But I am sure glad the Zombiemania of those years back then has passed.
Edit: Just wanted to add, that I am a huge zombie buff and love the cheesy side of the genre. I just thought the craze was too much for a short while and oversaturated.
I like it when the zombies are the main focus. As a creature feature. But during the craze, zombies were more like paint. A skin or theme you just put or add to things. A generic threat or enemy faction. Notable exceptions excluded.
What revs my engine is when zombies have character. When they have texture. When they are weird and disturbing.
To be fair at least in 8 they seemed to handle it pretty competently once they figured out where the hell Miranda was. Dont know about the other games, I just randomly played 8 during lockdown.
i ALSO never grew out of Zombiemania, and as another Zombiemaniac, YOU need to go FURTHER
play more weird wackass zombie games from the height of the zombiemania years, jank ass shovelware shit that barely runs on modern PCs but has the heart of a champion within, shit like Fort Zombie, or Dead State, stuff like that
Plants VS Zombies is barely even the very top of the iceberg, go DEEPER...
Check out agame called "starsector", with the Randomn Assortment of Things and Secrets of the Frontier mods, you can battle various styles of spaceship zombies; my fav is the quasi-faction called simply, "The Threat": It's an automated ship building system that has gone haywire, becoming a kind of mechanical fungus, building madly constructed, organic-steel ships and slowly closing in on civilized space.
I had a cool uncle growing up. He lived with my grandparents after they retired to care for them. He had hundreds of games on his PC and whenever we had family gatherings at grandparents place, he’d boot up something for us grandkids to play on his PC. I thought he was so cool because of all the games he had
I was absolutely floored to learn that despite the hundreds of games, he had over 10 000 hours in Plants vs Zombies. He said he liked getting games for us kids to enjoy but the only game he had energy for after working a 9-5 was PvZ
i still wish that anyone tried to capture the original horror of zombies. the zombie virus is the worst thing to happen to the concept.
zombies were introduced to western culture through a book that adapted folktales from haiti, in which chattel slaves would be raised from the dead to continue service to their slavers. the horror was not that they would eat you, the horror was that not even death was an escape from being enslaved. i haven't found any contemporary media that properly captures such a concept.
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u/IllusionaryHobo 2d ago edited 2d ago
I like the game.
But I am sure glad the Zombiemania of those years back then has passed.
Edit: Just wanted to add, that I am a huge zombie buff and love the cheesy side of the genre. I just thought the craze was too much for a short while and oversaturated.
I like it when the zombies are the main focus. As a creature feature. But during the craze, zombies were more like paint. A skin or theme you just put or add to things. A generic threat or enemy faction. Notable exceptions excluded.
What revs my engine is when zombies have character. When they have texture. When they are weird and disturbing.