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* Pretty minor, but the Playboy magazine has been bugging me for a while. You only find 1 copy in the entire game... under a table at the indoor waterside SUBMERGED IN THE WATER. Out of all the places they could have stuck this they choose to put it in probably the last place anyone would think to look for a magazine! (And just how does Chuck read it anyway? Is Playboy making their porn mags out of plastic now? Or just using waterproof paper?) If they had put a few of these in the adult shop or in the lockers and bathrooms it would have been pretty funny and made sense. But instead they just dump one in the waterslide, I mean, was some guy reading it before the zombies came and just happened to drop it before going down the slide and running for his life? It just doesn't make much since to me, especially since there are about a dozen Playboy posters plastered all over the mall... You'd think there would be more of their magazines than the gambling ones since they bothered to go to all that advertising trouble...

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* Pretty minor, but the Playboy magazine has been bugging me for a while. You only find 1 copy in the entire game... under a table at the indoor waterside waterslide SUBMERGED IN THE WATER. Out of all the places they could have stuck this they choose to put it in probably the last place anyone would think to look for a magazine! (And just how does Chuck read it anyway? Is Playboy making their porn mags out of plastic now? Or just using waterproof paper?) If they had put a few of these in the adult shop or in the lockers and bathrooms it would have been pretty funny and made sense. But instead they just dump one in the waterslide, I mean, was some guy reading it before the zombies came and just happened to drop it before going down the slide and running for his life? It just doesn't make much since to me, especially since there are about a dozen Playboy posters plastered all over the mall... You'd think there would be more of their magazines than the gambling ones since they bothered to go to all that advertising trouble...
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* Pretty minor, but the playboy magazine has been bugging me for a while. You only find 1 copy in the entire game... under a table at the indoor waterside SUBMERGED IN THE WATER. Out of all the places they could have stuck this they choose to put it in probably the last place anyone would think to look for a magazine! (And just how does Chuck read it anyway? Is Playboy making their porn mags out of plastic now? Or just using waterproof paper?) If they had put a few of these in the adult shop or in the lockers and bathrooms it would have been pretty funny and made sense. But instead they just dump one in the waterslide, I mean, was some guy reading it before the zombies came and just happened to drop it before going down the slide and running for his life? It just doesn't make much since to me, especially since there are about a dozen Playboy posters plastered all over the mall... You'd think there would be more of their magazines than the gambling ones since they bothered to go to all that advertising trouble...

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* Pretty minor, but the playboy Playboy magazine has been bugging me for a while. You only find 1 copy in the entire game... under a table at the indoor waterside SUBMERGED IN THE WATER. Out of all the places they could have stuck this they choose to put it in probably the last place anyone would think to look for a magazine! (And just how does Chuck read it anyway? Is Playboy making their porn mags out of plastic now? Or just using waterproof paper?) If they had put a few of these in the adult shop or in the lockers and bathrooms it would have been pretty funny and made sense. But instead they just dump one in the waterslide, I mean, was some guy reading it before the zombies came and just happened to drop it before going down the slide and running for his life? It just doesn't make much since to me, especially since there are about a dozen Playboy posters plastered all over the mall... You'd think there would be more of their magazines than the gambling ones since they bothered to go to all that advertising trouble...
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* Some people theorize that the fight with [[spoiler: Check Greene]] in ''Off the Record'' was all in Frank's head. If that were true though, how did Stacey see [[spoiler: Chuck]] on the monitors and report him to Frank?

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* Some people theorize that the fight with [[spoiler: Check Greene]] in ''Off the Record'' was all in Frank's head. If that were true though, how did Stacey see [[spoiler: Chuck]] on the monitors and report him to Frank?Frank?
* Pretty minor, but the playboy magazine has been bugging me for a while. You only find 1 copy in the entire game... under a table at the indoor waterside SUBMERGED IN THE WATER. Out of all the places they could have stuck this they choose to put it in probably the last place anyone would think to look for a magazine! (And just how does Chuck read it anyway? Is Playboy making their porn mags out of plastic now? Or just using waterproof paper?) If they had put a few of these in the adult shop or in the lockers and bathrooms it would have been pretty funny and made sense. But instead they just dump one in the waterslide, I mean, was some guy reading it before the zombies came and just happened to drop it before going down the slide and running for his life? It just doesn't make much since to me, especially since there are about a dozen Playboy posters plastered all over the mall... You'd think there would be more of their magazines than the gambling ones since they bothered to go to all that advertising trouble...
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** Why wouldn't they care to listen to the news in that situation? If you were barricaded in during a disaster, I can think of little I'd want to do more than to listen for rescue efforts.
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** A lot of them might be motocross racing fans, but more importantly, Chuck was one of the star competitors on the local taping of "Terror Is Reality." The show is clearly big business, if the large audience and Leon Bell's giant trailer are any indication.
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** Zombie infection in the ''Dead Rising'' series means you're infected with one of the larvae. Zombrex prevents that larvae from developing, and presumably it's the same size and requires the same dosage regardless of the age and size of the person hosting it.
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* Some people theorize that the fight with [[spoiler: Check Greene]] in ''Off the Record'' was all in Frank's head. If that were true though, how did Stacey see [[spoiler: Chuck]] on the monitors and reported him to Frank?

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* Some people theorize that the fight with [[spoiler: Check Greene]] in ''Off the Record'' was all in Frank's head. If that were true though, how did Stacey see [[spoiler: Chuck]] on the monitors and reported report him to Frank?
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** Maybe she hoped that [[spoiler: Frank would be killed by the zombies or the Psychos while trying to save the survivors?]]

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** Maybe she hoped that [[spoiler: Frank would be killed by the zombies or the Psychos while trying to save the survivors?]]survivors?]]
* Some people theorize that the fight with [[spoiler: Check Greene]] in ''Off the Record'' was all in Frank's head. If that were true though, how did Stacey see [[spoiler: Chuck]] on the monitors and reported him to Frank?
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** If you're leveled enough Chuck can beat him with just his fists anyway. Though it's not [[NintendoHard easy.]]
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** Are we even sure the guys we see are the whole team? I always assumed they were a group of, lets say, 50 that spread out to cover more ground, and the others just were never shown on camera.
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*** Kowalski being involved would certainly explain why there are already combined itens scatared throughout the cassinos.
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***** Perhaps it's the zombie's own blood coming out of it's throat?

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***** Perhaps it's the zombie's own blood coming out of it's throat?throat? Besides, who says Chuck won't need zombrex after all this? Remember, Frank needs zombrex, but it still took to the end of the first game for him to even notice he was infected. That was three days, too.
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*****Perhaps it's the zombie's own blood coming out of it's throat?
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** He keeps turning her around to check the T&A.
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** Perhaps the dosages are different, but the medicine itself is one-time only anyway? As in, if exposed to light it deteriorates or something. Or perhaps since Frank already took that experimental medicine from the first game, he only needs small dosages.
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* If Zombrex overdoses are deadly, why does the ~60 lb., adolescent Katey take the same dosage as a full-grown, 200 lb. man?
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* There's a weird continuity error in Case West. Isabella gets knocked out in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. At 9:39, after the boss battle, she's still over his shoulder, her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. Then at 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. Why would that be?

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* There's a weird continuity error in Case West. Isabella gets knocked out in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. At 9:39, after the boss battle, she's still over his shoulder, but her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. Then at 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. Why would that be?
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* In Case West, Isabella gets knocked out in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. At 9:39, after the boss battle, she's still over his shoulder, her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. Then at 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. Why would that be?

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* In There's a weird continuity error in Case West, West. Isabella gets knocked out in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. At 9:39, after the boss battle, she's still over his shoulder, her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. Then at 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. Why would that be?
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* In Case West, Isabella gets knocked out in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. At 9:39, after the boss battle, she's still over his shoulder, her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. Why would that be?

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* In Case West, Isabella gets knocked out in a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. At 9:39, after the boss battle, she's still over his shoulder, her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. Then at 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. Why would that be?
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* In Case West, Isabella gets knocked out in a cutscene before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. 09:39 Then, the next time we see her, she's still being carried, but she's inverted! 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. What the hell?

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* In Case West, Isabella gets knocked out in a cutscene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTA_V7hniug cutscene]] before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. 09:39 Then, At 9:39, after the next time we see her, boss battle, she's still being carried, but she's inverted! over his shoulder, her upper body is in front, as if she inverted. 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. What the hell?Why would that be?
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*In Case West, Isabella gets knocked out in a cutscene before you fight Singh. At 02:45 A guard picks up Isabella and and hoists her over his shoulder. Her legs/butt are facing forward and her arms/head are behind. 09:39 Then, the next time we see her, she's still being carried, but she's inverted! 10:31 Then she re-inverts when the guy turns around and carries her off. What the hell?
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* Maybe she hoped that [[spoiler: Frank would be killed by the zombies or the Psychos while trying to save the survivors?]]

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* ** Maybe she hoped that [[spoiler: Frank would be killed by the zombies or the Psychos while trying to save the survivors?]]
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* So, if Stacey is [[spoiler: a sadistically evil Phenotrans agent]] in ''Off the Record'', then why is it that [[spoiler: she seems to be genuinely putting in an honest effort to help Frank find and save survivors? It's indicated she helped Frank because she wanted Frank to track down and eliminate TK because TK's scheme wasn't part of her master plan. If she was really secretly a cold-hearted evil bitch planning to betray everyone, why wouldn't she simply not report the various survivors hijinks to Frank so he wouldn't be distracted from hunting down TK?]]

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* So, if Stacey is [[spoiler: a sadistically evil Phenotrans agent]] in ''Off the Record'', then why is it that [[spoiler: she seems to be genuinely putting in an honest effort to help Frank find and save survivors? It's indicated she helped Frank because she wanted Frank to track down and eliminate TK because TK's scheme wasn't part of her master plan. If she was really secretly a cold-hearted evil bitch planning to betray everyone, why wouldn't she simply not report the various survivors hijinks to Frank so he wouldn't be distracted from hunting down TK?]]TK?]]
* Maybe she hoped that [[spoiler: Frank would be killed by the zombies or the Psychos while trying to save the survivors?]]
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** What If scenario or not is still a dickish move nevertheless if you ask me.
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**...Dude, calm the hell done. This is purely a "What If" scenario, IE ''noncanon''. And since its a WhatIf, of ''course'' some plot and character details will be different. And finally, given how CrazyAwesome the series has been since the beginning, [[spoiler:a giant robot]] was pretty much inevitable.
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* Seriously, I'm the only one who think that the whole ''Off the Record'' is a huge [[spoiler: [[BilingualBonus cazz]] [[PrecisionFStrike ata]] ]]? I mean, first they decide to give all the credit of an already seen story to Frank which (at least by my point of view) is far less heroic and sympathetic than Chuck. Then they [[spoiler: turn Chuck into a loony loser psychopath, the cold old bastard BigBad into a semi-heroic guy and one of the most morally straight character into the super evil bitch villainess that for some reason whip out a giant robot.]] No, seriously, did Capcom hired Trolls in their rank or something?

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* Seriously, I'm the only one who think that the whole ''Off the Record'' is a huge [[spoiler: [[BilingualBonus cazz]] [[PrecisionFStrike ata]] ]]? I mean, first they decide to give all the credit of an already seen story to Frank which (at least by my point of view) is far less heroic and sympathetic than Chuck. Then they [[spoiler: turn Chuck into a loony loser psychopath, the cold old bastard BigBad into a semi-heroic guy and one of the most morally straight character into the super evil bitch villainess that for some reason whip out a giant robot.]] No, seriously, did Capcom hired Trolls in their rank or something?something?
* So, if Stacey is [[spoiler: a sadistically evil Phenotrans agent]] in ''Off the Record'', then why is it that [[spoiler: she seems to be genuinely putting in an honest effort to help Frank find and save survivors? It's indicated she helped Frank because she wanted Frank to track down and eliminate TK because TK's scheme wasn't part of her master plan. If she was really secretly a cold-hearted evil bitch planning to betray everyone, why wouldn't she simply not report the various survivors hijinks to Frank so he wouldn't be distracted from hunting down TK?]]
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** Alternatively, the opening of Case West ''could'' follow up from Ending S if you assume that Chuck took Stacey and Katey to be airlifted again, and TK (who, being a super-tough mofo, managed to barely survive being thrown to his death and ended up being turned into a zombie) came back for revenge at the last moment.

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** Alternatively, the opening of Case West ''could'' follow up from Ending S if you assume that Chuck took Stacey and Katey to be airlifted again, and TK (who, being a super-tough mofo, managed to barely survive being thrown to his death and ended up being turned into a zombie) came back for revenge at the last moment.moment.
* Seriously, I'm the only one who think that the whole ''Off the Record'' is a huge [[spoiler: [[BilingualBonus cazz]] [[PrecisionFStrike ata]] ]]? I mean, first they decide to give all the credit of an already seen story to Frank which (at least by my point of view) is far less heroic and sympathetic than Chuck. Then they [[spoiler: turn Chuck into a loony loser psychopath, the cold old bastard BigBad into a semi-heroic guy and one of the most morally straight character into the super evil bitch villainess that for some reason whip out a giant robot.]] No, seriously, did Capcom hired Trolls in their rank or something?
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**** Simple answer; [[spoiler: Zombrex stops working on death. The virus kicks in, reanimates TK, who heads to the elevator. As for why Katie and Stacey aren't in the elevator with you, maybe he sent them up first while he dealt with zombies, then took the second one.]] It requires a bit of WMD, but it's not implausable.]]
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** From a practical standpoint, Case West advances the series meta-plot significantly, so it's unlikely they would ignore it outright. Also, the practical difference between ending S and ending A in terms of effect on the overarcing plot is minimum, given that Stacey and Katey get away anyway and Frank saves Chuck from zombie TK.

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** From a practical standpoint, Case West advances the series meta-plot significantly, so it's unlikely they would ignore it outright. Also, the practical difference between ending S and ending A in terms of effect on the overarcing plot is minimum, given that Stacey and Katey get away anyway and Frank saves Chuck from zombie TK.TK.
** Alternatively, the opening of Case West ''could'' follow up from Ending S if you assume that Chuck took Stacey and Katey to be airlifted again, and TK (who, being a super-tough mofo, managed to barely survive being thrown to his death and ended up being turned into a zombie) came back for revenge at the last moment.
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* Two questions: do we know that Case West is canon and not another What-If scenario like ''Off the Record'', and if it is, is there anyway at all to fit it with the S ending?

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* Two questions: do we know that Case West is canon and not another What-If scenario like ''Off the Record'', and if it is, is there anyway at all to fit it with the S ending?ending?
** From a practical standpoint, Case West advances the series meta-plot significantly, so it's unlikely they would ignore it outright. Also, the practical difference between ending S and ending A in terms of effect on the overarcing plot is minimum, given that Stacey and Katey get away anyway and Frank saves Chuck from zombie TK.

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