maybe I wrote it weird or am being interpreted the wrong way. I'm not surprised by the city being nuked and demolished I'm surprised by how much of it is still standing. In Outbreak especially it was obliterated and even though people write of the series off, it definitely matters now thanks to the tie ins
Thank you for this, probably the most concrete answer. At the same time I don't know if this will hold up given it seems this game will follow the remake timeline as a base more so than the originals. I'd go as far as to say this will all make perfect sense after the eventual RE:1 release. What seems like some retcon now will be cleaned up then, but we're just going about it out of order.I've been doing some digging on this and I saw people saying that it was bombed with a Thermobaric Missile that didn't wipe out the whole city like a nuke would have. The reference for this came from an interview with Capcom writer Yasuhisa Kawamura:
Q19. What kind of missile appear in the ending?
A19. Second to nuclear bombs in power, it is one new type of bomb like a thermobaric bomb. Details are unknown, but its radioactive contamination seems to be extremely low. In this story, it could be said that it is, along with the rail cannon, a top-secret weapon of the US military.
Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura
In 1999 Famitsu and Studio Bentstuff interviewed Capcom writer Yasuhisa Kawamura, who answered questions regarding the story of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.residentevil.fandom.com
I'm still assuming it was a thermobaric bomb in RE3R unless there was some lore that indicated otherwise.
That would be very nice, but how would it be implemented? This trailer has provided answers but also raised more questions to. Now I am just too eager for August so we we can see some gameplay, moreso than I was SGF.
Too hard to say how it'd be implemented yet but we're going back to Raccoon City for a reason. Maybe Umbrella/Spencer left something there that has something to do with what's going on in the case Grace is investigating? The new tall lady does give Lisa Trevor vibes. I'm dying to know more. Gonna be a long wait until August for Gamescom.
I think a lot of ideas for this game are coming from scrapped ideas in the past. Some as far back as the 90s at that. The original was headed the co-op direction too iircI do remember reading from Kenichi Iwao that they were contemplating the idea of having RE2 take place in the ruins of Spencer Mansion back when RE2 was first conceptualized in the 90's, but they opted for Raccoon City instead.
Would be cool if they experiment with "what never happened".
This is correct. It was also confirmed as a thermobaric missile in Biohazard Archives. The confusion mostly comes from a mistranslation in the English version of this book (Resident Evil Archives) and the fact the explosion forms a mushroom with blinding light, mostly associated with nukes.I've been doing some digging on this and I saw people saying that it was bombed with a Thermobaric Missile that didn't wipe out the whole city like a nuke would have. The reference for this came from an interview with Capcom writer Yasuhisa Kawamura:
Q19. What kind of missile appear in the ending?
A19. Second to nuclear bombs in power, it is one new type of bomb like a thermobaric bomb. Details are unknown, but its radioactive contamination seems to be extremely low. In this story, it could be said that it is, along with the rail cannon, a top-secret weapon of the US military.
Famitsu interview with Yasuhisa Kawamura
In 1999 Famitsu and Studio Bentstuff interviewed Capcom writer Yasuhisa Kawamura, who answered questions regarding the story of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
It absolutely had to be and for all we know there could be more to come, especially since we don't have RE:1 yet. I think things that may sound out of reality now can be done and later rectified through the rumored RE:0 and eventual RE:1.
