Dead Rising is Amazing + Deluxe Remaster Review

[@Dorkaxe]

Two things: 1. Sorry for the lack of music, but I really didn't want to retread the DR mall music once again. I've done that so many times, I'm not up for doing it again. 2. I didn't notice this until it was all done, but clearly there's some choppiness, the frames dip really hard in some spots. I tend not to notice visual stuff like that as I play, especially compared to others, so this could have easily been the fault of me not selecting the right options or something(or the 2016 port being weird at times?) so I apologize if it looks a bit wonky. Support me on patreon: www.patreon.com/dorkaxe Dorkaxe discord link: discord.gg/rnmSP9FQQg

[@Deadsea_1993]

All good. I love your reviews and I totally agree with your takes on Dead Rising 3 and 4. Just something I thought that I'd mention is that you said Capcom Vancouver made a mistake with the names of the orphans in this version and I wanted to point out that Capcom Vancouver was closed in 2018 by Capcom. Deluxe Remaster was mostly made by a Taiwanese studio called "Neo Bards" while Capcom helped them here and there.

[@craftyperson2504]

When I was a kid I thought Frank moved so slow because he hurt his ankles jumping out of the helicopter

[@practicalpisces]

Your logical assumption might as well be canon.

[@FrankByDaylight]

Yea he did. But it's not canon anymore because the original game it was only half-implemented (aka the animations were done but it never made it into the actual story)

[@AC-hj9tv]

​@@FrankByDaylightthey ruined bro's canon. Not cool

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Makes sense because he's limping.

[@yozora1047]

not gonna lie you have some solid deductive skills as a kid

[@boomstickYT]

1:12:35 I don't think the choice is really that hard. OG Dead Rising every time, if I'm in the mood to play the game, I'm gonna play the one that actually retains the spirit of Dead Rising. As much as it's overplayed, the remaster is soulless, it's suffered a death by a thousand cuts, with things like the altered voice cast, censorship, generic "sleek" ui update, etc. These things aren't game ruining on their own but when combined it makes this version unappealing for replays. Capcom should've went farther in changing the game or preserving it. As is, the deluxe remaster just feels like a half measure that doesn't stand as a preferred version for newcomers or veterans.

[@Kaptain_Scout]

I think the change to Larry and Cliff really makes them a lot less memorable. Cliff is a war veteran from a real war and nothing of what he said in the original should be offensive. Just changed because… I have no clue. “You’re a mole” also just sucks. Larry is a Chinese immigrant and it’s supposed to be an ironic sting to Carlito. Carlito is all about Americans and their meat but gets attacked by a Chinese immigrant butcher. While the American butcher attacking Carlito makes sense and proves Carlito right, I don’t think we should be trying to prove Carlito right especially in that scene.

[@Ghillie_Beast_yt]

Larry is definitely less intimidating in the new one

[@vault1021]

@@Ghillie_Beast_ytlol tell that to the Redditors/fb group that think he’s menacing 😭

[@Ghillie_Beast_yt]

@@vault1021 he looks like he would be some kind of sports coach of some kind

[@boomstickYT]

@@Ghillie_Beast_yt Larry in DR: Menacing crazed butcher Larry in DRDR: College football fan

[@benzicol]

People are saying the game is outsourced to a chinese company. Thus the change of the Vietnam lines and changing Larry's ethnicity

[@shrippie-4214]

Also I'll never forget the time I was playing Dead Rising and the WORST picture of Cheryl showed up on the loading screen as soon as I was about to quit with my brother watching "I SWEAR THE GAME MADE ME TAKE THOSE PICTURES" to this day I have no idea if its required to actually take a picture to complete Cheryl's mission

[@lightsubterfuge]

1:01:03 more on your point for experimenting with the photo system. I wish they would randomize Kent’s request for the photo challenge on every run so that it encourages you to try and get high PP photos for ever genre. Would have been a nice change of pace and make the challenge more dynamic.

[@Aaron-qe9ms]

Sorry for the wall of text, but I really wanted to try and explain my perspective and have a genuine conversation about something I feel fairly passionate about as a creative myself. TL;DR: Art is perspective based and I think changing it based on another person's perspective does a disservice to the artist and those who consume it, as well as paving the way for more extreme changes to occur latter, so it's an over-all net-negative. I understand where you're coming from with the changes they made. "Who cares if Larry is now a different character? He was bad anyway." ... But that's not really the point, is it? While I do agree that outtake is better mechanically, we also need to look at games as artistic pieces, as story and art play a heavy role in what makes games so appealing. This means that every choice artistically speaking, rather than purely functional, is part of someone's artistic vision for the game. A fair question to ask is: 'who gets to decide if something is bad or not?'.. Society's morality alignment is ever slightly shifting. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but that is something to keep in mind.. Something you find innocuous might be found incredibly offensive at some point in the future.. Is it then ok for them to censor that thing you found innocuous because they found it offensive? If so, where do we stop? Perspective is unique to the individual, after all.. This is an important conversation, because it reflects an over-all mind-set that is currently evolving into what many people believe is too extreme.. Especially for art. Art is supposed to be one person's interpretation of the world around them, and how they express their unique perspective of the world and how they feel about it.. Art isn't meant to be about _your_ perspective, it's about seeing someone else's, even the not so pretty stuff. So while the changes Capcom made aren't _really_ a big deal, it's the over-all principle that's being debated here.. It's kind of hard to argue that some changes are good and others are bad when it's all perspective based, rather than fact based. (ie: what color looks good vs what does 2+2 equal.) You could argue turquoise looks better than blue, or green better than crimson, but there's no arguing that 2+2=4.. My point being, you won't just get the changes you want, you will also get changes like Kent's change, because the person who decided to make that change has a different perspective to yours.. Someone found it upsetting and removed it, despite him being a bad guy and him being a scumbag makes it a reasonable thing to keep in... and in cases such as this, the end product ultimately suffers for it, while the changes they make don't generally improve the game and elicit a "who cares?" response at _best._ Again, is removing and replacing a genre of photo's from a game about killing zombies in a mall that big of a deal? No. Not at all. Is it a good functional change? Yeah, I'd say so. Does that give someone the right to do it from an artistic perspective? It's hard to say.. but I'd say it doesn't.

[@garretlewis5674]

Its nice to finally hear you talk about learning the tricks of the mall.

[@Michael-f4j]

You're definitely to blame for those changes don't play dumb

[@SeriousDragonify]

34:30 That's because in remaster Barnaby is voiced by Crow from TimeSplitters.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Does my mans still not know that the Mannequin Torso is is the 2nd best weapon in the game for single target damage? Theres also always two each way between your path to the Security Room

[@douglas4934]

The censorship alone is enough reason to not buy the game.

[@willberto6969]

The remake uses AI art which means its objectively worse

[@balro777]

really?? where?? D:

[@iowa6646]

​@@balro777The labels on products inside the game were AI upscaled. Textures from the original were low res, but had readable words by human eye. AI butchered the words in very obvious ways, turning "chocolate milk" label text into gibberish, which is a huge shame considering game takes place in the mall.

[@bridgesbane7032]

Wait until you find out about the rest of society!

[@balro777]

@@bridgesbane7032 tbh when i see ai art i instantly think the product sucks, so yeah

[@SeriousDragonify]

​@balro777Crowbcat explained.

[@casedistorted]

33:49 do people not like TJ anymore or something..? Yeah new Brad is terrible, I loved old Brad so much. I love that voice actor too, he was in Metal Gear Solid also right? It’s like Maria’s voice actor in the SH2 Remake, she is noticeably worse and sounds bored in the new game. Brad and Maria’s voice actors did such terrible jobs. DR Deluxe has really bad performance, and I doubt Capcom will ever patch the game to be better. They are notorious for releasing games on Pc and never touching them once released.

[@oudomkosaketh40]

Rest in peace lost planet 2 on pc.

[@felman87]

I wish there was a Remaster and Rebirth mode. Remaster being Dead Rising 1 just with the new graphics. Rebirth being, well, this new version. And since I'm wishing, why not have a randomizer mode after you've beaten the game? Imagine if the items were randomized on each playthrough? So you can't just run off and grab your usual. You can find a shotgun at the grocery store, for those times when customers say "If it doesn't scan, it must be free". Whether the employee uses it on the customer or themselves is for the player to decide.

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Dead Rising Deluxe Demaster

[@DonutSwordsman]

Your amazing points on gameplay has really opened my mind to the series. Hope you do vids just about this in the future about games

[@latrommi519]

It crazy that I live in a world where the "deluxe remaster" exists for "modern audiences" what a shamless cash grab.

[@justinfleck6329]

As always a great review in a long line of really great reviews for this game series! Keep it up!!

[@reganpt1]

Yaaaaaay!!!! LOVE your videos, dude. So well done and captivating in a way that most others aren't. Wish you all the success you deserve.

[@onurpro9514]

The censorship is beyond ridiculous and the game is rated m for mature audiences for a damn reason not rated m for modern audiences

[@Spo0ky_Boxx]

23:30 I still remember that moment 😂 I think what makes it even better is the fact that Walter gives the water gun recoil, and stands there so confidently 💀

[@SpiritInky]

Awesome stuff! It was especially nice seeing you go back over your points from the original Dead Rising video.

[@ekofever827]

Man you deserve more subscribers. Keep up the great work man you deserve the praise!

[@straightuprat696]

50:31 THAT’S MY COMMENT FROM STREAM OMG HIIII

[@AC-hj9tv]

Dorkaxe and Fuzzy Slippers are awesome youtubers

[@SpaceBaked]

Dank West strikes again.

[@resdraon]

I honestly didn't know they made a remaster, let alone that you'd make a review about it. It'll be interesting because as you've said, your first review kind of missed the mark about dead rising's whole tone.

[@BIGSKEETDOWN]

Cool that you’ve grown with the channel and commentary but bro your dead rising reviews are the best on this entire site. I’ve watched pretty much All of them and I played when the game originally released in 06

[@decadunce]

it is nice to see your skills as a critic develop.

[@slamjam7676]

Night 1 of dead rising is so brutal You're experimenting with the mall but looming out of sight you have carlito's boss fight, the 2 dudes barricaded after that and leah across from them all as brad is running ahead out of your control to the next area all while the 7pm zombies are just starting up to kick your ass

[@Dorkaxe]

Day 1 has gotten to be somewhat routine for me. I skateboard/quickstep to the food court immediately, take out carlito, get bill on the brad visit, bring him back, do kent's thing, go get aaron and burt on their own, and it should still be before the prisoners, then take them out separately and bring back sophie, then bring leah with when doing the tourists later. I still haven't ironed out how to perfect day 2 yet. I'm thinking wait a bit and do the twins with ross and tonya? Last time I tried that I lost ross in the chaos, but I think it's doable and saves a bit of time.

[@slamjam7676]

@@Dorkaxe ross and tonya are essentially the final exam of time management 3 playthroughs in and i can still really only save ross in time as tonya lags behind

[@wildicedemon9926]

My perfect Day 1 is getting a skateboard and food, head over to the gun shop, kill Clitus (If you're fast enough you can get a sniper before he spawns into the mall, leave the area and go back and he'll be there), go do Kent's mission, proceed to the Food Court to Carlito's fight, grab Bill and wait for both Leah, Aaron, and Burt's mission to activate, grab them and get Sophie from the Convicts. Escort everyone together.

[@KingKoiComputer]

Did, did you rescue Paul?

[@Dorkaxe]

Depends on the playthrough. Shooting him in the dick with a heavy machine gun is kinda fun too

[@KingKoiComputer]

@@Dorkaxe Harsh but fair

[@link5688]

Always a great day when Dork uploads

[@Cellowo]

I’m a simple man, I see a Dorkaxe upload, I watch it. And yes I liked it within 10 seconds of starting

[@SolidSnnake]

oh 2020 dork, never change

[@Dorkaxe]

My man was shooting from the hip, did that first DR video in like a week. What a silly guy.

[@SackheadEd]

Looking forward to the DR 2 co-op review

[@gamerrobloxian920]

And one more thing to add: the male zombies can bite you in the junk now, which I'll admit, makes it look very funny

[@fortnitesexman]

he already pointed that out in the video

[@kotec1234]

Haven’t played this game yet but this review is quite solid

[@warnacokelat]

The prisoner respawning is a bug that just got fixed. And that makes me wonder, just how much of the issues in the deluxe remaster is intended feature or just simply Capcom wasn't paying attention enough to details.

[@Grey8270]

56:23 she could hurt her captives in the original as well

[@Deadsea_1993]

I'm thinking that if this franchise returns that not only will they retcon Dead Rising 4, but they will do the same for Dead Rising 3. That might be why they didn't put Nick and Diego in the database. 3's story was downright awful and I hate the game equally with Dead Rising 4 for different reasons. The franchise peaked with Off the Record and then nose dived badly. I'd hope that they next would make a Dead Rising 2 Deluxe Remaster and for the love of Pete please make Case West and Case Zero come to Playstation and PC finally. Then rework Dead Rising 3 to be actually good and end the Trilogy and the story arcs of Isabella, Chuck, and Frank, properly

[@itsoldtyde]

Is this a re-upload or spliced with an older segment?? Had a massive flash of dejavu just now at 35:00

[@BeamSplashX]

hey now, it was nice of them to call 4 resident evil's remake Resident Evil 4

[@practicalpisces]

My thoughts: - Tank North sounds and looks like Jet Fusion from Jimmy Neutron. - Jessica has the best remodel and new voice (Carlito's is fine too). - Isabela's accent sounds Dominican or Venezuelan rather than Central American. - The erotica genre could have stayed in the game. The devs should have made the female NPCs either cover themselves or pose for pictures. Also, add pictures of male NPCs to the genre to kill sexism (voyeurism knows no gender). - NPCs who recently went through a traumatic event should not merrily point out photo ops for Tank. That kills immersion in two different ways. They should still be distraught and want to get to safety!

[@dbzmagus]

I'm sticking with the original. I'm one of those people that does consider games like this to be art, and censoring art is offensive to me.

[@SolidSnnake]

ya im not a fan of "Hank East" i prefer the old frank for sure

[@alessandroferrucci6087]

I recommend checking out the Bearer of the Curse mod for DS2, it should fix most of your complaints with the game

[@iBlackinator]

I just can’t dig the fact they don’t wanna give dead rising the love it deserves and make it in house on the RE engine, clearly they didn’t outsource dragons dogma so I hope if we ever get a 5 it gets the dragons dogma treatment hell even the RE treatment it deserves

[@JackCatto]

58:17 - Actually, people pointed out that Larry is Chinese American, or he is half Asian. (You can also notice it on his outfit as well).

[@SeriousDragonify]

One word doesnt mean he's asian, bud. Anyone with foreign words on their body doesnt make them "asian".

[@darthmajor1070]

Have you ever considered doing a video about Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. It’s by capcom and I think it would make for an interesting video

[@shrippie-4214]

He finally did it..

[@decadunce]

I think with the erotica tag i would have really liked them make it a thing for both genders rather than outright removing it.

[@Don11037]

Capcom makes pretty cool games

[@ETG715]

Man I don't really know why people hate this game and they like the remake of lollipop chainsaw more

[@Dorkaxe]

Woah woah woah slow your roll. The Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a poor man's port and nothing else lol. Way overpriced, not even close to a remake. No licensed music(I added it back in with mods but still) and nothing that I can tell genuinely improved.(besides maybe outfits being available on a first playthrough) Bleh.

[@freeslop]

Woohoo, thanks

[@Mikman360]

When it comes to replaying a version, I will always return to DRDR just because of the dialogue skip option and improved walkie.

[@GeorgePivtorak]

Damn u would rather play a worse version of the game for a minimal change

[@bludgeon1081]

@@GeorgePivtorak Quality of life is not minimal

[@GeorgePivtorak]

@bludgeon1081 those ones are, doesn't make it the better version and are not needed

[@Mikman360]

@@GeorgePivtorak Someone's mad they got rid of erotica pics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@GeorgePivtorak]

@Mikman360 no, drdr plays alot worse than the original gameplay and physics wise. One good change was the removal of erotica

[@Outcast89R]

In the original, orphan number 11 called Lisa Jackson, Maybe Nick is just a transgender?

[@robonerd6925]

I hate that half the comments is just larry discourse, it feels like so much discussion around this game is more about the small changes they made to be more inclusive and to be very blunt much less sexist and racist. This is the best video at breaking down the actual mechanical differences between both games that's actually helpful you did a great job at that.

[@robonerd6925]

My only take is that i think erotica would have been maybe okay to keep if men could also add to it. But, like it's just boring either way.

[@FrankByDaylight]

I'm just hoping DRDR did well enough for Capcom to make a DR2DR or maybe even a future sequel. Edit: Comment has been up for 20 minutes and I already got depressing replies bro. If it helps. Dead Rising is the 6th best selling DR series right now. Only behind heavy hitters like MH, RE and DMC. DRDR sold roughly half a million copy's BEFORE the upcoming physical release. And on top of that the original DR got a huge sales boost from DRDR. The series is only dead if you keep saying it is. Show some positivity for the game and it's developers and it'll create more hype and positivity in general. Y'know. If you want the series to remain alive that is.

[@SpaceBaked]

Well the franchise is in the toilet so the first 2 games are their best bet.

[@Vadim_Slastihin]

I'm just hoping that this lame remake trend will die out and developers will start to make new games instead of parasitize on the things we love.

[@gregghuge3270]

@@Vadim_Slastihin I despise the constant slop remakes (remasters are whatever and can be useful to port it to modern os/consoles in some cases). I have zero idea how any of this is just accepted by people. Could you imagine if every new building or painting technique we just went "nah bro replace the mona lisa or hagia sophia with the new version bro". Not saying games or movies are on those levels of art but instead of advancing and making our own eras of artistic expression and media we have 1000000000 pigslop remakes. We are headed for a new darkages of stagnation.

[@Elongatedbunny]

I hope not, play the og dont support censored outsourced garbage.

[@CrankiestCrow]

It'd be pretty dope ( though i doubt it ) if they packaged in Case West and Case Zero as extras. But yeah I'd really like a 2 deluxe remaster since the current steam releases are kinda jank as hell.

[@schizoidtravis8116]

I really hate current discussions on games right now, everytime a game does something "woke" the discussion pivots to only being about the game having "woke" elements to it and whether its bad or good. I don't mean I just hate that it gets brought up, I hate the fact its the ONLY thing to get brought cause its the most vocal, that happened with Spider-Man 2 and I was bummed out the discussion for the game was about one optional side mission and not the entire game. Needless to say I was worried about the same thing about Dead Rising but luckily most people Ive seen when they bring up these issues give nuanced takes regarding how it benefits or harms the intentions these thing had on the game, Im glad this video did the same just like most other videos and brought up something unique like Kents photo challenge being a lot more fun than the original. Overall Im just glad to see people talking about the game in an engaging way, kudos

[@saschaberger3212]

Woke, not woke. Don't care. What I can't wrap my head around is why extreme violence is absolutely ok but erotic is depicted as the devil. It's a game for adults. I've seen a clown fall belly first into two chainsaws in this video here and I bet it's monetized. But if he had shown a nipple the channel would get deleted. It feels like we as society took a wrong turn somewhere. Is the erotica category seen as sexist nowadays? That's the same kinda sexist like showing buffed men shirtless in movies being accepted but women can't be shown in the same light? Only when they walk the red carpet, then it's empowering. I don't understand this anymore. What I'm trying to say is that I find cutting people into pieces is worse than getting points for taking a picture of a woman's clothed cleavage. Guess I'm alone with that opinion idk

[@reganpt1]

@@saschaberger3212 yeah you really need to go outside and try to get laid, buddy.

[@Don11037]

Nah that side mission was cringe and put in for activism

[@JustFun-ho6qy]

I always thought the erotica stuff was pretty funny. Besides, Frank is supposed to be kind of a tabloid sleazebag. None of this really matters because DR is a grind housy horror comedy. Not really a genre that should ever cower before an imaginary modern audience, or in case of the war veteran, the Chinese Communist Party(?) Capcom are a bunch of cowards.

[@saschaberger3212]

So I just watched the Crowbcat video about everything censored and there is absolutely no way anyone should defend this. Watch it and you know why people are upset

[@Michael-f4j]

Bout time bra

[@Woooookilla122]

This is like your 3rd or 4th dead rising original review but I’m still very much entertained

[@slamjam7676]

Man it's so weird that people call larry white Dude straight up looks like a mid gauntlet yakuza boss

[@boiwhoactuallyareyou]

finally our king returns 🗣️🗣️ p.s I WAKE UP IN THE MORNIN WIT A FAT CUP OF PISS

[@eggofshell]

You’re a very punny guy 😂❤

[@Novsev9069]

Comment for engagement

[@4ScoreSlappy]

Great review Dork. My only complaint is that your pun, frankly wasn’t clever.

[@youenjoy8468]

Chatting

[@chrismassey7783]

Never got into DR just found it incredibly boring and repetitive - so is a remaster of an 18 year old game really going to impress gamers (Sigh) no chance

[@JODA93]

Wow. Talk about hand-holding lol

[@Airfryer208]

deluxe demake

[@ubermorpth2208]

You know I was just thinking "Hey GhenryPerez's video on DRR was good can't wait for Dorkaxe's" Plus i had a small wish you'd do a proper retake on the original DR video you did a few years ago. Then I wake up to this!

[@aron1626]

Bed rising😴

[@deviction9314]

Drdr slaps hard

[@GeorgePivtorak]

Eh, just a worse version of the og overall

[@BorsPepsi]

Slaps that censorship flex tape on.

[@yuki4days]

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[@FinallyAlone]

Bread rising

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

Second

[@OfficialSatelliteMan]

New Brad is terrible and the voice sounds too young and inexperienced for his design (age and maturity).