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Subject: Post Apocalyptic? Why not During the Apocalypse?

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In the vast amounts of Post Apocalyptic games like Fallout, I Am Alive, Metro 2033, and even Spec Ops The Line why have we not really see a game take place while the event was happening? Imagine a game taking place during a global flood? Or the spread of deserts or even the rapid growth of the forests?

Well it does not really mean that there would be mass death. Imagine an open world game where you started off normal. But the more you play, the forest grows and grows across the world and consumes towns and every other thing in its path. Not really killing, but destruction.

Would you like to see that happen? I personally have not see one before, so that is what I am basing this on.

[Edited on 12.27.2012 6:58 PM PST]

  • 12.27.2012 6:42 PM PDT

Because most of the time the main character prevents it.

  • 12.27.2012 6:43 PM PDT
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That would be cool

  • 12.27.2012 6:43 PM PDT

They need to make a compelling game that shows how things are before the appocalypse, while -blam!-s happening, the aftermath, and how people rebuild. Almost like The Stand in a videogame.

  • 12.27.2012 6:44 PM PDT

That's a good idea for a fallout game where your 1st a human but after the nuke your a ghoul

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:)

Not really. They'd screw it up somehow.

  • 12.27.2012 6:44 PM PDT

OMGZZ!!!!!!

"It's Afghanistanimation!"


Posted by: Spilled Milk
Because most of the time the main character prevents it.
Well, then this would present a feeling of helplessness as everything around you is destroyed.

  • 12.27.2012 6:44 PM PDT

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Well the problem comes in how to make the person survive all that without making it very linear.

Plus you've got to create tons of NPCs and player models that look good but will never be seen again.

  • 12.27.2012 6:46 PM PDT

How are you supposed to implement it in gameplay though?
In Fallout and Metro 2033 its just nukes going off, what can you do with something as abrupt as that?

  • 12.27.2012 6:47 PM PDT

dat feeling when you plow a multi-ton covenant war machine.

I forget what the game was where you are running around a city while it's getting hit by an earthquake saving people, as well as yourself.


I think it might be a japanese game US port.

  • 12.27.2012 6:47 PM PDT

OMGZZ!!!!!!

"It's Afghanistanimation!"


Posted by: Arbiter 739
Well the problem comes in how to make the person survive all that without making it very linear.

Plus you've got to create tons of NPCs and player models that look good but will never be seen again.
Well it does not really mean that there would be mass death. Imagine an open world game where you started off normal. But the more you play, the forest grows and grows across the world and consumes towns and every other thing in its path. Not really killing, but destruction.

  • 12.27.2012 6:48 PM PDT

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What you have to understand about Post-apocalyptic settings is the idea that the human mind almost cannot contemplate what it would really be like. This sort of novelty of mindset is what makes it so interesting for us to wander around the DC ruins, or the irradiated Mojave waste.

I believe that a During-apocalypse could really do well, but there is a formula that to it that might be just too difficult to risk.


;)

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  • 12.27.2012 6:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achronos
Every post whining about the weekly update delays it by 5 minutes.

the apocalypse is something that is impossible for you to win.

In a post apoc situation you can help rebuild. In a apocalyptic situation all you can do is watch the world burn.

  • 12.27.2012 6:49 PM PDT


Posted by: the panzie man
I forget what the game was where you are running around a city while it's getting hit by an earthquake saving people, as well as yourself.


I think it might be a japanese game US port.


oh yeah i remember that game, i never had it myself but it was called S.O.S final escape, it looked really good and i wish i had it

  • 12.27.2012 6:50 PM PDT

OMGZZ!!!!!!

"It's Afghanistanimation!"


Posted by: King Leopold789
the apocalypse is something that is impossible for you to win.

In a post apoc situation you can help rebuild. In a apocalyptic situation all you can do is watch the world burn.
It would set up a really interesting story, and world to explore as it changes over time.

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Doesn't Darksiders take place during an apocalypse?

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Posted by: Mooondance
it was boring
You complain about everything getting boring sooner or later.

Left 4 Dead?

  • 12.27.2012 6:52 PM PDT

OMGZZ!!!!!!

"It's Afghanistanimation!"


Posted by: jew man man
Doesn't Darksiders take place during an apocalypse?
I think so.

  • 12.27.2012 6:54 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

I'd like to play combat scenarios which also involve struggles throughout a Flood, meteor shower and sandstorm.

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Posted by: the panzie man
I forget what the game was where you are running around a city while it's getting hit by an earthquake saving people, as well as yourself.


I think it might be a japanese game US port.

Crisis: Day of Disaster. Not enough hats for me.

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"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
-Albert Einstein

"To live is the rarest thing in the word. Most people exist, that is all"
-Oscar Wilde

Steam

I'd like to see an Apocalyptic RPG.

  • 12.27.2012 6:56 PM PDT

dat feeling when you plow a multi-ton covenant war machine.


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Posted by: the panzie man
I forget what the game was where you are running around a city while it's getting hit by an earthquake saving people, as well as yourself.


I think it might be a japanese game US port.

Crisis: Day of Disaster. Not enough hats for me.


yeah, that's it.

  • 12.27.2012 6:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: BanjoKazooie0
That's a good idea for a fallout game where your 1st a human but after the nuke your a ghoul
I like this.

  • 12.27.2012 6:57 PM PDT

I am the God Emprah of Mankind.

Deal with it.

Probably because you'd die, or it'd be about you hiding in a hole. Nukes and stuff aren't friendly.

  • 12.27.2012 6:57 PM PDT

OMGZZ!!!!!!

"It's Afghanistanimation!"


Posted by: CrazyT

Posted by: BanjoKazooie0
That's a good idea for a fallout game where your 1st a human but after the nuke your a ghoul
I like this.
Indeed. Until my arm falls off...

  • 12.27.2012 6:58 PM PDT

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