[Request] Zombie Apocalypse!

[Theodric]

Hello,

I would like to request that, at some point, a zombie apocalypse of some kind occurs. I think it'd be a pretty cool story to explore, especially if the protagonists find themselves faced with the hard decision of putting down the infected.

I am a fan of undead enemies - especially in RPG's - as they have the potential to be very creepy. Looking back, all of my favourite RPG's (Vagrant Story, Shadow Hearts and the early Resident Evil games) each had the undead as prominent enemies.

Necromancy exists as a concept in FFXIV and has played a part in some dungeons, though I'd love to see an entire zone consist of a creepy city full of undead.

The Sin Eaters were pretty creepy throughout Shadowbringers but the writers played them very safe and didn't have them take out any of the major characters. I think it'd be really cool and touching if we had to put a bullet in the head of Alisae or Nanamo to prevent them turning into a zombie.

[Keridwyn]

As a survivor of both the corrupted blood plague and the Wrath launch event trust me when I say it will bring the game to a halt unless they give players immunity. And it's no fun if they do that...

[Doozer]

I think it'd be really cool and touching if we had to put a bullet in the head of Alisae or Nanamo to prevent them turning into a zombie.

Funny that you picked only female characters for that. Put a bullet in Thancred or something and I'm in.

Also no. The zombie craze kinda came and went like a decade ago. We don't need to make everything zombies anymore.

[Theodric]

Funny that you picked only female characters for that. Put a bullet in Thancred or something and I'm in.

Thancred's hot, though.

[SturmChurro]

People already don't aoe in dungeons, they wouldn't aoe in this either for the hordes of zombies.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

[Saefinn]

I mean, we're currently dealing with the fallout from an apocalypse. Taking out a major character is something they're generally very cautious about, though I'd be fine with them doing that where it makes sense, and Thancred had one of those moments that they avoided it. Heck they nullified Zenos' death and made his whole touching end-scene meaningless. Honestly, if they explored a zombie apocalypse scenario then I don't think it'd make a difference. And we had the opportunity to try and stop a character (though not a major one) from turning and had the whole tragedy to go with it when we failed.

But zombie apocalypses and the undead is something that's been done to death (pun intended) and if anything, something like Sin Eaters, like they did here, for an apocalypse scenario was fresh. At least, it's not something I'd be behind, especially as it'd be an arbitrary direction to take that doesn't seem to relate to any threads the story has going. And we've already had our own undead story arc, as rightly highlighted by the post above mine, and it was a really good one that started out in early game, got its own HM dungeon and expanded into PoTD.

[Doozer]

Thancred's hot, though.

No he ain't. His personality doesn't make up for it either.

[Theodric]

His personality doesn't make up for it either.

I feel that way about Nanamo and Alisae. Especially the latter.

[Lauront]

No he ain't. His personality doesn't make up for it either.

He's better than the two picks Theodric put in, that's for sure... in all facets.