Zombies!

MERBman · Post by **MERBman** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:11 pm

Zombies are, beyond question, very cool.

Cool zombie facts will be listed here.

In John Romero's Land of the Dead, there is a face-off between John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper. The two have not faced off since the Super Mario Brothers Movie (Leguizamo was Luigi, Hopper was King Koopa). So if halfway through the movie you start expecting Kaufman to call Cholo a "filthy plumber", now you know why.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:12 pm

Zombies like to eat people. I think we should strive to understand them by eating people a little ourselves.

MERBman · Post by **MERBman** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:13 pm

Some zombies like to eat people. Some will only eat the brain.

Some zombies will even eat each other if no other food source is necessary. This usually is not the case, however, which begs the question -- how do they know?

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:16 pm

Because zombies are quintessential Them. The OtherGuys. They want to messily convert you to their side or destroy you, and only the gentle report of a shotgun can reason with them.

Sure, sometimes the OtherGuys turn on each other, but they mostly want you.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:26 pm

Zombies like brains. The average person does not.

+1 for zombies.

MERBman · Post by **MERBman** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:26 pm

There are lots of games that have zombies, but so far, no zombie games that are even anything like zombie movies.

No game I can think of has you wandering a near-deserted city / suburbs, looting and stockpiling while trying to outrun, avoid, or stave off zombies, simultaneously searching for other survivors to travel more safely, with makeshift pipebombs or molotovs, limited ammo, and barricade-friendly buildings awaiting a group of survivors to hole up in them.

Just Resident Evil survival horror stuff.

No authentic zombie stuff.
So sad. So very, very sad.

I would pay good money for the first zombie came to successfully present the feel of a real zombie movie, without being a totally-linear adventure game ordeal.

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:40 pm

I personally can't wait for Stubs. Go look it up and watch the trailor
gonna be the BEST GAME EVAR

MERBman · Post by **MERBman** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:50 pm

Stubbs will be very awesome. I love the intro. But it's not quite the same thing, you know?

Protectmyballs · Post by **Protectmyballs** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:50 pm

/me dials his voicemail

Hey guys, you've reached the voicemail box of Jed D, at the tone please - OH GOD ZOMBIES [muffled sound] [click]

I wish I had saved the message from my boss when he called. It was like five seconds of silence, then he called me an idiot and told me where the job was for the day.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:24 pm

Sortelli wrote:Zombies like to eat people. I think we should strive to understand them by eating people a little ourselves.

All you'll get is understanding Hannibal Lecter.
In order to understand zombies, you need to eat people who are more alive than you are. Or maybe dead people?

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:36 pm

But then you'd be a ghoul, which is similar but not quite the same.

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:52 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
Sortelli wrote:Zombies like to eat people. I think we should strive to understand them by eating people a little ourselves.
All you'll get is understanding Hannibal Lecter.
In order to understand zombies, you need to eat people who are more alive than you are. Or maybe dead people?

LOOK I JUST WANT TO EAT PEOPLE OKAY

You should respect my unique world view. Fascist.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:57 pm

Cool? You wouldn't say that if you could smell them. Meat rotting on the bones, cold exposed organs, rancid vomit stangnant in their stomachs, breath from dead lungs, through an infected throat and past brown stumps of teeth tangled with the slimy remains of old brain matter...

- Joel Fagin

Nicked · Post by **Nicked** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:58 pm

What I don't get about zombies, is how they can operate their limbs fairly well. You'd think that rotting in the ground would totally slow the ol' motor processing skills.

As for good zombie games, what about Zombies Ate My Neighbors? You could throw corndogs!

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:06 pm

Nicked wrote:What I don't get about zombies, is how they can operate their limbs fairly well. You'd think that rotting in the ground would totally slow the ol' motor processing skills.

As for good zombie games, what about Zombies Ate My Neighbors? You could throw corndogs!

yes...good game

MERBman · Post by **MERBman** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:08 pm

Just remembered an awesome zombie game.
Survival Crisis Z.
(scroll down)

Yeah, it's shareware. Worth 10 bucks, though. At least, it was for me.

Stockpiling, looting, finding other survivors... it works pretty well. Plus there's a shitload of zombies.

Closest zombie game to zombie movie I could possibly find.

PieceOfSkunk · Post by **PieceOfSkunk** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:38 pm

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Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:00 pm

As Mr. Bob's official Minister of the Living Dead, I feel as if I should comment on this.

Good: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead 2004, 28 Days Later*, Shaun of the Dead

Mediocre: Land of the Dead, Resident Evil

Bad: Night of the Living Dead 1991 (?), Day of the Dead, Resident Evil Apocalypse

*Not an official zombie movie as stated by the creators, but screw them.

Mvmarcz · Post by **Mvmarcz** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:02 pm

I loved Day of the Dead

BUB RULES!

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:19 pm

mcDuffies wrote:All you'll get is understanding Hannibal Lecter.
In order to understand zombies, you need to eat people who are more alive than you are. Or maybe dead people?

Jim North wrote:But then you'd be a ghoul, which is similar but not quite the same.

No, ghouls drink blood. Am I the only person here who's seen Hellsing? geez...