speed for zombies

[Darkswordofchaos]

I was watching dawn of the dead last night and it got me thinking about zombie speed. They used to be slow but now they haul ass.
whats your opinon on fast/slow zombies

[Goldenboko]

Combination is important. Slow zombies are badass, but the fast jumpers are also a new-era badass. Ergo.


Badassery.

[Lawr]

Have you ever played Left 4 Dead? If a Boomer pukes on you or explodes on you the zombies will book it like hell towards your direction. I don't know many people that can run that fast even without rotting limbs! If that ever happened in real life I'd pee myself!

[NeoTifa]

If I were to date any zombie, it'd be a smoker. Guess why.... >_> tee hee hee


Totally kidding btw.

[Psychotic]

Slow, with perhaps a few mutant super zombies capable of top speed and various other delights to be their leaders.

[Lawr]

If I were to date any zombie, it'd be a smoker. Guess why.... >_> tee hee hee


Totally kidding btw.

Oh, you are naughty!

By the way, you were totally not kidding.

[NeoTifa]

Ahahahahahahaha

[rubah]

Zombies stopped being scary when people realized you could outrun them, so they are fast now to up the fear factor.

[Madame Adequate]

The idea that zombies need to be fast or have superpowers completely misses the point of the entire zombie genre.

Sure, zombies are vicious cannibals who can take a ridiculous amount of firepower. But they're complete idiots and don't move very fast. What they have is a combination of endurance, toughness, and numbers. Zombies aren't a problem on their own; if one appeared in your house right now chances are you'd be able to deal with it. And they're not dangerous when you're safely above ground, like if you're halfway up a skyscraper and you've taken out the stairs to the first two or three floors.

Then what do you do?

You sit around with a bunch of other tired, hungry, scared people who have watched their families turn into undead horrors that can't be reasoned with, that feel none of the former love or affection or mercy they had in life, and which will never ever stop in their attempts to eat your flesh.

You've probably got no more power, limited (If any) running water, limited space, and limited patience. Your ammo is unlikely to be sufficient to blast your way out and even if it is, you've not got very many options in where to go. So you sit, and you wait, and you've not got anything to do except read last month's Strategies for Introducing New Products to the Tanzanian Market for the two hundredth time.

The zombies have your holdout surrounded and constantly beat on the walls and doors. Different people get different ideas on what to do. Wait for help? Make a break for it? How do you enforce law and order in that sort of society? How long, in short, before people at best give in to their fearful, petty natures, or at worst, until they go completely bugsmurf?

Zombie movies and games aren't about the dead rising from their graves. They're not about the creatures themselves, except the obligatory "I know you're in there, fight!" moment. They're a mindless force of death, which should really be regarded in the same way as a natural disaster. The point of the genre is, how do people survive under pressure? The point of the genre is, when people are safe they'll go crazy from boredom and fear, and destroy their own safety by acting like idiots. This is how it works even in movies with fast monsters, like the Dawn of the Dead remake and 28 Days Later. It makes no functional difference to the plot.

So as far as I'm concerned, if they run, they're not zombies.

Edit: To add to all that, when there is a confrontation directly between living and dead, slow works much better for dramatic purposes. The slow, but inexorable advance of the undead, no matter how many bullets you pump into the horde, is way more effective than the same when they're running fast. That's just "Oh shi-" panic, whereas the former builds up the panic in a more subtle, tense manner.

[Zeldy]

STOP WITH THE ZOMBIE TALK.

[Balzac]

I don't care. As long as they are chowing dwn on some corpse it's all good.

[Aerith's Knight]

Slow zombies were scary when you were sealed inside a tomb and you couldn't escape, just run, but you'd get tired eventually.

Fast zombies give you a wider range of settings, as they are scary wherever you may want to put it.

[Crimson]

Faster zombies are creepier to me these days, but back in the day the slow ones scared the **** outta me.


Then I played Dead Rising, now there just like moving plush toys, lawl.

[trancekuja]

I don't care about their speed stats , I just want them to look scary. What I want to say is , I'm finding zombies from Resident Evil 1,2,3 to be much scarier than some tentacle bursting peasants from RE 4(it's a great game nevertheless). I think RE 5 design isn't scary at all...Just be scary looking! Slow or fast , I don't care.

[NeoTifa]

Grrrrrooooowwwwwllllll I'm a fast hunter!!!!!!! *pounces* <3



*pisses and craps herself*