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This game was completely off my radar until recently. I basically platinum'd Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2 - really loved those games, could probably navigate the Mall and DR2's Fake Vegas while drunk and half asleep. Just watched some of this game and wow - it really looks terrible and removes a lot of the stuff that, while divisive, I really enjoyed. I just don't understand how many of these cautionary tales companies need to make. I would rather have a "real" Dead Rising with some new concepts, lower fidelity, and some jank then a real polished AAA experience that self-cannabalizes to justify the budget.
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I rarely used Quickstep for my DR1 Saint run and I also rarely had a problem with Escorting people (because I constantly moved them around with the "Go there!" command). However I also admit that I'm atypical in this way. Honestly, the problem with Dead Rising was people expecting it to be "one and done" story-mode game and criticizing the game from that perspective. If the game just flat-out told you it was like Hitman or Dark Souls - that you were expected to play it again and again until you knew the levels perfectly and had mastered the mechanics and could beat the timers - then it would be fine. There's an audience for that. But in 2006 they didn't know how to market it and didn't know that segment of gamers was still around. Demon's Souls was still 3 years away. Now that an audience interested in mastery has been activated, it would be a perfect time to split the game into goof-off and punishing - the gameplay DOES support that - but instead they just went pure goof-off. Oh well.
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I mean, think of all the cool stuff they can do with "next gen" power: get rid of the survivor limit (or at least work around it easier), dynamically deform the environment as the game continues, have crazy amounts of drone weapons or other large-scale AI stuff, and just generally go hog wild with making it seem like an open-world simulation of the weirdest 72 hours of somebody's life.
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Frank's voice was cool, he had that nasal element that made his incredulity seem real. His voice getting changed for no real reason and with a bullshit excuse is just one more sign that the devs have no idea what they're doing with the franchise.
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That DR1 -> DR4 video is loving embarrassing.
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