Resident Evil - Virgin Vampire Wine Mom vs Chad Magnetic Lebowski

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Wasn't that the backstory in the SD Perry novel? I thought Jill was always ex-Delta Force, of all things, in spite of being a woman and in her early 20s. I was just referring to the characterization in the OG game. From what I understand it was her dad Dick Valentine (lol) who was a thief and taught her to pick locks. The novel had her be an accomplice to him. Honestly, not a bad idea. Still, Chris and Jill were accomplished military guys I suspect purely because the Japanese turbonerds had no idea what would be an "Average" firearms handler knowledge, and they had to use a lot of guns expertly throughout the game. The novels don't seem to be canon. There's a Tyrant that's just a T-rex. Almost 20 years of foresight regarding Simmons...
I could of sworn that it was from the first game's manual. It's been a while though so I'll admit I could be very wrong about their backstories.

Capcom should still be slapped for continually re-doing them until they're both basically shonen characters.

S.T.A.R.S in general makes no god damn sense as an American special unit, because the average American cop is already a firearms expert, and trained to deal with threats involving firearms. Again, an era before the widespread of the internet, plus how firearms were in Japan, meant they wanted to cover their bases on "Yeah, this guy and girl can just grab any sort of weapon and operate it without a hitch, and with remarkable accuracy" because, well, the average Japanese dude wouldn't know the first thing about a firearm. They'd probably struggle to take the safety off. Meanwhile Chris and Jill are canonically good enough that they both got through the whole Mansion Incident without getting touched once. That probably involved a lot of shooting. A Japanese cop drawing their gun would reliably make the news. Meanwhile, in America...
I always chalked it up to S.T.A.R.S. being the RE universe's version of SWAT or something like that and Japan not really having an idea of what American polices forces are like.
 
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Fuck me, the second lot of Merc stages don't fuck around.
Just use the pistol or fully upgraded pistol since the upgrades transfer from the start of the mission to the end. They're based around being able to upgrade the weapons.

The knife spam also works well.
 
I beat it a few days ago and loved it. I can't say I'm upset that dimitrescu didn't get focuse since it should've been obvious to the people hyping her that she ain't the centerpiece since she barely had a presence or plot relevancy other than marketing and i don't blame capcom for this one since they didn't think she would've gotten so popular. At least the advertisment isn't deceptive like tlou2's.
Those wondering why she gets hyped up despite being killed off earlier compared to all the other Lords should remember that they pretty much hyped her up once they saw her enter a doorway that showed her height. Before that reveal I can't even remember anyone going apeshit for her when she and her daughters were first revealed. Not to mention, she did have importance as an antagonist figure since she does have a key item you have to get and she answers directly to Mother Miranda.

All I am gonna say about this thread rn is: Donna Beneviento (doll lady) > Lady Dimitrescu( tall vampire lady)
While people simp for tall vampire lady, I just wanna note with Heisenberg. He literally resembles the Dude.
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Not to mention, he had a much better boss fight than everyone else with Mother Miranda coming in second.
 
In all seriousness, is the game worth the price or not? Because I'm considering getting it once my new computer gets here and it'd be my first RE game.
If you could emulate I'd say play 1 or 2 and see if you like that kind of "here's some shoddy action gameplay, now here's some puzzles but the action could come back annnnny time now~." If you end up being good at the game and replay it there's some quirks to the runs that get you unlocks and different feels to the runs, but it may fall flat with you. Watch some letsplays first.
 
I'm not sure if the Duke being one a genuinely compelling character is a testament to his personality, or a damnation of how shallow everyone else has been this year.
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Don't mind me, just posting two absolute chads enjoying a meal.
In a game full of enemies united to harm you, it's strangely compelling that this man who shouldn't be able to outrun you is always one step ahead, and the enemy alliance doesn't(can't?) stop him from helping you. He has the same appeal as the Genie from Aladdin; a weird, jolly character that deeply impacts the main character's ability to complete their role in the story, but intentionally doesn't steal focus from Ethan.

It's also a treat that the game tries to explain away all the supernatural shit like the daughters being hives of bugs with journal entries, or how the Cadou interact with the Mold, but the Duke is the one character where they "show but don't tell" when he's also the one thing not trying to kill you.
 
Wasn't that the backstory in the SD Perry novel? I thought Jill was always ex-Delta Force, of all things, in spite of being a woman and in her early 20s. I was just referring to the characterization in the OG game. From what I understand it was her dad Dick Valentine (lol) who was a thief and taught her to pick locks. The novel had her be an accomplice to him. Honestly, not a bad idea. Still, Chris and Jill were accomplished military guys I suspect purely because the Japanese turbonerds had no idea what would be an "Average" firearms handler knowledge, and they had to use a lot of guns expertly throughout the game. The novels don't seem to be canon. There's a Tyrant that's just a T-rex. Almost 20 years of foresight regarding Simmons...

S.T.A.R.S in general makes no god damn sense as an American special unit, because the average American cop is already a firearms expert, and trained to deal with threats involving firearms. Again, an era before the widespread of the internet, plus how firearms were in Japan, meant they wanted to cover their bases on "Yeah, this guy and girl can just grab any sort of weapon and operate it without a hitch, and with remarkable accuracy" because, well, the average Japanese dude wouldn't know the first thing about a firearm. They'd probably struggle to take the safety off. Meanwhile Chris and Jill are canonically good enough that they both got through the whole Mansion Incident without getting touched once. That probably involved a lot of shooting. A Japanese cop drawing their gun would reliably make the news. Meanwhile, in America...

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But I figure nobody knew this back then.

If S.T.A.R.S were Japanese, they would be completely reasonable. It's a special firearms squad that has received training and equipment to deal with other firearms threats. Basically a Japenese swat/counterterrorism team. The police inspiration carried on in the series: Hunk was given remarkably riot-like armor, a gasmask, and submachineguns. They straight up gave him an MP5 in Re2make, one of the main weapons of Japanese firearm squads.

Anyway, they eventually caught on, because Leon is just a rookie cop and can operate whatever he finds with no issue, and Claire is a civilian who was taken to the shooting range once or twice by Chris and she's comfortable enough to run around with grenades tucked in her unitard pockets.

As an aside, Jill Valentine was Delta Force before Martin Walker from Spec Ops: The Line. And Richard Pearsley, the guy who wrote The Line ended up writing Resident Evil 7. Funny little connection there.

And honestly, I'm just happy we didn't get the alternate timeline where S.T.A.R.S were all cyborgs.

EDIT: Yeah, Re5 Mercs is fun, but just doesn't live up to 4's Mercs. The different loadouts were fun and the different melee and playable characters was fun enough that I've done Barry main caimpaign playthroughs and thoroughly enjoyed them. But they're all the same dude with different guns and melee in the end. Even the odd one out, Wesker, just gets a sprint and a special finicky as hell melee. Meanwhile in RE4, Leon and Ada are "normal", you get a Rambo dude with sick melee, a deadly bow and an instakill swordarm, a dude who goes around snapping three necks per second and basically flash-stepping through the battlefield, and a guy who can gently tap someone on the chest and send them flying across the room.

They really keep phoning it in with the whole different playable characters in recent times. Everyone just has Leon's/Claire's animations, but different pain grunts and huffing sounds, and a different loadout. That's basically a model swap. You could slap Leon's model over Kendo in his special minigame and absolutely nothing would change. Meanwhile, over on PS2, Krauser had unique animations for almost everything, and every Outbreak character had their own walk and run cycle. Even the Outbreak NPCs had unique stats.
Regarding S.T.A.R.S, I always just assumed that they were intentionally formed to test the capabilities of the shit they were developing at the mansion
 
Fat people: *EXIST*
Game journalists:

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That's just it: Duke is a fatshaming trope because he EATS.
Notice they are the ones calling him disgusting when the gamers mostly love him. Do these faggots want representation or not?

Edit: "Nonbinary Erotic Artist"
Why am I reading this
 
Those wondering why she gets hyped up despite being killed off earlier compared to all the other Lords should remember that they pretty much hyped her up once they saw her enter a doorway that showed her height. Before that reveal I can't even remember anyone going apeshit for her when she and her daughters were first revealed. Not to mention, she did have importance as an antagonist figure since she does have a key item you have to get and she answers directly to Mother Miranda.


While people simp for tall vampire lady, I just wanna note with Heisenberg. He literally resembles the Dude.
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Not to mention, he had a much better boss fight than everyone else with Mother Miranda coming in second.
Yeah, I also forgot about Heissenberg. I think everyone from this could agree about the fact that both Heissenberg and Donna are better than tall lady vampire.
I know how does Donna look, you don't have to remind to everyone here about this. I mean everyone can easily find this image of Donna.
 
Fat people: *EXIST*
Game journalists:

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That's just it: Duke is a fatshaming trope because he EATS.
Notice they are the ones calling him disgusting when the gamers mostly love him. Do these faggots want representation or not?

Edit: "Nonbinary Erotic Artist"
Why am I reading this
-Groan- Leave it to those people to find something to REEE at where there's absolutely nothing to REEE at. Fuck me. Here we go:

First: Another merchant in RE? Yes, please. He's loaded, he pays you money so you can make your weapons into killing machines and he will even cook you meals, for free, if you just put in the legwork hunting animals for him. I don't know if this fat erotic artist guy cooks, but cooking for someone is special, and it's great for bonding. Gustavo Fring chose to cook dinner for Walter. Granted, it backfired a little bit, but Gustavo Fring is rarely wrong, come on.

I'm not really a big fan of hunting myself, even in videogames, but when it comes down to brass tacks, it's a bunch of 1s and 0s standing in your way. Just kill your suspension of disbelief and you're good. And this is coming from a dude who would massacre entire cities and gangs of bounty hunters in Red Dead 2 but always, always, ALWAYS spare the hounds.

Second: I don't fucking understand how you're looking at the Duke to think he's just good for a cheap laugh. Ethan, a man significantly younger, fitter, and given superpowers because he ate a moldy slice of gouda once is having just the HARDEST time surviving this rough environment, at least if you picked Hardcore, and meanwhile the Duke is walking around like he's at a random starbucks. Pretty much unopposed. The zombies and lycans either don't give a fuck about him (Doubtful since they eat people) or, more likely, he eats them for breakfast. As opposed to The Merchant in 4 who was just more or less implied to be infected with a dominant plaga like Saddler and therefore safe amongst Ganados, the basic enemies have no reason to ignore the Duke at all. Vampire Mommy literally thinks so highly of him as a merchant that she doesn't turn him into weenie rolls when he starts blatantly playing both sides with Ethan, who has just killed her daughters and stolen most of her shit to sell to the Duke, who will in turn arm Ethan even harder and make him even more of a threat. Again, just to reiterate: Lady Dimitrescu doesn't think killing A LITERAL TRAITOR, IN THE PROCESS OF BETRAYING HER RIGHT NOW, IN HER LITERAL BACK YARD, is a wise move. What even IS the Duke? Is he just a cunning merchant or is he some sort of super monster? Or just that good in a fight, in all his chubby Humpty-Dumpty-like shape? None of the other lords seem to come after him either... No amount of good business would be worth not killing the man arming a dude out to murder you. It's more than likely than the Duke is actually really scary. Hell, if you throw Pipe Bombs at him all you'll make him do is cough. He's a lot more mysterious and less straightforward than the Merchant ever was. You can pretty much think anything you want about him. (And what this dude chooses to think is HE FAT N UGGO REE, because of course.)

Third: Without just spoiling the living crap out of the ending, although I think most of us know already, the Duke is... Really, really smart. Almost precogniscent. And the implications are that it's just a hunch he's got and chooses to act on against logic. Even Chris admits that he should have explained the plan to Ethan, and his soldiers get on his case about it. The Duke never failed Ethan. He was loyal, reliable, and an invaluable ally to the very end of the story. I'll just say this: The Duke is so instrumental in the end, without him things would have more likely than not ended in a lot more casualties and a chopped up Rosemary quickly snorted by Mother Miranda before Chris could get in there and Boulder Punch her to mush.

TL;DR: My guy, the Duke is MUCH more than just a fat dude. Yeah, he likes food. That's how he got so fat. He's heroic, reliable, Ethan's truest and most steadfast ally, outclassing even Chris, and taking away just that "HE'S FAT AND NOT ATTRACTIVE REEEEE" is the most surface level judgment you could possibly make. You're the one who fails to look deeper than the flab. Fat people can have a lot more to their identity than "They look fat and therefore weird". Well, unless they're Amberlynn Reid.

Leave it to this crowd to see a cool fat guy in Japanese media and REEE about it. Where's my complain post about how Bob from Tekken is not sufficiently cool/handsome/ambiguously gendered for a fat guy?
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Vampire Mommy literally thinks so highly of him as a merchant that she doesn't turn him into weenie rolls when he starts blatantly playing both sides with Ethan, who has just killed her daughters and stolen most of her shit to sell to the Duke, who will in turn arm Ethan even harder and make him even more of a threat. Again, just to reiterate: Lady Dimitrescu doesn't think killing A LITERAL TRAITOR, IN THE PROCESS OF BETRAYING HER RIGHT NOW, IN HER LITERAL BACK YARD, is a wise move.
I'm watching a playthrough, and when Lady D's doing her whole Tyrant bit in her castle, you can huddle in a room with The Duke inside, and completely ghost her. Works well given that the room is right next to a puzzle that she "perpetually" hounds and hangs around.
 
-Groan- Leave it to those people to find something to REEE at where there's absolutely nothing to REEE at. Fuck me. Here we go:

First: Another merchant in RE? Yes, please. He's loaded, he pays you money so you can make your weapons into killing machines and he will even cook you meals, for free, if you just put in the legwork hunting animals for him. I don't know if this fat erotic artist guy cooks, but cooking for someone is special, and it's great for bonding. Gustavo Fring chose to cook dinner for Walter. Granted, it backfired a little bit, but Gustavo Fring is rarely wrong, come on.

I'm not really a big fan of hunting myself, even in videogames, but when it comes down to brass tacks, it's a bunch of 1s and 0s standing in your way. Just kill your suspension of disbelief and you're good. And this is coming from a dude who would massacre entire cities and gangs of bounty hunters in Red Dead 2 but always, always, ALWAYS spare the hounds.

Second: I don't fucking understand how you're looking at the Duke to think he's just good for a cheap laugh. Ethan, a man significantly younger, fitter, and given superpowers because he ate a moldy slice of gouda once is having just the HARDEST time surviving this rough environment, at least if you picked Hardcore, and meanwhile the Duke is walking around like he's at a random starbucks. Pretty much unopposed. The zombies and lycans either don't give a fuck about him (Doubtful since they eat people) or, more likely, he eats them for breakfast. As opposed to The Merchant in 4 who was just more or less implied to be infected with a dominant plaga like Saddler and therefore safe amongst Ganados, the basic enemies have no reason to ignore the Duke at all. Vampire Mommy literally thinks so highly of him as a merchant that she doesn't turn him into weenie rolls when he starts blatantly playing both sides with Ethan, who has just killed her daughters and stolen most of her shit to sell to the Duke, who will in turn arm Ethan even harder and make him even more of a threat. Again, just to reiterate: Lady Dimitrescu doesn't think killing A LITERAL TRAITOR, IN THE PROCESS OF BETRAYING HER RIGHT NOW, IN HER LITERAL BACK YARD, is a wise move. What even IS the Duke? Is he just a cunning merchant or is he some sort of super monster? Or just that good in a fight, in all his chubby Humpty-Dumpty-like shape? None of the other lords seem to come after him either... No amount of good business would be worth not killing the man arming a dude out to murder you. It's more than likely than the Duke is actually really scary. Hell, if you throw Pipe Bombs at him all you'll make him do is cough. He's a lot more mysterious and less straightforward than the Merchant ever was. You can pretty much think anything you want about him. (And what this dude chooses to think is HE FAT N UGGO REE, because of course.)

Third: Without just spoiling the living crap out of the ending, although I think most of us know already, the Duke is... Really, really smart. Almost precogniscent. And the implications are that it's just a hunch he's got and chooses to act on against logic. Even Chris admits that he should have explained the plan to Ethan, and his soldiers get on his case about it. The Duke never failed Ethan. He was loyal, reliable, and an invaluable ally to the very end of the story. I'll just say this: The Duke is so instrumental in the end, without him things would have more likely than not ended in a lot more casualties and a chopped up Rosemary quickly snorted by Mother Miranda before Chris could get in there and Boulder Punch her to mush.

TL;DR: My guy, the Duke is MUCH more than just a fat dude. Yeah, he likes food. That's how he got so fat. He's heroic, reliable, Ethan's truest and most steadfast ally, outclassing even Chris, and taking away just that "HE'S FAT AND NOT ATTRACTIVE REEEEE" is the most surface level judgment you could possibly make. You're the one who fails to look deeper than the flab. Fat people can have a lot more to their identity than "They look fat and therefore weird". Well, unless they're Amberlynn Reid.

Leave it to this crowd to see a cool fat guy in Japanese media and REEE about it. Where's my complain post about how Bob from Tekken is not sufficiently cool/handsome/ambiguously gendered for a fat guy?
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I hate fighting Bob but he is funny as fuck. The part in 7’s story mode where he falls through the stage and where Paul and Law run away from Feng in sheer fucking terror are the only good parts of that game’s story mode.
 
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