Why is this seen as the best in the series?

Nostalgia. 2 is the best.

It's FAN-TASTIC

Because it's simple and to the point. The sequels were unnecessary and just Capcom desperate for money.

It is but 2 is also good

YEAH

Everything about it is designed to be frustrating. It's probably the game with the most frustrating first playthrough ever. And it's great.

>>384441743
>Why is this seen as the best in the series?
Probably because it is.

Is the remaster easier or something ? I blasted through it without too much difficulty while I remember having a hard time on the 360 version

>>384441743
Best visuals in the series
Best story in the series
Best Psychopaths
Tightest controls
Best engine (MT framework was made with black magic I wear)
Best setting of the series

Played it for the first time like 4 months ago. Got bored of it after 4 hours but it was probably good for its time.

I sold it, but out of curiosity: How the fuck do you beat the sniper battle?

Not the first one near the food places but the one where you go up the escalator to see him and you're with that one white dude. The second sniper battle I think

>>384444026
git gud

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>never played a DR game
What am I in for?

It struck the right balance of serious to comedy, which was more heavily weighted toward the serious side. All the others went full zany bullshit. A large part of the fun came from using mundane items around the mall. The crafting system the second game introduced broke the game with overpowered weapons that were easily rebuilt and ironically replaced any of that sense of finding makeshift weapons. 2 is okay, but it's still a full letter grade below 1 in my opinion.

>>384441743
because it was an original idea that did a lot of things new and executed it in a good way.

DR2 OTR is my favorite in the seriesbut the first is still great.

>>384444292
But 2 did them better

>>384444223
fun until you get all the moves and make all the weapon combos, then unlmited zombie killing for stress relief purposes

>>384441743
Focus on normal, everyday items as weapons. 2 brought in a much easier to handle control scheme for shooting (basically just a modern control scheme), but combo weapons changed the entire franchise. I think they were well handled in 2 though, where they were a rare tool to help you through, but you still relied mostly on normal objects.

But by 3, you don't go anywhere without several combo weapons. Why would you? You can build them anywhere, they fully restore any weapons used in their making, and they're just better than normal items in every possible way. There is no reason to take a frying pan, heat it, and then burn faces off zombies like in part 1. You don't run out of combo weapons nearly as often as you would in 2, you really just ignore normal items unless you know you can use them to make a combo.

1 is also set in a mall, which is the purest setting. I haven't tried Off The Record yet, so I can't say if it's that much better than normal 2, but I liked 2 quite a bit. 3 honestly isn't even BAD, but it's less than the other two. It just doesn't bring the same feelings.

3 and 4 are garbage, 4 in particular

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>>384444223
A fun time with the family, along with frustration.

It had the perfect blend of quirky Japanese game design/humour and western setting. It wasn't trying too hard and it wasn't made purely to make profit.

>>384442590
>>384442427
CMON
CMON
FOLLOW ME
CMON
OVER THERE
FOLLOW ME
FOLLOW ME

>>384444223
Wrecking zombies with wrestling moves and anything you can grab

>>384444389
This, besides lightsabers being OP as fuck I thought 2 was pretty damn decent.

>>384441743

just watch Errant Signals video on DR4 he explains it pretty good

2 was as good as it was because the Japanese were still heavily involved with the game.

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>>384444223
>Dead Rising 2 vanilla
>not buying Off The Record

JUST

>>384444671
Same, I could totally play 2 again someday and have a lot of fun. Lightsabers were pretty bullshit, but also damn fun.

Combo vehicles in 3 are fun as well, but they completely change the game. There is no tension at all when you have a button that not only boost you, but shoots flames out of either side of you steamroller. I think if they wanted to go the route of 3, they should have introduced more shit that gave you a real challenge, even boss type characters are pushovers if you have a few decent combos. In part 1 nearly every boss was one hell of a threat.

>>384441864
This. 2 is what happens when retards say 'all you have to do is make the same game but with better controls!' but then afterwards say 'it's the same game but with better controls'. Off the Record is without a doubt the best Deadrising game, and only petty nostalgiafags contend that fact.

>>384444026
The 3 snipers fight? I cheesed it using mini chainsaws and a bunch of quickstep drinks. Prioritise killing the dad first, then the older brother then finally the youngest

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>>384444752
>tfw Capcom doesn't give a fuck about Dead Rising anymore and will let leafs ruin it forever instead of putting them on a leash like they did with 2

>>384444310
2 is still building off of an original idea that took it and spun it off into something it wasn't really. whether it's mechanics got better or not isn't what makes 1 better than 2. it's story, world building and execution make it better than 2.

and in my personal opinion, them butchering frank west in 2, even though capcom uses frank west to this day as an iconic character.

>>384441743
you see the TV frank is holding?

that is something common at least to the year the OG game came out, 2006. EVERYONE who is an oldfag knows why past 2008 was just a never ending torrent of shit.

its why DR2 was average and why DR3 and 4 sucked

>>384444026
Farm cop zombies for pistols

>DR1
>grab everything around you to fight zombies and level up to become unstoppable
>DR2
>okay some combos are OP but you're still grabbing anything you can find to fight zombie
>everything past 2
>what the fuck

>>384441864
fpbp

>>384444908

That's why I don't care that BC is on fire

>t. Albertan

>>384444929
Parts of 2 are really good.
I just think combo weapons are terrible and the only thing worse is throwing up when you drink alcohol. It's supposed to be a detriment to you, but the reality of the situation is that you just need to stand still and swing while the boss repeatedly trips in a puddle of vomit, almost totally defenseless.

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this shit was retarded

I remember getting fucking deadlocked in Dead Rising 2 because I saved at a bathroom not realizing that I was late as fuck for Katie's god damn vaccination. It was the bathroom where you fight the first boss, the one that leads right to mall. I tried for LITERALLY 3 fucking hours mapping out the fastest route back to hide out, but I could only ever end up making it FIVE FEET FROM THE FUCKING ENTRANCE to the office where Katie was

I was so mad, closest I ever came to tossing my ps3 out the window holy shit

people who prefer 1 are "real gamers" for lack of a better term

dr2 came out during the beginning of the end, and everyone who shills this game is likely of that cancerous group of gamers

>>384445649
How tho, doesn't that chick at the safe room nag you about it like every 2 seconds?

>>384441743
The only real advantage Off the Record has over DR1 is the combo weapon system which is really great and changes the game. Otherwise every DR after 1 is worse because it removes the tension and difficulty the original had simply by making the survivors capable of moving through almost any obstacle by themselves. In DR1 you had to plan and navigate routes, thinning the herd at certain points to get the survivors back safe and sound and the time limits were unforgiving even on max level. After DR2 you just point them towards the next loading screen and you are done.

>>384445852
I wish they found a middle ground between DR1 survivors stopping every time one zombie gets in their path and DR2 survivors pushing through a sea of zombies by themselves

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>>384444907
> no option to spare the youngest son
capcom pls

>>384441743
its a sequel with all the kinks knocked out of it.
what was supposed to happen is 2 supposed to be the worthy successor and 3 the good one built with the strong design of 1 on the solid engine of 2. instead we got the hyyyype trainwreck of "look we have and app for that" era. where everything was built on "look at what we can do" instead of "look at what were good at".

>>384446196
I genuinely felt bad for killing him. You can spare Paul the arsonist, but not him for some reason.

>>384445649
>Not using rolling saveslots
I do this habitually with every game with multiple slots mane. You should too.

>>384445649
that was literally the beginning of the game. take your xp and restart. the second time around you'll have all the time in the world because this time youre not running around with your dick in your hand wondering what to do with it.

>>384445649
You gotta get used to getting a bad ending and restarting. You keep your levels, you know what to expect, you get a lot faster. Did that at least twice in 1 before I got to the real ending.

>>384446013
>I wish they found a middle ground between DR1 survivors stopping every time one zombie gets in their path and DR2 survivors pushing through a sea of zombies by themselves

Make male survivors push through zombies and make female survivors useless shits like in DR1.

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>>384441743
Dead Rising is one of those games that requires knowledge of what is to come in order to not have a hard time. If you know the breaks between cases/ best items/ how to maximizes your time you can get a best ending play through your first try without redoing it at a higher level. If you don't then your fucked and your going to struggle until you have system down that works.

>>384446242
>Play through 3
>about halfway through
>decide to try the stupid app
>boring side missions that give me airstrikes and extra loot I don't need
I guess it's better than anything good being tied into the app, but what a waste of time it was.

>>384446507
Edgy, but sure, a mix of competent and weak survivors would probably be good. Probably also have survivor's moral tied to eachother, so if a guy's wife gets eaten he just falls apart and you have to drag him. There is a lot they could have done with the system that they just abandoned.

>>384444026
Nah, this game is timeless. You just suck rofl. 50/50 achievements. 7 day survivor was a nightmare to get.

>>384441743
is it worth 20 or do I wait for a sale

>>384446978
I'd say it's worth 20 bucks

>>384446978
There is a humble bundle for Off the Record right now, 7 bucks and some change.

As for 1, it'll go on sale eventually. $10 isn't too much to ask for it.

>>384446978
Go to gamestop and get it cheap

>>384446850
I got to 14 days when it released on steam version. It's not hard when you figured out a plan/know what to do.

>>384444223
Bosses that one-shot you.

>>384445649
Remember to fill out all your saveslots

>>384447161
The problem isnt a plan. Its fucking the most boring tedious achievement ever. Stayed up all night reading harry potter lol hoping that i dont get a red rong of death 13 hours in lmao

>>384446604
I know this is going to sound like "ITS A FEATURE!!" but that is kinda deliberate, it's supposed to be replayed multiple times till you level up and git gud

>>384446850
>7 day survivor was a nightmare to get.
I had my original 360 on for 27 hours to do that, if I recall. The wireless controller would auto shutoff JUST before Frank would starve, so I sat on a roof in the open park area, with an inventory full of orange juice and the food boosting book. Waited til I saw the controller turn off, fed Frank, repeat. Didn't even lose any sleep that night.

Surprisingly that had no negative effect on the 360, it died years later for seemingly unrelated reasons.

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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL

HE AIN'T MY BOY BUT THE BROTHER IS HEAVY

WEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL


Good story

Memorable Psychopaths

Best protagonist

>>384447446
>>384447396
How about that.

>>384443738
because the 360 version had that pain in the ass auto roll that would go off every 5 seconds

>>384447396
the repeating sound before the lyrics is the best

>>384447367
I agree. It's more fun to get a bad ending or two while learning the game, and you feel completely different doing an early part at level 25 than you do being level 6. I think part 2 had it a bit, but I forget since I was just better at a DR type game by then. By 3, the game just expects you to see everything in one go, which is kinda sad.

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ENDLESS NIGHT
LONG FOR LIIIIIGHT
MY HEAD AGAINST THIS TOMB
AAAAAND PUSHING THROUGH

>FRANK? FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNKKKKK!

*walkie talkie starts ringing*

>>384447603
Kurt Cobain isnt looking to goo- oh wait.

>>384441743

It has the best protagonist, setting and psychos. I would mention the lack of OP combo weapons, but Mini Chainsaw was just as absurd as anything from DR 2 anyway.

>>384447770
>Kurt Cobain
Nigger that's Zack de la Rocha

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DR1 had a really attractive female charachter.

>what did people like about the first two Dead Rising games?
>fucking with items and killing zombies
>no, they liked killing zombies with BIG WACKY WEAPONS!
>o-oh...

ALRIGHT

>>384447905
Rebecca is better.

>>384447951
And apparently we loved sex jokes and toilet humour.

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>>384447905
>First DR game fully done by a western team was DR3
>This is what they did to Isabella in DR3

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>>384447905

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>>384447905
I wanted to bone her bad and Jessie

>>384448351

>tfw no alternate story mode featuring Brady where Jessie survives and gets BLACKED

>>384448215
Well, it was like 20 years later. I guess she could have died young and beautiful like everyone else.

>>384448078
dude frank called the zombies hitler doesn't that just make you roflmao? xxd

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>>384447905
>>384448487
Lmao, beginning of DR 2 shows protagonist cucklord Chuck.

>>384448570
They completely missed the point and DR4 didn't even hit a million copies. It was at 600k last time I checked. I think the director "left" as well.

>>384448742
I don't know how they fucked up DR4 as hard as they did. 3 was a step in the wrong direction, but I felt things were salvageable. But DR4 lost more and more of my interest the more I saw of it, which is the exact opposite of how you should do things. They bullshit a reason to rebuild the mall and nothing about that seems particularly interesting.

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>>384448570

Wasn't DR 4 Frank supposed to be an older, more mature take on the character after all the shit he went through? What the fuck happened?
I know DR 4 was a piece of shit, but t thought they would at least manage not to do the complete opposite of what they wanted.

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>>384448906
>What the fuck happened?
Canadians

>>384448906
Capcom probably wants to do a last minute reveal that "Hank East" really wasn't Frank and instead some survivor that ended up delusional or something while the real Frank is out there.

At least, that's what I'm hoping for, since they're not above such an asspull.

>>384449190
>Real Frank wakes up from the dream that was DR4
>"woah that was some nightmare"

>>384449104
DR2 was pretty fun and leaves helped work on that, the problem is that crapcom gave them full control over DR4

>>384449190
>Dead Rising IV
>Frank, voiced by TJ Rotolo, is having a fan meeting
>one interviewer asks him about the sequel to the film adaptation of his book.
>flashback slideshow of Dead Rising 4
>Frank : They took a lot of creative liberties that I don't agree with.
Would be amusing to see

>>384449361
Never let a leaf dictate your franchises, just exploit them for tax write offs.

>people saying that Off the Record is better than vanilla 2

Really? Wasn't OTR made by the same retards behind 3 and 4?

>>384449987
It was done by the same retards behind 2.

>>384450040
Says on Wikipedia that Vancouver did OTR, while Blue Castle Games did DR2 along with some of the DR1 ream.

>>384448906
>Wasn't DR 4 Frank supposed to be an older, more mature take on the character after all the shit he went through?
I wish. He's a fucking idiot in the game.

>"You said we were going to play mini golf!"
- Actual, serious line from Frank West in DR4.

>>384450110
>while Blue Castle Games did DR2 along with some of the DR1 ream.
BCG are Capcom Vancouver.

>>384448351
Is there any good 34 of her with hairy pits and pussy?

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Best DR game coming through.

>>384450378
no

>>384441743
Atmospheer, its actually somewhat spooky and has a serious tone. Ds2 is fun but over the top. Ds3 is meh, ds4 is hot shit

>>384444223
Expect to not beat it the first time or maybe even the second time around

>>384441743
I think it's a mix of seemingly intentional crippling of abilities and strength, and the B movie story. Once you know the game becomes extremely fun once you reach higher levels, it gives you more incentive to save people to level up faster, and the story was genuinely interesting and unique for the time.

>>384442427
that shitty movie resident evil vendetta made a homage to frank west

>play otr
>not as good as i remember 2 being
>play 3
>sucks ass

what happened?

>>384441864
>>384444864
I can't believe there's still some retards like this out there
Check out both, the movement and animations in 2 feel atrocious and even more clunkier, fuckheads
1 is old and had many problems with it's AI, sure, but it's still the best

>>384453304
Fucking leafs and asians only in supervisor's shit not making the whole game

>>384453562
Don't be racist

>>384454380
Sorry
But for real DRs after first one sucked