RE8 Village thoughts roundup

[russident]

To be fair, we also haven't seen Ashford and Marcus much, but we've seen their mutants.

Spencer wasn't even in Iwao's script, and he was never mentioned in the first game, but Wesker was always there. I believe they connected the two antagonists so that Wesker would both be the main villain of the series and take Spencer's place. In this context, Albert is no different from Alexia or the Queen Leech, if you know what I mean.

 

[Mark5]

To be fair, we also haven't seen Ashford and Marcus much, but we've seen their mutants.

Spencer wasn't even in Iwao's script, and he was never mentioned in the first game, but Wesker was always there. I believe they connected the two antagonists so that Wesker would both be the main villain of the series and take Spencer's place. In this context, Albert is no different from Alexia or the Queen Leech, if you know what I mean.

Edward Ashford died but he wasn't shown as a mutant in game as far as i know, it was Alexander Ashford (as Nosferatu).
The founders were James Marcus, Edward Ashford and Ozwell E. Spencer.

Wasn't Spencer established by the George Trevor notes and story, that story was planned before Remake development.

 

[russident]

Yeah, I was referring to Edward, too. We could see his portrait, which is a copy of the portrait of Emile Zola.

The storyline with Trevor and Spencer was written after Iwao, when Mikami invited another author. Spencer wasn't in Iwao's script, and the mansion was just the company's European mansion. Even the text that were written were not included in the game, so we don't have any mention of Spencer in the game.

For the first time in the series, Spencer was mentioned in a light novel about Beardsley.

 

[russident]

It seems that Chris does not get along with the BSAA since 2018, when Umbrella became a sponsor of the organization:

However, there are many problems with the enormous amount of money spent on its activities, and due to the fact that the reestablished neo-Umbrella Corporation (unaffiliated with the association) was named on a list of investors submitted to an open public hearing held by the British Parliament, it has been widely publicized by the international media as an ethical problem, and it very much remains in the public eye. As of 2018, in order to cooperate with B.O.W. extermination activities being conducted by the neo-Umbrella Corporation, some troops are reportedly being transferred to help deter bioterrorism through the likes of handling special cases, but there are also many who question these activities themselves.

Ahead of the question, the author of Umbrella Arsenal System simply used the prefix. The story has nothing to do with the crime syndicate from Resident Evil 6.

Consequences of sponsorship:

The BSAA soldiers also use Albert's guns:

And the soldiers also have North American patches, not European ones. Perhaps this means that the bioweapons were supplied from America, since Umbrella is an American PMC:

 

[russident]

We can also remember Gun Survivor. This is not the first time the company has used bioweapons as equipped soldiers.

 

[Caffeine Addict]

The Cleaners.

 

[russident]

Miranda wrote in her diary that she was going to restore Rose with the help of the Chalice, which is the controller of the fungus. And I didn't stop thinking about how the Chalice is connected with the restoration process.

But today I noticed this:

 

[Caffeine Addict]

So is Duke drinking buddies with the other merchant? I wonder where they spend all of their cash.

 

[Caffeine Addict]

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Go to your settings, and click on the letter where it says, "Change profile picture". You can upload another image that way.

 

[russident]

Unused textures of Rose's eyes in the scene after the credits:





Perhaps at the moment when she should have been angry at the agent, her eyes should have started to shine. This is another symptom of the Progenitor Virus, which adds a coin to the piggy bank of the hypothesis that the virus and the Mold are related:



According to News Bot, who refers to Yasuhisa Kawamura, Sherry was planned as a superman from a new generation of protagonists who would fight face-to-face with Albert Wesker.

Maybe the developers could have taken this idea for Rosemary. I can easily believe that the influence of Umbrella will be impossible to exaggerate in the future, so its leader will be careless at one moment, but this moment will be enough to make him known. It will also be a good opportunity to remember about Jake.

Speaking of Umbrella, here is the eye texture of bioweapons from the BSAA:



And a small addition to the weapons they use:



Well, the influence of the virus in this case is as obvious as possible.

I wonder if these soldiers are related to the Tyrant project? Although they are very similar to Uroboros Mkono before his transformation, if you ask me.

Maybe, as in the case of Brandon Bailey's girls, the organization has set itself a similar goal to the Tyrant project, but it is not technically related to the t-Virus.

Thanks to KiandyMundin for the textures. They're from Romania, by the way.

 

[russident]

It's hard for me not to notice how the soldiers look like Uroboros Mkono in his "human" state:





Especially the black smudges on the soldier's eyes resemble pustules of a virus:



Maybe Umbrella has a "weakened" strain of the virus that helps to metabolize pustules. For example, t-Mkono.

Thanks to BSAArklay for the texture.

 

[Caffeine Addict]

People moaned about RE8 having robots. But uh. Isn't that acceptable since the games concern the manufacture of bioweapons?

The one evil guy becoming like something out of Power Rangers was very OTT, though.

 

[russident]

It's not like the game had real robots, though. Karl simply used the reactors to increase the parasites' energy capacity and the soldiers had enough energy to power the implanted techniques. He also implanted metal appendages in them so that he could control his army like puppets, I believe. It makes sense to me.

If any game in the series had real robots as enemies, it was only in Resident Evil 4, as far as I remember. I mean, during the battle with Krauser.

 

[Mark5]

It's not like the game had real robots, though. Karl simply used the reactors to increase the parasites' energy capacity and the soldiers had enough energy to power the implanted techniques. He also implanted metal appendages in them so that he could control his army like puppets, I believe. It makes sense to me.

If any game in the series had real robots as enemies, it was only in Resident Evil 4, as far as I remember. I mean, during the battle with Krauser.

Umbrella Chronicles does have the TALOS bioweapon which basically uses cybernetic parts and is commanded by AI that is pretty much a "red queen" from the last secret hideout that Sergei Vladimir operates.
Even though UC its more like a RE side story game.

 

[Mark5]

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According to News Bot, who refers to Yasuhisa Kawamura, Sherry was planned as a superman from a new generation of protagonists who would fight face-to-face with Albert Wesker.

Maybe the developers could have taken this idea for Rosemary. I can easily believe that the influence of Umbrella will be impossible to exaggerate in the future, so its leader will be careless at one moment, but this moment will be enough to make him known. It will also be a good opportunity to remember about Jake.

I think it would be a good move if future games do refer to past characters that have something special and related to the viral experimentation, if not Sherry there are others such as Jill Valentine, Natalia Korda, Manuela Hidalgo and Jake.

Some do criticize RE 6 story due to Jake popping up into it without any kind of previous hint but since then I honestly feel like there's potential for Jake and I can't help but think of the developments should Chris and Jake cross paths again.

I'd imagine the story to continue with Jill and Chris team up to dismantle what's left of BSAA, and that the mission after this would involve Claire or Leon asking Sherry and Jake to help rescue Rosemary, since there is a chance that after the time lapse from village's epilogue someone from the connections might be interested in using all these strange altered individuals and perhaps create some sort of creature that display their strengths and abilities.

 

[russident]

The way I imagine the next step is usually related to Brandon Bailey, who could become a fungus, resembling his idol Marcus.

I think, speaking of fungi, there are unresolved parts in this topic that another game could tell if one of the protagonists found the syndicate.

For example, the games hint a little that Eveline could have younger sisters who could have been produced in secret from Miranda, and also that such fungal centers could be not only in Louisiana and Eastern Europe.

We also do not know exactly how the syndicate modified the fungus, as well as the HCF's connection with it.

And I personally would like to get a direct description of such processes as calcification. I have a version of how it works, and I can write it if someone is interested.

But yeah, I definitely don't mind seeing the old characters fighting Umbrella and its viruses again, because they had a viral experience. However, the Mold is not a virus, so even Jake's antibodies are useless, so far this is the most dangerous threat in my opinion.

 

[Goldsickle]

Code: VERONICA also has those drones that alerts Hunters but that depends on your definition of "enemy".
A remake may have drones that do more than just become makeshift security cameras.

 

[russident]

Yeah, it's all true. I rather meant that in Resident Evil 4 we had real robots as enemies. What the HCF and Umbrella used were just modules for bio-organic weapons. It's the same with Karl.

 

[Mark5]

The way I imagine the next step is usually related to Brandon Bailey, who could become a fungus, resembling his idol Marcus.

The mold and mutamycete are not so similar to Marcus and his Queen Leech form, Miranda and all her abilities point to a direct reliance on the megamycete, I really think Miranda and Eveline (even if she has sisters) lost all their physical world powers and eventually starve off without the fungus as they feed from this source. Rosemary seems the sole perfect fungus host and might not depend on that though.

 

[russident]

Hmm, not sure what you're referring to. Eveline was created in the early noughties and lived without a center until 2014. Miranda was with her in Munich the whole time, too.

Rosemary differs from Eveline only in that she underwent embryonic development in a natural environment, and not in an artificial one, so she does not have defects like accelerated growth and involuntary secretion of fungus.

But I agree that fungus and leeches are not the same thing. Although the microorganisms of the Mold absorb and replace the cells until the person becomes a fungus, the fungus still retains the consciousness of the person. At least in the case of Ethan, because Dimitrescu's daughters may be mimicry, according to the file.