Romero is a marvelous character, and a deep thinker with a politically-alive intellect. I never heard Gene Roddenberry speak, I've only heard others talk about him, but I suspect that he and Romero would have a lot in common. It was a time with a living culture, and it grew certain kinds of artists on the edges. Catch him if you ever have a chance, he is a delightful speaker: funny, challenging, and full of stories.

I think Romero underestimates Walking Dead, though I can see why he would. At its worst it is mindless zombie mash, but it has real glimmers of insight from time to time, and its long (and quiet) discussion on the nature of morality is worthy and interesting.

Aye, he is quite likeable and seems to have stayed with his feet on the ground. He is still wearing the same glasses he did wear 30 years ago.

By the way, the book he mentions in the following interview from Richard Matheson "I am Legend" is really good way better and richer on story than the movie with Will Smith.

Romero Interview 2

That gameplay review is fantastic, and now I must have the game! *_*

In, please, and thank you very much!

I must be the only one that likes Shaun of the Dead better. ;-D

/silly mode off


Great game you're giving away, MaGo72, +1.


Not in.

Not in, but I can say that the original Romero's Zombies aren't completely out of the picture.

I recently watched two movies, "The Dead" and "The Dead 2" (the first I think is better than the second), but they are very gripping stories in which the protagonists are being slowly stalked by the walking dead.

I do think that "fast zombies" should be somewhat progressive --in other words, the freshly dead move faster, but the long dead move more slowly, and even in that regard, the freshly dead should be hindered by any damage that caused such in the first place. If their leg was broken, when they died, for example, they should be slowed down by limping along.

I tend to think that the "old school" zombie fanatics like the more slow-moving zombies where there is always a "creeping threat", but you still have time to think and react, even if it means running towards another venue.

In the case of "new school" zombies that can run and pounce in ways the original owner's body never did, isn't as believable and it just fosters the "run" instinct instead of "run and think tactically".

I like the slow zombies myself. :)

Cheers!

No I really enjoyed this movie :D

But Dawn of the Dead has this music

^_^

i thought everybody knew that it was social commentary especially dawn of the dead

So, let's see who is in for playing a survivor group in a Zombie infested town, can you by clever tactical decisions get all the stuff you need to leave the town, will you keep them all alive, will they get by with each other, will they get on each others throats or even kill each other, will you get them out to safety...needless to say every game is randomly generated, so you will not face the same challenge the next time, it may be easier, it may be harder.

This Giveaway is now closed, I will determine the winner using random.org.

And the winner is Tarm.

Enjoy the game.

Congrats!

By the way, just saw Night of the Living Death for the first time in my life. On 16mm no less. Am I a hipster or what? Yesterday, I also saw the rather silly documentary Doc of the Death. What really surprised me was that Night of the Living Death - the movie that single-handedly created the modern zombie - wasn't about about zombies at all. The guys creating the movie didn't notice that that their very original monster idea fitted into the zombie-label. The word "zombie" is not used anywhere in the movie. On the contrary, the creatures are refered to as "ghouls".

The documentary mentioned how a certain fungus can turn ants into zombies. Seriously, Google it - it's even more freaky than snails with flatworm infection. It was also mentioned that the idea that zombies eats brains origins from the movie The Return of the Living Death (1985) which is good by the way.

I also saw the zombie-scifi-rock'n-roll mindfuck Wild Zero (1999). I was the one who had picked it for screening, so I was a bit nerveous that my memory of it had been somewhat rose-tinted ... but it was just awesome!

I don't care much if the zombies are fast or slow, but I find it a bit sad that so few modern zombie movies tries to take the genre seriously. Stephen Kings "cell" were almost about zombies but not quite, and 28 days later aimed for serious, but wasn't quite about zombies. (this is debated, google if you bother)

I kind of consider picking up The Walking Death (the TV-series, not the comic), but the first time I saw it, it appeared rather crappy. But all tv-series have crappy pilots, so maybe it's worth a watch?

Not in, I´ll leave more chances for the others :P

But in respect to the question, I think zombies evolved into fast runner predators because "some masses" prefer action over horror and nerve wrenching suspense. And you can´t have the kind of action those zombies deliver with slow moving crippled zombies.

So I´ll take the time to recommend a good old one, "The Fog" (1980).

OK, I've watched the first five episodes of the Let's Play you linked to now (until he killed off his whole party) and I am loving what I've seen!

As for the running, jumping, climbing, almost-thinking zombies, I'm not a fan. The whole point of the zombie is that they have very little control over their bodies, because they're functioning on one impulse, and one impulse only -- ravenous, insatiable hunger. Coordination should be next to nil, as the bodies should be operating on muscle-memory alone. There is NO THINKING, only doing! That is my biased opinion, anyway ;p

That being said, one of my favorite zombie movies is the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead. As you may have guessed, we have running, jumping, climbing, almost-thinking zombies, but it's still a favorite! I think the way the opening sequence/credits was filmed was pure genius, I like the plot, the actors, and the way things play out.

The perfect zombies in my mind are the ones in Telltale's Walking Dead. (BRILLIANT game series!)

Sounds more like a sub type of ghoul than a zombie.

I've been watching Walking Dead since it started, though I will say that my opinions on the show are not always those of the larger audience. I thought the first season - only six episodes - was an appalling waste of time. I stopped watching it twice in just those six episodes, though friends lured me back.

Basically, there were a couple of camps in the early days of the series. The writers were divided about what their goal was, and they were not producing the scripts that Frank Darabont, the showrunner, wanted to see. Darabont was doing rewrites on set in front of the camera; the whole season was just recycled zombie movie tropes and awkward builds to awkward climaxes. A couple of shallow and badly-written characters were added to the core group from the comic. It was a disaster. America, of course, loved it.

All the writers were fired between the first season and the second season (the producers say that they left to pursue other opportunities but were not fired, whatever). The tone changed, drastically. Second season began to be interesting and was extremely talky. (I was OK with that.) It got bogged down some, but it started to sort out its themes. At the end of the second season, Darabont left the show and was replaced by Robert Kirkman, the author of the comic. Third season stated with a bang, and midway through the third season Kirkman pretty much took control of the entire thing and the seasoned TV production staff left. Since then, it's been high flying and smooth sailing.

You really have to watch the whole thing to appreciate the arc of it, but the first episodes are very different from what follows. I think they sucked, a lot of people I know think they were the best of the whole series.

... annnd now I've watched the first ten episodes. lol~ Interesting to see how differently Falcon thinks as compared to myself XD I'm done for now -- I want to see the rest for myself! :D

Thank you! :D