Pretty much everything about Los Illuminados and Ethan Winters. Parasyte is one of the best manga and anime of all time and clearly Shinji Mikami just had to steal its titular subject looking at the Plaga mutations. They literally had to murder the uselessness out of Ethan and he's still just a clone of Harry Mason and James Sunderland without a personality. The clothing choices they made for Excella, Palpaddler, and Captain Kralazar are just straight sigh worthy.
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So many people say that the... ahem, [butchered] RE2 remake is "TEH BEST GAME EVER!!!!1" - but guess what?
It has as much cut content as RE3 does, but because the original is also "TEH GREATEST TITLE EVER!!!1" - nobody thinks it's poorly.
So many people say that the... ahem, [butchered] RE2 remake is "TEH BEST GAME EVER!!!!1" - but guess what?
It has as much cut content as RE3 does, but because the original is also "TEH GREATEST TITLE EVER!!!1" - nobody thinks it's poorly.
The "hey you" line is also in Alone in the Dark 2. Pirates carrying guns follow you around.
Just import both of the Outbreak titles already, Capcom. Plenty of people would love to get to play these games online, who didn't back in 2004.
Just import both of the Outbreak titles already, Capcom. Plenty of people would love to get to play these games online, who didn't back in 2004.
Capcom was lucky. 
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Don't forget about our guy, Heisenberg.
Ahh yes Magneto who can forget him? New fans can accept him as a boss but not T Rex Simmons or a giant fly. And yeah besides gameplay of RE:2 it’s just a fkn travesty of a story. But I guess people are more invested in a realistic looking virtual burger than coherent storytelling these days. And don’t forget the not-Mia zombie that bites the trucker lol.
Also, the year 1998 keeps getting milked. But Raccoon City is long gone.
They should start thinking about drawing a line under that era, even if it is seen as being highly profitable. They are just rehashing old storylines year in, and out now.
They should start thinking about drawing a line under that era, even if it is seen as being highly profitable. They are just rehashing old storylines year in, and out now.
I can very easily. Heisenberg makes a lot more sense to me than Simmons and even Piers' mutation.
I get the social darwinist part, but how is Karl a fascist? I'm pretty sure the game director said he was unrelated to the Nazis.
At least with Simmons he was a nod to William Birkins G forms, although a giant fly was completely unnecessary. With Piers, his mutation was a nod to Morpheus and Albinoids in which their mutations are explained.
I’m not sure how a moldy parasite can give someone magnetic powers, it doesn’t fit in RE. That Heisenberg metal gear fight was so far removed from everything I have seen from this series to date. I’m sure if this concept was brought up in the developers room back in the day they would laugh.
It’s hilarious how Capcom wants to be more realistic but keep throwing in more superpowers into RE. Can’t wait for Natalia-Alex to shoot lazers out of her fingertips. They actually considered doing that during Rev2’s development.
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Heisenberg is not a Nazi in the sense that he is not a member of Adolf Hitler's party, that is, National Socialism. This is true, and I don't think it could ever have been the case, even though Karl is wearing a Nazi dog tag.
Nevertheless, his ideology and actions are characteristic of those of the fascist movement, which is why I called Heisenberg that way.
This does not necessarily mean that he could be related to a particular party or to such specific people as Mussolini or Hitler. Karl just has a fascist and anti-human personality nature, as I see it.
It's the same with Umbrella and its members. Such an ideology as Social Darwinism is part of the corporate culture and doctrine of the company both before bankruptcy and after reorganization. Like Hitler, executives even initiate rivalry between employees, after which they reward the strongest and punish the weakest, including killing them.
And although the games even compared Spencer or Wesker to Hitler, and their company to Nazi Germany, including treating the organization's employees as a race of supremacists, this does not make the "Umbrella people" actual Nazis, because this is a completely different party.
The G-Virus has never provided the amount of energy that Simmons had. When Birkin infected himself with the strain, the altered cells began to divide gradually, using the doctor's tissues as a source of nutrition. And only after there was nothing left of Birkin, the life form began to assimilate the biomaterial from the environment. For this reason, we see G-Zombies in The Darkside Chronicles, which G5 vomits.
And that's the reason why suspension of disbelief didn't work for me regarding Simmons. You just see from a bird's-eye view on a helicopter how a tiny man turns into a giant mass the size of a building, after which he puts all this mass back into his tiny body. Can you put a real car in your pocket? I can't, and that's what Simmons basically did.
I mean, it looks very dramatic and someone will find it exciting, but it's definitely not my choice of taste.
Piers' ability to generate electricity comes from an organ resembling that of jellyfish. But the thing is that jellyfish don't produce electricity, it's a misconception.
Despite this, it's not my issue with the scientific part regarding Piers. The electricity he shoots is actually plasma, that is, ionized gas. And the way he kills HAOS underwater is absolutely impossible, because the gas cannot function equivalently underwater. There are reasons why lightning does not go deeper than the surface of the water if it hits the river.
One way to get plasma underwater is to boil water so the gas can be there through the bubbles, but that's clearly not what happened. We see a rapid lightning strike on the bioweapon.
Again, it's a cool and dramatic scene and all that, but there's no science in it. It's pure drama, pure fiction.
It's not the mold or the vector of it that gave Heisenberg such abilities.
The main thing that Cadou does is carrying mold with a variety of genetic information and spreading the fungus inside the body, as a result of which the human being mutates into a chimera. We have seen this effect with the example of Marguerite Baker. Despite the fact that Eveline is not such a database-rich vector as Cadou, the girl brought Marguerite insects that the woman kept in her body. Therefore, in the process of assimilation, the mold mixed DNA, making Marguerite a chimera as well.
The involvement of mold ends with the fact that Heisenberg became a chimera and received an organ capable of generating electricity because of this. Everything else is pure physics and conscious control over the body.
Heisenberg conducts electricity throughout the body, including nerve channels and the brain, using his body as a solenoid. In this way, he converts electrical energy into magnetic energy. This is the way the coil works, Karl is just an organic version of it.
Unlike Magneto, who I believe is a magnetokinetic, Heisenberg does not control metal objects. He excites a magnetic field of the shape he needs to manipulate objects in this way. If you have the ability to control gravity, people themselves will fall in any direction without your direct influence.
And as we can see, Heisenberg's magnetic field, if it is strong enough, can affect not only metal objects, but also diamagnets, which is Ethan. This is also pretty true of science, and we have an experiment by Andrey Geim, who helped the frog to levitate through the excitation of a strong magnetic field. This is a completely harmless experiment, and people can also levitate in this way.
Not to mention that Heisenberg is not nearly as big as Simmons was, and most of his body is junk, among which there are large pistons that we saw earlier, a continuous track on which he moves, and so on.
So no, I definitely disagree. New games for me handle with science better than even such old ones as Dead Aim and CODE: Veronica.
And I especially like how developers combine different elements from science. Even Donna doesn't cause hallucinations because the mold. It's because of the flowers with alkaloids that do it. Donna simply controls the signals through the symbiosis of the fungus and the plant.
And the series has definitely done similar things before, when the HCF combined bioweapons with technology. This is essentially what Heisenberg was doing as well.
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