Project Zomboid Is A Masterpiece

so if you were to one day walk up to your friend and ask them what the best zombie game is out there they'll probably have some answers that are already widely loved maybe they'll say left 4 dead 1 or 2 due to the horde based co-op survival against a bunch of special zombies maybe they'll say dying light due to them being able to run and jump circles around the normal zombies while also having to actually struggle and maneuver against the tougher enemies or maybe they'll say back for blood as no no nobody would ever say that back from blood is the best zombie game get the [ __ ] out of here but an answer that is pretty rare to hear as it hasn't had nearly the amount of widespread popularity as the previous games however isn't far from the truth as it being one of the best zombie games would be project zomboid project zomboid is an isometric open world survival horror game created by the very small development team known as the indie stone and even though the indie stone first consisted of only four people upon the game's creation in november of 2013 and even though that this game was their first and still only ever release zomboid would become a massive success over the years with it being critically acclaimed on steam while also having an exponentially growing community consisting of both devoted modders and adoring fans and content creators the indie stone completely knocked it out of the park with projects zomboid even with the odds stacked up against them as it's kind of known around the gaming sphere that his small development team with a pretty hyped game behind it can lead to a bad turn of defense this is directly calling you out wolfram von funk how the hell did you have a game like q world in the bag but then suddenly you let go of it all and [ __ ] every single fan over with your goddamn decision everything about this game is near perfect or just perfect in general to me how detailed the game is when it comes to trying to survive the day-to-day life is so complex yet so intriguing how the zombies act when you're attacking them or just trying to get away with them is always so stressful but leaves you wanting more hell the community took this game and modded the hell out of it to make it even more fun than it already is which just makes the entire game just so [ __ ] enjoyable all by itself and even though this game has a very abnormal look to it hell i've even had friends tell me that they're not interested in project zomboids solely because of how the graphics resemble that of a windows 98 game zomboid perfectly mocks those type of people by having so much depth behind the game and that's why i wanted to make this video to show the people who are interested in the game but are skeptical to play it the project zomboid is a massive gem in the survival horror genre due to how much dedication and passion was placed into this game so with that being said i want you all to sit back relax and watch as countless amount of zombies tear off your flesh because you thought you could stealthily pick up a fire axe to defend yourself enjoy the first thing i would like to talk about in project zomboid is the how to actually approach the game because it's not like most zombie games in the sense that there's a coherent story or that there's characters or villains that have death behind them because it's actually the complete opposite the only lure behind this game is that you're just another civilian who used to live a nice life in knox county kentucky but now has to prolong the inevitable death of being attacked by zombies in fact the first things that you see before playing the game is a massively varied character customization which i'll talk about a little bit later in this video and then a message telling you that this is the end and that you will die which i [ __ ] love the game already knows that no matter how experienced you are or what character customization that you chose you will have a slip out but that will cause you to die and start all over it gives a sense of impending doom that gets placed onto the character and shifts the goal from trying to survive in the zombie apocalypse into trying to see how long you can survive until you die this simple message that project zomboid implements makes sures that the player knows what they are in for with this playthrough while also giving them a level of uncertainty with their survival it's very in your face and it works so well now going into the game your goal is still just to survive but there are so many different ways to do so if you want to you can lay off the land in the farming areas or even just off the grid to try and farm for yourself and hunt while encountering only but a few zombies that wandered onto your property or you can enter the more urban areas in the four spawnable towns known as rosewood west point maldraw or riverside to find some better loot but you will face the threat of encountering a lot more zombies that can break down your home at any moment if you're not careful enough and if you want to go really all out you can head over to the city of louisville to find the best loot but you will encounter hordes on top of hordes of zombies making it near impossible to live off of unless you found a good start with a good footing and this good footing not can but always will never be the same with the amount of replay value added into this game going back into the character creation you can be every average joe schmo that you want you can select through a whole list of careers that affect the way that you go into the game like a lumberjack has a lot of strength meaning it's a good option if you want to scavenge and take on the zombies yourself or you can be a burglar which is really good to sneak into houses or hot wire cars without the key needed an electrician can be basically vital once the power and water gets shut off after two weeks into the game as you will be able to use generators to give power to your shelter or if you want to go all out you can be just like an average tired cast viewer and be unemployed with no special abilities whatsoever i'm sorry i had to i love you all on top of the career path you can select a whole bunch of different attributes that also greatly affect your character and the selection is pretty genius you have a whole list of positive and negative attributes that have different points alongside them a tame positive trait like a fast driver will make you lose one point but being something like a chain smoker will give you four and the whole goal of this selection is to maximize the amount of positive attributes you have while also having greater than or equal to zero of the remaining points so if you really want to you can be a deaf fry cook that has really good aiming i don't know why you wouldn't want to be that but you could have fun with it as much as you want this just makes you want to come back to the game more and more as there are just a near infinite amount of outcomes to occur while playing the game with just the character selection by itself but now that i've discussed how one will enter and replay the game i should talk about the dangers of project zomboid as it can be more than just the zombies for one you have to deal with the dangers of the outside world you can have different statuses that can positively help you like being full gives you an increased regeneration rate but most of the time these statuses are likely gonna hurt you like a bullet being lodged in your stomach will give you immense amount of pain your different effects like hunger thirst sleep deprivation and other effects can add up and when they do you'll be really [ __ ] like even just getting a scratch on your hand will lower your swing speed and damage by so much that only three zombies could easily take you on and kill you in the matter of seconds you always have to keep an eye out on your character whether that be looking at your temperature checking your health or just eating and drinking in general and of course if you don't you'll become utterly useless and will curl up and die within the day however if you are able to do the easy task of just [ __ ] living you now have to deal with the dangers of the dead and i gotta be honest and say that these zombies are the best [ __ ] zombies that i've ever seen in a game at face value they're just slow and stupid just like the zombies you would see in the shows like the walking dead or something like that however the dangers of these zombies come into play when there's either too many of them or when you yourself becomes overconfident and both of these happen way more often than you would think these zombies and project zomboid are sort of a constant in this game with the default selection they all have the same shambling speed that can be out walked they'll have a somewhat decent memory that'll make them follow you for a couple blocks and when you're behind some walls or doors they'll find the most effective way to get in whether it be breaking down those walls or going into a different path and so when you're facing just one of these zombies you'll basically do fine even if you're new to the game you're gonna be completely alright hit them in the head with a lead pipe or if you don't have a weapon at all just push them down to the ground and stomp their head in and now you're facing no danger for the moment but when there's even just 10 of these zombies coming at you you have to maneuver through buildings to try and escape them or try to pick them off one by one but that's not really a good idea especially since if you are in an urban area where there are a good amount of zombies they will notice the commotion going on and soon will be attracted by you making those 10 zombies into 20 and then 30 and then if you're so unlucky it could go up into the hundreds but what if you have a gun now and your aiming level is high enough to actually connect the shots with the dead what if you have police armor now that prevents bites or scratches or even what if you have a car that just runs are you safe then no not at all this is where the overconfidence comes in the game wants you to believe that you can finally take on a horde of zombies once you have attained pretty good loot but most of the time you'll be sorely mistaken this one time me and my friend decided to go over to rosewood to loot the police station for guns and gears to take over the nearby prison but when we arrived guns of blazing we were shocked to find out an overwhelming amount of zombies there that killed us like we were [ __ ] nothing and that's just one way that overconfidence can be your own downfall another more common way is when you're looting in a house and you don't notice that a zombie in another room is also in the house slowly breaking down the door if you are not careful enough you can open the door only for a loud violin jump scare sound bit to happen and the zombie in the room is already biting off your face just because your dumb ass didn't pay enough attention to the banging on the door also by the way that's the only time a jump scare happens in the game you will never experience a scripted jump scare while playing project zomboid but rather it'll occur due to your actions which will always scare you because you will be left off your guard when it happens it's just a way to keep you on your toes and to make sure that you are aware your surroundings cause like i said just a million [ __ ] times already in this video if you are not perceptive enough and you are just playing the game carelessly you will be doomed like this game really doesn't need a zombie that'll blow up when you get near them or will spit at you when he can't reach you or even just a zombie that runs at you this game wants to create a mental image of you being on top of the zombie apocalypse cause it knows you will never be and i just love it about the game not to mention if you want more of a challenge to the zombies there's a whole variety of options that you can choose before launching your server or solo game these options can affect the settings and when the apocalypse first took place when the power gets disabled and what i think is the coolest how the zombies act you can tamper with the in-game settings to make the zombies transfer the virus even if they just scratch you and not bite you you can make more of them come out at night time compared to the daytime hell if you want to you can make all the zombie sprinters but i really don't recommend it as you just won't survive like i am telling you this right now you will not make it past week one with the sprinter zombies coming at you now the final danger that you can encounter while playing project zomboid you can probably already expect it's just other people actually just like how you played any zombie apocalypse games you do know the dangers of other people and how deceitful they can be just so they can survive it's not a new type of feature at all but that doesn't mean it isn't a good feature to include multiplayer in a zombie based game i think that's just even adding a couple friends into your private server which by the way you can heavily mod with the steam workshop makes the game so much more fun and unpredictable when compared to playing single player or having you just being by yourself like a lonely little [ __ ] baby loser now the last thing i want to briefly touch up upon is how detailed the game really is cause for some reason dude this game went all out when it comes to just even adding the little details that can determine if you survive to see another day or will die a painful death i'm gonna go down a list of a few details that i think are pretty neat and would have never guessed would be a thing in this game you guys ready for this lightning round alright let's go you need to sleep every day and if you don't have a bed you can sleep on chairs or cars but it will give you neck pain when you wake up there's a small chance that a nightmare can wake you up in your sleep which actually increases the more panic and depressed that you are don't mix antidepressant or sleeping pills with alcohol just just don't do that i having different watches on determines if you can check the weather or the date you can have a nutritionist trait that allows you to see the valleys of food but if you don't have it you can only see the values on packaged food you can yell at zombies with the q button but when you're crouched you whisper attracting less zombies towards you helicopters spawn at random times to follow you and track what you're doing if they spot you they will follow you causing hordes to come at you combining cigarettes with water creates insecticides for farming stomping on zombies without a boot or a shoe will cause pain to your foot and can sometimes make it bleed and last but surely not least you can create dead mice on a stick for food what more could you ask for in a game all in all this game is an amazing zombie survival horror game i would even go to the extent and say that project zomboid is better than games like dayz because unlike dayz the developers of this game are still putting their everything into this game almost a decade after the launch they still put out regular updates may they be bug fixes or additions to the base game and as of recording this video the indie stone is still planning on releasing build 41 which will change up the entire game as you know it they're planning on adding friendly and hostile npcs which to me would alter the game entirely and add a new level immersion to the zombie survival game but as of right now and before this major update this game is still really [ __ ] good and i highly recommend that you play it i have almost 200 hours onto the game already and i am being totally truthful here when i tell you that there are still so many things that i learn about each playthrough that i do so with that i recommend you playing the game just to see what is in it as there are literally hundreds of tasks that you can do as for me though i'm gonna end this video here thank you guys so much for watching if you guys like this video maybe hit that like button and subscribe and i'll see you all later bye for now [Music] you

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Length: 14min 1sec (841 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 04 2022