But of the given sandbox games, how many of them have dozens, if not hundreds of NPC's onscreen at once, all doing their own thing? Answer: None of them.

Dead Rising sacrificed incredible graphic quality (which I still think that it looks decent) for having a lot of crap happen onscreen at once - I never had a problem driving the truck in the basement, racking up 100's of kills per minute, and have frame rate problems.

Outside of some people's issue with saves, I have no gripes about the game. There are issues with the game that are there because of challenge (friendly NPC's stupidity) and the like.

Machina, when dead rising comes out for the Wii I think you may see how off base that statement was. I want a graphical comparison of the two. But like mrstickball said, it's not the environments themselves but the fact that there are hundreds upon hundreds of zombies at some points and it never drops a frame. How many developers would do that? Because most games I see don't care about frame rate if they can get the overall poly count up, and I will hands down praise the game that stays within its limitations to give you a smooth experience over something more visually detailed.

But, let's just hope they can improve Dead Rising 2, my main complaint was lack of online co-op or online period. That would have rocked. But since Capcom could seem to less give a crap about putting out a sequel... while Mega Man gets 5 games a year... doesn't look like we'll be seeing it any time soon and that's a damn shame.

Just to let you know, I have *finally* gotten into the game again. I have learned some tricks.

1. The AI is stupid, so don't get too far away from them
2. If you don't dick around and kill the endless waves of zombies, you can save countless in-game hours. I restarted my game, and rushed through the beggining, and saved 5 people before right after it turned 7:00 pm (when the zombies get all red eyed)


You just have to learn the little tricks :P Like where to find a katana, which will instantaneously slice zombies in Half.
Anyway, I remember why I love this game again.

OFF TOPIC: I logged onto the vgchartz account today to see who on VGChartz had the highest score for yaris.

I am in second. But barely. I will take the re-take the yaris crown this week, erikers!

You can't take the crown when I already have 200/200 on it. You've been permanently owned strategy king ;)

If you already know this, sorry for being redundant but I have a great tip.

Pick up the books for toys, blades & tools.  Kill the psycho clown, get the mini-chainsaw.  Talk to the guy you save and then the chainsaw respawns.  Grab it to make 2 mini-chainsaws.

The book effects stack 3 times on the mini-chainsaws and you can pretty much use them for the entire game without them running out.  If they do run out I believe you can get the mini-saw again in the same spot.

Much better than a katana ;o)

I'd have to agree with Machina. Dead Rising is a good game, but extremely flawed. I haven't gotten around to finishing it yet.

I had pretty much written the books off as useless...... this probably saved my ass, since right now I am at the clown battle.

Well, you still have to beat him first. But the mega buster comes in handy for that, 2 to 3 shots and he goes down.

Without the buster, the most damage you can do to him is shoot the baloon he blows up while he is blowing it up. I think, it's been a while since I played.

I would say books would be useless, but if you do that trick you can never worry about constantly degrading weapons and worry more about stocking orange juice and the like.

I just bought the strategy guide for mass effect. I'm going for the every side quest finished achievement and stuff.

The Mega Buster is by far the best way to kill him, but for anyone who hasn't gotten the Genocide achievement yet I'd also suggest using the sledgehammer.  Whenever I tried to attack him with a Katana or something he'd break it with the chainsaws, but I recall the sledgehammer getting through.  Plus, it floors him so you can shoot him a few times if you're fast.