Back in the day, Capcom did mock interviews for Leon and Claire in a magazine. Honestly tells you a lot about their mindset and overall trajectory with these two and how it would influence their later stuff.
>designing a character to the point of being able to hold an interview with themthis is a lost art.
>>735611880>favorite movie is the french connection>a movie about a cop so bad that the only thing that separates him from the bad guys is his badge
>>735611880That was a regular practice for most companies back then when they wanted to use other means to flesh out their characters since vidya was pretty limited at the time in terms of storytelling.There's an old interview with Ryu and Guile where Ryu reveals that he gets annoyed whenever people think he's a broke, wandering hobo.
Pee pee poo poo
>>735612041so what?
>>735611880>but he seemed like too much of a boyscout type. I want mean to be more badass and sloppy> I date a lot of guysWait, Claire is a used goodFuck
>>735612310Wasn't she dating a guy in Revelations 2? So yeah.
>>735612310Chris is such a lucky guy.
Claire's bodycount status?
>I like to watch movies. I like to watch movies alone in a quiet dark room.
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>>735611880>Honestly tells you a lot about their mindset and overall trajectory with these two and how it would influence their later stuff.It's more that there was just a more relaxed culture back then, where you could fuck around. If you read games magazines, which had a comedy section (for me it was PC Action), you know what I am talking about. The average humor of a video game journalist was basically 4chan without the meme culture.
>>735612781What's Grace's body count,?
>>735612914Zero
>Ugh,um, OK>Ugh, yes. I guess>heel holeWhy does this interviewer hate Claire?
>>735612914she tried dating a few men, but never had sex with them, because if given the choice, she will always choose men as nerdy and anxious as herselfshe needs a man, who is forward and forces her to go through with it finally, but they need to come for her and not the other way around
>>735612974It's just an average reaction after speaking with a w*man
>>735611880>Chris being an uncommincative dumbass causes hardship for people he cares aboutvery funny how 8 went with that piece of characterization>called Leon a boy scout because of their initial meeting>said meeting involves him shooting to kill to save Claire's life + telling her the location of a gun so she could handle herselfnot like RE2 Leon isn't a boy scout, but you couldn't really get that impression judging by their first encounterwish these interviews came with the manual; there's some nice pieces of characterization that help flesh out their fairly dry portrayal
>>735611880>claire was canonically a whore and more interested in banging her brother than leon because he's not an exciting bad boy which is her typeAnd this is why she's a childless catlady today and Leon has a harem.
>>735612310Going on dates doesn't mean she's fucking them. It was the 90s, it would usually take 3 dates for the woman to be intimate with a guy.
>>735612974You shouldn't cuss in front of women.Except during sex then you call them cunts and tell them that you're going to blast their shithole.
>>735612041it was probably just the first cop movie that came to the writer's mind. great film but popeye doyle couldn't be further from orig leon so its a pretty weird choice for this.
>>735613146But if you're dating "lots of guys" you are fucking them all because non-whores don't date "lots of guys".
>>735612041>>735613190You know there are people who like Scarface who also recognize Tony is a total disaster.
>>735613071>wish these interviews came with the manual; there's some nice pieces of characterization that help flesh out their fairly dry portrayalYeah even hearing how much Leon's dad meant to him and how it led him to wanting to become a police officer was nice to find out. Always enjoyed when games had old manuals that would give you a whole slew of info and backstory for the character in preparation of diving into the game.
>>735613248>Always enjoyed when games had old manuals that would give you a whole slew of info and backstory for the character in preparation of diving into the game.That was neat but almost all the time it was just completely made up by people who worked for the publisher and had absolutely no interaction with the dev team whatsoever.
>>735613295Oh damn really? Well it was always fun to imagine the character's lives before the game so I guess it helped me immerse with the world even more.
>>735612310one look at her and you could tell straight away she was someone who's fucked atleast a few guys
>>735611880>>735613135Wait so Claire and Chris being somewhat incestuous rednecks was not entirely a meme?
>>735613246no scarface is about some cool guy shooting guys and doing tons of coke while swimming in cashyou have to be an international drug dealer to truly enjoy that movie
>>735613146Monica and Rachel had several one night stands in Friends, Joey too, that rule only applied to Ross and Chandler most of the time.
Thanks to this, I now understand why Leon and Claire were never gonna be a thing.That explains why they only meet like twice in 30 years after RE2.Jap really have a bad habit of hiding important info in side materials
>>735613750Yeah lmao, it's clear someone at Capcom did shipp them, as Degeneration (movie) has Claire getting jealous over Leon in bloopers, but at the same time infinite darkness has a moment where they land on top of each other and Claire looks at him with disgust kek. They also don't talk at all in Death Island, they also removed several of their interactions from RE2R.Also didn't know this:>>735612541Jeez, Cleon might really be a dead shipp huh.Someone at Capcom might like the idea of Leon and Claire together, but they don't know how to stick the landing, despite all that Claire is still a better choice than Ada.But it sucks that Leon had a more organic connection With Grace of all people than he ever did with Ada and Claire, Grace, an anxious socially awkward zoomette, you can't make this stuff up.
I just realized that most RE characters have almost no personality at allWhat is Leon's personality? He says one liners sometimes? What else? Claire likes motorcycles... or she did. That's never brought up again after 2. What about Jill? Carlos? Chris? (no the memes don't count)Based Barry is the only RE protag with a personality and life outside of his job
>>735611880Who the fuck just drinks brandy?
>>735614337He never says he just drinks brandy.
>>735611880>anotheronekek, even back then their writers were incompetent.
>>735614376Ok sorry sperg. Who the fuck drinks brandy ‘most of the time’?
>>735614505also>heel holelike come on, besides from making claire unironic used goods who whores around, did no one proof read this between their fanfic tier fap session?
>>735614505>their writersit's a sloppy fan translation
>>735614551Leon S. Kennedy
>>735614316>What about Jill?Unironically she was the strong independent woman/action girl. People harp on the remake for her rudeness and cussing but it's a modern evolution to how she was originally written in RE3 where she would question authority and how people like Chief Irons or faceless corporations like Umbrella regularly fucked with people's lives. People think she was rude to Carlos only in the remake but she snaps at him and even slaps him in the original. She makes similarly snarky comments to Chris in RE5's Lost in Nightmares but it works because Chris can take it like a champ. There's a reason why she got Sarah Connor's outfit in REmake and it's not just out of sexiness. People don't like to bring this up because they've idealized Jill as some soft motherly waifu and Voth's likeness with her bedroom eyes only contributed to that projection. I still remember people way back complaining how Alice in the films essentially stole Jill's character role and that should tell you all about her. The cussing in the remake may seem excessive but the same could be said for Leon and Claire in the remakes who'd cuss/swear just as well, so you know it's just Capcom's modern sensibilities of dialogue writing.>CarlosThe flirty Mexican who likes to joke around, also was none the wiser when it came to his superior's treachery. Remake improved this by not making his flirting cringe but also gave more depth to his interactions with Jill depicting him as genuinely sympathetic to her hangups with Umbrella.>ChrisOriginally the rogue hotshot. He's a former Air Force pilot with a no-nonsense attitude and a rebel, which contrasts Wesker's slimy attitude as the leader of STARS who also comes across as a nerd (which fits since Wesker was also a scientist). Later entries like RE5 and especially RE6-8 would slowly lead him down the path of a disillusioned leader who could never seem to retire from fighting the good fight even though he really wants to.
>>735611880Sometimes I miss old gaming magazines a lot of them did silly stuff like this.I use to love taking PS1 memory card sticker sheets out of PSN magazines when I was a child and I would trade them with other kids at school, I still have the RE 2 stylized leon sticker on my old memory card, at least somewhere buried in a box in my garage.
>>735615179>Voth's likeness with her bedroom eyesGot the webm anon? Please tell me you've gpt it, my SSD died.
>>735615552You mean her cosplay stuff? Sadly no, lost most of my files a while back in the same way.
>>735615861My brother in loss, may we mourn together.
>>735615286>PS1 memory card sticker sheetsholy shit I had absolutely no idea those were a thing, and I'm not even a zoomer, that explains the rectangular spot on the memory cards
>>735614316It used to be you'd keep your player characters fairly bland so as to not alienate anyone because nobody wants to play as a character they don't like and then you'd put all your personality into the villains and side characters.That being said, a lot of it is just RE is a franchise that hasn't ever had good writing and doesn't really care that it doesn't.
>>735616037>that explains the rectangular spot on the memory cardsDude, they literally came with labels you stuck in that spot. The idea was you're write down what games were saved on that memory card on the label.
>>735615179a job is not a personality lil bro
>>735616262I had no memory cards of my own, my dad took them out everytime so I wouldn't overwrite his saves lol
