Darkside Chronicles Character Discussion.

[Bertha]

I, too, would miss my favorite characters, but I can see the necessity of getting them closure. There's a reason why games like Final Fantasy do so well in series characters. Aside from when SE puts them together in games like Dissidia, they all remain different games. Capcom and RE already have a difficult time trying to keep up with their own main characters. Consistency and character development aren't exactly a strong suit for the series. True, they are getting better, but perhaps its a bit too late. Only time will truly tell.

Considering we don't even know what is going to be in store for RE6, it is rather premature to start casting doubts.

[Bianca]

Not if they do a good job with the story.

RE has the potential to keep a flow. Introduce new characters with the returning ones. And once those storylines start to finish up, you use the remaining characters while introducing even newer ones, until you have a shift from one "group" to the next. That way it's changing and coming up with something new, and for the people following it from the start, it's a gradual change but still something familiar. A total revamp would just be :/ for me.

Trufax in this post. I couldn't agree more. I don't mind new characters. I absolutely love Sheva, and I have no problems with new characters entering the series, but to do a complete overhaul without a shred of familiarity would be very disheartening to me. I always want a connection to the original storyline of the series. Always. And, the logical way to do that seems, as Yzak just said, to introduce new characters with old.

[Yzak]

Not if they do a good job with the story.

RE has the potential to keep a flow. Introduce new characters with the returning ones. And once those storylines start to finish up, you use the remaining characters while introducing even newer ones, until you have a shift from one "group" to the next. That way it's changing and coming up with something new, and for the people following it from the start, it's a gradual change but still something familiar. A total revamp would just be :/ for me.

[BLSR1]

I stand by my opinion that every resident evil character needs to die or STFU

RE6 needs a new story and cast of characters. Theres no reason any existing characters should return, in my opinion. Sure an epilogue would be nice however.

I still love them, but I want a compelling story. If they keep rehashing characters, it will stagnate.

[Bianca]

Plus there is no reason she can't be in a bonus mission. Ada and HUNK were in the UC bonus missions.

I'm fairly certain that Ada and HUNK were in UC because, at the time the game was created, Capcom did not have a sequel for the game on their mind and including them seemed like a logical choice since there wouldn't be an opportunity in the future. (Which, honestly, is a travesty, in my opinion. I wish they would retcon Ada's UC scenario and redo it in DSC, but it ain't gonna happen. As far as HUNK's scenario in UC... so pointless.)

Also, keep in mind that 90% of Umbrella Chronicles was recycled material. They had everything they needed for an Ada and HUNK scenario: environments from Outbreak and character renders from RE4. Capcom jumped at the opportunity to create more scenarios while still having to do very little work.

Darkside Chronicles is more organized than UC. It hasn't even been released, but already we can see that every aspect of it has been improved since its predecessor. Better acting, better characterization, better pacing, etc. Sorry, but this time around, Capcom is not going to throw in extra scenarios just because they have Jill and Rebecca's old character models stored away on their computers.

Yeah. If there IS an RE6, it should be about Ada and Sherry. They're all that's left of the old storyline.

I dream about this every night, fo realz.

[Vector]

Well I sort of agree. Plus it would be nice to have some RE3-style epilogues in that game, with what the hell happened with all the support characters (Barry, Rebecca, Carlos, Ark, Bruce, Sheva, etc.)... Then I'll be ready for the reboot.

That would be great. I'd love to see some Epilogues. For the fanboys and fangirls of said characters, though...nothing will ever be enough, unless they all get their own full-length game.

[Beanovsky Durst]

Yeah. If there IS an RE6, it should be about Ada and Sherry. They're all that's left of the old storyline.

Well I sort of agree. Plus it would be nice to have some RE3-style epilogues in that game, with what the hell happened with all the support characters (Barry, Rebecca, Carlos, Ark, Bruce, Sheva, etc.)... Then I'll be ready for the reboot.

[Vector]

Ada and Sherry... if Capcom really wants a clean start with RE6 they need to give a closure to those two characters' stories.

Yeah. If there IS an RE6, it should be about Ada and Sherry. They're all that's left of the old storyline.

[Mr_Zombie]

Ada and Sherry... if Capcom really wants a clean start with RE6 they need to give a closure to those two characters' stories.

I just hope the last chapter involves Ada, she HAS to be explained, what are her intentions and so on, and sherry... well... she can be in the game too

[BadWolfX]

I'm not too sure what her role will be at this point. Though I'm interested in finding out, I'm hoping Capcom keeps most of the new stuff underwraps. I don't think she'll be a playable character though.

Yeah, I doubt she's going to be playable. In fact I can see you having to find/chase her for half of the Scenario because she'll be important to some sort of cause.

I'm not actually sure how I feel about the Scenario as a whole. It's great that we know so little (for now) but something about it just bugs me.

[Yzak]

Jill and Rebecca are not magically tied to Chris. So using the logic of "they can be in it if Chris is" means like. IDK Barry or Brad could just as plausibly be in it. Seriously, CV scenario. Chris was in CV. It's not that hard to get without speculating whoever else is going to be in the game.

Also the mistake is a really easy one to make. The people you have typing those things up aren't hardcore RE fans. But probably familiar with Capcom's franchise, thus know some of the characters' names. It was a goof up, not Jill ~being on the minds of all~. :/

[Mr_Zombie]

I don't know why Jill and Rebecca cannot possibly be in this. But if Chris has an appearance then so can everyone else.

I can't believe you're STILL using this argument, that IF Chris is in the game THEN everyone could be there too. In that thread about new DSC trailer everyone have told you exactly WHY Chris is in the game (short version: without Chris CV has no sense) and yet you're here, with yet another thread, with the same problem, deaf to facts and logic.

By the way, am I the only one to find it funny that the title says "Darkside Chronicles Character Discussion" and yet we're talking (once again) about Jill and Rebecca (but mostly Jill) - characters that at the moment are nowhere near being in DSC?

[News Bot]

I think, that there is every possible reason that Jill could be in DSC. The fact that capcom made there "Mistake" means she is on there minds. Why would she be on capcoms minds more than Chris? Maybe she has a role in the game. That's just what I think anyway.

You assume that more than one PR officer wrote that press release.

[Bertha]

The only reason Chris is in the game is because the CODE: Veronica scenario would fail even more than the RE3 one. He's likely only there for the last sections of the CV stage once Steve kicks the bucket.

Jill or any other S.T.A.R.S member would just be milking those characters. There is no good reason for them to be there, even in a small subsection. Plus they've outright said Jill will not be present in the game. Since they're not Games Workshop I think we can likely take them at there word for that. It's not even like scares supposed to be in RE5, since they could at least say, 'Well I found it scary...' Any subsections should be given to characters that are in some way involved in the game. Like Rodrigo fighting his way to the prison to release Claire or, in a crazy and shocking move by Capcom, a totally new character that adds a previously unseen aspect to the story. I doubt that will happen though.

It's pretty obvious that what we see in the character list they sent is not the complete listing. But we know, for certain, there is no Jill and I doubt any of the other S.T.A.R.S members either. The only one I could accept is Barry, in a supporting character role, since he was left out of UC. The others have no business here.

IIRC Jill and Rebecca don't appear in RE 2 and RE CV, so there is no real reason for them to be in the game. We also know that the original scenario of the game will feature Leon and probably Krauser. That means that Rebecca and Jill can't make an out of the fucking blue appereance in DSC.

And yet here we are again....with the same argument people beat nearly to death with a stick in the original thread MissV derailed when he began this argument. As both of you and many others have repeatedly stated: There is no logical reason for Jill or Rebecca especially to just randomly be thrown into the game. They had their screen time in UC. So what if it sucked? They still had it. DSC is about Leon, Claire, and their connections. Much to MissV's dismay that means Chris as well.

From Capcom Europe...

JILL NOT IN RETDC

Sorry, but as the more alert of you will have already realised Jill Valentine is not in Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles as stated in the last e-mail we sent you. The playable characters in the game are Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield & Steve Burnside.
Apologies for any confusion.
Capcom's European PR Team

Claiming that Chris is overexposed, and yet bitching that Jill isn't in yet another game is the very essence of hypocrisy. Across the board Jill has been in more games in and out of the series, sometimes clearly in full fanservice mode (ex. Pachislot machine). DSC contains a game and a character Chris is strongly connected to. Nothing we've seen so far, or that has been hinted at yet, has any relevance to Jill or Rebecca. Darkmoon's point of adding them in just for the sake of it would very much be character milking.

I'd say the most we'll see about Jill will be in the extras. Capcom has already stated the game, like UC, will contain collectables and such. Jill will most likely be mentioned there since just about everyone had some sort of file in UC.

As soon as I saw the word Jill I sighed and very nearly facepalmed. They made a mistake, it doesn't mean that she's in the game or on their minds. It's been said time and time again that Jill doesn't fit into the game and neither do Barry or Rebecca so it's very unlikely that they'll have scenarios. You really do need to drop this, after six or so pages in the main thread it's just tiring now. I thought this thread was going to be about the Girl-With-No-Name.

Sadly, since I knew who started the thread, I knew it wasn't going to have any sort of logical discussion such as that. I too, would like a discussion on the new female and her possible role in the game. So what's stopping us from discussing it here?

I'm not too sure what her role will be at this point. Though I'm interested in finding out, I'm hoping Capcom keeps most of the new stuff underwraps. I don't think she'll be a playable character though.