Game: Dead Rising 2

[darkshadow]

Whatever the $5 downloadable game was where you have to find the bike parts. It was more than a demo but less than a game.

.....I don't think I have to go into why Xbox Live Arcade games are called just that.

That's a silly way to play a game. You should be able to complete everything in one go. Some people don't enjoy playing the same game over and over.
That's one of the main points of the game, to save survivors. If you skipped that, it'd be a pretty unfulfilling game. Why not make it possible to save survivors and still complete the story and experiment a bit? I think the Zombrex for Katey arcing mission is tacked on just to mess with that.

One of the main points indeed...ONE of them.
-killing zombies
-doing story
-saving survivors
-unlocking shit.

The entire point of the game is that you pick one of those things to do, and then fill in the rest of your time with any of the other things (as I mentioned), or don't do any of the other things and just focus on one thing the entire time, which should only happen if you aren't doing the story. I mean at case 4-1 I had still killed well over 3000 zombies and saved 40+ survivors......learn to play? ;P It's not that hard if you prioritize.

Sequel in games is very different from sequels in movies/books. Bioshock 2 was a sequel which story preceded the events of Bioshock 1, but it is a sequel to the franchise. DR2 is not a full production (or they wasted a lot of resources reinventing the wheel). It's basically the same game with new skins and slightly altered storyline.

No the definition is entirely the same. And seriously some new skins? Are you fucking serious? NONE of the art you see in DR2 was present in the first game, not even the zombies. Entirely new fucking large enviroment, new zombies, new weapons, new characters, 118 fucking new survivors, new mechanics, 2 online modes and the continuation of the story...yes sequel (you are obviously oblvious to how much time/effort/money it takes to build all that).

Thanks for the tip, but I think every survivor is essential or you fail the life lesson of the game.

Lol ok, I guess you truly know what the game is all about ;[.

[Animeniax]

So towards the middle and late in the game the developer leaves you some time between missions to just run around killing zombies and to try to make combo weapons. So at least they got that part right.

I finished the game and got the A ending, then the B ending, and now I'm going for the best ending.

@darkshadow: your point about load times is wrong because it takes just as long to load the safehouse with 30 NPCs as it does to load an area with 1000 NPCs. This game has serious issues with system resource management. I've never played a game that spends so much time loading. It makes the game choppy and disjointed. What ever happened to flow in gameplay?

I think the Japanese are guilty of this moreso than other developers. They think you want to know more about the corny story (which is usually trite and unoriginal) so they clutter games with CGI and cutscenes. It's one of the reasons I didn't bother playing the MGS series after the first game. I don't play video games for 7 hours of play time and 10 hours of CGI video/cutscenes.

Otherwise, this game is worth playing if you can buy it used.

[Animeniax]

On my second play-through of DR2. It's a lot more fun this time, but the same gripes exist, load times are still atrocious and there are a lot of gameplay glitches.

Some tips: the survivors are a lot more resilient and intelligent than in the first game, so keeping 4 or 5 of the more capable ones with you makes all of the psychopath missions a lot easier (plus wading through zombies). Arm your group of survivors with assault rifles or shotguns and they form your own personal SWAT team. You'll have to occasionally give them food to restore health and you'll have to be careful that they don't get the kill shot on psychopaths or you lose the PP. Also, you have to wait for them to catch up before moving to new areas, as they lose health if left in an area that you are not in.

edit: one downside to keeping the survivors enslaved is that you won't get prompted for some of the missions. I missed out on saving the shortcut woman because of this. Also, the game continues to be retarded. I almost smashed my controller to pieces when the game started glitching while I fought a boss.

[Animeniax]

My two favorite combo weapons are the Blitzkreig and the BFG. If you get a chance to use them, they are the best weapons in the game, though with limited uses.

I'm on my 3rd play-through trying to kill as many zombies as possible (there's an achievement for killing 54k and 72k zombies. The most I've managed is 9k, but that's with following the storyline and saving survivors.

[Marik]

I'm on my 3rd play-through trying to kill as many zombies as possible (there's an achievement for killing 54k and 72k zombies. The most I've managed is 9k, but that's with following the storyline and saving survivors.

Is there an area like the tunnel in the first game that would make something like that a whole lot easier?

[darkshadow]

Is there an area like the tunnel in the first game that would make something like that a whole lot easier?

Yep, maintenance tunnels once again ;D.
Oh and the Defiler and knife gloves are definitly by FAR the best weapons, sure bfg and blitz are good, but their use is extremely limited.
Defiler ruins crowds, one shots looters/soldiers and lasts long, the knife gloves just rape bosses.

[Animeniax]

Is there an area like the tunnel in the first game that would make something like that a whole lot easier?

Like ds said, there is a tunnel area but it's not as packed with zombies as in the first game. The open areas are the best place to kill a lot of zombies, especially once you get to combo your bike (sorry if that's a spoiler).

@ds: defiler is my favorite utility weapon, but far from being the most fun to use. The spiked mma gloves/knifed boxing gloves are awesome too. But the BFG and blitzkrieg have the most wow factor.

@RZ: as ds said, up on the d-pad empties your hand, down on the dpad drops the item.

Are you guys playing TiR online, or in-game? I didn't think there was an in-game mini-game for TiR.