Operation raccoon city really was the closest we've been to a legit umbrella game.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4mNEGfwiapQ
Did anybody notice a change in personality between RE2 and the remake? I heard he was more slightly more compassionate towards his men. Although I haven't finished it just yet. I just like the idea of him being the "master chief" of Umbrella.
The "Not a hero" dlc was delayed so long past the due date, I wondered if they changed him to Chris after everyone guessed it was Hunk. The face was such a close enough facsimile it could have worked.
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I was really kinda hoping they would do it too.
(Outbreak's unreleased model looks way different, but its not canon.)
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I wonder if it was really supposed to be Hunk in RE7, would have been cool, but I find it way more likely that Capcom simply fucked up Chris's face, it was the same awkward period where they were still learning how to do faces in the RE engine, same deal with the weird faces of Leon and Claire in RE2 Remake.
Capcom is weird about giving Hunk his own game. It must be one of those bizarro Japanese business culture things where the customer wants thing but the company just refuses to do it for reasons. Just like Final Fantasy 7 remake, no one wanted a FF 7 sequel, they just wanted the same game with updated visuals and improvements to gameplay issues. Or, Capcom not releasing Monster Hunter on consoles and PC until very recently. Or an MMO Pokemon game. Etcetera and etcetera.
The closest we got to a Hunk game was Operation Raccoon City and Umbrella Corps (shudder).
The Japanese, as much as I love them, can be weirdly anal and obstinate in really weird ways sometimes.
When they get it in their head that something has got to be done only one way or something simply can't be done, that's it, they just won't do it no matter how much it would make sense.
I've always been interested in a lot of the concepts in Resident Evil 1.5 in general.
Elza Walker is a really cool and sexy design, but from what I've seen of 1.5 Racoon City and the police station didn't have a "gothic" enough vibe, everything looked more modern and too generic, I can see why they changed gears to give everything more of a unique personality.
However it would be cool to be able to play it just to see what it would have been like.
What I've always been way, way more interested in are the two early versions of RE4, the "fog" and "hookman" ones, I can't complain too much because the changing of RE4 lead to us getting Haunting Ground and I wouldn't want to trade that game, from what I also remember RE4 was originally supposed to be the end of the series and despite it's ups and down I'm glad it kept going, but it's the kind of thing where I would absolutely love to be able to slip into an alternate universe and see what those would have been like had they been completed.
Hell, I'm of the mind that's what the upcoming RE4 remake should be, the remake continuity should be seen as it's own separate timeline and RE4 should be a "what if" showing us to see what the original game would have been like instead of a retelling of the Las Plagas story, of course we know that probably won't happen, but hell, couldn't that still work as some "what if?" spinoff?
From what I understand with RE2 and RE3 Remake you can't necessarily consider them "canon" with the mainline series as there's some contradictions, so why not use that as an opportunity to retell the final showdown with Umbrella and Wesker?