Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
Are you guys really positing that games filled to the brim with zombies and obvious derivatives are not actually zombie games? I don't care if it's an intimate, personal story about survival or a a mindless shoot-em-up, both ends of the spectrum still exploit an overused setting that's been done to death in literature, games, and film over the last few years.
When the game in question could easily replace their zombies with just about any other generic monster or enemy and doesn't utilize any of the strengths that the setting can bring to a story, then no it's not a zombie game. It's a game that happens to have zombies in it but the zombies are incidental to everything else. The zombie modes in COD could use rabid racoons or bears and not substantially change the formula. And games like RE4 and 5 aren't really zombie games at all.

And the thing is, you say the formula has been done to death and overused in all media including games, but with the exception of Project Zomboid, there hasn't been anything that really captured the feel of being a survivor in the zombie apocalypse. Nothing. Not a single game I know of to go that direction. Strangely enough, the closest things I can think of were the Resident Evil: Outbreak series, and that was still pretty unrealistic. Games have yet to move past the zombies are fun to kill use despite the fact that movies like Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead were doing more with the formula decades ago, and Comics/TV shows like the Walking Dead are doing more with it now.

But seriously, why are we talking about games like Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and this??? COMMAND & CONQUER GENERALS 2 IS ANNOUNCED AND IT'S UNDER THE CARE OF BIOWARE!!!!

Not to get too off topic, but I never played many of the older C&C games that were apparently good, so I don't really care about the announcement of a new one. And I care even less because BioWare are doing it. I've played enough of their games at this point to simply accept that I don't like them (not to mention BioWare is now made up of four separate development teams, only one of which being the original that made the games everyone raved about like KOTOR, Mass Effect etc. Guess who isn't making this new C&C game by the way).