Uncategorised Resident Evil Outrage
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According to notorious leaker Dusk Golem\Aesthetic Gamer, Outrage is actually going to be a cross-gen, multiplatform release - which makes sense, considering that Capcom has long-since abandoned the exclusivity policy. They say Rebecca is Asian now, which I am not thrilled about (some renders from the RE0 area showed her with slightly Asian features, especially the shape of her eyes, but she looked more like she had some Far East ancestry). Also, one would expect them to keep her somewhat consistent with her last appearance (the terrible Vendetta).
I know that changing a character's appearance is something that game makers tend to do when they recreate, reinvent, re-imagine, if you will, an old character. I have nothing against Asians. But as far as Rebecca being Asian goes, over time, a lot of things may change, but race isn't one of them. I don't know how they justified that one.
Well, technically Rebecca was based on a Jpop singer. I doubt they'll make her full Asian though, but maybe they'll acentuate that a little. I honestly don't care. Rebecca pretty much exists to appease to a Japanese demographic anyway and it was far from a favorite for me. Then again, a lot of those leaks proved to be wrong, so we might as well wait a little longer.
Query:
What the hell is Resident Evil Hank?
I initially thought it read, "Resident Evil Hunk", which, of course, would make sense, but, it doesn't appear to say that.
Hey, found this:
Who is Hank in Resident Evil?
Hank Miller is a clone made from the DNA of Michael Franklin Miller after Kylie Sinclair returned after 47 years. He was made to be Kylie's husband and that was successful as well; they married in 2037 and honeymooned on Diamond Island. They now serve as members of Division Delta Codenamed:Anti-Virus.
What the hell is Resident Evil Hank?
I initially thought it read, "Resident Evil Hunk", which, of course, would make sense, but, it doesn't appear to say that.
Hey, found this:
Who is Hank in Resident Evil?
Hank Miller is a clone made from the DNA of Michael Franklin Miller after Kylie Sinclair returned after 47 years. He was made to be Kylie's husband and that was successful as well; they married in 2037 and honeymooned on Diamond Island. They now serve as members of Division Delta Codenamed:Anti-Virus.
It doesn't matter: apparently that one game got scrapped. According to Dusk Golem (whose leaks about Village were spot on 90% of the time - the discrepancies were mostly due to his intel being outdated), Capcom is going to drop numbered titles, so future RE games will just have subtitles, like CODE: Veronica
That's a shame. I was looking forward to a Resident Evil game set in Arlen, Texas after a horrible propane explosion causes a viral outbreak, I'll tell you hwhat.
I’ve never been a big fan of Rebecca since her very presence in the series feels off, much because of her personality and appearance that simply doesn’t fit right in with the other protagonists. She is basically like a child, especially in Resident Evil: Zero which also happens to be one of my least favorite RE games. She has always felt like the series’s ”anime character” which just comes off as strange when you put her next to more mature and serious like Jill, Chris, Leon, Claire, etc.
But I’m prepared to give this a worthy shot. After all, it seems like it’s going to be a completely original story using the REngine and played in third-person, which already sounds promising enough. Based on the rumors alone, there also seems to be a bigger emphasis on surviving and investigating stuff rather than full blown action. This is the exact type of RE games that I wanted Capcom to continue making after the RE2 remake.
This might be a chance to redeem Rebecca’s character. If they can manage to make her more mature and ”grittier”, it would be interesting to see how she deals with this new type of virus outbreak. If Capcom’s serious about changing her physical appearance to Asian however, I’ll raise my doubts. I see no point in doing so at all...
But I’m prepared to give this a worthy shot. After all, it seems like it’s going to be a completely original story using the REngine and played in third-person, which already sounds promising enough. Based on the rumors alone, there also seems to be a bigger emphasis on surviving and investigating stuff rather than full blown action. This is the exact type of RE games that I wanted Capcom to continue making after the RE2 remake.
This might be a chance to redeem Rebecca’s character. If they can manage to make her more mature and ”grittier”, it would be interesting to see how she deals with this new type of virus outbreak. If Capcom’s serious about changing her physical appearance to Asian however, I’ll raise my doubts. I see no point in doing so at all...
Yeah, Rebecca was kind of the weak link in RE1's cast. She was definitely there to appease to Japanese players. And RE0 was terrible - especially since they show her taking down everything, including a Tyrant (!!!), while in RE1 she was the damsel in distress and could even die. But I wouldn't mind playing as her again in a real survival horror, OTS game.
There's that. I mean, in all Japanese fashion, everyone is too young for their careers, like Chris who managed to get enough time in the Air Force to learn to fly planes, be discharged and be a cop at 25. Or Jill, who manage to get in and out of Delta Force and be a cop at 23. (The trend was kind ressurrected with Helena, who was part of the CIA and Secret Service even before turning 25) But Rebecca being a super prodigy who already had a bachelor degree in chemistry and finished up her police force training at 18 is too much. Let's not consider the fact that a prodigy like that would be head hunted by most scientific labs in the USA, instead of ending up as a cop, but for all of that accomplishments alone, Rebecca falls into anime territory to me.
All fair points about Rebecca.
I really don't care if they make her Asian, I don't think that changes her character at all but since she doesn't get much screen time, I'd be interested in this game.
(I have a copy of Caliban Cove somewhere I should read though I hear its absolutely ridiculous)
I really don't care if they make her Asian, I don't think that changes her character at all but since she doesn't get much screen time, I'd be interested in this game.
(I have a copy of Caliban Cove somewhere I should read though I hear its absolutely ridiculous)
You're right - they are always too young for what they do. Kenichi Iwao (scenario writer on RE1) actually said he regretted making them so young. Rebecca is ridiculous: not only she's a child prodigy, but at 18 she's also a effin' medical officer! That means she graduated from med school! For those who don't know, even if you are a genius, you don't get to skip years in med school: even if she managed to get her undergraduate degree in one year (because she's so smart), she should be 23\24 at the very least...and she'd only be a general practitioner with no specialization (as far as I know, most medical officers in the US Army are GPs - but they get extra training before the see some action). But what can we do? It's a Japanese game and people there are more obsessed with very young women than us Westerns.
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Maybe the folks at Capcom mixed Med School with chemistry, since Rebecca acts like the team's medic and Kenneth J.Sullivan (a 40's somethings) was actually the team's chemistry specialist. Then again, they stated that Jill was in Delta Force, who don't accept women in their ranks (at least back in the 90's) and even then, being accepted and leaving at 23 is also a lot.
Considering everything, Claire being a University Student at 19 and Leon a rookie cop at 21 wasn't so bad (still kinda young and I think this isn't allowed in all states in the US, but I think some accept cadets with 21 years).
In a lot of countries outside the US you go to University right after high-school at 19 (it is like this in most European countries). I reckon people at Capcom didn't know in the US you have to attend college for three years before enrolling at a University. Leon being a 21 years old rookie (hence he just graduated from the academy) is very realistic.
Jill being a former Delta Force operative at 23 (regardless of her gender) is simply ridiculous. At her age, you can be a normal police officer at best (and your older colleagues would treat you like a child for the next 10 years or so).
The only character that can rival Rebecca's anime nature is Steve from C:V. Not only he looks like a Final Fantasy reject, but he's 17, highly proficient with firearms (so much so he can dual-wield a pair of Luger P08s as well as a pair of MAC11s while pulling off some Matrix-style tricks) and can fly a damn cargo plane!
When it comes to age, I don't think any character in the series can actually be taken seriously - save for Barry (he's the only one who is the right age to do what he does - even though in RE1 he looks older than what he's supposed to be) and Ethan, who in RE7 is a 30-something programmer.
I love how this thread about a possible new game starring Rebecca Chambers has turned into a roasting of Resident Evil characters’ ridiculous accomplishments at a young age.
Regardless of what they’ve done at their age though, most of it can be forgiven if you buy into their personalities and how they talk and react. Whereas RE1’s original dialogue makes everyone look like idiots, I feel like most other games does a pretty good job at portraying characters whose titles and positions makes sense through the way they talk and react.
Not Rebecca though, because she acts like a child.
Regardless of what they’ve done at their age though, most of it can be forgiven if you buy into their personalities and how they talk and react. Whereas RE1’s original dialogue makes everyone look like idiots, I feel like most other games does a pretty good job at portraying characters whose titles and positions makes sense through the way they talk and react.
Not Rebecca though, because she acts like a child.
True. However, I do say Rebecca was pretty okay in Vendetta, personality-wise. Probably the kind of character she should've been all along. If we get this type of Rebecca in Outrage, I'll be okay with that (even if she was a damnsel in distress again in the movie...)