It seems like my attention towards Dead Rising series via walkthrough and Let's Play -videos amped up my wish to play the said games sometimes in the near future. Sure, it's a Sandbox Action/Adventure/Horror game where the sole purpose is to chop up zombies, save people and so forth, but what really intrigues me in the series is the Psychopaths - games "bosses", that are scattered around everywhere during specific times of days during your missions. Psychopaths usually comes in all forms and motives: some has mentally snapped from their minds after witnessing such horrors that they couldn't handle it anymore, some has always had rather "morale breaking" intentions, others are purely evil and wants to live off with the chaos surrounding everyone. They're also the ones that stands out from the rest of the survivors, often cruel than the rest and more aggressive in fighting style.

Yes, the picture you see here is my take on if I were part of the said Dead Rising universe. If possible, I'd wish to be in the next installment as the hardest boss, but with a twist to it: Instead of found in a specific location, I'd be spawning anywhere in a very random pattern, just to make myself become the next "living slayer of utter rage". Keeping the distance when you're low-leveled would be preferred most of the times, because if the player would get too close, the battle would begin and the player would be the target then. Weapons of choices are:

Melee: Machete, Scythe
Ranged: Shotgun, Handgun

Only thing to make it more difficult than random appereance in every location (except the Safe House) is also the custom-made steel plates protecting me from most bullets, melee hits and zombie attacks.

As for reason to become psychopath? Most likely I'd be sane and try to rescue survivors, but I have such a high adrenaline rush that I will be careless with others. That and aggressive from nutjobs. (Possibly with addition of "someone released zombies which killed my friend/mate/family and I hunger for reveeeennnnggge" -sob story to go with.)


...and yeah, this is why this pic can be found in my scraps only: it's a vivid idea out of haze of a moment.

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