After spending countless hours playing games like Wolfenstein, Doom, Halflife, and of course the Resident Evils, every now and then I have crazy 'survival horror' nightmares where I'm trying to escape from infested/overrun cities. Does this happen to anyone else?
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Sun, November 20, 2005 - 8:05 PMJust about all the time.
I saw DOTD when I was 8 years old, that was in 1974, eeek I'm an old guy.
It changed my profoundly, and I've been trying to find a cathartic outlet for a while. The resident evil games are good, but too "monstery" for my taste. I like traditional zombies, human, shambling, slow. Not genetically modified giant spider zombies, just not "believable."
I just ordered a game from amazon called "Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green", it had mixed reviews, we'll see. -
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Sun, November 20, 2005 - 10:24 PMTrue, spider zombies are more sci-fi than true zombie horror, but I do like the overall tone of that series, especially RE 4, although that's game has no zombies atoll... Anyway, I definately know what you mean about looking for the old cathartic release. Seeing zombies killed is a true visceral release. -
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Mon, November 21, 2005 - 7:37 AMI'm a huge Resident Evil fan. I prefer them to most zombie games. I must admit, I'm very curious about the Land of the Dead game. The movie, recently released on DVD, was pretty much the goriest film I've ever seen. I wonder if the game will hold up. -
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Mon, November 21, 2005 - 8:28 AMThat's the great thing about the Zombie genre; gore and guts and scares for those of us who want a splatter type experience, and slow creeping doom, for those of us who want the psychological horror experience! -
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Mon, November 21, 2005 - 12:45 PMroad to fiddlers green isnt too bad, especially for the price.
Stubbs looks like fun as well, but its from the zombies perspective.
I think its only natural to have those kinds of dreams after you spend alot of time watching zombie movies or playing the games, or thinking about zombies in general. -
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Mon, November 21, 2005 - 1:36 PMWhat else is there in life? -
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Mon, November 21, 2005 - 3:43 PMWhen not playing zombie video games or watching related horror movies, I like to plan out escape routes for when the infestation begins! -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 7:56 AMhee hee hee......all I can say is, I'm so relieved there are other people that ponder the same silly stuff I do! -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 11:38 AMthats the reason zombie squad was created. If you are prepared to survive zombies, you can survive just about anything else. -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 1:49 PMThat's right. The video games are zombie killing simulators, which I expect will help tremendously when I actually have to be making those headshots. I will pwn zombies! -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 8:16 PMI'm installing Land of the Dead - Road to Fiddler's Green as we speak. I'll post back if it's any good. -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 9:43 PMOh man, too scary for me. What a wuss! -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 9:46 PMHeh heh. I fucking freak out playing scary games- I'm usually such a wreck it's like work. I've embarassed myself many times by screaming out loud, jumping, dropping the controller, you name it. Another good scary series is Silent Hill- although not zombie related, it's definately disturbing. -
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Tue, November 22, 2005 - 10:31 PMsilent hill had got to be the best horror gaming scenario i've seen. they did an amazing job building up the tension and creep out factor. -
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Wed, November 23, 2005 - 12:33 AMHell yeah! I especially liked SH2. The story to that one was a trip. The monsters are so bizarre, it really stuck with me for a long time... Pyramid Head *shudder* -
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Mon, November 28, 2005 - 3:27 PManyone try out Stubbs the Zombie game? I played the demo of Land of the Dead, not to bad.
And i've had my share of zombie dreams, where I wake thinking they out there and can't look outside the window. But my last one we used the zombies as a power source, they would push this wheel around trying to get to us and it was used for power "undead manpower" -
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Mon, November 28, 2005 - 3:47 PMI'm still waiting for the Canadian release. Hopefully soon.
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Mon, November 28, 2005 - 7:21 PMUndead Manpower, a horrifyingly renewable resource.
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Mon, May 1, 2006 - 5:14 PMi cant belive there are other people who actually think about this kind of stuff on a daily baisis i thought i was weird its good to know that when/if z day happens i wont be tottaly alone. were due dont u think?
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Fri, February 1, 2008 - 1:30 PMDude a couple of years ago i stayed up all night playing some zombie survival game, then slept for like three hours, and went to go drop something off to my grilfriend at her job .(i was working nights so on my days off i would stay up all night anyway)
anyway i sw this crazy homles looking guy with what looked like food stains on his shirt, soup blood freaking jello for all i know )
but thought to my self zombie, and moved my motorcyle over to the far side of the lane so if he lurched at me he could not drag me off the bike .
it was like an hour later when it hit me , did i just make a trafic descision based on the word zombie?
wow
