Resident Evil 3.5

[News Bot]

Spencer was quite a bit more sadistic in this BIO4 scenario and would graft dead creatures together and revive them with the G-Virus, leading to results like the above. This ability was written with BIO2, but never actually utilized. BIO4 planned to.

Also, the "Nightmare" creature was quite important within the BIO4 scenario compared to Devil May Cry. Its hard, pupa-like husk was used to culture and harbor the Progenitor Virus (apparently from the corpses of ancient humans, similar to the BIO4 Castle Version). The virus was intended to be black slime-like liquid that leaked from the creature's body after it was cracked at a certain point in the scenario, and it would damage the player.

[Scream]

I always knew it and said it before.. Spencer had so much unused potential in the series..

[Akimbo]

The "Undead Humans" seem really creepy - it would have been great to have seen this in gameplay form.

Looking at the enemies from the first Devil May Cry, an enemy known as 'Nobody' looks like it would have fit in within the game - even having a large eye on it's shoulder area. Although it's a complete guess/speculation, could the Nobody have also been featured?

Here's an image:

[News Bot]

"Nobody" was another BIO4 enemy. They were ancient humans revived with the G-Virus (hence the huge eyes). They originally had more of those eyes in concept art too.

[Darkness]

This is just fascinating, oh what could have been instead of mexican villagers with head penises

[J0shuaKane]

thanks news bot, that was refreshing

[Graco]

Wow, these are awesome. Were any of these intended to be carried over to RE4 after the first version became DMC, or did they decide to abandon G-Virus enemies altogether?

[News Bot]

Wow, these are awesome. Were any of these intended to be carried over to RE4 after the first version became DMC, or did they decide to abandon G-Virus enemies altogether?

They were abandoned altogether. Then along came CODE:Veronica with Umbrella's rival company, and it was decided to have a new virus developed by the rival company be a focus in the Castle version of BIO4.

[Guest]

Spencer was quite a bit more sadistic in this BIO4 scenario and would graft dead creatures together and revive them with the G-Virus, leading to results like the above. This ability was written with BIO2, but never actually utilized. BIO4 planned to.

Also, the "Nightmare" creature was quite important within the BIO4 scenario compared to Devil May Cry. Its hard, pupa-like husk was used to culture and harbor the Progenitor Virus (apparently from the corpses of ancient humans, similar to the BIO4 Castle Version). The virus was intended to be black slime-like liquid that leaked from the creature's body after it was cracked at a certain point in the scenario, and it would damage the player.

This is some sick shit newsbot, way better and scarier than that over dramatic saddler and his band of idiots who actually thought it was a good idea to kidnap the united states president's daughter and stick her with some needle full of sh$%^ ! Guys come on she's just the president's daughter for Christ sake, let's send some rookie agent to rescue her !

[Graco]

They were abandoned altogether. Then along came CODE:Veronica with Umbrella's rival company, and it was decided to have a new virus developed by the rival company be a focus in the Castle version of BIO4.

After looking at all these discarded ideas and comparing them to RE4 in retrospect I'm really disappointed and confused with the final choices. At least the G monsters took advantage of the new aiming system...it would seem the idea was briefly revisited for LiN. Though I'm now curious of these creatures belonging to the rival company. Did they get very far into development, and did they ever implement any of them into a build? And were you lucky enough to secure any artwork by chance? (Sorry, I had to ask!)

[News Bot]

The rival company creatures were (that we know of) limited to the "fog" creature, which was itself more or less Uroboros. It was a new, bacteria-sized virus. HCF brought it to the castle similar to how they brought the Hunter II's to Rockfort Island.

[yurieu]

Geez, EVERYONE would agree this is SOOOOOOOO much more AWESOME and more Resident Evil than everything that was released by capcom after.

[Sly]

Spencer was quite a bit more sadistic in this BIO4 scenario and would graft dead creatures together and revive them with the G-Virus, leading to results like the above. This ability was written with BIO2, but never actually utilized. BIO4 planned to.

The idea isn't exactly the same, but it's similar : G5 did absord corpses to grow larger, at least in the artworks. It's hard to see in-game though, so maybe the idea was dropped. Also, were said corpses supposed to be alive or just visible dead meat ?
Nyx, on the other hand, really did it. I know Nyx is not related to the G-virus, but you have to admit that he's really apart from any other t-virus experiment. And the Tyrant in it was still alive...

[News Bot]

The idea isn't exactly the same, but it's similar : G5 did absord corpses to grow larger, at least in the artworks. It's hard to see in-game though, so maybe the idea was dropped. Also, were said corpses supposed to be alive or just visible dead meat ?
Nyx, on the other hand, really did it. I know Nyx is not related to the G-virus, but you have to admit that he's really apart from any other t-virus experiment. And the Tyrant in it was still alive...

G5 consumed Zombies and Lickers, yeah. Probably hard to see in game due to limitations. Which corpses are you referring to? If you mean the ones grafted by Spencer, they are all revived together when infected with the G-Virus in one body. So for example, that "Undead Humans" enemy would probably have all of those faces groaning individually. There's a snake enemy with several snakes literally wrapped around each other, too. Not to mention a two-headed dog, but this may actually be the G-Virus causing a new head to grow (same enemy was meant to appear in Outbreak).

G5 absorbed corpses in order to grow, just like Nyx. It's very possible that Nyx is linked to the G-Virus, but we can't know for sure due to a sheer lack of information. It certainly fits though. The U.S.S. 2nd squad were sent in response to the failure of HUNK's 1st squad. There was meant to be a scenario with surviving 1st squad agent Miguel (only survivor besides HUNK) who then met up with 2nd squad commander Rodriguez before being finally killed by G-Birkin. I doubt they just dropped their chances at getting the G-Virus.

[Sly]

Well, that would make sense, as I always liked the idea that Nyx was somehow linked to the G-virus. Maybe a failed G-virus experiment kept aside, à la Proto-Tyrant. I even suggested that Nyx could in fact be Birkin's leftover after he blew up on that train, retrieved by the USS after BH2, but I guess it would not fit quite well in the end. However, as much as I like this idea : the G-eyeballs are nowhere to be seen on Nyx, so that should rule out this possibility, shouldn't it ? Sorry for the off-topic, but Nyx always bugged me somehow...