What RE5 and Left 4 Dead have taught us about the Zombie Apocalypse

Originally Posted by shaianwillems

we will have to wait for a virus ourbreak to find out.
how strong and Smart a Zombie really is. =D

Well I'd opt for a nuclear bomb shelter but I live in Ireland - we don't have that many.

I'd just pull out my ol' hide 'n' seek skills and hide really well for a day each hiding place.

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

Well I'd opt for a nuclear bomb shelter but I live in Ireland - we don't have that many.

destroying a whole State or City to save the other nearby ppl.
kinda risky, but it better then a World full of Zombies.

Question: do you think a zombie would eat another zombie if hungry enough? If not, why not? If so, what would stop them from eating each other to begin with?

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

Question: do you think a zombie would eat another zombie if hungry enough? If not, why not? If so, what would stop them from eating each other to begin with?

Hard Question.
There is no prove dat Zombies can't eat each other.
but in movie's there is no action if they eat each other.

so i dont know dat Qeustion. Sorry. =/

Here's something funnny to consider: A zombie with a nose fetish.

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

What I would do


1 - Get all my friends and family

2 - Hightail it to the nearest non-ruined castle

3 - Fortify said castle

4 - Zombies can't claw through stone, and I doubt they can build siege weapons, so we'd really just have to defend the gate. In the event the castle has a portcullis, we're good to go.

5 - Wait for the zombies to starve (28 Days Later asks a very good question: how long DOES it take for a zombie to starve?).

What if someone develops a cure? You'd feel pretty sill... dead.

The biggest issue with this is supply of food, water, and plumbing, in which you would have an issue in a castle.

Also, remember to bring things to do that don't require electricity, or you'll end up killing each other.

Originally Posted by 8bit

The biggest issue with this is supply of food, water, and plumbing, in which you would have an issue in a castle.

Also, remember to bring things to do that don't require electricity, or you'll end up killing each other.

Electricity and running water would be an issue anywhere, unless plant workers are gonna keep working in a Zombie Apocalypse. The only way to guarantee electricity would be to have your own generator, a portable one of which could be obtained from a building site, but which would then require fuel.

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

Electricity and running water would be an issue anywhere, unless plant workers are gonna keep working in a Zombie Apocalypse.

Well, if you could find a warehouse used for storage of non-perishable foods you might do better in that regard.

Originally Posted by 8bit

Well, if you could find a warehouse used for storage of non-perishable foods you might do better in that regard.

A warehouse would have less defensive properties than a castle, though. I'd rather have to occasionally make dangerous excursions to obtain food and have someplace safe in the meantime, than have lots of food but be easily reached at all times. How would you sleep? Plus, castles are built for sieges - a carload of food, properly rationed, would last a while until alternate arrangements could be made. Plus, castles are built to be lived in - properly done-up touristy ones would have beds and everything.

Again, obviously a bomb shelter would be better - completely impenetrable, designed with a 'wait out the apocalypse' scenario in mind already, so would have lots of canned foods and weapons, AND you wouldn't have to worry about a government trying to solve the problem with a nuke. It's a pity that people just aren't paranoid enough to build them.

Originally Posted by Evilsbane

A warehouse would have less defensive properties than a castle, though. I'd rather have to occasionally make dangerous excursions to obtain food and have someplace safe in the meantime, than have lots of food but be easily reached at all times. How would you sleep? Plus, castles are built for sieges - a carload of food, properly rationed, would last a while until alternate arrangements could be made. Plus, castles are built to be lived in - properly done-up touristy ones would have beds and everything.

True, I just think water would be your biggest issue. Do you really think you could convince yourself- and your party- to trek out to find a load of bottled water when you could be drinking the perfectly *clean* water in, say, a nearby river? (which is, of course, not perfectly clean at all, especially when the earth is infested with a new species which rots while it's alive.)

Again, obviously a bomb shelter would be better - completely impenetrable, designed with a 'wait out the apocalypse' scenario in mind already, so would have lots of canned foods and weapons, AND you wouldn't have to worry about a government trying to solve the problem with a nuke. It's a pity that people just aren't paranoid enough to build them.

Yes... I suppose that is a pity...

The thread title amuses me. Exactly how much can we learn about zombies from two games that do not feature zombies?

Nonetheless, when the zombie apocalypse does inevitably break out, I'll be in the pub with Lord Zero.

Originally Posted by Adm Manhammer

The thread title amuses me. Exactly how much can we learn about zombies from two games that do not feature zombies?

They don't move like any zombies I've seen before.

I'd.... How do zombies tell the difference between a human and a fellow zombie anyway? If smell out their pray then I'd mask my scent. Perhaps like Arny did in Predator with the mud or maybe by making a suit out of dead zombie skins.

i think Amerika will be the first to fall in a Zombie outbreak LOL

Originally Posted by 8bit

True, I just think water would be your biggest issue. Do you really think you could convince yourself- and your party- to trek out to find a load of bottled water when you could be drinking the perfectly *clean* water in, say, a nearby river? (which is, of course, not perfectly clean at all, especially when the earth is infested with a new species which rots while it's alive.)

All the best castles are built on/beside rivers. Like I said, they were built for the purpose of outlasting the opponent during a siege. Just draw water from the nearby river, and use one of numerous methods to sterilise it. A warehouse, on the other hand, would likely only have access to water via plumbing, and during a zombie apocalypse nobody's going to be working in the water treatment plant.

My best bet, since how I'm already in Canada, would be to go to Alaska. Let's hope zombies wouldn't make it that far in the cold.

Originally Posted by Rumplestiltskin

I'd.... How do zombies tell the difference between a human and a fellow zombie anyway? If smell out their pray then I'd mask my scent. Perhaps like Arny did in Predator with the mud or maybe by making a suit out of dead zombie skins.

From what I understand, don't the infections pretty much get rid of everything but their natural killing instinct or whatever? I assume they're going after living flesh, so I guess they either smell them out or identify by sight? Warmth would be another thing, but unless they were super-sensitive to it that would probably involve the infected touching everything on the arm before killing it and in that time you could just smack it around the head with your gun.

Zombies has not Pain Resistance!!!
they can go where ever they want to.
Cold nor Heat can stop them.

Originally Posted by Panique

I wrote it a while ago and I know it's not funny. ;-; But it kinda goes with the topic.

I laughed. D=

Anyways, I don't think its taught me anything, other than to not play the games at any time past 7PM or else I won't fall asleep.

Oh, and its impossible for zombies to even be created or for it to happen, so I'm not worried.