Marietta is where I live.... don't go here for a Zombie Apocolypse plan guys, seriously, more zombies for me and my buds to fend off.
Here's the first teaser for Telltale's upcoming game based on The Walking Dead. It doesn't include any zombies, walking or otherwise, and it doesn't include any gameplay, either, but it's still pretty effectively spooky, despite consisting mostly of missed phone messages. Overall, it's like a less shit-wrecking version of that first Dead Island trailer, because instead of seeing a child torn apart zombies, the trailer only implies a child has been torn apart by zombies. Thanks, Telltale! (Via Robot 6)
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Still not a bad choice for relax in part time. Just play it for fun, don't be too serious.
Glad you were a bit spooked. The super-cool trailer should be out on Monday. Hoping you like it too. :)
I swear to god if this game turns into a season-long search for some kid named Clementine,someone is getting hurt.....
So does this mean that the Walking Dead game will end up being an over-hyped and under-developed piece of tripe like Dead Island? I never bothered to play the game, as I saw quite a few of "Let's Play" series about the game and, almost inevitably, about two hours into the affair, both the player and the viewer seem left with the awful realization, "this is all there is, huh?"
That said, I think at least one survival-horror game allowed you to play a child, at least in segments, I think it was one of the Siren games. I think that would be hard to do as most developers are, one, squeamish about harming and killing children in game; and, two, know nothing about kids and how they actually behave. I think the most compelling evidence is Skyrim with the precocious little shits that populate most of the towns and villages.
I think the kid is alive in the treehouse...
By the way, A Zombie game starred by a kid trying to survive on his/her own would be awesome, in the "oh my god I can't belive they were allowed to do this" kind of sense...
I am only interested in this if I get to have a copious amount of options for each decision that I must make to ensure the survival of my group. Unless this is just a "your a lone person in a zombie apoc" thing. At any rate this will likely be a point and click adventure so I don't know how well this setting will translate.
Seriously you're leaving downtown Atlanta to escape teh zombie-appoc and your choice is Marietta?Clearly this game was made by people whose knowledge of GAland was gleaned from an Atlas.Come to Dacula - we're all heavily armed and we make our own booze!
Meh. Unless it is done completely tongue-in-cheek, the only zombie game I would play would involve digging a very deep ditch and then luring zombies by the hundreds into it. All you have to do is survive for a couple of weeks, and the zombies should dessicate or fall apart. Done.Here's what I am thinking:
While not a bad plan, it still requires you to find a place to hold up with enough supplies to last the weeks it will take for the undead to rot away. And remember, not all zombies were zombified at the same time, so there's going to be a bell curve of zombie decay. You'll need a minimum of three weeks (and longer if in fall or winter).
Then there's the problem of actually digging the ditch. Where are you going to find the time and materials to do so while thousands of undead are moaning for your sweet, sweet flesh?
And then you have to deal with the ditch filling up and the thousands of undead merely crawling over their less-forunate fellows in some kind of horrific body serfing.
And, of course, that's assuming the zombies even decay. Romero zombies don't until they are killed for a second time, for instance (see Dawn of the Dead and the only zombies that markedly decay are those which had been downed).
And, of course, you're also assuming the Powers That Be didn't attempt to use atomic weapons at some point to stem the tide of undead. Irradiated undead are going to keep for a very, very long time.
So, not a bad plan, but it requires a lot of things to be in place already, a lot of lead-time until the hungry dead show up, and for there to be no extenuating circumstances.
Too bad new zombies would constantly be created even as the oldest ones fall apart. Your plan will fail.
If flies aren't consuming the "undead" then I doubt they'll decay naturally since decay is mainly about organisms (from flies to microbes) eating the deceased.
Yeah, because you'll have the time, the tools and the place to dig a very deep ditch righ in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse.
Swords, man! The only plan there is...
