DAWN of the DEAD Thread

DAWN of the DEAD HL2 mod. Co-op, a large range of weapons, make your own character. Imagine it. I think it would be quite the awesome. It should be based on the original movie, not the new one, the original is much better. The zombies are slow and stupid, but 500 zombies to 10 people, is a bit of a challenge. Maps like the mall, streets, residences. Hell, we could even make a single player where you start off at your house and work your way to the mall, or the harbor. If any mod team would like to take this up with me, it would be real cool.

Wow, how... unoriginal. Wait, I was trying to be creative and helpful. Well, your idea is... unoriginal. Should I provide evidence to support my claims?
Why not?:

Moddb.com

Also, no one's going to make your mod for you. Learn a bit about modding before jumping in, because chances are you'll just drown.

hey retard i never said it was original, its based on the movie are you completely retarded or just a little?

I'd have to say not as much as you, newbie. Try searching in the forums for Dawn Of The Dead, 28 Days, or simply Zombie and you're going to come up with identical threads.

- Edited By frosty_theaussie On Sun 28th, Mar 2004 @ 10:28:20pm

yeah ok i just looked at them all i didnt realize i suppose i should apologise. there are like 20 that are the exact same thing.

hey why isnt wimp listed amonst them ?

HAHA! Because wimp is an original idea, of course!

lol, thanks man. But yeah, I wonder why it isn't there. It seems like other mods with just a single "zombie" in their description get listed. Anyways, thanks Frosty, that reply gave me a good laugh. I think I needed that.

As for the original topic of this thread, I think you should try to contribute more than just "I want to make a game that's like that movie I saw." Granted, you threw some gameplay aspects into it, but probably a more thought out idea would have recieved a slightly better response. So if you are still planning on doing this, just think the game out a bit more, and keep on trying. If you make the gameplay interesting (and different) enough people might get interested. That's the best way to go about it. If you decide not to make it, well then hey, whatever. If you do, then good luck, but remember, uniqueness is the key, so if not in theme then atleast in gameplay.

hahahaha! amatures! 28 days later is better!

Wow, nice intelligent comment there.

First off, whether Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later is better is hard to argue since one is more of an action flick, while the other more of a suspense movie (atleast IMHO, which goes to show how hard it is to compare the two). So just because you liked 28 Days Later doesn't mean everyone else has to. (btw, I personally did prefer 28 Days Later, but think Dawn of the Dead was a fun movie to watch)

Now, onto the comment. How does talking crap about a movie that the mod would be based on help anyone or anything. You're not even mentioning anything about the actual mod idea. Also, who are you calling amateurs? The only one mentioning DotD is the original threaqd starter, which would make it amateur.

So yeah, what is the point of your reply? Other than to throw out your opinion on a subject not really related to what is being discussed.

Wow, this is a productive thread. But, on topic: There's only so many interesting things you can do with a zombie mod, and W.I.M.P. pretty much grabbed all of 'em. Now, what I'd like to see is a horror mod that doesn't involve anything science-fictiony or supernatural. Like, being trapped in a remote terrorist hideout, at night, during a storm, with the power out, somewhere in the mountains or something like that... and you know you're going to get the bejeezes scared out of you, you just don't know when.

Yes, on-topic. Maybe you could make survival horror, but not fictitious with Zombies and stuff. What about being a Jewish man during the Nazi's pre-war stages, from 1933-1939? Trying to survive? Things could be taken out of proportion to reflect the main character's views, such as the further ingame the player reaches, the more the German soldiers become disproportionate with horrible-features (not to the point with horns and tails and pitchforks, but with just features that show that the character has come to the conclusion that German's are evil to him). The player must survive through various missions, and things, with a focus on the survival and horror, and not much orientation towards the action (less action, more phsycological drama). However, that idea is kind of controversial.

Hey you guys are talking some good stuff, but there is a difference between horror, and being scared. Horror is basically, anything unexpected, out of the ordinary, unnatural, the unknown. if a guy broke into my house and i was standing there i would kill that stupid fuck, but if i was in the bathroom, and i heard him come in, i would be quit afraid, because i dont know how big he is or what he looks like or if he has a big ass knife or a gun. Also, if i was walking down the hall and a mother fucking scary ass monster came out somewhere id freak out real bad. You got to realize what horror is. BUT if i were imagining, that if i am caught by these certain people(nazis) and i knew that they were going to like burn em alive and gut me up and stuff i would be scared shitless also.Like i said, anything unknown, unnatural, or unusual.

Yes, I get where you are coming from. My idea really doesn't classify as horror in the traditional sense. Maybe survival terror is more fitting. Personally, I like the idea, it really is something new.

Yeah that would be a good single player game. In order to actually make it scary when you run around the corner and see terrorists you would have to make it realistic where you can basically die in one to three shots. and not like medal of honor where you are like terminator. It would be especially scary if it was a foreign country and you didnt have any idea about the place around you, and you couldnt understand what they were saying. like O CHAKCAKCAKCACKAC is what you here and you think they are saying GUT HIS BRAINS but they might actually be saying HEY HOW ARE YOU?!?!?! and you run away anyhow ive gotten off of the subject horor. The zombie epidemic thing is one of the scariest things that could happen. but also the scariest thing ever is what you can think up in your own mind, if you have schizophrenia that can be a scary scary adventure. That is what i tried to write a game for was a guy that saw things that werent really there but he thought they were real and at the end he found out. but you cant really make that into a game with out being kind of lame, like the only way would be like at the end of Turok finding out it was all fake, that would be just lame.

- Edited By Kiba26 On Wed 31st, Mar 2004 @ 4:27:00pm

the future of the horror genre involves scaring the shit out of you by using more immersive technologies... surround sound, feedback, dynamic lighting etc (seeing silhouettes in a lighting flash that are gone moments later, reflections of things that aren't there.... oooh)

I think that if you made this mod, coop would be should be its prime feature. There is just something about having 4 friends over and playing a game like serious sam on coop that is just great.

But one of the points is that there are already so many zombie mods, but they are all just zombie attack mode humans verse zombies. I want a huge detailed worlds, malls, cities, full of zombies and y ou can use all kinds of weapons, like bars or axes or axe handles or whatever, some will break like wodd stuff, and you should be able to make a character out of different clothing choices and hair and faces and stuff. And you choose where you spawn, so basically, there is a game of 10 people playing, you choose the apartments, they could all be at the mall, you got to get to that fucking mall, so you have to search the apartments searching for things to get there. That would be awesome. I think we could make another one that is super better. You could also make strength and stuff when making a character, you could make a zombie kiling machine that could punch alot of them to death, or make a fast son of a bitch and you can run away? You see what i mean? It would be awesome. and you can use radios. Lets say you are at the mall, you find radios and start saying come to the mall, anyone that is near a radio will hear it and go LETS GO! that would also be super cool.

I had this idea where there would be a zombie and a human team. A zombie coudl have an "infect" attack on humans. Where as if they died due to this they would switch to the zombie team and atttack the remaining humans. The remaining humans would get bigger and better supplies and weapons until it was one human (armed like the terminator) versus everyone else in the server who was zombies.

that is already like 5 mods on the mod id like to make you could be a zombie if you wanted to, but they are slow but it would be cool because you would be a player with lots and lots of computer zombies around you, you could hide behind them and shit and get into the mall and stuff, and actually get some people. But when you get bit by a zombie, youll have a time limit before you turn into one, so if you want to be a zombie you cant tell your friends and get out of there. THat would be cool too, you hide in a closet and then get them all when you turn.

well one thing you gotta look at is legal issues(copyright), some compaines are really anal about that and will shut you down or try to at least... but anywho id love to see a mod for the movie since it was pretty damn good

Just call it something different like "Eve of the Dead" then they cant touch you.

the name doesnt matter, we could change it to anythign else. And i want to make sure everyone knows we are gtalking about the first one not the new one.