AWKWARD ZOMBIE

My plan for a zombie invasion is to become a zombie. I have no worries about apocalypse, I'm on the winning side, if I die my death will most likely be fast (like a shot in the head or a trap), etc.

I wasn't talking about games specifically, more so this whole plan it out fad. A zombie outbreak is unlikely, so it isn't practical, and it was only mildly amusing in Red vs. Blue, so it isn't highly amusing when tards on the internet fuck it to death. Nobody cares that you (people in general, not you as in Badfish) have an emergency plan. Nobody cares that you think you're prepared. You're not special. You're not clever. I get it. You like zombies. Do it quietly.

Actually, I thought Dead Space was terrible. The parts with the zero gravity were fun, that was it. The rest was cheap jump scares, with annoying combat stringing the plot together. I get that in a horror game, combat is supposed to be scary, but I didn't feel that this was a horror game at all. It was just bland.

I liked RE4. I did not, however, feel paniced, worried, paranoid, or afraid. The amount of weapons, the ease of combat, the ridiculous scenarios, and the hilarious dialogue were not scary. They just made it feel like a mediocre action movie. And why can't a survival-horror game be an FPS?


I played Left 4 Dead, which is arguably a good zombie game, and the whole time I was just going through the motions. And RE5 put me to sleep in seconds. It had none of the charm that the 4th had. As I said, I liked RE4 a lot, but it sure as hell wasn't a horror game.

How is that different to a horror game? I tried playing through Dark Corners of the Earth a second time, and I was just bored. I already knew what was going to happen, what was the point? I played through the first Halo about half a dozen times, and it was reasonably entertaining through each. It's repeditive, sure, but it works.

Don't say "But who really knows?" It makes you seem like you don't. Doesn't do wonders for your argument. It's unfair to compare a genre, survival-horror, to a single franchise, Sonic. I don't have anything to say about Left 4 Dead 2 or Dead Space: Extraction, but if they're anything like their predecessors, they'll be highly popular, pretty monotonous, and not particularly terrifying.

Again, I wasn't talking about video games when I made my original statement. I just think the zombie fad has gone a little too far. It's a little lofty (and pretty hollow) to claim that there are still great ideas out there without putting any forward. I agree that survival-horror games are too action orriented, as I said about Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead.

The zombies shall use the spare key under the mat. I mean really you should hide that thing better.

Except this is real life, not some B-movie horror. The zombies, who don't have food except the odd passer-by would starve well before a man with a full kitchen would.


If zombies could use keys, I'd be far more worried about the fact that it would also mean they could use weapons.

Since when do zombies need to eat?

... Since always, since nothing can survive without energy?

I could list several reasons why the "zombies will starve" and the "just lock your door" strategies are wrong, but this whole thing is getting silly. This is a weird fears thread, not why Badfish and Spoony like/don't like zombie plans or not. It's not that big of a deal. Wanna keep at it? Make a thread for it. I think there even already was one. So, lets Move on.

Because holy shit, we have an attic. And, for some retarded Indiana Jones-like reason, I fear that if I open it, snakes will fall out from it. I don't know why I think this.

They're not powered by food. Sometimes by magic, sometimes by technology, sometimes by hunger (note:hunger, not the actual eating) but it'd be a pretty lame movie to have the zombie hordes powered by food.

But, if there were ever a real-life zombie uprising (probably from a disease or something), I doubt that the zombies would get any energy from magic, technology, or the absence of food (how could something possibly be powered by hunger anyway?)

This is why these arguments are so pointless, you can always say "what if?". Let's just forget this argument and move on.


I used to be terrified of aliens (the space kind, not the illegal kind) when I was younger. I'm not anymore, though.

I concur. Tip of the hat to gentlemanliness on the internt.



I'm afraid that I'm going to end up poor, unemployed, homeless and living on the street, eventually wasting away from a lack of food, or excess alcohol. Judging from the rest of the posts here, I would say that it is not the norm.

Thanks a lot I'm never going in my attic again.

(snakes are everywhere in Texas so I would not be suprised if they're in my attic too)

You live in texas?

Feel free to make fun of me. Nobody seems to like Texas.

I get the implication the comic is making.