Resident Evil 3.5

[blackpower]

The fog effect we can find in the game alan wake.

Resident evil 3.5


Alan Wake.


a guy is writing the story of resident evil 3.5, if you want to read.

[RetroRain]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, the Leon mutated-arm concept existed in both the Castle build and the Hallucination builds, right?

[GEORGE TREVOR]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, the Leon mutated-arm concept existed in both the Castle build and the Hallucination builds, right?

Hallucination wasn't a build, it was just a game-play experiment, taking themes from the Castle version. During my interview with Kawamura-san I asked him about the relationship between the two ~

CHE : I am interested by the relationship between your Castle version, and the Hallucination game-play. Had the Castle build been completely cancelled before you then began to develop the proceeding Hallucination version?

YK : "... In terms of the order in which things progressed, the Castle scenario came first – it was the most established - then the Hallucination element came second.
However, when the Hallucination was introduced into the narrative, the concept of the Castle, where Leon kept fighting while an illness was destroying him, was passed on. So although the Castle was replaced with the Hallucination, it remained in the game as an expression of Leon’s illness.
Also the mechanic where Leon could view a hallucinatory or spirit world and fight against its residents when the fog filled in the room, was considered then too. We had so many trials and errors in the development."

The full transcript of our interview is here, at the end of my article ~ http://www.crimson-head.com/biohazard35.htm

[Kegluneq]

Hallucination wasn't a build, it was just a game-play experiment, taking themes from the Castle version. During my interview with Kawamura-san I asked him about the relationship between the two

George, I don't think that RetroRain is trying to learn if the mutated-arc concept storyline (the reason and purpose of it) was passed on from Castle to Hallucination (and do correct me if I'm mistaken). What I think he is trying to learn is if this concept had an overarching role in gameplay, as if it was drawn on the draft in the very early ages of Resident Evil 4 development.

You'll have to forgive my fan-waking here, because I can see, from a conceptual point-of-view, both from a storyline and gameplay design why this question matters. None of what I'm about to say next might have been intended in previous games, but it's an idea that the developing team might have explored when toying with what to do for Resident Evil 4 and possibly drawn the same conclusion as I did after analyzing both aspects of previous games.

Starting with gameplay, the knife was absolutely worthless in Resident Evil 0, 1 and 2, with very little redeeming factors beyond saving ammunition against zombies after they were dropped on the floor. With Resident Evil 3 and the 180º degree feature introduced, it became an actual gameplay design option, and the developers seemed to think so due to the implementation of Nicolai character in Mercenaries with a Ranking system that obliged the player to master its use; although you could try to make the same argument for 4th Survivor, the nature of the game (reaching point B from point A), Tofu's vitality (further beyond that of normal characters) and enemy placement (making it possible to evade them provided you have learned their attacks and patterns) could confuse things because here you can make an argument that the purpose might not have been to master the knife (a specific weapon - think of a brick) but rather the game engine (as a whole - think of a building). The usefulness of knife is amplified in Code: Veronica - Claire and Chris can take down zombies without much effort, unlike in RE1 or RE2. Although one could say this was done for ammo conservation purposes - again - the Battle Mode of Wesker is designed about much of its mastery. Which brings Resident Evil 4. Perhaps thinking that using the knife as the only melee option was becoming stale, they drew some ideas and came up with the mutant-arm concept to revitalize the melee combat. Furthermore, its entirely possible that with Resident Evil 4's intended gameplay, the knife would lack the necessary options to make it useful and an alternative.

Moving to the storyline, RE0, RE1 and RE2 feature characters that come across zombies for the first time. They have zero experience with what they're dealing with it. Mikami or Kamiya once said that they wanted a fresh cast for RE2 because the experience was new - bringing out old characters would take out the tension and fear having previously fought the same enemies. If you extrapolate this for RE3 and RECV, the enhanced melee combat makes sense, since these characters have dealt with this threat before and the added experience should allow them to find strategies to defeat them in melee combat with viable options as they know the behaviors of the monsters (or should quickly adapt to them). A good point to reference this is how Carlos and Jill handle their knife - with Carlos being more slow and clumsy and Jill being fast and swift. Also, in retrospective, it seems logical that Nicolai - possibly being the most skilled and experienced in the paramilitary unit and having fought the BOWs before in other missions - would be the likely candidate for the most difficult Mercenaries scenario. Same can be said about RECV, although the gameplay mechanism to explore this idea was drastically changed with the knife hitting as much as 3 times (tactical strikes) whenever Claire or Chris use it. With Resident Evil 4, without a lot more options left to dwell on melee combat, they probably figured that something new was needed, and mutant-arm concept could probably be what they saw as the evolution to the melee combat of the series. Another possible reason might be the crucial need to come up with something that can actually kill the new all-powerful BOW introduced in the game, whatever was intended to be. Think of RE1 and the Tyrant. Think of RE2 and William Birkin. Think of RE3 and Nemesis. Think of RECV and Veronica. All these monsters got progressively more difficult to be defeated, needed more and more power to be employed to be destroyed. It reaches the borderline point where you got to ask if material weapons that humans have constructed can actually defeat something that should, eventually, surpass all the foes fought before. And in that sense, the mutant-arm concept (much like the P-human in BioHazard 4 Devil May Cry vers.), might have been what they were going for. Ironically, it's exactly Devil May Cry, the final version, that ended up doing all things (both storyline and gameplay) that I addressed.

Of course there's a lot of fan-wanking in here, and although you can draw some logic from it, it's probably coincidence. Even if you were the ask the developers of these ideas today, they might not remember all the thought-process into drafting and crafting them in the first place, or the reason would (most likely) be a lot more simple. Still, it's interesting food for thought, given that things aren't always random. For example, your interview confirmed my suspicious. Resident Evil 4 retail ran with the idea of introducing a new pathogenic agent - the parasite - which had been thought of during Castle - the bacteria.

[News Bot]

Something I've been meaning to ask you News Bot.

Were there any plans to bring back the zombies in the Fog/Castle vers.? They were originally supposed to show in the Devil May Cry vers. as the puppets, even though the game didn't seem to have traces of the T-virus. Even if the Fog/Castle vers. did not dealt with the T-virus, it would still be possible to bring them back under a different mantra.

Also, have you spoken to the development team about the "Zombie" vers.? Was this merely a conceptual experiment (like Hookman vers.), but with the lack of gameplay, or was there some work actually done on that?

Castle was "orthodox BIO", so there was most likely Zombies in there.

The Zombie version is an unknown as it could have been nothing more than a tech demo, like Hallucination (although Hallucination recycled Castle). For all we know it could've just been a return to "orthodox BIO" with more recycling of Castle.

The majority of creatures in "Stylish" (Devil May Cry) were created with the G-Virus. As the virus was incomplete in BIO2, Spencer aimed to perfect it. Much of the enemies you would see in the game were the results of those experiments. Spencer, Dante and Vergil were infected with the Progenitor Virus, and during the final boss battle, Spencer injected himself with G (presumably completed at that point).

Technically speaking, Wesker, Spencer, Dante and Vergil were infected with Progenitor but also the t-virus, as they weren't injected with the pure Progenitor Virus since it was for the most part worthless on modern humans. The virus they were injected with was a variant strain of Progenitor that Wesker's Report later stated was improved by Birkin, making it a t-virus (since "t-virus" is the name for any variant strain of Progenitor).

The scenario of BIO0 was to deal with the above process of improving Progenitor for use on modern humans, although indirectly. Hence the adaptation experiments conducted by Marcus. Just like with BIO5, Spencer pursued t-virus research ostensibly for use in biological weapons, but also the production of a superhuman strain of the virus he would take for his own ambition.

[blackpower]

Resident Evil 3.5

Prologue:The Fall of Leon S. Kennedy
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This can’t be happening…
His head spun.
Not like this, not yet.
His primary objective was now just a feint memory. Leon S. Kennedy, Special Agent of the US Government, was infected. The Progenitor Virus coursing fresh in his blood, he felt it consuming him. His gaze met the barrel of his gun.
How much longer? How long until I’m like her?
The door creaked, and adrenaline rushed as he turned the gun back away from himself. It took everything Leon had to keep his aim steady, forcing it centered on the doorway. As the door opened, the endless darkness of night poured in like smoke, intermingling with the dimly lit room. He could hear painful, empty moans coming from outside. He could smell her rotting flesh, but her face was still masked in the shadows.
“No… I… can’t… do this…”
But she didn’t stop, and she wouldn’t. Only hunger drove her now, he knew that, and soon, he would be no different. Leon clenched the grip of the gun tightly, afraid it would otherwise slip. His hand began to shake, and his eyes seared as he fought to keep them open, when they so badly wanted to close. Her shadowy figure staggered out from behind the door. The tattered dress she wore was as red as the blood she was hungry for. As red as the blood that was now smeared over her once beautiful face.
“Please, stop. I don’t… want to kill you.” Leon pleaded, begged. She kept coming, nearly falling, stumbling over her one broken heel. She stood still for only a second, staring at him with her empty eyes. Suddenly, as if a switch was flipped, she let out a shriek and lunged at Leon. She dove fast, but his well trained reflexes, although hampered, were still faster. The first shot hit clean, and she dropped at his feet. Leon shook his head in disbelief, but nothing changed. Ada Wong was dead. He couldn’t help but think to himself,
How much longer?
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Chapter 1-1: Contamination.
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His eyes cracked open for a short moment, but he was surrounded by darkness. He could hear the crackling of the television in front of him, seeing static displayed on the screen as he took another peak.
“What happened? Whe—where am I?” he said, muffled through a ventilator mask of sorts that was strapped to his face. He quickly peeled it off and threw it aside. His head rang, and he felt blood running down his cheek. Confusion filled his head, and like cement pouring into an open hole in the ground. He couldn’t, for the life of him, remember why he was here. Or even where “here” was.
Turning to his side to hoist himself to his feet, he could feel the chilled, steel floor beneath him rumbling; an engine or something. As he rose from the chair, his head spun and he stumbled toward the conspicuously positioned television that stood before him. Leon, unable to manage his nausea any longer, heaved as his body sickly contorted. He felt like death.
Must’ve hit me pretty damn hard. I wonder who I’ve got to thank for this… Not normally one for revenge, he was keen on the idea of getting back at whoever was responsible, if only he could remember who. The thought haunted him as he slowly settled into his concussed state and the nausea calmed.
Taking a deep breath and regaining his bearings, Leon examined the television, noticing that something was actually queued to be played. Maybe, he’d hoped, something that would fill him in on just why he was here.
With the click of a button, he had the footage rolling. After a few seconds of a blank, black screen, a picture appeared. Far off from the camera was a man, slumped in a chair, unconscious, coming into focus. Leon couldn’t make out what he was seeing, until he heard a familiar humming.
That… that’s me.
He couldn’t make sense of it, couldn’t understand why he looked so unfamiliar to himself, unrecognizable. He could hear rustling, someone off camera, a shadow who was waiting to show itself. Before stepping under the dim light, he stopped, preferring to stay masked by the darkness, while his voice spilled out.
“I’m sorry I didn’t have the time to stay long enough for a chance to formally introduce myself, Agent Kennedy, urgent matters, you understand. I did, however, take the time to show you that your mission does, in fact, come with its share of consequences. Might I ask, are you feeling it yet? Is the sickness taking over? Once you do, oh, there’s no stopping it, Agent Kennedy.”
Leon, felt the “sickness” he was referring to, was most definitely feeling the effects of something, of what, he wasn’t sure. What is he talking about? Must be why my head is pounding…
“I’m not sure if you’ll consider it a blessing or a curse, but of your friends, I thought you had the most to take away from being able to live long enough to see the world’s hope, along with your mission, fall through the cracks. Being from Raccoon City, I wanted you to see yourself slowly become one of them,” he taunted from the shadows.
How does he know about The Raccoon City incident? And…what friends? Soon, it started coming back, like a wave crashing into him. This mission, he wasn’t alone. A joint undertaking between the BSAA and the DSO, Leon being the latter’s representative in overseeing the operation.
“You see, the irony here is, the very thing you were searching for is the same that will tear you apart. The Progenitor Virus, the building block of Umbrella, the prize of their research, won’t be used as some tool by your government for its gains. The Progenitor Virus is mine, now.”
Leon now knew, unfortunately, exactly what he was feeling, exactly what the man in the shadows was referring to, but he couldn’t believe it. He didn’t want to believe it.
“Before I go, I want you to see the final moment that you lived in this world with free will.” the man in the shadows said as he casually glided toward the man in the chair, as a few others crept from the shadows to restrain him. The man was handed a mask, which he strapped tightly to the face of the man in the chair, who began coughing uncontrollably. He tried to fight his way free, but was soon sedated by a baton, wielded by one of the man’s “assistants.” Leon glanced at his hand after wiping his cheek, now knowing the source of the blood.
“Enjoy the rest of your flight! Oh, and be sure to say hello to your friends for me” he said with a chuckle as he disappeared back into the shadows and the film cut to static.
Flight? What flight?
Panic overwhelmed Leon as his mind shifted gears; he scoured the room for the mask from the video, finding it had been thrown underneath a table off to the side of the room. Slowly, Leon brought the device into the light, eyes closed, dreading what he might find written on the capsule attached to the seemingly normal breathing apparatus. The canister adorned that familiar red and white Umbrella logo, with “Progenitor” P-1066b inscribed on the side. His heart dropped as another wave of fear crashed into him, but this one took him under.
Leon couldn’t concentrate, unable to take all of this information in, still unsure of how he’d even gotten to where he was in the first place. As Leon steadied himself on the table, he began searching frantically for something, anything, to get himself out of this nightmare, and was shocked by what was staring him back in the face. His trusted pistol, a custom by model from Joe Kendo, was lying there on the table; not hidden, it might as well have been gift wrapped.
But… why would he even give me a chance? Leon couldn’t help but wonder. He grabbed the gun, its weight feeling nicely in his hand. Fully loaded, and he confirmed it when he dropped the magazine. On instinct, he dropped his hands to his belt to find 4 more loaded magazines, not a single one missing.
“It must be Christmas in Russia,” he said, with an almost half chuckle to himself. He hadn’t noticed until then, but it was actually cold enough for December, and he finally let the chill in through all of the adrenaline. Not only from the empty, bitter cold of the room, but the haunting thought– if he left me with all of this…
Leon pulled his leather bomber tighter, zipping it up to his chest as he let out a smooth exhale of reluctance. He hated the cold, couldn’t stand it, and he was somehow more focused on that than the virus pumping through his veins, and with that, he moved toward the only door leading out of the dreary, hell-hole of a room. Perched at the doorway, he steadied himself, trying to block out any thoughts of the horrible hand he’d just been dealt, and concentrate on the fact that he now had a fighting chance. After one last deep breath, he kicked the door for all it was worth, ready for whoever, whatever, was on the other side.
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This story shows a boy, it is recreating the story of resident evil 3.5, how does it look?

[News Bot]

Rely On Horror fan-fiction, ugh.

[VGBB]

Rely On Horror fan-fiction, ugh.

Anything ROH= Ugh.

[blackpower]

An abandoned concept that appears almost vampire-like in appearance. It could be concept art for the Plagas but it is vastly different and the style of the things coming out of his mouth seems like the Fog Virus things, which could be related to some of Umbrella’s test with the Progenitor Virus? That is speculation.


I read somewhere that should be in version 3.5 of the tyrants created production with a new strain of the progenitor virus.

[News Bot]

An abandoned concept that appears almost vampire-like in appearance. It could be concept art for the Plagas but it is vastly different and the style of the things coming out of his mouth seems like the Fog Virus things, which could be related to some of Umbrella’s test with the Progenitor Virus? That is speculation.

I read somewhere that should be in version 3.5 of the tyrants created production with a new strain of the progenitor virus.

Nope.

[blackpower]

Notizie Bot : Some of the concepts of Alan wake the fog effect on enemies, were taken from resident evil 3.5? Is there somewhere the hookman version of resident evil 3.5?

[News Bot]

Alan Wake has nothing in common with or inspired by any version of BIO4. Similarities are just that, similarities. Fog isn't exactly an abstract concept. You might as well say BIO4 ripped-off Silent Hill, even though the presentation and purpose of the fog in each game was entirely different.

[blackpower]

Would be great the hookman beta playable version to understand the gameplay type used.

[yurieu]

Would be great the hookman beta playable version to understand the gameplay type used.

one can only dream.

[blackpower]

It is possible to recreate the rooms for resident evil 3.5?