Where are the spin-ofss ?

[missvalentine]

Well, RE3 is just about Jill escaping from Raccoon City and the city being nuked.

RECV, on the other hand, shows us reunion of Claire and Chris, introduces us to Umbrella's founders and resurrected Wesker, who, from this game on, is a main villain of the series.

So no, if anything, RECV has more to do with the main story of the series.

it's a matter of opinion i beleive.

Jill escaping, that's wether she lives or dies, and the whole fate of Raccoon city is in RE3.

Claire and Chris's reunion, it's just two sibling who haven't meet in a while.

i say Jill's escape is much more important than a family reunion.

and Wesker has been a main villian from way before CVX, he was just unmasked in CVX, remember he was behind RE2 as well, so i don't find his appearance in CVX of much importance at all.

and besides, RE3 had the NEMESIS in it, and the UBCS, and showed what umbrella was really doing in the city, and what a lot of there plans where, it's well deserving of the number, more than CVX is anyway.

[aris13]

and Wesker has been a main villian from way before CVX, he was just unmasked in CVX, remember he was behind RE2 as well, so i don't find his appearance in CVX of much importance at all.

Everybody believed that Wesker was dead at that point so his return is very important.

Yes he was behind RE 2 but we found out about that after CVX, he talks about it in Wesker's Report.

[Henry Spencer]

it's a matter of opinion i beleive.

Jill escaping, that's wether she lives or dies, and the whole fate of Raccoon city is in RE3.

Claire and Chris's reunion, it's just two sibling who haven't meet in a while.

i say Jill's escape is much more important than a family reunion.

and Wesker has been a main villian from way before CVX, he was just unmasked in CVX, remember he was behind RE2 as well, so i don't find his appearance in CVX of much importance at all.

and besides, RE3 had the NEMESIS in it, and the UBCS, and showed what umbrella was really doing in the city, and what a lot of there plans where, it's well deserving of the number, more than CVX is anyway.

Regardless, a lot of the characters in RE3 merely appear in one game. Jill is like the only major character in the whole game that we see again since. Carlos, Nicholai and Nemesis (I mean the project, not just the one that appears in RE3, since that is obviously dead) are all MIA never to be seen again. However, killing off Brad Vickers and having Barry make a cameo at the end are all well and good, even then, they're MIA too. A lot of characters that are in RE3 appear to MIA. Want to know why? Because none of them are important to the story at large. Well, except maybe Barry.

Also, most of the important plot points can be found in the epilogues, not in the main story.

[Rock it.]

I'm pretty sure RE3 was being developed with the title of Gaiden (side story), but they added a lot of relevant stuff during production, thus, making it worthy of the main series (also ending the discussion if it's worthy of a number or not).

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Or so I read in an old Playstation magazine back in the day. Don't quote me in any of that or anything.

As for a spin off?

GOD NO. I'm not found of any of the memories I have with the Gun Survivor or Outbreak series. They were just plain sad, and I don't think they would do any better now.

[Archelon]

I'm pretty sure RE3 was being developed with the title of Gaiden (side story), but they added a lot of relevant stuff during production, thus, making it worthy of the main series (also ending the discussion if it's worthy of a number or not).

Actually, they gave it a numbered title, because it would sell more that way. It was originally supposed to be a spinoff/side story.

[Stars1356]

I think it was somewhat of a side story because it took place before and after Re 2 and Jill isn't really trying to put an end to Umbrella at this point, she is just trying to escape and survive. I mean if Jill could have just found the military blockade and left the city with the army, it still would have been nuked. Don't get me wrong the events that took place in the game are important but city is more of the focal point than Umbrella.

[missvalentine]

Actually, they gave it a numbered title, because it would sell more that way. It was originally supposed to be a spinoff/side story.

i heard at was planned as a side story, but when development started they changed there minds because they came up with a lot of stuff that is good enough to be main story.

[REmaster]

I think it was just going to be called Resident Evil: Nemesis, with just a subtitle like Resident Evil: Code Veronica, but like Archelon said they changed their minds and gave it a numbered title.