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Speaking as an Italian, a nationality very often stereotyped, it's not that stereotypes are bad, it's what they're supposed to do that can be bad. If it's meant to laugh at people because they're weird ugly and dumb, well that's a bad stereotype. If it's meant to portray in a comedic way certain aspects of a certain culture without vilifying it, that's a good stereotype and I'm going to laugh together with whoever made it. I'll never not laugh at the 🤌🏻 jokes
in fact iirc there were talks of cutting him out of something Looney Tunes related due to being problematic and there was massive backlash from the Mexican and Latin American communities (I was a cook at the time and many of my co-workers were some form of hispanic and were talking about it all week lol)
Progressive people never bother asking minorities what they think. Wealthy urban elites think they can speak for minorities. Like famously trying to tell Hispanic people to use LatinX, which isn't how Spanish works. My wife is fine with Mexican, or if anything, Xhicana, because that IS how Spanish works, and Chicano/Xhicano/etc are actual Hispanic movements. Not just white people telling brown people how to think and speak.
Bro the tiny HD text on my friend's grandmother's television in his basement. That was actual. We didn't even know where we were supposed to be going we were just smashing zombies for like 2 hours. S*** that took me back lol
I remember that. The rca cables couldn't display the text well at all. I remember having to buy my first hdmi cable as a kid for my old ass flatscreen.
Same! I’ll never forget getting my 360 that day and giving DR a try just to be dejected that in order to read ANYTHING on screen, I needed an HDTV… Brb going to get my VA authorized so I can get my arthritis checked
Mini chainsaw + the sharp weapon magazines were all you needed. Plus its pretty much essential to kill the clown because the survivor unlocks the shortcut
Not sure if it's the same in the Remaster, but my favorite go-to strategy for the clown psycho was to make a quick spitfire smoothie and spit on him to death. He could deflect bullets and break melee weapons with his chainsaws, but had no answer for saliva. Almost felt bad for him.
@@N3wguy321 Something I love about Dead Rising is how creative you can get with the way you handle problems by using whatever tools the environment lends you.
Yahtzee hit the nail on the head, with the OG strat. Go to the coffee shop, 3 OJs and the Katana, go fight Adam, take his mini chainsaw and there you go, might as well roll the credits now.
At least with this one, if you didn't like the remaster, the original is still on steam and does not get pulled like certain other remasters *coughGTAcough*. That being said, the videogame voices actors were part of the charm. New Frank does a pretty good job but Brad just sounds.. rough.. just woof. Sad they couldn't get back Steven Blum for the PTSD Psychopath. I honestly wouldn't mind them remastering Dead Rising 2. Love me those weapon combos. (plus Chucks one liners)
Best performer/performance in original game: Probably John Kassir as Adam or Steve Blum as Cliff. Best performer/performance in new game: I'd assume Xanthe Hyunh as Jessie. Kinda understandable why that's where they shelled out for a "bigger name", but still. How cheap are you being with the voice acting that getting John Kassir or Steve Blum back is beyond the pale?
I forgot about Dead Rising 4 and Hank East. xD Capcom seems to have gotten their shit together since though. Resident Evil 6 & Dead Rising 4 are to pretend they were just a fever dream.
My main memories of the original including laughing loads while watching someone else playing in a Mega Man costume with a horse's head, and then struggling to get into it myself when I actually got to play it. I love the concept, completely loathed the need to handhold the NPCs. Still in two minds whether to pick up the remaster...
Honestly if it were me I'd put the "problematic of its time" disclaimer and the front end and give the player the option of whether they want to remove the sexist and racist shit or leave it in That way we're not pretending it never happened and we're not forcing it on people who would feel uncomfortable by its inclusion
I love it when reviews mention that there's a Steam release of the original version of a remastered game, because my first instinct is always, "oh, so I should buy that instead."
I suppose part of the design choices does bring up an interesting discussion. At what point does a racial stereotype cross a line of being such a parody/satire/caricature that it lacks the sincerity to be genuinely racist? At what point does the presence of a stereotype more directly mock itself by its existence than the group the stereotype was made about? As for the bit about removing the erotica bonus on photographs, like that's actually going stop people from doing it anyway. Those who just did it for the points won't care and those who just want to take pictures of cleavage will do it for their own self amusement even if they don't get rewarded for it.
@@RogueLGand also it's a Chinese company working on the remaster Expecting them to keep insults to communism (the government they literally are forced to live under) is asking people to risk their lives for a video game line I wouldn't expect anything that offends anyone to remain because that's not what dead rising is
honestly, they made Larry seem less like a chinese stereotype and more like a guy with with some chinese ancestry, but he's full on american. however, I am hopeful this brings about a remaster like this for DR2, maybe even 3.
On the one hand, yeah it would be cool But on the other, oh god the Censorship is gonna get worse, and I seriously hope they dont replace Chuck’s voice actor like they did with Frank.
@@AFluffyLombaxThe fact you downplay it shows just how ridiculous the changes are. “Two words”, yeah apparently two words are just TOO MUCH and they desperately needed to change it with how so *offensive* those two words are. Its pathetic really If you’ve played DR2 at all, you would know its DR1 cranked up to 11. So you’re going to see a lot more of those “small changes”.
Strange as it is, removing the Erotica category feels kinda like a mistake? Frank being kinda scummy felt like an important part of his character, because the mall is supposed to be a lethal trap for people with more greed than sense, and it felt like making Frank actually search out the truth instead of just chasing trends was kinda his character development. Without at least _something_ like the Erotica category, it feels like he just kinda becomes a conventional sassy hero; more Shaun than Dawn, if you will.
Given that the game is a love letter to 80s horror films like Dawn of the Dead, removing gratuitous violence and nudity feels like they're missing the point entirely so as to not offend a minority of people that likely won't ever play it.
@@baldian3 I made a "Pub of the dead" map back when Pavlov used Steam workshop for UCG, it was mildly popular enough that I think people would enjoy a "Defend the pub from zombies" game.
Beyond glad he mentioned the mini chainsaws from Adam the Clown, easily the most busted weapon in the game when you get 3-4 manuals to exponentially increase it's durability. You want easy mode? Go get those.
usually good for 80 kills, but you get 3x durability with 3 books, and infinite with that cheat book you get for the saint achievement. Honestly, that's part of the fun. The game actually rewards you with unlocks for most achievements.
Yahtz, you've always been a funny bloke, but this is, I think, the first time I've ever had to pause one of your videos to just have a good cackle at a joke. Jesus christ. "It used to fuck up psychopaths like a Dead By Daylight balance patch" KILLED me. God I've played too much dbd
I never saw what the original butcher psychopath looked like. And then I did a quick search and wooo boy! Good change Btw Mexicans love Speedy González
@@xxGhostXIIIxx weirdly that’s also been said about Raccoon city. I mean if you didn’t know America and someone said American mid west I guess it’s easy to assume you start at the middle and move westward to get the Midwest
Think Dead Rising is still worth playing because it doesn't feel like an Ubisoft open world. There is reason to explore beyond just cleaning up objectives
I got all the way to the end of DR back in the day, when you have a fist fight with Liquid on top of Metal Gear. I mean, when you have a fist fight on top of a tank with bad army guy. Could never quite kill him, and couldn't bring myself to go back and grind or start the game over again, so that was that...
whosithisgit figured it out. If you jump off the turret back onto the main body of the tank, the boss won't pursue you and will aimlessly mill around on the turret, allowing you to get a sneak attack in when you climb back on. Rinse and repeat.
I said this before in the stream - a better way to have handled the erotica issue would have been to just make it equal and give Frank points in the category for well framed photos of some of the male NPC's firm cheeks.
I always found the first 2 games in the series in particular like a great blend of effin around if you felt like and also having stakes. There is a limited amount of time and if you eff around your not gonna be able to save everyone. Then again it wasnt like the NPC:s you tried too help were wonders of intelligence. When they gladly ran into a horde of zombies.
I remember HD games being "unreadable" on CRTs. Specifically the enemy radar on some FPS game I played being absolutely useless because it was all one indiscernible soup. I switched to playing on my pc monitor for the next 5 years or so. Luckily you could let the PS3 put out video through hdmi while the audio went through the analog out which I could hook up to my speakers.
Man Dead Rising 1 is still my favorite of the franchise even tho I've played the heck out of DR2 off record which imo is the best of the series But nothing will ever beat little middle school me playing the game for 14 hours straight one summer trying to get 7 days survivor only to get rewarded with Arthur's probably used Boxers
Mini chainsaw had 3 magazines that affected it, each multipling the durability by 3. Sharp, sport, and psycho. Last mag was in the final segment of the mall.
I have nothing against revisionism in a remaster as long as they do something--anything--to replace it with something that works with the same story elements (minus the racism and stereotypes). There are things that were "a product of their time" and others that we'd all agree were "a poor decision, even for their time." Star Wars SE's revisions were somehow the worst of both worlds because it's a matter of taste and if there's anyone lacking in that it's Mr Lucas and his Arts.
I fully remember soft locking myself out of this game when it first came out because the text wasn’t displaying properly on my old tv, similar thing happened in RDR1. Those were truly the days.
This has just reminded me that I REALLY need to go back and finish the original Dead Rising on steam. I started it AGES ago and got distracted during a steam sale then forgot about it. It's even still installed all I need to do is remember to play it.
Nice to see Yahtzee is also a devotee of the Mini Chainsaw. I also used the gun from the convicts’ vehicle to obliterate Cletus the Gun Store owner since I could never beat him the intended way.
The toning down of the raunchy aspect is baffling to me, because it doesn't seem worth the effort. I know companies feel pressured to adhere to a modern Western "cultural environment" for the sake of garnering an audience with a newer generation, or out of fear of being branded offensive, but i find it counter-intuitive. Winning new fans relies a great deal on the original fans promoting the game, and if it's for the sake of not "ruffling feathers" then people will find out about the differences anyway thanks to gaming news sites comparing the remaster, or worse, angry fans of the original upset at the censoring. I was more of a 'Need For Speed' type of guy, so i don't have much attachment to the original, but i am glad they had the decency to leave the original version available on Steam
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Dead Rising was one of the first games I got together with my first console when I started working. I'm pretty sure I spent most of my time in that game driving around the underground tunnels in order to unlock the Mega blaster.
Apparently the reason the butcher was changed was because the remaster was outsourced to a Chinese company. Kinda similar to how Lao Gui from Yakuza 0 was changed from looking like the Grim Reaper internationally to a regular guy in the Chinese release
Back then, I got the key for the Underground Tunnels, got in a vehicle, then mowed down as many zombies as I could. Rinse and repeat until you unlock the achievement for killing the equivalent of the population in zombies, then get the basic ending. The second go around is when I REALLY play the game...at Level 50...with the OHKO Real Mega Buster. I wonder if that got nerfed or not.
Does the remaster still have the megaman blaster you can unlock by killing the population of Willamette in zombies? That was fun, and makes the challenges of the game trivial, but fun. The easiest way to grind it out was driving the respawning vehicles around the mall's underground service tunnels.
Weirdly massive shopping malls in the mid west were a thing. I remember having to drive an hour to get to a proper city and the weirdly large mall there as an attraction.
I'm just happy that Capcom is opening the vault and releasing remasters and remakes back to back lately. Sure it's nostalgia baiting bur these games were good for a reason.
It is nice but I also hope Capcom has some new games soon. "Remaster all the things" is not a viable long term strategy as Sony has been demonstrating for the entire PS5 life cycle.
I'm waiting to see what happens next year. The remasters, remakes and collections are not only nice but highly appreciated (who ever thought we'd get an official Marvel vs Capcom release again?) but eventually they'll have to make new games, and i'm hoping that these remakes/collections are testing the waters for what people want to see.
I delved straight in to pursue the Zombie Genocider's new achievement and am just now getting to Overtime mode... :D Silly me not knowing that kills are now cuumulative.
I don’t understand why visual remasters of games are so widely accepted, often even praised. When it comes to movies, people flip their shit if remastered versions change anything drastic, but games do the equivalent of reshooting every scene with newer equipment. I understand fixing jankyness, controls etc but always feel like something is lost when graphics are overhauled or major features are changed
My "I gotta upgrade my TV" game was Mass Effect 2. I didn't get a PS3 until 2011, and that was my first game. It was impossible to know what the hell to do.
I understand why people think 2 was better, but I always preferred the original. I think the speed had a big part of it. Yeah, Chuck could hit people with sledge-axes, after the 5 minutes it took him to reach them
A lot of people were looking forward to Epic Mickey Rebrushed, myself included. If anything DuRDuR was less known in comparison cause it was announced fairly recently
RIP amusing instances of accidentally getting Erotica points and having to squint to see cleavage in the background of whatever it was I was taking a picture of.
One saving grace with the Dead Rising being a Capcom game is they have a tendency to leave up original versions of games when they put out a remaster. Honestly all this review makes me want to do is go spend the 1 bucks and just replay the original and save my Deck's storage the hernia.
This was the game that made me buy an Xbox 360 at the time. I stupidly however traded in my PS2, GameCube, and original Xbox only to figure out that Dead rising was like the only game worthwhile for the 360 until the elder scrolls Oblivion launched lol. But either way I played the hell out of this game. None of the sequels were ever able to really draw me in the way that this one did, maybe it was just the hardcore George Romero zombie fanatic of a college age version of me that was excited to basically have Dawn of the Dead the game. But I never properly beat it. I finally did enough restarts with enough level ups to get to the point where you do everything correctly for the special forces to show up. But much like you said, I thought that just made the game start to really suck. This looks tempting to give it another shot, I do wish they had added just a regular old sandbox mode that they had in Dead rising 2. But it's not like it really matters anyway, you can still just decide to screw around and keep restarting and screw around some more. However, this is something that I don't think I would pick up unless it was on sale
i knew the content of this video before watching. "he's going to reminisce over a cool old game but feel the new one while technically higher fidelity is a bit sterile and loses something".
They actually nerfed quite a bit which is nice for the challenge of playing with the old controls. Animations are slower and hit boxes are smaller. I can't clear crowds with bats and knives as easily without taking hits. Cars are painfully slow, and way harder to turn compared to the originals. And the way point now has a minimum radius and gets caught on zombies in-between so I can't tell survivors to fuck off as well anymore. As a challenge runner thus is actually exciting and mixes gameplay without removing the difficulty. Changes my runs entirely and is genuinely exciting to play around with other options and methods to play.
The point of the remaster is that Dead Rising has been dead for 8 years. DR4 was so shit even Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite has outsold it despite releasing a whole year later. The point of every remaster and remake is to reintroduce the IP, keep it relevant, and/or prep newer staff to make a new one.
Personally, I loved the Deluxe Remaster, I think it looks great, and did some really good quality of life changes. I'm ok with all the new voice actors (Besides Brad, I don't think it a good fit) and I also don't care about the removal of erotica stuff (I thought it was weird and out of place as a child too) and Larrys redesign is great. I don't like that they added some like.. "Hey frank, check that out!" from survivors when you escort them but otherwise, I think its a great remaster (I'm not going to argue what should and should not be changed) I'm hoping so bad that capcom will reboot the series or something akin to that after this.
Would it really have been that hard to put combo weapons into this one retroactively? Even if there's only like five that work with the current item and weapon placements, that'd still make this worthy of the "deluxe" subtitle in my book.
Replaying Dead Rising 1 just reminds me how badly, later games handle Frank. Even he admits he's a scummy journalist, and the erotic pics help establish that. Like Laura Croft, Frank isn't a role model.
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I'm astonished Yahtzee resisted the urge to misname Frank West as Wank Fest briefly at the start.
I bet yahtzee hates you because he didn't think of it first 😂😂
I prefer "Hank East"
He's had enough fun-sized mars bars to snack on, so he's in a good mood.
You can't disrespect Frank West like that. He cowered wars you know.
What do you think this is? Dead Rising 4?
BTW, speedy gonzales is loved by mexican and latin american communities in the US. He's always portrayed as smart and cunning.
Speaking as an Italian, a nationality very often stereotyped, it's not that stereotypes are bad, it's what they're supposed to do that can be bad.
If it's meant to laugh at people because they're weird ugly and dumb, well that's a bad stereotype. If it's meant to portray in a comedic way certain aspects of a certain culture without vilifying it, that's a good stereotype and I'm going to laugh together with whoever made it. I'll never not laugh at the 🤌🏻 jokes
in fact iirc there were talks of cutting him out of something Looney Tunes related due to being problematic and there was massive backlash from the Mexican and Latin American communities (I was a cook at the time and many of my co-workers were some form of hispanic and were talking about it all week lol)
Same as being Irish and having potatoes. It's a stereotype but you can do a lot of fantastic foods with potatoes.
Progressive people never bother asking minorities what they think. Wealthy urban elites think they can speak for minorities. Like famously trying to tell Hispanic people to use LatinX, which isn't how Spanish works. My wife is fine with Mexican, or if anything, Xhicana, because that IS how Spanish works, and Chicano/Xhicano/etc are actual Hispanic movements. Not just white people telling brown people how to think and speak.
The same thing happened to Apu from the Simpsons, despite the fact that he's one of the smartest/most educated and nicest characters in Springfield.
Bro the tiny HD text on my friend's grandmother's television in his basement. That was actual. We didn't even know where we were supposed to be going we were just smashing zombies for like 2 hours. S*** that took me back lol
Yeah, I was still playing on CRT at that point, so it was blurry on top of being small.
Dead Rising, no shit, literally made me buy an HDTV.
My siblings and I had the same experience with Skyrim
We were astonished at how easily we could read books when my family upgraded to HD
I remember that. The rca cables couldn't display the text well at all. I remember having to buy my first hdmi cable as a kid for my old ass flatscreen.
Just love the image of your friend's grandmother watching and cheering you on.
"Yes, eviscerate them with your chainsaw pookie!"
jesus fuck. i'm one of those people that complained about not being able to read the text in og dead rising and now my knee caps are dissolving.
Same! I’ll never forget getting my 360 that day and giving DR a try just to be dejected that in order to read ANYTHING on screen, I needed an HDTV…
Brb going to get my VA authorized so I can get my arthritis checked
Now I’ve got a 4K display but still can’t read anything because my eyes went to hell.
I brought my 360 to a rich friend’s house just to use their HDTV and see what the hell I was missing.
The more you think about it, the worse you feel. Quick! Have a midlife crisis to take your mind off of it!
Back pain flair kicking in as I was reading this. Peak
Well it’s good to know the old “orange juice and katana” build is still viable.
Which is also a viable build in Souls-games. To think this was the precursor all along.
He mentioned being proud of that Dead by Daylight joke lol
He should be, caught me off-guard
Cracked me up, so true indeed
So glad he got it in. God it's true.
Need a time stamp!!
3:00
Mini chainsaw + the sharp weapon magazines were all you needed. Plus its pretty much essential to kill the clown because the survivor unlocks the shortcut
Not sure if it's the same in the Remaster, but my favorite go-to strategy for the clown psycho was to make a quick spitfire smoothie and spit on him to death. He could deflect bullets and break melee weapons with his chainsaws, but had no answer for saliva. Almost felt bad for him.
@N3wguy321 hilarious that you can spit on him until he dies and its a good strat
@@N3wguy321 Something I love about Dead Rising is how creative you can get with the way you handle problems by using whatever tools the environment lends you.
This review felt a lot more like a classic ZP video
Filled with a venomous black bile?
Yahtzee hit the nail on the head, with the OG strat. Go to the coffee shop, 3 OJs and the Katana, go fight Adam, take his mini chainsaw and there you go, might as well roll the credits now.
At least with this one, if you didn't like the remaster, the original is still on steam and does not get pulled like certain other remasters *coughGTAcough*. That being said, the videogame voices actors were part of the charm. New Frank does a pretty good job but Brad just sounds.. rough.. just woof. Sad they couldn't get back Steven Blum for the PTSD Psychopath. I honestly wouldn't mind them remastering Dead Rising 2. Love me those weapon combos. (plus Chucks one liners)
"I'M NUMBER OOONEEEEEEE!"
"Yeah, you're on fire."
(Chuck's awesome. We love us an underdog dad who fights to keep his family happy )
Best performer/performance in original game: Probably John Kassir as Adam or Steve Blum as Cliff. Best performer/performance in new game: I'd assume Xanthe Hyunh as Jessie. Kinda understandable why that's where they shelled out for a "bigger name", but still. How cheap are you being with the voice acting that getting John Kassir or Steve Blum back is beyond the pale?
For bonus points in a Dead Rising 2 remaster, bundle in Off The Record as an optional side/bonus mode.
The new blender book functions as pseudo combo weapons, like two knives makes the machete, or a knife and kitchen knife make the meat cleaver.
@@leithaziz2716 I was going to say that no joke. Take the like.
I forgot about Dead Rising 4 and Hank East. xD
Capcom seems to have gotten their shit together since though. Resident Evil 6 & Dead Rising 4 are to pretend they were just a fever dream.
My main memories of the original including laughing loads while watching someone else playing in a Mega Man costume with a horse's head, and then struggling to get into it myself when I actually got to play it. I love the concept, completely loathed the need to handhold the NPCs. Still in two minds whether to pick up the remaster...
Honestly if it were me I'd put the "problematic of its time" disclaimer and the front end and give the player the option of whether they want to remove the sexist and racist shit or leave it in
That way we're not pretending it never happened and we're not forcing it on people who would feel uncomfortable by its inclusion
Yes but that would be far to reasonable and sensible for a game developer to impement
Weirdly massive shopping mall? This is America Jack
Question: if the Remake is removing problematic stuff, does that mean they removed the bisexual rapist cop boss fight too?
Nope. She's still in there
@@marvelnerd8480 Well, these changes are getting picked pretty arbitrarily....
She’s not a cop, she’s a mall security guard power tripping due to her jealousy
I love it when reviews mention that there's a Steam release of the original version of a remastered game, because my first instinct is always, "oh, so I should buy that instead."
I ended up buying the steam release of the original and was more satisfied by it than the remaster
I suppose part of the design choices does bring up an interesting discussion. At what point does a racial stereotype cross a line of being such a parody/satire/caricature that it lacks the sincerity to be genuinely racist? At what point does the presence of a stereotype more directly mock itself by its existence than the group the stereotype was made about?
As for the bit about removing the erotica bonus on photographs, like that's actually going stop people from doing it anyway. Those who just did it for the points won't care and those who just want to take pictures of cleavage will do it for their own self amusement even if they don't get rewarded for it.
It’s the Japanese making a racial stereotype Chinese character, Japanese tend to hate the Chinese and vise verse it wasn’t some meta commentary.
@@RogueLGand also it's a Chinese company working on the remaster
Expecting them to keep insults to communism (the government they literally are forced to live under) is asking people to risk their lives for a video game line
I wouldn't expect anything that offends anyone to remain because that's not what dead rising is
honestly, they made Larry seem less like a chinese stereotype and more like a guy with with some chinese ancestry, but he's full on american.
however, I am hopeful this brings about a remaster like this for DR2, maybe even 3.
On the one hand, yeah it would be cool
But on the other, oh god the Censorship is gonna get worse, and I seriously hope they dont replace Chuck’s voice actor like they did with Frank.
@@Lalasquad360 They changed two words and made Larry not a "yellow scare" stereotype. That was it. How is it going to get worse?
@@AFluffyLombaxThe fact you downplay it shows just how ridiculous the changes are. “Two words”, yeah apparently two words are just TOO MUCH and they desperately needed to change it with how so *offensive* those two words are. Its pathetic really
If you’ve played DR2 at all, you would know its DR1 cranked up to 11. So you’re going to see a lot more of those “small changes”.
Yea the Chinese and Japanese historically dislike each other, people act like Larry’s original design wasn’t negative racist stereotype on purpose.
I bought my first HD TV for Dead rising. I was one of those who bought it and couldn't read any text so the next day went out and bought a new telly.
Me too, haha.
Weirdly enough, I did have trouble reading the captions on my CRT TV... but only because my TV at the time was the size of a Nintendo Switch Lite.
Strange as it is, removing the Erotica category feels kinda like a mistake? Frank being kinda scummy felt like an important part of his character, because the mall is supposed to be a lethal trap for people with more greed than sense, and it felt like making Frank actually search out the truth instead of just chasing trends was kinda his character development.
Without at least _something_ like the Erotica category, it feels like he just kinda becomes a conventional sassy hero; more Shaun than Dawn, if you will.
A proper Shaun Of The Dead game would be mint.
@@blunderingfool Nah, that game would be too easy, all we'd have to do is go to the Winchester and wait for it all to blow over.
I wouldn't go THAT far. He's still a blatant asshole that goes into the outbreak for fame and nothing else.
Given that the game is a love letter to 80s horror films like Dawn of the Dead, removing gratuitous violence and nudity feels like they're missing the point entirely so as to not offend a minority of people that likely won't ever play it.
@@baldian3 I made a "Pub of the dead" map back when Pavlov used Steam workshop for UCG, it was mildly popular enough that I think people would enjoy a "Defend the pub from zombies" game.
Beyond glad he mentioned the mini chainsaws from Adam the Clown, easily the most busted weapon in the game when you get 3-4 manuals to exponentially increase it's durability. You want easy mode? Go get those.
usually good for 80 kills, but you get 3x durability with 3 books, and infinite with that cheat book you get for the saint achievement. Honestly, that's part of the fun. The game actually rewards you with unlocks for most achievements.
@@hedonistredd4592 it was nerfed vs psychos but still rips through zombies
Yahtz, you've always been a funny bloke, but this is, I think, the first time I've ever had to pause one of your videos to just have a good cackle at a joke. Jesus christ. "It used to fuck up psychopaths like a Dead By Daylight balance patch" KILLED me. God I've played too much dbd
TJ Rotolo again not returning to voice Frank was a massive blow for me.
We're ramblomatic guys, of course we're... uhhh...
Were zp guys of course we use no punctuation
Deluxe remaster? That sounds deluxe!
Okay, okay, let's watch this guy, let's watch this guy on youtube
I never saw what the original butcher psychopath looked like. And then I did a quick search and wooo boy! Good change
Btw Mexicans love Speedy González
Well I doubt it was that bad--
What in the world was that?!
I didn't know Colorado counted as "Midwest" last I checked we were west west
Yep, definitely Midwest. Even wikipedia says so.
@@xxGhostXIIIxx weirdly that’s also been said about Raccoon city. I mean if you didn’t know America and someone said American mid west I guess it’s easy to assume you start at the middle and move westward to get the Midwest
Midwest = everything that's not the coasts, seems like 🙄
I thought you guys were mountain west?
@@xxGhostXIIIxx so if you think Colorado is west west, what do you think Nevada and California are? West west west west?
Think Dead Rising is still worth playing because it doesn't feel like an Ubisoft open world. There is reason to explore beyond just cleaning up objectives
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And The Escapists is niw a zombie itself now.
I got all the way to the end of DR back in the day, when you have a fist fight with Liquid on top of Metal Gear. I mean, when you have a fist fight on top of a tank with bad army guy. Could never quite kill him, and couldn't bring myself to go back and grind or start the game over again, so that was that...
The only I figured out was repeatedly performing the knee drop attack and chipping his health down.
whosithisgit figured it out. If you jump off the turret back onto the main body of the tank, the boss won't pursue you and will aimlessly mill around on the turret, allowing you to get a sneak attack in when you climb back on. Rinse and repeat.
"Tiny HD texts"
Holy hell, I remember those days. 😂
I said this before in the stream - a better way to have handled the erotica issue would have been to just make it equal and give Frank points in the category for well framed photos of some of the male NPC's firm cheeks.
I really hope that instead of covering SH2R that Yahtzee just does a roundup of a bunch of indie games he's been playing and enjoying instead.
I always found the first 2 games in the series in particular like a great blend of effin around if you felt like and also having stakes. There is a limited amount of time and if you eff around your not gonna be able to save everyone. Then again it wasnt like the NPC:s you tried too help were wonders of intelligence. When they gladly ran into a horde of zombies.
I remember HD games being "unreadable" on CRTs. Specifically the enemy radar on some FPS game I played being absolutely useless because it was all one indiscernible soup. I switched to playing on my pc monitor for the next 5 years or so.
Luckily you could let the PS3 put out video through hdmi while the audio went through the analog out which I could hook up to my speakers.
Relatable, I had to get my first HDTV because I couldn't read the text on Mass Effect 2.
I liked the bit where the soldiers turn up, having the zombies just be all dead and such was such a vibe shift.
Man Dead Rising 1 is still my favorite of the franchise even tho I've played the heck out of DR2 off record which imo is the best of the series
But nothing will ever beat little middle school me playing the game for 14 hours straight one summer trying to get 7 days survivor only to get rewarded with Arthur's probably used Boxers
Mini chainsaw had 3 magazines that affected it, each multipling the durability by 3. Sharp, sport, and psycho. Last mag was in the final segment of the mall.
I have nothing against revisionism in a remaster as long as they do something--anything--to replace it with something that works with the same story elements (minus the racism and stereotypes). There are things that were "a product of their time" and others that we'd all agree were "a poor decision, even for their time." Star Wars SE's revisions were somehow the worst of both worlds because it's a matter of taste and if there's anyone lacking in that it's Mr Lucas and his Arts.
I fully remember soft locking myself out of this game when it first came out because the text wasn’t displaying properly on my old tv, similar thing happened in RDR1. Those were truly the days.
This has just reminded me that I REALLY need to go back and finish the original Dead Rising on steam. I started it AGES ago and got distracted during a steam sale then forgot about it. It's even still installed all I need to do is remember to play it.
Nice to see Yahtzee is also a devotee of the Mini Chainsaw.
I also used the gun from the convicts’ vehicle to obliterate Cletus the Gun Store owner since I could never beat him the intended way.
The toning down of the raunchy aspect is baffling to me, because it doesn't seem worth the effort.
I know companies feel pressured to adhere to a modern Western "cultural environment" for the sake of garnering an audience with a newer generation, or out of fear of being branded offensive, but i find it counter-intuitive.
Winning new fans relies a great deal on the original fans promoting the game, and if it's for the sake of not "ruffling feathers" then people will find out about the differences anyway thanks to gaming news sites comparing the remaster, or worse, angry fans of the original upset at the censoring.
I was more of a 'Need For Speed' type of guy, so i don't have much attachment to the original, but i am glad they had the decency to leave the original version available on Steam
Dead Rising was one of the first games I got together with my first console when I started working. I'm pretty sure I spent most of my time in that game driving around the underground tunnels in order to unlock the Mega blaster.
i'm always suspicious of remasters done by people who murdered their own franchise
I'm surprised he didn’t make a "DRDR" gag about that weird manga with the people who go into holes in a mountain and co.e out going "drr drr" 🤔
Apparently the reason the butcher was changed was because the remaster was outsourced to a Chinese company.
Kinda similar to how Lao Gui from Yakuza 0 was changed from looking like the Grim Reaper internationally to a regular guy in the Chinese release
"The mini chainsaw was my go-to, it used to fuck up psychopaths like a Dead By Daylight balance patch" LMAO
Schmick Meta Deconstructed Perfection, in Foam Form.
Loved it.
Back then, I got the key for the Underground Tunnels, got in a vehicle, then mowed down as many zombies as I could. Rinse and repeat until you unlock the achievement for killing the equivalent of the population in zombies, then get the basic ending. The second go around is when I REALLY play the game...at Level 50...with the OHKO Real Mega Buster. I wonder if that got nerfed or not.
Does the remaster still have the megaman blaster you can unlock by killing the population of Willamette in zombies? That was fun, and makes the challenges of the game trivial, but fun. The easiest way to grind it out was driving the respawning vehicles around the mall's underground service tunnels.
Yep, its still there. And now you can do charge shots like in MegaMan 4 onwards
@@glassworktrophic8465 yes and now you don’t have to get all the kills in one play through, it’s your cumulative kills.
The best addition to the game is that Otis has a voice actor
Haha wow. Yep. The text thing. We rented a 360 and dead rising for a sleepover, and our friend's 'big screen tv' was a giant CRT.
Weirdly massive shopping malls in the mid west were a thing. I remember having to drive an hour to get to a proper city and the weirdly large mall there as an attraction.
Dead Rising - the entire 7th gen for that matter - came out around the start of my high school freshman year. I'll be turning 32 next Tuesday. Jesus.
Larry is still Chinese, they just make him look more professional.
I'm just happy that Capcom is opening the vault and releasing remasters and remakes back to back lately. Sure it's nostalgia baiting bur these games were good for a reason.
It is nice but I also hope Capcom has some new games soon. "Remaster all the things" is not a viable long term strategy as Sony has been demonstrating for the entire PS5 life cycle.
I'm waiting to see what happens next year. The remasters, remakes and collections are not only nice but highly appreciated (who ever thought we'd get an official Marvel vs Capcom release again?) but eventually they'll have to make new games, and i'm hoping that these remakes/collections are testing the waters for what people want to see.
Capcom released DD2 in April and Kunitsugami, a new IP, in July. They released another new IP and SF6 summer last year, and MH6 is coming in February.
That text issue does bring back memories
I delved straight in to pursue the Zombie Genocider's new achievement and am just now getting to Overtime mode... :D Silly me not knowing that kills are now cuumulative.
Guy pitching this: "You see, sir, why DR... when you can DRDR?"💁🏿♂
I don’t understand why visual remasters of games are so widely accepted, often even praised. When it comes to movies, people flip their shit if remastered versions change anything drastic, but games do the equivalent of reshooting every scene with newer equipment. I understand fixing jankyness, controls etc but always feel like something is lost when graphics are overhauled or major features are changed
an uncensored Zero Punctuation logo?
Yahzee's grip on his own pearls over how they disrespected the sanctity of videogaming by removing the encouragement to be a racist creeper
I wonder how those expert Deadsoul's players would handle not having a Dodge until you level up you character to 10.
Love that the zombies are all Flyboy.
Missed opprotunity on turning Larry into Lupo the Butcher.
My "I gotta upgrade my TV" game was Mass Effect 2. I didn't get a PS3 until 2011, and that was my first game. It was impossible to know what the hell to do.
The small chainsaw was the best weapon in the classic version of the game.
I hope the remaster didn't reduce its effectiveness too much. 💔
I understand why people think 2 was better, but I always preferred the original. I think the speed had a big part of it. Yeah, Chuck could hit people with sledge-axes, after the 5 minutes it took him to reach them
A lot of people were looking forward to Epic Mickey Rebrushed, myself included. If anything DuRDuR was less known in comparison cause it was announced fairly recently
Yahtzee was right about Capcom firing up the Remake machine a few years ago
RIP amusing instances of accidentally getting Erotica points and having to squint to see cleavage in the background of whatever it was I was taking a picture of.
18 years since the original? Holy crap... Yeah, I think it was about time for a re-"master".
A perfect start for the month of Spookiness.
I'm honestly surprised this got its own ramblomatic but lezgoooo
One saving grace with the Dead Rising being a Capcom game is they have a tendency to leave up original versions of games when they put out a remaster. Honestly all this review makes me want to do is go spend the 1 bucks and just replay the original and save my Deck's storage the hernia.
I legitimately thought this game wasn’t real when I saw the title
This was the game that made me buy an Xbox 360 at the time. I stupidly however traded in my PS2, GameCube, and original Xbox only to figure out that Dead rising was like the only game worthwhile for the 360 until the elder scrolls Oblivion launched lol. But either way I played the hell out of this game. None of the sequels were ever able to really draw me in the way that this one did, maybe it was just the hardcore George Romero zombie fanatic of a college age version of me that was excited to basically have Dawn of the Dead the game. But I never properly beat it. I finally did enough restarts with enough level ups to get to the point where you do everything correctly for the special forces to show up. But much like you said, I thought that just made the game start to really suck. This looks tempting to give it another shot, I do wish they had added just a regular old sandbox mode that they had in Dead rising 2. But it's not like it really matters anyway, you can still just decide to screw around and keep restarting and screw around some more. However, this is something that I don't think I would pick up unless it was on sale
Good for when there's nothing else to do but kill time at the shopping mall.
i knew the content of this video before watching. "he's going to reminisce over a cool old game but feel the new one while technically higher fidelity is a bit sterile and loses something".
They actually nerfed quite a bit which is nice for the challenge of playing with the old controls. Animations are slower and hit boxes are smaller. I can't clear crowds with bats and knives as easily without taking hits. Cars are painfully slow, and way harder to turn compared to the originals. And the way point now has a minimum radius and gets caught on zombies in-between so I can't tell survivors to fuck off as well anymore.
As a challenge runner thus is actually exciting and mixes gameplay without removing the difficulty. Changes my runs entirely and is genuinely exciting to play around with other options and methods to play.
This just reminded me of the disappointment I felt when my old 360 copy of Dead Rising didn't work on my modern Xbox
The point of the remaster is that Dead Rising has been dead for 8 years. DR4 was so shit even Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite has outsold it despite releasing a whole year later.
The point of every remaster and remake is to reintroduce the IP, keep it relevant, and/or prep newer staff to make a new one.
Hello, one of the two Epic Mickey remaster fans, yes it appeased me quite a bit!
I don't think I've ever been this early to one of these.
Personally, I loved the Deluxe Remaster, I think it looks great, and did some really good quality of life changes. I'm ok with all the new voice actors (Besides Brad, I don't think it a good fit) and I also don't care about the removal of erotica stuff (I thought it was weird and out of place as a child too) and Larrys redesign is great. I don't like that they added some like.. "Hey frank, check that out!" from survivors when you escort them but otherwise, I think its a great remaster (I'm not going to argue what should and should not be changed)
I'm hoping so bad that capcom will reboot the series or something akin to that after this.
Pretty sure Colorado isn't in the midwest, the Rockies might stand out next to Illinois.
Surprised he didn't mention to change in Franks VA
its fiddy bucks ! !
DR triple pack, 39,17
DR 4. 29.99
DR 4: Frank's Big Package, 40
DRDR, 50 ! !
those guys are friggin crazy ! !
fear and hunger termina reference spotted
Ah yes dead rising 2
"The cynic in me, sorry the cynic that IS me"
Would it really have been that hard to put combo weapons into this one retroactively? Even if there's only like five that work with the current item and weapon placements, that'd still make this worthy of the "deluxe" subtitle in my book.
i wonder if it was a balancing issue
Combo weapons do exist in a way, but they require a magazine in order to be created.
@@grfrjiglstan new blender book that you get for completing the game is pseudo combo weapons
I hope Yahtz checks out Abiotic Factor sometime.
The tiny text in Dead Rising was a problem on big screen
TVs as well
Now I want to play the original for the retro vibe.
Replaying Dead Rising 1 just reminds me how badly, later games handle Frank. Even he admits he's a scummy journalist, and the erotic pics help establish that. Like Laura Croft, Frank isn't a role model.
This time I had to play it at 80% speed.