Recently, I was thinking about zombies. This is fairly typical for me, since I’m a zombie fan, especially when it comes to video games. However, my most recent train of thought intrigued me enough to post it here on my blog.
I have been knee-deep in Dead Island, and of course smattering in Left4Dead (1/2) and Dead Rising (1/2) in along with this. I noticed that in these games, no one sees it coming, is prepared for, or even knows what the issue is or what the “creatures” are. What I fail to understand is why have the main characters (or side characters, for that matter) never, ever seen a single zombie movie? Do they just not exist in their universe? Is it glazed over in a suspension of disbelief moment?
I find it exceedingly difficult to come to the conclusion that in Dead Rising, none of the protagonists have ever seen a flipping zombie movie before. In a world that includes Mega Man, you’d think that – since it shares such similarity with this world as having Capcom, makers of Resident Evil – there would be such a thing as a zombie movie or even video game.
This forced me to come up with a video game idea of my own: a game starring a zombie movie geek who know one believes when he says a zombie apocalypse is coming, but then it happens.
Meh, it could go anywhere, but keep in mind, this would be the most realistic zombie game yet, since as it stands no one in their right mind can believe what’s happening or even why it’s happening as if the idea of a zombie has never been presented.
Let’s just label this as me posting outside of my right mind and in my zombie frame of mind.