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Dom Cruise said:
That's wild because I was just reading about how 9/11 is supposed to have happened in the RE universe and now there's RE media directly addressing that, but you say they screw the timeline up, are you sure it's supposed to be 2000 and not 2002 maybe?

Maybe they're trying to say the War on Terror started early because of Racoon City, but that doesn't make sense either as there's a big difference between an accident and intentional terrorism.
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You would think it would be bullshiting, but the Penamstan Civil War events happen at October 2000 (I've also checked it again to be sure) and they're claiming it's the first use of bio-terrorism on the world stage since Raccoon City. It's some mind numbing shuffling that I'm surprised no editor pulled the writer aside and give him a hard verbal lashing over this egregious mistake.

Plus if you're a Claire stan, then I've got some bad news for ya.... She's more useless here than in Degeneration. Also she just does is slap one agent, then she gets tased and later on gets strapped to a chair, that's it. That Claire has at the poster? The gun was a bold face lie.
 
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Finished RE4, I'm pretty meh on it overall, it starts off strong and pretty scary, but there are long stretches of the game where it basically isn't even trying to be scary, especially on the island.

I'll check out the remake but this is probably my last time playing the original, I suppose it was worth it to revisit it one last time for old time's sake, but I'm honestly pretty surprised I didn't enjoy the game as much as I thought I would, I feel like a lot of people who still hold the game in legendary status have probably not played it in a while.

Next up I'm going to play the spin off, Umbrella Chronicles, which I've never played before, I have a question and that's can you just play the new scenario or do you have to play the scenarios that are just retellings of the old games?


Rubedo said:
You would think it would be bullshiting, but the Penamstan Civil War events happen at October 2000 (I've also checked it again to be sure) and they're claiming it's the first use of bio-terrorism on the world stage since Raccoon City. It's some mind numbing shuffling that I'm surprised no editor pulled the writer aside and give him a hard verbal lashing over this egregious mistake.

Plus if you're a Claire stan, then I've got some bad news for ya.... She's more useless here than in Degeneration. Also she just does is slap one agent, then she gets tased and later on gets strapped to a chair, that's it. That Claire has at the poster? The gun was a bold face lie.
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That's pretty weird, how hard could it be to remember that 9/11 was in 2001?

Also, the name Penamstan makes me think of Parmistan from the movie Gymkata, yachmalla!
 
Dom Cruise said:
there are long stretches of the game where it basically isn't even trying to be scary, especially on the island.
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The Regenerators really brought that old-school feel back.

But I agree. The Castle is out of sync with the rest. How did we end up in a lava room (shouldn't it melt the concrete?) with fire-breathing dragons and a giant Segway?

The best you can say is that each room has something new and interesting to look at.
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JamesFargo said:
The Regenerators really brought that old-school feel back.

But I agree with your verdict. The Castle is wildly out of sync with the rest. How did we end up in a lava room (shouldn't it melt the concrete?) with fire-breathing dragons and a giant Segway?

The best you can say is that every room has something new and interesting to look at.

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The Regenerators are fun to fight, but you don't really encounter all that many of them, the island is when killing the ganados really gets old and outside of the the Regenerators and that one weird moment in a prison type area with the moving body bag, the game drops any pretense of being a horror game.

By the end of the game I had killed almost a thousand enemies, which is kind of absurd for a Resident Evil game in my opinion, nothing dulls horror like repetition.

And there's too much wacky stuff that while entertaining in a vacuum, creates a big inconsistency tonally from the other games, another weird inconsistency is the idea that Wesker would want to "restore" Umbrella, Wesker never gave a shit about Umbrella, he was always just using them as a means to an end and by Code Veronica had joined a rival company, the HCF, whatever happened to that?
 
Dom Cruise said:
By the end of the game I had killed almost a thousand enemies
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A speedrun or no-damage playthrough will net 300-500 kills.
another weird inconsistency is the idea that Wesker would want to "restore" Umbrella
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I could be wrong, but Neo Umbrella was a misnomer, anyway. Wesker was barely involved in it, he's only interested in the plaga; and Carla is a doomsday cultist with no profit motive.
 
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JamesFargo said:
A speedrun or no-damage playthrough will net 300-500 kills. Shit is bananas.


"Neo Umbrella" sounds like a fanfic rewrite, rather than a lasting threat to carry the series forward. Neo means new, duh!

I could be wrong, but Neo Umbrella was a misnomer, anyway. Wesker was barely involved in it, he's only interested in the plaga; and Carla is a doomsday cultist with no profit motive.
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It's weird because they were already teasing the idea of another villain group beyond Umbrella with the HCF, so why make Wesker an Umbrella Stan all of a sudden?
 
Dom Cruise said:
It's weird because they were already teasing the idea of another villain group beyond Umbrella with the HCF, so why make Wesker an Umbrella Stan all of a sudden?
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Plot convenience? Or more likely a mistranslation.

Per Reddit:
Kenichi Iwao wrote Wesker in BIO1 as an elitist anti-humanist. He loathed humanity and human nature. He used Umbrella and Spencer... This particular plot is hinted at by Wesker in BIO1's original Japanese script when he says "The Tyrant Virus has the power to create life surpassing Homo-sapiens." This line is missing in the English version. This is why his forced evolution scheme in BIO5 seemed sudden.

For a better perspective and a representative example of Wesker's vision prior to meeting Spencer in 2006, play Parasite Eve 2. The director and writer of that game was Kenichi Iwao, who recycled Wesker's scheme... The game even uses the same plan Wesker always intended, to develop a virus and disperse it via global winds... According to Iwao, had he wrote BIO2 as intended before he left CAPCOM prior to development, Wesker would have survived and taken control of a small country (in the official story now, he took control of Umbrella's rival company) using the t-Virus and Tyrant embryo as a trump card against nations, companies, and Umbrella. In the end, the projection of Wesker's character in the series has deviated little from Iwao's original vision.
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Rubedo said:
Skip watching Infinite Darkness. It's straight dogshit, even if the Netflix branding isn't obvious enough.

I can't go into full details just yet without turning this whole post into a rant, but I can say it's plays out like a fanfic Renny Harlin movie that goes zero to retarded fast that goes into a fast pace while skipping developing any plot or atmosphere that it hates what it is and wants to get itself over immediately. To the point where it becomes unbearingly predictable about the plot that expects you to completely bash your head in until it stops functioning as well not having any knowledge of the series in general. Granted, it has moments of great visuals, interesting scenes that should go to a more better series, and kinda pretty to look at.

But do not watch this, do not watch this at all. It's trash, it's garbage, you'll be losing brain cells like in the Paul W.S. Anderson movies.
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But I love the Paul Anderson movies! Fuck it I saw everything except vendetta, so im gonna give it a look tonight.


I kinda wish those films got their own game. Could have been a good alternate ending to the franchise or cover the five years between Apocalypse and extinction.

The games imported a version of the red queen, the laser hallway and all the physical necksnapping action, but I dont think the franchise has ever seriously entertained the idea of an AU work.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Finished RE4, I'm pretty meh on it overall, it starts off strong and pretty scary, but there are long stretches of the game where it basically isn't even trying to be scary, especially on the island.
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I'd say the beginning is incredible, but knowing where the series went in regards to action shlock and QTEs I can see the festering problems with the late-game. RE4's loop works as an action remix of the RE formula (complete with the President's daughter and her big tits ballistics) but it was a quickly evaporating well. I got into the series with RE2make, yet almost dropped it a year later thanks to RE3make. I liked the puzzle box/resource management aspects of 2make, so REmake was recommended next. Not a fan of the tank controls, but after absorbing the first few rooms I'd have to say it's worth it, for both the framing and visuals. The mansion rooms are varied, packed with detail, and have great lighting/shadows. Above all the atmosphere is truly something else, and the characters in it are as down to earth as they'll ever get for Resident Evil.
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Dom Cruise said:
That's pretty weird, how hard could it be to remember that 9/11 was in 2001?

Also, the name Penamstan makes me think of Parmistan from the movie Gymkata, yachmalla!
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Netflix, besides identity politics must have that good kind of cocaine or crank.

Penamstan however is just another renaming for Afghanistan, like how Edonia's a stand-in for Serbia and Kijuju's a stand-in for Ghana or Nigeria. So why stop a trend to avoid pissing off foreign countries, right?
 
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Started up Umbrella Chronicles, while it is kind of dumb to turn these games into House of The Dead style shooters, which kind of anticipates the dumb direction Japanese developers and publishers had started to take around this time, the game is admittedly pretty fun.

It looks like you do have to play through all the other scenarios first though before the all new one is available, but that's fine, what I expected and and I probably would have wanted to play the whole game anyway.

One thing that's funny that I noticed is in the Zero scenario you only see old man Marcus, so evidently someone thought his young version was too goofy.


Lone MacReady said:
I'd say the beginning is incredible, but knowing where the series went in regards to action shlock and QTEs I can see the festering problems with the late-game. RE4's loop works as an action remix of the RE formula (complete with the President's daughter and her big tits ballistics) but it was a quickly evaporating well. I got into the series with RE2make, yet almost dropped it a year later thanks to RE3make. I liked the puzzle box/resource management aspects of 2make, so REmake was recommended next. Not a fan of the tank controls, but after absorbing the first few rooms I'd have to say it's worth it, for both the framing and visuals. The mansion rooms are varied, packed with detail, and have great lighting/shadows. Above all the atmosphere is truly something else, and the characters in it are as down to earth as they'll ever get for Resident Evil.
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Glad to hear you're onboard with this series, hope you enjoy, my advice is after you're done with REmake, check out RE0.

Scarlett Johansson said:
Aw damn so the

I'm being genuine when I say that I really hope she comes back for more games and becomes a regular tbh. At least by nemesis standards tho not her chasing you.
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I hope she comes back too and honestly the whole thing with "crystalized remains" seems like Capcom giving themselves a way to do just that, after all, if Rose could come back from crystal form, why not the 4 lords?
 
Lone MacReady said:
I liked the puzzle box/resource management aspects of 2make, so REmake was recommended next. Not a fan of the tank controls,
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If you're playing with a controller, go into settings and change the controls to Type E (Set to Original, not Alt). Puts 'move forward' on the right trigger and attack on one of the face buttons. Tank controls become a lot better when it's just car controls that rotates in place.
 
JamesFargo said:
Not to be a dick, but weren't you the guy who passionately defended Star Trek: Nemesis? 🤔

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Yes. Ill admit part of the reason I like it so much is it was one of the earliest movies I saw when I was younger, but I still think it holds up pretty well. Legit still baffled at the hate it gets, kinda reminds me of how I feel on the star wars prequels.

But Paul Anderson movies? Oh I totally get why people hate that shit. It's a fanfic tier plot crossed with explosions and bollywood effects. It's just that I happened to have a soft spot for that kind of movie. Especially now that most shitty films these days make it look like Shakespeare in comparison. It's not even close as annoying as bayformers, and it doesn't feel like a lecturing feminist franchise. (until the final chapter sadly)

They have flaws, but the first 5 movies honestly work as decent popcorn flicks. They just botched the final chapter so badly id recommend stopping at the 3rd or 4th movie.

They are stupid and over the top, but they line up with RE 4 - 6's tone more then people would like to admit.
 
Regarding Lady D coming back for future games: I highly doubt it, but considering this is Resident Evil we're talking about, technically anything is possible.

On that note, Heisenberg's VA Neil Newbon apparently let it slip (I'm assuming on Twitch) that he's going to be appearing in DLC. I hear he also made a comment about Heisenberg still being alive somehow, and - if true - when you remember the Duke's comment about "feeling his essence" flowing through his crystal remains, this does open the door to some possibilities regarding the lords in general. Take this all with a grain of salt, of course, but I think it's some interesting food for thought regardless.
 
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