Comments on: RPS-ish At-ish E3: Day 2, Part 1 – Valve

By: Raptornas

Raptornas — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:58:54 +0000

Slaughterhouse 5 references get big bonus points in my book, sounds dead good to be honest and I’m not even that much of a fan of Zombie games.

Saying that give me a good shotgun and I’ll forget about almost any faults in a game and everyone knows shotgun + zombies = awesome.

By: bonuswavepilot

bonuswavepilot — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:11:42 +0000

Sinister agent: I’ve always preferred it that way. The ’smart’ zombies in Land of the Dead irritated me somehow… I think that it is because having the zombies have any motivation beyond the traditional “braaiiiiins” one (and to spread the infection, I s’pose) changes the whole nature of the scenario.

Once they start to reason, reasoning with them becomes an option, and the beauty of zombies for me is the single-minded force-of-nature feel they have. The very ghoulish charm of zombies is the fact they used to be us, but now they are mindless hungry monsters. Granted, it is a common zombie-film trope to have a zombie which was originally a friend or loved one show up, and perhaps react differently, but even this ruins things when it is overused. Was one of the worst things about 28 weeks later, I thought – the regularity with which Robert Carlyle’s zombie character showed up throughout the film.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:40:44 +0000

The motivations of the undead horde are an untapped dramatic resource, clearly.

By: yutt

yutt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:48:13 +0000

I still think the idea that these four same people would find themselves all in these different scenarios, all involving them being attacked by hordes of undead humans, is a little hard to believe.

Zombies? Psh. I expected better, Valve.

By: Smee

Smee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:32:19 +0000

I still think the idea that these four same people would find themselves in all these different scenarios, all ending in them being *rescued*, is a little hard to believe.

Yes I know that’s extremely pedantic, only models, no effect on gameplay, etc. But surely the characters involved should tell a story just by their appearance? How do these four people know each other, why have they decided to band together? I’d like to see campaign-specific player characters with obvious relationships in the future. It would make the proceedings appear more realistic (there’s that word again).

I don’t want to imagine the sort of time and money that goes into creating even one new player character as I’m sure it’s a huge amount, but Counter-Strike managed it quite easily, no? Oh whatever, I’m just talking to myself anyway.

By: Nick Halme

Nick Halme — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:45:04 +0000

This is one of those games I’m going to have to buy for the PC and the 360…because everyone I know will be playing this in the Fall.

By: Skalpadda

Skalpadda — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:34 +0000

I don’t quite see what all the complaints about the models are about. I do think the old ones looked cooler, but these aren’t bad and there’s at least a proper reason for changing them. In the end it’s a relatively small cosmetic change and from what it looks like, you’ll be too knee-deep in action and scary zombies to let it bother you anyway ;)

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:14 +0000

Split screen?

Man, I am having to work so hard to find reasons to hate this. Do me a favour Valve, and have the woman shoving six inches of cleavage in the camera every twelve seconds for no reason. I need something to be negative about, damn you.

By: mataglap

mataglap — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:54:42 +0000

I miss Old Man Murray!

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:20:33 +0000

I think the models are an improvement on the old one.

I for one cannot wait for this game.

By: Saflo

Saflo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:05:19 +0000

I hope the zombie overload of this game will inspire Valve to leave them out of Episode 3.

By: John P (Katsumoto)

John P (Katsumoto) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:36:30 +0000

I can’t say I noticed the old designs at all – not sure what all the fuss is about. Maybe i’m just unobservant! The guy with the tie looks haxing paxing tbqfh.