JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
So basically that's what's wrong with zombies. Not the zombies themselves, but everything else about the setting that just doesn't lend itself well to adventure-type of stories one is looking for fantasy movies and games.
Not really, some of your ideas in this post sound pretty cool. I'd like to play a post apoc game set during the apocalypse! I do like modern urban settings (I love urban fantasy, modern espionage or crime thriller stories, gangster movies, etc... a modern setting with magic, something like VtM:B would be great, or something like GTA as an RPG where you play a gangster, no fantasy elements needed). Heck, I would even be interested if you merely replaced the zombies in a zombie apoc game with aliens that invade.
I just have 0 interest in the zombie genre, the zombie creatures themselves, the storylines revolving around them, the specific drama associated with them (OH NO MY GIRLFRIEND GOT BITTEN BY A ZOMBIE I MUST KILL HER OR SHE TURNS INTO A MONSTER BUT I CANT; OH SHIT A ZOMBIE ATTACKS OH FUCK ITS MY DAD NOOOOO I HAVE TO SHOOT MY DAD IN THE FACE etc), the boring genericness of it all, and the low variety of zombies as either enemies or environmental hazard (it's hordes of zombies, they attack when they notice you; that's it. Post-apoc can have radiation zones, alien invasion can have alien patrols actively searching for survivors trying to kill them, etc; zombie setting has.... zombies, yaaaaaaaaaawn).
There is nothing about the zombie setting that could not be improved by merely replacing zombies with something else, even if you keep everything else the same.