Hey Mike,
That was the scariest ♥♥♥♥ I've ever played. Great work

An absolute treat; the perfect balance of chill out casual worker sim with horror-lite inventory management. Not too stressful, but not too simple.

Highly recommend the Iron Rig. The Pale Reach is good, but I really think Iron Rig complements the base game to a T

Okay, this is a tough one. One one hand, the people who are saying "IT"S THE EXACT SAME THING AS FRESH SUPPLY" are wrong (more or less). On the surface, its the same game because it is the same game, but the entire game from damage scaling to movement to explosions to fire damage is much less janky, more consistent, and more balanced in Refreshed Supply. That being said, I am autistic when it comes to Blood, and I have played over 200 hours of Fresh Supply, and for someone who has maybe played the first couple of episodes on Lightly Broiled or Well Done might not feel it, which it completely fair, but the fact that this is straight from the source code makes this leaps and bounds above Fresh Supply in every conceivable margin.

But......

The price is absolutely ridiculous. There is no way to spin that around and make it a positive. For die hard fans, the price is fine, especially if you drunk ordered it and don't care if you're gonna be homeless behind the YMCA in 5 years, but for someone who already owns Fresh Supply and isn't a die hard fan, there isn't a reason to buy this at the price it is at. For returning owners, the $10 "upgrade" was a little steep, but doable. The fact this is the pure uncut legit super pure source code port is enough effort to justify it. However, bumping it back up to... what was it... $25.00 if you already owned the game is highway robbery. If the game was, hell, let's say $25.00 flat rate, with the coupon for existing players dropping it down to $10.00 ($15.00 in a pinch) would be a much better soft sell rather than that price raising ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they pulled. I can't remember what I paid for the Death Stranding upgrade from the standard version to the Director's Cut, but I believe it was $10, and the version has more content, more levels, more weapons, more CONTENT. That is very sensible in my eyes. What Atari/WB/Night Dive did was not sensible.

There is the arguement between die hard Night Dive fans and the average thinking man that goes like: "Well, this isn't Night Dive doing this, this is all the greedy publishers doing this!" I can buy that to an extent, but handwaving this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ away and championing Night Dive as the little guy is not the way to talk about this; they are a part of this, too. They are a company just like WB or Atari, granted a less evil one, but there shouldn't be this blanket of White-Knightness in the discorse about the price. The price sucks, no matter what.

Plus, there are things that I wish could be tweaked in this version. Being able to see the stats for a level (kills, secrets, time) on the map and not as a distracting and ugly HUD option seems like it should be a no brainer. And, I admit this is very minor, not being able to name your saves sucks. When you are trying to speedrun certain sections on Extra Crispy-Pitchfork start and you have a laundry lists of saves at different parts of a level and NOT being able to name them is a huge pain in the ass. Also, not shipping this with Death Wish is a very odd misstep. I know they promised it down the line once the last episode is finished, but just include it with Marrow and the base game, then add the last episode in later.

With all that said, I am super happy this exists, and it is the definite way to play Blood, but they fumbled every element of the marketing and the price to the point where it is hard to defend anyone in this circus.

At least they kept the Civvie 11 achievement. If they changed that, then there will be and should be blood in the streets (pun intended)

Well, I enjoyed it. It does feel like a 'Greatest Hits' compilation of 1 and 2, and it was way too short, but what content was here was fun and inventive. It helped having a friend to play it with online; I would probably enjoy being boiled alive if I could do it with my homie. I would certainly wait for a sale, but I am a massive fan of LN 1 and 2, and my buddy is too, so playing it day one was kind of a no brainer

With that said, there were 2 bugs that hampered progression; I had to look up a walkthrough to make sure we weren't losing it, but the game was just acting up. Restarted the checkpoint and all was well, but having to look at a walkthrough because the game ♥♥♥♥ the bed is pretty crummy.

I'm digging it immensley. Will report back when I beat the game. Looks gorgeous, sounds incredible, combat took a bit of getting used to, but I like it.

Beats the ♥♥♥♥ out of the remaster. A fraction of the price, runs like a champ. All the content as intended. Brutally. unfairly difficult, but that's Dead Rising, baby

I was really digging the game when I first played it, but I felt something was a miss. I heard they cut content and made the game easier, so I looked into the OG version still on Steam. I then proceeded to fall in love with that version and play it for over 100 hours. DRDR is a good example of a very poor remaster/soft remake. The graphics are spruced up, which is nice, and the controls/combos are more streamlined, which is great, but the difficulty is completely trivial; Dead Rising has the unique edge when it comes to goofy zombie killing fun paired along side bone crushing difficulty. They also removed content in the form of censorship. Now, you can white knight it all you want, that removing the erotica category or making Clint not mention Vietnam is being weird and picky, but the fact of the matter is they removed content, thus making this version not the definitive version a remake of this caliber should be. Either be a full on re-imagining like Silent Hill 2 or just be a spruce up like System Shock 2. Being a spruce up but also changing things is a worst of all worlds, plus the zombie count is lowered to accommodate the graphical bump, which should be a crime.

Cannot recommend. Play the OG, it might be unbelievably, unforgivable difficult, but that is the intent and nothing was sacrificed in the process

I'm digging it. It is a spruce up of MGS3, not a remake. Unlike Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, it doesn't remove content and dumb down the difficulty/edge that made it memorable. I can see why people prefer the OG or the HD Collection version for posterity sake, but in my eyes, this is the way to play Snake Eater. $70 is a little steep, but I have no sense of money saving, so highway to hell, baby

Great game so far, but I really wanted to give immense props to the soundtrack by Christopher Larkin. Words really can't do it justice. It damn near brought a tear to my eye; absolutely gorgeous

Great decision, team