Stolen Pixels #166: Versus Zombies

[Mausenheimmer]

Snips

Good as always.

What is nagging at me is, why did they take Stolen Pixels main tab/link from the home page?
It's been replaced by the dire "GameDogs" I persume.

They are shuffling out the good writers for poorly written "comedy".

Because the main writer/creator of "Game Dogs" is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Escapist magazine.

 

[Hileo20]

If love conquers all,
and roses are the symbol of love,
Then shouldn't roses be able to fight zombies too?
That's what I learned in Philosophy ... not sure why I pay to go there...

 

[shMerker]

I don't want a sequel to PvZ so much as I am absolutely terrified that they might release a handheld version. Puzzle Quest for the DS nearly destroyed me. There's no way such a thing could work out to my advantage.

I love how whimsical the game is. You don't see enough stuff like that coming out of the game industry. Why not plants?

 

[AvsJoe]

I really wouldn't mind seeing a Star Wars game with zombies. It would be pretty interesting to play as nameless Jedi #16 facing off against zombie Stormtroopers and Twi'leks and shit during either the height of or the aftermath of the rebellion.

 

[Georgeman]

And how do they make it so addictive?

What sorcery goes on in the deepest recesses of PopCap HQ?

The sorcery that Nintendo and Blizzard also use to ensure a steady flow of cash. And since I'm not privy to the secrets of the aforementioned companies, I can't say the exact kind. But damn, this game is extremely cheesy and insane! Oh, it's great by the way.

 

[Scrythe]

Because there's a zombie on your lawn, that's why.

 

[Sir Kemper]

Oh god the song...it's comeing back too me!

".....there's a zombie on your lawwwwn...."


NOOOOOOOOO!

 

[Galad]

I haven't heard that song. Should I consider myself lucky?

 

[Drejer43]

Although maybe the Cupcake could be a lie...

That joke wasn't fun to begin with.

 

[samsonguy920]

I haven't heard that song. Should I consider myself lucky?

It trumps Yellow Submarine if you get that stuck in your head.

..damn..

 

[Miral]

Oh god the song...it's comeing back too me!

".....there's a zombie on your lawwwwn...."


NOOOOOOOOO!

Oh great, you just got it re-stuck in my head. Thanks for that.[/slightly-amused-sarcasm]

 

[DTWolfwood]

makes about as much sense as any other explanation as to how they figured plants can shoot stuff and have googly eyes.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Spoiler: Plants Vs Zombies Song

I don't know how they did it, but Popcap created my favorite lawn defense game ever.

I hope they make a sequel...or an expansion.

[...]

Agreed! I enjoyed the game very much and have been hoping they would hurry up and make an expansion or sequel.

 

[Joe Deadman]

To think what could have been :,(. Popcap do seem to create a lot of games don't they? Also how dare they underestimate the power of a rabbit, unless those zombies had a certain holy relic they wouldn't have stood a chance.

 

[James Hueick]

I would love to play cake vs zombies...

 

[Expie]

Also, Darth Vader vs Zombies would just be unfair.

Yeah. Vader always wears his helmet making it impossible to get to his brrraaaaaaains!

No wait... he takes it off in his meditation capsule-thingy. Zombies only chance!

And he's not gonna do that in a fight.

Who do you think lives in the house?

 

[Tarrker]

Tower defense games...
I haven't been addicted to those since Wintermaul in 7th grade...

I think I'll start off my pathetic, little post just by saying that the above comment makes me feel REALLY old. Now that I got that off my chest...

I think a better question might be: Why haven't more gaming companies gone the Popcap route themselves? It's not particularly difficult to figure out what us gamers want in games and if you REALLY need a source for ideas, look no further than youtube and sites like this one. Wholly aside from this point, the modern game market is just SO TOTALLY FLOODED with utter CRAP that, even if you make a BAD game or, at least, something most gamers wouldn't really like, it doesn't matter! The gamer masses are sure to buy the pants off any new title so long as it promises to have boobs, zombies or stupid, over the top, features. If your game has ALL of the above then, gosh, just open up your Swiss bank account now and start planning for your retirement. With all this being said, I would just like to say that I LOVED plants vs zombies and I've been playing TD style maps/games since Starcraft was still a semi-new game. I honestly wish, that, some of the "big" name companies like Ubisoft would take more queues from Popcap. We would start to see games being a lot less epic, but at least gaming would go back to being stupid fun again like in the olden days.