Resident Evil Story

[K_Dub]

Lately I've been hearing that the RE story is just horrible. And I honestly don't think that's true. Think back to 1996 when the first RE game had been released. During that time, there were hardly any game or movie titles with a "zombie" influence. Resident Evil had a fairly original story line, that was both interesting and compelling.

But over the years a shitload of game and movie titles with a "zombie" influence have been thrown at the consumers left and right. And because "zombies sell", original and interesting zombie titles have been lost in this sea of rotten zombie corpses; i.e. Resident Evil series.

This brings me to my main point. Does anyone else think the Resident Evil story isn't actually half-bad? Or am I the only one on this who thinks that?

 

[y8c616]

Lately I've been hearing that the RE story is just horrible. And I honestly don't think that's true. Think back to 1996 when the first RE game had been released. During that time, there were hardly any game or movie titles with a "zombie" influence. Resident Evil had a fairly original story line, that was both interesting and compelling.

But over the years a shitload of game and movie titles with a "zombie" influence have been thrown at the consumers left and right. And because "zombies sell", original and interesting zombie titles have been lost in this sea of rotten zombie corpses; i.e. Resident Evil series.

This brings me to my main point. Does anyone else think the Resident Evil story isn't actually half-bad? Or am I the only one on this who thinks that?

Resident Evil 1-3 have awesome story lines. After those, i think it got a bit iffy. Also the voice acting is really bad in all of them. Bur RE2 is one of my favorite games ever.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I think it's pretty alright. It's not that great by any means, but I've certainly seen much worse.

 

[shadow_pirate22]

I don't see why it's so bad.

 

[Erana]

The whole problem with the story is trying to think of a good reason for a bunch of people to be in a mansion full of zombies.
Its pretty hard to do so without looking like a moron.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

... Its not exactly up there with Dickens but it gets the job done...

The whole problem with the story is trying to think of a good reason for a bunch of people to be in a mansion full of zombies.
Its pretty hard to do so without looking like a moron.

Lol, totally man. At the end of the day the stories just an excuse for the action and gameplay, RE had the good atmosphere though, those diaries creeped the hell out of me.

Actually, you could pretty much swap round Luigis mansion and RE... Now thats a game I want to see, An Italian plumber takes on Zombies/Mutants with a souped up Henry (or just Vaccuum cleaner for non afficianados). Insert Stereotypical Accent: Eha Luigi, you are the master of unlocking!

 

[Arionis]

I've enjoyed all the games (except Gaiden for the Game Boy, and I haven't played Dead Aim or any of the survivor series) but I find the story actually pretty damn good.

RE: Degeneration, the new CGI movie, continues with the story, and it's STILL good.

It makes sense to me that biological creations by the world's leading companies in the name of profit causes such devastation.

And 4's story was....well, it was a jump, but it wasn't really that BAD of a jump.

Much.

 

[Syphonz]

The whole problem with the story is trying to think of a good reason for a bunch of people to be in a mansion full of zombies.
Its pretty hard to do so without looking like a moron.

Not to mention why is a small town's police department also the size of a mansion and interconnected to the sewers. They also never really explain how the virus spread from the mansion incident after the explosion. I mean, it just did.

 

[Voltano]

Resident Evil 2 was my favorite of the series, though I look at the story for them all and...Well...I don't think they fit well as a survival horror story really. The second did captured the feeling of being in a town filled with zombies wishing to snack on brain-dead-protagonists quite well, but another poster before me pretty much put the nail in the coffin about the first one: If the characters know that something really bizarre is happening in the building with the zombies, then why stay?

 

[LordCraigus]

Not to mention why is a small town's police department also the size of a mansion and interconnected to the sewers.

You know, for some reason the massive size of the police station never really struck me as being odd, guess I was just too soaked up in the atmosphere to realise.

Anyway, I'd say the story is 'alright' at best... I think the small intricacies and clever devices used to tell the story tend to overshadow some of the more ridiculous plot points.

 

[squid5580]

I like the story and have had huge discussion via the internet discussing them. There is some huge plotholes but hey they are still fun. And Degeneration RAWKED! I was so expecting FAIL

 

[Rezfon]

The whole story with Wesker is pretty cool in my opinion. I really enjoyed the series.

 

[stiver]

the problem is every single RE game follows same plotline:
-> Cluelessly wander around till zombies pop-up.
-> find increasingly weird locations with absurd puzzles to open door/secret location.
-> someone betrays you,
-> everything is set to explode and you narrowly escape on helicopter/plane.

Yeah they take a few liberties, but they really only had to hire story writers for one game, and just changed locations for the next 7 (because anyone that actually thinks RE5 is the 5th is pretty out of it.)

 

[Lebeau's Bounty]

Look, I think the problem is that with the success and growth of the franchise they really haven't continued to develop the story to any depth. They've continued it... but not in a truly purposeful direction.

RE 1 and RE 2 had such awesome elements and RE3 carried it on too. And my favorite parts of all those was when you'd find the journals with all the peripheral horror elements of the story. That was such a cool narrative. But maybe it was RE 0 that tossed it off the mark for me? Like a prequel story with no real effect on the story. I mean RE2 and 3 saw the destruction of Raccoon City which was huge.

But my worry is that with RE4 and RE 5, though 4 was amazing, and 5 looks stunning... it felt like a cop-out. RE4 another company got or made some sort of zombie-juice post Umbrella's fall... and there's Wesker lurking in the shadows. RE5 looks the same. Zombie-juice. Mysterious appearances by Wesker. And then Code Veronica was just that too.

I always felt if they could keep tying the continuity and characters in a meaningful way, it'd be epic. but it just seems like they give a situation far removed from the initial event that keeps on perpetuating itself... but is not building towards a likely conclusion.

IE: Chris, Barry, Jill, Leon and Claire storm Umbrella's headquarters and have one final fight with T-Virus Wesker.

Don't get me wrong though...

RE5 will be mine.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

The story is actually quite good, it's just the telling of it that's terrible.

YOU WERE ALMOST

A

JILL SANDWICH

etc etc.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I like the story and have had huge discussion via the internet discussing them. There is some huge plotholes but hey they are still fun. And Degeneration RAWKED! I was so expecting FAIL

RE: Degeneration, the new CGI movie, continues with the story, and it's STILL good.

I know we are all entitled to opinions but you actually thought degeneration was good? The iffy story and voice acting and the boring zombie types, o and the stiff animation didn't throw you off?

 

[squid5580]

I like the story and have had huge discussion via the internet discussing them. There is some huge plotholes but hey they are still fun. And Degeneration RAWKED! I was so expecting FAIL

RE: Degeneration, the new CGI movie, continues with the story, and it's STILL good.

I know we are all entitled to opinions but you actually thought degeneration was good? The iffy story and voice acting and the boring zombie types, o and the stiff animation didn't throw you off?

I rented it with very low expectations. I didn't have any problems with the animation or the V/A. I like slow zombies since that is what RE has been based on (pre 4). Also I am not a movie critic who will spend days studying everything about it. I turned off the lights with my bowl of popcorn and was entertained. Could it have been better? Sure. Could it have been worse? Oh hell yes.