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Posted: Feb 01 2009 11:56 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

I don't get the no photo thing. It's not like the camera didn't change in the original when photos were taken, and it's not like there weren't times when Leon zoomed a scope or something in on RE4.

They are going to spin off the photography into its own game: Zombie Snap!

That, or they removed the photography in deference to the far superior Fatal Frame 4.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 08:38 pm

Ugh. That just reminded me of how I actually owned Pokemon Snap. Jesus, what a ripoff. I could've gotten Mario 64 or something for my birthday, instead of that ripoff!

Posted: Feb 04 2009 08:46 pm

Well, at least you didn't get Hey You, Pikachu...

Posted: Feb 04 2009 08:55 pm

Sadly, I almost did. Thank God by that time I was making good decisions about games. F-Zero X was an infinitely better purchase.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 09:50 pm

Does anyone know if they mentioned anything about improving the absolutely dreadful survivor AI?

Posted: Feb 05 2009 10:24 pm

I rented Hey You Pikachu one weekend from Blockbuster. The voice recognition sucked. I remember one level where you had to tell Pikachu to make some kind of soup. I tried to get him to use the correct ingredients but he fucked up the soup. Squirtle then came by to try the soup and he coughed up some smoke and passed out.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 10:49 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

The inability to carry more than one melée weapon, if true, is rather dumb, but realistic. If you were trapped in a mall with a shitload of zombies, would you carry around a million melée weapons? No, you'd carry one at most, and a shitload of firearms.

Except what mall do you go to where there are a bunch of guns laying around? Like, gunshop aside, there shouldn't be a ton of firearms. And The Zombie Survival Guide tells you that melee weapons are the smarter choice anyway; most people don't have small arms training to begin with and it's incredibly hard to make headshot after headshot even if you do. It's more "realistic" to have several close-quarters weapons like axes or crowbars than to load up on guns and go around wasting ammo and drawing every zombie within earshot right to you.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 10:06 am

Yeah, but you'd still only need one melee weapon, and you'd probably want a katana blade. If you had good upper body strength, maybe one for each arm.

But still, for most normal people, melee weapons would be a bad idea. If a zombie is close enough to be killed by a melee weapon, it's also close enough to bite you. Ideally, you'd want something relatively quiet and massively destructive. The best options would be a crossbow and flaming arrows or Molotov cocktails. All you have to do is light up one zombie and you'll take out a bunch of his buddies too.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 01:40 pm

No, then you're just left with a bunch of flaming zombies who don't care that they're on fire and are more likely to kill you by setting your hideout on fire! Though crossbow is one of the recommended weapons. And who said you were using a melee weapon in each hand? You just keep a couple strapped to you and use one at a time. I'm not really talking about the game anymore though at this point...

Posted: Feb 06 2009 01:49 pm

No, I know you're not.

If you light a zombie on fire, sooner or later, it's going to burn to death. I imagine that since they're dead and dried up, they'd light up pretty fast. And since they're slow (and fuck anyone who says different in the ass with a butcher knife), you should be able to take them out before they get near enough to your hideout to matter. You can get great range with a crossbow, and you should be able to get pretty decent range with a Molotov cocktail.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 06:26 pm

I'd imagine the majority of zombies aren't dried out at all but quite moist, what with decomposition being what it is. I'm still not lighting them on fire when they take over...

Posted: Feb 06 2009 08:52 pm

Why exactly to people turn into zombies when bitten? I never quite got that.

In Night of the Living Dead, they were actually risen corpses. Then somewhere down the line, zombification became a contagion.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 09:20 pm

So, what's worse?

A zombie vampire or a vampire zombie?

Posted: Feb 06 2009 09:30 pm

IceWarm wrote:

I rented Hey You Pikachu one weekend from Blockbuster. The voice recognition sucked. I remember one level where you had to tell Pikachu to make some kind of soup. I tried to get him to use the correct ingredients but he fucked up the soup. Squirtle then came by to try the soup and he coughed up some smoke and passed out.

I rented it too from a Videoconnection. All pikachu wanted to was play a trumpet, even though I told him to go outside. After that it deterioates into a swearing-fest. A game I call "Fuck You, Pikachu."

Posted: Feb 07 2009 11:51 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Why exactly to people turn into zombies when bitten? I never quite got that.

Zombies that were converted via a chemical have the virus circulating through their bloodstream and can pass it on to others; think of someone getting rabies from an animal bite.

Now, if the zombies were created using other means, then they're just like walking, decaying bodies.

Posted: Feb 08 2009 07:48 am

Cameron wrote:

Now, if the zombies were created using other means, then they're just like walking, decaying bodies.

I understand the concept, I was just lamenting the fact that classic zombification has been replaced with viral zombification. I suppose fear of infection adds an extra element of suspense, but still.