Guest Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 I think there's certainly room in PZ for humor, but I'm not sure referencing outside sources is the way to do it. The penultimate struggle of horror games, and survival horror in particular is to never break immersion. By calling humor from other games, movies, etc. you remind the player that they are indeed playing a game, which directly detracts from immersion.I'm not saying it couldn't be clever or funny , but I don't think this game is the right game for that flavor of humor.I agree. Such things could work in a "story" (e.g. Till Death Do Us Part), either official or a user-created one, just fine, but I don't think they'd work well with the tone of the default "sandbox" game of grim survival. A bunch of dated internet jokes would kill that for me. A selectable "story" where the goal is to go out into the woods and find a guy dressed as Slenderman because he thinks it might scare the zombies away? Or one where you find an old bearded survivor in a cabin, insane with grief because he had to kill and eat the young girl he'd been travelling with to not starve? Or one featuring an NPC you encounter who's too busy photographing zombies in their underwear to notice them surrounding them ("Fantastic!")? That would be a lot of fun for a change and pretty damn funny. But having those things crop up in the basic, sandbox game at random would ruin the mood for me. Of course, it could be done like New Vegas' Wild Wasteland, which solved the dilemma I had with liking Fallout 2's crazy stuff yet wishing it didn't kill the game's atmosphere so badly! You.... you derailed the thread right back into it's original trajectory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Kill it! KILL IT WITH FIRE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Now you know how Enigma feels on Skype with me.Please, my only failing is spelling.Oh, and those two words you've used that i haven't heard or read in several decades. I forgot about those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Now you know how Enigma feels on Skype with me.Please, my only failing is spelling.Oh, and those two words you've used that i haven't heard or read in several decades. I forgot about those. My curiosity grows stronger and stronger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasKo Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Now you know how Enigma feels on Skype with me.Please, my only failing is spelling.Oh, and those two words you've used that i haven't heard or read in several decades. I forgot about those. My curiosity grows stronger and stronger...It was "sexual intercourse" booner352 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Now you know how Enigma feels on Skype with me.Please, my only failing is spelling.Oh, and those two words you've used that i haven't heard or read in several decades. I forgot about those. My curiosity grows stronger and stronger...It was "sexual intercourse" hahaha Would you like some Aloe, EG? Because you just got burned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Oh God, fell off the chair laughing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Burned?But it's the truth!I cannot be burned by the truth, Datkid. nasKo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Bazinga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Bazinga.My thoughts exactly, Zazzles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomiboi Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Yesterday I still wondered how your post counts can be so enormous. I wonder no more. tomga1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Yesterday I still wondered how your post counts can be so enormous. I wonder no more.Stiff competition with Rathlord.Now I'm just trying to establish a neutral zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VamyreLord Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Now I know for a fact that posting in forums actually makes you smarter. This thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Dawww he passed me and I didn't even notice. Oh well, quality > quantity as I always say. That and being sick has really kicked my ass lately XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 Dawww he passed me and I didn't even notice. Oh well, quality > quantity as I always say. That and being sick has really kicked my ass lately XDConsidering how great a post count being sick caused, I don't mind it kicking your ass a little now.But still, get well soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 No, no. My post count was huge before sick. Now I'm barely posting because I spend most of my time trying to stick my lungs back into my body via my throat after I cough them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 No, no. My post count was huge before sick. Now I'm barely posting because I spend most of my time trying to stick my lungs back into my body via my throat after I cough them out.I recommend several doctors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomga1 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Easter eggs are a great idea.Just a normal comment passing through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomiboi Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Now I'm barely postingI can see that. Easter eggs are a great idea.Just a normal comment passing through.Agreed. But I think more input should be made towards the general humorous side of PZ if you had to choose between those two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 There was a time when he had over 7000 posts. That time has long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomga1 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 There was a time when he had over 7000 posts. That time has long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaGrey Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I've always liked easter eggs, like those in Fallout 1: A gigantic footprint references Godzilla, yet fits in with the game about post-nuclear creatures, just fine.A random whale is washed upon the shore, with a pot of flowers shattered beside it (HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy);Grey aliens crashed in an unknown craft out near the Glow -- turns out to be an early viral experiment gone wrong (all alien conspiracies).Even Indiana Jones trapped in a fridge in Fallout: New Vegas is a good one.All fit too well into the game to be noticed at first.That's the key. It has to be referential humor that fits within Project Zomboid, rather than stands out above it. LeoIvanov, Banjo, VamyreLord and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banjo Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I've always liked easter eggs, like those in Fallout 1: A gigantic footprint references Godzilla, yet fits in with the game about post-nuclear creatures, just fine.A random whale is washed upon the shore, with a pot of flowers shattered beside it (HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy);Grey aliens crashed in an unknown craft out near the Glow -- turns out to be an early viral experiment gone wrong (all alien conspiracies).Even Indiana Jones trapped in a fridge in Fallout: New Vegas is a good one.All fit too well into the game to be noticed at first.That's the key. It has to be referential humor that fits within Project Zomboid, rather than stands out above it.What's interesting with those you mention is that they're all optional random encounters (like the Star Trek shuttlecraft crash or Monty Python ones, too). While I spotted almost every one of them as a fun joke rather than a part of the game, they didn't detract for me. Of course, Fallout was more "darkly humourous" than PZ, so that made the fit easier. But if PZ had little optional things like that tucked in faraway corners (say, an isolated cabin with a Necronomicon book item on a desk), that would be equally fun to find and certainly wouldn't spoil the game, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomga1 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 "Anon, died of dysentery" written on a gravestone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoIvanov Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 I've always liked easter eggs, like those in Fallout 1: A gigantic footprint references Godzilla, yet fits in with the game about post-nuclear creatures, just fine.A random whale is washed upon the shore, with a pot of flowers shattered beside it (HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy);Grey aliens crashed in an unknown craft out near the Glow -- turns out to be an early viral experiment gone wrong (all alien conspiracies).Even Indiana Jones trapped in a fridge in Fallout: New Vegas is a good one.All fit too well into the game to be noticed at first.That's the key. It has to be referential humor that fits within Project Zomboid, rather than stands out above it. Someone give this man a medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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