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General Random Thoughts: Biohazard/Resident Evil edition

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Besides the Revelations games, I think they should consider an animated Netflix series, that can specifically focus on long forgotten (at least by Capcom) characters. Like those we have mentioned.

I don't know how they could be returned into the games, particularly the main numbered ones. By this point, I worry the series will lose the horror appeal if it becomes too crazy with overpowered characters. So like Leon, I don't mind them being used in other mediums that are still canon.
 
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I felt like Chris had no "fit" with the story in 7, or 8. Just seemed like Capcom conjured up some poor man's Stephen King wannabe writer to base a story around both Ethan and a veteran character. Chris, of course.

But, really. If Chris was not in these games, it would barely matter. Ethan could have just blown himself up and Mia could have saved the day. But then people would say it's not RE because one of the OG people wasn't involved.

You can kind of tell Capcom's creativity in this era is ass sauce.
 
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Now that Ethan is gone, we can say goodbye to all the goblins and ghouls, and finally get back to the blue Umbrella story that 7 started off.

Yeah. Ada hasn't been in any storylines for a decade. Jesus, we are old. 😬
 
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Same here. But I seldomly feel like talking about it on other forums. Many of them have little activity regardless. But I guess you know what we would be in for if they discussed specific titles.

Like, if you told people on some unmoderated forum that RE6 is your favourite game, 98% of the users would probably have a field day with us.

I basically told them about RE8 ripping off Konami, and the Silent Hill vibes are strong. I don't think they're even RE fans anyway. But then they say it was paying homage, I take it too seriously, or something like this, probably because they know I was right. But I honestly think people who say that are either clueless, or they're damage controlling. :(

I kind of lost interest in trying to be right, even when I knew I was. I felt like I tried to open up their eyes to Capcom's ways, and they didn't want to change their mind. So I do not talk about it much anymore. I more or less put in my time on the subject. :D
 
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I don't know why they always go back to Raccoon City either, as there's like a billion different movies and stuff about the same things. But ORC could have been a big budget spin off that's canon, had Capcom cared. I think they also screwed up with the RE2 DLC. They could have gave every side character including Ghost and the sheriff, a proper story mode, leading up to the mayor's daughter being killed by the chief of police. And even if they all died, it would have still been something worth a damn, and I think fans wouldn't have felt cheated.

But no. The RE3 DLC was apparently their master plan all along.
 
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Yeah, and altering the race of the characters makes for a real head scratcher of a time.

If Sheva is African, you couldn't get somebody from Alaska to play her. Their casting decisions are truly pitiful.

But I think Capcom knows people just follow them anyway. I still see dumb posts on other forums with people saying RE never gets milked, and then this guy seemed a little offended because I said that. And they said the current era is the best to date. 🤣

No, son. It does get milked. :p
 
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I am quitting after Tokyo Game Show. So one more month shouldn't hurt... much.

I know what you mean. It's not just when you're talking about RE games, either. It's anything you just so happen to post about that has somebody ready to reply with jive.

If you talk about women being seedy, you're apparently another incel. But I'm sure a lot of men feel the same.
 
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It could be, provided Capcom are on the card. Although I'm more interested in knowing what Konami has lined up, because the lack of news for Silent Hill is really something else.

Ever since those vague trailers appeared about a year ago by this point, the updates have been severely few and far between.
 
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I think you had a point about not posting on other forums with dim-witted fools, because...

I did post. Here...

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Capcom copying other games, etc, for Resident Evil...

RE7 copies Evil Dead, Saw, The Ring and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Even RE1 kind of took ideas from the original Alone in the Dark with the thing coming through the window. Yeah. That's just shoddily prepared plagiarism. :) 'Inspired by' is not the same as plagiarizing. Come on now. And...
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OK. RE6 maybe took a few ideas from a then recent GOW game a little bit, but I think GOW was inspired by RE4 anyway. So that's that, I guess.

Anyway, it's not about RE6. It's really about how lame the RE Engine games are. The sequels in first person and these remakes, which apparently are well received masterpieces.

But Capcom certainly did copy The Last of Us and Silent Hill, and even their own RE4. Hands down. I'd even make a side by side comparison video, if I knew how to edit, which unfortunately, I don't.

And I guess we are in the minority, because we actually *notice* the cut content in 2 and 3, and recently 4. Unlike these type of people, such as that Sean fellow on this tech support forum.
 
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Yeah. RE6 has some of the framework of older RE games, and I prefer an urban setting to the villages. Also, whenever Umbrella or zombies aren't involved, it kind of doesn't present itself as being RE to me. But I can settle for the Lickers and the Hunters. Provided I may see something RE-esque, it's passable.

I understand Capcom were just trying to switch things up. But it honestly became radically nonsensical with the Tim Burton style storyboard, and all the #NotMyRE hooey that showed up thereafter. Like the lycans, Angie, and the vampire sisters.

The ultimate problem is, fanboys and modern day casuals couldn't care less about our thoughts, and as you say, they think we "live in the past" because we're old enough to see the multiple declining stages, and we are blinded by nostalgia because we always prefer to applaud the more high points of these survival horror franchises. So yeah. I give up trying to educate these morons.

M, you should watch old horror films from the 30s through to the 70s. I feel they help to fill a void when a lot of this bland, newer horror stuff is becoming like vaporware for me...
 
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