The Dream Zombie Game

[hitman3]

Before i start, i must warn you this is goin to be quite a bit of reading but here i go......

Today i was googling to see if there was new info on Left 4 Dead and i came across some L4D forums to see if any offered any good info. Unfortunately i could not find anything. BUT i did come across Steampowered.com's forum. I found a thread that really interested me entitled "The Perfect Zombie Game", and this is what its starter said.....

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Yea.. Left 4 Dead looks really cool.
But this thing in Game Informer really got me thinking.
It was a picture of a Fallout character and described Fallout MMO.
What if there was a Zombie Hunter MMO that was sortof like Fallout.
It'd be perfect.. A few thousand survivors (Aka, the amount of people on one server at once) A few player towns (Safe havens, like an oil rig, strategically placed on a map to be logical and actually safe) Ability to scavange towns for anything useful (Aka guns, gas, food, water, ammo, anything to help you and your friends) Factions and Groups formed to obtain a balance or order (Create your own with enough people and set up your own town.. or try to take one over.. theres the PVP portion)

Blaah.. 5 am.. and im thinking about this kind of crap.. lol.

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After that i kept reading through the thread (which by the way was started January 16 of this year at 2:59 am and is STILL GOING TO THIS DAY!!!!!!!!)
and was just in awe at some of the creative ideas and detail put into them by these ppl....

(heres the link if you wanna read yourselves
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=527 448) (http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=527448)

The thread is 16 pages long and i read EVERY SINGLE POST ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE!!!!!!!!!!! I got more excited after reading every post and no such game has even been announced, though some posts were irrelevant.

And id like to shout out to 1 person who doesnt even kno i exist, that person's ID is "THE triggahappy", who has literally kept that thread alive for almost a whole year and has given some of the most vivid details for this dream zombie game................now for my input....

Ive always had an idea for a Zombie MMOFPS stuck in my head since PlanetSide. And if 1 was to be made id definitely pay for it. People seperated into different troops scavenging for anything, guns, food, gas to power the vehicle you drive( gotta make it as real as possible), cut down trees or tear down a wooden cabin in the forests to carves arrow out of for bows. Cities spread out so you can take your troop and head out in your vehicle across the country side, pick up a lone survivor (maybe someone who jus bought the game????) and take them with you to another town you are going to, meet other players you could make alliances with or enemies with( these are zombies were talkin about...some troops may become desperate and loot your troop or safe haven for supplies). And also as i was reading the steam thread ppl were talkin about "zombie hunting"? This is survival, you wuldnt go looking for them. That would make the game more intense. You and a couple teammates go out to scavenge and your attacked by a mob of zombies so you get what you can and hurry back to your town to let them kno zombies are on the way so you prepare for the attack.

As much as i have ranted on, i want your creative ideas...
Tell me what YOU would want in the ultimate Zombie MMOFPS????
Even if you have 1 idea jus say it

[krunsh]

I think that Stalker is a good game to use as inspiration for such a "dream game".

But I not sure about the MMo idea... those game alway look bad, and if they are not RPG like wow... they are bad action game.

I think that a multiplayer game with huge map and maybe 30 to 64 player with a timer of maybe 30 minute in each game with differant mod could be fun, and look and play better.

I also think that it can be as fun to play with a small groupe of player in a game that can be saved or something like that. (if it can be done with strategy game... why not?)

you know, in MMO, people will never talk or act as a survivor, they will act as a guy who want to level up. (maybe you will not... but THEY will).

But yeah, I would try that and it could be fun anyway.

[hitman3]

But I not sure about the MMo idea

Huxley would be a perfect example of a game that wont be bad and its an MMOFPS...and the whole thing about ppl wanting to lvl up wont matter cuz there wont be any leveling up...it wont be like an average MMORPG where you have side quest to do and you level up...it would be a sandbox kind of game, everything depended on you...you found some wood and turned it into a bow and arrow for if you run out of bullets for headshots, now you gain a skill to make a new weapon or you found and oil rig and use it to convert energy for gas for your vehicle or somethin now you have another skill, those are all survival skills along with medical skill and stuff the game would be designed so that everything you did went to helping your survival becuz it has a AI Director like L4D so you could get attacked by zombies ANYWHERE while your doing ANYTHING feel me???
There is a way to getting around those greedy leveling up people...Now come on, tell me that would be an awesome game huh?????

[hooray for zombies]

My dream zombie game has always been (and always will be) a free roaming zombie game where you play as a zombie. The entire point is to infect an entire city, town, country, etc. (level editor could be included to extend replayability).
At the beggining, no one is really aware of your presence so you encounter limited resistance, but as you infect more and more people security forces start noticing and dispatching entire armies to take care of you af ter a certain point. I would love to see a massive zombie vs human battle in the streets of a sprawling city, with small skirmishes occuring in back alleys and the sort, and larger battles occuring around large areas.
I picture this working as half RTS and half Stubbs the zombie (not quite sure what genre Stubbs would fall under) with the ability to view an entire map of the city and the choice to jump into zombies to lead your undead troops in battle.

This idea is old news to some of the oldies on the forum, but I refuse to give it up until it is created.

[jaydig]

zombie vs human ........RTS
I think this would be cool... but im the opposite of you. I'd want to play as the human commander.... so if this game ever gets made, watch out. I'll shoot civilians even if they aren't infected. take that.
Zombie MMOFPS
Stalker is a good game to use as inspiration
One can only dream. Even though im not a MMO player, zombies could convince me.

I always wished someone finished a zombie mod for GTA san andreas... a sandbox type game like that in a zombie genre would be good even without multiplayer.

[Asura]

My dream game is that you can actualy be the MMO character yourself, that you have weird eye things that makes your brains to go ingame and you can walk, touch your boobs if you are female character. Do whatever liek in real life but ofcourse you are ingame. Lol but we will not see game like these in years.

So when i am old fart im going to play online video game as a sexy girl and get all items from litle teens BYAHHAHAHAH!

[dontleave]

I agree with the MMOFPS, but it'd have to have certain aspects that would make it better suited to be an RPFPS, with great persistant online experience. For example, really having to manage your character, no bullshit Level up! Did Will Smith level up when facing off against Zombie-esque hordes of vampires, NO! He got all buff when he was in a safe area, and scavenged around for food. I want the samething in an MMOFPS or just Online RPG (It'd kinda be gay to have THOUSANDS of survivors... unless the whole scope of the game was then just doubled so having a thousand didnt seem as overwhelming as it does) just with normal zombies rather than vampire zombies.

64-ish people, holding off a bunker vs. 1000's of zombies, sounds extremely fun. Now to decide whether or not to have fast or slow zombies... or simply both.

[MOB712]

64-ish people

Now i see where your comin from, thousands would be alot but 64 ppl in each server vs. thousands of zombies does sound better

no bullshit Level up

Thank you...there is no leveling up, it depends on the skill of the player to find things and develop skills...and yes i would like slow and fast zombies too...more fast in my taste, makes it more intense

come on ppl, give me more feedback

[Etheallmighty]

when I was driving through seattle this weekend, I though of a FPS/ sorta MMO "I am legend/Left4dead game.....during the day (play online or alone) u can travel from city to city, get supplies, or just foritify ur barricade or wherever ur stayin, at night the 100's of fast freaky L4D type zombies (or I am legend creatures) come out....basically L4D but free roaming across big cities,towns,forests,desserts. the whole shabang.

[Big_Bubbaloola]

I like the RTS idea, but based on the book World War Z by Max Brooks.

It could be a series of individual campaigns like the 'Battle of Yonkers' as depicted in the book. Or, in a UFO: Enemy Unknown kinda way where you control anti-zombie forces around the planet (if you've never played the original UFO, your missing out).

[Eddy_of_the_dead]

or I am legend creatures
these are vampires thingies
I am Legend is based on the last man on earth and the book(and movie) had vampires
those are no fun!brains to go ingame and you can walk, touch your boobs if you are female character
you need to see a doctor :D

[Eddy_of_the_dead]

all the ideas in this forum are great (exept that 1 of asura that 1 is just silly)
the thing is you NEED some thing of lving up or people dont buy it.....
so this is what wanna see: you start as your own custom made char... place near a random house in the city all uouve got is a knife or a baseball batt...something like that..
so you walk kill some zombie and search for a group of suvivevors.
Once found you get skills (looting malls your headshot rate , finding gas, fighting other surviveviors ect) the skills keeps getting better and stronger <--- THE skills are yur levels so peeps will get the game..

64-ish people,
in a sandbox server will be great! ! im thinking something like this: youve got like big huge city (ake New York) or 1 small city and a rural area..... build up yur defence and keep on fighting!