Why Project Zomboid has the Potential to be the Greatest Game Ever

This game sucks until they add cow 🐄

"Its Cowed Mowtiplayer"

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Agree that this game has so much potential, I think it would be way better for the story if it was told through the environments and NPCs instead of one long story. Players already make their own stories through the emergent gameplay anyway.

There already is a story, or well lore

I think youre more about a campaign?

I think expanding on the annotated maps would be cool.

I also hope that player actions will act as a sort of Meta event for NPCs when added. Would be really cool, if starting a gun fight to clear out zombies can both help and hinder NPCs by causing both moving hordes, and reducing overall zombie density, once done fighting. Obviously. NPCs are far off from now, but one can hope.

Personally, I don't really need there to be much of a story or missions in this game. I think that being just another Joe Schmo desperately trying to survive agianst all hope is core to this game for me. I'm afraid that storylines/missions would take away from that feeling.

Currently, It feels kinda boring, there is no set objective in the game to progress to. At least steam achievements might help

They are not making a story or missions. Devs have a list of things they refuse to add the the game and it includes: Story, missions, an ending. A storyline doesn’t fit with the vision they have with the game and the don’t plan to ever add one

Quests and also other humans would be dope.

I don't really like the idea of a personal story. I like to role play and if there was a specific personal story like saving your wife it would take away from that a bit. I think they should keep it to were you just spawn in and make your own story but with npcs you can interact with them and make stories through them and get quests from them, though they aren't necessary. I feel like this would keep to the sandbox feel of the game.

I personally think that for the cheap price, I'm not complaining for the lack of other features

my genocide run wont be complete until they add npc's in

I love this game because it has that Walking Dead feel to it each character has or will have their own story when they bring the human AI to it

"My most played game" ~100 hours
Random player: "Rookie numbers" 7000 hours.

"Project Zomboid right now is one of my most played games"
Has 100 hours

More events and things to do! Players need things to prepare for and be hyped to do, not only focusing on survival. For example players maybe need to build up defence for AI raiders? Maybe saving other peoples life? Maybe even research a antidote?

Okay I also want the NPCs

But after that we NEED the need to go to the bathroom

Probably Npc should be optional for the people who love the epic felling of loneliness or some people will like the option of only animal npc or maybe some want only human npc!

Technically there is a story, atleast on the television
On the tv, on various stations, mainly the news ones (WBLN and Triple-N) broadcast the increasing desperation and severity of the Knox infection.
There is also tv shutdown so I guess that sort of adds on other than water and power shutoff

They should add booby traps in the game like springguns (guns that rigged to a door that when opened fires them on the victim), bear traps, snare traps, spike traps, etc.

You know make it so you have actual security rather having a zombie or more banging on your base rather than rolling your eyes, saying "I gotta take care of it, AGAIN!" and having to exit your base to kill the zombies. Then having to make any repairs if possible and go back in.

Also stuff such as automated turrets would be nice.

A bit lower tech but still good would be things like gun ports, little holes that you could open to fire your gun out of.

Also expanding the store of the game would be nice, might they're might be a way past this apocalypse. I mean we know at least the player and everyone in the quarantine zone is fucked eventually but what about the outside world?

I disagree with the quest system. What makes PZ is good is you write your own story, not being 'forced' into a narrative.

What i think the best to keep the player going is to implement 'desire' mechanic. For example your character would someday want to have beef burger, then if you have beef burger, the character get 'satisfied' moodle and get increase xp for all skill and damage. How do you get a beef burger doesn't matter, you still write your own story. Maybe you just get it on your refrigerator, or maybe because you don't have it, you're going on your way killing a cow, butcher it, grind it's meat, and making patty yourself.

'This game needs a story'

You know the part where you start up and it begins with 'This is how you died' from that point on till your death is your story, much like life, it is what you make of it.

Valid point but allas it cannot as it becomes a chore quickly

glad that I made 2 od my friends buy this game too sadly looka like one of them doesnt like the game cause he want shiny little shit rtx games that high graphics but bland- bordeline trash gameplays

love the videos m8. go crazy <3

Multiplayer had been around long before it blew up, it blew up because the new build 41 got pushed out

There used to be a story in the very early versions of the game. If they're bringing it back I think they should add a separate game mode for a "story" game to be played while keeping the "this is how you died" story choice open as well.

if there is ever a story mode it should be seperate

A year ago I would of said there's no way project zomboid could beat minecraft, but it seems like zomboid is just going to scootch into it easily while minecraft keeps shooting themselves in the foot

your most played game has 100hours? either your a filthy casual or the 2000 hours in mount and blade warband is just a statement to how ive wasted my life

I feel like a story would ruin the playability for me I like getting to choose what I do and not have any sort of guidelines I just want it to be completely open

Game has so much potential! I’ve never payed a game like this before, very immersive. The attention to detail not one AAA studio has ever even done this!

The game doesn't need a story, the story is of the character you create. If they enhance the replayability and make it more fun with more updates it defiantly would be the greatest

It does have a huge potential but it needs something which can make you wanna go for the late games, not everyone is into "just surviving" and repeating its monotony.

i hope this video aged well

Most people would never be able to play or understand this game. Ya I love it but it's for a fringe group of people.

i bought this game two weeks ago and i've played it for 121 hours... someone needs to stop me

I’ve personally been collecting all the jewelry off dead zeds for a while now. It started in an attempt to see how much I’d amass in one play through but now I like to pretend there’s a fence out there, smuggling valuables and military contraband out of the infection zone. I’d be interesting if there actually was a fence of sorts who would repair items or trade survival essentials for the valuables you get while playing

I think Your wife broke her leg, not that she was bitten

"Most played games" sees less than 120 hours

Looks at steam game that made me learn XML with over 4700 hours over 10 years

Oh sweet summer child...

Bro I've played 600 hours in the past few months is that a lot?

It is already among the most popular played on Steam which says something because with a few exceptions every other spot is occupied by triple A titles with photo realistic graphics. You really need exceptionally good gameplay to beat them and I haven't seen another game achieving this since Minecraft. Now that it sells enough to get the studio going for years without having to worry about their salary they can focus even more. They put all their heart into it and you just feel it. There are some dangers, though. Their insistance on some critical design choices like sticking to mainly Romero like classic slow zombies are what made this so authentical. The risk here being that once it got even more popular there might be too many players demanding certain changes too loudly that, if answered by the devs, will ultimately water the game down and therefore ruin it in the long run. Not financially maybe but spiritually. You know, the mainstream treatment. Players like you and me will be driven off and replaced by, well, mainstream casual players.

Yes a reason to go out from yore safe bunker is a need for the game, now its no reason to risk the danger to go out on lootruns!

I hope they go with an open world storytelling approach with factions and events as opposed to single storyline.
Less Last of Us. More Skyrim.

Pretty spot on review. I agree with almost everything said. They also need to work on firearms, food preservation with jars and farming, cooking is difficult to learn the recipes, and they should also work heavily on making things more intuitive to learn

Do not add stories or quests.

I could seriously see this being THE game I play for years once npc's come, the replayability of the new complex systems will make for so many interesting situations. Im sure there will be some ROUGH and hard bandit encounters like maybe they run up on you if you're camping in the woods

You could also have to take care of an injured companion at some point, lots of possibilities

devs are lazy tr00ns though so its never gonna get good