Supervillains. In my ideal world Arkham City will spark a Renaissance in superhero games so that they don't suck.
Poll: Stop it with the zombies!
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Catgirls. Not as the lovable fantasy constructs everyone imagines for some reason, but carnivorous mutant girls with cat brains (and claws, and ears, and tails). These should be sleek, smart, stealthy man-eaters (and woman-mutators) with playfulness and personality and various bonds with one another -- quite threatening but not as easy to pull the trigger on as the dumb ugly squibs we usually get. Perfect survival horror drama material.
I really don't mind zombies, except for when they are always the same, and somehow supposed to be a big threat.
Now, if you were playing as, say, a candidate for Mayor trying to get people to vote for you in a town with a zombie problem, that might be cool. If the zombies are controlled by aliens, and are only mindless hordes once controlling thingies are blown up, fine.
Shambling hordes of mindless, unarmed things? Military commanders would love to be fighting those.
Now, if you were playing as, say, a candidate for Mayor trying to get people to vote for you in a town with a zombie problem, that might be cool. If the zombies are controlled by aliens, and are only mindless hordes once controlling thingies are blown up, fine.
Shambling hordes of mindless, unarmed things? Military commanders would love to be fighting those.
Im not bored with zombies yet. A particular style of "quirky fun" zombie game is maybe getting to saturation point, but beyond that there are plenty of takes on zombies that I havent seen yet.
But...
But...
Dang. I could really get behind a modern action-RPG centered around dinosaurs. Either a "lost in the jungle" story, or a darker take on a Dinotopia type world. Or all sorts of other things I havent thought of yet, Im sure.Amberella said:
Well we shouldn't just replace one over saturation for another, developers stop being lazy assholes and do some variety.
I voted cyborgs.
Mutants - fast zombies.
Giant insects are cool and all, but the square/cubed law really ruins their effectiveness.
People - okay, name an unsympathetic human enemy that hasn't been done to death already.
Aliens - *shrug* Can be done well, but they kinda lose that sense of tragedy that zombies had.
Robots - Faceless, soulless, and they blow up real good. This is my #2 choice.
Gangsters - Meh.
I'm thinking more along the lines of "lost all humanity to the machine" cyborg. Still alive, still capable of rational thought, empathy, tactical reasoning, probably even speech. But no sense of morality. Or maybe they got brainwashed by their implants. From what I've heard and seen, System Shock did this sort of thing really well (I've never played it, sadly).
Mutants - fast zombies.
Giant insects are cool and all, but the square/cubed law really ruins their effectiveness.
People - okay, name an unsympathetic human enemy that hasn't been done to death already.
Aliens - *shrug* Can be done well, but they kinda lose that sense of tragedy that zombies had.
Robots - Faceless, soulless, and they blow up real good. This is my #2 choice.
Gangsters - Meh.
I'm thinking more along the lines of "lost all humanity to the machine" cyborg. Still alive, still capable of rational thought, empathy, tactical reasoning, probably even speech. But no sense of morality. Or maybe they got brainwashed by their implants. From what I've heard and seen, System Shock did this sort of thing really well (I've never played it, sadly).
I like the zombies. Thats what made the resident evil series suck so hard lately. Lack of actual zombies.
Eldritch terrors. I want hideous insectoid-starfish aliens to invade Earth from another dimension a la The Mist. Seriously, these things need to freak you the fuck out. The game needs to take place in the opening minutes, with people losing their minds at the sight of creatures that they did not think were possible. You should be disgusted by the mere prospect of having to touch them.
And then you need to shoot them with guns.
And then you need to shoot them with guns.
The S.S were like gangsters and they used advanced technology uhmm hmm guess we need them to have hardened carapaces now as well.Zachary Amaranth said:
What is their motivation tho? Why are they pissed off. It's an awesome idea anywayRasputin1 said:
I voted toher because I love zombie games. Really there are tons of games that try to make really complex AI and realitci enemies and respond to enviroments and everything. Every now and then its great to just sit back, relax and pop off rounds into some shambling corpses. Untilll the difficulty gets higher, then it becoems an epic batttle for survival O_O
Cracked.com did an article on Zombies and Vampires.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19402_6-mind-blowing-ways-zombies-vampires-explain-america.html
its because you elected a Democrat.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19402_6-mind-blowing-ways-zombies-vampires-explain-america.html
its because you elected a Democrat.
Zombies are just part of the zeitgeist at the minute. On the net/gaming side at least.
Outside of there is f*cking meerkats, everywhere you look on the high street.
Outside of there is f*cking meerkats, everywhere you look on the high street.
Default enemies should be:
* Guilt-free murder
* Satisfying to kill
* Plentisome, and with a good excuse for it
The only thing that fills all three for me is zombies. I feel at least a little guilty about killing Nazis, or terrorists, or anything that is actually a living person.
Bugs and aliens and shit are just anticlimactic to kill, they don't bleed our blood or stagger around comically when decapitated - it sounds sick but you can't deny that lopping a zombie's head off and then seeing him search the stump with his hands before collapsing is hilarious.
Finally, there's a perfectly valid reason for there to be a fucktonne of zombies if the world has been overtaken by zombies. It's because the world has been overtaken by zombies. That's the reason.
Robots are actually pretty fun to kill sometimes but in a different way, blowing off an organic limb is fun in a different way to exploding a robot arm.
Also, I don't think zombies are as widespread as a base creature as you think. There are actually not that many games in which zombies are the main enemy, and really not even a vast proportion in which they feature as a secondary one.
* Guilt-free murder
* Satisfying to kill
* Plentisome, and with a good excuse for it
The only thing that fills all three for me is zombies. I feel at least a little guilty about killing Nazis, or terrorists, or anything that is actually a living person.
Bugs and aliens and shit are just anticlimactic to kill, they don't bleed our blood or stagger around comically when decapitated - it sounds sick but you can't deny that lopping a zombie's head off and then seeing him search the stump with his hands before collapsing is hilarious.
Finally, there's a perfectly valid reason for there to be a fucktonne of zombies if the world has been overtaken by zombies. It's because the world has been overtaken by zombies. That's the reason.
Robots are actually pretty fun to kill sometimes but in a different way, blowing off an organic limb is fun in a different way to exploding a robot arm.
Also, I don't think zombies are as widespread as a base creature as you think. There are actually not that many games in which zombies are the main enemy, and really not even a vast proportion in which they feature as a secondary one.
