State of Decay

[Gazz]

Anyone else picked this up on XBLA?

Only 1600pts and it's been getting rave reviews.

Seems to be a completely sandbox zombie survival game.

I've had a little play around on it, set up camp in a Ranger station, barricaded the windows and been scouting for supplies and picked up a new recruit. Seen an industrial unit and a pickup truck that I'm going to investigate later.

[TKz]

Having to wait for the PC port. How's the combat? Looks a little buggy, but like in a kind of endearing way if that makes any sense. >_>

[Summers]

Downloading the trial now after chatting to Gazz about it. Does sound pretty awesome.

[LL!]

I'll probably check it out tonight. Sounds fun.

[Dan]

I bought it, haven't played it too much. It's pretty much what I expected, very ambitious but buggy. The zombies are a bit rubbish right now (near the start) and the characters are boring as shit.

Good for what it is though.

[King Ellis]

Having to wait for the PC port. How's the combat? Looks a little buggy, but like in a kind of endearing way if that makes any sense. >_>

I found it hilarious just to not use any weapon because that's the kind of mindset I use, you know, that whole 'I could nuke this fucker but there might be a bigger fucker around the next corner!' thing. Then you can just kick zombies in the gut till they fall over and then smash their head on the floor.

It does seem interesting though, the whole sort of building a base, maintaining supplies etc in a zombie game I wanted them to put into Dead Rising 2. Sort of stuff you see in online flash games really but in an action game. That kinda sounds shitty when I put it that way.

I prob wont pick up till it's on sale, unless they patch in a really good co-op mode.

[Maxx]

I'll probably pick it up tonight, might give it a trial run first though.

[Gazz]

Combat is sort of clunky, but I assumed that's because I'm using a tree branch :/

[Your Mom]

Going to try the trial tonight. Seems like something I will really like though

[thatshortguy]

Everything I've read makes me think that this is the XBox's answer to ZombiiU. Am I far off with that?

[Dan]

Yes. I found ZombiU creepy. State of Decay not so much.

[Gazz]

Well, I've been lead to believe death is permanent. You can swap characters through conversation options and I'm guessing, once a character dies, you just warp to another.

[Summers]

This game with coop would be amazing.

[Dan]

At the start I tried to leave the guy who follows me around to die, the zombies where at him for a good few minutes but he didn't die which annoyed me.

[Cactus Drags]

I didn't mind the bugginess until a bug got me killed and with deaths being permanent, I'm pretty annoyed. Especially since that was my most levelled character. Not sure whether to plow on or start again.

Also barricading the windows is fucking pointless when you can't do anything to protect from them opening the front door. Also you can't shoot them, so you have to go out there to clear them any way.

[Lj.]

Game is fun so far. It's basically everything I've wanted in a zombie game, just needs to be refined is all. More character depth is never a bad thing either. I believe this is the studio's first run at a game, iirc. I've also been reading & hearing that if SOD does well, a MMO style zombie game entiitled, Class4, will be the studio's next project.

[TKz]

Ugh, I'd much rather they polish what looks like a good game and add co-op rather than try another MMO. From my experience, the worst parts of those MMO Zombie games are all the random dicks you have to play with. >_>

[Your Mom]

I played the trial. Way fun. Going to have to get some points and buy it. Do you always start as the same character? I was wondering if since you can switch that was random or not.

[Gazz]

I started as a guy called Marshall. I believe there are certain story character who are always present with other, lesser characters being randomly generated.

Co-op has been confirmed for a future update by the Undead Labs Twitter.

[Your Mom]

I was Marcus Campbell. A cool black fellow who enjoyed hiking and fishing with his buddy Ed