Resident Evil 6

[AsteroidBlues]

Well, great to the series level, its not like RE stories have been masterpieces (except, IMO Code Veronica)

Meh, I guess that's true enough. xD I actually thought RE4 had an interesting story... :S Not so much about what was going on with Leon, but what was going on in and around this little village. It's a tragic story that seemed more personal than the tragedy in Raccoon City, not sure why.

[Tyrant Rose]

But that's a fair point, we haven't seen much from the Sherry/Jake scenario, so who knows, it may end up much better than we think right now.

As other posters have noted, it seemed like RE6 is poised to be the "bridge" between the old characters' stories (Leon and Chris) and the next generation (Piers, Jake, Sherry and maybe Helena too). Of all the newcomers, Capcom's been promoting Jake and Sherry the hardest, for reasons that became obvious in the second trailer. So Capcom had better give them a decent story if they want fans to accept them as the new main characters.

[ValentineLover]

I can agree with that tough. But the same could be said about Kijuju. Or worse if you consider what is usually going on in that kind of african countries

[AsteroidBlues]

As other posters have noted, it seemed like RE6 is poised to be the "bridge" between the old characters' stories (Leon and Chris) and the next generation (Piers, Jake, Sherry and maybe Helena too). Of all the newcomers, Capcom's been promoting Jake and Sherry the hardest, for reasons that became obvious in the second trailer. So Capcom had better give them a decent story if they want fans to accept them as the new main characters.

Or the cake could be a lie, so to speak. This is my theory; Sherry and Jake die in China due to an oversight by the Capcom translation team, Carla Ramades is actually Billy Coen (had to do SOMETHING to escape the authorities) and will go on to star in his/her own spin-off titles, Chris and Leon will discover that they're actually Umbrella made test tube babies used to test the new "E-virus" which causes serious testosterone production and everlasting life (which they will spend chasing zombies on Mars), It's there where Leon will admit that he was Jill Valentine all along.... Oh, and Piers is actually Ozwell E. Spencer's mini-me.

[ElusionM]

A scene from Leon's scenario I'm sure not everyone has seen yet:

[Tyrant Rose]

Let the good times roll (or, as the case may be, leap out of the shadows and bite you in the jugular).

[Dracarys]

I don't know why some people aren't completely psyched for RE6.

Well personally I haven't seen anything to excite me much at all.

- No female lead, not a fan of the triple guy lead, the RE series has always been pretty balanced between male/female characters, I think is one of the reasons are such a large number of female fans compared to other series. This one seems to be aimed totally at guys, not just once or even twice but three times.

- Possible clones, I do not think clones have ever been done well in anything and this puts me off more than interests me.

- The story as a whole is still a mystery and while not spoiling the story is good it needs throw out enough bait to get hooked on but hasn't. RE5 for example had a megabomb with the Jill tombstone and her possibly being dead, even if some believe she was not really dead there was still several major hooks, why is there a tombstone, where is she really, if she is the caped character why is she bad? Plus going to Africa and exploring the origin of finding the progenitor virus, not to mention the showdown with Wesker being a main character instead of on the sides stroking his info pad and grinning again. Plus Spencer finally being revealed. Regardless how anyone feels this all turned out in the end it was gripping at several major interests of the fanbase before release, some for a long time.

Looking at the characters we got in this

- Chris yet again, major role in RE5, major role in Revelations, Major role in RE6.
- The shit version of Leon we've been getting since RE4.
- Wesker Jr who we got no previous attachment to so should not care about
- Same for Helena
- Same for Piers who if anything is an inferior Chris.
- Sherry has returned, except she now sounds like Ashley and elsewise has turned into Alice, so she has pretty much returned in name only. Her biggest linking character to her original self, Claire, is absent.
- Ada 2.0 falls under the clone comments.
- Ada Prime has 2.0 doing a better job at being bad than she ever did, so getting overshadowed by a clone.

We know Chris and Leon will not kill eachother so failing to care about that showdown. Chris' supposed infection will likely get cured by Jakes special blood, I don't believe Capcom will kill a main character especially after RE5 so the possibility of him dying fails to be an interest.

[Wrathborne]

Howard Johnson is right!

[News Bot]

- Ada Prime has 2.0 doing a better job at being bad than she ever did, so getting overshadowed by a clone.

Ada isn't a villain.

[Dracarys]

Of course, it is the good guys who knowingly work for evil corporations and steal things for them that gets used to kill people. Plus she is on the villains team in ORC.

[News Bot]

Of course, it is the good guys who knowingly work for evil corporations and steal things for them that gets used to kill people. Plus she is on the villains team in ORC.

Yeah. Then afterwards she worked against (possibly left but unconfirmed) the rival company, joined another organization, and betrayed the rival company completely. All the while the writers make it pretty clear that she is a protagonist, albeit mysterious.

And yes, she's on the villain team in ORC, because she was technically a villain in BH2/BH3, which is the timeline ORC is set in. And a multiplayer mode from a non-canon game doesn't mean much to begin with.

[Dracarys]

If she was good she would have let Leon keep the sample at end of RE4 or destroyed it. Nobody has any business with it unless bad.

[News Bot]

If she was good she would have let Leon keep the sample at end of RE4 or destroyed it. Nobody has any business with it unless bad.

Her organization wanted to study it. An ancient organism, unknown to the rest of mankind, would be very interesting to the entire scientific community (and governments). The same reason the U.S. Government happens to keep the t-Virus around. Although the goals of her organization are unknown, the series writers state outright several times that she is not evil.

[AsteroidBlues]

Well personally I haven't seen anything to excite me much at all.

- No female lead, not a fan of the triple guy lead, the RE series has always been pretty balanced between male/female characters, I think is one of the reasons are such a large number of female fans compared to other series. This one seems to be aimed totally at guys, not just once or even twice but three times.

- Possible clones, I do not think clones have ever been done well in anything and this puts me off more than interests me.

- The story as a whole is still a mystery and while not spoiling the story is good it needs throw out enough bait to get hooked on but hasn't. RE5 for example had a megabomb with the Jill tombstone and her possibly being dead, even if some believe she was not really dead there was still several major hooks, why is there a tombstone, where is she really, if she is the caped character why is she bad? Plus going to Africa and exploring the origin of finding the progenitor virus, not to mention the showdown with Wesker being a main character instead of on the sides stroking his info pad and grinning again. Plus Spencer finally being revealed. Regardless how anyone feels this all turned out in the end it was gripping at several major interests of the fanbase before release, some for a long time.

Looking at the characters we got in this

- Chris yet again, major role in RE5, major role in Revelations, Major role in RE6.
- The shit version of Leon we've been getting since RE4.
- Wesker Jr who we got no previous attachment to so should not care about
- Same for Helena
- Same for Piers who if anything is an inferior Chris.
- Sherry has returned, except she now sounds like Ashley and elsewise has turned into Alice, so she has pretty much returned in name only. Her biggest linking character to her original self, Claire, is absent.
- Ada 2.0 falls under the clone comments.
- Ada Prime has 2.0 doing a better job at being bad than she ever did, so getting overshadowed by a clone.

We know Chris and Leon will not kill eachother so failing to care about that showdown. Chris' supposed infection will likely get cured by Jakes special blood, I don't believe Capcom will kill a main character especially after RE5 so the possibility of him dying fails to be an interest.

lol perhaps Capcom shouldn't release it at all. XD So now I set upon the task of rebutting all of your bullet points... A large task indeed.

-I believe they had to bring Chris into this for one reason; To sign him off the series. I think Chris is either going to die or fade into a 'non-playable' character on the fringe of the RE universe. What better way for him to end his stint than meeting up with Leon for the first time on screen? Fans have been foaming at the mouth for this moment.
-Leon is a badass, Therefore your argument is invalid.
-You don't find struggling to understand when the hell (Or how the hell) this Wesker spawn congealed into the mass he is in the trailers interesting in the slightest?
-Helena is a new character. New characters happen. Every new character has to be introduced at some point, so it's at least worth a little consideration as to how she fits into the story.
-Of course Piers is inferior to Chris. XD He doesn't have 10+ years of history behind him.
-Sherry sounds like Ashley... that is unfortunate. But we kinda had to expect that she would end up powerful, I mean she survived the G-virus sans mutations. We're talking about Albert Wesker amounts of power here.
-The Ada clone thing is pretty unfortunate, but it's possible (just maybe) that capcom managed to make it a valid and interesting plot device.... Maybe.

As far as the Leon V. Chris argument, I propose two possible scenarios;

What I think will happen:
They stare off against each other until they lower their weapons, bro fist bump it out, and set out to destroy entire buildings with Falcon punches.

What could happen... possibly:
They stare off against one another and let lead fly. (If this happens... I'll be kind of glad. XD)

tl;dr is basically this, we're judging a product that we haven't seen in it's entirety. You may not be psyched to see how it turns out, but I think there's a lot to be excited about.


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[AsteroidBlues]

Her organization wanted to study it. An ancient organism, unknown to the rest of mankind, would be very interesting to the entire scientific community (and governments). The same reason the U.S. Government happens to keep the t-Virus around. Although the goals of her organization are unknown, the series writers state outright several times that she is not evil.

One theory that no one has pointed out yet is the fact that, perhaps, Ada stealing the Plagas samples WAS the good thing to do... Perhaps her organization is dedicated to keeping such power out of the hands of ANY government. It's possible that all these borderline evil things that she's been up to are actually for the betterment of mankind.