One thing I like about Dead Rising is that it make it absolutely clear that children died during the outbreak. They don't sugarcoat it and make kids magically absent. Whenever people call Dead Rising a silly comedy game I always think back to that mother survivor who was in hysterics because her infant was grabbed and ripped apart and she says "I've never heard her make a sound like that" forcing the player to imagine what a baby being fucking torn open and cannibalized sounds like.
Honestly I'm kinda happy they didn't show that and Instead used methods like that, because often times in zombie media when you do have kids and they are violently killed on screen it often comes across as beign needlessly edgy or no reason, looking at you crossed.
Frank is an example of an honorable and ethical journalist who genuinely wants to do good by unveiling horrific truths about the world. That may just be the most unrealistic element of a game about zombies.
Same here. That line always felt a little out of place, like a joke I just wasn't getting. Either way, that bitch be dumb, I still haven't gotten to the point where she'll join my party despite the whole "lovecraftian horrors" all around us.
I wouldn’t say a Japanese plot point, more so an observational one; United States Department of Agriculture reported in 2020 that “55% of crops grown in the US were genetically modified”. In 2024 the FDA confirmed “95% of animals used for meat consume GMO crops” and even still in 2024 the US uses ‘Bovine somatotropin’ which is a growth hormone given to cows to produce more meat which is as far as I’m aware, the plot for DR1? America testing genetic modification on cows to produce more meat and it makes a fuck up?
It's cool how multiple franchises spawned as originally being spinoffs of Resident Evil- Onimusha, Devil May Cry, Dead Rising, Haunting Ground, and even Dino Crisis.
And Capcom is currently doing completely nothing with most of these franchises. Dead Rising is getting yet another re-release that looks mid, Dino Crisis is dead, Devil May Cry, their most consistent franchise in terms of quality is MIA, Onimusha is dead, Haunting Ground is dead, and Dragon's Dogma was brought back! YAY! Oh wait the sequel is terrible.
@@coltonwilkie241we got dmc5 special edition 4 years ago, and itsuno directed dragon's dogma 2. now that he's gone i can see the problem, but it has not been that long from the last one.
@@coltonwilkie241DD2 did decently, though the patches were slow to release, the most recent especially. Was actually a fine game if you weren't having performance issues, but got panned because people made the MTX overblown and the performance issues--if you had them, which was likely for 80-90% of players--were pretty rough.
With how much he had to put up for those three days, Frank’s patience must be ironclad after dealing with half of the survivors being more of a detriment than the walking dead.
I think Frank... is not on the same plane of reality. Not too far off, just like, barley out of phase with what's happening around him. The man photographs human corpses currently trying to devour his face and then says "Gooood 😎"
God, Dead Rising is an amazing zombie game that was ahead of it's time honestly. A.I. be damned, I'll always die on the hill that it's one of the best zombie games to be ever made.
The ai isn't good by any means but I've played so many modern games with worse ai that i was surprised how kinda average they were when I actually played dead rising. I was expecting way worse and they're like average open world follower tier. The worst for me was kindell who would just stand around and get grabbed all the time.
I do find it refreshing to have a zombie series where they actually call the infected zombies instead of calling them whatever the writers can come up with.🐱
The reason writers do that is because if the characters use the term "zombie," it means in-universe exists zombie-media and then you can't get away with zombie tropes because characters should be aware of them and avoid them.
@@HortonSalm I feel like if they use the term “zombie” unironically then they won’t get taken as seriously. Dead Rising wasn’t trying to tell some mature story, it was just trying to be a goofy good time so it embraced the premise and ran with it; I personally think it works better for it.
"Zombies are coming to rip you limb from limb, Otis is yelling at me, Jessie has panties I need to take pics of, dude, I got things to do!" This is it. This is Dead Rising 1 in a nutshell.
The only zombie game that ends with a one on one punch fight with an army officer on top of a tank. Go ahead and say the Zed word. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
Loved this game growing up my grandmother on my father's side god bless her soul saw me playing it in the kitchen and she thought Frank was cute the sob rizzed my grandma
Fun fact: Carlito is voiced by the same guy that voices Seymour in ff10 while brock is voiced by the guy that voiced jecht. So the 2 bad guys in ff10 are also the bad guys in dead rising. Also it's interesting that frank wears carlito's locket in off the record and case west.
@@ParrotMan01276 goofy's va bill farmer is great. He voiced Sam in Sam and max hit the road and played date in the yakuza 1 english dub. Kakashi's va also voiced teddie in the ps2 version of persona 4.
You are the first person I've ever personally seen in making a Dead Rising Retrospect that actually looked into what wars Frank may have covered I honestly respect that level of dedicated research. Yeah it's a game and sure it's a bit of a silly line but that is honestly something that DOES play a big part of who Frank is and why he is so stoic and easy to go into life or death areas I enjoyed the video up to that point but hearing he may have covered so many possibilities is so many points of respect This went from a damn good review to a top tier one ♡
Honestly the Ps2/Xbox to PS3/360 was the last time a consoles had a legit leap in technology everything since had been graphical improvements but not since games like Dead Rising have I seen a game and thought "This could only be made on the Ps5/nu-Xbox hardware." At this point consoles are just closed system PCs.
@@rabidwolverine8367 I completely forgot Rich Evans streamed video games at one time. I thought TAL was just referring to another fella that shared the same name but I looked it up and sure enough Dick the Birthday Boy himself is the one playing.
36:44 anytime a remake is made after the dev team got dissolved, they always miss the finer points of the original and sadly, the characters will never be spared
But that change doesn’t dissolve his women-oggling character trait like this guy seems to imply. He still checks Jessie and Isabella out when he first see’s them, and Cheryl’s request still has you take suggestive pictures of her. Erotica was a photo category that you rarely got an opportunity to exploit anyways.
Speaking of under appreciated Zombie games, I'm playing through Days Gone. I feel like that's a game that got slept on when it came out, with no thanks to journalists.
I get pretty upset thinking about it since it’s confirmed to be a sort of “Alt-Timeline” to another forgotten Sony franchise that I loved growing up and they even have references to it (including a weapon!) The fact that it got slept on so hard until it released on PC is absolutely criminal
See, I wanted to like Days Gone but I feel like it tried to do too many things narratively for me to actually enjoy it. Fighting the massive hordes of infected was pretty fun though. Don’t know if they’ll ever make another, but if nothing else they set up a solid blueprint to build on.
I recently tried getting back into it. It's relentlessly dull and boring and it's way longer than it has any right to be. If it was a 15 hour game it would be so much better but they actually had the audacity to stretch their horrid writing out to an over 30 hour main story. The characters just suck as a cherry on top. Nobody is likable. Deacon constantly ranting about something while exploring gets old after the first 5 times he does it and he does it EVERY TIME YOU DO SOMETHING. A Radio Free Oregon plays? Deacon rants. Picking flowers and mushrooms? Deacon rants. Zombie hunting? Deacon rants. Gets called by anyone just to antagonize Deacon? Deacon rants. Deacon thinks about his wife? Starts ranting immediately after. O'Neil doesn't immediately pick up the radio after Deacon was just talking to him? You guessed it, Deacon rants. Days Gone deserves it's poor ratings from journalists. It deserved lower than what it was given.
It seemed pretty clear to me that Frank got bit after the chopper crash. He falls to the ground in numb desperation, completely unaware of his surroundings, maybe blacks out from the stress or hits his head as a zombie lunges at him, cut to Isabella dragging his (probably bloody) ass to the safehouse, and he doesn't really remember what happened.
53:09 - 53:13 Bro I gotta do this to you after hearing you say that. Sigmund: "Come on now mate, gotta have standards. I know we shootin' an' R@pin, but necrophilia is a step too far." In all serious, really good video Loli.
Dude's been talking about DR a bunch since the controversies with the remake started coming out. He'll probably at least stream DRDR once it's released
The originals are on sale on Playstation (1,2 OTR) so I might consider buying them and playing the series again after this review. I was curious about the remake myself.
You're not special. You're only replaying due to remaster. He's only talking about it due to the remaster. This is an algorithm and you're another gullible, comic reading ball of maleable grease.
Hey, wrapping your 360 in a towel sort of worked. I was able to get mine to come back to life for about two hours by putting a towel around it, then it died again.
This is gonna be a long comment, but I wanted to mention that for all the psychopaths that we get to see, Sean and Jo stand out for me as the worst ones. Jo kidnapped several innocent women just to force herself on them as well as brutaly kill them and Sean used the outbreak to make his own cult to sacrifice survivors. And while it's shown that Sean was genuinely insane, Jo had no excuse and no remorse for what she did. She just used the situation for her own advantage. And it's also related to the other thing I like about Frank. While he tries to be peaceful with the psychopaths and shows sympathy to the ones that were really tragic, he can show disgust for the most awful ones. This is especially seen after his fight with Kent and Jo, when he throws the former camera in disgust, and doesn't even want to look Jo in the eyes after defeating her. Hell, he can snap one of the Convicts neck in fury in the Wii version and doesn't even acknowledge Sean's death. He will try to make things peaceful, but when someone crosses the line, there is no sympathy for those kinda monsters.
Ecdycis is literally one of the gods of dead rising Tom foolery. Just stumbled apon this channel and I’m enjoying what I’m seeing. Keep up the great work
I love how the game was played straight with some amazing acting and overall very serious. Though the gameplay and psychopaths are friggin funny and clunky as shit that newer zombie games can't really replicate. Here's hoping DrDr is gonna be good
I think what works really well about DR1 is that for the most part it's really only as goofy as you want it to be. As long as you don't do stuff like put Frank in ridiculous outfits then it's an incredibly dark game that's played straight. DR1 is the best game in the series at capturing how destructive, horrific, and downright tragic an event like this would really be. Many of the survivors you meet are so traumatized that it almost makes you wonder if death would've been a preferable option.
I feel like Dead Rising came out at the right time for the mid to late 2000’s zombie mania, if not helped kick it into overdrive. You could argue that it was already starting with the Resident Evil games, and movies like Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, I won’t dispute that in the slightest. What I mean is there’s just something about the timing of Dead Rising’s release that makes me think it helped fuel it. In fact, aside it and the aforementioned Resident Evil, there was only two other game series that came out during the period’s height that I think of with those games, Left 4 Dead & Call of Duty Zombies mode. These four series are what I instantly think of when I hear “zombies” and “video games” together. One thing I like about the plot is how stupidly plausible it appears, even back then. If you think about some of the major concerns in the 2000’s in the world, if not at least the United States, it somehow creatively combines them, almost like it’s commenting on it as parallels. This could be intentional or just coincidence, but the way they line up is kind of impressive. -You have the plot of the game being caused by a biological terrorist attack. (War on Terror & Anthrax letter scare) -You have an attempted major cover-up by the U.S. involving the military over it (The questionable ethics behind starting the second war in Iraq) -You have the major cause of the incident being related to dealing with hunger by mass producing beef through biological experiments (Global hunger and maybe a shade of Mad Cow Disease and/overpopulation) Heck before The Last of Us used it as a plot point, it had a parasitic organism as the main vector of zombie infection. Again, I wanna stress that this could be coincidence, but it’s kind of surprising how it all blended together while also still keeping some of the original Romero critique of consumerism. I wouldn’t say it’s the brightest plot conceived, but it’s definitely very creative.
The reason I like dead rising 2 to be specific is the weapon combinations they look pretty cool and badass. good video 👍 but I think dead rising 1 it’s pretty fun and cool
RE4 didn't invent OTS aiming. It only popularized it. The earliest example I know is Jet Force Gemini for the N64. But there might be earlier examples.
Jet force Gemini is not OTS, it's a player-centered TPS. OTS requires the camera to be over the shoulder of the player character which makes the player actually staggered to one side of the screen. Jet force Gemini is how third person shooters were *before* OTS was made.
Weeeeeeeellllllllllllll.... I gotta say I'm very interested to see where this video series goes. All time favorite franchise for me, alongside Pikmin. That weird action + resource-management combo just really scratches a sweet spot for me.
I remember watching my dad play the Wii version back in the day. The fact that the poodles and parrots are wii exclusive is a true shame, those little bastards are a pain that should be shared.
I never really played the dead rising games before but after seeing this video I am now curious about seeing it. Mainly for Frank West and how compassionate he is and I love compassionate characters they are like my favorite kind of characters with aspirational characters
I believe it's a SIG P220, but in gameplay it's a long slide .45 1911, I assume to show the slide reciprocating loading the next round. I remember as a kid I thought it was an amazing animation while most games at the time didn't even have a functioning slide. And I think a reference to the first Terminator movie.
Interesting detail about the games plot i picked up on. Dunno if it factored into it directly, but the idea that the zombie outbreak happened because America wanted more beef could've come from how in Japan, Capcoms home nation, the Japanese couldn't compete with America's cattle industry at its scale. The entirety of Colorado alone could out produce the Japanese. In response to this, Japan invested in quality wagyu beef as opposed to America's mass produced quantity.
Dead rising was my childhood. I bought 2 first since it was the only one they were selling at my local flea market. I got obsessed since then, and the series has stuck with me ever since. These games are dark if you really think about it, but the real comedy is what you’re allowed to do to the undead hordes that massacred the town. I’m glad I requested this game alongside others on subscribestar, since more people need to look back on this series. Great video as always.
Just finished this, fantastic video. Looking forward to your Dead Rising 2 breakdown (loved that game); as well as Dead Rising 3, which I didn't end up playing but was curious about. Also, hoping maybe one day you might do a video on "Project Zomboid", a super fantastic indie game with a ton of depth in the zombie genera. Regardless, take care, great video; keep up the awesome work.
I like how literally every zombie media plays around with the realization that zombies are real and then Dead Rising is just like: "Ye, we have a zombie apocalypse, deal with it"
Dead Rising had such a special place in my heart. I remember staying up late with friends playing it on the Xbox. We got 7hrs into the 7 day Survivor achievement and the game crashed, I gotta give it another try
Is it just me or is it normal to feel bad for a good amount of the psychos in Dead rising. I'm not saying all of them of course but at least a good half if there was a way to knock them out could have probably been rehabilitated.
my first contact with this game was the Let's Play made by PhantomSavage, totally found it by accident. Decided to get it and play for myself since it looked awesome, and I was surprised by how much they actually put into this game, still to this day the best game on 360 and one of the best zombie games, period.
You know what great abouts dead rising, its full of diversity that isnt forced or injected. A great example of diversity in media way before the pc culture, and DEI agenda's
I feel like most developers just forgot the fun of smashing through a horde with a charismatic man. To me, that is the biggest difference between Vermintide and Darktide. You want to know more about the Ubersreik crew and their wacky adventures. Shoot that is why you have full blown SFM animations of the crew. Darktide, while an incredibly fun game, lacks this element which hurts it over all. (Granted that was deliberate since you play as penal legionnaires and no one cares about penal legionnaires.) The future Dead Rising games really need to up the ante on the charisma to make it back on top.
Years ago I was trying to go for as many survivors as possible and while waiting for Ross to shut up I mashed the action button but forgot I had a shotgun in my hands and accidentally gave it to him I was PISSED and had to replay roughly an hour
My favorite trick for Cletus is at the very beginning of the game you can go straight to the gun store he doesn’t spawn immediately so you can get a few guns and when I go back to fight him later I’ll open the door to go outside of the store kill the zombies around and I usually hide behind the door outside of the shop and snipe him you can even take it a step further and shoot the boss the get behind the door if you do it fast enough the boss doesn’t know how to react and will just walk back and forth so it can make the fight super easy I’m not sure if anyone else posted this in the comments but hopefully someone sees this and can use it in their future playthroughs
There's segments I left out specifically to be covered when we talk about other games. This was intended to be one big video, but quickly realized that's gonna be a hell of a lot bigger task than originally intended. ;_;
@@TheAlmightyLoli youve got your work cut out for you when you get to 4 never played it but seen enough to know its awful, cant wait for your follow up videos down the line with 2 and off the record love seeing a what if with Frank, keep up with the great videos always look forward to them
@@NotSoNadeo I ment Kent (forgot the T) he is a rival photographer you can challenge to take better photos, but you learn hes willing to harm and kill others to create his perfect shot and can fight him.
I really appreciate Dead Rising 1... from a far. I played it once for a bit but it never really clicked with me the way DR2:OTR did. The survivors were frustrating and the game would crash a lot. I just didn't wanna deal with that frustration.
I not only played the java version on my first cell phone. But, I also unlocked the MegaMan suit in it too. And unlike the original X-Box:360 version. In the java version, you don't wear a blue suit. You straight up turned in to the 8bit MegaMan sprite. Yes, the buster is the strongest weapon. But it's locked in only being able to fire horizontally left or right. In a game with enemies that could come from 360 degrees of your position. 😅
Love that he brought up the red ring of death, since this game was the first of many to brick my 360. Oh and the "towel fix" such a stupid idea, but i can say it did work since i was desperate enough to try it back when left 4 dead 1 released. That damn red ring couldn't have come at a worst time 😅
Gotta say that RE2 scared the living day out of me, back then, it was hard to go outside, I had reoccurring nightmares all the time, RE3 didn't help that situation either because it looked the same and that triggered the same reaction. So Dead Rising was a new breed of scares, what may look as cheesy to some wasn't for me, I took everything serious but never played it, at every plot point my imagination went wild. I was coping before that by diving into Zombie movies and games myself, didn't know I was battling my trauma the right way. RE4 also helped. So yeah I liked this game back then and I still like it today.
Something I have found funny about Dead Rising 1 and Resident Evil 4 being tied together due to shared engines: With the more recent ports of RE4 (not Remake) on Xbox One, PS4 and Switch (I think there was another PC port along with these) a few years ago, this version was build using MT Framework! The same engine used for Dead Rising and a lot of other games (dear fucking Lord that list is big). Kind of like an odd "You helped me out back in the day, now I'll help you!"
Man, growing up with the 360 I remember those problems all too well. I sent back maybe 3 360's because they all bricked on me, and when my warranty expired and I couldn't replace my 4th, I resorted to the "Penny Fix," where you wrap pennies in electrical tape and place them on the GPU and CPU to act as heat sinks (Granted it did work for a while). In all, I think I went through maybe six 360 consoles by the time the Xbox One came out lmao.
1. It goes without saying I have a deep history with this series. I played the first game many times. Second game as well. 2. Isabella was a gaming "crush". She was hot, sue me. No, I don't care for her in DR2 or DR3...but I don't think anyone did unless you want to come at me with plot reasons. 3. This is going to be a fascinating deep dive into this series. I never got to play Off the Record. It seemed a little too....masturbatory for lack of a better term. I like Frank, but not THAT much. I thought Chuck was a great protagonist.
Man, looking back on the story has reminded me of what they did with Case West and how that went nowhere. Its crazy that this series has not one, but two spin off entries dedicated to an alternate timeline from the main.
During my deployment they made me take pictures. Every time someone asked me if I knew what I was doing I would say "I covered war you know"
I wasn't forced to take photos, but my SGM wanted some of mine for the battalion facebook when we got back from rotation.
I thought you were going to say, "Every time I took a picture I'd say, FAN-TASTIC!"
@@koatam damn I should have said that. Oh well maybe next time
Nice.
Why exactly did you have to take pictures? What was your MOS/rating?
One thing I like about Dead Rising is that it make it absolutely clear that children died during the outbreak. They don't sugarcoat it and make kids magically absent.
Whenever people call Dead Rising a silly comedy game I always think back to that mother survivor who was in hysterics because her infant was grabbed and ripped apart and she says "I've never heard her make a sound like that" forcing the player to imagine what a baby being fucking torn open and cannibalized sounds like.
It's more horrific imagining it then seeing it. We don't see the kids sure, but they make us visualize it.
Honestly I'm kinda happy they didn't show that and Instead used methods like that, because often times in zombie media when you do have kids and they are violently killed on screen it often comes across as beign needlessly edgy or no reason, looking at you crossed.
@@leviticusprime4904 Crossed is just British Hentai, you know. Don't even mention it
@@ba3787never thought id see crossed and hentai be but into the same sentence.
Doesn't force the player to imagine that or it does, sound hella edgy saying this😭
The most impressive achievement of this game is making a journalist likable
Despite everything Frank West does to get good pictures he's still the LEAST parasitic journalist to ever exist
That's even with the parasite living inside him!
Frank is an example of an honorable and ethical journalist who genuinely wants to do good by unveiling horrific truths about the world. That may just be the most unrealistic element of a game about zombies.
that's how you know it's fiction the journo is actually a good guy
Frank reminds me of a more chaotic Phoenix Wright how they both fight for the truth. but while Phoenix is more of a Boy Scout, frank is more sleazy.
@@Garrus1995 yep
Thanks to this I realise that "I have covered wars you know?" is a reference to DR in Fear and Hunger: Termina
Same here. That line always felt a little out of place, like a joke I just wasn't getting. Either way, that bitch be dumb, I still haven't gotten to the point where she'll join my party despite the whole "lovecraftian horrors" all around us.
Maybe he'll do a funger video some day
@@jeff8839 He did a fun stream of it where he got absolutely filtered by a certain crow.
Ratio crow
@@jeff8839 raticrowed
"America plays god because they eat too much meat" is such a Japanese plot point it makes me laugh every time I hear it.
I wouldn’t say a Japanese plot point, more so an observational one; United States Department of Agriculture reported in 2020 that “55% of crops grown in the US were genetically modified”. In 2024 the FDA confirmed “95% of animals used for meat consume GMO crops” and even still in 2024 the US uses ‘Bovine somatotropin’ which is a growth hormone given to cows to produce more meat which is as far as I’m aware, the plot for DR1? America testing genetic modification on cows to produce more meat and it makes a fuck up?
It's cool how multiple franchises spawned as originally being spinoffs of Resident Evil- Onimusha, Devil May Cry, Dead Rising, Haunting Ground, and even Dino Crisis.
Go further back and it was the movie and famicom game Sweet Home that Resident Evil came from
And Capcom is currently doing completely nothing with most of these franchises. Dead Rising is getting yet another re-release that looks mid, Dino Crisis is dead, Devil May Cry, their most consistent franchise in terms of quality is MIA, Onimusha is dead, Haunting Ground is dead, and Dragon's Dogma was brought back! YAY! Oh wait the sequel is terrible.
@@coltonwilkie241we got dmc5 special edition 4 years ago, and itsuno directed dragon's dogma 2.
now that he's gone i can see the problem, but it has not been that long from the last one.
@@coltonwilkie241DD2 did decently, though the patches were slow to release, the most recent especially. Was actually a fine game if you weren't having performance issues, but got panned because people made the MTX overblown and the performance issues--if you had them, which was likely for 80-90% of players--were pretty rough.
With how much he had to put up for those three days, Frank’s patience must be ironclad after dealing with half of the survivors being more of a detriment than the walking dead.
I think Frank... is not on the same plane of reality. Not too far off, just like, barley out of phase with what's happening around him. The man photographs human corpses currently trying to devour his face and then says "Gooood 😎"
I never realized how much I hated retired, poodle owning Karens before this game...
Still feel sorry for the poodle.
All those people around her and no one could stop that old lady. Drop kick her away from the door in rl
@@lucascoval828 Yeah, they make great hunting dogs.
Stay away from French Suburbs!
@@matthewjohnathanwarburton8342
(Laughs in Haitian)
God, Dead Rising is an amazing zombie game that was ahead of it's time honestly.
A.I. be damned, I'll always die on the hill that it's one of the best zombie games to be ever made.
What works about the game is so good that it mostly makes up for the busted AI.
The ai isn't good by any means but I've played so many modern games with worse ai that i was surprised how kinda average they were when I actually played dead rising. I was expecting way worse and they're like average open world follower tier. The worst for me was kindell who would just stand around and get grabbed all the time.
I do find it refreshing to have a zombie series where they actually call the infected zombies instead of calling them whatever the writers can come up with.🐱
It seems Zombies are one of the few horror monsters that get this treatment, I gotta wonder, why?
@@HortonSalmThey wanna seem original and "smart".
The reason writers do that is because if the characters use the term "zombie," it means in-universe exists zombie-media and then you can't get away with zombie tropes because characters should be aware of them and avoid them.
@@HortonSalm I feel like if they use the term “zombie” unironically then they won’t get taken as seriously. Dead Rising wasn’t trying to tell some mature story, it was just trying to be a goofy good time so it embraced the premise and ran with it; I personally think it works better for it.
Biezoms
I would do that for the memes.
And just olay with words.
Rieners Biezoms (runner zombies)
Heck if it sounds like a name give it a story XD
One of my favorite aspects about DR1 is how it ever so perfectly captures that 2000s mall vibe.
Right before the great recession...
"Zombies are coming to rip you limb from limb, Otis is yelling at me, Jessie has panties I need to take pics of, dude, I got things to do!"
This is it. This is Dead Rising 1 in a nutshell.
...i did not expect the reveal that Richard Motherfucking Evans is a pro gamer at Dead Rising. :0
Do not mess with The Birthday Boy
if only carlito used code tal for 10% off, maybe he could have saved Santa!
That hip hop rap / rock music that plays when the convicts driving the jeep show up is seared into my memory
_WEEEEEEEEELLLLLL_
HE AINT MY BOY BUT THE BROTHA IS HEAVY
Songs name is Gone Guru for those wanting to know.
GAVE AWAY MY POSSESSIONS AND MOVED INTO A CHEVY
@@electricfishfan VAN! Yeah, that's the master plan.
The only zombie game that ends with a one on one punch fight with an army officer on top of a tank.
Go ahead and say the Zed word.
🎩
🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
zigger
Loved this game growing up my grandmother on my father's side god bless her soul saw me playing it in the kitchen and she thought Frank was cute the sob rizzed my grandma
That's why Frank is the GOAT. Also RIP to your grandma.
I like how the original town where the outbreak happened was Santa Cabeza. Literally “Saint Head”, but maybe a reference to brains.
Fun fact: Carlito is voiced by the same guy that voices Seymour in ff10 while brock is voiced by the guy that voiced jecht. So the 2 bad guys in ff10 are also the bad guys in dead rising. Also it's interesting that frank wears carlito's locket in off the record and case west.
Cletus is voiced by Goofy...yes THAT Goofy, and the guy he shot was voiced by Kakashi.
@@ParrotMan01276 goofy's va bill farmer is great. He voiced Sam in Sam and max hit the road and played date in the yakuza 1 english dub. Kakashi's va also voiced teddie in the ps2 version of persona 4.
@@ParrotMan01276gawrsh
Based
That Mall Music is killer, I can say that much!
Dead Rising is one of those games like drakenguard for me
a game you pop in when you want t blow off some steam and slice and dice your free time away
Except Drakengard leaves you feeling more insane.
or alternatively, like you’re the butt of cavia’s jokes.
those fucking desert wolves….
Imagine playing drakengard for fun
@noravanguard3993 that's me with no more heroes. It's braindead gameplay wise, but its craziness is something to behold
Frank managed to avoid zombie bites and injuries the entire game, he got infected when "dealing" with zombie Jessie
“Everyone used to laugh at me.”
🤡
“But not anymore.”
You are the first person I've ever personally seen in making a Dead Rising Retrospect that actually looked into what wars Frank may have covered
I honestly respect that level of dedicated research. Yeah it's a game and sure it's a bit of a silly line but that is honestly something that DOES play a big part of who Frank is and why he is so stoic and easy to go into life or death areas
I enjoyed the video up to that point but hearing he may have covered so many possibilities is so many points of respect
This went from a damn good review to a top tier one ♡
Honestly the Ps2/Xbox to PS3/360 was the last time a consoles had a legit leap in technology everything since had been graphical improvements but not since games like Dead Rising have I seen a game and thought "This could only be made on the Ps5/nu-Xbox hardware." At this point consoles are just closed system PCs.
I always found the cover of the first game really funny. It's like frank's saying "This is my tv!!"
Ross was a very strong lesson in context clues
Frank is one of the realest fictional characters in history, i could absolutely see him being one of the boys.
The OST of this game lives in my head always
15:56 common Rich Evans W
@@rabidwolverine8367 I completely forgot Rich Evans streamed video games at one time. I thought TAL was just referring to another fella that shared the same name but I looked it up and sure enough Dick the Birthday Boy himself is the one playing.
You mean the same rich Evans from red-letter Media
@@mm-tb4sj there is only one Rich Evans. Anybody else going by that name is a plagiarist.
36:44 anytime a remake is made after the dev team got dissolved, they always miss the finer points of the original and sadly, the characters will never be spared
But that change doesn’t dissolve his women-oggling character trait like this guy seems to imply. He still checks Jessie and Isabella out when he first see’s them, and Cheryl’s request still has you take suggestive pictures of her.
Erotica was a photo category that you rarely got an opportunity to exploit anyways.
The orphan plan is so messed up and one of the best parts of Dead Rising 1
I really liked how they follow it up in DR 3 with Nick as one of the Orphans.
Speaking of under appreciated Zombie games, I'm playing through Days Gone. I feel like that's a game that got slept on when it came out, with no thanks to journalists.
I get pretty upset thinking about it since it’s confirmed to be a sort of “Alt-Timeline” to another forgotten Sony franchise that I loved growing up and they even have references to it (including a weapon!)
The fact that it got slept on so hard until it released on PC is absolutely criminal
I played that game for like an hour, it was funny clubbing zombie kids but then I just put it down.
@@yeez13Syphon Filter. Loved tasing enemies until they caught fire.
See, I wanted to like Days Gone but I feel like it tried to do too many things narratively for me to actually enjoy it. Fighting the massive hordes of infected was pretty fun though. Don’t know if they’ll ever make another, but if nothing else they set up a solid blueprint to build on.
I recently tried getting back into it. It's relentlessly dull and boring and it's way longer than it has any right to be. If it was a 15 hour game it would be so much better but they actually had the audacity to stretch their horrid writing out to an over 30 hour main story.
The characters just suck as a cherry on top. Nobody is likable. Deacon constantly ranting about something while exploring gets old after the first 5 times he does it and he does it EVERY TIME YOU DO SOMETHING. A Radio Free Oregon plays? Deacon rants. Picking flowers and mushrooms? Deacon rants. Zombie hunting? Deacon rants. Gets called by anyone just to antagonize Deacon? Deacon rants. Deacon thinks about his wife? Starts ranting immediately after. O'Neil doesn't immediately pick up the radio after Deacon was just talking to him? You guessed it, Deacon rants. Days Gone deserves it's poor ratings from journalists. It deserved lower than what it was given.
It seemed pretty clear to me that Frank got bit after the chopper crash.
He falls to the ground in numb desperation, completely unaware of his surroundings, maybe blacks out from the stress or hits his head as a zombie lunges at him, cut to Isabella dragging his (probably bloody) ass to the safehouse, and he doesn't really remember what happened.
53:09 - 53:13
Bro I gotta do this to you after hearing you say that.
Sigmund: "Come on now mate, gotta have standards. I know we shootin' an' R@pin, but necrophilia is a step too far."
In all serious, really good video Loli.
As soon as I heard "You know who won't abandon you to the zombies?" I went "Gamersups?"
Ain't no way my guy is about to post a DR video just when i started replaying the game this week.
Dude's been talking about DR a bunch since the controversies with the remake started coming out. He'll probably at least stream DRDR once it's released
The originals are on sale on Playstation (1,2 OTR) so I might consider buying them and playing the series again after this review. I was curious about the remake myself.
You're not special. You're only replaying due to remaster. He's only talking about it due to the remaster. This is an algorithm and you're another gullible, comic reading ball of maleable grease.
Hey, wrapping your 360 in a towel sort of worked. I was able to get mine to come back to life for about two hours by putting a towel around it, then it died again.
Desperation, Resolve, Triumph, Despair
A modern tragedy
Yeah I remember doing it with mine but it only booted up briefly. It didn’t really work
Your mistake was not giving it a shower first. What's it supposed to do with a towel if it's not wet?
WELLLLLLLLLLL HE AINT MAH BOY BUT THE BROTHER IS HEAVY
DR1 and DR2’s soundtracks are absolutely legendary
This is gonna be a long comment, but I wanted to mention that for all the psychopaths that we get to see, Sean and Jo stand out for me as the worst ones. Jo kidnapped several innocent women just to force herself on them as well as brutaly kill them and Sean used the outbreak to make his own cult to sacrifice survivors. And while it's shown that Sean was genuinely insane, Jo had no excuse and no remorse for what she did. She just used the situation for her own advantage. And it's also related to the other thing I like about Frank. While he tries to be peaceful with the psychopaths and shows sympathy to the ones that were really tragic, he can show disgust for the most awful ones. This is especially seen after his fight with Kent and Jo, when he throws the former camera in disgust, and doesn't even want to look Jo in the eyes after defeating her. Hell, he can snap one of the Convicts neck in fury in the Wii version and doesn't even acknowledge Sean's death. He will try to make things peaceful, but when someone crosses the line, there is no sympathy for those kinda monsters.
Ecdycis is literally one of the gods of dead rising Tom foolery. Just stumbled apon this channel and I’m enjoying what I’m seeing. Keep up the great work
I love how the game was played straight with some amazing acting and overall very serious. Though the gameplay and psychopaths are friggin funny and clunky as shit that newer zombie games can't really replicate. Here's hoping DrDr is gonna be good
I think what works really well about DR1 is that for the most part it's really only as goofy as you want it to be. As long as you don't do stuff like put Frank in ridiculous outfits then it's an incredibly dark game that's played straight. DR1 is the best game in the series at capturing how destructive, horrific, and downright tragic an event like this would really be. Many of the survivors you meet are so traumatized that it almost makes you wonder if death would've been a preferable option.
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster ended up being a Censorship Demake trash
@dyliokhan3946 The only thing that's better about Deluxe Remaster are the graphics, and even that's debatable when we get into art direction.
@@tylertheguy3160 true
I love the fact that this game was legally declared "too dumb" to be a rip off of Dawn of the Dead
My favorite Berserk channel doing dead rising? FANTASTIC!
My gateway of gaming. The nostalgia strikes hard😢
I feel like Dead Rising came out at the right time for the mid to late 2000’s zombie mania, if not helped kick it into overdrive. You could argue that it was already starting with the Resident Evil games, and movies like Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, I won’t dispute that in the slightest. What I mean is there’s just something about the timing of Dead Rising’s release that makes me think it helped fuel it. In fact, aside it and the aforementioned Resident Evil, there was only two other game series that came out during the period’s height that I think of with those games, Left 4 Dead & Call of Duty Zombies mode. These four series are what I instantly think of when I hear “zombies” and “video games” together.
One thing I like about the plot is how stupidly plausible it appears, even back then. If you think about some of the major concerns in the 2000’s in the world, if not at least the United States, it somehow creatively combines them, almost like it’s commenting on it as parallels. This could be intentional or just coincidence, but the way they line up is kind of impressive.
-You have the plot of the game being caused by a biological terrorist attack. (War on Terror & Anthrax letter scare)
-You have an attempted major cover-up by the U.S. involving the military over it (The questionable ethics behind starting the second war in Iraq)
-You have the major cause of the incident being related to dealing with hunger by mass producing beef through biological experiments (Global hunger and maybe a shade of Mad Cow Disease and/overpopulation)
Heck before The Last of Us used it as a plot point, it had a parasitic organism as the main vector of zombie infection. Again, I wanna stress that this could be coincidence, but it’s kind of surprising how it all blended together while also still keeping some of the original Romero critique of consumerism. I wouldn’t say it’s the brightest plot conceived, but it’s definitely very creative.
The reason I like dead rising 2 to be specific is the weapon combinations they look pretty cool and badass. good video 👍 but I think dead rising 1 it’s pretty fun and cool
RE4 didn't invent OTS aiming. It only popularized it.
The earliest example I know is Jet Force Gemini for the N64.
But there might be earlier examples.
Jet force Gemini is not OTS, it's a player-centered TPS. OTS requires the camera to be over the shoulder of the player character which makes the player actually staggered to one side of the screen. Jet force Gemini is how third person shooters were *before* OTS was made.
Winback?
@@fakesmile172 nope. I had to look it up to see gameplay again, but it's a standard third person game view-wise.
Weeeeeeeellllllllllllll.... I gotta say I'm very interested to see where this video series goes. All time favorite franchise for me, alongside Pikmin. That weird action + resource-management combo just really scratches a sweet spot for me.
I remember watching my dad play the Wii version back in the day. The fact that the poodles and parrots are wii exclusive is a true shame, those little bastards are a pain that should be shared.
Ahh hell yeah, time to potentially piss off another subreddit
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I never really played the dead rising games before but after seeing this video I am now curious about seeing it. Mainly for Frank West and how compassionate he is and I love compassionate characters they are like my favorite kind of characters with aspirational characters
Doing as much as possible in as little time as possible sounds like work.
a game truly made your surroundings matter by letting you use almost anything as a weapon
Fun Fact: the pistol Jessie gives Frank is the same one Leon uses in Resident Evil 4.
I believe it's a SIG P220, but in gameplay it's a long slide .45 1911, I assume to show the slide reciprocating loading the next round. I remember as a kid I thought it was an amazing animation while most games at the time didn't even have a functioning slide. And I think a reference to the first Terminator movie.
No it isn't
Misinformation spreader
unless you talk about the wii version which had a lot of guns from RE4 as it basically heavily modified RE4 wii port, no.
Interesting detail about the games plot i picked up on. Dunno if it factored into it directly, but the idea that the zombie outbreak happened because America wanted more beef could've come from how in Japan, Capcoms home nation, the Japanese couldn't compete with America's cattle industry at its scale. The entirety of Colorado alone could out produce the Japanese. In response to this, Japan invested in quality wagyu beef as opposed to America's mass produced quantity.
Dead rising was my childhood. I bought 2 first since it was the only one they were selling at my local flea market. I got obsessed since then, and the series has stuck with me ever since. These games are dark if you really think about it, but the real comedy is what you’re allowed to do to the undead hordes that massacred the town. I’m glad I requested this game alongside others on subscribestar, since more people need to look back on this series. Great video as always.
Looking forward to watching this video.
Keep up the great work.
Just finished this, fantastic video. Looking forward to your Dead Rising 2 breakdown (loved that game); as well as Dead Rising 3, which I didn't end up playing but was curious about.
Also, hoping maybe one day you might do a video on "Project Zomboid", a super fantastic indie game with a ton of depth in the zombie genera.
Regardless, take care, great video; keep up the awesome work.
I like how literally every zombie media plays around with the realization that zombies are real and then Dead Rising is just like: "Ye, we have a zombie apocalypse, deal with it"
Yeah for all the good times I had on the 360 it required many prayer to the Machine Spirit.
Dead Rising had such a special place in my heart.
I remember staying up late with friends playing it on the Xbox. We got 7hrs into the 7 day Survivor achievement and the game crashed, I gotta give it another try
Dead rising 1 has a really good horror atmosphere. Something about all of these moving parts gives me chills all the time while playing.
Awesome video, thank you so much! Waiting eagerly for the remake review, that one is gonna sting 😞
My man mentioned the mannequin torso! Love to see it.
Is it just me or is it normal to feel bad for a good amount of the psychos in Dead rising. I'm not saying all of them of course but at least a good half if there was a way to knock them out could have probably been rehabilitated.
my first contact with this game was the Let's Play made by PhantomSavage, totally found it by accident. Decided to get it and play for myself since it looked awesome, and I was surprised by how much they actually put into this game, still to this day the best game on 360 and one of the best zombie games, period.
You know what great abouts dead rising, its full of diversity that isnt forced or injected. A great example of diversity in media way before the pc culture, and DEI agenda's
Deadrising 4 really made me love Deadrising 3. We didn’t know how bad it could get 😂
I feel like most developers just forgot the fun of smashing through a horde with a charismatic man.
To me, that is the biggest difference between Vermintide and Darktide. You want to know more about the Ubersreik crew and their wacky adventures. Shoot that is why you have full blown SFM animations of the crew. Darktide, while an incredibly fun game, lacks this element which hurts it over all. (Granted that was deliberate since you play as penal legionnaires and no one cares about penal legionnaires.)
The future Dead Rising games really need to up the ante on the charisma to make it back on top.
I like to imagine Saul is just crashing on loli's couch, and when he pops up he just overhears loli recording and adds his fun fact
Years ago I was trying to go for as many survivors as possible and while waiting for Ross to shut up I mashed the action button but forgot I had a shotgun in my hands and accidentally gave it to him I was PISSED and had to replay roughly an hour
I felt that
My favorite trick for Cletus is at the very beginning of the game you can go straight to the gun store he doesn’t spawn immediately so you can get a few guns and when I go back to fight him later I’ll open the door to go outside of the store kill the zombies around and I usually hide behind the door outside of the shop and snipe him you can even take it a step further and shoot the boss the get behind the door if you do it fast enough the boss doesn’t know how to react and will just walk back and forth so it can make the fight super easy I’m not sure if anyone else posted this in the comments but hopefully someone sees this and can use it in their future playthroughs
The WII version holds a place in my heart
First time I played it was that way
Dead Island can't compete
Suprised when you went over Frank as a character you never contrasted him with Ken, cant wait for you to cover 2
There's segments I left out specifically to be covered when we talk about other games. This was intended to be one big video, but quickly realized that's gonna be a hell of a lot bigger task than originally intended. ;_;
@@TheAlmightyLoli youve got your work cut out for you when you get to 4 never played it but seen enough to know its awful, cant wait for your follow up videos down the line with 2 and off the record love seeing a what if with Frank, keep up with the great videos always look forward to them
I'm a bit out of the loop, who's Ken?
@@NotSoNadeo I ment Kent (forgot the T) he is a rival photographer you can challenge to take better photos, but you learn hes willing to harm and kill others to create his perfect shot and can fight him.
I really appreciate Dead Rising 1... from a far. I played it once for a bit but it never really clicked with me the way DR2:OTR did. The survivors were frustrating and the game would crash a lot. I just didn't wanna deal with that frustration.
I miss the way companies used to make games
I not only played the java version on my first cell phone. But, I also unlocked the MegaMan suit in it too. And unlike the original X-Box:360 version. In the java version, you don't wear a blue suit. You straight up turned in to the 8bit MegaMan sprite. Yes, the buster is the strongest weapon. But it's locked in only being able to fire horizontally left or right. In a game with enemies that could come from 360 degrees of your position. 😅
Dead Rising was the first game that I played that gave me that "Next Gen" feel: an experience not possible on any other platform at the time.
Dude the rich Evan comment made me have flashbacks.
Saul Goodman explaining the RROD caught me so off guard, I died laughing 😂
Love that he brought up the red ring of death, since this game was the first of many to brick my 360. Oh and the "towel fix" such a stupid idea, but i can say it did work since i was desperate enough to try it back when left 4 dead 1 released. That damn red ring couldn't have come at a worst time 😅
Is gamer sub the core ingredient for Zombrex?
59:33 wait dead rising 3 the protagonist in that game was effectively immune to the zombies.
Gotta say that RE2 scared the living day out of me, back then, it was hard to go outside, I had reoccurring nightmares all the time, RE3 didn't help that situation either because it looked the same and that triggered the same reaction.
So Dead Rising was a new breed of scares, what may look as cheesy to some wasn't for me, I took everything serious but never played it, at every plot point my imagination went wild.
I was coping before that by diving into Zombie movies and games myself, didn't know I was battling my trauma the right way. RE4 also helped.
So yeah I liked this game back then and I still like it today.
Something I have found funny about Dead Rising 1 and Resident Evil 4 being tied together due to shared engines: With the more recent ports of RE4 (not Remake) on Xbox One, PS4 and Switch (I think there was another PC port along with these) a few years ago, this version was build using MT Framework! The same engine used for Dead Rising and a lot of other games (dear fucking Lord that list is big).
Kind of like an odd "You helped me out back in the day, now I'll help you!"
Man, growing up with the 360 I remember those problems all too well. I sent back maybe 3 360's because they all bricked on me, and when my warranty expired and I couldn't replace my 4th, I resorted to the "Penny Fix," where you wrap pennies in electrical tape and place them on the GPU and CPU to act as heat sinks (Granted it did work for a while). In all, I think I went through maybe six 360 consoles by the time the Xbox One came out lmao.
Get to the gunstore as quick as possible & you can arrive before Cletus does, usually what i used to do.
36:42 Taking pictures of people getting horribly mutilated by zombies that’s ok! But taking pictures of boobies that’s wrong
Thanks Bob, you truly were a big help.
Frank is a super interesting character I wonder if he covered any wars?
The Japanese have a very, very strange fascination with small town America and every day American life.
I appreciate most of the footage having the small-chainsaw-triple-book tech being used.
I really love all the detail you went into. Looking forward to more videos
Is the bob odinkirk voice AI?
Genius
I'm far more excited to see what mods spawn from the remake for DR than the game itself. Hope it isn't too hard to tinker with.
Wait. THE Rich Evans? The one who works with those hack frauds? Absolute legend
1. It goes without saying I have a deep history with this series. I played the first game many times. Second game as well.
2. Isabella was a gaming "crush". She was hot, sue me. No, I don't care for her in DR2 or DR3...but I don't think anyone did unless you want to come at me with plot reasons.
3. This is going to be a fascinating deep dive into this series. I never got to play Off the Record. It seemed a little too....masturbatory for lack of a better term. I like Frank, but not THAT much. I thought Chuck was a great protagonist.
Man, looking back on the story has reminded me of what they did with Case West and how that went nowhere. Its crazy that this series has not one, but two spin off entries dedicated to an alternate timeline from the main.
DR1 has Jessie
DR2 has Rebecca
DR3 has Rhonda
DR4 has no thick baddie therefore it was doomed from the start
3 had the stacked cop too