Poll: Have we reached peak zombie?

[floppylobster]

I was never that into them in the first place but I have liked a lot of the zombie movies and games. But lately I'm thinking they're over-exposed. So have we reached peak zombie? (as in a peak oil-type point of diminishing returns).

 

[orangebandguy]

Perhaps, but that depends if you mean Zombie or "Infected"

I prefer the infected since they're actually scary.

 

[Sonicron]

Yes. A thousand times yes. For god's sake, developers, it's hard to believe at this point you yourselves are not getting bored with making zombie games. Knuckle the hell down, mobilize whatever dried-up dregs of creativity you have left and give us something new.

 

[destroyerofhopes]

I believe that there have been too many zombie games true they are great fun but now unoriginal and in most of zero punctuations videos everything has already been done and better at that. I believe that we have reached the peak but that is no reason not to carry on buying zombie games. Just make sure that the peak doesn't drop too much

 

[WrongSprite]

Yes. A thousand times yes. For god's sake, developers, it's hard to believe at this point you yourselves are not getting bored with making zombie games. Knuckle the hell down, mobilize whatever dried-up dregs of creativity you have left and give us something new.

http://www.lolsauce.com/RandomBS/Cyborg%20Pirate%20Ninja%20Jesus.jpeg

OT: I put we're getting close. There'll be a final spurt of games, then they'll move on and find something else to do to death.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Yes. A thousand times yes. For god's sake, developers, it's hard to believe at this point you yourselves are not getting bored with making zombie games. Knuckle the hell down, mobilize whatever dried-up dregs of creativity you have left and give us something new.

Yeah, I want to see a survival horror game where you fight wave after wave of Vampires that sparkle! ;-)

 

[Sonicron]

http://www.lolsauce.com/RandomBS/Cyborg%20Pirate%20Ninja%20Jesus.jpeg

You know, if this were still the 8-bit era I'd say you just got your golden ticket. Nowadays you'd probably earn yourself a bullet in the head by all the world's hyper-religious nutjobs.

Yeah, I want to see a survival horror game where you fight wave after wave of Vampires that sparkle! ;-)

I think I'd pay money for that.

 

[Kollega]

We are getting to the point of zombie oversaturation both in gaming and in entertainment industry as a whole. Sure, zombies provide guilt-free carnage, come in large numbers, and don't shoot back. But it does not mean you should stuff them everywhere you can.

I'd want to see a pirate boom next - don't particulary care if it's sea pirates, sky pirates, or space pirates.

 

[xDarc]

My best friend and I used to hang out every day in the mid 90's, smoke pot and watch horror movies. Zombie flicks were frequents. Unfortunately the 90's was the worst decade for zombie flicks. There was the Night remake with Tony Todd in 90', Return 3 in 93'- and not much else of note. When 28 Days Later came out in 2002- everyone was raving about it and one of the things we said was that this marked the return of the zombie genre and that we finally would have some new stuff to watch.

Now 7 years later I'm kinda bummed. All I hear kids talk about is the zombie apocalypse. That used to be our thing. It was a good way to sniff out like minded people if they dug zombie flicks. Now every tool box likes them.

*sigh*

P.S.

Still looking forward to this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456940/

 

[samstewiefisher]

its no at all like peak oil but i see wat ur askin. Yea i think we have in films ever since 28 dyas later shot the genre out of the water. I personally have never seen a good zombie film. In games i dont no. Id like to see a return to clasic zombies rather than the one s in new resi games. Sometimes its fun to face an enemy (zombie horde) dat cant be stopped wit limited resources where the best you can do is survive.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Perhaps, but that depends if you mean Zombie or "Infected"

I prefer the infected since they're actually scary.

Likewise.

Zombies are slow, shambling re-animated corpses that are brought back after you already die and all those people in the movies caught by them are idiots; it's just a case of bashing their heads in with a baseball bat.

Infected are fast (usually), and if they infect you then you need to deal with the horror of slowly turning into one of them. Also, there's potential for a lot of Body Horror.

It's a no-brainer really.

...oh, god, pun NOT intended.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Close, but not there yet.

It's only a matter of time now so I suppose:

"It's the final countdown! (duu-de-duu-duu, duu-de-duu-de-duu)"

 

[xDarc]

Perhaps, but that depends if you mean Zombie or "Infected"

I prefer the infected since they're actually scary.

Likewise.

Zombies are slow, shambling re-animated corpses that are brought back after you already die and all those people in the movies caught by them are idiots; it's just a case of bashing their heads in with a baseball bat.

Infected are fast (usually), and if they infect you then you need to deal with the horror of slowly turning into one of them. Also, there's potential for a lot of Body Horror.

It's a no-brainer really.

...oh, god, pun NOT intended.

A lot of people miss the point but the scariest thing about traditional zombie films is the sad truth of human nature exposed. The biggest threats in all those older zombie flicks has always been other survivors.