Zombies, I like 'em!
Think of an old, forsaken castle, without zombies ,ghosts or any other kind of undead, doesn't that
sound really, really boring?

For me, my style of fantasy doesn't have zombies..... but I liked the zombies in doom 3 lol... Zombies aren't interesting, they are just mindless dead mammals,... I prefer good ol' crazy things like minotaurs lol... IIRC I thought I saw a minotaur in an Oblivion screen shot...

I'm not really into zombies/undead much. It's been done. To death. In every single RPG since the dawn of time. ^^; As Faust says, gimme minotaurs and some cool creatures that aren't done much. Although the undead in Oblivion are okay since they have nice mapping. And blasting them in Half-Life 2 can be fun. Even if the noises they make are creepy. (And I'm not scared of the speed ones. I'm not. )

D.E.N.I.A.L

Zombies freak the hell out of me.....dead things should stay dead. I remember in Morrowind, there was this manor in Ald-Ruhn, it was all dark and filled with corprus creatures (essentially zombies), I just completely freaked out.

I think it stems from the fact that I used to watch my brothers play Resident Evil when I was young...

Nothing wrong with a few mobile rotten corpses with juicy maggots and suppurating sores, eyes dangling by a ligament and foetid stench. As long as they stay in the game.....

I sometimes wonder whether zombies turn into skeletons as the flesh decomposes entirely - or do they regenerate rotting flesh when they need it?

I remember that. Darkness, sounds of shuffling .... It was a damn fine quest!

Well, the quest was nicely done, but I didn't realy get scared. Morrowind has never made my legs shake. Not even the Horror Mod was scary. I think it is because of the poor physics, and the fact that I know how the morrowind scripting system work (it isn't realy scary when you know exactly when and how things can react)... You can't make a good scary game without good physics...

The Zombies in Thief 3 was scary as hell though... damn orphanage level...

Dont laugh, but when I was younger I freaked out when
I saw the zombies in Zelda ocarina of time.

Ha ha! No, just kidding. I must admit that they were rather scary... Until I found out that bashing them with the sword was way more effective than running like hell.

Oh... the old times... the old times...

I was just the same. When they froze you like that then jumped on ya trying to gnaw your head off... eee. Don't mind them as much now though. Yay for Sun's Song!


I have to agree. Maximum gamma and using a guide to tell me where they all were in advance, then tossing flash grenades at them like a frenzied monkey was my way of getting through it. It wasn't so much the way they looked as the noises they made and the way they moved (and those lights flashing... eww). As you say, good physics. By far the most scary gaming experience I've had thus far (but I don't play horror titles).

I'll admit that corprus place under the Ald'Ruhn mansion did make me jump quite badly when I first found it. ^^;

As you can probably tell, I'm a pansy.

Oh I agree! It scared the hell out of me!!... like everything about it was just weird, the noise, camera angle... so I got used to keeping a clean pair of undies beside me whenever I was playing Ocarina of Time

Did you use a guide? How sneaky!

First, there was no zombies at all, no scary sounds, nothing! "Thank teh God!" I thought, and relaxed in my chair. The only scary thing so far was that bouncing on the other side of the attic-door... and that GIRL! "Ah well" i thought, "not TOO many scary effects anyway". After she gave me her mission, I started running towards the cellar, knowing that this zombie-free place was zombie-free. I ran down the stairs leading down from the attic, out in another room, down another stair, and... straight in to a zombie...

Damn! I freaki'n jumped out of my pants!

And that was not enough, the place was FULL of those dead bastards! And you couldn't even kill them with holy water as you could in other levels!

"By far the most scary gaming experience I've had thus far"... Indeed...

So thats where the zombies from Vampires Bloodlines got the brainsucking thing from! They were mostly just annoying though. The zombies in Thief Deadly Shadows really gave me a chill though...

M'Aqui doesn't mind zombies, Corprus beasts are worse.

I would stay out of Ancestral Tombs to avoid the undead... And when I did the Puzzle Box quest for the first time, I was terrified that vampires were going to leap out and grab me. The Morvayn Manor was really the scariest place in the game (and sixth house bases *shudder* Those Ash beasts and Sleepers are freaky!) for me, total darkness, weird scrape-y, breathe-y sounds and then *SMACK!* I get clobbered by a corpus beast. I didn't like the Corprusarium either when I first encountered that. The corpus stalkers were okay, but then I came face to bloated, disease-ridden face with a lame corpus and I fled, with the scrape-scrape of it shuffling after me to make me flee even faster...



Looking at all that, I realized just how easily I am creeped out...

I know what you mean. Sixth House strongholds scare me too and I hate the weird whispering in tombs. I just get pretty involved in the game and my imagination works overtime.

Lucky you. I almost never get that feeling anymore... It was better when I was younger and 'realy' lived in the games when I played them. Wether it because the games are not as good today as they was before, or because I am starting to get immune... I don't know. I fear it is the later though...

Yes! I keep on imagining that those whispers are the voices of the dead, and I always feel watched when I'm in the tombs... As if the departed spirits are following me around, daring to me to desecrate the domb so that they cand set undead and Daedra on me. And I really HATED that particular tomb where the two corpses came alive if you touched that one chest. The mummies are the only dead things that don't really freak me out, their just bodies covered in gooey resin to preserve 'em, but the dead bodies are creepy with their blank, staring eyes... And the flies buzzing, I really don't like that because it makes me wonder just HOW decomposed are those corpses? As for these Sith House bases... I keeping thinking that after those Ash beasts have killed me, they'll cclaw an opening in my character's dead body and suck out the fluids with those trunk-mouth-proboscis-things and leave her a withered old bag of leathery skin and bones.

I gotta say, ghosts / spirits are more fightening and believable than zombies. Though if I had to fight one in a FPS, I would choose to fight a zombie, mainly because ghosts have no mass, therefore cannot be shot. You'd need a camera from fatal frame or something to kill a ghost. Zombies require just a quick shot to the head!

Yea right... Say that to the zombies in Thief 3! I have shot them in the head a lot of times, they just say something like "Moaahahahahadarhghghghghgh" and continues to gnaw on me...

I remember this one game of D&D I played back in the day. We happened upon a room with a couple corpses in a pool of water. I had this feeling, and I just new a fight was about to ensue. Sure enough, the zombies slowly clambered out of the pool. Luckily, our mage had an iron-shod staff and the shocking grasp spell
Well, unfortunately these weren't ordinary zombies - because before I knew it, I was sprawled on the floor in a pool of my own blood. The barbarian in our party went berserk (can't stand seeing women struck down), and cleaved one nearly in half. Eventually we defeated them (well, the barby and mage did...the theif was hiding quietly somewhere, and I forget what the other guy was doing).

Zombies are fine - they're mostly filler though. It's the other undead you have to watch out for - vampires and mummies especially. well thought out vampires are a nice touch to an RPG, although they sort of set the scene to the horror side (Morrowind's vampires don't count. they suck because they don't bite.... or something like that )

Also, I think of the Bonewalkers as more like zombies that the corprus beasts - the latter aren't dead but disfigured. More like lepers with dementia.

I can tell you this: my character will have a high level in marksman... I freaking hate zombies! Ghosts and mummies and skeletons are alright, but zombies just turn my switches in that special way.

I agree with ED, Bonewalkers are definitely Morrowind's zombies. The first time I heard a Greater Bonewalker behind a door, I freaked And the stinking things are so hard to kill, especially at lower levels. I just hate their ability to drain strength, and then you don't always recover all of it (or maybe it's just one of the mods I'm running ?) Anyway, Bonewalkers are definitely the creepiest things in Morrowind for me

i dont like zombies because they're too dark if you no what i mean they are usually it underground dungeons or come out at night

I don't care much for zombies either, they seem so characterless ... of the undead, I think I like vampires the best, some guys with a little attitude at least.

Ghosts are intangible, immaterial. They're scary.

Zombies are meat puppets just begging to be taken apart with copius amounts of explosive ordnance or a good sharp sword. Not scary.

What really tingles my spine in a game, though, are ape-men. Sasquatch, Yeti, and the like. There's something sublimely terrifying about a creature that's sitting on that ragged edge between insanely powerful beast and sentient, cunning being. I have a feeling they know more about me than I know about them. That's where true fear lies.

I like zombies, because they are easy to be manipulated, and i like necromancers because they manipulate them. I also like demons.

Zombies/corpus/bonewalkers=scary vampires=not to bad Werewolves=REALY scary. zombies scare me because they have nothing to fear. vampires dont because they are easy to kill. werewolves are realy scary because...it seems there is a little beast inside us all...plus they are just kinda scary if you realy want to turn oblivion into a scary game make a mod with werewolves and bloodier zombies

I say you sit on the roof with a 30-06 and pop their decayed zombie heads off. Boy would i LOVE that. But RPG related, i am not botherd by them. My targets are dead before they know im there.

I hate zombies. I like things to screan and bleed when I hit them.



Oblivion's zombies are especially bad because they have way too much health, and take ages to kill.



The only zombies I like are the ones in Vampire: Bloodlines. Mainly because by the time you meet them you have a katana. Vampire strength+Katana = Slice and Dice. The zombies just fall to pieces.



On the whole though, I'm sick of zombies. I've played too much Resident Evil.



WarKirby

Well, of course the zombies in Bloodlines are easy. They're undead Hollywood actors. They're not raging denizens of the supernatural world— but they play one on TV.


Romero: Whatever you do, don't let them bite you.
Player: Why? Will I turn into a zombie then?
Romero: Nope. It just hurts like a #@%$.


Keep your friends close, and your enemies in a barbeque pit.