Zombie MMO's: Yes or No?

oppp7

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It should be an MMOFPS and have rediculous amounts of weapons and zombies.
 

BonsaiK

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A zombie MMO will never be made, because it cannot possibly work. Here's why:

Zombie survival is a fixed-ending type of game. You either survive the zombie situation in which case you win and that's the end of the game, or you do not survive the zombie situation, in which case you lose and that's the end of the game. MMORPGs on the other hand are designed to go on forever with a feeling of 'progress' but never an outright win or loss. Sure you can die, but you always come back through ressurection, cloning or whatever, which means there's no reason to ever really be afraid. A zombie MMO without fear might as well not even exist. You can also kill things but then more things just appear, so where's the point in killing things in a zombie MMO if it doesn't actually make you or your team any safer? Your character would exist in a constant, inescapable statis of the situation in which he or she lives never improving and never getting worse, and the danger never increasing or going away, in which case why even bother living at all? A zombie MMO cannot exist in practice because it has nothing to motivate the player/character with.

On the other hand you can certainly incorporate zombies into an RPG (many fantasy ones have for years, there are zombies in D&D after all) but you can't make "zombies" the whole point of the game - not if it's an MMORPG. It doesn't work.
 

NuclearPenguin

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Well I doubt itd work
Being that its an zombie game theyd have to limit the actual humans... And being that its an MMO they cant do that
And lets face it, zombies are only good for dieing.. Again
But. A free-roam L4D style game would be awesome, Kevlar Armor of Justice +7 here I come.
 

stinkypitz

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I think the idea would work well if the players were all survivors vs. the hordes of zombies. the story should accommodate for two rival factions of survivors and many varying types of zombies and bad guys. Given to the right developer, I see the potential for a pretty good MMO.

EDIT: Perhaps a Guild War esque system would work, as in the towns and safe areas are places for players to meet up and get quests and such, and as soon as they step into the world it is instanced for them and their party. That way they would feel like killing zombies is actually helping the party survive, instead of just grinding them for xp.
 

AkJay

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SmilingKitsune said:
Welcome to the escapist OP!
By zombie mmo I assume you mean like an mmo version of Left4dead? I think that would be a great idea.
He's been here for 6 months. . .
 

Ryuk2

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SmilingKitsune said:
Welcome to the escapist OP!
By zombie mmo I assume you mean like an mmo version of Left4dead? I think that would be a great idea.
No! Left 4 Dead isn't zombie shooter and has no zombies in it. They are called ''infected'' by retarded kids, but i call them drug addicts, that run at people and hit them.
What i would like to see from a zombie MMO would be.
-People create characters (one account, one character) and join the game at some random place
-Zombies are mindless ...well zombies, controlled by computer. They would stand around doing nothing or walk around, doing nothing.
-Survivors would have different talents.
*Military (Spawns at some kind of base, police station, nightclubs or white house. They would have a pistol at start with very limited bullets and good combat skills)
*Medic (Spawns at hospitals, random houses e.t.c. They would carry bandages and would have good first aid skills)
e.t.c.
-If you die, you die. You need to create new character.
-The game world would be big city, forests and small city's.
-There would be random loot, that you would need to find - crowbars, radio's, planks, nails, guns, health kits e.t.c.
You would have to eat, sleep, go to toilet and other stuff. Game would be centered around surviving (duh!), building barricades, finding safe place to sleep e.t.c. If you want to go out of the game, find some safe place to sleep and hope that you wont be dead when you come back. Sleep in safes, in car, on top of a roof or in closets.
There wouldn't be much rpg elements. You would gain skills, but you can't just go grinding zombies to get level. RPG system would be more like something from Bethesda games, without exp's and levels.
 

probunk

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Dead Frontier is quite good, however I have the tendancy to lose interest at higher levels with all the trecking to the deeper zones.
 

GamingAwesome1

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A couple of Zombie MMO's exist.

There's one called Urban Dead that's has limited graphics and is browser based.
Also the aforementioned Dead Frontier.

I'm not too big on either of them, honestly. Dead Frontier is pretty sweet though.
 

SmilingKitsune

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AkJay said:
SmilingKitsune said:
Welcome to the escapist OP!
By zombie mmo I assume you mean like an mmo version of Left4dead? I think that would be a great idea.
He's been here for 6 months. . .
Err...he made the first post on the 8th of April, the same day he joined, which is also when I posted my response.
You're the one who quoted me six months later...
 

WestMountain

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Didnt NCsoft talk about putting a small team on something like a zombie mmo?

Found it

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/MMOG-Zombies-Console-Blizzard-NCSoft,9143.html

A MMOZG :p
 

Kiutu

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Seems it would be cooler if it was similar with Chromehounds, a 'campaign" that reset each time. At the start the world is fine then zombies break out, and you try to survive (realistically) for as long as possible. Dying makes you a zombie until the reset.
 

Danpascooch

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I think a full zombie MMO would be amazing (those piece of shit browser based things don't count)

If they could combine this with the first true FPSMMO, it would be EPIC
 

JokerboyJordan

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You know it would just end up like an MMO Fallout 3, but with better quests and just zombies. Not that that's a bad thing.
 

Twad

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I have an impression of deja-vu.. alradey answered to another one like that i think.
Anyway.
Yes for zombie MMO, in the FPS view, i would personally like it to be centered around everyday survival, looting, cooperation and above all else; stealth
.. not run-n-gun action like l4d (wich is still a lot of fun) sure i want combat in it too, but not at the l4d scale where they pop out of nowhere and come in massive waves.. because they can.
I want a zombie game where intelligent decisions make you outlive the loud rambos.

Players could be scattered around a massive town, wich is infested with zombies. Some sort of "economy" could be in effect; towns and metropolis have tons of loot but its also very risky, while rural areas have much less loot but are more secure.