Who is the Most Annoying Survivor in Dead Rising? (Dead Rising Tier List/ Discussion) 

Hey guys, just a few updates: #1) Thanks for 22k views! It means a lot to me! #2) I made a mistake in the final list. Lilly should not be in A Tier. I have no idea how that mistake happened lol. #3) As I’ve come to realize you can get Saint while going for the main story. You just have to finish Overtime Mode so Frank and Isabela count. #4) Ngl with some good arguments I’d probably sway my ranking on Kindell as ig some of my problems with him would be negated if you don’t follow the story. Also, you can get a free shotgun from him.

Having Ron kill himself is one of the most realistic things in this game. If zombies were real, a lot of people would probably end themselves.

When I was around 9 years old playing this for the first time, I got to Ross and Tanya’s mission and after he asked for the gun I checked my inventory and handed him it thinking I got lucky I already had one…..things went really downhill after that.

I love how this list is almost entirely based on how close the Survivors are to the Security Room

Kindell will always be my S++ survivor. When I was a kid and first got this game, he carried me through the Isabella escort mission.

You can actually get the hand holding, carry survivors weapons. If you go to give them an health item and switch to a weapon at the moment of you pressing B is give you'll give them a weapon. I usually arm Susan with a submachine gun.

I'd put Natalie on F tier just because of how annoying she is in the security room. I Don't feel like hearing her cry every time I go to save the game, and hearing her say. "I understand.." and then cry again and again. 😂😂

Love hearing you talk about how you combine your own route with speedrun strats, that stuff is so interesting

The old lady at the beginning who let the zombies in the mall to get her dog

Thanks for this video man. I always wanted one with an explanation on the characteristics or each survivor. I think that's just one of the many things that make the original great. They aren't just a carbon copy like in DR2

Dunno if the AI is intentionally bad or the devs had no clue, it’s a chore baby sitting these guys while having to manage your own health, getting grabbed every 10 seconds too

I fell for the Ross request my first time. Legit didn't expect that he'd kill himself, and I wanted him to have the highest chance of survival. I didn't notice that you could keep talking to him and I rushed to grab a gun because I remembered exactly where they were in Wonderland. Sat there for a while thinking about him for a bit, getting quite a lot of respect for him. He's one of my favorites now.

I'll never forget a guy called "Gamerzclipz" trying to escort the survivors from Jo's mission and they started running wildly towards a pack of cult members 😂😂😂 Great to see my childhood game is still relevant! 💯

the ai was originally supposed to be more complex for survivors. like how sometimes they randomly crawl on the floor in the retail release. the way leah grabs onto frank in the jewelry store, was also remnants of old survivor ai. there are videos about it here on yt, pretty interesting stuff. i think people mistake the survivor ai being programmed to "be scared" of crowds of zombies and sometimes panicking as bad programming. yet once you pick up the survivor magazine which "makes survivors fearless" they have no problem running wherever you tell them too without hesitation. i rarely give survivors weapons in any dead rising game, but whatever kendalls ai is programmed at, he is pretty efficient with a shotgun, same with the ppl in the gun shop. set them on a waypoint and zombies really can't get close to them for the most part.

Getting the achievement for escorting 8 female survivors at once was a horrific experience 😭 Also you can get the Saint achievement if you get the true ending. It’ll activate after you beat overtime mode. That’s how I got it

I’m so glad RU-vid recommended me this! This a great video idea and you handled the list really well! Definitely gonna subscribe

The answer is Aaron. I don't even care what this video says. Aaron is the absolute fucking worst

Great video man! Looking forward to more like this

30:19 I’d say it’s because it’s the first time in a while that the raincoat cult wasn’t a threat anymore, so in response the number of zombies go through the roof to prevent the player from taking to big of a sigh of relief

Dead Rising 1 finally clicked for me a few weeks ago and I've been having a great time playing it. I was a fan of 3 for the longest time because I didn't like hardcore time managment games growing up. I'm now hooked on trying to get the perfect run and I'm a huge fan of the OG games now and your videos are a great supplement to me learning about all the ins and outs of the game. Keep up the great videos!

Ronald gets #1 for me, just for the mutiny. I kill him every new playthrough. Kick through the window, sandwich shop’s already barricaded. Knock knock bitch. “I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me!”

Good and concise tier list, very enjoyable to watch.👍

Very well done video, my man! Love learning new small details in this amazing game!

If you recruit Pamela before Heather, then she will follow Frank's command. However, the second Heather officially joins then Pamela starts to follow her. Love this vid btw! The only one I kind of disagree with is Tonya. I usually give her an SMG and she's aggressive enough to handle herself. It does take a lot of dropping and picking up Ross, though.

I found a glitch that if you give Ross a handgun and than talk to Tanya the second you hand, you can still save his life and he will also have a handgun

Also agree about Paul. If he was a Day 1 survivor and he gave you molotoves as a reward then that would be way more useful at early game. By late game you get a crap load of Queens in Maint tunnel

Hell yeah! Love Dead Rising videos like these. Great video man!

Quickstep + Small Chainsaw = Dead Convicts! You can literally run at the convicts diagonally to avoid their bullets, kill the driver in a couple swings, and finish the rest easy peasy. With Quickstep it's pretty much guaranteed you'll make it to Sophie before the convicts reach her. If you can't get the small chainsaw, the katana in Paradise Plaza will do the trick. For Quickstep, use the milk and popsicles in the Foodcourt behind the counter of Frozen Dreams. If you're coming from the safehouse, bring coffee creamer from there and combine it with the orange juice at the Colombian Roastmasters in Paradise Plaza (where the katana is!). It's worth it to enter/exit the safehouse for 2 or 3 coffee creamers if you think you'll need the extra Quickstep for speed or healing.

I never heard of you before and honestly I’m glad that I do now because you clearly put in a lot of time and effort into this video

Mindy and Debbie deserve props for instantly burying the hatchet with a guy threatening to BURN them five minutes beforehand

Love this type of content! Keep it up! :D

Saving every survivor in the first game in one playthrough is no question one of the hardest things ive ever done gamewise

this is too good of a video concept. Holy hell you're a genius my guy

Babysitting survivors = punching sense into them lol

basically, the further away from the safehouse they are, the more difficult it gets lol always keep a few queen bees. its so much easier to escort survivors if you set waypoints for them. especially once you realize that the game only loads zombies in at a certain distance (especially useful coming out of the fast travel bathroom going to the safehouse, its a pretty straight line, set the waypoint near the safehouse and wait for them to get close, throw a queen if needed to help a straggler.)

The survivors in dr1 why i'll like the 2nd one more. Theres challenge then theres...what dr1 did lol. I left in pure frustration because i constantly had to restart for all survivor run With that said, the game is fun as hell

comprehensive video, well done

This is about the msot random thing I've seen this week. And yet is exactly the video I needed.

Good video bro. Been playing DR1 since launch and man.. I am way too familiar with all these people on this list. Found myself agreeing with you. Made a good point about the molotov's being a novelty more than useful. 100%ing DR1 was quite a challenge and not just for the legendary 7day survivor achievement. That achievement is mostly an endurance contest (I fell asleep on my first attempt lmao) but the real challenge are those survivors. My least favorite has got to be Bill. Correct me if I'm wrong but I swear there is programing for Bill to not go into the gym willingly (sometimes I will put my survivors in there that I am escorting because Alfresca can be a bitch) But also every time without failure, Bill will try to run up and fight Adam with me, even if I have a marker set for him to go somewhere else. Cracks me up every time though.

Awesome video man, enjoyed every second. Dead Rising 1 is a classic, frustrating...but classic :)

that was a really cool video man nice work

Personally the one survivor I couldn't stand was Leah, carrying her and her being slow I could deal with, but for the life of me I could not get her to go over the display case on her own, it always took a ton of coaxing for me and it would result in the other three running into a crowd of zombies and dying because of it, so unbelievably frustrating haha

I love the og dead reising videos bro definitely keep them up

Aarron the only survivor I hate. Dude just sits still for 10sec and only follows Bret.

Great video

Hey man, I hope we're all having a good ass time, in this even fuckin better game. Hopefully Capcom will take a peak at youtube one day, more views for this gd game than sales for the last 2 combined. Man, you put a lot of work into this. Hope it blows up!

great video. i love to see a renewal in interest of this great franchise

Thank you for putting my boy wayne up there he goes crazy with the antique store battle axe

Hey dude awesome vid i would love more Dead Rising content from you. i agree with alot of your tier list first off im glad we see eye to eye on the sean boss survivors in movie theater they literally are the peak pyramid of what's wrong with DR1 A.I my god thinking about this after 100% DR games achivements/trophies on both xbox 360 and PS4 im never going through a saint run again lmao. So i found it interesting you have sophie ranked lower than i'd thought for me i have her at A or B because it's day 1 less zombies she's running around but atleast for me the convicts have never really went after to attack her and i can hold her hand making escorting her easier even if i dont and having bert,aaron and leah with me sophie was still easy to escort,Yuu&Shinji gets really annoying cause they wanna stop to fight every zombie which is a issue some survivors have,kendall is hit or miss for me sometimes he's good sometimes he either causes isabella to die cause i have to help him or he dies lol. great video bro hope you do more the dead rising series is 1 of my favorites especiallly DR1.

Great video, very useful.

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Very good video, i never played dead rising (only a litllee bit of 3) but the video is so entreteinig that i stayed till the end lol.

15:26 casually puts a sword into his skull

Its always fun coming back to these games and seeing people still making videos on it. Like we all have these universal gems still and its fun that so many people still appreciate them. Sad what the series came to. But it is what it is.

Solid tier list.

Hey Ozzy, will you be doing more of these dead rising tier lists / opinion videos? Really enjoyed the video!

You can get saint on a true ending. It just doesn’t proc until after overtime is finished, as isabella doesn’t count til then.

Haven't watched the video yet. But I swear to god if Otis isn't a honorable mention for most annoying!

Can’t wait for September when this will be updated.

Frank and Nick both made sense as protagonists. Frank had already gotten infected at some point and nicks body’s had antibodies for the parasites. This version of the zombie outbreak is not survivable being exposed out in the open.

Aaron also kills himself if he gets swarmed. Not super common but happened to me once

Dude i played this game and beat it when i was like 12 and i replayed it and i was like how the hell did i beat it with all survivors

Lol i thought i had to hand over the gun for the mission .When i saw what happened next i stared at the screen for 4-5 seconds with utter disbelief. It was so funny

Ross was definitely one of the worst survivors when I played this game for the first time a few weeks ago. Unless I missed something they really didn't think through the fact that he can't walk, as getting him to vault up to the duct enterance was agonizing.

Greg should be A tier minimum only for that shortcut. That Wonderland to Paradise Plaza shortcut is the most helpful thing any character in game can or will do for Frank.

FYI you can still get the Saint even if you don’t save Simone. If you fail the main cases early enough then you got extra leeway of extra survivors that count toward total that you otherwise wouldn’t get. Jesse, Brad, and Dr Barnaby that normally would die can still be rescued when you going for “B ending” runs.

Idk who needs to hear this, but use the aim + Y command rather than the "follow me" command because they respond better to it for some reason and you can run "with" them rather than in front of them

Very solid tier list my guy. Well researched. Just curious, what song are you using in the 4:30 mark? (A-tier section)

I always killed Natalie and Jeff on every play through but the first so I didn’t have to hear her annoying crying every two seconds in the safe room

Fantastic video

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Dead Rising 2. I grew up with it but I never played Dead Rising 1. I am going to be going through it soon. It's crazy how much replayability these games have.

Also had zero issues escorting Greg even on a fresh non level 50 run . Him automatically beelining for the bathroom is a plus in my eyes because at least the AI forces him into the destination, he doesn’t randomly cower/crawl around, he doesnt go out of his way to fight zombies, he gives you PP moments, and most importantly you shouldn’t have issue escorting him at all. You get not one but TWO small chainsaws (grab first one immediately after beating Adam and a second one spawns again after Greg spawns). Also when you do go to Paradise Plaza to bathroom he DOES start following your commands and escorting from women bathroom to warehouse door is cake especially when you still have 2 small chainsaws

Anyone on the morning of Day 2 is a nightmare. There's Medicine Run (Carlito & Steven), Lovers, The Hatchet Man, and The Coward. I just remember rushing to get everything but The Coward done and saving it for the Jo Slade escort. It's a mess.

The guys with the police officer gave me so much trouble dude, and I missed the guy in the entrance hall behind the boxes becaude I wasnt using a guide and Im still salty like 2 and a half uears later

You can get saint on the true ending you need to complete ot mode for it to register because frank and isabella count towards it

Not for ending A, but Frank and Isabella will be added onto the list of survivors if you go on to complete Overtime. I got Saint having missed Gil even.

I played this game again after like 13 years, pretty much blind as I only really remembered the opening scene and Adam. Yeah I got Ross killed by giving him the handgun thinking it was part of the mission all right…

Ik Ill probs not get a response but is it best to save all survivors because most of the time im struggling to handle time with both main missons and survivor missions

On my first playthorugh i genuinely thought you couldn't save Ross, that's why i gave him a gun

The difference between dr and dr2 in survivors is day and night! Also for the worst escort (the movie one) what I did was basically make them stop and clear every single zombie ahead, and go through upstairs not through the middle

Southern man who loves dead rising you are my brother

Finally found my community!

This game needs a remaster. Not a remake because it's great. Just an update on graphics and maybe a tweak on the survivor ai and itll be good.

Awesome video lol

You know why I'm here. Remake time baby

Would they be another video about the AI survivors from dead rising 2(off the record has some survivors only seen in off the record) and 3?

Sadly I would run the “Bomb Collector” mission before Kent’s and always get chained up and reload the game

I would place the movie plaza survivors higher up personally. If you try to rescue them at night before Santa Cabeza, then yeah, they're F tier. But I always find myself waiting until after Santa Cabeza to rescue them, when there's for some reason less zombies to deal with, and when they're not so aggressive, the survivors are still a pain to deal with, but considerably less so.

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I don't mind the survivors getting overwhelm by the zombies, specially if they look weak, hurt or out of shape. The worst thing is the environment colition and then getting stuck on stairs or each others.

Ever tried using the mannequin torso on bosses?

love deadrising

theres an abobe tool that can improve audio quality btw

Also imo survivors that you can “carry” is the best kind of survivors in my eyes. You’re not at the mercy of attocious AI and unlike “hold hands” it won’t randomly separate on obstacles. You also move pretty fast still on “carry” that you can still juke most zombies that isn’t the most crowded of crowds.

Peak background noise ngl but also pretty useful

Pamela does spaz out chasing the blonde survivor rather than frank sometimes

can we get the music list ? it sounds nice

not gonna lie I did give Ross the gun thinking that was the mission lol

I agree with this list expect for kindells placement I feel like he's a B tier for his pretty smart ai

Honestly I don't think Tonya is that bad, you can place her husband far away and she runs to him (doesn't fight zombies if you dont give her a gun). Since the zombies despawn after a bit he'll most likely be in a grapple animation with 1 zombie and not losing health to a horde so you can focus in on Tonya. IDK I always gave her a mini chainsaw and didn't have a problem.