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    Dead Rising 2

    Game » consists of 18 releases. Released Sep 02, 2010

    Dead Rising 2 is a third-person action-adventure survival horror game that takes place five years after the end of the original Dead Rising, moving its zombie apocalypse setting into the glamorous Fortune City.

    whats chuck's issue with zombrex?

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    #1  Edited By DXmagma

    so after it was brought up in the quick look i noticed in the beginning cutscene Chuck looks angry after seeing a zombrex ad. so what's the deal?

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    #2  Edited By chaser324  Moderator

    Absolutely no idea...I haven't seen any explanation in the game. My only guess is that he doesn't want anyone else to get any.

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    #3  Edited By MiniPato

    He's just sticking it to The Man, man!
     
    Maybe he just thinks Zombrex is too expensive and hates them for profiting on his daughter's sickness and making him enter TIR just to be able to afford some.

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    #5  Edited By FourWude

    Maybe it's a form of loathing because of the dependency on it. The fact that his daughter and his own life is beholden to a small drug, one that is hard to come by. The risks he has to take, the sacrifices. In Chuck's mind he begins to despise that which keeps him going, his only meaning in life, his quest, his existence. A drug which controls his every motive, action, being. But one which never provides an answer, just a temporary solution to a perpetual problem which surrounds him everywhere he looks. The loathing of that which consumes him because of an asymmetric power relationship between him, his daughter and zombrex. The horror.

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    #7  Edited By alistercat

    If anything he's just annoyed at seeing a reminder that his daughter is infected and dependant on the drug, but I think you're just looking in to it a bit too much. However, read Abyssfull's post above to find out how this develops.

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    #8  Edited By Everyones_A_Critic

    Well..
     

    SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

     
    ...But the problem with this is that it happens at the end of the game, and doesn't explain why he hates it at the beginning, seeing as how it's keeping his daughter from turning into a zombie.
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    #9  Edited By Vorbis
    @Everyones_A_Critic said:
    " Well..
     
    SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.
     ...But the problem with this is that it happens at the end of the game, and doesn't explain why he hates it at the beginning, seeing as how it's keeping his daughter from turning into a zombie. "
    They probably don't expect people to try the achievements before they've finished the game.
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    #10  Edited By Azteck
    @Everyones_A_Critic said:
    " Well..
     
    SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.
     ...But the problem with this is that it happens at the end of the game, and doesn't explain why he hates it at the beginning, seeing as how it's keeping his daughter from turning into a zombie. "
    Maybe he had inside knowledge that the player doesn't? (I haven't played the game. I just felt it was kind of an OH SNAP moment)
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    #12  Edited By Chocobodude3

    He has to us it on his daughter everyday for the rest of his life

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    #13  Edited By guiseppe

    While it is explained at the end of the game, maybe he's just tired of having to get a hold of it every single day for the last 5 years? It forces him to become a scavenger and do some fudged up things.

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    #14  Edited By Bloodgraiv3

    He needs to find it for his daughter. 
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    #15  Edited By deactivated-5e49e9175da37

    Because Chuck is a good Canadian, who doesn't believe that health care should be free enterprise.
     
    If zombies are literally capable of murdering entire cities, why does the only drug cost 25k a shot?  Why wouldn't the government have appropriated it and made industrial quantities of it, and eventually a vaccine?
     
    Basically, Dead Rising 2 is an alternate history regarding polio.

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    #16  Edited By Ryax

    maybe he is just sick or his daughter being reliant on it and hates it controlling their lives?

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    #17  Edited By Teclo

    People have to ask this? He's stuck spending his whole life paying ridiculous amounts of money for a drug to keep his daughter alive. It's like a man hating a cigarette company because he buys a 20-pack every day or a guy being pissed off at a fuel company because it costs so much to run his car.

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    #18  Edited By Immuniity

    He looks concerned at a zombrex ad because its a reminder that he needs to go get some more for his daughter. Not that he's 'sticking it to the man' or 'afraid its expensive'. He's willing to do whatever he can for his daughter (ala the gameshow)...cost really isn't an issue.

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    #19  Edited By LordXavierBritish
    @Immuniity: Cost IS the issue, that's the entire reason he is even doing TIR to begin with. He fucking hates doing the show more than anything else, but it's all that's left for him if he is going to make enough money to keep his daughter drugged up. Is he doing it for her? Yes, but he is also doing TIR specifically instead of a normal job because that is the only thing available to him that pays enough for him to continue buying Zombrex. 
     
    We are led to believe that Zombrex is actually super expensive because of two very crucial factors. The first, and most obvious, is that Queens are required to make it. If Zombrex continues to sell well it means less zombies, less zombies means fewer Queens, fewer Queens means less Zombrex, and less Zombrex means huge prices. The entire economic situation the company is in is entirely self defeating and it's the main crux of a large part of the story. The second factor is that Zombrex isn't a prescription drug out of the necessity that it needs to be administered when a bite occurs, this results in people literally hoarding the shit to the extent that it is almost impossible for most pharmacies to keep it in stock. People who aren't even infected will sometimes even buy up huge stockpiles simply out of fear.
     
    This was actually covered in detail in a Tapeitordie.com blog post awhile back, but the point is that most people hate Zombrex because they are drowning in debt and are constantly dealing with the negative side effects of the drug. They have to put up with it all out of necessity though, and that's why Chuck hates Zombrex or is, at the very least, bitter about his daughter's dependency on the drug.
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    #20  Edited By deactivated-6022efe9ba3cf
    @MiniPato said:
    " He's just sticking it to The Man, man!  Maybe he just thinks Zombrex is too expensive and hates them for profiting on his daughter's sickness and making him enter TIR just to be able to afford some. "
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    #21  Edited By Immuniity
    @LordXavierBritish: 
    But it still operates as the lesser evil. While you can have contempt for the people profiting on other peoples illness or fear of falling to this infection...you can't ignore that Zombrex is keeping people alive. Much like you said, Zombrex isn't cheap at all.  It's because the queens are so rare that price goes up and its extremely unreasonable to assume that a company should not only not be paid for the R and D but not be paid well enough to continue to produce this temporary cure for something that until the outbreak was a total ghost story.
     
    Its expensive but yeah, its also an extremely fatal disorder. It's like people hating a doctor because surgery is expensive. If you dont like it...then dont use it and accept the consequences. Harboring rancor for something that keeps you better is pretty childish...just accept the real world and drop your idyllic notions that people are going to offer medication for free and everyone wants everyone else to be tip top 100% healthy.
     
    Granted im only arguing from the standpoint of the company pre-frame-chuck-and-make-an-out-break-to-get-more-stuff  and it becomes a total other reason to hate a company that plans outbreaks to get people to use their medication again.
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    #22  Edited By LordXavierBritish
    @Immuniity: Well I don't think it's actual contempt towards the company in Chuck's case, but he is certainly bitter about the whole thing. In Chuck's case specifically you have to factor in that it really isn't his choice. As much as he hates it he can't just let his daughter die.
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    #23  Edited By deactivated-57beb9d651361
    @MiniPato: This.
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    #24  Edited By Immuniity
    @LordXavierBritish said:
    " As much as he hates it he can't just let his daughter die. "
    The best part? He totally can. The choice is totally up to him.
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    #25  Edited By MiniPato
    @Immuniity said:

    " @LordXavierBritish said:

    " As much as he hates it he can't just let his daughter die. "

    The best part? He totally can. The choice is totally up to him. "
    Well it's up to the player really. The character Chuck would never be caught in a dilemma where he would have to choose between giving his daughter zombrex and doing donuts in a plaza to kill zombies and have fun. Were Katey in a vegetative or evidently weak and suffering state, there would be the possibility of the character Chuck letting her die. But he sees her playing, laughing, and functioning as a perfectly healthy human child and he would never even consider just letting her die or worse turn into a zombie and kill her himself.
     
    Also spoiler tags.
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    #26  Edited By LordXavierBritish
    @Immuniity said:
    " @LordXavierBritish said:
    " As much as he hates it he can't just let his daughter die. "
    The best part? He totally can. The choice is totally up to him. "
    SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.
     
    Now obviously you can totally just screw around and never even look Zombrex, but even within the non-canonical canon of the game there does not exist a reality in which Chuck simply doesn't care anymore.
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