Dead Rising - It's Resident Evil mixed with photography and robot masks.

[Dom Cruise]

Then again do people really want a new Dead Rising? The series is good as a trilogy (with 4 acting as a shitty non canon epilogue). Unless they do some serious changes, whats the point? They kept removing featurees more and more and thinking that adding shitty combo weapons would justify.

I think there's still potential if they focus closely on recapturing what the first game was like, bring back features they removed and trying to recapture the tone of the first game.

A new game like the first one but bigger in scale, I see a lot of potential in that.

 

[The handsome tard]

I think there's still potential if they focus closely on recapturing what the first game was like, bring back features they removed and trying to recapture the tone of the first game.

A new game like the first one but bigger in scale, I see a lot of potential in that.

Same but this is Capcom we are talking about. They would have to hand over the series back to original team (say whatever you want about Keiji, he knew enough about western culture to properly make a game that satires it without coming off as stupid)

 

[Zaryiu]

What they tried to pass off as Dead Rising 4 is one of those games that provoke deep, visceral hatred from me when i think about it just like a few others games i won't mention but they also not only fuck over a franchise but they are made by people that either understand nothing of why the previous games are liked or people that hate a franchise and in every case end up likr a slap to the face

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

Dead Rising 1 and 2 are reality-distorting anomalies. Capcom made a game that combines timed missions, escort missions and janky controls and it's somehow amazing.
It's like making a sandwich out of shit and piss and having it taste like a steak dinner.

 

[Peasant]

Dead Rising 1 and 2 are reality-distorting anomalies. Capcom made a game that combines timed missions, escort missions and janky controls and it's somehow amazing.
It's like making a sandwich out of shit and piss and having it taste like a steak dinner.

It's because having an omnipresent time limit adds weight to everything you do within the game, because you're not sure if you're wasting too much time. Escorting survivors works both because it's a natural progression from what you do all the time (pathfinding around hordes of zombies, but now you have to think more carefully about what route you take) and because it doesn't demand too much input from you if you're smart.

I quit Dead Rising 4 after the first boss because the pacing was absolute dogshit, and nothing in the game carried any weight. The game throws more powerful combo weapons at you than you can possibly use, and psychopath encounters are utterly anticlimactic.

 

[XYZpdq]

Also DR1 escorts become a lot less tortuous when you learn "go that way" instead of "follow me". Computers can handle "go forward" way better than following your minor shifts in movement and pausing to kill a zombie.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Doesn’t giving a survivor in Dead Rising 1 a gun give them infinite ammo for it? Because a survivor with a shotgun is usually not one needing much babysitting.

 

[Violence Jack]

Doesn’t giving a survivor in Dead Rising 1 give them infinite ammo for it? Because a survivor with a shotgun is usually not one needing much babysitting.

Yes that's the way it worked in DR the only thing you had to look out for was friendly fire. Although Im pretty sure in DR2 they don't "run" out of ammo, but it'll be at 1 when you take it from them.

 

[Applejack]

Dead rising is one of those games where you have to understand it to get the most out of it. I know a couple of people that didn't know about the gunshop. It has a lot of replayability. I love it, and there's nothing like it on the market today.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Dead rising is one of those games where you have to understand it to get the most out of it. I know a couple of people that didn't know about the gunshop. It has a lot of replayability. I love it, and there's nothing like it on the market today.

There’s also a certain way of spending the first bits of the game that can make life much easier that a lot of people never figure out. If you go to the gun shop early, the psycho won’t be there yet, and then heading into the parkade and getting the maintenance key will make life easier, then you go fight the guy in the food court and kill the clown psycho. The other good idea for the parkade is to run over shitloads of zombies to farm experience.

 

[Dom Cruise]

What they tried to pass off as Dead Rising 4 is one of those games that provoke deep, visceral hatred from me when i think about it just like a few others games i won't mention but they also not only fuck over a franchise but they are made by people that either understand nothing of why the previous games are liked or people that hate a franchise and in every case end up likr a slap to the face

I really wonder whether I should skip Dead Rising 4 completely.

I'm curious though, but I was curious about Resident Evil 6 even though I came close to skipping it but wound up trying to play it anyway which I regret, as I hated it.

Also DR1 escorts become a lot less tortuous when you learn "go that way" instead of "follow me". Computers can handle "go forward" way better than following your minor shifts in movement and pausing to kill a zombie.

Yes, point them in a direction and then try to clear the way for them, that works much better.

Dead rising is one of those games where you have to understand it to get the most out of it. I know a couple of people that didn't know about the gunshop. It has a lot of replayability. I love it, and there's nothing like it on the market today.

It's amazing how much the game leaves in the player's hands considering that gen became known for games having a lot of hand holding and easy difficulty level, Dark Souls going against all that made the game legendary, but Dead Rising to some degree was Dark Souls before Dark Souls.

But it came out in 2006, very early into the 7th gen and those first 3 years of that gen from 2005 to 2008 were my favorite as they were a lot more experimental, the "rules" had yet to be written for what was expected of most games that gen.

 

[The handsome tard]

What they tried to pass off as Dead Rising 4 is one of those games that provoke deep, visceral hatred from me when i think about it just like a few others games i won't mention but they also not only fuck over a franchise but they are made by people that either understand nothing of why the previous games are liked or people that hate a franchise and in every case end up likr a slap to the face

It seems its what happens in favor more and more "jokes and memes" type of writing, acting like they are fucking Saints Row (just look at Borderlands 3, humor and writing, it took a nose dive). Dead Rising 1 and 2 had humor but they never took over the fact that this was a living or dying situation at the end of the day, it knew to remind you that yes, things are fucked up. Dead Rising 3 leaned towards humor a bit more (feeling like a dark comedy at times) but 4 has reached parody status (like its a Scary Movie type parody of itself now). There is no constant threat of death upon you or anyone (its not like Frank needs zombrex so you are never faced with the decision to save someone or go find zombrex when time is short).

If 4 at least had a decent story, I could let go some of its flaws but nope! Its awful. Vicky is one of my most HATED characters alongside with Ava from Borderlands 3 (both are young "ambicious" annoying shit heads that constantly disobey and put their mentors and themselves at risk because they want to "prove themselves" which is by itself such a tired trope I wish lazy writers would stop (proving yourself =/= acting like a reckless cunt). And spoilers for Dead Rising 4 and Borderlands 3

Spoiler

They get their mentors, veteran characters of the series, killed off because of their incapacity to actually cooperate. At least Frank West comes back, Maya is probably dead for good.

Frank was not much better, hell, I barely consider him to be the west man. I call him "Hank East" (like we call Ep8's Luke Skywalker " Jake" Skywalker). Frank does become more cynical after the first game but he still at core was a determined freelancer that cared about the little guy and to expose the truth even if it could hurt the reputation of his own country. He could make jokes/puns after killing the psychos but thats usually as far as it got. Hank East acts like what a person who has never seen Evil Dead thinks Ash Williams acts like (guy could make jokes and puns but only when it was fitting).

I kind of secretly hope that this "killed" the franchise just so we dont have to stand another entry made by talentless hacks who clearly didnt get what made the series so good.

Dead Rising 1 and 2 are reality-distorting anomalies. Capcom made a game that combines timed missions, escort missions and janky controls and it's somehow amazing.
It's like making a sandwich out of shit and piss and having it taste like a steak dinner.

It was both the intriguing plot and characters and the personality of the setting. You do legit want to learn what will happen in 1 and 2, while in 4 you just dont care since the plot doesnt as well.
When characters die, the game made sure you know the impact. If you find Brad in DR1, you get this cutscene showing Frank finding him with him trying to warn him to stay away (probably knowing he wasnt far from turning), and Frank's reactions really sell that these two were close allies at the end of the day. While it wasnt tear inducing, it did suck to see Jessie and Brad die and Frank kind of being the only left of the starting crew.
There is also the sort of cynical undertone of the first 2 games, with both canon endings not exactly being happy, bittersweet at most (1- Frank survived and exposed the story, but he is still infected and people eventually forget everything thanks to the oversaturation of news media. 2- Chuck saves his daughter and stops the bad guys with Frank's help but he is separated from Katey and he may or may not still be a wanted man)
Things like these made sure as far flawed both games were, that we still could overlook their flaws.

There’s also a certain way of spending the first bits of the game that can make life much easier that a lot of people never figure out. If you go to the gun shop early, the psycho won’t be there yet, and then heading into the parkade and getting the maintenance key will make life easier, then you go fight the guy in the food court and kill the clown psycho. The other good idea for the parkade is to run over shitloads of zombies to farm experience.

You find things like the skate board, the hidden katana, the books, the shortcuts. There were a lot more than just killing the zombies at your front to clear the path, sometimes you had to play it a bit smarter (especially when you had survivors). That showed the love and care from the devs, while 4's devs thought adding stupid combo weapons to do the same shit you could do with a baseball bat would suffice. Fuck off devs.

 

[Ambidextype]

As usual here was the franchise with tons of potential until microsoft comes along and runs the series into the ground.

 

[Zaryiu]

Another reason i wanted 4 to be at least ok to decent is to close the series (3 true ending reveal

Spoiler: In case this might spoil the game story

Isabela gets away with being ghe true masterming of the outbreak in the game just to clear her family name

so i wanted to see karma bit that one hard) BUT NO instead we got what we did and now i'll never get what i wanted

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

As usual here was the franchise with tons of potential until microsoft comes along and runs the series into the ground.

To be fair, Capcom already screwed it by giving it to those hacks in Vancouver that made 2, 3 and 4 and agreeing to let Microsoft have the prologue and side-story DLCs be eternal exclusives. They couldn’t even include them in the remaster collection!

 

[Applejack]

To be fair, Capcom already screwed it by giving it to those hacks in Vancouver that made 2, 3 and 4 and agreeing to let Microsoft have the prologue and side-story DLCs be eternal exclusives. They couldn’t even include them in the remaster collection!

And to be fair to the guys in Vancouver Dead Rising 2 was a pretty good game in it's own right. At least the mall music was spot on.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

And to be fair to the guys in Vancouver Dead Rising 2 was a pretty good game in it's own right. At least the mall music was spot on.

They had adult supervision from head office for 2.

 

[Ambidextype]

To be fair, Capcom already screwed it by giving it to those hacks in Vancouver that made 2, 3 and 4 and agreeing to let Microsoft have the prologue and side-story DLCs be eternal exclusives. They couldn’t even include them in the remaster collection!

Yeah I was going to say 2 wasn't bad but Applejack beat me to it. Actually 2 is probably more playable gameplay-wise. Never played Dead Rising 1 before but I heard the time limit was so severe and A.I. was bad.

 

[Applejack]

Yeah I was going to say 2 wasn't bad but Applejack beat me to it. Actually 2 is probably more playable gameplay-wise. Never played Dead Rising 1 before but I heard the time limit was so severe and A.I. was bad.

The time limit is easily beat by a weapon you get before the first night, and yes the A.I. was absolutely dogshit. But it's still a fun game to go back to just like 2 so check it out when you have the chance

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Yeah I was going to say 2 wasn't bad but Applejack beat me to it. Actually 2 is probably more playable gameplay-wise. Never played Dead Rising 1 before but I heard the time limit was so severe and A.I. was bad.

Dead Rising 1 has some rough edges, but the whole point is to keep exploring and learning the ways to get things done as you die and restart to level up. The AI isn’t great, but there are very simple ways to work around the limitations and even exploit them in a fun, old school way.