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“It was actually intentional right from the outset. We talked and discussed this a lot with Capcom Japan [and] we wanted to make a game where you weren’t just repeating the same formula of time running out.”
“We found it frustrating as gamers even when we were playing Dead Rising 1 and there’s so much of that game we loved that we wanted to just explore in… but we didn’t want to just say ‘okay, there’s no time-limit’, you know, we did that with Off the Record and found that yeah, it was cool, but there’s so much to do other than trying to do constant side-missions. We actually wanted to have zombies be the threat – it felt like zombies should be the star of a zombie game, whereas it kind of felt like they were just a toy.”
“So if we’re going to say they should be the threat, then they should look threatening and the game should look threatening, and it all should show a line to that vision that this is actually a horror game first and a comedy game second.”
- DR3 executive producer Josh Bridge
Changing up the forumla is always a good thing for a studio to do, and it sounds like it’s coming at least somewhat from a place of artistic desire. Fine by me! Hopefully it turns out well.
http://gamingeverything.com/52497/dead-rising-3-producer-says-its-primarily-a-horror-game-a-comedy-game-second/
