DayZ is the greatest game ever made

[RagedDrew 209]

I have to agree with most of you guys here, this game is something else and is a cut above other survival games. I won't say it's the best game ever as we all enjoy different things and what I think is better might not be what someone else thinks.

 

As for suggestions and/or ideas of new features/content, the only thing I really want in this game (and not seen the devs say anything about it) is the ability to amputate limbs on zombies. For example, I shoot a zombie's leg a couple of times it should fall off, leaving the Z crawling on it's chest, or hopping around. If I swing my axe and hit it's arm, then it should fall off, lowering it's ability to attack.

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

It's a Russo-Toltec swear word

it means:

"!! in fact DayZ is the greatest game ever made "

 

I can't help but feel like something has been lost in translation.  :P

[Accolyte 1727]

What the hell is slavsquat?

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=slavsquat

 

<_<

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=slavsquat

 

<_<

 

 

I still don't get it. Is this another one of those stupid planking type things?

 

EDIT: I read some more and I think I get it now. Didn't realize that was a thing.

 

Also, for a mod, that was kinda dickish of you to post it that way.

Edited May 4, 2015 by ColdAtrophy

[Accolyte 1727]

I still don't get it. Is this another one of those stupid planking type things?

 

EDIT: I read some more and I think I get it now. Didn't realize that was a thing.

 

Also, for a mod, that was kinda dickish of you to post it that way.

 

Oh c'mon don't be like that.  :beans:

 

I mean't it in the best way possible!

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

Oh c'mon don't be like that.  :beans:

 

I mean't it in the best way possible!

 

Fair enough. It's hard to convey tone in text. All is forgiven! You can has all my beanz!  :beans:  :beans:  :beans:  :beans:  :beans:  :emptycan:  One empty. I got hungry.

[OrLoK 16185]

Hello there

 

Yes, a lot is lost in text, the smiley should have been suffiicient though, Accolyte is a cuddly thing in general.

 

As to Dayz being the bestest game ever, well, Ill reserve judgement on that.

 

Suffice to say it has been a milestone in game development whether one likes it or not.

 

As to some folk saying dev progress is slow/stagnant, well they really doesnt understand what's involved. The dev is hoofing along at rather a brisk pace. Perhaps not fast enough for us greedy end users but in dev terms it's going at quite a pace.

 

Patience is key

 

Rgds

 

Lok

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

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Agreed on all counts.

 

You touched one thing that I find to be especially important. This game is a massive milestone. Nothing of this kind has ever been done before. 

[Deathlove 2286]

I like all The Legend of Zelda games. But i do love DayZ. I think if the game was set in the United States instead of Russia i would say Best ever of all the games i ever played.

LMFAO

 

 

Time to bring in the Mcdonalds! Oh wait Russia already has one.......

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

snip

 

My favorite part is the last verse starting with "Democrats!". 

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Smash Bros.

 

Monkeyball 1&2 (special acknowledgement for F-Zero GX which uses SMB2 engine).

 

Resident Evil 4.

 

Daigasso Band Brothers 1&2 + expansions.

 

DayZ.

 

In 30+ years of gaming since ATARI 2600, the above list has the most hours of my gaming time combined.

[Camisado2 83]

For me, DayZ scratched an itch I never knew I had. As far as greatest game ever. Meh. At least for me, a game needs a story. Now no game has ever got my heart racing quite as much as DayZ has. It has endless replay ability.

But my top 3 games go as this :

FF7

Dragon Age origins

Metal gear series

Then maybe DayZ

[Coheed_IV 381]

The Greatest game ever doesn't really matter, because that just personal. But, if you make list of games that have changed gaming forever, and the DayZ concept has to be on that list, even though it's not a finished game. It's got a chance to be my personal favorite still.

I'd have to go with arma2, dark souls, or metroid, and squad level tactics mod made by my buddy. And actually I stated with pong, wish My parents never tossed it.

Edited May 4, 2015 by Coheed_IV

[Coheed_IV 381]

As for suggestions and/or ideas of new features/content, the only thing I really want in this game (and not seen the devs say anything about it) is the ability to amputate limbs on zombies. For example, I shoot a zombie's leg a couple of times it should fall off, leaving the Z crawling on it's chest, or hopping around. If I swing my axe and hit it's arm, then it should fall off, lowering it's ability to attack.

I believe this is vaguely confirmed, when Eugene answer a load of questions on Twitter. Dismemberment in some form.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

Out of all AAA titles I've ever played, I've logged more hours into DayZ than any other game I own due to replay value.  So for me that makes DayZ one of the greatest games I've ever played and I am looking forward to the completion of it.

[hemmo 55]

It has great potential!

[Reg Park 160]

once they sort out the zombies, glitches, dsync, etc.... it could possibly be one the greats.

the adrenaline rush is quite addicting

[gannon46 788]

Hmm. To be honest. DayZ in it's current state, judged by the vision Dean originally had for it, is not even a good game. Despite all the pre-order copies sold and the backing of a well running studio the game is progressing super slow. Heck it is almost stagnant for some important features. To make matters worse there's now some pretty nice survival games out there that start to outgrow and outshine DayZ. First and foremost 7 Days to Die.

 

As far as greatest game ever goes:

 

For me the greatest games ever done is the Mass Effect trilogy followed by the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games.

i play 7 days to die and it doesn't outshine dayz IMO, and as for other survivor games what ones do you mean all the others run worse or have way less content or are just clones.

7 days does have the whole build stuff and hordes which as of the last update are broken and don't show up on day 5 and its very arcadey which i like when i'm just lol'n in a game. what would be the stagnat features? do you mean base building i for one am glad its not in have you played H1 the map and the atmosphere is ruined by shitty shacks the map looks like neo detroit. Or do you mean heli's not to much of a game changer IMO more of a headache. There is no game that is the best game and like an above poster says its in the eye of the beholder my personal favorite is metal gear 3 that's my take on best game ever made and is the game that made me have a survival game addiction well that and resident evil one for PS1. I used to not have patience with this game or the community but over time i just learned to go with the flow. The game will get better it has and the devs have proven they can do it some of the ideas they are doing and the scale they are doing it boggles my mind and we can't expect updates every week and usually when we get a stable update its pretty stable thanks to the experimental branch and the good folks that play on it and actually test and give bug reports(thank you folks). i personally am glad it came out in early access because honestly they game will be better in the end the loot as well as weapons will be balanced very very well i imagine. since they get feedback as well as live information on things unlike a closed dev game. sry for the book by the way but i fell very passionate about this game and i don't want it to fail nor do i want the devs to not complete there vision of the game or cut corners to please me or anyone else and if that means its not the greates game in the world oh well i'll have more hours and more fun in it then any other game but like i said before it my opinion.

[chrithu 59]

i play 7 days to die and it doesn't outshine dayz IMO, and as for other survivor games what ones do you mean all the others run worse or have way less content or are just clones.

Ok fair point, 7 days to Die broke some things and got a little softer in the latest updates. Still I think they are much more on track on being a survival game where survival is an actual challenge outside of PvP encounters than DayZ is. They have a Zombie AI that at least works. One of the VERY stagnant things in DayZ. I mean the Zeds as a challenge/threat are basically defunct ever since the mod started. Well at least the vehicle and illness stuff is slowly finding its way into DayZ, though also a lot slower than expected.

And talking about survival actually being a challenge there are more games out there besides 7 Days that do it better than DayZ, like Don't Starve, Project Zomboid and Neo Scavenger.

[ebrim 998]

Is it actually hard to survive in 7 Days to Die now other than being attacked by zombie hordes? I haven't played in quite a while. The big problem 7 Days to Die faces is that it's also mincrafty which means you have to have the ability to carry around things which make no sense to be able to carry. It can be fun but it doesn't give me the legitimate hike through the woods feel that DayZ gives.

 

DayZ really for me is the game closest to and approaching the ideal I have for the survival genre. I'm excited to see what Freeplay mode becomes in Survarium but most of my hopes rest in DayZ.

[blackberrygoo 1416]

Ok fair point, 7 days to Die broke some things and got a little softer in the latest updates. Still I think they are much more on track on being a survival game where survival is an actual challenge outside of PvP encounters than DayZ is. They have a Zombie AI that at least works. One of the VERY stagnant things in DayZ. I mean the Zeds as a challenge/threat are basically defunct ever since the mod started. Well at least the vehicle and illness stuff is slowly finding its way into DayZ, though also a lot slower than expected.

And talking about survival actually being a challenge there are more games out there besides 7 Days that do it better than DayZ, like Don't Starve, Project Zomboid and Neo Scavenger.

Lol don't expect everyone to agree with you on that one bud , just the graphics alone of those games irks most people ... Dayz is on top for a reason ; great graphics, huge attention to detail , more content coming than any other "survival" game out there, it's got more potential and all the other "zombie survival games" won't compare because while they took the easy way out and tried to throw in some simple mechanics like base building and such, dayz took the better and harder route and decided to make a massive game with tons of detail and content ..

Can you make leather outfits out of animal hide in 7 days to die , or project zomboid ? Is there any temperature features, Can you even hunt in those games ? Is there any sense of exciting pvp , or can you restrain people (so as to avoid KOS) , or can you Even talk to people you see over proximity chat ? No , you can't , and i could go on and on and on about how many survival aspects those games are missing .. I also find 7 days to die to be extremely easy (even on hardest difficulty with zombies running at all times), missing end game content , and completely devoid of anything that seems to be connected with survival except for having to eat and drink and barricade houses (in an ugly arcade block like fashion mind you ).

Trust me when dayz has polished it's edges many people will stop playing those wannabe survivor games and realize that dayz is offering so much more , just with a wait that maybe some people can't handle (which is strange because I remember waiting for halo 2 for 3 years and that was a AAA title that wasnt even an open alpha ).

[nexventor 429]

Yeah that's why the player base is leaving in droves. Jesus even H1Z1 has more people playing. The dev's are taking the wrong path, it makes more and more sense why Dean left and said what he did about it.

 

Thank god for the modding community is all I can say... but its going to be a long wait  <_<

[blackberrygoo 1416]

Yeah that's why the player base is leaving in droves. Jesus even H1Z1 has more people playing. The dev's are taking the wrong path, it makes more and more sense why Dean left and said what he did about it.

Thank god for the modding community is all I can say... but its going to be a long wait <_<

Lol then go play h1z1. Players leave "in droves" after many different patches , not just this one.. besides that they will return because all of their reasons for leaving are bugs being addressed , it will only take a matter of time . But have fun with buying air drops and purchasing tickets to sit in a queue for a deathmatch game when you've already paid for a survival game .

Lulz, oh you , I wish h1z1 was made by a respectful company because it's literally an abomination and a disgrace to the PC game world , and it's smoke and mirrors ploy of being an open world zombie survival game is just a gimmick , yes it's open world with zombies but as for survival everything is half assed and made to make you crave buying more content with real money andthe only reason I see people interested in it is to have quick action deathmatch fun with base building (aka ugly fucking shacks everywhere ) ...

But not everyone has high standards for survival games, it's just that most of us here do as we have seen the high level of detail , realism , and immersion from what SA offers that we don't want to go back to that genre of gimmicky , arcadey, pay to win themes that games like H1Z1 offer , but to each his own .

Oh and fuck you h1z1 , you're the only game that I have ever seen make it impossible to play from a friends shared library lol... I played the game through my cousins shared library as he owned it , but after a few weeks they (SOE I'm guessing) disabled the feature , probably to get more people to buy into the mostrosity !

Edit : sorry to go off topic a bit , but dayz is still great IMO so I think this is still relevant lol :) .

Edited May 5, 2015 by Grapefruit kush

[Whyherro123 2283]

To me ,a game is only a "survival game" if the environment is at least equal a threat when compared to other players, and I prefer the environment to be the primary threat. The whole "man vs nature" shindig. Is Day Z there yet? Nope, not even close, but as one poster wrote above, it has potential.

 

And, as a caveat, while I don't think Day Z is a good  survival game just yet, that doesn't mean I think it isn't a good game in principle. 

 

Again, IMO, the best survival game I have played recently is "The Long Dark", and even that has problems. Namely, the wolves! For some reason, game devs apparently think that players will get bored without some killable antagonistic force (zombies, NPCs, what have you), and as such, the wolves in TLD don't behave like wolves at all. They roam around by themselves (which wolves don't do), aimlessly killing anything that comes across their path. I call them "replacement zombies", to the amusement of the TLD forum. Most of my deaths in TLD are not from hypothermia, starvation or sickness, but wolf attacks. It sucks the survival aspect out of the game when most of the strategies involve memorizing wolf "patrol routes".

 

I really don't want Day Z to go that route. Should the zombies be a threat? Of course! Should the players also be a threat? Of course! Should the environment be a threat? Of course, to the point where the battle for surviving the elements (disease, starvation, exposure) becomes as important, if not more so, than the battle for the military spawns.

 

As an aside, does anybody else play TLD?

[ColdAtrophy 1850]

Yeah that's why the player base is leaving in droves. Jesus even H1Z1 has more people playing. The dev's are taking the wrong path, it makes more and more sense why Dean left and said what he did about it.

 

Thank god for the modding community is all I can say... but its going to be a long wait  <_<

 

Good thing DayZ devs are in it to win the popularity vote, the AAA crowd.