Dead Rising comes out tomorrow!!

[Waus]

Someone with an Xbox 360 go buy this game so that I can live vicariously through your experiences. :(

http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=69042&highlight=dead+rising

[Justin]

buy me a xbox 360 and i'll do it!

[Bob]

oh my that looks cool. what a bad time to go to law school

[Waus]

My roomate is out of town for the next two weeks, so I'm missing out on playing it with him when he buys it. Apparently the demo is already out, and he's been telling me all about it.

If you put a pan on the stove and heat it up you can burn off zombie's faces. More than 200 weapons you can kill zombies with. Dismemberment.

ZOMG I wish I was playing it.

[Bob]

it sounds really cool but i bet it gets old fast

this is sour grapes of course

[Waus]

it sounds really cool but i bet it gets old fast

this is sour grapes of course

I think one of the game's major gimmicks is that it's totally open. You can hide in the room you start in for the duration of the game and get an ending. You can also explore the mall you're in as much as you can and not see the whole thing by the end of the game. What you accomplish/see is all your choice.

Looks like I'll be playing through it time and time again to see all the endings.

[beastieangel01]

Someone with an Xbox 360 go buy this game so that I can live vicariously through your experiences.

know what I'm sayin.

:(

[HOTWIFE]

My husband just went out and spent 400 bucks on a friggin xbox 360. That's fine cuz now I get whatever I want for awhile. Damn right I milk it for all it's worth.

sorry

carry on...

[skra75]

Someone with an Xbox 360 go buy this game so that I can live vicariously through your experiences. :(

http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=69042&highlight=dead+rising

maybe I'll try to convince my friend to get it, he's got one. I'll let you all know. I'm sure it's hot, I mean, you can throw grapefruits at the zombies as a weapon! (!) how desperate is that? throwing grapefruits to defend yourself against hordes of zombies...

[Miho Mingu]

Eh, I dunno. It sounds good on paper, but I frown on games that have all these "you can use anything in your environments!" features. This is why I find the Grand Theft Auto series very boring. The part that does interest me about Dead Rising is the number of zombies on screen at once. It's an overwhelming amount - almost makes you not wanna attempt to play it.

[kaiser soze]

why bother playing the game when you can go to the mall and see real life zombies

[skra75]

This is why I find the Grand Theft Auto series very boring..

??? gay

[Lo_Lyfe]

why bother playing the game when you can go to the mall and see real life zombies
in this game you can drag a zombie carcass into homewarez and have sex wid it on a bed.(y)

thats interactive

[Miho Mingu]

This was made by Capcom, makers of the Resident Evil series. I'm surprised they're making a game like this. Not in the sense that it's a survivor horror title, as they're one of the originators of that genre, but how it's conducted in Dead Rising. It just sounds like a 'anything goes' type of game, with a subpar storyline.

[Lo_Lyfe]

This was made by Capcom, makers of the Resident Evil series. I'm surprised they're making a game like this. Not in the sense that it's a survivor horror title, as they're one of the originators of that genre, but how it's conducted in Dead Rising. It just sounds like a 'anything goes' type of game, with a subpar storyline.
no offense, but how many ways can you tell a zombie story anyway?

[Miho Mingu]

Some of the Resident Evil games had compelling storylines, such as the original, where a special miliary squad went into a mansion to investigate the zombie infested place, and there were lots of twist and turns along the way. I haven't played Resident Evil 4 yet, but it's been hailed one of the best video games ever made, and that includes the story.

Here's a summary of Dead Rising's story:

The player character, Frank West, is an "overly zealous freelance photojournalist" who is trapped in a mall filled with flesh-eating zombies. The player must rescue other survivors and get out of the mall alive with the best scoop possible. Frank West wishes to win a Pulitzer Prize for his story. During the game the player must choose between taking pictures, killing the zombies, or managing both, bringing a twist to the gameplay. The game's shopping mall environment is very similar to George A. Romero's classic zombie movie Dawn of the Dead. Because of such a similarity, Capcom has issued a disclaimer in the beginning of the game to say this game is not licensed by George Romero as a game based on the movie, but more or less is a tribute of it.

[skra75]

you can play basketball, or you can watch basketball on tv and get all into it.
I prefer to just play basketball.

[Lo_Lyfe]

miho i still dont see a problem. is it cause the wii isnt getting it?

[skra75]

wii lol (lb)

[Miho Mingu]

No, I like more depth to games than just blood, guts, and able to hit someone with a frying pan. There's no bias here. I'll play games like that sometimes, but there's more to video games than just that aspect.

Wii won't need gore-filled games to succeed. And sure, you can point out that their kid-friendly theme will be their downfall, but there will be some adult-themed games as well.

I'm not just a Nintendo fan, anyway. I'll buy a PS3 when it cheapens. I was never interested in Microsoft's consoles, too.

[Pres Zount]

I need to play the demo first.

I just dropped a hunned big ones on Prey

[icy manipulator]

i've only played the demo, but damn it's some fun shit, lol

[beastieangel01]

omg
omgomg

zomg!

survival horror is awesome by the way but yeah. Um. Someone magically make a 360 and this game fall in my lap please. I TRIED hard not to read more about it, because I knew I'd get antsy and pouty about it. Too late.

*POUT* I WANNA PLAY

[skra75]

yeah I'm sorry, this game looks pretty fucking badass.

[beastieangel01]

that's alright. I'll put out an ad on craigslist asking to hang out with someone that has a 360 and that game :p

[ET]

lawnmower, baseball bats, swords, CDs, 2x4's, showerheads, chairs, plates, bowling balls, knives, tennis racquets, chainsaws, hockey sticks, plastic light sabers, safety cones, pies, plasma screen TVs, potted plants, fully deployed beach umbrellas, a battle axe from an antique store and the more conventional shotguns, machine guns and pistols and MEGAMAN'S FUCKING MEGABUSTER


That's what you can kill zombies with and more. Shit.

[The Notorious LOL]

it'll probably suffer from "State of Emergency" syndrome and will bore the hell out of you in 2 days.

[ET]

Oh man, that game was horrible from the beginning. I had rented it and still wanted my money back. I think there was even a sequel... Ugh.

I think the zombie thing might tide the game over into a week's worth of playing. Then again I haven't played the demo. But if it's anywhere as good as RE4 I'll have to visit my 360 fanboy pal and make him buy it.

[Waus]

This was made by Capcom, makers of the Resident Evil series. I'm surprised they're making a game like this. Not in the sense that it's a survivor horror title, as they're one of the originators of that genre, but how it's conducted in Dead Rising. It just sounds like a 'anything goes' type of game, with a subpar storyline.

It's supposed to be an indulgent game I think. No, the storyline isn't apenuts awesome, but that's really not the point. It's more like creating a simulation of the zombie movies (ie Dawn of the Dead) and letting you play through it like you always wished you could when watching them.

Capcom's involvement is a good sign, and maybe this will be a good sort of bubblegum supplement to their RE series.

[Bob]

it'll probably suffer from "State of Emergency" syndrome and will bore the hell out of you in 2 days.

that's what i'm worried about, yeah

although, resident evil 4's mercenaries mode wasn't much more than a "here's you, here's an endless wave of zombies, survive until time runs out" game, and my friends and i had loads of fun with that. maybe a whole game devoted to that kind of thing could be fun, after all.

actually i'm not worried, because i won't be able to play this game at all, meaning it doesn't matter if it sucks or not

[Waus]

although, resident evil 4's mercenaries mode wasn't much more than a "here's you, here's an endless wave of zombies, survive until time runs out" game, and my friends and i had loads of fun with that. maybe a whole game devoted to that kind of thing could be fun, after all.


Now that was fun. We used to have apartment competitions on who could score highest. I wailed with HUNK.

[Bob]

Now that was fun. We used to have apartment competitions on who could score highest. I wailed with HUNK.

yeah, it was good times. we'd get drunk and just take turns at it. that may sound boring, but if you really get into it, it's a lot of fun. we were trying to unlock the hand cannon (5 star rating on every level with every character), so it got very tense towards the end, as you desperately tried to survive to keep your score. any level with chainsaw zombies is the most fun for that. i remember playing the village level as leon, and i was backed into a corner, and the two chainsaw sisters were coming at me, and my friends were yelling at me to back up and run away for god's sake, but instead i stood there, shot one of them in the head with the pistol, and knocked both of them down with a last second roundhouse kick. we all breathed a collective sigh of relief at the same time, it was nuts.

i know that's a nerdy story, but it's a bonding experience, damnit. mercenaries mode has loads of "OH FUCK GET OUT OF THERE" moments like that, it's great. maybe this game will do it successfully too.

[The Notorious LOL]

this game sucks, straight up. Get off its nuts.


However, it sucks because Capcom fucked up two very important things.


1). impossible to read text


2). terrible save features


go patch that shit, and then we'll talk. Otherwise this game gets a thumbs down.

[Rock]

this game sucks, straight up. Get off its nuts.


However, it sucks because Capcom fucked up two very important things.


1). impossible to read text


2). terrible save features


go patch that shit, and then we'll talk. Otherwise this game gets a thumbs down.
.

[kaiser soze]

1). impossible to read text
It was designed for HD TV (this was the excuse I heard)

2). terrible save features
The save is quirky, but you have to be careful in 72 hr mode

My friend has this game and it's fun, infinite mode is a bitch unless you have full health and stock

[The Notorious LOL]

well the vast majority of the TV owning population does NOT have HDTV, and will not have it for another 5-10 years until they reduce the price significantly.



If Crapcom feels its necessary to exclude that sect of the population that doesnt invest in expensive ass televisions, then fine. They'll also wonder "hey, why is no one buying our games?" when that majority sized market share stops buying their shit because it wasnt designed for them.

[Bob]

well the vast majority of the TV owning population does NOT have HDTV, and will not have it for another 5-10 years until they reduce the price significantly.



If Crapcom feels its necessary to exclude that sect of the population that doesnt invest in expensive ass televisions, then fine. They'll also wonder "hey, why is no one buying our games?" when that majority sized market share stops buying their shit because it wasnt designed for them.

yeah, that's pretty retarded

edit: crapcom lol

[skra75]

crap...and I was gonna go buy it. maybe I'll rent it instead, considering I don't actually have a 360 to play it on anyways. it looks sweet formt he previews though. can it really be that bad? hows the gameplay and character control?