thelastboss.com — Hideo Kojima has told a magazine recently that he wants to make an online Zombie game that makes you pay to NOT play your character. Instead, your character becomes a zombie, and you must make a new account and save them by hunting them down and killing them - without getting bit and becoming a zombie yourself. Pretty clever game idea.
Feb 16, 2007 View in Crawl 4
Closed AccountFeb 17, 2007
I'd write a lengthy response trying to justify my sad existence of paying for the same game month after month, but I have to go spend the next 2 hours in FFXI trying to find a party.
deadbabyFeb 17, 2007
Doubt he stole it.. probably just had the same idea.
uptownFeb 17, 2007
...so doesn't "your character" just become whoever you're controlling at the time?
emperorawesomeFeb 17, 2007
I'm just gonna assume that you can have unlimited, multiple characters on one account, and just play as one at a time in the case of one getting bitten. Primary incentive for hunting down your old character would be inventory reclamation. It would really make you regret wearing that bulletproof helmet.BUT if he means for people to pay for a new account each time they're bitten...ew. I hope that level of greed never comes to fruition. As it is, WoW subscription keeps me away.
Closed AccountFeb 17, 2007
What is he suggesting?We need to kill our undead self to free up used character slot?We need to kill our undead self to recover previously earned stats?We need to kill our undead self to be able to use the character name we chose previously?We need to kill our undead self to be able to reuse a payed account?None of those sound appealing at all. But the game as a general idea sounds awesome. If he just makes it so your character dies and you MUST restart with different stats and a new name than awesome but that one idea kinda sucks.
ziggityzagFeb 18, 2007
Was i the only one who laughed when i read this? I thought kojima was joking. "At that stage they become undead and can't control their character - all they can do is modify the camera angles... They'd see their character attacking humans and have to pay just to watch!"yeah, thats a good one kojima....
missingnoh4xOct 29, 2007
I'm hoping it'll be a Boktai spinoff. Surely I'm not the only person who loves that overlooked Kojima series?