Isn't a zombie the dead coming back to life, not the living turning into zombies from a bite or a disease. That's alot more zombies.

Watching Heroes right now, concentration not into this post.

I think it's wrong to sat that developers are afraid to make a game like this. It's like saying they're afraid to make the most awesome game ever: a First-person point-and-click adventure based off of Tom Sawyer. Not that the idea is necessarily bad, it's just that sometimes what people think will be a great idea turns out to not be much fun. Also, I think the push to have multiplayer components hurt game design. If a game is done well enough, it doesn't need multiplayer; just look at Bioshock or MGS4. MGO doesn't count as it could very well be a stand alone product.

that would be awesome! like GTA but no citizens just zombies.

I find it funny how the people won't approve your LBP review because it's a blog, but yet they approve this one.

Silogon,

Its great to know that somebody actually shares my dream of a game. And coming from you, frankly, I am surprised.

It's just that the hassle of programming ten thousand zombies and register each one as a different character in the world. I mean seriously, that's not a single zombie multiplied by 10,000, that's 10,000 unique characters. That's retarded.

I don't think it matters if they "re-spawn" or not. What matters is making the game fun and the storyline compelling. I actually like an explanation for zombies, especially if it's a "virus". Zombies out of nowhere is just ridiculous. We want to move games forward in terms of entertainment AND art, not just make them "simple fun" like Wii games.

I would like to see an open world Zombie game where you do have to accomplish a few missions, but a story for each of the 1000 survivors... ridiculous. Let it be like lost, that way you can actually focus on the very few survivors instead of having to register so many survivors.

I get your point and it's interesting but the difference in fun and entertainment wouldn't be that much between 10,000 "fixed" zombies and infinitely respawning zombies, 1000 survivors or just 20. If you kill the 10,000 the fun ends anyway. What they should do is use procedural synthesis to make all zombies different while keeping game code as short as possible. GTA meets Dawn of the Dead, except on a big ass city not a shopping mall.

Where are the games with procedurally generated content anyway? I remember Sony and Microsoft boasting about it with "4D games" and how the 360 is supposedly made for that, but I think only Borderlands is being developed with that technique and it's a multiplatform game.

God, how I miss Dead Rising on my old 360's...

my main man good job.....i always thought of something similar to this but in my vision it would always take place from a single survivors point of view and in my vision he would be in new york actually in manhattan and he is trying to get to brooklyn to save his family...think skyscrapers and being in a office building on the 50th floor and having to make it outside to a specific vehicle and since you start in the skyscraoer you actually have a good feild of depth as to how many are roaming the streets in your immediate(and not so immediate) vacinity...what do you think about it?

I would also like the ability to setup some kind of makeshift defense and lookout towers at the safe haven or temporary safe haven location to fend off random zombie attacks.

My idea is very similar. Zombie mode on GTA.

Can I have a cookie?

Zombies aren't that interesting (even if they're Nazi's). They're just undead humans

Didn't Infected for the PSP have some of these ideas? Anyway, I'd play it.

Thrill Kill. That's a game developers were afraid to make, deep down I'm still waiting for it.

Good idea for a zombie game. I could swear someone from this site had the same idea the other day.

Only possible in PS3 with the extra blu-ray space.

I would love some sort of open world game filled with zombies. In fact, it would probably be one of the open world games I could get excited about. Saints Row 2 looks fun, but I had my fill with Grand Theft Auto 4. It just didn't appeal to me very much, but the idea of being in the middle of one of those massive scale zombie invasions would be fun. I would play zombie sniper high atop a building. It's my dream.

Sounds like a wonderful idea for dead rising 2.

LOL ITS LIKE THE MOVIES FATS AND FURISUS AND DUDE OF THE LIVEING DEAD IN TO A GAME LOL LOTS OF UNDEAD -DEAD -ALIVE -HALFE AVLIVE- HALFE DEAD HALFE ALIVE = A LOT OS GORE HAHAHAHAHAH

day one buy if it's created like your idea

What was that game like?

theres a halflife 2 multiplayer mod that you play as zombies vs surivivors, if you get killed by a zombie, you become one, if you kill all zombies you win.

Check it out, I played sometme ago and it was pretty fun.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/z...

Uuuuuuum, anybody ever hear of a game called Dead Rising???

...he just described Dead Rising, just without the respawns. Idiot. :o

*EDIT* LOL...yeah, FirstKnight, it looks like we're the ONLY ones. :D

But could use some work... I like the whole idea in general. But since we're talking zombies here, we need extreme and brutal gore. Limbs that can be shot off bodies, blood that splatters all over the place and covers everything around it. Also it should be scary as hell, I hate it when zombie games are too action-based...

the man has some good ideas.. almost reminds me of some custom games from starcraft and warcraft 3.. custom zombie survivor maps. good times. Engineer class makes auto guns, medic to heal, snipers to snipe, demolition for mines and rockets.. everyone can barricade, repair, scout for seeking ammo and rations.

I had a idea like this a month ago the way i would have done the games is you play as a man who has been created to never die never get hurt and lives to do crazy things he is a stunt man .then the people who created him think there first creation was good so they do it again but this time they mess up. making a whole city full of zombies. the army cant beat them so they send in the stunt man to kill the zombies and search for surviers yes like the guy who made this blog stated as you find people you get more mission. get food for survivors transport surviors to new safe house. the way you lose or game over is you get infected if your meter reaches 100% infected you lose. to heal your self the army gives you a sarum that are found all over the cites. and your a stunt man what dose that mean you can do stunts in the game plant a bomb in a car ride it in to a group of zombies you well live. the weaponds well be given to you by army and survivors.any thing i missed oh and it well play like GTA open wolrd.how dose that sound

... but to answer your question, theres a very simple answer: money. A game like this would apeal to the true hardcore gamer, but many games have tanked before becasue all they were concerned with were the hardcore. The fact is that the "aliens" and "giant fish" are there to expand interest, and if the game was really that intense with the fuel conservation, and turning into a zombie and strait up loosing... I would love game like this but many more casual gamers would find thi inaccesable, the fact is this idea has been made already, but with all the alterations neccissary for it to be a high-selling game: dead rising. We will never see a game which fits into your vision because games need huge sales numbers.

well just glade to see someone liked it.. you were talking about mine right

That's very, very, VERY cool Silogon and it's a neat concept.

This game has been thought of before. Alot. Hell hideo kojima said if he ever made a zombie game that this is what it owuld be like (although a bit more mmo...)

But the sad truth is the technology hasnt caught up with the idea yet. Its doable on todays consoles and pc's, but not to the extent of detail this guys talking about. But we are VERY close to it :D And when the technology is around, I really hope they do make a game like this.

Kudos for writing it down, but your "concept" lacks several major issues. Ability to be developed, a certain entertainment curve depth, story and the reason to finish the game. Right now its just a game with zombies wich has been thought of 10.000 times before and noone made it because noone wants to play it longer then 20 minutes.

http://www.deadislandgame.c...
good attempt on your "idea"

oh and lets not forget gta zombie mod wich is basically what your wrote down.

+ im sorry but i totally dislike you making your own story on your blog and then submitting it at n4g as "NEWS" wich it certainly aint.
Your exploiting n4g for your personal needs and attention grabing.

There are forums for such kind of discussion. Try neogaf for example.

This game concept is basically Dead Rising with some tweaks so not really much of an original concept but I can see why you would want to play a game like this, Dead Rising was a lot of fun.

Just dont care to. The whole zombie theme is everywhere right now. Give it some time---someone will do it.

fool me twice shame on me!

i see how your logic/pattern goes on this silogon. you post anti ps3 remarks when you have a comfortable amount of bubbles and when have few you try to persuade ps3 preferenced gamers to give you bubbles.

no foolin me but great idea

already did that. it's called fallout 3. and i will enjoy it when amazon ships it to my door in an hour.

yeah. it was awesome.

The title - the game developers are too afraid to make

The hoped-for game premise - zombies

God I want to slap the hell out of that unimaginative fecking wanker

Just Cause with Zombies lol,populated Island ,hidden secret lab (top of a mountain or hidden valley), outbreak civilians get infected,your up against riots, looters,packs of dogs, security etc. You or a team have to find soneone or something blah blah. Save survivors ,find docements(side missions)Day and night cycle, weather pattern.Co-op online TDM your team v the securiy or special ops, secure buildings time limit against zombies or other players lol god that be fun lol who,s making it lol

good ideas, really reminds me of "the zombie survival guide" by max brooks, a very entertaining and interesting read. if they do make the game, i definitely think they should use that book as their bible.

i disagree with the limited number of zombies. if you read the book, in a zombie apocalypse, there will NOT be an feasible end to the zombies. perhaps limited the number of zombies in a certain area would make more sense.

however i do like many of the ideas, i think making it a partial sneaking game would also add to many elements of gameplay; having to sneak through a desolate city with zombies roaming around would be intense. or say, lighting a car on fire to draw their attention so you can sneak by.

man id love to have a discussion about the ideas that could go into this game, such a good idea!

if you know videogames then I'm Robert De Niro. He's just mad because ps3 as no EXCLUSIVE zombie games anymore. AWWW. Dead rising=360 exclusive, Left 4 Dead=not going to ps3, and Resident Evil 5=multi platform. I can see why you are mad though yoshida I'd want dead rising on my ps3 and left 4 dead, if I had a ps3.

That sounds like Grand Theft Auto but with zombies. o.o

Every gamer have thought about this concept at least once in their lives, because it's the OBVIOUS best game ever to make. I remember when I was 8-9 years old I spent hours drawing concept art for my zombie game (ennemies, weapons, city maps, locations) and making huge lists of all the details in the game (weapon attack power, magazine size, ennemy health, etc).

Every gamer I ever met said they've also thought about it. A sandbox-like zombie game, with massive hordes, vehicles, barricades, online survival mode, etc. The only thing that differs is that most people say that the zombification online would let you control a stronger/faster zombie to attack your ex-teamates

Why no one has done it already is simply beyond me.

Oh yeah. Some tit makes a blog about his idea of making a game and then has people tag it to this site and now people are reading this idiots ideas because you all thinks its a valid and official article worth reading. Instead of moaning you prick (whoever wrote this half arsed blog) why dont you get making the game. No one else is going to do it for you....!

But please, do not use this site to get your ideas pushed into the eye of the public. Cheap shot!

Whoever heard of vgtilt!? Not me, so i do not give a sh*t about your opinions.....End of!