VGrevolution’s Zombie Wishlist
AUTHOR: Phinney
I saw a fun post on vgrevolution today: 5 things we want in the zombie mmo. It’d be irresponsible for me to publicly commit to any of those things right now, but I will say this to Darren and his buddies: we like the way you think.
Phinney
I like the ideas keep them coming. Hope you guys have a solid strategic plan in place to help get all this to fall in to place.
definetly a lot of good ideas. and yes: “gore” -captn obvious
but it can never be said to much.
I agree. In my opinion, the more gore the better. SHOW ME THE ENTRAILS!
Three words guys:
Zombie Mini Games
Combat: Keep it simple (aim and shoot and a little melee). FPS style but certainly not buffs and de-buffs, etc. STOL has the worse ground combat I ever played in a MMO and it did not have to be that way. Minimal or no weapon upgrades. Who has time to fit a scope on a hunting rifle during the zombie-fest? Exactly. A variety of weapons but nothing like Dead Rising which is a joke. It has to be realistic.
Crafting: Everything in moderation or non at all. Maybe fishing, cooking, first aid etc. but not to the point of WOW. Its about survival so eating cans of Spam a month is fine.
This game has to be about the environment and questing/instancing. Many will play solo and it would be very cool to group up with someone who is also playing solo when you run into them at the dairy mart.
Environment: Has to be realistic. Look out your window, that’s the real world and that is where we need to survive this Zombie invasion. Its cool to have some keys in the cars but also cool to search bodies to get keys, ammo, etc.
The Walking Dead does a really nice job of making the Zombie Fest feel real and not hokie.
-I can’t wait!
Stu your message makes sense but you are almost completely wrong on the way people will play if you read the earlier news the whole game is about players coming together to get things done and honestly you may be all about fishing but a majority of the players are just going to want to kill zombies so in my opinion and I am sure many others will agree weapon customization is going to be very important when it comes down to it.
Walkers: Their walkers, meaning not runners. They are the undead and they should never run (EVER). They should walk, limp or gimp along, dragging their feet. You shoot a leg, it cripples them, they crawl, you shot an arm it blows off but they keep coming until you make a good head shot. Some level of decapication is acceptable but, again, nothing like Dead Rising which is simply a farse.
I don’t like that list at all… all features are very common and conservative, while most features that would be really important for a zombie mmo are missing (survival? scavanging? rebuilding? sandboxyness?)
I got ya. Don’t get wrong, I could care less about fishing or cooking and I called them crafting when I meant to call them professions. Are you really going to customize your hunting rifle or are you just going to ditch it when you run out of ammo and pick up the AR-15 from the dead soldier on the side of the road because it has a scope and 2 full clips? I’m thinking ditch the hunting rifle, I ain’t carrying nothing around that does not have ammo and besides … I have to go searching for my wife (possibly). I mean, not a long search, it is the end of the world so a new start is in order. As you can tell I’m not excited at all about this game!!!
Personally I wasn’t very impressed by the list… it was pretty short, pretty vague and all very “well duh!”. But hey, it’s publicity… and that’s awesome in it’s own right.