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Latest Update: Episode 21: Terror Is Reality (09/18)  Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is an open world survival horror (and comedy) game featuring everyone's favorite good ol' standby, zombies. It was developed and published by Capcom, released worldwide on October 11-14, 2011 for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. The game is a re-imagining of Dead Rising 2, with that game's protagonist, Chuck Greene, replaced by Frank West of the first Dead Rising. The entire game is a "What If?" scenario where Frank West covered the Fortune City outbreak, instead of Chuck Greene. As such, the game isn't considered canon within the Dead Rising continuity. It also changes the plot of Dead Rising 2 significantly in regards to the different characters and their motives. After surviving the zombie outbreak that occurred in Willamette (though now infected with the zombie virus), freelance photojournalist Frank West quickly became a celebrity for exposing the truth behind the outbreak. However, his fame soon vanished due to frequent scandals and controversies. In hopes to regain a place in the spotlight, he accepts an offer from Tyrone "TK" King to appear as a special guest on the controversial pay-per-view zombie-killing show Terror is Reality, taking place in Fortune City, Nevada. As soon as he's getting ready to take home his winnings, however, a new zombie outbreak within the city traps Frank and thousands of people inside. With three days until the military arrives, Frank reads between the lines and spots an opportunity for a mind-blowing story that could bring him back into the public spotlight.  This game is fun as hell!! Moreso than that, it's not too hard to commentate over. I don't do live commentary very often except for live streams because I'm just not that good at formulating solid thoughts while I'm trying to play well; but Dead Rising 2 (and thus OTR) makes it pretty easy because there's a lot to talk about. Additionally, the game has a great sense of humor, a very tight design philosophy, and an excellent art style. It's just fun in general.  For the story, survivors etc, please don't. In terms of fun-rear end ways to kill zombies and things to do around the city, be my guest! Part of the fun of this game is discovering how other people play it. And besides, there's no real reason to spoiler tag "if you combine a knife and a wrench you get a knifewrench".  Sort of! Dead Rising 2: OTR is a big, wide-open game with lots of possibilities and many different ways to play. For the main playthrough, I'm going to be trying to save as many people as I possibly can- however, if there are any survivors that I miss in the main playthrough (which I most definitely will as DR2 has a lot that aren't tied to missions), I'll be sure to mention where to find them and maybe splice in a clip of me doing so.                      
CJacobs fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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 His name's Frank.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:56
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Now this is how do you a zombie game right. Pure, genocidal, fun. I still don't like the time limit gimmicks and the fact you can't do everything in one playthrough but the (re-)murder is just too drat satisfying to mind that as anything but a slight flaw. Plus Frank is a wonderful protagonist I really feel I can identify with. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 20:05
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This is one of the best co-op games I've played. I'm honestly surprised you don't have anyone along for the ride, silent or otherwise. Unless of course you wouldn't mind having help in later videos? The co-op player running around as chuck would be nice if just for making your job easier. (I am available and love the drat game to death.)
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Feb 25, 2016 20:17
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Eh, I do like the game in co-op but I decided to do this one solo because that way I wouldn't have to co-ordinate recording times and could just do it at my leisure. Maybe I'll bring someone along for the sandbox mode videos, though!anilEhilated posted:Now this is how do you a zombie game right. Pure, genocidal, fun. I also really like Frank. I like Chuck too, but I don't mind Frank being in his place, that's for sure. 
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Feb 25, 2016 20:20
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CJacobs posted:Eh, I do like the game in co-op but I decided to do this one solo because that way I wouldn't have to co-ordinate recording times and could just do it at my leisure. Maybe I'll bring someone along for the sandbox mode videos, though! Extra work, I totally get it. (Even though I work from home and am pretty much always available) Do let me know if you want some sandbox chicanery. I'll take any excuse to play this goofy rear end game.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:22
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Hell yeah, an LP of my favourite version of one of my favourite games, Frank West is great and this game even more so.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:02
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It's really amazing how many quality of life improvements they crammed into DR2 over the original, and then still managed to re-make the game with Frank. I really enjoy the Dead Rising series and OTR is probably my favorite of the bunch. Looking forward to what goofy weaponry you end up favoring, CJacobs!
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Feb 26, 2016 08:43
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I liked this a lot more than the base game, even though they made the survivor AI terrible again. I especially appreciated that they made Frank West look like you'd actually expect him to.
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Feb 26, 2016 10:55
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Shame about DR3 being boring, but at least we've still got the best version of the Dead Rising formula to endlessly replay. note to Capcom: stop trying to create Everyman protagonists for this series, it doesn't work and drags everything down with it.
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Feb 26, 2016 11:08
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I've played the Wii version of DR1 and I played DR2 when it came out, but I never got OtR, so this should be a fun ride.
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Feb 26, 2016 18:54
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Why does Frank look exactly like Dan Aykroyd?
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Feb 26, 2016 21:50
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I remember renting Dead Rising 2 from GameFly (back when I actually used that service in high school). Never got more than a few hours into it, but the base game was definitely a whole different world from the first. Like the first Dead Rising was pretty cartoonish with the custom weapons and Servbot heads, but Dead Rising 2 starts with chainsaw motorcycles.
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Feb 26, 2016 22:04
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Why does Frank look exactly like Dan Aykroyd? He looks like Dan Aykroyd and sounds like Michael from GTA 5. It's so weird. He is a frankenstein's monster. A middle-aged frankenstein's monster.
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Feb 26, 2016 22:15
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Actually according to Dead Rising: Watchtower, Frank West is officially supposed to be Rob Riggle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m81kvgy20Y
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Feb 26, 2016 22:25
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I loved Dead Rising on my 360. I still say fantastic like Frank all the time. It's just ingrained in my psyche I guess. My daughter asks me why I say it that way, I can't bring myself to tell her 😐
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Feb 27, 2016 01:30
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Please find the outfits that ruin all the drama in the cutscenes and wear them. It's part of the magic of these games 
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Feb 27, 2016 07:58
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The Misadventures on Tron Bonne was one of my favorite PS1 games (I still have it somewhere!), so it makes me  to see the Servbots in other things.
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Feb 27, 2016 11:08
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Shei-kun posted:Please find the outfits that ruin all the drama in the cutscenes and wear them. Chuck was such a sourpuss about playing dressup. Frank put on that goddamn sundress and LIKED it.
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Feb 27, 2016 11:12
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Drakenel posted:Chuck was such a sourpuss about playing dressup. Frank put on that goddamn sundress and LIKED it. In this game he's got tons of lines for when you put on the silly-rear end clothes, ranging from "HELL YEAH" and "I am liking this!" to "Oh god, I hope nobody sees me" and "  If I have to...."edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sgmCn-s9PU&t=130s All the putting-on weird-clothes-quotes are here, starting from 2:10 or so. He's also got a whole bunch following that, making fun of Chuck when he puts on weird clothes.
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Feb 27, 2016 11:19
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I'm only here to see the weird clothes.
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Feb 27, 2016 21:03
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I realized that the last video did not contain very much actual gameplay, so here's another! After this I'm probably gonna do one a week, I think. It's one of those things that comes with age, y'know?
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Feb 27, 2016 21:04
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Oh yeah, in Dead Rising 1, if you were following the storyline you pretty much had to know the quickest way to locations and just make a straight run for them, no messing about at all, this is why I love sandbox so much in Off the Record because you can spend a lot of time freely exploring the detailed areas and killing zombies at your leisure.
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Feb 27, 2016 21:41
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You can ride the slide? 
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Feb 27, 2016 21:55
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Uhhh... Didn't Frank take pictures of TK paying that guy to blow poo poo up right at the beginning of the game? Why does he act like CURE has anything to do with it?
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Feb 27, 2016 23:26
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I love the broadsword. Before you get access to recipes and better weapons, it's the best thing you can find because it reliably one-shots zombies. One of the casinos actually has swords and axes put on walls as decoration - that place is a godsend on your first playthrough.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:27
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Of course, in Vanilla DR2 that did not matter because the game immediately presents you with the ability to craft The Defiler and you never really need anything else. They moved some stuff around in OTR to make this not quite as easy to obtain! Also: Oh my god, finally someone besides myself and my girlfriend have commented on the fact that Frank is just Dan Aykroyd in this game. It's one of the reasons why I love this game so much, because she watched me stream it and was just constantly overjoyed when his big, Dan Aykroyd face was on the screen Jolyne Cujoh fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Feb 27, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 23:34
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anilEhilated posted:I love the broadsword. Before you get access to recipes and better weapons, it's the best thing you can find because it reliably one-shots zombies. One of the casinos actually has swords and axes put on walls as decoration - that place is a godsend on your first playthrough. You can make the Knife Gloves the instant you walk into Royal Flush Plaza and those are pretty much the strongest combo weapon, they really wreck bosses.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:44
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Judge Tesla posted:You can make the Knife Gloves the instant you walk into Royal Flush Plaza and those are pretty much the strongest combo weapon, they really wreck bosses. We actually can't make combo weapons yet! Frank doesn't have the key to the maintenance doors.
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Feb 28, 2016 00:58
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CJacobs posted:Escorting survivors in Dead Space 1 was a littl- er-
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Feb 28, 2016 01:36
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Haerc posted:Uhhh... Didn't Frank take pictures of TK paying that guy to blow poo poo up right at the beginning of the game? Why does he act like CURE has anything to do with it? Because that guy he paid was a CURE activist.
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Feb 28, 2016 02:22
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Hey, do you mind turning the game audio back up when you aren't talking? During gameplay it's fine but it's kind of annoying in cutscenes.
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Feb 28, 2016 05:32
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Yeah, I know it's a bit quiet, don't worry. I just use my normal auto duck settings and it turns out the game's volume equalization is a bit too low for that! I'll definitely be fixing it!
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Feb 28, 2016 05:43
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I've never seen this version of the game so this will be cool!
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Feb 28, 2016 05:43
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whowhatwhere posted:Because that guy he paid was a CURE activist. Ohhhh okay. I must have missed that.
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Feb 28, 2016 19:40
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Haerc posted:Ohhhh okay. I must have missed that. He's a white dude in dreads. It's pretty obvious.
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Feb 28, 2016 19:56
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Something that is amusing is that Dead Rising 2 had a cross promotion with Playboy Magazine of all things as you could see ingame posters of covers and one of the survivors in the safehouse was a bunny girl, OTR of course removed all the posters and replaced them with Uranus Zone ones and the bunny girl just wears a female waiter outfit now.
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Feb 28, 2016 23:02
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This should be fun. Sad Dad Chuck was plenty entertaining, but Frank hamming it up is also hella fun. hella
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Feb 29, 2016 00:45
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biosterous posted:hella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTj4cramPM
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 Unsurprisingly, Rebecca Chang will continue to be annoying and cause middle-aged sexual tension for the rest of the game. To fix the audio problems I boosted the volume levels of the cutscenes/other important dialogue manually and left my auto duck settings alone. I don't think changing that would fix the problem since I don't really talk during the cutscenes anyway. Please let me know if this is an ample solution!
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