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PROJECT Umbrella - The BIOHAZARD/RESIDENT EVIL Compendium
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Originally posted by Dracarys View PostOf course not, just need to follow this simple guide/set of rules.
1.) Pick and choose what to decalre as canon, including stating the same thing is both canon and non-canon as it suits the personal argument at the moment in time.
2.) If you source anything in english then it is a horribly translated mess and this is the only argument you need why it isn't canon, even if the original japanese says the same thing.
3.) If a game creator says something that crushes your idea of canon then he is an idiot and doesn't know what he is talking about and that statement is to be ignored, except other times when you source a quote from him and he is unquestionably right, always.
4.) Something is either entrely canon, or entirely non-canon, except when you need source the later half of a sentence as canon, but not the first half which is non-canon.
5.) You interpret everything wrong, even stuff clearly obvious with multiple sources, others interpret everything right, just because.
6.) That idea you're thinking based on various sources, it is wrong because someone else already made up their mind about it.
If you see anything wrong with these rules then the problem is YOU, because RE has the most consistant story and lore to ever exist.
Well, but it wasn´t my intention to discuss the canon, I was trying to say that, despite what we accepted as canon and what not, there are still some details contradicted or changed between different sources, and there is where I see inconsistency.
More so, still when there is no contradiction, there are plot related things which are perfectly accepted as fact but they are still inconsistent, simply because they are unconvincing, weakly explained or even escaping the common sense sometimes, aka plot holes, retcons and deus ex machinas.
But, on the whole, it works quite well, better than another franchises.Last edited by Lanzagranadas; 07-15-2013, 12:18 PM.
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Zero genuine plot inconsistencies or contradictions have been shown in this thread yet. Everything mentioned thus far has been explained.PROJECT Umbrella - The BIOHAZARD/RESIDENT EVIL Compendium
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I tried to move the giant bell in the clock tower as Jill and got "it doesn't seem like it can be moved with a woman's strength" (in Japanese). Does anyone recall what it says in English?
Also, the door to the Evidence Room in BH3 Sourcenext is the same one used in the Media Room in BH1.5 regardless of vantage point.
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Originally posted by Carnivol View PostRegarding some points:
2) Most common "problem" with the translations is just inconsistencies and not so much mistranslations. Yes, the Japanese sometimes "says the same", but you'll figure out there's a huge difference between translating Term A as Translation A in one text and as Translation B in another, to then find yourself in needing Translation A exclusively for Term B ('cause one is more direct and less all-encompassing)
4) Regarding canon, what is and what is not and all that, I shall once again tell people to look at the The Star Wars Holocron. The Star Wars "bible" in terms of how they treat all things canon and how they'll "selectively" exclude certain elements from the canon and what decides which source takes priority. Certain game companies, including Capcom, have been known to utilize big glossaries/encyclopedias like that for some of their franchises, and I doubt Resident Evil is no exclusion, going by all the interviews with writer staff and such.Last edited by RMandel; 07-16-2013, 08:44 PM.
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I remember Prime Blue once proposed that the series had like, seven different canons.
Those were dark times.PROJECT Umbrella - The BIOHAZARD/RESIDENT EVIL Compendium
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Originally posted by Carnivol View PostI'd forgotten that "chart" - It contained a full overview of which titles were possible and which were not based on the in-game variable outcome/endings of the early games and such, didn't it?PROJECT Umbrella - The BIOHAZARD/RESIDENT EVIL Compendium
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^ Or .. ya know - the whole zombie invasion that happened hehe
Same with the (table?) barricading the door leading back to the licker hallway in RE3 - this has fallen against the wall in RE2 as if the door was pushed through from the other side..
That's how I always saw it .. there are more zombies in RE2 after Jill killed a ton of em in 3 - so makes sense the zombies did it in their hordes.
Obviously the massive barricades outside the RPD in 3 can't be explained in any way.. Hmmm"I never thought any of this stuff my brother taught me would work!"
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Originally posted by Carnivol View PostLet's just pretend it was Marvin and the Outbreakers.
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Originally posted by Don Piano View PostThere probably has been an explination for it but the police station section in RE3, who bordered up everything and who took them all down by the time leon/claire got there?
The police boarded them up. The zombies broke them down. Where is the problem?PROJECT Umbrella - The BIOHAZARD/RESIDENT EVIL Compendium
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