Summary
- The most beloved scene in Dead Rising is when Frank steps out to Leisure Park and hears lifeseeker's Gone Guru while fighting the prisoners.
- Gone Guru has become an anthem for the community, something that lifeseeker founder Marc Lariviere is thankful for.
- Lariviere breaks down how the song came to be in Dead Rising, his return for Off The Record, and his feelings on the long-awaited remake.
The series is full of iconic moments, from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Frank 💙West revealing he’s covered wars to Chuck Greene welding some chainsaws onto a bike and slicing through a crowd of zombies. Hell, I’d even say Nick building his first Sledgesaw and hurling it into a brute makes it onto a me⛦morable and packed list of moments.
There’s one that stands far above the rest, though, and has come to be Dead Rising’s defin⭕ing moment. I’m, of course, talkiౠng about the scene where who proceed to whack a poor survivor around the head before taking on the photojournalist himself.
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Seeing a random group of prisoners driving around a shopping mall and becoming the game’s first real roadblock is already an iconic moment that’s stuck wi🍰th fans for the past 18 years, but what truly elevates it to legendary status is the track that plays when the cutscene ends - , from their ironically named “self titled debut album” which released in 2000.
Gave Away My Possessions And Moved Into A Chevy
From the electric guitar riff that kicks things off to the “Welllllll” that Dead Rising players have committed to memory, Gone Guru has . But how did a so♎ng about leaving the life of a rockstar behind to live in the woods ever make it into a game all about killing zombies?
“I was contacted through CD Baby where I had 'self titled debut album' posted for sale,” tells me. “You could hear previews of the song there, so I guess someone who was scouting music for the game he🀅ard it there. The person who contacted me told me that Capcom was interested in using Gone Guru for a video game.” Despite being told that Gone Guru was going to appear in a game, Lariviere wasn’t 𒈔told anything about the project.
Lariviere started making rap tapes in high school before forming Donut Productions in the ‘90s with some friends. He eventually formed lifeseeker as a solo endeavour, which included♍ working with Tommy! on some of the songs featured in self titled debut album.
Eventually, Lariviere found out that Gone Guru was being used in the ♏first Dead Rising🐈, which led to him playing it and making it to Leisure Park just to hear the song. Lariviere says he was amazed at how quiet the volume was since people online had been quoting the lyrics to him online and seemed to know it well, which was a “good sign” for how much impact it made.
Even Lifeseeker Isn't Sure Why Gone Guru Was Picked
While Gone Guru became sy🐼nonymous with Dead Rising and a core memory for fans of the series, Lariviere couldn’t get into the game due to how difficult and unwieldy it was. Over time, though, that’s changed and the lifeseeker lead has come to appreciate the way the game’s story has resonated with the community. With the release of the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, Lariviere is looking forward to his song finding a new audience.
“I see how appealing and strange the world inside the mall is,” Lariviere tells me. “How things going badly and being difficult is part of the appeal. I think it can really grow on the player over time when they stiꦛck it out. The difficulty of the game made it special, it took dedication. And the humor mixed with a serious tone too, gives it life. I may have to take another crack at it this time around. Maybe some of the updates will help a more casual gamer like me along.”
Lariviere might not have gotten into Dead Rising when it released, but he is a big gamer himself and shares that he’s recently played ཧVampire Survivors, The Last of Us, Horizon, and Darkest Dungeon✨.
As for why Gone Guru was picked to feature in Dead Rising for the battle against the convicts, Lariviere is just as confused as the rest of us. He speculates that it could be because of the “intense and upbeat” vibes of the track, but he’s not sure how far into completion Dead Rising was when the track was picked. Perhaps it’s ju🐬st because the prisoners wear orange, which is similar to a line from the song about “orange pajamas”
I've definitely ꧟taken a look at what people have to say about the Dead Rising franchise but I don't hold too much stake in it. I never spent enough time there to - Marc L♉ariviere
Looking Back On Gone Guru
While Lariviere might not be sure about why the developers wanted to use Gone Guru, he does know that he’s thankful that Keiji Inafune and the team at Capcom who developed Dead Rising took a chance and included it in the game by “doing sometꦛhing off the beaten path”. Considering that’s what Gone Guru is all about, it seems lik🎉e it was meant to be.
When Dead Rising released in 2006, Gone Guru instantly became the community’s anthem. The track becoming such a 🔯big hꦺit with fans is something that surprised Lariviere as, despite ‘self titled debut album’ getting “good to great” responses from people who listened to it, he never thought it’d become a cult classic, despite holding a lot of love for it nearly two decades later.
“What do I think of Gone Guru all these years later? Does it hold up? Definitely,” Lariviere says. “I made that song using a Fostex 8 track and a Realistic Amp. It's come a long way, baby. Without a record company or promotion team. The song was ahead of its time. And that goes for all the lif𓆏eseeker stuff. I'm proud of that song, it's somewhat lo-fi a🉐nd it's still a banger.”
Coming Back For Off The Record
Although life⛦seeker is best known by Dead Rising fans for Gone Guru, that wasn’t the last time that Lariviere would work with the series. As Frank West returned in Off The Record, so did lifeseeker with a .
Beyond being another jamming track, His Name’s Frank is packed full of references to the series, from the events of Santa Cabeza that kicked the whole thing off to Frank West drinking Orange Juice as a healing item. It sounds like something written by the most dieha﷽rd of fans, but that isn’t the case.
“Capcom contacted me to do music for Off The Record,” Lariviere tells me. “At first I was just working on instrumental stuff but they coaxed me into writing some lyrics, which they were enthusiastic ab📖out. I pla🥀yed some of the Dead Rising 2 DLC during that period and came up with some of the rhymes, like the "eat a sandwich" line, which I still really like. I also read a lot about the game plot to discuss it credibly.”
Returning to the series after five years was nice. It leꦜt me know Gone Guru had become an essential part of Dead Rising lore. That was cool.🦩 - Marc Lariviere
The Prisoners Are Making A Comeback
Gone Guru’s status as a staple of Dead Rising has never wavered and has only♏ gotten stronger through the game’s re-releases. The first, in 2016, is something that surprised Lariviere as he was never told about a remaster or reuse of his work, and only had it mentioned to him by a couple of fans bringing it up.
Thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚat wasn’t the case for , however, which was announced earlier this year and launches today. As soon as a remake of the first game wꩲas revealed, fans stormed the lifeseeker lead’s Dms begging for news on Gone Guru being in the game.
Before Capcom 𒊎revealed that all of the original licensed songs would be featured in Deluxe Remaster, Lariviere was just as in the dark as the rest of us. Dead Rising fans were desperate to know about the track’s fate and worried about how much of the original was changing, .
“When I heard about the De♚ad Rising Deluxe Remaster, the news came along with all these people asking me if the music was going to be in it,” Lariviere says. 𒁃“So yeah I wondered. I thought they probably would, because they had before, and people liked the music in Dead Rising, so why wouldn't they? I was like, ‘if they don't use it that's fine, maybe it's time to move on’. Still when I heard they were using it I was smiling.”
The Future Of Lifeseeker And Dead Rising
Since that confirmation, Lariviere hasn’t heard anything from Capcom 𓄧about his song being used in the game, despite it being a pretty involved remake that’s built “from the ground up”. There’s no bad blood, though, as Lariviere says the only thing he wants is an official commemorative Mega Man watch like the one Fra🍰nk wears in-game.
Working with Cap🍃com again... As long as I ge༺t that watch, anything's possible. - Marc Lariviere
Although Deluxe Remaster a🐟nd the return of Dead Rising as a whole is perhaps more exciting for hardcore fans who have stuck with the series for nearly two decades, Lariviere says that he’s most excited about a whole new generation of fans hearing the song for the first time and discovering lifese⭕eker.
“Even though by now it's a little bit old hat, there's always new fans from Dead Rising releases who and b💮ecome fans. To bear witness to that and know that a lot of your hard work has paid off and someone is enjoying the stuff you'❀ve made, that's a great feeling.”
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