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http://uk.gamespot.com/features/dead-rising-3-reaches-for-the-call-of-duty-crowd-6409900/

Rock me if bold. Searched and didn't find anything.

Capcom Vancouver presented Dead Rising 3 behind closed doors, walking us through the demonstration that debuted during the Microsoft press conference while answering questions about the direction that they've taken. The changes that you can see in images were not a fluke. Capcom is pointedly trying to appeal to a wider audience in this latest iteration, saying it's going after the Call of Duty player. Gone is the cartoonish visual design, replaced by a more "realistic" interpretation of a viral apocalypse. That change is part of the maturation. By shifting the art style, the combat can be "more visceral" than in previous versions, with "real gore."

Another notable shift is to the pacing. The urgency that defined Dead Rising has been turned off in the demo we were shown. Time created "extreme pressure" in the original games, and Capcom wants the zombies to be your biggest threat this time around. In Dead Rising 2, you now run around broken-down neighborhoods, killing zombies in horrific ways without real motivation to push forward. Because of the shift in artistic tone and the nonstop combat, this Xbox One launch game now looks like any other open-world game. The team is confident that the ability to create unique weapons will separate Dead Rising 3 from the crowd, but that spark of originality was absent in the demo we were shown.

There are some additions to the expected zombie slaying. The Kinect is used to communicate to zombies (a loud noise is enough to get their attention), and there are motion controls as well. You know how games often force you to wiggle the stick when enemies grab you? Well, in Dead Rising 3, you can shake your arms to get them off. SmartGlass is also implemented. By using your phone or tablet, you can call in an airstrike or locate items on the map. It will be handy to find a sledgehammer whenever you need one, but it clashes with how Dead Rising used to familiarize you with environments. Before, you would play and replay until you learned the layout. Now? Everything is handed to you.

 

[BattleMonkey]

Was a nice series

 

[mightynine]

All I can think of is the now-classic Amirox post.

 

[Kid Ska]

This is getting so frustrating.

 

[NotLiquid]

Fool me once, shame on you. (Resident Evil 6)

Fool me twice, shame on me.

 

[kewlmyc]

The only game I want for Xbox One is starting to look unappealing. Fuck.

 

[Karak]

Nightmare mode is in so I am happy enough. Will judge it when it gets closer to launch.

 

[Terra_Ex]

The battlecry of many a failed franchise.

 

[RedNumberFive]

Good luck with that strategy.

 

[Floex]

3rd game arrogance.

 

[Foffy]

Can't wait to hear their surprise when the game underperforms like all of the other countless games trying to go after that type of player..

 

[dallow_bg]

All I can think of is the now-classic Amirox post.

Link?

 

[Htown]

Oh, so Capcom is being a dumbass again?

Jim Sterling was right. Publishers are idiots trying to make everything into a CoD style success

 

[Slime]

Like I said in the other thread: this looks like it should have been a new IP. This does not look anything like a Dead Rising game to me.

Interest dropped from a skeptical-but-vaguely-hopeful 1 to a flat 0.

 

[bobbytkc]

This game is going to flop so hard...

I mean, the new style couldn't be a bigger turnoff. Dead rising is wacky fun. This looks like the opposite.

 

[Kouriozan]

Uh oh, the third game curse, poor Dead Space 3.
Well, Dead Rising was nice.

 

[MCD]

No dogs

Don't care

 

[Wuthering_Heights]

Sounds terrible.

I am no longer slightly annoyed that this is Xbone exclusive. I simply no longer care. Oh well.

 

[Loris146]

Good lord.

 

[Ken]

Because that worked out so well for Halo 4.

 

[badcrumble]

So it's basically not Dead Rising anymore.

 

[Yasir]

How many games have died/almost died after stating the same? don't do it.

 

[Metalmurphy]

I did find the abundance of weapons a bit silly.

 

[Wag]

I'm still interested in the game. I hope it's not an XBone exclusive and comes to the PC sometime in the near future.

 

[SJRB]

Resurrect in peace, Dead Rising.

 

[jmdajr]

What I saw looked fun, I don't care...

 

[Ryuuga]

 

[Bishop89]

really? lol

 

[Protein]

Capcom is pointedly trying to appeal to a wider audience in this latest iteration, saying it's going after the Call of Duty player. Gone is the cartoonish visual design, replaced by a more "realistic" interpretation of a viral apocalypse. That change is part of the maturation. By shifting the art style, the combat can be "more visceral" than in previous versions, with "real gore."

Holy shit

 

[rakkadakka]

Almost the entire industry is going after the Call of Duty player.

 

[Sethos]

Duty Rising

 

[Mr. Luchador]

But I don't play COD...

 

[BY2K]

It will get neither.

 

[revolverjgw]

This demo made me groan with its serious tone and lack of color. Didn't feel like DR. Kind of hoping it ends up as boring as it looks... not getting an Xbone and at least I won't feel that I'm missing as much.

 

[Lakitu]

So, another series that has had it's life sucked out of it.

Such a shame. The original holds up well. I really love it.

 

[kick51]

 

[SmokyDave]

Time created "extreme pressure" in the original games, and Capcom wants the zombies to be your biggest threat this time around.

...I'm OK with this.

 

[clay_ghost]

F%&*


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[DaBoss]

Capcom...stahp.

 

[DrFunk]

Just from that smidgen of gameplay I saw I knew it was over for Dead Rising

• no more bright colors, only doodoo brown
• Might still have the humor, although it's seemingly darker in tone
• No coffee creamer

 

[XPE]

Here's an idea go after the Dead rising player base first!!!

 

[Asriel]

What a disaster. Dead Rising did silly, immature fun the right way, a rarity in video games.

As if I needed another reason not to get an X1.

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Oh good, Japanese publishers are going through the Bomberman: Act Zero phase again.

 

[The Praiseworthy]

It seems now that every game is being created to go after the COD players :\

 

[web01]

lol another series down the shitter. Got to love the people defending the changes in the other thread wonder how they will try and spin this.
It is very clear from the PR and what they have shown they have thrown the defining aspects of the series out the window.

 

[Victrix]

I don't even like Dead Rising and this makes DR3 less appealing to me than it already was

So uh... good job I guess?

 

[mightynine]

Link?

Not the original, but it was quoted again at the bottom of the post:

But Gamestop would never accept that original trade if person 2 wasn't going to buy the used game. Why shouldn't Gamestop benefit? They are the middleman. You just want them to give people free money and throw the discs away?

No, here's the problem. Tomb Raider sold 3.4m units in the space of a month and it's a "failure" because it will fail to recoup its budget.

THREE POINT FOUR MILLION FUCKING UNITS FOR WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A B-TIER FRANCHISE AND THAT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE ANY MONEY.

And killing used games would have solved this how? Would it have made the execs at Squenix who thought throwing $100m budget at a franchise that's been irrelevant since the turn of the century suddenly get a clue?

Oh, but no, they argue "GAMERS PUSH FOR HIGHER AND HIGHER BUDGETS AND WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT! THEIR ENTITLEMENT COMPLEX CAN'T BE SATIATED! WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LET BUDGETS SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL!" and that's lovely, but since when did they ever give a fuck about what we actually thought?

Are Microsoft going to turn around and backtrack on this DRM fiasco because "WE HAVE TO GIVE GAMERS WHAT THEY WANT!"? Are they fuck.

Are EA going to throw all their games up on Steam and patch Sim City to not need the stupid Origin authentication because "THAT'S WHAT THOSE ENTITLED GAMERS ARE SCREAMING FOR!"? Fuck no.

If you couldn't afford to give people what they wanted, then why didn't you just turn around and say no like you do with every other thing we complain about? Here's why; Every publisher big and small decided to get into a dick waving contest and it turns out that not everyone has a big dick. Squenix got its tiny little acorn cock out and went up against Mandingo Activision screaming "LOOK AT MY MASSIVE JUNK! YOU'LL WANT TO CARE FOR IT!" and everyone just turned around and shrugged and bought something else.

Not everyone has a big dick. Acting like you have a big dick when you don't have a big dick is going to make the reveal of your tiny little penis all the more humiliating. And that's what happened here. Squenix acted like Tomb Raider, a franchise that habitually sells less than 3m lifetime per entry was going to suddenly sell COD numbers just because they spent $100m on it and guess what happened? THE FUCKING INEVITABLE.

In terms of the franchise post-Core, the game is going to do really well, probably double what you'd expect from a Tomb Raider game post-PSone but it cost far, far too much.

But no, it's all used games that did this. Used games made Capcom make some horrible design decisions on DmC and piss off the entire fanbase. Used games made Activision and EA flood the market with guitar games and accessories long after people stopped caring. Used games made Microsoft make a fourth Gears of War game that nobody asked for from a developer nobody cares about. Used games made Sony pump out another God of War game after they spent the past few years flooding the market with HD remasters. Used games made Sony make a Smash Bros clone with no appealing characters to help sell it. Used games made Bizarre Creations make James Bond and racing games no-one wanted. Used games make publishers shutter studios the moment the game they were working on goes gold, before they've even had a chance to sell a single new copy, let alone a used one.

I could go on. And on. And on. You could write a book about every single executive level screw-up this gen and yet these same people with their million dollar salaries and their shill puppets still try to insult our intelligence and blame used games and awful, entitled consumers for companies shutting and talented people losing their jobs.

So please forgive our cynicism when we don't want to buy into the bullshit you're spouting.

 

[Drachma]

I rolled my eyes the other day when someone said DR3 looked "dudebro'd out the ass". Now here they are saying they made a game intended to be exactly that.

Damn.

 

[WiiredShawn]

Part of me wants to say "lol Capcom" but another part of me expects this to work. We will see.

 

[Rad-]

Eh it still looked very much like DR.