I hate to be that guy. I feel like I'm alone in this. I have no idea how anybody loves this game. Sure I'm several years late but dude... I thought maybe it's nostalgia for people. It's just a zombie slapping good time, except it isn't...
The first zombie I killed I immediately noticed there was no follow-up. Couldn't hit them while they were on the ground. No head stomping nothing. Then I realized the zombie death counter. I had just randomly slapped a zombie to death. Does the main character Frank train with Mike Tyson or something? But seriously... I get that the charm of the game is running around and bashing zombies with TVs, toys, chairs and whatever the hell. But even that didn't feel particularly great. Maybe I played too many better zombie games to get it, but the combat wasn't there.
Then there's the guns. Yes there's guns in this game, and enemies that aren't zombies. I quickly realized that the shooting mechanics are terrible. You can't aim and shoot. You could argue that Frank is a photographer and isn't supposed to be good at shooting, fine.. but the guns have range to them. If you fire so far your bullet just disappears. You can argue that the developers didn't want guns to be overpowered, fine... But in the very first mission of the game you run into a guy with an SMG. I quickly found out that his gun not only stun locks my character (boy do I love that) but it does further range than my pistol. Screw this, I'm going to get right up on the guy and beat him with a bat!! Nope. He smacks me and Frank goes comically flying in the air as if he'd been hit by a bus. Alright.... Well I'll just get under him and get the angle. Did I mention he's a bullet sponge? Cause he's a bullet sponge.. no headshot for this guy. It doesn't matter because when I get under him he starts lobbing grenades.
As much as I hated all of this I kept going. I tried to save some people and ran into the worst AI I have ever seen. Well, maybe not ever.. but in a game that I thought was a guarantee good time for what I've heard over the years this AI is horrendous. I had to pick up chairs and move them so my followers would quit running into them. SEVERAL TIMES. They never take the obvious route. Ever. I'm spamming follow me hoping it'll make a difference and that they'll stay right behind me but they always drift off into danger. I thought the side quest would be the best part of the game. Besides smacking zombies around of course. But they're all horrible. Did I mention there's a Time limit? Yeah there's a time limit... If you can manage to get these idiots to follow you you'll probably find out that you're locked out of backtracking several ways in the mall, now you have to turn around and go back down the same corridor. There's so much more shit...
I just... I hated it. I hated every bit of it. Maybe I'm going too hard on it, but I don't think so. I know people like it, but I just don't get it.
The first zombie I killed I immediately noticed there was no follow-up. Couldn't hit them while they were on the ground. No head stomping nothing. Then I realized the zombie death counter. I had just randomly slapped a zombie to death. Does the main character Frank train with Mike Tyson or something? But seriously... I get that the charm of the game is running around and bashing zombies with TVs, toys, chairs and whatever the hell. But even that didn't feel particularly great. Maybe I played too many better zombie games to get it, but the combat wasn't there.
Then there's the guns. Yes there's guns in this game, and enemies that aren't zombies. I quickly realized that the shooting mechanics are terrible. You can't aim and shoot. You could argue that Frank is a photographer and isn't supposed to be good at shooting, fine.. but the guns have range to them. If you fire so far your bullet just disappears. You can argue that the developers didn't want guns to be overpowered, fine... But in the very first mission of the game you run into a guy with an SMG. I quickly found out that his gun not only stun locks my character (boy do I love that) but it does further range than my pistol. Screw this, I'm going to get right up on the guy and beat him with a bat!! Nope. He smacks me and Frank goes comically flying in the air as if he'd been hit by a bus. Alright.... Well I'll just get under him and get the angle. Did I mention he's a bullet sponge? Cause he's a bullet sponge.. no headshot for this guy. It doesn't matter because when I get under him he starts lobbing grenades.
As much as I hated all of this I kept going. I tried to save some people and ran into the worst AI I have ever seen. Well, maybe not ever.. but in a game that I thought was a guarantee good time for what I've heard over the years this AI is horrendous. I had to pick up chairs and move them so my followers would quit running into them. SEVERAL TIMES. They never take the obvious route. Ever. I'm spamming follow me hoping it'll make a difference and that they'll stay right behind me but they always drift off into danger. I thought the side quest would be the best part of the game. Besides smacking zombies around of course. But they're all horrible. Did I mention there's a Time limit? Yeah there's a time limit... If you can manage to get these idiots to follow you you'll probably find out that you're locked out of backtracking several ways in the mall, now you have to turn around and go back down the same corridor. There's so much more shit...
I just... I hated it. I hated every bit of it. Maybe I'm going too hard on it, but I don't think so. I know people like it, but I just don't get it.
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I have deleted and reinstalled it and deleted again. I want the charm to click so bad for me, but I just keep getting more frustrated. Lol. I hate the feeling of missing out >_<)
Snigglegros
1 month ago
Getting owned by psychopaths is fine, they are kind of a "learn how to play moment" for this game. Have to come at them a certain way, maybe explore the map beforehand and find some of the stronger weapons. I've been filtered by these moments before on other games so I get it.
AI could be better I suppose, but them being dumb is kind of charm. You gotta babysit a bunch of people scared shitless. I always get anxious when games have time limits, so much so I don't want to even play that game, even though this game is one of my favourites of all time. Time limits just sound scary as mechanics when they really aren't. Shortcuts in the mall open up as you progress the story (sadly you do have to progress the main story if you chose to ignore it just to grind up side content stuff) to make "backtracking" less tedious, but backtracking is the whole game still.
IDK, maybe you'd like the future ones more? Dead Rising 2 and on just get more and more about mass murdering zombie crowds (but they all basically still feel the same as DR1). DR4 feels so built around killing crowds of zombie that I'm surprised it still feels like DR1 when it could have been a straight Musou or something.