Why do people love the zombie genre so much?

I myself like to blast away at zombies but only if it has a decent storyline i dont want to just have mindless fun. I think that resident evil really has done a great job of creating a world for the genre. Umbrella corp is definately someone we can agree to hate and try to destroy. The left for dead series while entertaining isn't exactly story driven. However what it lacks in story it does make up for with action and gameplay. Hordes of very fast and aggresive zombies running at you at full speed spewing vomit all over. It is very good fun to play with a group of friends. A game with zombies i couldnt really get into was dead rising the zombies were very slow and lifeless and the setting was kind of dull and played out. I never really beat the game but i never really wanted to play more than 1 hour. While other games like read dead redemption seem to just be jumping on the cash grab bandwagon with a DLC where you can pay 10 dollars to have zombies in your game. Dont get me wrong i do love me some zombies but some games just fall short.

What are some of your favorite zombie killing moments in gaming? Why was the game so fun to you? Should every game be given DLC just to change your gameplay such as adding zombies, aliens, monsters?

I have no idea, I personally think zombies are quite overrated these days.

Heh, not a fan of Red Dead DLC?

Anyways, I like zombies in anything. They're stupid, mean and evil: the perfect villan. I could even enjoy the 28 Days Later mod for Oblivion, or the zombie mod servers in Team Fortress 2, or how about the zombie mod made for Crysis? Zombies just go so well with anything, I guess.

I think Killing Floor on the PC is much freakier than left 4 dead and way more fun.. zombies can be invisible and it has a more gritty tone to it.. I like the thrill on those kinda games. SLUSHiNaToR

Agreed. That game is like Left 4 Dead on crack. So awesome.

There is no "Zombie" genre. I think games involving zombies generally get praised because they are good at their core. Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 both had great core gameplay and multiplayer, Dead Rising had great core gameplay as well, and so on. It's more of a coincidence that the zombies are there. These developers make their games and hope for them to thrive because of what lies at their core and their mechanics, and then have zombies play a major role to up the atmosphere, mood or feeling of the game.

I think people enjoy the fact that zombies are just cannon fodder, something you can just blast away with no effort and as typical of games with zombies in it, there appears to be a never ending supply. No game can satiate peoples blood lust like a zombie game lol.

I think Dead Rising was a great game, much better than L4D. People always talk about the perfect zombie game and generally the idea is just a zombie as a game, and Dead Rising has come the closest to that. It had all the basic staples, *Spoiler Warning if you haven't played Dead Rising*

The government conspiracy and cover up, people doing dumb things to get themselves killed, people cracking under the pressure of the situation, anytown USA being the starting point of the outbreak, the everyman not trying to save the day but save himself and a few other people, using whatever you can to defend yourself, Capcom simply took a more satirical approach to the subject. I mean the almost got sued because it was so much like Dawn of the Dead.

Then there is the sort of L4D approach, but in an open world, where your goal is to escape, maybe saving people and stuff like that. That one is also a pretty popular "perfect zombie game idea"

There's no such thing as a zombie genre.

Back on topic: I like horror survival games and zombies fit perfectly in such a genre.

EDIT: Now that I think about it my favourite Horror survival game is Silent Hill which has no zombies on it but wth.

I think people enjoy the fact that zombies are just cannon fodder, something you can just blast away with no effort and as typical of games with zombies in it, there appears to be a never ending supply. No game can satiate peoples blood lust like a zombie game lol. I think Dead Rising was a great game, much better than L4D. People always talk about the perfect zombie game and generally the idea is just a zombie as a game, and Dead Rising has come the closest to that. It had all the basic staples, *Spoiler Warning if you haven't played Dead Rising* The government conspiracy and cover up, people doing dumb things to get themselves killed, people cracking under the pressure of the situation, anytown USA being the starting point of the outbreak, the everyman not trying to save the day but save himself and a few other people, using whatever you can to defend yourself, Capcom simply took a more satirical approach to the subject. I mean the almost got sued because it was so much like Dawn of the Dead. Then there is the sort of L4D approach, but in an open world, where your goal is to escape, maybe saving people and stuff like that. That one is also a pretty popular "perfect zombie game idea" Sepewrath

i also love the resident evil series for their own spin on zombies. I prefer the old school and to me "real" zombies of slow moving, cannibalistic, mindless zombies. I hate that all of a sudden zombies have super speed and strength it just makes no sense to me.

lol I don't think I ever heard anyone call Dead Rising limited. That is probably the one word that can't be used to describe it. But I guess if your trying to compare it to Fallout 3 or something I guess you could, but keep in mind its not an open world nor a sandbox game. And yeah like I said, the open world zombie game is a common idea for the perfect zombie game. There was suppose to have been one, but It had to have been canceled by now. Sepewrath

Slow, stupid, clumsy, wihtout firepower they make an easy target.

Probably developers like them as well, since they usually aren't an example of next gen AI :).

I think the reason why we love them is because they are so easy to kill, they just fight forward while a normal human enemy takes cover or do many maneuvers besides i think you don't feel so good blasting a human head as much as a zombified human head.

I have no idea, I personally think zombies are quite overrated these days.

FireXxAnts

Their popular. nuff said.

i dunno, I personally like shooting zombies in games like Resident Evil 1 and 2. Also I thought Left4dead was pretty cool, but not great enough where I bought it. dead rising is a game i want to like, but the save feature is SO bad that I just get mad and give up every time I play it. I am positive I'll never finish that one. but Zombie movies are awesome. Check out the movie called "Fido" on netflix, now thats funny stuff. and movies like "Dawn of the Dead", "Land of the Dead", "Night of the Living Dead" are awesome. Resident Evil the movie is ok, but the game was better.

but I do see your point about the DLC. Why should we have to pay extra $$$$ to shoot zombies in a game? Why cant they just include that in the store purchased disc? Extra maps for a game like CODMW2 makes sense, but a Zombie mode in a game that has nothing to do with zombies? thats just cashing in on their popularity, and I wont waste $ on anything like that.

oh and on a side note, there's a Zombie killing game in Saints Row2. It's just wave after wave, but still entertaining for a few minutes.

who are you calling "you people?"-DirtySanchez-

You lost me?

Zombies are one of the few AI that they can get right also it one of the few "Classic" monster that is good in games. Vampires and werewolves have too many rules about them.

Killing zombies on your consle is perparing everybody for the futuer zombie apacalypse.AdhdSpaz

Edit: Well I could maybe the...future zombie apocalypse.

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You lost me?

Zombie can really be taken far more literal then just being one genre you see take the two zombie games that were made to be just that from the start; Deadrising and left 4 dead.

Really Deadrising is the only zombie game of those two, zombies don't run zombies are slow and don't think, they are just mindless and only as strong as the person that was once living but with out the limits of pain and body stress. Now left for dead is a virus game its more driven by the fact that the people attacking are not feeling pain are mindless and overly powerful, I really don't think they are dead just overcome with a virus that makes them lifeless (if that makes sense XD) much like it was made to make people uprise against there government or to just create a riotous panic amongst people of a country that was going to be overtaken by what ever government planted the virus.

Being a resident Evil fan from the first snippet of news I read about it this is where I get most of my theory. The first resident Evil is about a genetic experiment gone wrong the outcome being dead humans that become zombies (the staff) and the mutated experiments that are alive (Dogs, hunters, Neptune, plant42) and animals that were effected passively (insects, arachnids, birds, adders). The ones that move fast are the ones kept alive with the virus mutating them, while the ones exposed to the virus incorrectly and died became slow moving zombies. Even still the passively effected animals that came to be from consuming the metabolized virus in a corpse had adverse outcomes but still kept them alive considering a zombie or dead bird could not fly.

Getting to the point XD, I think the infected craze is mainly because people enjoy blowing away hundreds of target at once and the feeling of being powerful enough to take on many at once, zombies and infected make becoming powerful easy.

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I myself like to blast away at zombies but only if it has a decent storyline i dont want to just have mindless fun. I think that resident evil really has done a great job of creating a world for the genre. Umbrella corp is definately someone we can agree to hate and try to destroy. The left for dead series while entertaining isn't exactly story driven. However what it lacks in story it does make up for with action and gameplay. Hordes of very fast and aggresive zombies running at you at full speed spewing vomit all over. It is very good fun to play with a group of friends. A game with zombies i couldnt really get into was dead rising the zombies were very slow and lifeless and the setting was kind of dull and played out. I never really beat the game but i never really wanted to play more than 1 hour. While other games like read dead redemption seem to just be jumping on the cash grab bandwagon with a DLC where you can pay 10 dollars to have zombies in your game. Dont get me wrong i do love me some zombies but some games just fall short.

What are some of your favorite zombie killing moments in gaming? Why was the game so fun to you? Should every game be given DLC just to change your gameplay such as adding zombies, aliens, monsters?

ZzZEVOLUTIONZzZ

And there is RDR dlc that encludes zombies lol.johny300

alright well i did ask questions at the end of my quote there and this one would be yours Should every game be given DLC just to change your gameplay such as adding zombies, aliens, monsters?

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I myself like to blast away at zombies but only if it has a decent storyline i dont want to just have mindless fun. I think that resident evil really has done a great job of creating a world for the genre. Umbrella corp is definately someone we can agree to hate and try to destroy. The left for dead series while entertaining isn't exactly story driven. However what it lacks in story it does make up for with action and gameplay. Hordes of very fast and aggresive zombies running at you at full speed spewing vomit all over. It is very good fun to play with a group of friends. A game with zombies i couldnt really get into was dead rising the zombies were very slow and lifeless and the setting was kind of dull and played out. I never really beat the game but i never really wanted to play more than 1 hour. While other games like read dead redemption seem to just be jumping on the cash grab bandwagon with a DLC where you can pay 10 dollars to have zombies in your game. Dont get me wrong i do love me some zombies but some games just fall short.

What are some of your favorite zombie killing moments in gaming? Why was the game so fun to you? Should every game be given DLC just to change your gameplay such as adding zombies, aliens, monsters?

Li0nSlicER

Good question LOL i guess the key word there is FUN. Which sometimes is hard to come by.

Zombies are like a steam roller slowly moving closer and closer taking up some much ammo to stop. THere are few monster like that.

I don't like zombies, because they are not scary at all.

i played left for dead and RE 5 but i almost felt asleep....

Dunno what the heck are with zombie these days...but I think it's just about people's taste. For example I prefer Dead space mobs...now those are scary dude!

I don't like zombies, because they are not scary at all.

i played left for dead and RE 5 but i almost felt asleep....

Dunno what the heck are with zombie these days...but I think it's just about people's taste. For example I prefer Dead space mobs...now those are scary dude!

Kakjens

Indeed i do agree aliens are funner to kill then zombies.

Asa kid I enjoyed watching zombies movies and it was a plus when they started to make good games revolving around zombies.

I'm a big fan of L4D series. I love the gameplay, atmosphere, and most of all I enjoy playing the game with my buddies.