Caltrops - Dead Rising





	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote]Play the game Dead Rising wants you to play, not the game you imagine you want to play.[/quote] In my defense, the game it <i>seems</i> to want me to play is one where I almost commit hate crimes against janitors, minorities and people with cell phones. I say "almost" because the right trigger so frustrates aiming that I honestly believe it was one of those meta-game features where the controls are intentionally reversed. But yeah, if this was all spelled out in the instruction manual I did not get from Gamestop (not me being a cheap-ass: the only copy around town was the used one from them) then that's on me. [quote]At first you'll think Dead Rising has it ALL WRONG and it should be following conventions. [/quote] Yes! I did think that! I assumed that the missions and case files and plot and everything should be followed in the relatively low amount of time given. So you called this one. [quote]We've got these conventions for a reason! Not that you won't get frustrated. You will. It's flawed. It's a flawed miracle, not a broken State of Emergency. I hated the game and nearly quit playing several times before calling it the #3 single player game ever. [/quote] I'll be writing my top ten in a list shortly so you can write yours and have it be better. Heads up! [quote]Following other people's advice about finding weapons or how to deal with any problem in the game is a great way to take a shortcut through the fun. That's just reducing Dead Rising to brawler, at which point it's pretty mediocre and has save point issues. [/quote] Right on. It IS horribly unfinished - take for example, what I did last night: I knocked a bunch of cardboard boxes out of a corner of some mall store and found "Bill" hiding back there. I could not speak to Bill. I assume he activates later in the game and has some interesting shit to say. But Capcom, (taps on monitor) you have to account for the state of this "Bill" if I get to him before the scripting is ready for me. Or else you make it so that I can not knock down those cardboard boxes. That being said, right before I turned it off last night I did a scene where it got dark. That's why this game is so schizophrenic: I had been playing now in daylight and zombies are not nearly as creepy in daylight. It turned to 7:00 PM and HOLY SHIT. I left the mall and had a "mission" where I am trying to save this Josie from the horde, after her man got killed by those thugs. Suddenly the game goes from bug-ridden mess to all the shit we want in a zombie game. Like flipping a switch. Especially if you have white knight issues when it comes to chicks. So yeah, the game is ultimately fucking amazing and transcends its (many) flaws. [quote]Also why don't you have an HD TV in that giant basement of yours?[/quote] Everytime I get ready, I end up putting another arcade game down there. ICJ[/quote]