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[Johnny Novgorod]

 

[BrawlMan]

Not what I expected, but at least it's going with an original story, but has the hallmarks of what makes this Resident Evil. I was hoping or expecting for more accurate adaption of the first game, but I get why they don't wanna do that again. Don't wanna retread old ground.

 

[CriticalGaming]

I dont understand why they keep trying to not only make RE movies, but continue to stray from the source material that fans expect and want in a film. You could call this movie fucking anything else and it would be the same film.

 

[thebobmaster]

I dont understand why they keep trying to not only make RE movies, but continue to stray from the source material that fans expect and want in a film. You could call this movie fucking anything else and it would be the same film.

Actually, Zach Cregger is onto something here. This is what the man himself had to say about it.

"I would feel like there’s kind of no winning there if I were to tell Leon’s story, because the games do such a great job. It would just be kind of redundant, and ultimately, I think, disappointing. So I would rather just tell a story that could exist on the sidelines of one of the games. So the world of 'Resident Evil 2' is kind of where this takes place, even though I’d make a couple of little shifts for dramatic license."

 

[CriticalGaming]

Actually, Zach Cregger is onto something here. This is what the man himself had to say about it.

"I would feel like there’s kind of no winning there if I were to tell Leon’s story, because the games do such a great job. It would just be kind of redundant, and ultimately, I think, disappointing. So I would rather just tell a story that could exist on the sidelines of one of the games. So the world of 'Resident Evil 2' is kind of where this takes place, even though I’d make a couple of little shifts for dramatic license."

Yeah but that's not what people go to see a video game movie for. They want to see the game's story brought to life in a live-action movie. Everyone who has ever gone to a video game movie has ALWAYS complained that they didn't follow the story in the game. This director's excuse is just "I wanted to make my own movie but I'm calling it RE to bait more people into seeing it because without the RE name nobody would care."

I don't buy it. And I wont go see it.

 

[BrawlMan]

Yeah but that's not what people go to see a video game movie for. They want to see the game's story brought to life in a live-action movie. Everyone who has ever gone to a video game movie has ALWAYS complained that they didn't follow the story in the game. This director's excuse is just "I wanted to make my own movie but I'm calling it RE to bait more people into seeing it because without the RE name nobody would care."

I don't buy it. And I wont go see it.

That is actually more than fair enough. I'm still interested just out of curiosity, but the way some of this film is shot, it feels more like a Silent Hill/Evil Within film combination than RE in certain parts.

I do see influences of RE7. Granted, it's the one I like the least outside of 6, 0, and CV.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

I was excited for this game:

Then I saw the PC specs:
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Seriously, what is up with these specs that expects us to have super computers?

Odd that Min spec is an i7 while Recommended is an i5. Game will probably reflect these inconsistencies anyways.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Odd that Min spec is an i7 while Recommended is an i5. Game will probably reflect these inconsistencies anyways.

Ue5 game so the performance will be all over the place for people.

 

[BrawlMan]

Actually, Zach Cregger is onto something here. This is what the man himself had to say about it.

"I would feel like there’s kind of no winning there if I were to tell Leon’s story, because the games do such a great job. It would just be kind of redundant, and ultimately, I think, disappointing. So I would rather just tell a story that could exist on the sidelines of one of the games. So the world of 'Resident Evil 2' is kind of where this takes place, even though I’d make a couple of little shifts for dramatic license."

I know you're not going to see RE 2026, @CriticalGaming gaming but I found this earlier.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3949060/zach-cregger-views-his-resident-evil-as-taking-place-during-the-events-of-resident-evil-2/

By
John Squires
Zach Cregger has been pretty clear in recent months that his upcoming Resident Evil movie isn’t a direct adaptation of any of the video games, but rather his own original story that aims to recapture the experience of playing a Resident Evil video game. That said, Cregger has revealed that in his mind, his movie is taking place during the events of Resident Evil 2.
The Resident Evil 2 video game, to be clear.
Zach Cregger explains to IGN in a trailer breakdown video today, “My rule for this movie was to try and make a movie that felt like my experience of playing the games, and that could live in the world of Resident Evil. I feel like this movie takes place alongside the events of Resident Evil 2. I like to think that everything that’s going on in the police station could be happening in this world. This is just another dude on another mission on the other side of town.”
“So yeah,” Cregger continues, “it’s not canon in that I’m using the characters, but it’s canon in that it lives in the actual day of reckoning in Raccoon City.”

“This is the first night that the T-Virus has broken out,” Cregger adds.

The dude on a mission in the film is Bryan, played by Austin Abrams (Weapons).
Zach Cregger goes on to detail in his Resident Evil trailer breakdown, “This movie follows a character who’s outside of Raccoon City, and he’s gotta get into the center of it. And we’re with him as he goes through this gauntlet of set-pieces and gets deeper and deeper into town.”
Based on the iconic video game franchise, Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX on September 18 via Sony. The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger.

 

[Chimpzy]

Odd that Min spec is an i7 while Recommended is an i5. Game will probably reflect these inconsistencies anyways.

Tho an i7, the 8700k is from 2017. If I were an Intel customer, I'd be pretty pissed if am i5 five years and five generations newer didn't at least match, if not outperform it.

 

[Bedinsis]

A month old news item that I should've posted when it was fresh. Why it was delayed I will reveal soon enough:

The Swedish government recently finalized a report over the board game and video game industry. ALL the parties in the riksdag came with a joint statement on what they considered thei needs to be, to let it continue to grow from the current 9000-something employees.

They state that multiple countries covertly subsidize their own games industry.
They emphasize that agreement between the parties in the needs for the industry is unique.
They highlight that the needs include cultural workers, meaning cultural schools, youth centers and associations for study circles is therefore part of the games politics. They point out that the industry would prefer if more of the education for game developer happened at companies.
They state that as the industry get more advanced more research will be needed.

The part about the parties being in agreement surprised me, since they span a whole spectrum, and since I honestly was curious what the report said, I actually read it through to find out if there were anything unexpectant there. Here it is in PDF form, and if you want the HTML-form, which I suspect is easier for Google translate to handle, here you go. 182 pages, discussing financing opportunities, regional variances, what the government curently is funding, current and future AI impact, how business clusters leads to the creation of local hubs, and a comparison to 5 other countries' (Denmark, UK, Canada, Finland and Germany) policies and what the outsome of those policies has been. And it was an incredible bore. If I ever read a report such as this again I will keep to the summary of each section. I only skimmed through the last part It also did not do in the way of analysis of what policies are the most impactful or something like that, it merely stated "here's what's present at the time, here's what various actors are asking for". Personally, I thought it sounded like business clusters was impactful.

In the spirit of analyzing things, I think what the parties are all in agreement on is really "this business seems to be working fine as is, this is not central to our politics, it gives job, culture and money to our country, let's not rock the boat and just continue as normal".

A couple days afterwards 3 of the 4 current opposition parties wanted to highlight the industry, but I have misplaced that article since it's been a month.

The annual report from the Swedish Games Industry was released the other day. They spoke about the above mentioned report among other things.
I felt vindicated in my view that business clusters were impactful, or at least that they thought they were impactful... until I read closer and realized it was incubators they spoke of.

The regional clusters and incubators play a key role here. The progress in Skövde, with its well-established ecosystem, is considered a leading example worldwide. Through long-term and dedicated work local studios continue to reap successes. In 2025, RV There Yet? from Nuggets Entertainment was released, garnering acco lades such as the Sit Back and Relax category at the Steam Awards. The game sold an incredible 1.3 million copies in the first week after release.
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Although access to venture capital appears to be on the recovery, we are concerned about the announced cuts in funding for incubators. The Swedish Games Industry considers the incubators to be a success story, where the economic benefits derived from the projects have far exceeded the costs. The incubators are needed for continued growth and more start-ups in the industry.

On a personal note, I participated in an event one of these clusters organized where you could participate in Global Game Jam at their locale earlier this year. A fun weekend where I got to relearn not to overthink things when you are on a tight deadline.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[Chimpzy]

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Sony bumped up the prices of refurbished PS5s. Getting a used one from them now costs more than a new one did at launch.

 

[thebobmaster]

Yeah but that's not what people go to see a video game movie for. They want to see the game's story brought to life in a live-action movie. Everyone who has ever gone to a video game movie has ALWAYS complained that they didn't follow the story in the game. This director's excuse is just "I wanted to make my own movie but I'm calling it RE to bait more people into seeing it because without the RE name nobody would care."

I don't buy it. And I wont go see it.

I used to be that way, but then I took an arrow in the knee realized that sometimes, things need to change in the adaptation process. If I want to see the story of Resident Evil without changes, I'll...play Resident Evil, or watch the cutscenes on YouTube for free. As long as the changes are being made with a purpose beyond "I want to", I am fine with adaptations making changes. As an example, some of the best Stephen King adaptations are the ones that change fairly major parts of the story, like The Shining or The Shawshank Redemption. Films that stayed much truer to the books of his include Pet Sematary and Firestarter.

 

[BrawlMan]

I used to be that way, but then I took an arrow in the knee realized that sometimes, things need to change in the adaptation process. If I want to see the story of Resident Evil without changes, I'll...play Resident Evil, or watch the cutscenes on YouTube for free. As long as the changes are being made with a purpose beyond "I want to", I am fine with adaptations making changes. As an example, some of the best Stephen King adaptations are the ones that change fairly major parts of the story, like The Shining or The Shawshank Redemption. Films that stayed much truer to the books of his include Pet Sematary and Firestarter.

You're pretty much speaking my language, and what Korey's views in the Double Toasted video I posted earlier. Thank you.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Gotta say it would be pretty boring, predictable, disappointing, etc. for them to just remake the story of RE2 (or any game) beat for beat. At most for this in particular since there have already been so many RE movie and games, I’d like to see it adjacent to a few things most notable from the game, like maybe see a licker breaking into the police station from an outside point of view so you just know what would be going down in there.

I’m more interested in seeing how they’ll handle something that isn’t story-driven in the first place, like the Elden Ring movie. There’s more of a blank canvas with so few cutscenes or anything like that as it is. Get the characters and lore down and then go wild to fill in the blanks.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Don't know how to feel about this Resident Evil movie. On the one hand it doesn't look fucking embarrassing like they usually look. On the other, very little about it actually gives me Resident Evil, and I'm not even talking about the characters. It honestly just looks like the current horror movie fare, but with the Resident Evil name attached to it. I get not burning themselves trying to make Leon, Claire, or Ada in live-action, but then that itself might already be reason enough to just not bother and leave it in the medium of videogames.

 

[BrawlMan]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gamestop-is-hungry-for-relevance-is-buying-ebay-the-answer-de7004a0

Bernstein analyst Nikhil Devnani questioned the merits of a deal. “There is obviously some overlap in segments (and likely audience) across games, toys, and collectibles,” he wrote in a note to clients. “That said, eBay operates at a far bigger scale with a more diversified business.”

He’s unclear what GameStop would have to offer eBay from a strategic perspective.

Any potential move, the Journal noted, would come as GameStop CEO Cohen sets his sights on expanding the company’s market valuation to at least $100 billion. He could make up to $35 billion in stock compensation if GameStop’s value reaches that $100 billion figure and other targets are hit, the Journal said.

According to Dow Jones Market Data, GameStop currently has a market capitalization of $11.2 billion, while eBay’s stands at around $46 billion.

Fuck that. eBay is doing fine on its own. They don't need GS's greasy and ugly mitts on them. Fuck off and burn GameStop.

 

[BrawlMan]

The Pac is back.
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[meiam]

Guys you'll never believe it, an online only hero shooter is closing after just coming out.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/last-flag-ending-new-content-updates-amid-low-player-numbers/1100-6539762/

It even had amongst its dev... some guy from a rock band... so you know it was going to make all the money in the world.