Why are they so overdone?
>>341183134
easily fought, malleable lore, easily implemented, fun to kill, free of political disgust.
they're the safest play in all of media
Because they're the easiest horror movie to make and they were the "in" thing for longer than most fads.
For games, it's an easy enemy to design and there's no worrying about pissing off foreign buyers.
>>341183134
Because it's the only way for normalfags to not feel bad and protest about killing swathes of humans that aren't "evil organization". By making them retarded zombies.
>>341183134
Because they aren't murder-sims when the enemies are already dead.
>>341183926
>this
Casuals never seem to tire of them either. They were over done even before TWD came out imo.
>>341183134
>Sony making another post-apocalyptic zombie survival game
Why
>>341185580
They didn't get the memo after dying light took the crown and finished the zombie craze off on a positive note.
It's all the fun of mass murder with none of the guilt.
Because there still hasn't been a game that properly nailed it yet.
>>341186590
There doesn't need to be. It was never a contest.
>>341184212
>no worrying about pissing off foreign buyers
Dead Rising is the only franchise to get zombies done right and other games in the genre need not apply.
>>341186590
Left 4 dead's only real issue was that it got pretty repetitive.
Not even the zombies per-say, but weapon selections (best choice is always magnum/AK) and maps.
Maybe the survivors just a bit.
Would have been nice to instead have the option of mix and matching survivor parties and watching them interact.
>>341183134
So all the drama of killing hordes of people can be replaced with the drama of dealing with other annoying survivors.
>>341183134
Whenever something is moderately popular you gotta milk it dry, remember WW2 craze? Fuck i was shitting krauts for a solid decade.
>>341186885
>There doesn't need to be.
Yes there does, this zombie train ain't stopping until it's done right damn it.
Because every game has devolved from Dead Rising. Prove me wrong.
Left 4 Dead, Rust, Daylight, H1N1 or whatever, Dead Island.
The "it's the apocalypse and muh zambies are everywhere!! Time to scavenge and survive!" has been played out.
Thanks the Walking Dead for making zombies an even bigger fad than 28 Days Later.
>>341183134
Because you don't need to program half-decent AI for them
>>341183134
>900 zombies
>just run in circles couple times
>set 8 fires behind u XD
i wish AI wasnt so stupid. if its not stupid it´s always unbeatably hard but thats better than pandering to moviefags
>>341185834
>dying light
>positive note
how you want your final bosses senpai?
>>341186590
Dead Rising if you want cartoon violence mayhem that accentuates the corny mythos side of zombie lore.
Left 4 Dead if you want fast-paced action packed slaughterfest featuring killing machine WWZ zombies.
DayZ if you want glorified survival simulator of what it would actually be like during a zombie apocalypse.
Telltale's The Walking Dead if you want an idea of what empathy's like in a post-apocalyptic zombified world.
The vast majority of players are children. Most children don't so much as live in the moment so much as try and project themselves into being adults.
Everything is about accomplishments to a child. It doesn't matter if defeating an enemy is fun or challenging or exhilarating or anything really so long as the enemy is defeated, especially if flashy numbers appear on screen and pat them on the back.
In zombie games you mow them down by the score, tricking children into thinking they accomplished much more than they actually did "DUDE I KILLED LIKE 400 ZOMBIES" while at the same time never challenging them, because if there's one thing kids cannot stand it's losing.
>>341188054
I cant remember the last game where the AI impressed me or even outplayed me without it being cheesing.
>>341186590
How do you properly nail something that doesn't exist? There is no right or wrong way.
>>341188574
>DayZ if you want glorified survival simulator of what it would actually be like during a zombie apocalypse.
Except DayZ is wonky shit and turned into COD deathmatches, only online too.
>Telltale's The Walking Dead if you want an idea of what empathy's like in a post-apocalyptic zombified world.
I'd rather that idea in an actual video game, not a VN.
Zombies are just an excuse for bad ai.
>>341183926
>free of political disgust
Unless its RE5 situation when people somehow found a way to complain about black zombies being in Africa.
>>341188345
Nigga a QTE like every boss
>>341189043
Jesus, your right
>>341183134
Only way to shoot white people that aren't Russians or nazis
Guessing people got tired of shooting robots or Nazis.
>DUDE
>SO WHAT IF LIKE
>WE MADE A GAME
>WITH UH
>ZOMBIES AND UH
>UH
>FUCKING
>UH
>FUCKING MOTORCYCLES
>AND YOU SHOT THE ZOMBIES ON A FUCKING MOTORCYCLE
And there are people that wonder why video games aren't taken seriously.
>>341192801
I still think we haven't exhausted alien robot nazis from the future as enemies.
>>341188054
The AI is going to consist of pathing toward the player and nothing else, it's like a world war z sim, only in the post-apocalypse you wouldn't want to waste a hundred bullets on a random encounter like that, or even carry that weight all the time
The person playing couldn't have gotten closer to some of those zombies if they had decided to slowgrind with them
