Well...I wasn't really a zombie nut before this game, more just the off-and-on, "zombies-let's-go-kill-them" type whenever that sort of thing comes out. I would have loved the shit out of Dead Rising 3, but after seeing Walking Dead(comic, TV, telltale game), it changed my outlook on the genre altogether. I used to think of zombies as that horror type where you have fun killing them and end on a tragic note with people getting eaten along the way. Then, with Walking Dead, my focus shifted to that apocalyptic, fall of civilization type, where the monsters are interchangeable and the story is what really matters, EG Walking Dead has zombies proper, Last of Us has "zombies", and Metro Last Light has real end-of-the-world monsters, though I've never played it because I hear that some parts of the narrative are a little hamhanded/forced. But they all have human threats, like just regular bad/ruthless people in Walking Dead, "Hunters" in Last of Us, and..."human enemies" I guess, in Last Light? Idunno, there were human enemies in the first one.
So...no? I still like them, if that means something.
I usually don't like zombie stories, so I was hesitant about Telltale's The Walking Dead series at first. I ended up really liking Season One though, because it was a story about redemption where a guy who was a convicted murderer turned his life around despite the odds and made his short life have meaning. The zombies weren't the main focus of the story, and I appreciated that.
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Been a fan of the genre ever since I saw Romero's Dead trilogy back in the 80's when I was five.
Well...I wasn't really a zombie nut before this game, more just the off-and-on, "zombies-let's-go-kill-them" type whenever that sort of thing comes out. I would have loved the shit out of Dead Rising 3, but after seeing Walking Dead(comic, TV, telltale game), it changed my outlook on the genre altogether. I used to think of zombies as that horror type where you have fun killing them and end on a tragic note with people getting eaten along the way. Then, with Walking Dead, my focus shifted to that apocalyptic, fall of civilization type, where the monsters are interchangeable and the story is what really matters, EG Walking Dead has zombies proper, Last of Us has "zombies", and Metro Last Light has real end-of-the-world monsters, though I've never played it because I hear that some parts of the narrative are a little hamhanded/forced. But they all have human threats, like just regular bad/ruthless people in Walking Dead, "Hunters" in Last of Us, and..."human enemies" I guess, in Last Light? Idunno, there were human enemies in the first one.
So...no? I still like them, if that means something.
I usually don't like zombie stories, so I was hesitant about Telltale's The Walking Dead series at first. I ended up really liking Season One though, because it was a story about redemption where a guy who was a convicted murderer turned his life around despite the odds and made his short life have meaning. The zombies weren't the main focus of the story, and I appreciated that.
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