most people place a higher creative value on new ideas rather than rehashed old ideas since this is the entertainment industry, and therefore people don't want to believe that profit is needed to stay alive.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." TwitterYou haven't spent that much time looking at the gaming audience, have you.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Twitter
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Well, this year we got Dead Space 3, Dead Island Riptide, and probably another Assassins Creed game.
So yes, sequels in the video game industry are quite abundant.
BTW, the devs said that TLOU isn't a zombie game, just a game with zombies.
The world isn't ready for giant T4 combustion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbpGiYmBSs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKm9zombies aren't a genre; they're a trope.
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Actually, their still alive with fungus taking them over.
So they aren't walking corpses.
The world isn't ready for giant T4 combustion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbpGiYmBSs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKm9Apparently the recently infected are even aware of what they're doing, but have no power to stop themselves.
They'll turn your world aroundBy the logic of this website, genres are tropes. (Which is not my favourite argument, but there you go).
And there's a perfectly feasible argument to be made that zombie horror is a subset of horror beyond the remits of this website, given that it has its own set of structural and conceptual traditions.
edited 18th Feb '13 11:55:25 AM by Nicknacks
This post has been powered by avenging fury and a balanced diet.I mean what I said is a response to a response to my post that said "year of the zombie" which was in reference to "year of the zombie trope" not "year of the zombie horror"
I misjudged the years, but basically you knew we should have hit the decline of zombie as trope because we had Zombieland (2009), indicating the parody phase. Zombieland is not a zombie horror—it's a great character driven comedy that happens to involve zombies.
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Their more "the infected" then zombie, fast moving and kinda smart.
The world isn't ready for giant T4 combustion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbpGiYmBSs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKm9There have been fast zombies, learning zombies, and both at the same time in other fiction.
Not that this semantic debate really matters. ND's point was that the zombies are just part of the window dressing for the story they want to tell, and not the focus of the story itself.
Umbran Climax◊They say it's easily the longest campaign they've done yet
I'm hoping that includes the non Uncharted games, otherwise it's not that big of a statement.
They'll turn your world aroundWhich I read as them saying: "They only appear a handful of times, don't go in expecting a zombie festival just because marketing hasn't got its head on straight."
If you want to look at the series biggest (apparent) antecedent, Uncharted, you're probably going to get about as much monster coverage in this game as there were in those. Though I wouldn't be surprised if, given the different focus of the marketing department this time around, reviewers/audiences get pissed off at the lack of neck chewing action.
This post has been powered by avenging fury and a balanced diet.I don't think the infected will be AS uncommon as the supernatural monsters in the Uncharted games were. For one, in Uncharted, the monsters are supernatural. In The Last of Us, they're a common threat.
edited 18th Feb '13 6:48:27 PM by Ryuhza
They'll turn your world aroundI highly, highly doubt that. Even if they are not the sole focus of the game, the infected are clearly a large focus of it, and given the situation that the story puts you in (which they go into a bit in this
interview) I don't think the infected are going to take that much of a back seat.
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I hope the game is compatible with PS 4, because I'm the guy who doesn't like 'obsolete' consoles.
But maybe they'll go the PS 2 route and make games for it even after the console is replaced.
The world isn't ready for giant T4 combustion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GbpGiYmBSs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKm9"A very big directive from the very beginning was they're NOT zombies..."
... XD
Good to see some details on the reason for the whole scenario finally.
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That's just how the games industry works though. First releases rarely if ever turn a profit but they produce a fanbase that can be built on and expanded for further titles to be profitable. You need sequels to drive profits to cover new projects. It's not like sequels are bad either.
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