Do you think classic zombies is better or do you think zombies now is better? Just an honest question because I am not sure what the community thinks overall.
Do you think classic zombies is better or do you think zombies now is better? Just an honest question because I am not sure what the community thinks overall.
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Newer zombies is better and worse. Same can be said for OG. I’ve enjoyed some of the changes over each iteration of zombies. I will say I’d rather play what we have right now than play zombies that never evolved past Der Rise for sure though.
Personally I like a mix better mainly because I have days that I prefer to just chill and bullshit while training zombies, similar to the running all over your house in Minecraft when chatting with friends. Other times I want a real challenge, eggs and all
Imagine if we just stayed at the simplicity of WAW. I don’t think we’d have made it past 3 or 4 games max. It would get way to repetitive.
Even look at BO3 which is widely regarded as the best zombies. We would’ve never gotten that if they never departed from the simple style.
I like oldschool more! but I like new zombie elements too!
(I would like to see them try to balance it by just add a new rouglike elements and double pack-a-punch to old school zombie dark/horror atmosphere)
Way better
Use ReShade instead, your saturation is making me nauseous, reshade will really make it look much better
Newer zombies is WAYYYYYYYY worse. They dumbed down what used to be a challenging game mode. It’s like they skipped over the meat and potatoes of zombies what used to be the early rounds building up, making important decisions and getting prepared for the rest of the game. Now you just start out with a fully kitted out weapon on round 1 with 3 OP gobblegums ready to go and can cruise to round 15 or so until you have unlimited points and salvage to be able to move out and do whatever you need….even if you don’t use gobblegums the game is insanely easy and has shied away from being about survival, challenge and prestige.
Neither. Classic Zombies is it’s own thing compared to Modern Zombies imo, they’re both really fun and which one I play just depends on what mood I’m in
Saw this exact post 10 years ago
The old zombies was great, It just gets so mind numbingly boring after a certain point.
For me Zombies peaked at Bo2 where Easter eggs were there, but weren’t like the center peace and main focus of zombies. The hunt for said Easter eggs and world’s first etc was all really cool still, but it still felt like maps and gameplay was designed to just enjoy a round based survival game mode first. Anytime I’ve tried to pick up any of the newer games, including even Bo3, it just doesn’t feel like it’s geared towards players like me anymore.
I miss how simple Zombies used to be, while also recognizing that the mode would probably not even exist anymore if it never evolved past the WaW/BO1 levels of complexity
I have a love/hate relarionship with how zombies is now. BO:CW and BO6 have implemented some mechanics that I absolutely love like being able to upgrade perks outside of the match, but I think the core element of zombies is different. I used to just hop on to kill zombies and get to a high round, but now it is all about completing quests, unlocking camos, and doing the easter eggs.
I bet for those of us who have been playing zombies for 10+ years, it would get old eventually just doing the same “kill zombies, get to a higher round”, but I often find myself playing in directed mode when I just want to chill and decompress from work. In that sense, I think old zombies was better.
One certainty in my experience is that the old guns and old sound effects were better. I am a history buff, especially when it comes to WW-II and CW era weapons, so getting to see the classic STG and AK and MP models in games like WAW and BO1 is satisfying. They did made COD:WWII, but the sound was not right and something was off about that gane in general. I need to go back and play it some more, but it didn’t hit like other games.
One challenge that is dead is the “PAP every gun in one game”. I like the 3-level PAP system and I hope they add more levels, but it makes one of my favorite challenged obselete.
A map maker for the classic zombies + the newer iterations would be perfect in my mind.
Yeah I think modern zombies has gotten much slower and more tedious, I’d say it’s a mix of gameplay decisions and increased complexity. I do miss when the average matchmaking game would be 30-45 minutes to round 20-30ish, now they drag on forever and you end up extracting.
The biggest difference to me is the consistent tension of the early middle rounds, between 5 and 20. Even if you were a total pro, there was still that feeling of being on a knife’s edge. One mistake and you’re dead. For most players that’s the best part of zombies, but the newer games lack that tension because of the increased map size and additional armor.
I remember that the original creator of zombies Jesse Snyder said that he balanced the game up until round 30, because after that he got bored and figured most players would too. I think this is an important element to zombie’s success that’s been lost in the newer titles. BO6 zombies feels like it doesn’t really get going until round 30, and by that point I’ve started to get bored.
Love classic zombies but it just gets old quick. Once you hit like round 40 on WaW zombies, it doesn’t really get any more challenging. There’s a pretty low zombie cap and nothing about the zombies really changes.
I think the biggest issue for me at least is the balancing in later rounds. I kinda wish they’d do something similar to Gunfire Reborn where you get upgrades and can make builds to scale with the difficulty of zombies each round. Giving you a chance to even get really OP and just murder zombies to see how far you can get. Not sure what that would look like though. I just get bored after a while.
Also, I think BO6 looked promising but suffers from some late game balancing. Just my thoughts. Would love to know how anyone else felt
Both are good. You can currently play both.
Classic zombies are unique in their own way. They had claustrophobic atmosphere, solid and simple gameplay, exquisite difficulty and mystery in every little detail. Modern zombies mostly lost all above despite having its pros like movement and loadout customisation. They’re like modern fallout games – not bad, more player-friendly than previous old ones but it’s not ‘THAT’ fallout anymore
I like the simpler, old-school version more. But I do appreciate the newer and more complicated maps that have made for those who can commit the time to playing those types of maps. I just wish there was a way to play the old school zombies on a ps5
Og all the way
Back when you could kill an entire round of zombies on one insta kill lol
I have been saying this for YEARS especially when someone praises Bo3 zombies. I cannot stand bo3 zombies. I always said this isn’t what zombies is, and it never should have been. Ever since the day it all changed it’s nothing more than a place to get nebula camo (or whatever the mastery camo is) and then I move on and either very very rarely play zombies or never touch it. They added too much and over complicated a simple zombie wave survival mode. Get your pitchforks I don’t care. I’ll die on this hill.
Mobility and mechanics are much better now. But the scary feeling is gone
I guess I haven’t played much past bo2 to give an unbiased opinion, but in my opinion it peaked at bo2. Bo1 is a close second, and waw probably 3rd. I heard that now, like bo6, it’s a different world. And from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty accurate. Not even the same game now.
I thought this was COD mobile zombies 😭
Ughhh the windmill hits are what get me everytime after round 40….. I get so cocky everytime.
Bo3 was the last complicated zombies I played for years after, bo4 I barely played during its lifecycle, and coldwar/bo6 I havnt really touched since launch
Anything after BO4 gameplay is objectively worse compared to what the mode originally stood for. The thing is… anything prior to BO4 didn’t make as much money and the new gameplay does (that doesn’t justifiy the dull story though)
It’s different. Every zombies game is different because people like different things. Some people like the simplicity of WaW, some people like the complexity of the newer games.
Newer zombies is ass in comparison, they don’t even feel like horror games anymore. New zombies is just a camo grinding fest now especially because of how easy the new games are.
I like current day zombies but classic was much better and this video is a great example of why. The style, the personality, the sounds, Ultimis and Primis. Even that simplistic HUD is way better than anything we’ve gotten in the last 5 games. I wish Zombies still looked and sounded like this.