"Anybody know where to get some good poutine around here?"
Its Eastern pedigree showed, too. Underneath the wild, wholesale zombie slaughter and quirky anything-is-a-weapon combat mechanics, Dead Rising had some truly bizarre design quirks going on in its save model, level-up system, and mission structure. I personally loved the hell out of Dead Rising, but I know plenty of people who couldn't get into it because those elements were just so, well, weird.
So if this is true--and if Eurogamer is stating it without equivocation, it probably is--I'd expect a Western developer with more Western-style design sensibilities, one like The Bigs dev Blue Castle, to marry the strong gameplay and humorous elements of the first game to core game-flow mechanics more familiar to those of us on this side of the pond. Considering Dead Rising's Japan-to-US sales ratio, a Westernized design focus for this sequel is not only unsurprising, it's damn near a requisite.
You'll note that Kotaku has also claimed in the past the sequel may be set in Las Vegas. That sounds excellent to me. Think of how many would-be weapons you could find in all those casinos.
So what do you want out of your Dead Rising sequel? I'm going to go with zombie Siegfried and Roy for a start.
Something similar to the old RE Outbreak and Left 4 Dead where you had a stable of characters with unique abilities and strengths that "fleshed" out a team for a solid group.
The original is still a damn good game with nothing else like it.
End of discussion.
(edit: I'm not making fun of Left 4 Dead in any way. I mean to say it is pretty much the perfect Zombie horde slaying game)
What i want? Some better physics and lightubes!!...yeah ok, i treat DR like it was "wrestling" sometimes. Ok all the time
plus, zombies should walk around the Belagio fountain and get stuck in the jets and get shot into the air
as much as i love the first game if they're westernising it, hopefully they'll make the saves more frequent/automatic/available whenever you bloody like!
Otherwise, I just love how hardcore the game is, and the fact that you can't save everyone and kill every psychopath (well, maybe that one, if you are skilled and know what to do) makes replaying the game so much more fun.
I just love everything about Dead Rising really, all the flaws and such really add to the game's atmosphere and gameplay. Sure they can tweak it up a notch and all but if there is a Canadian-developed Dead Rising, I hope that they stick true to the formula with day and night cycles, time based objectives and such. Maybe they could make main objectives always accessible though, so you'd get to free roam more without being too penalized.