"So why did you decide to change Frank's Voice Actor?" "Y'know, we wanted to see how Frank's changed, and how he's matured in the 10 years since Deadrising 1, so we decided to go with a different voice actor." I guess Voice Actors just don't age, then.

The reason everyone liked Frank is because he took everything seriously and you the player can make him do stupid things

"Before you'd help a survivor and they'd go 'thanks' and just take off. That wasn't worth it." No you didn't. You'd help a suvivor and then you'd have to actually take them back to the safe room which was hard AF as you could accidently insta kill them with a sledgehammer blow you meant to aim at a zombie. And in return you'd get a tonne of XP and the survivor ACTUALLY BEING THERE in the safe room thankful that you saved them.

This video inspired me to replay Dead Rising 1, Frank doesn’t make A SINGLE FUCKING JOKE the whole game. I’ve never seen a more fundamental misunderstanding of a character from a dev team ever.

"Frank is such an amazing character and is so awesome." Translation: "we were out of ideas"

"kept the core of dead rising" > removes all the things that made dead rising one great.

The fact that you can literally become a Psycho yourself in DR1 is so brilliant. You can literally kill any character and completely destroy the story, go mad like the Psychos.

I like how their strategy is staying so far away from replayability, and that they pretty much use that anti replayability as a *selling point* under the notion of “you can do it all in one run :D”

"we did a lot of testing" "we did a lot of research" *they do a lot of talking*

Dude when they were describing frank by cursing nonstop was the equivalent of the "hello fellow kids" meme.

The first dead rising it was fucking amazing. It had character. Escorting survivors at night was horrifying. Hearing the zombies and only seeing their red eyes was chilling. Fighting psychopaths was tense but so depressing in the end once you learnt what set them off. Adam the Clown seeing an audience full of kids be killed by zombies so he now keeps the space ride going just to keep dead kids safe. The Vietnam vet who sees his granddaughter killed and loses it. This is what made the first one so great. Frank wasn't a sarcastic idiot acting like a 14 year old rebellious teen. He was focused, he was serious. We made him do the dumb shit. We made him wear a dress and skateboard around a mall. That wasn't the way he acted normally. I do not know what the fuck they were thinking with this game but it has none of the heart, none of the charm of the original. I hope to god there is a Dead Rising 5 just to wash this shit out of our mouths.

"Dead rising is known for killing tons and tons of zombies" While that is technically true, I remember my playthroughs of the original and how I used to kite and avoid zombies most of the time, while I had to make do with whatever I could find, building forts in shops out of furniture and all that. A looming sense of terror was always present and I left out an audible sigh of relief whenever I made it back to the security room. Devs who think that Dead Rising was all about "all the wacky ways you can kill a zombie" should not be anywhere near a new dead rising game.

>we did a lot of research >we asked fans >we looked at the feedback This is what corporate insecurity looks like.

Anyone ever notice how whenever a game’s marketing strategy is like an edgy “Fuck you our game is bad ass!”, the game always fails.

Dead Rising 1 wrote Frank's character extremely well, and you could see the progression as the story went on. The best example of this IMO is his encounter with Kent, the rival photographer. Kent's character was similar to Frank's in the sense that he was cocky, arrogant, and also looking for the scoop of a lifetime, but Kent was willing to go over the top to achieve his goals. So much so that he kidnaps Tad to zombify him on camera just so he can get his shots, but Frank stops him. Frank realizes at this point in the story that getting his scoop isn't as important as saving innocent people and getting them out of Willamette. It's honestly great storytelling and character growth. It's why I can't forgive the developers for what they did to Frank. It isn't even him at this point.

It’s amazing to me how they made almost every incorrect choice completely confidently

How the fuck is this Frank "more mature"?

"We are going back to our DR1 roots." Translation: it's set in a mall.

In Dead Rising 2: OTR, Frank does one immature thing in the story mode. When the traitor is revealing the plan, Frank one-hand claps like its lips flapping to make fun of the villain monologuing. It was a silly moment to show he's heard this speech before and knew it wasn't important. In that way, it showed how experienced Frank was since he already knew what the villain's deal was.

Everything this guy says sounds like a cope. “We did a lot of research.” “We asked the fans.” “We did a lot of testing” Lmao this guy is so full of it

The reason everyone loved frank was because he took everything so seriously while dressed as a megaman robot hitting zombies with a literal lightsaber. When you make him act silly, it starts to lose its magic.

"People don't want to play it again", if you have to say this you have failed as a game designer.

dev personality: "Its just like dead rising 1" reporter: "oh yeah how so?" *personality turns to the person behind him and wispers* dev personality: "Help i don't even know what a dead rising is!, what whats in dead rising 1 that is in what ever we made??" person: "uh... uh just just say... zombies.... and ... the main characters have the same name"

Dead rising suffered from the exact same disease as saint row series had. Devs who believed the small amount of wacky gameplay should be front and center for gameplay and story.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed how they took Frank West and turned him into a completely different character

"We're going back to our roots." 9/10 times this is a red flag.

We did a lot of research and made this with a modern audience in mind. - death nail for any franchise

Thanks to Deadrising 1 I was the only kid in my elementary school who had chill, jazz-funk elevator music stuck in their head. I wouldn’t change a thing.

"We are going back to our roots" -Removing inventory management -No Escorting survivors -Time constraints -No Terence J. Rotolo -No psychopaths -No bathroom save locations -No multiple endings

Frank maturing in the devs minds: -Acts like a teenager -Lives out of sarcasm -Sounds dumber than ever

The part that gets me is they keep calling it "our game" these people werent at the beginning and pretend like theyve been there

Frank in the first game is a 36 year old veteran photojournalist and these idiots felt the need to make him more “mAtUrE”

Q: "Does DR4 still have [insert feature from DR1]?" A: "No, because the fans didn't want it."

"We removed the time limit so that players could actually explore the stores and such" Doesn't do much good when you can't pick up most of the stuff in the stores now huh.

“frank is back” literally a completely different person

“Frank is mature.” Frank: :D or :P or :3

Players just want to mess around. *Takes out everything that you can mess around with.*

Video: He was the art director on Ghost Recon... Me: Hey, that's pretty respectable. Video: ...for the Wii

If dead rising 5 was ever to be made, it would be amazing if they showed something like DR4 was fake and some lame movie all along. And the real frank west voiced by TJ Rotolo making fun of it for being so bad.

Franks back! But he sounds different ... And he looks different ... And he acts different ... And he's basically a different character at this point ... But he's still Frank!

Dead rising 1 had some genuinely creepy fucking moments with the psychopaths, I'm gonna be sad to see that gone when they're all replaced with stock NPCs with troll face masks and flamethrowers.

The amount of times they said "we did our research" "we read the fan feedback" "this was something the fans wanted" and then saying something absolutely absurd that they changed about the game

Hank East was the main character in Dead Rising 4.

I don't ever remember Frank being funny

“We wanted Frank to be more mature.” Very mature to take a selfie with an enemy before you kill them.

I'm playing DR 1 for the first time, and I absolutely loving it, the rush with survivors and cases deadline mechanics. Even tho AI are kinda bad. But the potential was amazing for that time. DR 4 seems like mindless chore compared to it. 💀

Jim sterling gave this game an 8/10 I seriously question that guy's taste.

"Let's curse so the tweenagers think we're cool and hippity hip!"

Biggest issue is that they removed one of the greatest things in the game series... Psychopaths.

the meeting before the interview.. "Alright guys, make sure you use curse words when talking about frank. We wanna seem hip but also bad ass."

They look exactly like the types that would hate a good game like dead rising

How will gamers know our game is edgy if we don't swear every two seconds while promoting it?

Does anyone else not understand this whole “Frank is back” thing? Like... he’s appeared in every iteration of dead rising in some form lol. Except in 4 he’s completely unrecognizable

I liked when the soyjack director who never played dead rising credited all the bad changes to "well, we asked the fans"

What I love about your channel is that you stay true to a basic element of story telling. Show, don’t tell. You do it incredibly well. I bet I can find another video on this exact same topic but it would be someone using the same footage as you but interrupt each point with their opinions, thus muddling the message already being told to the viewer. Idk I’m baked and alone with my thoughts. This is a cry for help

The directors of Dead Rising 4 just look like discount clones of each other

The studio director made Kinect games for kids before Dead Rising 4, that explains a lot.

>its not fun to try and rummage through your backpack for a cheeseburger while trying to save the world while zombies are attacking you But thats like the definition of Dead Rising, and why its fun

"We got rid of time limits because players are frustrated that if time expired, they would have to that all over again." BRUH IN THE PREVIOUS GAMES, THEY HAVE RESTROOMS AS SAVE POINTS ALL OVER THE MAP

"We wanted to make Frank more mature" Typical Frank West quip "That's what she said". Capcom, you failed at making Frank more mature when you gave him dialogue even a 12 year old would find immature.

How to make Dead Rising better according to Devs - - More Zombies - More Zombies - More Zombies - Remove interesting parts - Add useless features - Selfies - More Zombies - Remove Frank's personality and make him extremely unlikeable - More Zombies - Completely ruin all immersion when it comes to psychopaths and replace them with some side quest mini-bosses without cutscenes - More Zombies

If the devs says "we wanna go back to our roots" they actually dont know whats the game's roots

Removing the timer was probably the biggest mistake. It added to the horror, one of the biggest fears people have is the fear of missing out and that's what previous games did so well. Not to mention that because there's no timer there's also no alternative endings, which also added to that fear. For example, you knew that in the first Deadrising that if you weren't quick enough, you would be left behind or miss out on the the main story. Or in Deadrising 2, if you weren't quick enough with zombrex then Katey would turn. It's stuff like that that really makes Deadrising a fun and challenging experience.

It's always the same thing. A guy or a gal takes the head of the studio, without knowing anything about the IP that made it to success. They bring a lot of changes that no one wanted. without listening to fans or their own veterans devs. Then when the game is a faillure and badly received. Gamers are blamed for being entilted or even worse they just decide the IP they just ruined is not worth it anymore. Rinse and repeat.

7:42 "people don't want to play it again to get that one other thing" *Inserts unnecessary PP trial to kill 250,000 zombies that would take hours of mindless, boring grinding*

It's weird how they talk like they worked on the first game when they had nothing to do with its development

Crazy to see Capcom bring Dead Rising TRULY back to its roots 8 years after Dead Rising 4’s disappointment…

"We did alooottt of research", "We wanted to go back to the roots" -Biggest lies in gaming history

Hitman devs: “We’re going back to our roots” *goes back to their roots* Dead Rising devs: “We’re going back to our roots” *goes off a cliff*

Dang this is 6 years old? Jesus

The very first thing I tried to do while playing this game was pick up a food court table and throw it. Turns out you can't. Tables are marked as a "melee" item and you can only swing it for some reason. You cannot throw any melee weapons in fact. Finding this out immediately gave me a dreadful feeling in the pit of my stomach when I first played it. This game was way too streamlined and lifeless.

I remember the original gave me chills and anxiety Especially escorting the survivors back to the surveillance room at night This shit is just saints row with zombies

3:08 Has he ever played dead rising? Survivors didnt “take off”... you escorted them to a safe house

The time limit is why DR1 is so good. You can't possible experience everything the game has to offer in one run. This makes the replay value higher than most similar games. You might find a different shortcut in a run that you didn't even know was there, rescue survivors or fight psychos that you never saw before, use weapons that you didn't know were in the game. The fact that these guys look at that as a weakness says a lot about them creatively.

i exaggerate a lot. But i genuinely feel the DR franchise would have been better off just ending after 3 and not creating DR4 at all. I would usually say getting a bad game is better than not getting a game at all.. but somehow this team truly did the impossible.

"We changed the voice actor because we wanted him to be more mature" Adds the option for a 50 year old to take selfies

Is this dead rising 4 or a saints row 4 dlc?

"We listened to the fans and tried our hardest to remove replayability" 😅

“We talked to fans” - man who has never talked to a fan of anything in his life

count how many times hes says "we brought frank back" and "were listening to the fans". oh and "were going back to our roots"

"were going back to the roots" *all roots are removed

To Who ever complained about Dead Rising 1 and 2... I hope you're happy with yourselves.

Quote directly taken from the game's Steam page: "All of the classic hallmarks of the ground breaking series return" - no time limit - no escorting survivors - no zombie behaviour being affected by day/night cycle - no multiple endings - no TJR - no bathroom save locations - no psychopaths "All if the classic hallmarks" indeed...

This is what happens when a team that's more familiar with Dead Rising MEMES than the actual game is put in charge of making a sequel. Original Frank: an intrepid journalist trying to get the scoop of the century. He's capable of some impressive feats, but at no point does he stop acting like he's taking this dangerous situation seriously. He has no trouble with depending on other survivors for assistance, and only by force of will (and their help) does he avoid succumbing to despair. Similarly, he when it comes down to the wire, he always at least *tries* to do the right thing (which is reflected in gameplay by the big XP rewards you get for rescuing survivors). New Frank: a cocky asshole '...who covered wars, y'know,' and is so assured of his own badassness that he never feels the need to stop quipping or making awful jokes. He went from being a photojournalist documenting a zombie apocalypse to the stereotype of a millennial stuffed in the body of a middle-aged man. Original Zombies: during the daytime, they're more an inconvenience than anything else. They impair your ability to get from Point A to Point B in a timely manner, which is a big fucking deal when so much of the game involves that ticking clock. Getting survivors back to the safe room was rewarding because it took real effort, and once they were there...well, they were *there*. You got to actually see the people whose lives you saved in addition to the XP rewards you got for getting them back. But at night...the zombies became a real threat. They were noticeably more aggressive and legitimately threatening even to skilled players, and that made it that much more important to get your shit done in the daytime. New Zombies: mindless fodder for every single 'cool' weapon the dev team brainstormed and threw into the game. The day/night cycle is meaningless. Original Psychopaths: a memorable array of crazed living characters who ranged from having legitimately cracked, or simply the selfish or opportunistic. Defeating them always yielded rewards, some of which were HUGE gamechangers that made the difficulty worth pressing through. And as goofy as some of them were, most of them were legitimately disturbing to some degree, and pretty much ALL of them were tough to beat. And most of the time, they either attacked Frank and gave him no choice but to defend himself, or they were threatening other survivors and prompted Frank to stop them. The convicts were hunting zombies and survivors alike in the park, and they killed a woman's husband in their intro cutscene (leaving you to rescue her and, optionally, defeat them). Adam the Clown had people held hostage on a runaway roller coaster, but it was also made clear that he only lost his mind because he watched the zombies eat his audience (who were almost certainly mostly children). Cliff was a Vietnam vet who started hunting anyone in his territory because he had a psychotic break after his granddaughter was killed. Cletus was just a guy who owned a gun shop and was willing to kill anyone who even *tried* to approach him. New Psych-oh, sorry. New Maniacs: a bunch of reskinned survivors and human foes that look like they belong in a publisher-mandated multiplayer mode. ...goddamnit, I hate that this game made me type that much.

"Games have to evolve..." Does anyone else find it funny that some of the games that have disappointed us the most over the last few years all have devs that always say shit like that at some point or another?

"We did alot of research and received feedback from fans and we found out that dying in the game upset the players, so we removed dying from the game."

I think they confused frank west with ash Williams

“We’re going back to our roots” Changes pretty much every mechanic from the first game.

DR Creator: So we wanna make Frank more mature...Because you know a man on his fifties,having survived a zombie Outbreak,will ask for fit bumps and also take selfies and make horrible puns every cinematic or boss fight. Mature AF

From what I could find, the actual dev team knew full well the the game was going to blow. The head developer, a woman,that was on since dead rising 2 was bullied out, a massive disconnect from capcom and microsoft, elimininating of "Psyopaths " for "Maniacs" because they didnt want to hurt any feelings because people snaping during a crisis doesn't exist; the new leads being nothing more than corporate yes-MEN (GJ microsoft) that were so pussy whipped to bring anything up also didn't help. In essence, this game was nothing more than a sacrificial lamb.

They keep saying he's older and matured, then why does he look 20 years younger and a lot less washed up? In OTR he's clearly a little older than DR1, so why is he aging backwards in 4? This isn't Frank West, it's Frank Button.

We all want the Frank West from Dead Rising 1. The natural, quiet badass he was and was new to everything, and seemed scared almost but never gave up. Not some edgy 45 year old meme page admin who spends his money on OnlyFans and works a mediocre job

It still holds up incredibly well today. I play Dead Rising from time to time, it’s classic.

makes chop til you drop look like a master piece and that one was intentionally dumbed down cause it was on the wii, a consle that couldn't handle the amount of ideas the first deadrising game even had

The way they keep saying "Frank is back" is annoying. Frank isn't Frank without his original voice actor. I don't know who the fuck that is in DR4 but it sure as shit isn't Frank.

Frank West in DR1: A cocky, kinda selfish man, but with a great sense of justice, even in the true horrors of a zombie apocalypse. Frank West in DR4: An annoying, cringy, 50 years old man who takes selfies with dead bodies and Flamingos, for no reason

This completely sold me on Dead Rising (the first one)

So pretty much they removed every aspect that made the game unique. The escort time limit, random object customization, food customization and Frank's identity. I hate when developers remove "hard mechanics" because they think it'll please players and open the game up to casual players.

Frank was more mature in the first game