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No, this is not another one of those "what would u do if there wuz a zombie apocalypse????" thread.
Zombies are appearing more and more in video games, and I've seen them in increasing amounts in other media as well in the past 5 or so years; mostly having some relation to a "zombie apocalypse" or something along those lines. I've even seen a decent amount of threads pertaining to the subject here in the AG forums, the most famous being the old ZSC, which had several thousand posts before it was discontinued.
But why all the zombies? Who came up with the idea that they will suddenly create some sort of apocalypse? What is the appeal?
Can someone please explain this craze to me?
Zombie films have been around since the 1930s, they just steadily get more and more popular. Perhaps it's the current phase and popular horror monster now (vampires pop into mind too, but Dracula would spin in one of his many graves). Perhaps it's also because people fear something that you once knew as a cheerful and familiar human being turn monster (Wait....aren't most monsters like this?) and fear is something we paradoxically chase after. Perhaps it's because people like the gore and action, the desperation and loneliness of survivors coping in a post-apocalyptical world and relate it to our own weary post modern society. Okay, I was fibbing about the last point. Then again.....
Maybe it's the appeal of seeing undead scurring after your brains? :P
I don't quite see why, either. It seems rather pointless and... Morbid, violent. Iduno.
I think the Dawn Of the Dead started it. But can you think of any other remotely plausible monster?
Maybe it's the appeal of seeing undead scurring after your brains?
But can you think of any other remotely plausible monster?
I don't think there is any reason, other then people find them interesting. Having to survive against an enemy who never stops, who only is after feeding/spreading the infection? And lets be serious here, killing zombie in video games is hella fun.
Seems to have a shred of truth to it. Fear is fickle, though.
The modern day concept of a zombie is almost entirely thanks to George A. Romero's 1968 movie Night of the Living Dead. The movie Return of the Living Dead introduced the concept of the brain eating zombie.
And lets be serious here, killing zombie in video games is hella fun.
I think it's because it's fun and exciting to place yourself in those situations and try to live.
Try to live? How hard is it to outrun a zombie?
From my experience, it gets old after around the 10th zombie.
Which is why I can't comprehend why so many people have a burning passion for killing them.
So all a slow zombie needs to do is just keep going until the human runs out of energy to run.
Nah. Look here.
Well, just like to clarify, some of the ''zombie'' films such as I Am Legend aren't true zombie flicks since the monsters are basically rabid humans. They aren't dead yet.
the interesting thing about I Am Legend is that it's based on a book where the world population developed a psychosis that has them believing they are vampires not zombies.
zombies difficulty to be killed in the first place
Nothing a headshot can't cure.
Yes but it does make things like extreme weather, falling off cliffs and animals trying to eat them not as big of a deal.
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