Creepy Zombie Game: DayZ

[AZRedhawk44]

http://www.fastcompany.com/3025201/most-creative-people/dayz-a-murder-simulator-psychology-study-and-zombie-game-tests-your-emo

You only have 1 life in the game.  No ultraninjasurvivability.  Once your toon dies, you're done.

Supposedly it's bringing out unusual psychology in regular gamers.

"There are a lot of films I’ve watched that really moved me, like The Road, the film adaptation [of Cormac McCarthy's novel]," says Hall. "Some of these films can be really powerful, and sometimes make you angry. Whereas I feel like videogames, a lot of the time have been always about being fun. A lot of people didn’t take them that seriously from other media because it’s all just fun--click the little thing, jump around and do this. Whereas I wanted to see a videogame explore areas like loss and fear and anger."

Cool.  Makes me want to download/buy it, see what it's about.

[cordex]

I played it some early in its development as a mod but haven't seen the current version. I never found a friendly human character. Every single one I met either killed me or tried and forced me to gun them down. Got to be where I crept around in the woods away from any populated area looking for shacks and hunting blinds that spawn supplies. Ammo was mid-2013 scarce, zombies run toward gunfire so it was easy to get overwhelmed by NPCs even when trying to avoid humans. At some point the crawling from tree to tree trying to find a can of beans so I wouldn't starve got to be tedious.

Would be a lot of fun playing with people I knew wouldn't shoot me as soon as I turned around, though.

[Jamisjockey]

I really like the game, been playing the standalone, but it's tough to play if you don't have a PC that's up to snuff with the graphics.
Also, it's still in Alpha, so it's very buggy.

[Ned Hamford]

There is still 6 hours to get it for ultra cheap through Humble Bundle. 
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

[Marnoot]

The Arma II DayZ mod is on the bundle, but the newer standalone DayZ game that will be actively developed going forward is a separate game, not in the bundle. I've heard good things about the mod, been tempted to try the standalone as well.

Currently playing Rust, another early-access game that currently has zombies though apparently they'll be going away and the game will focus more on the survival / building aspect.

[MechAg94]

I decided a long time ago I would stop buying games I was sure didn't have cheats.  I don't have hours to replay the same stuff over and over again in normal mode.  I think Tie Fighter was the last game I completed in normal or hard without cheating and that was a while back. 

[freakazoid]

I've been playing the standalone a lot. Lots of good times. One of the few games where I have actually jumped from being startled, since you only have the one life you can end up creeping around hoping that you don't come across someone else camping an area. Can also lead to a lot of weird encounters. There are a lot of great videos on YouTube. Here is a pretty good series, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fULZmP5xqPo Word of advice if you decide to play, don't get to attached to a character, many deaths. And like Jamis Jockey said, it's in its Alpha stage so it still has many bugs.

MechAg94, It's not a single player game, but a large open world game with up to 40 players at once.

[Marnoot]

Just bought the standalone for me and the wife. She's at work tonight though, so I'll be giving it a go by my lonesome!

[41magsnub]

I bought it this weekend and played a little.  Spent most of the time remapping controls, then 3 times managed to run into a zombie I couldn't get away from before I found any kind of item.  Ended up punching the zombie's into submission, then shortly thereafter succumbing to my wounds   

[Neemi]

I didn't have any problems outrunning zombies, but the other players were another story. This game definitely brings out a seriously dark side to most players.

Tried to outrun one pack of other players who just kept beating my character for no reason. That didn't work too well. Another group shot my character because I didn't know how to follow their orders fast enough.

I'm amazed at how fear of death in a game affects people.

[Marnoot]

I didn't have any problems outrunning zombies, but the other players were another story.

Don't forget the ones that ran after you yelling in Russian, and the only English word they seemed to know was "Rape!"