State of Decay
 

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This looks great! Can't believe it's going to be an XBL title.

Comes out 1st Quarter 2013.

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Wow!

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That's just a stepping stone to Undead Labs "Class 4" which will be I think Xbox's first real MMO.

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Looks good. Looking forward to reviews.

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Word is that you can recruit any NPC (non-playable characters) and that they all have different capabilities.

This game is probably only going to cost around 15 bucks too.

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that looks pretty damn solid.

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Looks great. Im in!

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Thanks for posting...

I hate to say it but it looks better than LFD. The extra moves by the player caught my attention. Almost like Wrestling meets Zombies. Just hope it hits in the early part and not the later of 1stQ....Bioshock infinite, Gears of War, Aliens; Colonial Marines along with Borderlands DLC

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I've been waiting for this one for a while now. I was a huge fan of the Day Z mod on PC before it was ruined, and this looks to expand beautifully on that concept in a single player world without assholes to ruin it for you. I'm just hoping it is hard and realistic, like Day Z was. If you haven't played one of these 'zombie apocalypse survival simulations' yet, you're in for a treat. The concept is so much fun, and this game looks like it will have tons to do.

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Awesome trailer. Hope the game lives up to it.

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What happened to Day Z? I never got around to playing it.

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I was all set to say, "Oh good, another zombie game. Pass." But fuck me if that doesn't look great.

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Did I watch the same video as you guys? Looks like a bad PS2 game...

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Oh look, it's "the graphics aren't impressive" guy :rolleyes:

Guessed you missed the part where I mentioned it's an XBL title

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OMG! Zombies that run!

;)

The game looks great.

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It's still around, just ruined in the sense that it's not really fun without a huge time investment due to poor development decisions (IMO). The game is overrun by griefers - no one wants to team up in game and everyone shoots each other on sight. And there were issues with hacking, serious issues, but I don't know if that's still a problem.

I'm just hoping State of Decay builds a good, actual game around the concept, which is what Day Z lacks in a ridiculous attempt to make it more sim (even though the engine is so marginal for this type of game it lacks support even for melee weapons).

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is that Taco from The League at the very end, walking towards the camera?

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New trailer

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Best Xbox Live Title ever?

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It's looking good for sure. Still hoping for more of an RPG open world experience and less story driven. More Fallout than GTAIV.

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I'm really surprised at the lack of interest in this game. Perhaps I should have put OPEN WORLD ZOMBIE GAME in the title?

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I'm waiting on reviews.

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What can we say beyond that it looks great or interesting or weird or bad? As others have said, I'll wait for the reviews.

That said, I hate sneaking around in games, so that's a downside for me :)

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"Open World" is a huge turn off for me, but if they manage to let you play through a story intensive version or wander off on your own it'd be cool, a lot to ask but yeah.

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You sure about that? GTA, Fallout, Borderlands, etc are open world/sandbox games and their threads get tons of replies. Sure, those are established franchises but you'd think gamers would be aware of this.

By the way, IGN spent 4 hours with the game and posted their thoughts:

4 Hours with State of Decay

Here is the conclusion of the article:
"As my gameplay time was drawing to a close, I was just beginning to be advised about building out areas of the church in order to make our little survivor colony stronger. Though I didn’t get a chance to do this, the developers at Undead Labs hinted at all sorts of things to build, such as an infirmary, a workshop, a kitchen, and even a garden!

If my four hours are any indication, State of Decay is amazingly deep, especially for an Xbox Live Arcade game. The fact I honestly didn’t want to stop playing when my time was up only reinforced this notion. I did run into a few graphical glitches, where zombies would run through walls, and I could see through some of the other characters if I had the camera at the right angle, but the depth of the experience makes those little issues pretty forgivable. At this point, I’m very optimistic about State of Decay’s massive ambition and scope. If this isn’t headlining the annual Summer of Arcade promotion, then Microsoft is doing something wrong."

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The "for me" is pretty important there, I just find the whole concept of running around a giant virtual world doing very little to be boring. But yes they are very popular, but it's a new IP, it has a generic title, and the thread just has a title in it, it doesn't say "Zombie Action Sandbox" or anything.

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... or XBLA. I think there might have been more interest if it were discussed in our XBLA games thread. It does look cool, and might be a good choice for the final Summer of the Arcade.
Then again, Deadlight was another zombie game that looked amazing in trailers (and got its own thread here as well), but the final game was certainly not so hot.

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IGN has been posting 15 minute gameplay videos with commentary. I think it looks fantastic, can't believe this is an arcade title.

I don't think an official release date has been announced yet (this month though), and IGN is posting their review on Wed.

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Major Nelson tweeted that this comes out Wednesday for 1600 points. I'll wait for IGN's review, but from what i've seen, this should be a instant purchase for me.

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This will be a nice appetizer for The Last of Us.

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Game looks very nice. Watching the recent video on IGN a few minutes ago gave me a chuckle when a zombie climbed up and over a fence with barbed wire and wiggled through the barbed wire.

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A mostly favorable review of it: http://www.oxmonline.com/state-decay-review

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8.9 from IGN. Will download later today.

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I bought it earlier. Hope it is finished downloading, as I want to get rolling here with it shortly.

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Looking forward to your guys' thoughts before I purchase this. It looks intriguing but the IGN video made it look boring as hell (the three minutes or so I watched).

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It starts out slow as shit, that's for sure. About an hour or so in. Just wandering around collecting shit. Finally got to a point where I've got other survivors.

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About 3.5 hours in, so far, so good. It seems very much like a crossover of Left 4 Dead and Dead Island. I like that you can swap between survivors, but that poses problems because if you don't really consistently swap, the characters don't build up their skills as quickly. I'm at a point where I now have 11 survivors.

Some of the features are cool. Upgrading your camp is cool because you can decide what to do with it. There's a neat radio feature where it finds you supplies and you can go out and collect. Furthermore, when you do find a cache of food/weapons/supplies/whatever, you can call someone in to come pick it up, so you don't have to lug it back. Kind of neat. You can also make improvised outposts that are fortified to help you out.

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So worth the $20?

I just bought it, waiting for it to download.

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Hard to say if it is worth $20 since I'm so early in it.

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But you like it so far? Seems to be a good bet it'll be worth it.

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Yes, I'm enjoying it. Some new features. The graphics aren't anything special, but I wasn't expecting them to be since this is a live title.