Who remembers Regina?

Asclepion

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With all the recent focus on female characters in games, one of my favorite is suspiciously absent.

In Dino Crisis, a redheaded badass intelligence agent makes her way through a science facility that through a temporal accident has become overrun with predatory dinosaurs. While it's possible to kill them, ammunition is limited and the player is better avoiding combat by using the facility's security systems to their advantage and rappelling up to maintenance shafts to travel between areas.

Regina could be funny, sardonic, and playful, but still looked like she could quite happily kick the shit out of you if you crossed her. She is built more like an athlete than a model, and wears a body armor suit that covers virtually her entire body except the shoulders. Of the five S.O.R.T agents sent to Ibis Island, she was one of two to return unharmed.



Basically Regina would utterly and completely assrape Lara Croft. Which is why it's unfortunate that Capcom seems to have forgotten about this series. I've read rumors that a reboot is being developed, and this is one of the few games in which a reboot would be both warranted and awesome- Resident Evil was totally redone and is still receiving installments. One wonders what Dino Crisis could be like with the same treatment.

Regina is a playable character in Dead Rising 3's DLC. All is not lost.

(Seriously, why does no one seem to talk about Regina?)
 

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Heh heh, it's funny because it sounds like

angina, a heart condition that occurs when the blood supply to the muscles of the heart is restricted. Which, come to think about it, isn't funny at all.

Anyway, I had Dino Crisis on Dreamcast and found it very underwhelming. It was a pretty transparent Resident Evil clone and nothing about it really appealed to me at all - the dinos weren't particularly believable, the story was paper-thin, the attempts at characterisation were annoying. The main character design in particular is the epitome of late-90s, early-00s tasteless design-by-committee lukewarm tapioca. It's one of those series that got forgotten for a reason. Possibly it could be good for a reboot and major stylistic overhaul.
 

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Dino Crisis was the first RE-style game to utilize 3D polygonal environments, and introduced many gameplay tweaks to Resident Evil's controls and combat (Dino Crisis introduced the 'quick-turn,' which allows Regina to turn 180 degrees with the touch of a button.)
 

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What I remember most about those games was shooting velociraptors with an anti-tank gun; which is to say I remember it fondly.
 
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Eh. Tried it, was kinda boring. The most memorable thing about that game was a piece of rule 34 of her blowing a velociraptor while shoving a gun in it's face.
 

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I remember the game but never played it I wasnt a fan of the old Resi Style games to be honest dont expect capcom to bring back any of their old classic Ips anytime soon despite them having a potential goldmine if they marketed and budgeted it right, they wouldnt sell Monster Hunter numbers but they would sell to a dedicated niche which is probably bigger than they think although of course less that they hope.

What about other classic Characters they have forgotten like

Linn Kurosawa - really wanted her to be in MVC3
Sonson - games arent good but since she based on the handsome monkey king Sun Wukong himself you could have a lot of fun with her attacks and design see MVC2 for instance.
Captain Commando - their old mascot
Jin Saotome - bet there arent many who remember him I certainly dont from his original game only his crossovers.
Mega Man - whoever that is. Probably best they keep him buried cant see a market for this one, mighty number what now?

Capcom are remaking Resident Evil anyway...again I suspect they dont trust themselves to make one that dosent suck anymore if they dont copy and redo one from before, but hey you get to play Resident evil again. I wonder if they will cancel the series if it dosent sell 7 million units wouldnt surprise me.
 

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Played the first game... she was just a palette swap of Jill Valentine to me, with the benefit of an actual uniform (compared to RE Nemesis anyway). Don't recall any kind of personality trait beyond being generically heroic. Fun game though!

It's true I haven't heard of these games in forever. I suppose Capcom figured it was too much like Resident Evil and what was the point of keep up both IPs on the run?
 

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Johnny Novgorod said:
Played the first game... she was just a palette swap of Jill Valentine to me, with the benefit of an actual uniform (compared to RE Nemesis anyway). Don't recall any kind of personality trait beyond being generically heroic. Fun game though!

It's true I haven't heard of these games in forever. I suppose Capcom figured it was too much like Resident Evil and what was the point of keep up both IPs on the run?
Funny you should say that. Fans have wanted her included in the Marvel vs Capcom games for quite a while now citing that her moveset can call upon dinosaurs (Velociraptors, Pteranodons, T-Rex, Giganotosaurus) which if you know anything about MVC2 you should know that was how Jill's moveset was in that (replace dinosaurs with Zombies of course).

The original game was called an RE clone yes (which I detest as that is thrown at a lot of games that have tank controls , but actually play differently), and in its case that would be an accurate assessment. However Dino Crisis 2 changed the game into a dinosaur slaughter where you had pretty much endless ammo and got bonus points if you could chain together kills...I think, its been years but I'm sure it had a mechanic like that. Basically Dino Crisis 2 was very much different to what RE was at the time, its just the whole "its got tank controls thus clone" mentality means a lot of people miss that.

As for why the IP was dropped...Dino Crisis 3. Abortion of a game by itself, but to make the matters worse it was an Xbox exclusive pretty much dooming it even if it actually was any good. I've heard of deals Microsoft cut for exclusives with Japanaese devs and I suppose Capcom decided to throw Dino Crisis under a bus instead of simply making a new IP to sacrifice (lets face it, anything those companies put out exclusive on the Xbox was going to fail).
 

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Yeah, I remember her. I even remember you could dress up as her in Resident Evil 3, which I always did. I also remember her not having much of a personality to speak of. As a matter of fact, the whole game was pretty devoid of any personallity, but I mainly blame the horrid real-time static environments for that.

Luckily Dino Crisis 2 went back to prerendered and just decided to have fun with those silly dinosaurs. That fucking cliffhanger though.

And then we got Dino Crisis 3... ='(