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Post by Scott on Nov 30, 2010 8:47:21 GMT -5
Has anybody been watching this series? I like it, it's a very Romero-esque zombie scenario, but I think they're trying to do too much, and the plot threads seem thin.
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Post by GT on Dec 17, 2010 12:57:07 GMT -5
I like it, but after the first episode, it's more about the people than the zombies... ^__^
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Post by Scott on Dec 17, 2010 13:06:59 GMT -5
I ended up liking it. The last several episodes were tied together pretty well. Good stuff for network TV.
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Post by maraudar on Dec 26, 2010 20:42:29 GMT -5
It wasn't bad. Being a huge fan of the series I was kind of dreading what it might it turn out like. I am looking forward to its return.
Maraudar
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Post by ariochelruin on Dec 26, 2010 22:06:30 GMT -5
I really enjoyed the comic. The series does a good job of distilling the comic down into a television format.
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Post by Matthew on Jan 4, 2011 8:58:13 GMT -5
Definitely enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing how the second season goes.
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Post by Scott on Jan 4, 2011 9:17:03 GMT -5
I’m sure they wish they would have committed to more episodes for the first season, but I guess the success was kind of a surprise.
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Post by GRWelsh on Jan 17, 2011 18:26:14 GMT -5
SPOILERS BELOW....
I bought the series on iTunes, and watched it on my iPod. Pretty good show. I think the best parts are in how it deals with the emotions of the characters, like when that guy cannot shoot his zombie wife. I thought it was very suspenseful and well done when Andrea wouldn't leave her younger sister Amy, who was killed by zombies. When Andrea said, "I'm here for you now" I thought for a second she was going to let the zombie kill her... that would be completely crazy, but for someone out of their mind with grief, or even guilt...
A lot of the unpleasant situations the characters get into are because they try to do the moral thing, or else they are not sure what to do in the heat of the moment.
The scariest thing of all is when I find myself agreeing with the redneck Daryl.
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Post by Scott on Jan 17, 2011 19:51:03 GMT -5
I watched the first episode on Halloween night after everybody else was in bed, in the living room with all the lights out. When he first woke up in the hospital, and there was no power, and he was walking down the stairwell with just the pack of matches for light; that was creepy stuff.
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Post by Rhuvein on Mar 11, 2011 20:16:15 GMT -5
Great show, I enjoyed it immensely! Weird about the delay for the 2nd season . . I guess they didn't want to gamble on shooting it for fear the 1st season was awful or something.
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Post by geneweigel on Apr 3, 2013 6:52:48 GMT -5
I just got the PS3 version of the WALKING DEAD: SURVIVAL INSTINCT the other day where you play "Darryl" looking for "Merle" before the series starts.
At first I was a little frustrated because I was so used to DEAD ISLAND an open world "sandbox" game from 2011 where you repair weapons and can take on as many zombies as you can manage in real time (I beheaded 15 "runners" in a row once by the skin of my teeth.). After a while I got used to the style of the WALKING DEAD which is more like an incredibly violent strategy puzzle. When a walker comes up you have to do it one-on-one fast or it goes into this in-your-face bullseye mode.Overall its very atmospheric and it resembles the feeling of he show. So even though I enjoyed that other game for its style this one I had to throw all that out the window to beat one level.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 23, 2013 23:18:47 GMT -5
I finished up the PS3 game last Friday night when everyone was gone and I had been too dazed for doing anything "intelligent". The overall opinion is that its not as good as that other zombie game I had mentioned (DEAD ISLAND) for sure. If I had every evening to burn I would have been done with WALKING DEAD: SURVIVAL INSTINCT in a week. There was a glitch in the combat that I wasn't sure if I moved forward it would switch to food and drink instead of a weapon and had to dispatch them awkwardly to say the least. Besides this handicap I adapted and overcame. Otherwise its a cake walk for the old gaming pros. I liked 2008's LEFT 4 DEAD better ( I never got around to the sequel) and the RED DEAD REDEMPTION: UNDEAD NIGHTMARE download was probably as good as SURVIVAL INSTINCT or better because it was part of a larger game although different (I highly recommend for old BOOT HILL fans though)..
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Post by Scott on Jun 24, 2013 6:58:40 GMT -5
Did you play the latest Resident Evil?
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 24, 2013 8:56:45 GMT -5
That is one series I haven't touched after disliking the first one back in the 90's. The movies seem bizarre and I'm not sure what those games are like now.
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Post by GRWelsh on Jun 24, 2013 13:13:15 GMT -5
I have a hard time getting into video games these days. I can't tolerate "the grind" anymore. I find myself wanting to watch the cutscenes on YouTube without actually going through the motions of playing the games.
I wonder if that is because game-play itself is often a dull chore!
I used to want to play video games for the game-play itself, and the story, if there was any, was just some background flavor. But nowadays, the story and scenery seems to take precedence, and the game-play is just repetitive, unchallenging tedium.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 24, 2013 17:54:28 GMT -5
There is little out there fantasy-wise anymore. There is always something forgivable that retroactively sinks in the wrong direction with the sequel.
Its too bad that Japanese game DARK SOULS was their pseudo-European version of American pseudo-Asian crap (LAST AIRBENDER, etc.) because if it was more coherently put together and taken down a notch to a dark age instead of high medieval it would have been the best game ever. Unfortunately the dialogue is so pretentious that it seems like it was written by a 8 year old DM with museum quality backgrounds and features.
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Post by GRWelsh on Jun 25, 2013 8:22:16 GMT -5
Trying to follow a Japanese storyline is hard enough, but it adds an extra layer of weirdness when you are getting the Japanese conception of European-based fantasy!
But I can forgive the Japanese for almost any pretentious or awkward dialogue and naming conventions, as long as the game play and graphics are good.
I'm having flashbacks to Castlevania, the Zelda and Link games and the Ultima games from the original Nintendo system!
Lord British? Castle Britannia? Come on!
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Post by Scott on Jun 25, 2013 8:24:23 GMT -5
The Black Ops zombie game is my only recent experience with zombie shooters. And that was limited. It's been years since I played a story with a goal game. I liked the early Resident Evil games, but haven't heard anything about the new ones.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 25, 2013 8:55:17 GMT -5
Trying to follow a Japanese storyline is hard enough, but it adds an extra layer of weirdness when you are getting the Japanese conception of European-based fantasy! But I can forgive the Japanese for almost any pretentious or awkward dialogue and naming conventions, as long as the game play and graphics are good. I'm having flashbacks to Castlevania, the Zelda and Link games and the Ultima games from the original Nintendo system! Lord British? Castle Britannia? Come on! Heh, most of those early electronic games of the 70's and 80's were American. For instance most Americans don't realize Atari was American too and was created by the same guy who made Chuck E. Cheese restaurants to spread Atari products. I read something about that Ultima guy a while back "British" naming convention. It has a shortened version here on the wikipedia page: Garriott was born in Cambridge, England to American parents,[6] and was raised in Nassau Bay, Texas, United States. He is the son of scientist Owen K. Garriott, who became an astronaut and flew with Skylab 3 and Space Shuttle mission STS-9. At Clear Creek High School, he convinced the school to let him create a self-directed course in programming, in which he created fantasy computer games on the school's teletype machines.[7]
In the summer of 1977, Richard's parents sent him to the University of Oklahoma for a seven-week computer camp. Shortly after he arrived, some of the other boys attending the camp introduced themselves. When Garriott replied to their greeting of "Hi" with "Hello" they decided he sounded like he was from Britain, and gave him the nickname "British"Texas? It might as well be China to me! Seriously, I virtually had unlimited resources in the early to mid-80's and I couldn't get enough electronic shit at home. It was mostly American made shit until Nintendo which was already in the arcade exploded onto the scene. There was not info on these computer game boxes like they have today. It was a painting and then you got burned when it turned out to be text-based. I can't recall the magazines that had reviews but after a few years I was definitely listening to them after getting hours of American made < < < SYNTAX ERROR > > > type shit.
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Post by geneweigel on Jun 25, 2013 9:23:02 GMT -5
The Black Ops zombie game is my only recent experience with zombie shooters. And that was limited. It's been years since I played a story with a goal game. I liked the early Resident Evil games, but haven't heard anything about the new ones. I fell of the CALL OF DUTY wagon after the first MODERN WARFARE in 2007 and lost track with all the spin offs.
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