I'll just get this out of the way first: I loved the game. Gory, bloody, murderous fun. But then I got to case 7. AND I GOT PISSED RIGHT THE HELL OFF!!
 

Haven't played it myself but those definitely sound like moments that would break the suspension of disbelief for me as well. At least you enjoyed the game overall.

So what you're saying is.... the next Dead Rising needs a Mass Effect style interrupt system, where you can not be a total dick and actually help people, or be an even bigger dick and help people get killed... /signed

I found all of that to be very tongue-in-cheek.  The Dead Rising psychopaths have always been ridiculous and over the top.
 
I also don't think you are supposed to like Rebeca anyway since she is the reason you were framed in the first place.  
 
I was kind of upset the way both the day4 and overtime mode endings were handeled since they would have been the exact same whether or not you gave TK the Zombrex.  Overtime felt very tacked on compared to the first Dead Rising :|

I was quite happy with case 4, but not overtime, which was poorly handled.

" So what you're saying is.... the next Dead Rising needs a Mass Effect style interrupt system, where you can not be a total dick and actually help people, or be an even bigger dick and help people get killed... /signed "

I agree dude.  CAPCOM has lost it since... RE5?

Dude I know!! 
 

I was pretty frustrated with the Sulivan fight but then I accidentally bugged him out when I pressed up on the D-Pad to go hand-to-hand with him it also pulled up my watch.  When I left the watch mode it left a Check Greene arm floating in mid air so when I jumped down he got all confused and kept trying to punch me from the top of the platform.  I just shot him to death after that with the 6-shooter.  Easiest boss fight ever :>

Hey OP, welcome to games having an emotional effect on you. Take that, Roger Ebert.

Rebecca: "Let me call them"
-Bang
Chuck: "oh no, what did you do"
Sullivan: "what I had to"
Chuck: "You're the traitor..."
Sullivan: "LOL"
 
Worst treason moment ever, these characters have ZERO emotion...

I think this is the problem; as Blue Castle Games said, they wanted Chuck and Katey's relationship to be relatively believable and sympathetic, while everything else around it (apart from Chuck and Stacey, I'd say) is ridiculous and silly. Just to ground it in something, so it's not all nutty psychos trying to beat you to death with a chocolate dildo because they don't like your hair.
 
That, I would say, really works for the most part. But the one place it really fucks up is with this death. It truly is bizarre how no one seems to care at all about it. True, no one was exactly soul mates with her, but just the shock of it should at least engender some kind of genuine emotional response from the people there, especially since Chuck, Katey and Stacey are the most realistic and coherent characters in the game.

I can't believe people actually went into Dead Rising 2 expecting believable characters. I'm just completely fucking dumbfounded by that.
 
I will say that I too found Overtime a bit disappointing as well, although I did really enjoy the final boss fight.

" I can't believe people actually went into Dead Rising 2 expecting believable characters. I'm just completely fucking dumbfounded by that. I will say that I too found Overtime a bit disappointing as well, although I did really enjoy the final boss fight. "

I expected some loud and grand yelling from Chuck in overtime, but that ending was hilarious

" @Hailinel:  Dude just because Jeff and Ryan said they don't like Rebecca Chang doesn't make it cool to hate her. I also found her to be fucking awesome and so bummed out that Chuck didn't have some sort of intimacy with her. "