I actually dont hate this game?
To most people, Dead Rising 3 is the beginning of the end of the franchise, a final deathrattle before the release of 4. Or its just painfully average, and its not particularly hard to see why.
The defining features of Dead Rising 1, in some ways refined or dumbed down in 2, are made so casual that the "nightmare mode" is not a challenge in the slightest.
the timer is very generous, the missions so easy that their is no completionist goal tied to completing all the survivor missions or even letting them survive at all. I would complain that a good chunk of the bosses literally beat themselves due to a series lack of intelligent arena design but that's something every game in the series does so I wont add it as a negative here.
Their is little to no reason to invest time into DR3 past the credits unless you really like achievement hunting and as someone who usually likes to get 100% in his games, this also leaves a lot to be desired as the games hardest achievement is not itself a challenge, but a test in frustration as it demands you to do each skill finisher 50-100 times each, ontop of other tedius challenges, which gets very fucking boring very fucking fast.
But I still like this game.
I like the combo weapons, even if the system is dumbed down alot compared to 2 (though some designs are wilder and more fun). Killing zombies in this game can be actually pretty fun at some points, I really like Nick's character and how he is developed even if it is rushed alot.
I think if you can get this game on sale you could have a bit of fun with it, but its not challenging in the slightest. alot of things in this game make me wish for something more, and not the lost episodes bullshit that feels like last minute recycling of ingame content. The game has alot of cool things going on but it all feels rushed or lost in the mix, Dead Rising 3 is an awkward experimental phase of the franchise that wanted to do a lot of stuff differently, (both willingly and unwillingly) and it suffers because of that. Especially because it seems like the developers took the few good ideas and burned them when they moved on to make 4.
Dead rising 3 to me is like a baby with crackhead parents. I am not surprised that it turned out so bad in the slightest. It feels rushed, unpolished, a few of the "cooler" features are locked behind the fucking Kinect and a (as far as I can tell) bugged phone app that hasn't been updated since release almost a decade ago. And to top it all off, Super Ultra Dead Rising 3' Arcade Remix Hyper Edition EX + α , a mode that I think would be great to keep around as a fun way to play with friends was an Xbox exclusive, guaranteeing that as a PC player, I have no chance of finding more goofy fun in this game (And I would wager its probably also a dead mode on Xbox One anyway)
Maybe I should of took more time to write this review but frankly I have waited too long anyway. This review really shouldn't be 3 stars, but I consider 3 stars to be "fine". I still like the game, I think some people are certainly too harsh on it, but their complaints aren't without merit.
Much like this review, Dead Rising 3 is unfocused, all over the place, lacking in content and begging for context. But I already wasted at least an hour of my mortal life I wont get back crafting balls of literal garbage to chase an achievement only to give up on it, and I wont waste any more time.
To most people, Dead Rising 3 is the beginning of the end of the franchise, a final deathrattle before the release of 4. Or its just painfully average, and its not particularly hard to see why.
The defining features of Dead Rising 1, in some ways refined or dumbed down in 2, are made so casual that the "nightmare mode" is not a challenge in the slightest.
the timer is very generous, the missions so easy that their is no completionist goal tied to completing all the survivor missions or even letting them survive at all. I would complain that a good chunk of the bosses literally beat themselves due to a series lack of intelligent arena design but that's something every game in the series does so I wont add it as a negative here.
Their is little to no reason to invest time into DR3 past the credits unless you really like achievement hunting and as someone who usually likes to get 100% in his games, this also leaves a lot to be desired as the games hardest achievement is not itself a challenge, but a test in frustration as it demands you to do each skill finisher 50-100 times each, ontop of other tedius challenges, which gets very fucking boring very fucking fast.
But I still like this game.
I like the combo weapons, even if the system is dumbed down alot compared to 2 (though some designs are wilder and more fun). Killing zombies in this game can be actually pretty fun at some points, I really like Nick's character and how he is developed even if it is rushed alot.
I think if you can get this game on sale you could have a bit of fun with it, but its not challenging in the slightest. alot of things in this game make me wish for something more, and not the lost episodes bullshit that feels like last minute recycling of ingame content. The game has alot of cool things going on but it all feels rushed or lost in the mix, Dead Rising 3 is an awkward experimental phase of the franchise that wanted to do a lot of stuff differently, (both willingly and unwillingly) and it suffers because of that. Especially because it seems like the developers took the few good ideas and burned them when they moved on to make 4.
Dead rising 3 to me is like a baby with crackhead parents. I am not surprised that it turned out so bad in the slightest. It feels rushed, unpolished, a few of the "cooler" features are locked behind the fucking Kinect and a (as far as I can tell) bugged phone app that hasn't been updated since release almost a decade ago. And to top it all off, Super Ultra Dead Rising 3' Arcade Remix Hyper Edition EX + α , a mode that I think would be great to keep around as a fun way to play with friends was an Xbox exclusive, guaranteeing that as a PC player, I have no chance of finding more goofy fun in this game (And I would wager its probably also a dead mode on Xbox One anyway)
Maybe I should of took more time to write this review but frankly I have waited too long anyway. This review really shouldn't be 3 stars, but I consider 3 stars to be "fine". I still like the game, I think some people are certainly too harsh on it, but their complaints aren't without merit.
Much like this review, Dead Rising 3 is unfocused, all over the place, lacking in content and begging for context. But I already wasted at least an hour of my mortal life I wont get back crafting balls of literal garbage to chase an achievement only to give up on it, and I wont waste any more time.