Resident Evil 2 and 3 mistakes

[Lanzagranadas]

Affirmative, the lab is near the city limits. Beyond the RPD is the City Hall, There is a mistake with the RPD location between RE2 and RE3.

[TheBatMan]

Unless Marcus' ghost came to fuck with this poor janitor, that is a major timeline discrepancy since Marcus was shot to death two years before the lab in BH2 even needed to exist since the G-virus wasn't discovered until after Marcus was killed.

But that's for the door to the train platform beneath the church. This file was written before Marcus disappeared. I assumed back then the cable car was used for quicker access back to the city.

[Darkness]

lol capcom plot holes. That janitor comment made me fucking lol NB

[TheBatMan]

lol capcom plot holes. That janitor comment made me fucking lol NB

It's nice to actually debate an existing game for a change and not just 1.5 all the time. Ah the good old days...

[Guest]

There's also the "Patrol Report" that says a cop found Hunk wandering in the sewers of the city limits.

[News Bot]

But that's for the door to the train platform beneath the church. This file was written before Marcus disappeared. I assumed back then the cable car was used for quicker access back to the city.

Ah, that's true. My mistake. Haven't played BH0 in a long time due to it being tediously boring.

The "Patrol Report" isn't a mistake.

[Guest]

The "Patrol Report" isn't a mistake.

It is not, but it's a big hint that Birkin's lab is in the outskirts.
Better yet. The EX-File from RE2 "Operation Instructions" proves it for once and for all.

Orders for Special Agent Hunk are as follows:

Penetrate Umbrella research facility located outside of
Raccoon City.
Recover G-virus sample from Dr. William Birkin.

You are authorized to use any means necessary to secure this
sample.

Upon recovery, sample is to be delivered to Loire Village.
Failure on this mission is not an option.

French Division
R&D Facility Head Manager
Christine Henri

[News Bot]

It is not, but it's a big hint that Birkin's lab is in the outskirts.
Better yet. The EX-File from RE2 "Operation Instructions" proves it for once and for all.

No it doesn't.

Infiltrate our company's laboratory in the Raccoon City suburbs (outskirts), and seize the G-Virus samples presumed to be in the possession of Dr. William Birkin.

Again, "outskirts." The same Japanese term (郊外) actually means "suburbs", which is more accurate due to the context it's used in for this case. The chemical plant is located in an industrial section of the city, but still within the city. The laboratory is located close to it, but is beneath a very central suburban area.

[Guest]

That's very different to "located beneath the CENTER OF THE CITY".

[News Bot]

The center of the city isn't literal. It's in a central area, just like the R.P.D. and City Hall are even though they are actually way below the "center" if you look at the map. The suburbs of the city are in this region since Raccoon City prospered extremely quickly, before they could even begin constructing massive housing projects you'd see in the suburbs of L.A. or some such.

[Guest]

Ok, if you say so. (no pun intended)

[Lanzagranadas]

When RE2 was made, there was no map of Raccoon City, however, it was specified that Birkin´s lab, and factory, were near the outskirts of city.

Later, RE3 was made and the Raccoon City map was entablished. RE3 was made by a different team, they didn´t have info from RE2 about RPD location and they placed it into the center of Raccoon, This fact made many people think that the factory and the lab was near the RPD, but this is wrong.

Where is Birkin´s lab? we don´t know exactly, but we get clues from:

-Patrol Report from RE2: "We received a report of a suspicious individual skulking around the sewers in the outskirts of Raccoon City"
-Dialogue line from Sherry to Claire: "They both work at the Umbrella Chemical Plant, near the city limits"

Also, we can see that the lab is connected to the Disposal Plant from RE3, because this plant function is to process all the waste generated by the lab, so they can´t be too far from each other.

And finally, there is a file from RE Outbreak, that reads the hospital is connected to the lab too via sewers, they are separated by a distance of about five minutes:

Researcher´s Diary:

Spoiler:

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Damn Umbrella... I understand the
need to choose a location few people
would investigate, but why the hell
choose the sewers! Birkin and that
pig of a chief! I am a normal man.

I don't wanna trudge through such
filth. Not even for 5 minutes.
I won't go to the laboratory until
they provide me with a boat.

I finally got a boat... but it doesn't
handle so well in narrow channels.
Oh well though...
It's much better than walking.

The hospital and disposal plant are pretty close, so the Birkin´s lab must be near both, I think probably like this:

[News Bot]

That map is bloated and incorrect, but on the real map, that would be a more probable location for it.

[Lanzagranadas]

I found this image (without annotations) on google. Is this map somehow not right? Do we have actually an official more accurate and complete Raccoon map?
I saw one on RE Archives, but doesn´t displays the entire city.

[Guest]

Official RC map in RE:Archives:

http://www.deviantart.com/download/104192756/Raccoon_City_Map_by_Zaidtomo.jpg

It still fits the coordinates Lanzagranadas gave.
And I think I read somewhere that in RE1.5, the RPD was said to be in the center of the city.