for a short period after rigor mortis faded be able to move fairly well. But since they won't have anything preserving them they will begin to decay fairly rapidly and after a few weeks the muscles won't be able to run any more. Just a matter of how bodies decay, not so much that I dislike them.

 

[JamesTehWench]

well, its either clawing off your face or shuffling forward to create the same fustration you feel when walking in a small coridoor behind an old dude with a zimmerframe... why dont we all play some fun games where they mod a chainsaw into halflife?

 

[mark0217]

I hate them but I wouldn't want them to disappear from games or movies!
I mean, IRL, I doubt a slow-ass zombie would pose much of a challenge, really.

 

[Jark212]

If zombies can run, then they can climb, if they can climb, just maby they can think, and if they can think, then My God where screwed...

 

[XT inc]

I've always thought the point of zombies was to shoot them in the head or they won't die. This is where we lose why slow moving zombies existed. In a game like left 4 dead or what have you, you need fast moving zombies/infected because you don't use headshots to kill them. I mean how much of a pain in the ass would modern zombie games be if the headshot only rule applied. where if you spray bullets into a horde you might get a few kills but the rest would just pass on through with no results.

That is why I hate fast moving zombies because they remove the point of them being zombies leading to certain games that end up being a fire button mashing instagib snooze fest.

 

[RobRush]

The longer a zombie was dead, the more diminished it's capacity to run would be, based on muscles rotting away, sure, but that wouldn't really matter. By that the time that was effective enough to slow them down we'd all be worm food.

 

[New York Patrick]

Most Zombies are safe from Seattle Brian!!!

 

[Julianking93]

I like them better than the slow ones.

At least they pose some threat. If you get killed by a slow zombie, then you deserve to die.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Well, i think they freshened the whole zombie scene up a bit, when you've seen one shambling beast, you've seen them all. besides, in a game, they offer a challenge to your reflexes, as they're harder to hit, but they're normally less resilient, as the slower ones have to be done with a head shot, whereas the speedy ones are susceptible to most weapons.

 

[Lusperus]

Besides the weren't zombies they were "the Infeced" no rotting body parts to impede their motion.