everyday i wake up and get to be so glad that steven yeun has been freed from the shackles of bad zombie show, like now he's doing so much cool acting in things that are actually good, we love to see it.

One-trick-pony zombies are fine for movies but fail when the format is a series

This is why the Walking Dead despite having a interesting cast of characters, just runs out of steam halfway through (both the show and the comic) the zombies are just fucking boring, there's only so much you can do with shambling automations that fall apart at a light breeze

This is why 'We're Alive' or something like Dying Light are superior in storytelling potential; the zombies are a constantly evolving threat, in 'We're Alive' every other chapter introduces a new form of zombie, each more bizarre than the last, forcing the character to constantly reevaluate their survival habits and adjust accordingly

It preserves the "figuring it out" aspect that makes the zombie genre so much fun in the first place, the mystery and horror doesn't fade into the background, it's alive and playing checkers or chess with the characters and constantly reintroducing the zombies in new forms

What, you don't like AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: The Book of Carol? I was really hoping they'd get another main character and have to tag them in the title as well.

(it's not great, though it's decent background noise, and not the worst stab at a Tour of European Cliches with Zombies - far more functional communities as well. Many episodes are basically just the cowboys coming into town and saving it from the evil sheriff)

The show was meh, but the games are fantastic and I'll hear no more on it

..Well aye, I'll admit some of the plotlines weren't the best. But they didn't nearly as heavily rely on "one comically evil guy" as the show. For the most part I felt the characters were decently fleshed out.

The mechanic I adored is one you rarely see in games - you were actually incentivised to try and understand characters' motivations because it helped you make effective decisions. Super fun.

I had frequent moments where a character didn't help, my immediate response was "Fuck you why", but then you actually realise they do have other aspects of their life, peer pressure or ideology or family or trauma, that factor in. And then a lot of decisions (though certainly not all) feel like they were pretty realistic ones. Or sometimes a big factor is just that they're awful at making decisions (looking at you Arvo).

A friend and I compared two very interestingly different experiences in the first game. I absolutely DESPISED Kenny, he was an asshole and an obstacle at every fucking juncture, basically borderline trying to kill me. Whereas my friend LOVED him, Kenny helped him in every situation, put his life on the line to help, etc. Turns out Kenny was just very loyalty/grudge-oriented - if he likes you, he's constantly on your side. If he doesn't, he'll go out of his way to be an ass. I definitely know real-life people like that.

don't you dare come at Lee and Clementine

I decided I like the first game when the little girl denied licking the salt lick. That was the only genuinely good moment in it in retrospect.

All the later games suck and the series absolutely sucks too, though the first season is okay. The exact moment it becomes unsalvageable garbage is when they spend a whole episode trying to lift a water-logged zombie out of a well to then somehow still use that well.

Human history is littered with comically evil tyrants who nobody takes out. that's sadly the most believable part.

The show about a dickhead cop who goes to various places and makes them worse

I always hated it

The show could've been interesting but AMC ratfucked Frank Darabont, so unfortunately we aren't getting anything interesting, but we also aren't going to make the comics 'cause robert kirkman's stuff needs a lot of work to remove all the slurs and incel garbage, so let's just make the same 3 episodes of TV for a decade instead

Kuuuuurrrrrrlllllllllll!!!

Yeah, zombie movies and media always have this inability to imagine people working together to protect themselves beyond very tiny groups, because I guess a story about people working together and rebuilding society would be "boring" or something.

I'm a bit of a sucker for the classic zombie fiction setup (in spite of how problematic It is) but there has at least been better indie Zombie fiction in recent years since the Walking Dead hype started to pass.

It hit a lot of the usual beats, but I liked Blood Quantum a few years ago and it has a different social dynamic setup which is interesting.

Similarly, but with a different vibe, I liked The Girl With All The Gifts. The Japanese movie One Cut Of The Dead is a fun twist. But you're probably best going into those two without knowing too much about them.

Couldn't make it through the first season. No idea why this show got so big.

I like the Telltale games and the comics Also I liked that the Main Walking Dead Telltale games all featured main PoC chars which was honestly kinda rare back when they launched.

I like the first season but it was rapidly downhill from there. It helps that it focused on a larger community I think

The first episode was good

The only zombie movie I really really like is Day of the Dead. That movie slaps. Zombies are boring af and I was over the trend by a few years when walking dead came around, it felt dated to me then, zombies are mid 2000s.

Martin is the best Romero movie and its not even close

dead rising is peak zombie vidya (I've covered wars, you know)

I liked the comics, much prefer the storyline over the show