15 Video Game Clichés You Couldn’t Live Without

Red Barrels? Zombie Outbreak?

Posted By | On 02nd, Nov. 2016

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We often complain about overused clichés in gaming, but sometimes we know we just couldn’t do without them. Here’s our list of 15 gaming clichés none of us could live without.

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Zombie Outbreaks

Every time a new zombie game is announced, we all collectively sigh. “Another zombie game,” we fruitlessly ask ourselves. But we also know that sometimes those zombie games are good, and sometimes it has to be zombies. Would Telltale’s The Walking Dead be any good if you took out the zombies? How would that even work? Even games that have enemies that function like zombies but won’t call them such, like The Last of Us worked perfectly because of the infected creatures.


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