deanb Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 I shall just link to this and you can quickly figure out my sentiment. Pre-rendered, slow-mo trailers of zombie games have a bit of a stigma that Ubisoft apparently didn't catch wind of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Ubisoft hates brits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Pre-rendered, slow-mo trailers of zombie games have a bit of a stigma that Ubisoft apparently didn't catch wind of. I made a joke to someone that since it wasn't being played backwards it wasn't a complete ripoff. Anyways, wasn't this supposed to be a fun/quirky sort of game when it was announced last year? In the press conference they mentioned the change of tone and the change to zombies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Well obviously since these are British zombies, they'll be more polite about ripping out your intestines. You know those American zombies, if it weren't for a ruptured stomach, they'd all be obese! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) I thought you were going to link to this: Which may be the best ad for anything, ever. And even if you hate the WiiU you know you want a Non-Specific Action Figure. Edited June 5, 2012 by TheFlyingGerbil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Wish there was gameplay footage. When will these companies figure out that CGI trailers do nothing to show us what a game will be like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 They already know that, but they don't care because the CGI trailers build hype specifically without showing us what the game will be like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 I liked the trailer a lot, but unlike the AC3 trailer, I have absolutely no idea what type of game this is going to be. It could be Typing of The Dead 2 for all I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Exactly. I can only suspect we'll learn more about ZombiU tomorrow during Nintendo's E3 presser though. They've already covered some of the hardware stuff in their pre-show thing, and they've set aside a separate time to talk about 3DS software. All that leaves for the main E3 event is final system specs, price, online features, and then a ton of time for the actual software. Nintendo is trying hard to attract the core gamer with this hardware, so of course they're gonna show off the immature zombie first person shooter Ubisoft is cooking up for launch. Also, the only reason Ubisoft would have announced the game while saying nothing about it is that they know they're using Wii U features still under wraps and/or they already have a slot to sell the game in Nintendo's stage time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 It could be Typing of The Dead 2 for all I know. That would make me interested in it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Strangelove Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 The gameplay looked pretty cool. Cant say Ive seen anything similar before. Thats really all I have to say about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 That gameplay looked fake to me, like the concept videos they showed off for the WiiU in general last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 A lot of things just seem gimmicky. Itll be cool to do it a few times, then it'll become tiresome and youll wonder why you cant just play it with a regular controller. Games that add a lot "variety" for the sake of variety or showing off features are hard to balance. Some of the gameplay will be good, some of it will be bad, but the game will mix it all in together and the bad will get in the way of the good. I really hate minigames inside a "real" game. Bioshocks's hacking comes to mind. If you liked those kind of puzzles im sure you loved it, but I thought it was annoying as fuck. Or when No More Heroes came out and you had to shake the controller like youre jacking off to power your sword up. Funny and cool the first couple of times, annoying every time afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 That gameplay looked fake to me, like the concept videos they showed off for the WiiU in general last year. I'm getting the same feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-zombiu/731245? Okay, this makes me excited for the game.I may just be buying a WiiU at launch. Wouldn't have called that 2 days ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Yeah, I'm definitely more interested in this game now. I have to wonder though... how many characters can you go through in the game? No "checkpoints," but there must certainly be a point where you can pick up the game again with the remaining characters at your disposal. If anything, this is definitely not for the gamer who lives by trial and error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 lol that it's in London so you have a cricket bat instead of a baseball bat as your "crowbar weapon". I guess when you restart it will just be with a new character as it seems you do when you die. I guess there must be a limitless supply of uninfected humans otherwise you'd be stuck not being able to progress if you ran out. I assume they don't all spawn from the same place though else you'd never get past a very small area of the map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Yeah, but the only way I see how it works is if the game can randomly generate human survivors. Then you have to wonder how many possible humans could be crafted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 It probably randomly generates people. Shouldn't be hard, you'd just need a decent character creator like lots of RPGs have and a list of a whole bunch of first and last names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 I can't see what Ethan linked above, says "unavailable". So I apologize if this was posted already, but here's a dev walkthrough though: Part 1 Part 2 I hope the game opens up a bit, but the nuts-and-bolts gunplay and such look solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Yep, characters are randomly generated: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/07/zombiu-is-all-about-survival-but-failure-is-pretty-cool-too/ When you die (and you will, since one bite does the job) your character wakes up as a zombie, and you respawn into another randomly generated person in a nearby safehouse, with a quick caption popping up telling you that new person's name and age. This game is sounding really cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted June 8, 2012 Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Name: Barbara Age: 72 BRING ON THE ZOMBIE HORDE! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2012 Second name: Gordon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Pretty authentic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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