Comments on: The Friday Cool: ZOMBIES DON'T RUN http://www.javenackerman.com/2008/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/ Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Stenzinger http://www.javenackerman.com/2008/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Rob Stenzinger Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:54:06 +0000 http://q-burger.com/2008/12/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/#comment-426 <p>Hmm, the established paradigm of the slow-be zombie is ingrained in much of zombie fiction. I too resisted the fast zombie... until I met them in L4D. The L4D zombies are BOTH slow and fast. Often, they're found in small groups milling about. Sometimes sad, sometimes angrily hunting, sometimes just poking at a wall as if it was something they used to do. Sometimes they don't attack!</p> <p>Then suddenly they go NUTS and in a kind of cool/kind of scary/kind of funny to watch way - they punch you and get in your face... unless they're the super-infected. Those guys are well-created new types of zombie monsters. Each has its own scary style, sound, look, and behavior.</p> <p>When all the above are combined, you have interactive zombie fiction bliss. It breaks the old mold, but that's totally fine in my book!</p> <p>If you're on the fence - wait a few months until L4D goes on the cheap shelf, then give em a shot! Literally!</p> Hmm, the established paradigm of the slow-be zombie is ingrained in much of zombie fiction. I too resisted the fast zombie… until I met them in L4D. The L4D zombies are BOTH slow and fast. Often, they’re found in small groups milling about. Sometimes sad, sometimes angrily hunting, sometimes just poking at a wall as if it was something they used to do. Sometimes they don’t attack!

Then suddenly they go NUTS and in a kind of cool/kind of scary/kind of funny to watch way – they punch you and get in your face… unless they’re the super-infected. Those guys are well-created new types of zombie monsters. Each has its own scary style, sound, look, and behavior.

When all the above are combined, you have interactive zombie fiction bliss. It breaks the old mold, but that’s totally fine in my book!

If you’re on the fence – wait a few months until L4D goes on the cheap shelf, then give em a shot! Literally!

]]> By: ShoNuff http://www.javenackerman.com/2008/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-423 ShoNuff Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:27:00 +0000 http://q-burger.com/2008/12/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/#comment-423 <p>Mostly agree, though with the suggestion that is hinted at in Simon's (yes we are on a first name basis)article. Biological zombie is a different thing, "28 days" was a zombie movie not because it had traditional zombies (they did starve to death after all) but because of the structure of the movie and leaving the question of who the "bad guy" is up in the air.</p> Mostly agree, though with the suggestion that is hinted at in Simon’s (yes we are on a first name basis)article. Biological zombie is a different thing, “28 days” was a zombie movie not because it had traditional zombies (they did starve to death after all) but because of the structure of the movie and leaving the question of who the “bad guy” is up in the air.

]]> By: javen http://www.javenackerman.com/2008/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-425 javen Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:58:41 +0000 http://q-burger.com/2008/12/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/#comment-425 <p>I don't actually own it. I played it at a friend's house on the 360.</p> I don’t actually own it. I played it at a friend’s house on the 360.

]]> By: Julie http://www.javenackerman.com/2008/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Julie Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:54:06 +0000 http://q-burger.com/2008/12/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/#comment-424 <p>I completely agree. I just recently purchased Diary of the Dead (the latest from Romero) and I'm looking forward to it...but I will be curious to see whether George sticks to his original formula of slow zombies. By the way, for what platform do you have the game? I've been looking into getting it.</p> I completely agree. I just recently purchased Diary of the Dead (the latest from Romero) and I’m looking forward to it…but I will be curious to see whether George sticks to his original formula of slow zombies. By the way, for what platform do you have the game? I’ve been looking into getting it.

]]> By: nonick http://www.javenackerman.com/2008/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/comment-page-1/#comment-427 nonick Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:03:29 +0000 http://q-burger.com/2008/12/12/the-friday-cool-zombies-dont-run/#comment-427 <p>As much as I've enjoyed the recent movies and games capitalizing on the fast zombie, I definitely agree. I find the original, slow but relentless, Night of the Living Dead zombies to be more creepy, gross, and unsettling kind of scary. The recent trend is following the general change in our society: faster, more immediate "gratification" (or shock, in this case).</p> As much as I’ve enjoyed the recent movies and games capitalizing on the fast zombie, I definitely agree. I find the original, slow but relentless, Night of the Living Dead zombies to be more creepy, gross, and unsettling kind of scary. The recent trend is following the general change in our society: faster, more immediate “gratification” (or shock, in this case).

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