The Dead Rising Survivor Tier List [1000 Subscriber Special] 

You have no idea how happy I am Susan made A Tier! Saving her is like the breath of fresh air that you need at that point in the game, especially considering how exhausting the night before is.

I have a personal beef with Ronald. When I was doing my Saint run back in the day I forgot to bring a food item to him and he took the survivors and since I was on 360 and it didn’t have multiple saves back then I had to restart the game 😭 I kill him every time I see him now

When I was 9 or 10 when I played DR1 for the first time me and Leah went to hell together when I tried to save her. Firstly we barely survived avoiding the Convicts, as a result I went back to the food court and took her to The Entrance Plaza, to the Hallway that Otis welds shut. I barely managed to fight our way through that hallway and was shocked to see the door was welded (I was a dumb kid) so I had to brave wonderland Plaza, around his time Adams mission began and I stupidly started it, unsure it would be a boss fight. I had to carry her to a different store so Adam wouldn't murder her and had to utilise Cash registers, bins and spreadic handguns from the cop zombies. After killing Leah i was stressed to discover Greg, another character to escort. But then he showed me and Leah that shortcut... whee! It was a really memorable moment of the game for me as a Kid. Even if David perished as I forgot him. LOL

Burt and Aaron do not appear on the list. I forgot to add their section to the script, which means no commentary was recorded for them. They would have appeared at the very top of B Rank, just above Jeff and Natalie. I didn't have too much to say about them, though. It would have just been describing Aaron being annoying while Burt introduces hostile characters. Let it be known that working on a video for 3 weeks straight without breaks makes it easy to overlook things.

The prologue survivors are almost certainly talking about Carlito who left to go to the roof. Above The Law survivors don’t die with time that’s just a myth. What actually is happening is they are the only survivors to start taking offscreen damage even if you never see them so if you enter Wonderland for even one second and leave in 2 minutes they are dead (Besides Kay because she’s spawned by the cutscene) Besides that good video.

Oh damn dude I remember watching way back during your psychopath fights with your witty commentary back when RU-vid had those speech bubble comments pop up in video! Refreshing as hell to see ya on my feed again and Dead Rising content. Never get tired of this game dude!

I loved the part where you were breaking down optimal routes for saving groups of survivors when discussing Kindall! I was wondering if you would consider making a video discussing optimal routes or other survivor manipulations?

Loved your input on this. Great video!

Recently revisiting this childhood video game so absolutely loving the content 💕

The slower, the better is a nice tip. Also, nice double take 16:33 :D

Excellent content as always

Dude great video! Plus I love the inclusion of the Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights music! :D

I think Burt And Arron Got Stuck Behind The Wooden Panel At Al Fresca. Sucks For Them haha. They are good as early Game Survivors, especially With Guns.

Excellent video!! I've been playing this game for over a decade and am learning new things about survivor AI! I agree with most of this list. I hope the remake/remaster/whatever brings further characterization to these survivors. For example, Pamela and Heather seem to be arguing in the safe room when you rescue them, but there's no audible dialogue from either of them. I'd love to hear what they were actually saying to each other; if my twin left me for dead I'd knock her teeth out lmaoooo

man i love your channel so much, this game is just so delightful to talk about and explore in every little way. i hope you'll keep up coverage both of this and DRDR in the future! i'll be watching pretty much everything you put out

Very good, Jeff is always S no matter what tho, but lovely video, very well made

Few things that irks me about Jolie and Rachel is that there mission would be suited much better while Entrance Plaza is locked off from Paradise , It would be a long trek sure but its just too easy as mentioned in this video to save them with how close the warehouse is. Consider a few suggestions to make this mission one of the most interesting. If you know about the photo op its worth PP points early on while you could have the Paradise photo book in hand for level ups . If this mission spawned around sometime say after David where you have all that time to just chill before Carlito 2 , this mission could teach you about hidden survivors around the mall because Bill doesn't despawn until Carlito 2 begins , during the mission your looking around stores on the second floor for Rachel you could possibly encounter Bill by accident being a surprise. Other things would be the player witnessing a huge load of zombies (that be nighttime zombies) on the second floor of the Entrance Plaza , meaning it would be urgent that the player get to looking around the second floor for Rachel. The player and the game seem to rarely see zombies spawn on floor 2 cause most of the time Case 1-3 and 2 Psychopaths are causing them to not show up. Because of this I always like to assume Jolie is the one who is left behind in the default game mission whereas she is in the most danger from zombies.

I’ve been waiting for this tier list

One time, because Jolie was just a bit too far away when I entered the shop with Rachel, it messed with Rachel's AI and despite Jolie running up to hug her for the photo op like normal Rachel totally broke, shoved Jolie out of the way, and kept running nonstop towards the entrance doors so I had to reload and redo that whole area (Sniper fight and other scoops) over again. Simply put, I fuckin hate Rachel lol

omg you actually did this

Hey, long time no see Yeah, Greg is the king of survivors here, and love some of the ost you used for the video Are you going to make videos for dr2? Take care

I just completed the saint acheivement for the second time on xbox, and it actually wasnt as bad as i remember. I just used nectar, queens, and adams chainsaw to clear a path for survivors, stopping periodically to wait for them to catch up. Their AI is only annoying when you are running low on case time, but you can cheese the timer by reaching destinations with quickstep, skateboards, and using the wonderland shortcut. I had lost 2 survivors, leah who got killed without me knowing, and tad who i failed Kents quest. But i discovered if you let the time run out on the case before bomb run, you can make it out of the mall with an alive Jesse, brad, and Isabella, which counted as replacements for the two survivors i lost!

For me, Day 1 and 3 survivors are between B and S tier. Everyone on Day 2 are C or below for how stressful day 2 gets between the tight timing with the scorts distances.

Great video I was excited for this video for a long time and you did not disappoint! The time and effort you put into this video is amazing I especially enjoyed the Otis calls. I was glad to see the Tape it or die blogs mentioned when you discussed Simone there such a good piece of promotional material that both gives hints for items in the game while doing some world building along with with being an intriguing character study it’s a shame there not well known. Lastly was it intentional that Burt and Aaron where left out of the video?

This was a really entertaining video! Do you think you’ll ever do one like this but for dr2 survivors?

Plan on doing any dr 2 tier lists? Combo weapons would be a good place to start

Getting Leigh, Burt and Aaron to the security room was a nightmare. Either they kept getting suck or I’d get Gone Guru’d.

Love the video but I’d say Jennifer should be higher due to Frank the pimp Btw what was the music for Sean’s hostages?

god i just finished up my transmissionary run and wanted to watch this before my saint run,, the transceiver between tier sent me into fight or flight lmaoo

First time viewer, awesome video. Put away clothes while listening. Quick question, what is the song around 14:30? It’s a vivid memory from my childhood but I don’t know what it is. Katamari maybe?

I'm curious id there's anything like this you could do for DR2/OTR. I'm aware that functionality wise they're basically the same, but the difference in survivor AIs and things like Frank's quickstep being able to affect them when Chuck's can't makes things at least interesting enough to me to want to hear if they're different enough experiences to affect rankings.

2:16 you can use Watchdog to skip dialogues

I have to disagree somewhat on Jolie and Rachel, I'm not sure I would place them high but at least a bit higher. going slow enough you have Jolie defend Rachel with the shove and Wayne takes care of the rest, it's not a tricky or hard duo to save even on a new playthrough from Level 1, I even do the stupid challenge at times where you have to finish the game with Rachel by your side until Hideout and I never had a problem with it

Nice

Kindell blew Isabellas head off once when I was playing giving him quadruple F tier.

For the gunstore group I took the vent photo, on the same playthrough, and was trying to show it but suddenly the group just started unloading on me, nearly killing me until I finally managed to escape. Only THEN did they function like normal again. Much like Rachel, I dread dealing with them in case something snaps their AI like a twig like that.

Aaron is easily the worst survivor to deal with. His incessant screaming when grabbed, and his weak little run

The top 3 for me is Jeff, Natalie and Greg. Jeff and Natalie because they are so easy and give a great photo op. Greg because of that shortcut. That shortcut is a necessity in any playthrough.

I dome Kindell every playthrough unless I'm going for a survivor achievement. 😆

I wish I could like DR1, but the mechanics just turn me off of it. Watching these videos is a nice way to exprience it without suffering. Videos are interesting and worth watching on their own, which definitely helps

10:06 wait, you can do that? Hold hands with both survivors?

Hello. In the video, you mention you can make the survivors attack using some sort of attack command? I have never heard of this before, how do you do that?

They should make Otis a secert boss in the Remaster? We had enough of Otis letting get grappled by zombies and we KNOW he is the true masternind and 90% of the reasons we die! I remember giving my survivors a shotgun and they saw one singular zombie.. i had to literally hide from my survivors to answer the phone. 😂

Yeah shinji does follow you 💀 sorry I saw my opportunity

Wait, there's an exploit that allows survivors that can't use weapons to use em?

Cheryl is S+ tier

ELISA???

Uhhh... can I comment RU-vid? are you gonna delete this one too?

Tonya and Ross are my least favorite from a gameplay perspective, strictly because of how long their dialogue is, but they're definitely some of the best in terms of indirect storytelling.

I'm months late, but you can skip the dialogue of the survivors in the Wii "port". And dialogue in that game is more convenient in general seeing as dialogue pauses the game completely even during the dialogue boxes that indicates a Zombie just grabbed a survivor to give you time to prepare without affecting the actual ingame timer that each mission has.