Will resident evil 5 make a big impact?

[Raimego]

I saw the trailer for Resident Evil 5, it looks awsome, chris redfield is the main character you play as in the game.RE5 is going to be on the Ps3. What's your opinion on #5 in the Resident Evil series?Will it make a big impact?

[Glitch4.0]

well, if its anything like Resident evil 4, it will be huge, buuuut if its like the classic Resident Evil 1, 2, or 3 then there might not be, i mean the game play was awesome back in the ps1 era but now is the new age and old style game play wont cut it

[Marie2007]

yeah I think it will

[-Batman-]

well, if its anything like Resident evil 4, it will be huge, buuuut if its like the classic Resident Evil 1, 2, or 3 then there might not be, i mean the game play was awesome back in the ps1 era but now is the new age and old style game play wont cut it

The old style gameplay was a lot better. RE 4 felt more like an action movie rather than a survival horror game. And i hope they improve the targeting system if it is like RE4...

BTW, it will also be on the 360. My boy Redfield looked awsome too, I'll have my copy reserved first day they start taking them.

[Fruits Basket Girl]

Yes, I can't wait till it comes! ^^

[AnimeLegend!713]

I saw the trailer for Resident Evil 5, it looks awsome, chris redfield is the main character you play as in the game.RE5 is going to be on the Ps3. What's your opinion on #5 in the Resident Evil series?Will it make a big impact?

DUH!Corey,you out of all people should know it should make a big impact.It is the best horror game there is.

[Darth Tyranus]

For the record that is not chris it's a new character. And there has been NO conformation on which system it will be made for.

[-Batman-]

The system has been confirmed. It's for both Xbox 360, and PS3. Any game site you go on will have it under both PS3, and 360.

And it IS Chris Redfield. they didn't confirm it as Redfield...this is true, however they never confirmed it as a new character either. You have to admit, he does look a lot like Chris. And it WILL most likly be him...look at the game patterns(of the important games)

RE1- Chris and Jill
RE2- Leon and Claire
RE3-Jill has her own game
CV: Claire has her own game
RE4: Leon's own game


Than theres RE5. Chris has yet to have his own game out of the 4 main playables from the first two games, and it would only make sense to give him one. He's the only character of major importance besides wesker who HASN'T had his own game. all we saw of chris outside of RE1 was a bout 15-25 minutes of playtime in RE:CV.

Even if it hasn't been confirmed as Chris...it's still the most logical choice.

[Darth Tyranus]

this is true, however they never confirmed it as a new character either

It's a new character they said it was on ign, and by not confirmed i meant that we don't know all the systems it's coming out for.

Even if it hasn't been confirmed as Chris...it's still the most logical choice.

Using your random *** arbitrary logic then yeah it HAS to be chris.

[-Batman-]

*sigh* Unlike Cloud...i won't sit here and bicker for five pages, we can just wait for more information. At the present time theres only bits and peices, so arguing is pointless.

[Darth Tyranus]

What's to bicker about i have seen on several web sites that it ISN'T chris.

[MistaCloudStrife]

While the appearance of the mystery character may be incredibly detailed, his actual identity is not. Many speculate that the character is Chris Redfield, the hero from the original Resident Evil. Takeuchi avoided revealing the character's identity, but did mention that the core developers of RE5 include members of the original RE team, and that the character is someone that the developers are fond of.

When told that the unshaven man looked a bit too old to be Mr. Redfield, Takeuchi said that the Resident Evil timeline has continued on, and the hardware capabilities of the next-generation consoles are finally allowing characters to look as old as they're supposed to. According to Takeuchi, his staff hasn't accurately represented the age of characters in previous games due to the limited performance of the platforms.

And blah blah... More info...

Also Redfield... you forgot Zero in that list above...

[-Batman-]

i know i forgot Zero, but i forgot it because it wasn't of importance. REzero was just a side story.

[Darth Tyranus]

For the record i really DID read that it wasn't chris on 1UP or ign but that was some time ago.

[MistaCloudStrife]

i know i forgot Zero, but i forgot it because it wasn't of importance. REzero was just a side story.

Sure... Even though it's the prequel to the main game... Sure...

REzero isn't important to the series like "The Hobbit" isn't important to "LotR"...

[-Batman-]

tell me...if resident evil zero was so important, than why did it take them a total of three major sequals to make it. They could have realesed it on the PSone, with no problem. But they didn't.
Resident Evil zero wasn't that important at all, It was just a fun little extra to learn a little more about Rebbecca, and a few storyline details. The storyline wasn't that thrilling, and the gameplay proved to me once and for all that Rebbecca was a useless character, who's only real skill is climbing into small things. Rebbecca is usless as a medic as well, seeing as how every other character can combine the same herbs she can.
Now apart from my little rant on a useless plot device...the reason why this game holds little importance to the main story.

Did you ever hear Rebecca mention, even once, that whole incident in REzero at any point in time during the first RE? no...why you ask? Because it didn't matter. If they wanted to, they could have incorperated that info as part of the remake, let her blurt something out, anything. Even a random file on the floor of the mansion with one sentence saying
" Training facility 4//ichy...tasty"
Would have been enough. They were making REzero back on the N64, but never finished because the N64's controller didn't allow it. They did however have a story that took place before resident evil, so why not bring it up? at all no less? no mention of it in the remake what-so-ever(when they still had the REzero story YEARS before), you never hear from billy again (hey...maybe the RE5 character ISN'T chris...it might be Billy...this just dawned on me) and notice how rebbecca isn't wearing billys tags in the RE remake. If i recall she took his tags from him,and wore them around her neck.

If capcom really wanted REzero to be of importance, they would have incorperated it into the story. RE, RE2, and RE3 are important because they are all mentioned in later games (att least some of the events) But show me a resident evil game that mentions that tiny little train, and the training facility?

I could go into MORE detail on why Resident Evil Zero is not that important to the series, and that we could live without it, but not atm. It was just a fun little EXTRA, and an excuse for Capcom to make a resident evil game where you control 2 character at once so they could see if it would fail or not. I'm not saying the game itself was bad, i did like it. What i am saying is that it served no importance to the main story line.

RE1
RE2
RE3
RE:Code Veronica
and RE4 to some extents

Those are the important ones.

[Darth Tyranus]

Yeah zero is about as important as survivor or gaiden.

[Alien Sinn]

I sure hope RE5 is a hit. And it better have something scary in it. Unless it's just me Resident Evil 4 was dull, the big thing about the 'Survival HORROR' genre is that it is supposed to have HORROR. RE4 didn't have any of that. The things that made me anxious were if something was going to attack me. Something gets a little too close and they grab you! O_O Ack that is maybe the most anxiety I get from it. Because of the turning around and running away. And RE5 better finally get some good voice actors. For once. Needs more weapons, more interaction with the enviornment and more characters! Leon was cool but he's just one guy.... with Rocket Propelled Grenades in an atache case. Yeah....

The one major thing Resident Evil 5 needs mainly is more horrific stuff. 4 was a sad excuse for a survival horror!!!!! game.

[Darth Tyranus]

Most games aren't scarry, you want scarry watch a movie. But don't crap all over a great game.

[-Batman-]

Resident Evil was never scary...you may get surprised when something jumps out at you randomly, but thats about it.

[Darth Tyranus]

No game is scarry as far as I'm concerned.

[MistaCloudStrife]

tell me...if resident evil zero was so important, than why did it take them a total of three major sequals to make it. They could have realesed it on the PSone, with no problem. But they didn't.
Resident Evil zero wasn't that important at all, It was just a fun little extra to learn a little more about Rebbecca, and a few storyline details. The storyline wasn't that thrilling, and the gameplay proved to me once and for all that Rebbecca was a useless character, who's only real skill is climbing into small things. Rebbecca is usless as a medic as well, seeing as how every other character can combine the same herbs she can.
Now apart from my little rant on a useless plot device...the reason why this game holds little importance to the main story.

Did you ever hear Rebecca mention, even once, that whole incident in REzero at any point in time during the first RE? no...why you ask? Because it didn't matter. If they wanted to, they could have incorperated that info as part of the remake, let her blurt something out, anything. Even a random file on the floor of the mansion with one sentence saying
" Training facility 4//ichy...tasty"
Would have been enough. They were making REzero back on the N64, but never finished because the N64's controller didn't allow it. They did however have a story that took place before resident evil, so why not bring it up? at all no less? no mention of it in the remake what-so-ever(when they still had the REzero story YEARS before), you never hear from billy again (hey...maybe the RE5 character ISN'T chris...it might be Billy...this just dawned on me) and notice how rebbecca isn't wearing billys tags in the RE remake. If i recall she took his tags from him,and wore them around her neck.

If capcom really wanted REzero to be of importance, they would have incorperated it into the story. RE, RE2, and RE3 are important because they are all mentioned in later games (att least some of the events) But show me a resident evil game that mentions that tiny little train, and the training facility?

I could go into MORE detail on why Resident Evil Zero is not that important to the series, and that we could live without it, but not atm. It was just a fun little EXTRA, and an excuse for Capcom to make a resident evil game where you control 2 character at once so they could see if it would fail or not. I'm not saying the game itself was bad, i did like it. What i am saying is that it served no importance to the main story line.

RE1
RE2
RE3
RE:Code Veronica
and RE4 to some extents

Those are the important ones.

First of all... They didn't scrap RE0 on N64 because of the N64 controller... It was because the N64 was already getting old and newer gen consoles were being created... (Next after N64... GC! Of course.)

And it may have been pretty insignificant compared to some REs... But it did reveal some things the other REs didn't...

It explains how the T-Virus was spread around the mansion...

It explains a bit about how Umbrella was established...

It also tells you what happened to Kevin Dewey... A pilot for the Bravo team...

It also has a bit of information/people that could be used in future Resident Evil games... Such as... Billy, like you said before... and the G-Virus.. Something stronger than the T-Virus...



Anyways... I'm not a RE pro... I'd have to check with MsAeris about anything else I might have missed...

[Darth Tyranus]

and the G-Virus

Anyways... I'm not a RE pro

Clearly since that plot point came in to play in resident evil 2 many years prior. 0 was a mediocre game the had pretty much no important details concering the story as a whole, and it shoe horned wesker and berkins in to make some kind of connection to the other games.

[-Batman-]

Yes,and we knew about the G-Virus by RE2 cloud...which means we knew about it for several years before Zero came out(thank MR Birkin for that) And the controller was one of the reasons (notice i said ONE OF, not THE reason). Resident evil Zero for the cube made us eof both joystick in order for both characters to move at one time. Lets count how many joysticks we have on the N64 controller.



I count one
They could have made it to format that controller, however it would not have played smoothly, and it would have been confusing as hell to work.

As for finding out who spread the T-Virus, that too could have easily been placed in yet another random document, or character dialoge with Wesker. Wesker seems to know more than God himself, so why not?

You learn plenty about Umbrellas establishment throughout the series, and a lot of it in Code Veronica. You also learn a lot about it if you Read the book series (By S.D. Perry)

as for Kevins death, who really cared. He was just a random character in the first game who flew in Bravo team. We could have gone without knowing anything about him, or what he looked like before his eyes were clawed from his skull.

As for new people that could be used in later resident evil games. Last i checked the only new characters of importance that lived at the end of Zero were Rebecca, Billy, Wesker, and Birkin, The rest were dead. The only one of those people we didn't know of before the original RE (in birkins case RE2) was Billy...Grant it he was cool and everything, but we it's not like the series would fall to peices without him.

And darth, i can't agree with your statement more. It was a useless game, although i did sort of like it, there were other games in the series that were better.

Really...It's not like REzero was important. Try looking at it like this.

Resident evil-skip Resident Evil 2- Resident evil 3- Code Veronica...

Now if RE2 was skipped, by the time we get to code veronica and resident evil 4, everything is confusing. People would be saying "Claire/Leon? who the hell is that"
This shows RE2's importance.

Now we skip REzero...wait, we did do this since the first RE game came out, all the way up untill november 2002.

Skipping RE1, or 2 would be bad, because those directly impact future games and characters.

RE zero however served no importance, because even if we skip it, and all opf the events in it, Resident Evil STILL makes sense, aside from this

"How was the virus spread?"

But like i said, this could be answerd in one random doc.

This was all just a calrification of what you said yourself, in your own post.

Resident evil zero is INSIGNIFICANT.

[MistaCloudStrife]

Yeah, they could have also put random documents stating all the important stuff in other REs... But that wouldn't be very fun...

And you could play any of the series without playing the others and it would make sense... I could play RE4 right now and get whats happening thruout the whole game... But if I played RE2 I would understand more of whats happening.. Its the same with RE0...

They do the same thing in Star Wars...

4-6 first.. You get whats happening...

but if you watch 1-3 and rewatch 4-6 you'll get a better understanding...

Thats how prequels work.

Another example... The Exorcist. Same thing...