Reality Check - Why all the Zombies in Video Games?

Zombies are not possible.NEVER possible.They are just mythical things similar to werewolfs and demons.I am a med student and have studied a phenomena called rigor mortis ( it helps determine how much time has passed after death ).What happens is that after death , the muscles become SOOOO RIGID that it becomes difficult for us to even move a finger of the body let a alone a zombie can do that..AND THIS HAPPENS TO EVERY MUSCLE OF THE BODY....so yup no zombies .....

I'm sick of all these zombie spam in games, create something new :P

Does anyone remembers the name of Cam's previous show ?

And can you post the links to the research you find cause they look very intersting

3:21 is arguably the freakiest thing I've ever seen.

i just blame shier lack of imagination by game developers

I think zombie games are made so that over the top gore can be enjoyed without feeling guilty. I usually don't like doing Fatalities in Mortal Kombat because it just seems cruel to do terrible things to a vulnerable human being (or human being like creature).

Humans are on top of the food chain. But beeing eaten alive is a very distinctive and old natural fear. That's why they are appealing to us.
On the other hand they are not classified as human beings. Game developers can let you kill thousands of em without getting problems with rating boards.
--> perfect match for video games

I think they're okay as a bonus mode on shooters or games like dead rising are fun, it's when game developers will put zombie modes in their games just to try and attract people to buy their crap games, that would be the problem haha.

Non scary dezombination began from resident evil 4 when they were not zombies but Some bacteria with tentacles instead heads.

The one thing I hate the most about the zombie theme is that this genera has HUMILIATED the military. Most of the zombie games or movies don't provide a reason why Militaries of the world ( which are technologically sooo advanced ) fell in the face of this apocalypse.

uncanny valley has a moustache

Each zombie to me has a story.

Each was once a person that existed but were unfortunate victims of a zombie.

I love zombies, I played Resident Evil when I was 7 so it has stuck.

The last of us proved zombies are still scary,

the walking dead proved life gets cray when zombies run a stray

Some things in life are scary for a little while and then they are not, i shit my shorts when i saw snow white as a kid, but these days i just piss myself occasionally. I always thought of zombies as harmless until i considered their effect on the world. In video games this gives people the chance to experience the idea of loss and loneliness we might never feel in our cushy bean bag chairs of the future. i consider using them in games like Aslan considers to exist. They are good but not tame. If to many people use them carelessly we find a careless view of the spleen splattering action. Zombies and their apocolypses will always have a place in my heart as the most freaky ass bullshit way to live a life, and a reminder that its just awesome that i can eat a baconator naked on my porch in the moonlight whilst i listen to Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.

Kick-ass show Cam, U top dog.

what game is at 2:28?

The science of this is dubious at best, annoying at worst.

In a good zombie game or TV show/movie, zombies are actually a secondary. The main thing is the Zombie Apocalypse. Think of the first episode of the Walking Dead. The first element is loss.

We lose our friends, our families, our civilization. This has emotional resonance. In the Last of Us Joel loses his daughter.

After this loss we have the next phase: attachment. We hook up with Ellie. Lee finds Clementine. These are human bonds that are rebuilt on the adventure, just like the way the protag of the TV show of the Walking dead loses his wife but bonds with his son.

In World War Z the zombies are hardly seen. The key is trying to retain sanity and decency in a world gone wrong.

A specific example: in LOU when I kill a zombie I shrug and move on. When a team member shoots himself in the head I feel emotion.

what was the name of that TPS game?

desensitisation galore, but zombies are still a good excuse to make games ultra gory. i honestly believe devs and publishers are afraid to step out of that comfort zone since the brutalness would not be ok anymore.

slicing up some zombieflesh with a chainsaw? yeah that's so PG-13. slicing up an humiliating actual humans? NC-17 or a straight up ban in some countries. hello Postal 2!

Zombies = Bloodpuppets

They should make dinosaurs the new zombies.

other obvious reasons would be that they are potentially the most numerous adversaries in the modern world, as most wildlife has been reduced to a shadow of its former numbers.

and ofcourse there is the argument that they make "neutral" villains, as they don't seem driven by malice, making them easy to relate to and understand when it comes to motives. human or alien villains often have personal reasons for doing as they would, zombies do not need motives.

You know that's a really interesting look into the psychology behind zombies. Personally I'm totally sick of them in games due to the oversaturation, but its interesting how true it is that we don't feel any remorse over slaying them in the hundreds, yet killing hundreds of human characters does get a little draining under the right circumstances. For example, I have no issue killing hundreds of soldiers in games like Counter-Strike, Call of Duty or what have you because they're soldiers and I think there's this unspoken knowledge that they've chosen that career path... you expect soldiers to die. However, I played the first Manhunt game on PS2 for a few days and then I couldn't finish it because I had a nightmare that I was running around killing people. No game has ever had that sort of psychological effect on me before but it's because in Manhunt you're running around killing people in an insane asylum. Sure, they're still thugs, but there's something really different with the way you kill them in that game.

Anyway, first time I've watched the show, but it was awesome. Definitely got a new subscriber now!

Just ridin' the wave until it turns into a ripple.

Necromorphs gave me chills for a while. But eventually i grew fairly used to them too. They always scared me more than zombies though.

I've never been a big fan of zombies, and it's gotten to the point where I will refuse to play most games where zombies are involved regardless of any other aspect of the game.

Not that Vampires have ever really fallen out of favour with popculture but I would love to see a resurgence of the badass goth Vampire that was pervasive before Twilight came sparkling along. When done well Vampires are infinitely more interesting than zombies, imo.

Part of the reason they're all over video games is because they're the one thing that just about any video game AI can handle. They're stupid and slow and only have two modes: walk and eat.

Zombies are to video games what Stephenie Meyer's vampires are to movies. And I mean movies. Sure, Twilight started as a book series, but they really bastardized vampires in movies with them.

ZOMBIES are the new WW2