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Title: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: Margalis on May 03, 2008, 08:36:53 PM There have been a few of them recently IIRC, but I haven't heard much about them. Are they not very good? Can I play any for free? (Research) Have these games had just execution problems or is there some inherent flaw in the idea of zombies and humans duking it out multiplayer?
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: Samwise on May 03, 2008, 08:38:01 PM Zombie Panic is my favorite, and it's free if you have Half-Life. (And if you don't have Half-Life you don't deserve nice things.)
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: Margalis on May 03, 2008, 08:45:05 PM HL or HL2?
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: schild on May 03, 2008, 11:16:45 PM There's mods for both, but unless Zombie Panic somehow got much better for HL2, then it's still shit and he's talking about HL.
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: Samwise on May 04, 2008, 01:15:53 AM ZP Source still beats all the other zombie survival mods out there IMO, but yeah, the HL1 version is better (I assume there are still servers running it).
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: schild on May 04, 2008, 01:18:15 AM Zombie Survival 1.05C for GMod was fucking awesome. But the creator is a nutsack who runs a server with a bunch of other nutsacks and it became entirely fucking unfun.
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: Margalis on May 04, 2008, 04:24:01 PM So why aren't these games very popular overall? Is it something to do with the players, the gameplay, or the entire concept?
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: schild on May 04, 2008, 04:34:47 PM They're never really balanced, and level design for them is terribly hard. I think it would work with like 32 players with one of the medium sized GTA maps though.
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: Samwise on May 05, 2008, 08:02:20 AM What schild said, and also the concept is a bit "niche". Not everyone likes asymmetrical FPS gameplay, because most people want to be the one with the biggest gun. In any good zombie survival game the shambling undead vastly outnumber the guys with big guns.
Title: Re: Humans vs. Zombies FPS games Post by: ahoythematey on May 05, 2008, 08:06:07 AM cs:source actually has a few decent zombie-modded maps out there. Of course, they never have the staying power of a game designed around the humans vs zombie concept would, but still fun for a bit. Left 4 Dead is coming out "soon", though it won't be free.
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