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[Killer344]

Sims?

Project Zomboid.

[Dnicee]

Look up "No room left in Hell." It's a mod for HL2 I think.

Limited ammo, tons of tough zombies, it's slow and methodical but no one ever wins.

I forgot about that one. It was pretty cool. But buggy as hell when I played it. Dunno, was a long time ago so it might be better now.

But I would like to see games with a little bit more drama and less zombie killing. or them to have both.

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Most epic game from my childhood:

Zombies Ate My Neighbours (SNES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ekHYfPm4dQ&feature=relmfu

The first levels are not a big deal but later on there are only 1-2 people in a whole level and if they get killed the game is over.

That game was hard as all hell to finish, especially since even the water gun had limited ammo.

Modern zombie games, to be honest, are incredibly overrated. The genre is so ridiculously overdone that it's hard to be anything but cynical about it now.

[Ahnungsloser]

That game was hard as all hell to finish, especially since even the water gun had limited ammo.

And 50% of the passwords were useless becausse when you tried to use them you failed after a few stages because
you have to less wapeons for the right situations.

[PonySlaystation]

Modern zombie games, to be honest, are incredibly overrated. The genre is so ridiculously overdone that it's hard to be anything but cynical about it now.

There are a lot of zombie shooters but most of them are arcade and very few focus on the survival aspect. Project Zomboid and Dead Linger are the only ones that come to mind and both of them are done by indie developers and are very early in development.

[Dnicee]

There are a lot of zombie shooters but most of them are arcade and very few focus on the survival aspect. Project Zomboid and Dead Linger are the only ones that come to mind and both of them are done by indie developers and are very early in development.

Dead Linger seems really cool! Thanks for sharing!  Hope they can deliver what they say.

[nikomas]

Played the first episode of the walking dead the other day, best game involving zombies ever... at least when your tires from all the shooters.

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Played the first episode of the walking dead the other day, best game involving zombies ever... at least when your tires from all the shooters.

To be honest it didn't look like anything more than a cash-in on the recent popularity of the TV series to me. What type of game is it? The "adventure" categorization it recieved on Steam leaves me with only the vaguest of impressions.

[Demon767]

Vermillion, there is a whole thread dedicated to the walking dead, go check it out, it will answer your question

[Vermillion_Hawk]

So essentially a semi-interactive movie? Shouldn't really have the moniker of game if that's the case.

[Spartan_Marine88]

After playing Heavy Rain, and  MGS 4 i can say interactive movie games can be some of the most fun and addicting things out there.

[Demon767]

Its a story driven, detective focused, survival horror zombie game, fully interactive 

and it is fantastic, try it before you criticize it.

Unless you are all for the Cod style shoot em up zombie games, then it probably aint for you.

[Vermillion_Hawk]

I'm hardly for a shooting-game approach, as previously stated. However, I'm definitely not supportive of games with minimal interaction. I play a game to be engaged and to be challenged. I do not play a game for a narrative alone, hence the term "game". I'd personally rather read a book for a compelling narrative, and not "play" "games" such as Heavy Rain or Final Fantasy XIII. Or this.

[Demon767]

The narrative engages you

You are challenged by the decisions you make will effect the out come of the game at the end

and finally, It is interactive, in the 'game' you DECIDE what happens. sorry to say that a book's ending cannot be changed

so, try the damn game faggot

--Disciple of Tank130--

[Vermillion_Hawk]

When I say challenge I mean that the game puts up a chellenge of my strategic/tactical/reflex abilities, not "challenges" me by forcing me to decide the meaningless fate of digital characters that I'm supposed to be under the pretense of caring about.

When I say interactive, I mean that I will constantly be performing some sort of activity that meets the criteria above while also making progress through trhe game.

Suffice to say I also abhorr the zombie genre and the Walking Dead comic books and (awful) TV show, so I have no drive to attempt to "play" something derived from a detestable source material.

As an addendum, a good book does not need multiple endings, multiple endings, in fact, are the antithesis of any good book.

[Spartan_Marine88]

I'd personally rather read a book for a compelling narrative, and not "play" "games" such as Heavy Rain.

If you had ever been near a non-biased review of heavy rain or played it yourself you would understand how a game that gives you so much plot and direction can at the same time be very involved with your own personal interactions.

Fact is it just sounds like your being stubborn just for the sake of a deep seated belief about something that you have never tried but merely followed suit blindly with the mob.

Sadly you are the majority and are the reason Heavy Rain died quietly in the night due to preconceived notions of what it is instead of letting yourself try something that would suck you in tease you, trick you and then rock your mind. I don't think i have ever been more nervous in a game then in the moment when i was searching a mass murderers house who takes people as his victims and taxidermies them, feeling my fingers locked into an awkward position around the PS move controller not sure if i can hold it a moment longer because he is sitting on the bed i am hiding under talking to his dead mother.

Also there is a difference between a book having multiple endings (btw choose your own adventures rock) and playing through a game where you fucking up got you a shitty ending

Also there were plenty of reflex and skill testing moments as well as those that tested your brain, this is not to be confused with a rail shooter.

If walking dead can even recreate a small moment of this for me, i will gladly spend 20$ on it.

[Vermillion_Hawk]

For the record, I had previously rented Heavy Rain on the insistence of one of my friends who posited many of the same arguments, and it was essentially what a described: a series of QTEs where you make decisions that will lead the story down multiple melodramatic poorly-executed paths, all culminating in the decision of who dies in the end out of the four or so main characters.

Accept that these sorts of interactive media (I loathe to call it a game) appeal only to a certain segment of the populace. That is the reason why Heavy Rain died quietly in the night. I'd also like to add that MGS4 shouldn't be classified in that category, considering there is an actual (good) game buried in the convoluted narrative, unfortunately it is overshadowed by the latter towards the end.

[Sachaztan]

Suffice to say I also abhorr the zombie genre and the Walking Dead comic books and (awful) TV show, so I have no drive to attempt to "play" something derived from a detestable source material.

Sure everyone is granted to have his/her own opinions.
That being said, that's some grade A bullshit right there.

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Sure everyone is granted to have his/her own opinions.
That being said, that's some grade A bullshit right there.

A more contradictory statement there is not.

[Demon767]

forcing me to decide the meaningless fate of digital characters that I'm supposed to be under the pretense of caring about.

Well then, dont ever read a book, play a game, watch a movie, because they all fall under characters that dont really exist.

oh how boring the world you live in.