Zombies, often known as flesh-eaters,  Keith Richards, and The Undead have become so popular and ultimately, so extremely boring, that the gaming world is lost in a sea of 
Zombiephile. When Zombies are dead and gone, as the nature of their tight niche and biological standing deems it necessary, what will be the eventual evolution? I hope something a little bit more lively... Perhaps not. 
Stop Zombiephiles/NaziZomz today! We must, for if we don't, what will this world of shuffling, mindless zombie lovers become other than Zombies themselves... My God, the logic is so retardedly circular

Just because most forms of media have been over saturated with zombies, doesn't mean I cant still think zombies are awesome. 

Undead nightmare was awesome. So bite your tongue. 

Zombies are still cool. Just want to see someone actually make a serious game with that concept. 

" Zombies, often known as flesh-eaters,  Keith Richards, and The Undead have become so popular and ultimately, so extremely boring, that the gaming world is lost in a sea of  Zombiephile. When Zombies are dead and gone, as the nature of their tight niche and biological standing deems it necessary, what will be the eventual evolution? I hope something a little bit more lively... Perhaps not.  Stop Zombiephiles/NaziZomz today! We must, for if we don't, what will this world of shuffling, mindless zombie lovers become other than Zombies themselves... My God, the logic is so retardedly circular "

"  I tire of their overuse and underwhelming ability to appear in uncreative games. "

Zombies will always be cool bro. I often dream of the day it actually happens.

They just need to make zombies scary again. Resident Evil doesn't even use them anymore, Left 4 Dead isn't scary after you've played the same 4 maps over and over again and Dead Rising just uses them for laughs.

Including them in other game types (with the exception of Undead Nightmare, which I thought was okay) is the problem. We haven't got enough of pure zombie games (those shitty top down ones don't count).

they are still cool. play something different if your tired of zombies.

Zombies had a great resurgence with 28 Days Later (I know not technically a zombie film) Shaun of the Dead, and Zach Snyder's surprisingly solid Dawn of the Dead remake.  Unfortunately they've become fucked-out in regards to pop culture, there's such a glut of zombie content in almost all geek mediums these days. Sure there have been some great games such as the Left 4 Dead series but whenever I see a new zombie game in the pipeline all I can think of is "this again?". 

These days, everything is over-saturated. There are plenty of games out there for you to play that don't feature zombies.

A robocalypse is scarier than a zombocalypse, because robots are smart.

Robots are smarts

Hey man, don't diss Keith Richards. That man is a legend.

You don't see people complaining about space marines, even though they are in tons of games.

" @JoeyRavn: I can only be as hip as your extremely hip glasses. Zombies are neat, of course, but I tire of their overuse and underwhelming ability to appear in uncreative games. Still, zombies need a fresh input of creative madness to bring them back to life. Thank you for your response, as lacking in any "serious" debate you raised, I still appreciate it. "

I think the reason they are becoming boring is because they are always portrayed as tongue in cheek in games nowadays.  L4D is barely serious, Dead Rising you are placing giant plastic hats on em.  Even the "zombies" in Resident Evil cannot even be constituted as zombies.  Black Ops and World at War have characters and such that keep it extremely light hearted.  
 
I still like zombies and always will.  I just think zombie games need to have a little more serious attitude. 

Yeah zombies are overused, but how can we slaughter anything else without the soccer moms and Fox News stepping in?
 
I dont think i ever see a game where we can slit peoples necks and rip their limbs off.

YO IM HERE HATING ON ZOMBIES CAUSE THE COOL KIDS SAID THAT THEY WERE LAME BLAHHHHHHH

" I think the reason they are becoming boring is because they are always portrayed as tongue in cheek in games nowadays.  L4D is barely serious, Dead Rising you are placing giant plastic hats on em.  Even the "zombies" in Resident Evil cannot even be constituted as zombies.  Black Ops and World at War have characters and such that keep it extremely light hearted.    I still like zombies and always will.  I just think zombie games need to have a little more serious attitude.  "

AI is hard so its in the best interest of devs who can't program AI wortha shit to keep the zombie craze alive as long as possible.

" You don't see people complaining about space marines, even though they are in tons of games. "

It is interesting

Sure there are tons of Zombie games... but who cares, Zombies are pretty cool and always will be! I'm not a believer in the Zombie-Apocalypse... but man do I enjoy listening to a good debate about how its all gonna go down and what preparations people have! Just in case it does happen...I wanna know where to go and save my ass from becoming over sized brain stew

" YO IM HERE HATING ON ZOMBIES CAUSE THE COOL KIDS SAID THAT THEY WERE LAME BLAHHHHHHH "

zombies are kind of hard to work with on a narrative level simply because they're usually very numerous and hard to overcome as a result of that. it's like superman from a different (much different) direction. there are a bunch of exceptions to the rule, but you have to know what you're doing to get it to work. 

Zombies are awesome,post apocalypse is awesome....that is all.

Just about every game featuring zombies also features the same damn gameplay in the form of "Fight your way through!" There's always some goal beyond just suriving the damn things: you're trying to reach a rescue vehicle/extration point, or you're trying to find the cause of the outbreak, or the zombies are being used as cover for something else, etc. And you know what? I think that's the problem. Zombies are boring to me simply because you flatten untold thousands of them in every game they're in on your way to some goal.
 
Why can't survival itself be the goal? Picture this: The outbreak occurs and you + your group of friends decide to hunker down and make the best of it. During the day it's a mad dash for supplies; you raid supermarkets, hardware stores, gun shops, even an army depot left standing after the military pulled back in the chaos. You have to move quick, because the undead are out in full force at night and you're screwed if you get caught in the open. The risk/reward system keeps the tension up; better items and locations such as the depot are farther off in the distance, leaving you less time to grab what you need and set up your defenses. During the day you may have running gun battles with looters or you might run into other survivors who might trade the location of a supply cache for leaving one person behind for a night to help his depleted group survive. To stop players from building too impentrible of a base, have the millitary plan to nuke the city; you discover the plan with only a few hours remaining and have to make a mad dash into the countryside to avoid being atomised.
 
I could go on, but the point is: it's not the zombies that are boring, it's what's done with them. Left4Dead is fun because it encourages teamwork, but the loss of progress over each campaign (you always reach "the end" only to be right back where you start) kinda kills it for me. Just do something, anything, different with them!

The worst part is when movies/games try to explain zombies using some virus explanation.  No virus is going to allow someone to go for days without food and water and still have the energy to fight... or instantly recognize other zombies and know not to kill them... or completely disable a person's logic center but then allow them to open doors... 

" Just about every game featuring zombies also features the same damn gameplay in the form of "Fight your way through!" There's always some goal beyond just suriving the damn things: you're trying to reach a rescue vehicle/extration point, or you're trying to find the cause of the outbreak, or the zombies are being used as cover for something else, etc. And you know what? I think that's the problem. Zombies are boring to me simply because you flatten untold thousands of them in every game they're in on your way to some goal.
 
Why can't survival itself be the goal? Picture this: The outbreak occurs and you + your group of friends decide to hunker down and make the best of it. During the day it's a mad dash for supplies; you raid supermarkets, hardware stores, gun shops, even an army depot left standing after the military pulled back in the chaos. You have to move quick, because the undead are out in full force at night and you're screwed if you get caught in the open. The risk/reward system keeps the tension up; better items and locations such as the depot are farther off in the distance, leaving you less time to grab what you need and set up your defenses. During the day you may have running gun battles with looters or you might run into other survivors who might trade the location of a supply cache for leaving one person behind for a night to help his depleted group survive. To stop players from building too impentrible of a base, have the millitary plan to nuke the city; you discover the plan with only a few hours remaining and have to make a mad dash into the countryside to avoid being atomised.
 
I could go on, but the point is: it's not the zombies that are boring, it's what's done with them. Left4Dead is fun because it encourages teamwork, but the loss of progress over each campaign (you always reach "the end" only to be right back where you start) kinda kills it for me. Just do something, anything, different with them! "

I was actually going for more of a Minecraft + that mission in Starcraft 2 where you rode out to blow up the buildings during the day/defend at night vibe, but I guess that fits too! Regardless, you got to admit it's more interesting then the usual zombie fare.

Over-saturation aside, I've never cared for zombies. They're fodder characters, which, okay, that's cool when you need hordes of stupid enemies to slay mindlessly (which in itself has never been a concept that's interested me very much), but making them the primary antagonist of a story or a game has never appealed to me. 
 
If it's a story that has a zombie with a brain, I'm all for that... but usually when that happens, they're not even called a zombie any more, they become a lich or a vampire or some other form of undead created by some nasty corporation or government or strange obelisk. 
 
Also, why don't more games/movies/etc mix it up a bit when they feel the need to throw mindless hordes at the heroes -- toss in some skeletons from time to time. I'm sure they can dig up some of the further decomposed corpses and create some nice skeleton hordes to go along with their zombie brethren. But for the most part, creators seem to think that "mixing it up" means adding a few bloated zombie types or zombie dogs.   
 
On the bright side, there are some cool "zombies" out there that I like. For example, necromorphs in Dead Space could be considered a zombie-type of creature, but they're intelligent and not just lumbering corpses slowly walking towards Isaac going, "Braaaaaaains". 

I am bored of zombie games, but not necessarily bored of zombies. 

I like zombies.

People are still finding fun stuff to do with zombies. It's not like Undead Nightmare, Left 4 Dead, and Dead Rising are all the same game. Get over it, zombies are still cool.

Zombies are pretty tedious these days but retards keep buying into it; Just look at the success of The Walking Dead. As interesting as Undead Nightmare is, it's pretty much entirely still because of John Marston's character and the whole thing acting as a subversion of what we came to know over the course of the main game. Had it been done with any other kind of monster, or even something like time travel or something, it probably would have been a better experience.