Over the past three years we’ve celebrated over 150 of our favorites zombies, once per week. Lately, however, it’s felt more like work than fun, so we’re stopping. The last thing we need right now is another thing that feels like work.
We’re proud of the collection we’ve created and it’s all available in the complete Zombie of the Week archive. You can still expect more zombies from us, movie and game reviews and, of course, our yearly Boiled Eggs and Brain Eaters Easter celebration.
We’ve been playing Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4 since its release on November 10th (you can follow our playthrough diary at our sister site, DepressedPress.com). We celebrated its new, more aggressive ghouls a few days later on November 15th. But what about the many interesting ghouls that don’t want to immediately chew your face off? This series is for them!
[Minor spoilers below!]
As you’re wandering down by the Boston waterfront, you might find a weirdly unaccompanied child amongst the super-mutants and raiders. Although you can spot at least three things that would kill him instantly within 50 feet, he seems more worried about a “sea monster” that’s peeping at him from out in the bay. If you agree to go investigate, you’ll be surprised to find a 200 year-old Chinese submarine.
If you board the relic, you’ll be even more surprised to find another relic: the 200 year-old Captain Zao! Despite the fact that he, you know, was the one directly responsible for nuking your hometown, he’s really not that bad a guy. Why not give him a hand with some fetch quests?
We’ve been playing Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4 since its release on November 10th (you can follow our playthrough diary at our sister site, DepressedPress.com). We celebrated its new, more aggressive ghouls a few days later on November 15th. But what about the many interesting ghouls that don’t want to immediately chew your face off? This series is for them!
[Minor spoilers below!]
Kent is the key to our absolute favorite quest line in Fallout 4: The Silver Shroud! An eternal fan of the comic book hero, Kent spends his time in the Memory Den reliving old episodes of the ancient radio show. He’s so damn adorable! When he begs you to explore the local comics shop/TV studio and find memorabilia for him, you just gotta, right?
When you return with the costume (and the gun and some other goodies) he’s just so damn happy! The black trench coat and fedora. The pretty silver (but pretty damn useless) submachine gun. When he suggests that you wear that costume and go after bad guys – optionally delivering all of your dialog in the voice of the Shroud – you just gotta, right?
When the criminals get upset because you’re talking like a comic book character while shooting them in the face and kidnap him, he’s just so damn sad! With the torture and the pain and yelling. When you hear about it and get the option to run all the way to Medford and rescue him, you just gotta, right?
Kent’s great. We love Kent!
We’ve been playing Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4 since its release on November 10th (you can follow our playthrough diary at our sister site, DepressedPress.com). We celebrated its new, more aggressive ghouls a few days later on November 15th. But what about the many interesting ghouls that don’t want to immediately chew your face off? This series is for them!
[Minor spoilers below!]
The ruins of Commonwealth police stations are littered with evidence of Eddie Winter’s wrongdoing and it seems clear that had armageddon not distracted them, the police would have been able to put Winter behind bars. It turns out that this would have been a very long time as Winters, obsessed with immortality, subjected himself to bizarre radiation experiments. Eventually they turned him into the very first ghoul!
We’ve been playing Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4 since its release on November 10th (you can follow our playthrough diary at our sister site, DepressedPress.com). We continue to celebrate our favorite ghouls of the game.
This week, we bring you Arlen Glass, an absolute sweetheart. Arlen is the handyman at The Slog, the all Ghoul farm that you’ll likely run into fairly early in the game. You’ll learn later than Arlen was the lead toy designer at Atomatoys and head of the “Giddyup Buttercup” line of robot hobby horses.
He left the company when his superiors accepted military contracts and, shortly thereafter, was turned into a ghoul in the nuclear holocaust. One of the most poignant moments in the game comes when you bring Arlen a 200 year-old holotape allowing him to hear the voices of his lost wife and daughter.
Here’s to you, Arlen, making an old, fat gamer cry.
We’ve been playing Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4 since its release on November 10th (you can follow our playthrough diary at our sister site, DepressedPress.com). We celebrated its new, more aggressive ghouls a few days later on November 15th. But what about the many interesting ghouls that don’t want to immediately chew your face off? This series is for them!
Minor spoilers ahead!
Bobbi No-nose (an odd name as none of the ghouls have noses) is an abrasive, joyless schemer who lies often and loudly. She’s truly a terrible person that drags you into an amazingly impracticable plot that almost gets you killed. On the plus side… there is no plus side.
We’ve been playing Fallout 4 on the PlayStation 4 since its release on November 10th (you can follow our playthrough diary at our sister site, DepressedPress.com). We celebrated its new, more aggressive ghouls a few days later on November 15th. But what about the many interesting ghouls that don’t want to immediately chew your face off? This series is for them!
Minor spoilers ahead!
First up, meet your friendly neighborhood Vault-Tec rep. He’s one of the first characters you meet in 2077 and it’s a good thing: moments after he signs you and your family up for the local vault nuclear hell breaks out. You make it to the vault just in time to see this dedicated company man get refused entry.
200 years later – years that you spent blissfully unaware in cryogenic suspension – you’ll come across the poor sap all miserable and ghoulified. He’s a little hostile and depressing at first, but if you’re patient you can offer him a job as a salesman in one of your settlements. This will perk him up tremendously.
The 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead was better than most would have anticipated. It even gave the 1978 original a run for its money at times. We’ve previously celebrated Andre and Luda’s biting baby bundle, and this time want to focus on a smaller, but nonetheless impactful character: Frank.
The survivors in the mall have their first real test of conscience as a truck approaches, hounded by the dead. Although it’s not unanimous, they decide to help and allow the new group into the mall. Among them are Frank (Matt Frewer) and his daughter Nicole (Lindy Booth). Frank’s been bit. His last minutes of life with his daughter are the most emotional of the film. Then he turns and gets shot in the face.
We’re huge fans of Frewer and feel that he’s never achieved the success he deserved. He brings a meaningful sincerity to every role, no matter how small and, it so happens, just recently celebrated his 58th birthday! Here’s to you, Mr. Frewer!
We celebrated the lovely (at least for a few minutes) 406 from Zombieland way back in May of 2013, but somehow never returned to celebrate the true zombie star of the movie: Bill Murray! The more pedantic among you might argue: “But he wasn’t really a zombie; he was just pretending to be one!” The more pedantic among you can sit down and help yourselves to a big glass of shut-the-hell-up.
Murray may not have survived Columbus, but he’ll (pretend to) not-live forever in our hearts.
Not sure how we’ve missed this one for so long! George Romero’s third movie in the “Dead” series, Day of the Dead, features the lovable (kinda) zombie Bub.
In the movie the insane Doctor Logan, working in a military facility, experiments with Bub. He teaches him how to listen to music, shave and – for reasons – how to handle and fire automatic weapons. He even teaches Bub to talk… well, mimic… sorta. He also feeds him pieces of people. Dead ones, but still: he feeds him people.
In the huge, unexpected, out-of-nowhere-at-all surprise ending Bub escapes and uses automatic weapons! Bub, here’s to you, buddy!
