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Welp, nevermind, it appears Dead Rising 4 is to have a year long exclusivity to the XB1 and Windows 10 store. Even Rise of the Tomb Raider made it onto Steam mere months after its XB1 'exclusivity'.

It was indeed really, really good and insightful, for all the reasons mentioned already.

I don't think Dead Rising 4 is being published by Microsoft so I would guess it'll make its way to steam.

The hair's pretty different, but I think there's some striking similarities with the face. Maybe it's just me, though, but when they first shown Frank West during the announcement trailer my immediate reaction was ''...Phil Spencer??''. And hey, a returning protagonist of what is a primarily Microsoft-aligned franchise resembling the head of Xbox? Not the most far fetched of coincidences!...

@donutfever: Development was said to have started in 2014, so it's had some time put into it.

There are third-person VR games after all, but then even the trailer that appears to show the actual house you'll be exploring in the main game is shown exclusively in first-person, so I guess it's likely. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but I would have personally preferred the over-the-shoulder view, if not the classic camera angles. Least it seems that there'll be combat after all. For as happy as I am to see RE actually trying to be a horror series again, I wouldn't want it to go too far in that direction to where you're having to constantly hide everywhere. I've always thought of Alien: Isolation as having the perfect balance for this style of game.

Huh, so yeah, it indeed seems that this demo isn't even apart of the main game, and you'll be playing as a different character at that. Makes me wonder just how representative of the full game this demo is then. Will it even be in first-person?

@jazzylament: I'm of course referring to the general discussion thread, which from the very first post brings up what the story could be. No, it's not specifically a plot thread, but the demo is such a teeny little thing that it seems needless to split its discussion across different threads like this.

I don't see why this couldn't be discussed in the other thread really, especially since story elements have already been brought up.

Yup.

Hmmmmmmmm.