There’s so much hidden side content that when we did it with a timer, people were just getting pissed off because they couldn’t finish half of what they wanted to finish.”īecause of the focus on exploration in Dead Rising 4, even the choice for an optional time limit doesn’t quite make sense. “We did a ton of user research on it, and the majority of the people said they didn’t really love the timer–they wanted to explore. Thanks to Gamespot, additional information was present when Joe Nickolls, head of Capcom Vancouver Studio, was questioned on why time limits were removed from Dead Rising 4.
With the clock no longer acting as a looming dark cloud of stress, players can finally take their time and explore Dead Rising 4‘s open environments. Players who want to get a meaningful playthrough for any of the Dead Rising titles become caught up in a stressful web of time restraints. Not only does failing to abide by the time limits result in hours of lost progress (game over/screwing up the good endings), but players have to micromanage numerous missions with their own time limit meter. The time limits within Dead Rising are extremely crushing for multiple reasons (and not just the game’s infamous achievements). Time limits in video games can be extremely frustrating or inconsequential, depending on developers craft the experience. With the fourth main series title, Dead Rising 4, those pesky time limits shall no longer be a problem. People have disliked the time limits in Capcom’s Dead Rising series since the very beginning.
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