09/29/06: Over
his dead body
M:
Okay, I finally got around to playing Dead Rising a bit. Hm. It's interesting
to see that Capcom got all the difficult stuff (technology, controls, mood,
setting, probably
even
the story) exactly right and then botched the most basic elements, like
the constant time pressure in a free-roam world. Or the (only slightly
but still) unwieldy save
system.
I'm not one to continuously quick-save my game, and in fact, I think Max
Payne is a horrible game for exactly this reason. However, only having
one save game
per
console is simply horrible. You can't even start a new game in order to
show the intro to a friend! Also, I would have liked a little less radical
approach to failure than
the
"save your stats and completely restart the game whenever you mess up one
of your assignments" one.
Anyway,
this strip was a real test of patience. I'll never draw that many people
again. At last count, there are 89 zombies in the last picture. Of course,
I'm also counting
the
ones that only stick in their face or arms, but still, that was a huge
pain. In case you're interested, you can see a non-blurred version of the
crowd here. Please
keep
in
mind that I'm a person that draws things he knows exist, even if you can't
see them. Therefore, even the undead in the back row have a body for the
most part. Ack. |