discussion Which apocalyptic concept do you all like most?

[JadedSkywalker]

In fiction Zombie. IRL none. as for the nuclear drills we did those in the 1980s. Yeah i'm sure an old basement annex and ducking and covering under a desk will save you in the event of a nuke going off. hide under the desk and burn as a classmate of mine used to say, he also used smiliey face and said have a nice day. the absurdity of it.

They also conned us into thinking Star Wars was real and could shoot down Russian InterContinental ballistic missiles aka nukes with a space laser. I kid you not.

The good old Reagan days.

 

[Aerythox]

Maybe I'm just a cliché fan, but zombie apocalypses are my favorite. They're like the perfect backdrop for any theme you want to explore—whether it's drama, survival, history, action-packed scenes, etc.

And they don’t even have to be zombies—you can use whatever you want, as long as they’re aggressive and dangerous to the survivors. Infected people, mutants, monsters, creatures—whatever comes to mind.

well it is the concept most people are introduced to apocalyptic scenarios with, be it night of the living dead for the boomers distinguished gentlemens or zombieland, 28 days later, shaun of the dead, or any more post 2k zombie movies for the newgen cool guys.

But yes, it is understandable that most people like the zombie scenario, me and probably a ton more people fantasized an action zombie scenario at some point in our childhood lol

 

[Redyscom]

well it is the concept most people are introduced to apocalyptic scenarios with, be it night of the living dead for the boomers distinguished gentlemens or zombieland, 28 days later, shaun of the dead, or any more post 2k zombie movies for the newgen cool guys.

But yes, it is understandable that most people like the zombie scenario, me and probably a ton more people fantasized an action zombie scenario at some point in our childhood lol

It's all the fun of shooting at something without the guilt of taking a life.

 

[Fendrich]

Mad Max Style with a few settlements here and there

 

[JadedSkywalker]

I miss Mad Max they haven't made one since Beyond Thunderdome. The director instead made these feminist spinoffs. The Furiosa movies should never have been called Mad Max. But it's how they were sold.

I like the Highschool of the Dead Manga and Anime. The Mangaka dying caused an infinite hiatus.

I used to like Resident Evil games before all the remakes and censorship.

 

[gganderson]

I miss Mad Max they haven't made one since Beyond Thunderdome. The director instead made these feminist spinoffs. The Furiosa movies should never have been called Mad Max. But it's how they were sold.

I like the Highschool of the Dead Manga and Anime. The Mangaka dying caused an infinite hiatus.

I used to like Resident Evil games before all the remakes and censorship.

Man Mad Max was so good, have you ever played the game? So underrated. I never see anyone talking about it, espacially for how great it was.

 

[JadedSkywalker]

Oh, I've heard about one made in 2015. But Back in the Xbox One days. I've never actually played it. Also on the PS4 and PC? Can you still even play it. Online search says yes but online features retired in 2020.

 

[annon980]

nuclear winter. The Road is a great book

 

[elohim]

fallout setting

 

[wainrider]

Less about what caused it but I like the nature reclaiming land motif. Old buildings covered in vines and trees. Grass breaking through concreate. That kind of thing.

 

[yiqiz]

The world destroyed by nuclear war. And I prefer decades of years after the war. Technology becomes mythology, new orders has been established.

 

[Bubbles]

Man Mad Max was so good, have you ever played the game? So underrated. I never see anyone talking about it, espacially for how great it was.

The game was so good its a shame we will probably never get a sequel cos not enough people played it. That game with a bit more variety and few more interesting side missions would be 10/10

 

[LilithDark]

Apocalypse's are great and all (Eldritch doomsday in Look Outside would be my pick for being creative and haunting). But my favorite apocalyptic concept is the post-post-apocalypse. It seems rare, but is always interesting when it occurs.

Luke Humpfris makes a bunch of shorts on youtube that have this idea in mind.

I thought I had more examples in mind, but the gamecube/dreamcast game Skys of Arcadia is the last one I can think of right now . In that setting the world got blasted asunder sometime in the far distant past, leaving only shards of land infused with moonstones (magic floaty rocks) behind. Essentially nobody knows that the world experienced a horrific catastrophe in the past as it was so long ago, all they know is their life among the clouds. It makes the setting feel more hopeful while still having major "Oh shit!" moments, especially as you learn more of the nature of the disaster from ancient ruins.

Edit: Just remembered Horizon: Zero Dawn I knew there was a big one I forgot! Honestly probably the best example for how cool a post-post-apocalypse can be. (might still count as just post-apocalyptic, but it gets the feeling right)

A Fallout setting far in the future, where the threat of radiation has become rare, would be interesting to me. Would the Brotherhood of Steel change their stance on technology as the world no longer bears the mark of the risk high-tech brings? Are vaults just a thing of legend now, being buried under years of dust and dirt from new plant growth? Have mutants developed into anything new beyond deformities?

The post-post-apocalypse setting just feels like you can do tons of cool ideas with it, plus it can be nice exploring ruins reclaimed by nature.

 

[Bandiger]

Mad Max is so good. But if I had to pick a theme, I really enjoy natural disaster apocalypses, like Day After Tomorrow. Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, heck, even comets/asteroids. There's no fighting back, just fighting to survive.

 

[ginji_ban07]

I like Zombie Apocalypse - realistically its the most survivable apocalypse out there.

 

[Drabid22]

I'm a fan of the resource apocalypse, like fallout (before the whole nuclear bit) when globe becomes incredibly thin on oil or food or whatever and devolves into constant combat over what little is left

 

[annon980]

A Fallout setting far in the future, where the threat of radiation has become rare, would be interesting to me. Would the Brotherhood of Steel change their stance on technology as the world no longer bears the mark of the risk high-tech brings? Are vaults just a thing of legend now, being buried under years of dust and dirt from new plant growth? Have mutants developed into anything new beyond deformities?

The post-post-apocalypse setting just feels like you can do tons of cool ideas with it, plus it can be nice exploring ruins reclaimed by nature.

fallout premise is amazing. franchise terribly handled by bethesda

 

[IDOMe02]

I like Zombie Apocalypse - realistically its the most survivable apocalypse out there.

are we talking TWD zombies or other zombies ? because at least i dont think I can survive runner zombies like the ones in wwz or something like the 28 days later virus

 

[wainrider]

are we talking TWD zombies or other zombies ? because at least i dont think I can survive runner zombies like the ones in wwz or something like the 28 days later virus

WWZ in the book had slow zombies. The thing is it showed why slow zombies are dangerous. I think two of the most iconic scenes in the book for me is; a group of suvivors go on a multi story building roof thinkin they would be okay and so many zombies showed up that they just made a zombie pile big enough that it didn't matter how tall the building was. The other was the military shows fully loaded and just starts unloading all munitions of them. Like the scene in predator with schwarzenegger except the whole battalion was doing that. And they all died because there were millions and millions of zombies. Yeah you can run away from them easy but you screw up one time and you have 100,000 zombies at your feet.

 

[noyka]

Nuclear apocalypse, terrifying because the initial catastrophe is fast, while the aftermath is long and uncertain. Or
AI/technological collapse, humans lose control of increasingly autonomous systems.