How do you know it’s the end?
Obviously I don’t, it just really looks like it might be. I think there will be an RE10, Requiem isn’t the last one, but I really do think it is like a part one of that, part of the era of RE that is leading to the last one.
To me that trailer could not have been more obvious in this.
Going back to Raccoon City is a gimmick, not any kind of indication that they’re wrapping up, especially when the focus is on a brand new character.
How do
you know it’s a gimmick?
We didn’t know that at the time. Wesker’s story was the RE story at that point in the series, and since it revealed Umbrella’s beginnings, Wesker’s true plans, and put the world at higher risk than it had ever been prior, then killed off the main villain, with the original heroes alive and flying off into the sunrise, with the only remaining known organization that had access to the biohazard substances being destroyed by the end as well, that felt more like an ending than this does.
Honestly at the time, RE5 did feel like it was a kind of culmination, and it probably could have been. So, yes I can see why 5 could have looked like an ending, and the developers ultimately changed their minds and carried on way past the point they thought they would.
But I think you only get one of those, “it nearly ended and we all thought it would but it didn’t” kind of things. When you look at where gaming was then, it was really not as advanced as everyone thought. It’s now, that we’re at the point we all
thought we were at during the PS3/360 era.
Really? The one remaining mystery regarding Ada was revealed, we finally saw what happened to Sherry, Wesker’s son is revealed and is now making up for family mistakes, no Progenitor virus variant has really been a threat after that in the chronological timeline because of his blood providing vaccines for every Progenitor variant (Vendetta and Dead Island notwithstanding), and the original government conspiracy that helped fund Umbrella’s BOW research being revealed and destroyed, and the whole world essentially being caught up in a biohazard war, that felt more like an ending than this does.
Ada is just more of a mystery in 6. I like 6, but the whole plot was pulled out of nowhere. If anything it really felt like a new beginning (that Capcom aborted following its mixed reception) all the endings imply further elaboration on all the new crazy stuff it brought to the table.
Before that ending scene, man. Prior to that, especially with the revelation that this game’s events were all caused by Spencer’s mentor, and is where the Umbrella insignia really came from, meaning that this was the true start of it all, until the game ended on that whole thing of the BSAA and realizing the Connections story wasn’t resolved yet either, it was feeling more like an end than this trailer makes this game feel.
Sure, there’s merit to looking at Village as at least being part of an ending, but definitely not THE end, plus you have to play it to get all that stuff about Spencer and Umbrella and how it ties back to the origins.
Requiem however, looks basically like THE END: PART ONE, to me, and that’s only after the first trailer.
