Maleko Saint
Banned
Frank's voice just sounds completely off, even given the different voice actor and such. Something about it is just wonky.
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The First 33 Minutes of Dead Rising 4
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CherryIcee
Member
That was awful. I cringed when they had Fronk say lines from the first game in the opening section. He is not Frank West.
cleveridea
Member
Yep. The Scythe weapon variants are VERY powerful melee combo weapons, and its among the very first blueprints you get right at the start of the game (after tutorial based intro stuff)
What makes it so good is that it has incredible reach, it spins around you hitting zombies in a very wide arc in all directions and therefore zombies cant even get close to you. It also has excellent durability, so there really isnt any downside to it.
The XP (PP) system is very abusable since the XP multiplier creates ridiculous multiples of XP so using a scythe means you can level up like crazy by simply waiting for a giant mass of zombies, then just going nuts and killing all of them. You'll go up in level so fast, you can unlock the melee boosts like damage and durability. So real early game, you can basically clear an entire massive area of tons of zombies without any fear of damage in return and level up to be super powerful before even moving onto the next chapter
Then the safehouse has a timer that in theory limits how often you can create "free" (ie you dont need any of the base components on you) weapsons - but the timer regenerates so rapidly, I would simply come back and recreate the free combo weapons every time I drove by a safehouse since it will have regenerated by the time I go by the safehouse again.
I only ever used other weapons for fun, just used the scythe variants for melee and the 2 insanely overpowered firearms (late in the game) and the game was a cakewalk and had reached max level way before the game ended. I dont think I had a single difficult fight in the game.
Comrade Crunch
Member
Kind of feels like they're going for an Ash Vs Evil Dead kind of thing, looks pretty good.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Yup, he's right. There's an arbitrary resource system tied to the weapons locker so you can't just spam spawn crafted items on the spot, but said bar fills up again without much downtime.
What's worse is that some collect-a-thon sidequests are close to a weapons locker - including one literally right besides an NPC - so said cases just boil down to selecting shit from a menu.
FireBeaver
Banned
Ouch, this game looks pretty rough. Hopefully they can polish up a little bit before launch, because right now it seems more Dynasty Warriors than Dead Rising.
cleveridea
Member
Yeah its funny I didnt make the Dynasty Warriors connection at the time I played Dead Rising 3, but thats totally how it feels. You can create a melee combo weapon thats as good as those super powered weapons in the dream sequence shown in the trailer, RIGHT AT THE START OF Dead rising 3. So its not like you become powerful near the end or have a gradual feeling of progression of power, its like that right from the start in DR3 and it looks like DR4 will be similar.
TheSpoiler
Member
That's incredibly petty. You can like and enjoy this game but still feel like it's doing longtime fans dirty.
I can not get over that character model. Jesus Christ, Vancouver. Can you really not just throw in the DR1/2 model Franks?!
Also looking at the first ten minutes, they don't have the same Willamette mall layout or store names. Either this is in a different part of the town (two malls!?) or Frank is seriously misremembering the town.
Also looking at the first ten minutes, they don't have the same Willamette mall layout or store names. Either this is in a different part of the town (two malls!?) or Frank is seriously misremembering the town.
Undead Fantasy
Member
This is just shit.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Oh I see. My bad
Professor Beef
Banned
He's talking about the dream sequence in the beginning. It's not the DR1 mall.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Ah yea ok. I brain farted while reading. My bad.
UrbanDandy
Member
Yeah, I can't agree with this. From what I've gathered, their reasoning was to make Frank hardened. From the first 33 minutes I saw, his personality says different:
He went from Nope. Arguing with his student/friend. Going through the mission. Being betrayed. Becoming a criminal, and finally going back because his friend broke the story.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Well, it looks good. Better than I was lead to be believe at first.
I may still jump in on this.
They dropped the regen health at least (the E3 demo had regen health, right?)
At least it's a proper reboot, nothing half-assed.
The jokes get cornier with every game, though.
I may still jump in on this.
They dropped the regen health at least (the E3 demo had regen health, right?)
At least it's a proper reboot, nothing half-assed.
The jokes get cornier with every game, though.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Seeing the "Hank East" plaque on his class room for just drove the point home even further.
blankempathy
Member
Maybe the entire premise of the game isn't for you? Its a game where you're dropped into a survival situation and have only your wits and the items around you to try and survive. Of course its going to have elements like trying to find health or possibly running into other people who need to be rescued and considering its an outbreak then yes time would certainly play a factor in that. There are plenty of games where you can be an overpowered god and mow down everything without a care in the world. Dead rising wasn't that at first. So why make it to something it isn't? Thats the whole problem right there. I never understood this mindset of "well i hate this feature so instead of improving on it just get rid of it for me". I hate the ai of the escorts in dead rising 1 but I don't want them removed. They add a sense of immersion to a game where you're trying to survive an outbreak. Yea fix their ai so they're not garbage who require constant baby sitting but don't take them out entirely. Timers didn't need to go. I like when a game paces and directs a player. Running around and killing random crap gets old for me after a while. Sometimes I want a game to tell me a story and dead rising was set up in a way it does just that. And the health regen? Health regen in a survival horror game where gathering health wasn't even an issue. The premise of being prepared and well stock for a zombie outbreak and you completely trivialize that fact.
I mean your point is still apt, I had no clue they rebuilt the mall. But still: Apparently this is in the past, Frank hasn't been there in years, how would he know in that intro sequence?
Also
they rebuilt the town and somehow the military locks it down and shuts off communication for their Pentagon experiment/cover-up?
everyone apparently can't be Zombism'd anymore.
Just as a general thing I noticed, does it seem like there's a very slight delay between the swing and when the zombies actually get hit? That and some swings that look like they should connect just miss completely?
It seems to keep cropping up and I can't tell if it's just something only I'm seeing or if it's an actual issue.
Beyond that, really not feeling the voice work so far. I'm not sure what tone they're going for with this. It's all over the place.
It seems to keep cropping up and I can't tell if it's just something only I'm seeing or if it's an actual issue.
Beyond that, really not feeling the voice work so far. I'm not sure what tone they're going for with this. It's all over the place.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Dead Rising 3 was ok but there were some things I hated. The town was so hard to get around in. You had tons of random road blocks all over the place. Made getting across town in a vehicle annoying. Then the last boss stuff was not fun at all. Rest of the game was ok. Overall for me it's still DR1>DR3>DR2/DR2:OTR.
Well, just finished Zombie Genociding in 2. 74,000. Oof.
I still gotta do a few of those kill counts in OTR
Can't imagine how 3 will be, since the lack of timer kinda is whatever to me so far. But everything they've shown in 4 and the ruining of Frank has kinda soured me toward Vancouver and the series as a whole so far. :/
DR1 is still the best with OTR coming close (especially as I didn't like most of 2's characters) behind.
Hellwarden
Member
There is just nothing charming about that gameplay or this Frank.
Never was a huge fan of the originals, two was okay,but the gameplay never felt quite there. But DR3 was some of the most fun I've had this generation, pure mindless fun. So I guess Dynasty Rising is more appealing to me than Time Limit the video game. Probably why these new games are so divisive, two different audiences want two completely different games
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Ok, so it wasn't just me. Getting around town in DR3 was very difficult with all of the roadblocks and that last section in the game before the final boss I found more annoying than the final boss. Overall, I did enjoy DR3 though. I'm definitely going to try out DR4 even though it looks, different.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
This is hilarious to try and see the interviewee play off the voice change complaints.
And sad
And now the 'comedy is contextual' to clothing, weapons, etc....
I don't even.....wut.
User 479360
Banned
The roadblocks were really annoying. I had the same issue. But that was the only thing I really didn't like about the game. Otherwise, it was a heck of a lot of fun.
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Yeah, it was alot of fun. Most fun I had in awhile honesty. Hopefully, DR4 will be fun as well. Oh yeah, this is minor, but I am hoping that it isn't quite as dark visually. I like deep blacks in my games, but there were literally moments in the game where I could not hardly even see my character in front of me and I was looking at a black screen due to the darkness. Maybe, it was my TV settings, but none of my other games are near that dark.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
Makes sense he didn't look like Frank.
His name is HANK EAST! HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO HANK EAST!
His name is HANK EAST! HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO HANK EAST!
Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Looks great, can't wait! So glad they got rid of the timer.
This series seems to have taken a similar transition from the Saints Row franchise. First two games, especially Saints Row 2 people loved, then take steps backwards with Saints Row 3, then completely turn the series into a total joke with Saints Row 4. Not even the same games anymore.
Same here. Drastic difference in tone and realism from DR1 to DR4. Like Saints Row, while it did have some wacky stuff, they are getting more and more overboard with each new entry. Eventually, like now, it's not even the same game.
Besides mentioning the Frank West a dozen times, if you told me this was a Dead Rising game, I wouldn't have believed it. It's sad.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Only thing that could redeem this for me is just saying screw it and following "Off The Record" with a Frank West & Rebecca Chang team up.
Possumowner
Member
That looks rough as hell,what on earth has happened to Frank...
Shogmaster
Member
Only watched a few minutes but the writing and acting is top notch! Can't wait.
flaxknuckles
Member
Hank East though? lol
1morerobot
Member
DR1 was one of the best games of last gen.
This doesn't look good. Character models are average. Animation sucks. Hit detection looks awful. Not a fan of the voice acting, but Frank had some funny lines in there.
This doesn't look good. Character models are average. Animation sucks. Hit detection looks awful. Not a fan of the voice acting, but Frank had some funny lines in there.
The sleeper-hold selfie was hilarious though.
zerokoolpsx
Member
Doesn't look or sound like Frank. Hit box on some of his attacks are off.
He's trying too hard to be funny. I miss the old Frank West. Its not the same.
He's trying too hard to be funny. I miss the old Frank West. Its not the same.
abracadaver
Member
This looks pretty awful.
Frank is overpowered right from the beginning of the game. What do you even need to level up for now. Will he become invincible by the mid of the game?
I will still buy and play it though.
Frank is overpowered right from the beginning of the game. What do you even need to level up for now. Will he become invincible by the mid of the game?
I will still buy and play it though.
Chuck Green and his annoyance dies in that time-line, so I'd be completely OKAY with that.
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
Way sooner than mid-game if Dead Rising 3 is any indication. Capcom Vancouver is that incompetent.
Radical Edward
Member
One of the most stressful trophies i've ever got. I had just repaired my YLOD ps3 for the 3rd time and knew it could die at any moment