Weasel | 01 Sep 2014 8:52 p.m. PST |
Are post-apocalypse gamers generally interested in the zombies/mutants resident evil/fallout style of gaming, or are there any interest in more mundane post-collapse games (militias and warbands but without extra arms) ? Cheers |
skippy0001 | 01 Sep 2014 9:52 p.m. PST |
I'm just tired of zombies. |
Lupulus | 01 Sep 2014 10:48 p.m. PST |
I'm just tired of zombies. Quoted for truth. The same goes for zombie hordes in disguise, mindless mutant hordes for example. Other than that, I could see myself happily gaming all kinds of settings, from mutant rabbits waging wars against the hated meat-eaters to something more akin to Jeremiah or Day of the Triffids. "Something big happened, most people died but you survived. Go!" |
kreoseus2 | 01 Sep 2014 11:04 p.m. PST |
Book of Eli is a good setting for a post apoc game |
Grimmnar | 01 Sep 2014 11:17 p.m. PST |
Book of Eli just had living zombies in it though. That would be zombies in disguise. :-) But yes, i like the setting. And i aint tired of zombies yet. But to me, from the OP, "zombies/mutant resident evil/fallout" are all different genres for me. I can see some crossover but still different. I could play in all three categories in separate games or have all three in a game or any combo. Grimm |
kidbananas | 01 Sep 2014 11:52 p.m. PST |
Zombies & mutants are ok if done properly. But otherwise I'm way passed sick of them. |
etotheipi | 02 Sep 2014 2:59 a.m. PST |
I've run a few zombie scenarios, but don't really play zed postapoc games. If the Cursed Earth counts as mutants post apoc gaming (I don't thing so … they are a contained, if dangerous population), the I do postapoc mutants. Generally, I just play post collapse postapoc games; have done so for decades before Fallout/Resident Evil. |
Tame Thy Swans | 02 Sep 2014 3:08 a.m. PST |
fox news is good for ideas laughing |
Char B1 bis | 02 Sep 2014 3:53 a.m. PST |
I just developed a Post Apoc game for myself. Lots of shanties and Quonset huts. Lot of military fortifications. No zombies. No mutants. About 10-20 figs a side, 28mm. Figs are Reaper, West Wind, mostly. Cars are Jada and loaded with weapons. Rules, After the Horsemen by Two Hour Wargames, and 2085 Warlords of the Wasteland, free download. I've spent a pretty penny on this and am hoping I can make a good game of it. link |
morrigan | 02 Sep 2014 4:17 a.m. PST |
I have no interest in zombies. |
haywire | 02 Sep 2014 5:08 a.m. PST |
"Book of Eli just had living zombies in it though." Uuuhh… maybe I am confused or saw a different movie. How so? I am pretty sure most everyone had guns. |
ordinarybass | 02 Sep 2014 5:20 a.m. PST |
Been thinking about this myself in terms of scenery and have decided that for my current crop of sci-fi and post-apoc terrain I'm going to build more of an "abandoned" city, rather than a "ruined" city. The look appeals to me more than the destroyed look that seems so popular. As for the general setting, I always lean towards mad-max gonzo gaming. Some mutants perhaps, (we have some nice 2 headed cattle), but mostly interesting human factions. When it comes to zombies, in general I save them for our annual Halloween zombie extravaganza game and leave them alone the rest of the year. link |
Ed the Two Hour Wargames guy | 02 Sep 2014 7:12 a.m. PST |
Once you add zombies – it's a zombie game. |
DyeHard | 02 Sep 2014 8:21 a.m. PST |
There was this TV show "Jeremiah" which was Post Apoc via an illness killing all the people past puberty. The show was OK, but I really like the premiss. link imdb.com/title/tt0290966 Sort of "Mad Max:, sort of "Lord of the Flies". |
DyeHard | 02 Sep 2014 8:24 a.m. PST |
Oh, and of course that not very well liked movie "The Postman". imdb.com/title/tt0119925 Had a similar thing going. Ecological disruption leads to political and social collapse. |
ordinarybass | 02 Sep 2014 9:00 a.m. PST |
DyeHard, You might like the book "The girl who owned a city", a post apoc book from the 70's about a disease that kills off the adults. It's a bit more YA, but well regarded. I read it in school and still remember it fondly. Apparently it was recently turned into a graphic novel. |
rebmarine | 02 Sep 2014 11:06 a.m. PST |
Try the video game "Borderlands". While its not exactly post apocalypse, it has that feel. |
James Wright | 02 Sep 2014 12:10 p.m. PST |
I love hard "real" post collapse post apoc stuff. Things that could really happen is what draws my imagination, not far fetched things like alien invasion or zombies. Through a petroleum terminus, along with a good plague and ensuing economic collapse, I am all in. |
mattblackgod | 02 Sep 2014 12:38 p.m. PST |
You may want to check out the Toxic World novels by Sean McLachlan. The only nasties are the people and solvent abusers. |
Fish | 02 Sep 2014 12:46 p.m. PST |
Jeremiah was originally a comics book series by Hermann Huppen link link (I believe that the 1st Dark Horse omnibus sold out within a week after the release) |
wminsing | 02 Sep 2014 2:08 p.m. PST |
I think a 'hard' post-apoc scenario has plenty of appeal. No zombies or mutants, just man against man. -Will |
DyeHard | 02 Sep 2014 2:53 p.m. PST |
Another good (not too fantastical) post apocalypses is "Soylent Green" imdb.com/title/tt0070723 Not a depopulated world, but an over populated one. It has been a while since I have seen it, but I do not think there was anything more high tech than a video game in it. No aliens, mutants, zombies or cyborgs. The Jeremiah Comics sound good. I will have to look for them. |
DyeHard | 02 Sep 2014 3:00 p.m. PST |
Which reminds me of yet another. "The Blood of Heroes" or "The Salute of the Jugger" link Again; No aliens, mutants, zombies or cyborgs. A Hive City, but it is the far future after an ecological collapse. |
Grimmnar | 02 Sep 2014 7:09 p.m. PST |
Haywire. The old couple in the house, out in the middle of nowhere. :-) Grimm |
Weasel | 02 Sep 2014 9:28 p.m. PST |
Glad to hear some support for "hard apocalypse" gaming. Not that I am planning something… |
Coelacanth1938 | 02 Sep 2014 9:30 p.m. PST |
I basically lean towards the overall Earth changing not for the better of the survivors: Damnation Alley weather, zombies, apex predators released from the zoos, weird cults, and the occasional Mad Max or Daryl. |
Dentatus | 03 Sep 2014 5:02 a.m. PST |
Dead tired of zombies here too. I like my post-apocalypse STALKER-style. |
Kropotkin303 | 03 Sep 2014 3:21 p.m. PST |
+ 1 for STALKER here. You don't know what comes next. Militia. Mutants. Extra-terrestrials. Other dimensions. Guess that ties in with Halflife. Yes there could be zombies, but just as likely lobster-heads. |
krieghund | 03 Sep 2014 11:35 p.m. PST |
Always fancied using James Herberts "48" as a Setting. I'd probably do small scale skirmishes using 20mm figures, though I doubt the project will ever get off the drawing board. |
Scorpio | 04 Sep 2014 6:10 a.m. PST |
For me, the biggest initial question is how long has it been since the fall of civilization? If things just broke down, then it's closer to a moderns game, with plentiful loot and options, and pretty normal-ish terrain. If it's been a while since everything broken down, like a generation or so, you get Mad Max, mutants, and other craziness. If it's been a looong while, you get Thundarr the Barbarian, and really you're edging closer to a fantasy setting with a apocalytpic background. |
infojunky | 04 Sep 2014 3:07 p.m. PST |
I tend land somewhere between Fallout and Borderlands, With more cars…. Or heck I am writing a Post Apocalypse with Landspeeders blasters and the like heavily based off of Car wars and Dark Futures and other Automotive types of games. Also throw in a healthy dose of Necromunda and GorkaMorka. I mean how do you get the Fine Pulpy Taste of the Post Apocalypse without Orks/Supermutants…. Like the rest of y'all Zombies are fun as a one off occasionally, but Please, enough is enough… |
War Monkey | 04 Sep 2014 6:51 p.m. PST |
I like a PA world with some idea of a real type of fall of cvilization, plague, nuclear war, economy collapse, cyber war that shuts down the electrical power world wide and sometime just for fun even if it's not real world zombies. |