This was actually a really cool and really sad video. So many cool (and not so cool) canned projects. Also pretty wild hearing so many folks throwing ideas into Dead Rising that weren't really, well, Dead Rising-like. Doesn't surprise me though, in my experience the folks that usually pitch or okay ideas from higher positions don't have a great understanding of video games. Though they swear they do. They just go to, "Well, it would be cool if we did X" rather than thinking "Well, X sounds cool, but really wouldn't work in this game or universe". I remember being a QA Lead and there were multiple scenarios where the directors/producers came to us to pitch an idea they loved and thought sounded great and the QA team immediately replied with NO, lmao. A lot of the time it was because it was something that was straight up P2W-like, or didn't work with the gameplay, etc. But if we didn't exist in decent numbers to turn their idea away then it probably would've come to fruition.
I really loved the Dead Rising series, but man, it went downhill fast after 2. I at least completed 3, but 4 really did feel like a shallow shell of a Dead Rising game compared to every other iteration.