![]() Thank goodness this thing doesn’t like animals with squishy bodies, at least in the real world. ![]() It infects the hosts brain, disorienting them so they seek the safety of their nests, then slowly grows out of the bug’s body so it can release its spores and infect the other insects. The cordyceps fungus, the source of the outbreak in The Last of Us, is a parasitic spore ripped straight from an insect's worst nightmares and made real for our amusement. ![]() The Last of Us takes a different, and slightly horrifying, approach to zombies by grounding its infection in a real world creature. I’ve never been more terrified of a clicking noise than I have been playing this damn game. Some smartipants figured out you could abuse this ability by intentionally applying the Corrupted Blood debuff and by extension, infect the boss with the same debuff to kill it more easily.ĭon’t move - they can’t see you if you don’t move. On September 13, 2005, Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub, whose end boss, Hakkar the Soulflayer, had the annoying habit of draining a player’s blood to replenish its health. This one is a little obscure, but interesting nonetheless. Honourable mention - World of Warcraft: Corrupted Blood Between some of the more outlandish scenarios that seem to always result in bloodthirsty zombies, to more accurate or historical visions of disease that remind us this is just another Sunday in the grand scheme of things, here are some escapist fantasies that hit a little too close to reality right now. ![]() Oh, wait, that’s real life now.Īs terrifying as things seem to be at the moment, it could be so much worse, as these seven games have shown us. We can escape into fantasy worlds where we can be whoever and whatever we want to be, and explore worlds of the most far-fetched fiction where one small organism fundamentally changes the way we live as a society and impacts us on personal and social levels. In spite of the danger and horrors of what is happening to us, this is our time as gamers to shine. We’ve been instructed to isolate ourselves from one another and “social distancing”, an activity I usually engage in regardless of what disease is running rampant across the globe, is now somewhat mandatory. It’s safe to say we’re living in a pretty dark time right now. ![]()
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