https://www.gamesradar.com/games/resident-evil/resident-evils-10-year-plan-ended-with-requiem-but-the-next-10-may-cap-off-the-whole-storyline-producer-says/>Resident Evil series executive producer Jun Takeuchi says the series' overarching storyline could end within the next 10 years.>Speaking to Yahoo Japan (via machine translation), Takeuchi notes that with the upcoming Resident Evil Veronica, he thinks players will understand just how significant the game is to the plot of the series, as opposed to dismissing it as a side story.https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/c2306fdbb91268f92dcd96dafd3e0c37923f649a?page=5>This is in part due to some of the altered parts of the story featured in the remake; and while the Resident Evil remakes have generally been changing aspects as they go along, it's in service of eventually combining these remade classics with the most recent games in the series.>Takeuchi notes that even though the series overall plot was very much not planned from the start, and instead expanded as Capcom went along. On top of that, when planning for the Resident Evil 2 remake began, Capcom envisioned a 10-year plan for the storyline, with him teasing that there's a reason behind the order of the remakes – presumably why Capcom skipped to Resident Evil 4 when Code: Veronica and Zero were next in line.>With the release of Resident Evil: Requiem earlier this year, Takeuchi believes the first 10 years of Capcom's plan have come to an end and that, over the next 10 years, the series' conclusion will likely arrive.
>>750525605What storyline?
>>750525605So.... Only 1 more game left in the series?
>>750525605I’m sure they said that 20 years ago
>>750525605Why the fuck did you put something no one said in the thread title
people care about the storyline after 5?it just keeps wandering aimlessly and the only maybe innovation to the "narrative" was ethan's shit sans the "erm actually this bitch miranda was actually the source of it all" trite
Resident Evil is the Marvel Universe of video games
With modern RE being so successful I'm surprised they'd want to put an end to it, but it had a good run.
RE is the biggest series Capcom has it's a guaranteed seller. The top level will override whatever the producer wants to do if it ends the series.
>>750525956I wish it was that coherent
>>750525605>may>saysmeaningless statementsand even if they did, doesn't prevent doing a spinoff or prequel or whatevercapcom isn't going to put an end to their main money makerand it's not like they are able to actually write a proper storyline
>>750525605>and while the Resident Evil remakes have generally been changing aspects as they go along, it's in service of eventually combining these remade classics with the most recent games in the series.Called it RE5 is going to be retconned to where Wesker doesn't die pointlessly. RE6 is getting deleted entirely and removed from the canon.
>>750526149Isn't Monster Hunter their biggest IP?
>>750525709Literally the first thing I thoughtThere is no story lol. It's literally random anime slop
they're going to remake re2r to reboot the series by the midway point of the ps6 gen
>>750526351>Called it RE5 is going to be retconned to where Wesker doesn't die pointlessly. It will also be set in South Africa and you only kill white farmers
>>750525605>combining these remade classics with the most recent games in the series.So they are gonna put that nothingburger villain from RE9 and shoehorn him into CV
>>750526351Maybe the new RE6 will just cut Jake and focus on the Leon and Chris campaigns with Ada being DLC later.
>>750525605what story line? each games story is like a fucking reboot. re7 had nothing to do with 8, which had nothing to do with 9.
>>750525605Leon's section of Requiem should've taken place in Wrenwood instead of boring ass ugly brown Raccoon City
>>750525605WHAT FUCKING STORYLINE?There hasn't been a real fucking multi-game plot arc in RE since Wesker died.
>>750526414biggest sales number on a single title, and it only overtook RE with MH Worldbut overall RE always have been their money maker
>>750526536>cut JakeOr its just wesker and sherry
>>750526463Not quite. When they've remade all the titles they want to remake in the RE engine they're going to release a "Director's Cut" of each RE engine game starting with RE3R
>>750525605RE games only have like 10 minutes of overarching plot at the end of each game. There's no big storyline to conclude
>>750526627I'd honestly like for them to remake RE3 again but for real this time.
>>750526542>>750526603Why do you browns have to shit up the white mans board? 7-9 are all connected. RE has the one of the most cohesive storylines in all vidya.
>>750526731>Blue Umbrella>Infected BSAA agentboth are ending teases that go absolutely nowhere in 7 8 or 9. fuck right off
>>750526692Not that anon but I've been expecting a REmake 3 Director's Cut for a long time. I'm expecting the same areas and setpieces but with new levels injected between existing parts of the game, since RE3 is the most infamous for cut content, not that REmake 2 was much better though.
>>750525605These games unironically need more cutscenes and a bunch of readable lore collectibles if they want to actually establish some series long interconnected plot
>>7505266037 and 8 are directly connected and there's ties that go back to Spencer.
>>750526731more retcons and inconsistent characterization than both metal gear and kingdom hearts
They're going to reboot the series into an alt timeline like the FF7 remakes then play around with gender/race bending characters to spice things up.
>>750525861>>750526542>>750526603And the asshurt /v/edditors rush in to seethe because they failed to TORtanic RE9.RDR2, Doom Eternal, RE9, soon GTA 6...The amount of games that are mindbrraking autists here keeps increasing, soon people here will start killing themselves over it
>>750527186that would be real garbage but you might be right
>>750526149>doesn't prevent doing a spinoff or prequel or whateverthe last side game was 12 years ago
>>750525605What story? the Resident Evil story ended in 5.Everything after 5 is monster/villain of the week shit, aimless bullshit to pump out sequels and make money, which is expected for such a big money making franchise.
I remember people considering Halo cowardly for ducking out of all their sequel baits and constantly rebooting their plots each game under 343, but then you look at modern Resident Evil and they kill Ethan after two games, Chris disappears at the same time, character assassination for Chris is everywhere, and they can't make up their fucking mind about who or what or where for anything as the next game does a complete 180 into a wholly different direction and focus. Literally their one connecting tissue is the Connections, and they change EVERY GAME from some BOW terrorist group to a nebulously larger group to OOPS THEY WERE THE REAL BIG BADS OF THE SERIES THE ENTIRE TIME. It doesn't help that with the remakes redoing the early plot, we're literally jumping to the start and the end of the current timeline over and it's getting fucking messy.I swear to god the Ashfords are going to secretly have been Connections tied the entire time as a vital part of things and Steve's body is going to be absconded with or some shit.
anyone who cared about the overarching resident evil plot gave up many, many years ago
All that is gonna happen is they're gonna reboot the franchise and Re-remake one
as long as people keep pumping out ada and jill sfm i don't care
>>750527494>as long as people keep pumping out jill sfm i don't carethey do the wrong jill tho
>>0750527264>And the [HEADCANON]literally not what I said
>>750527449The Connections shit is on the same level as KH1 and KH2 being planned by Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts. Capcom should be thankful people only care about made up soap operas with the protags.
>>750525605What story?
>>750527380RE2 has nothing to do with Wesker, is Birkin a monster of the week?
>>750525709the series could have done something interesting post 4 but they shat the bed tremendously. 5 killed wesker, 6-9 did absolutely nothing meaningful with the canon either. I'd rather have the series end that let the japs corrupt it further
>>750525605Are they gonna remake the remakes afterwards?
>>750527186Nigga, they already did that with the REmakes, they just want their cake and eat it.REmake 2 uses info from the previous og games that hadn't been REmade yet, then the following REmakes used both the REmake 2 lore, and filled the gaps with the ones that hadn't been REmade yet, then continued the story with with a proper sequel using the remake lore first, every other little thing that doesn't add up or remains unexplained in the new lore leans on og established lore as a crutch to wave away any problems, even if it doesn't fit with the remake timeline.They killed off the original timeline, did a full reboot without even remaking the first game or telling you and you didn't even noticed. REmakes and newer entries are a frankenstein mess of "This thing counts on this entry, but this thing doesn't, and this other thing doesn't count on this one, but it does count on this other entry."At least with the gamecube REmake they tell you where the story was altered but didn't erase everything or relied on older entries to fill the gaps while carving a new one on the side.The actual Resident Evil story stops at Resident Evil 5.RE6 was a travesty, RE7 was a REboot desguised as a soft REboot, RE8 tried to fuse the REboot with the old stuff, poorly. RE9 continues where REmake 4 left off while taking what it wants from the REmakes, OG games, spin offs, and REboot, and RE6. It doesn't matter, anymore, it's whatever makes the biggest hype social event points, that's what sells your game.
>>750525605>Evil company died>New evil bad company appearIt will never end
>>750526351They must realize at this point that they fucked up by killing off Wesker. Having an over-arching, on-screen villain helps link things together in a way that an offscreen villain (Spencer) or faceless corporation (Umbrella) can't.
>RE>story
Requiem could already be the endpoint to be honest>big bad evil wasn't THAAAT bad and had a zambi cure all along>also took care of a little girl for extra good boy points
>>750528619It's funny because Umbrella Corps had D.C. Douglas narrating stuff in the background implying Wesker either survived somehow or had a clone to carry on.. and then 9 hits with Zeno who dies like a bitch, so if that was supposed to be a build up to anything it's pointless now.
>>750527264Don't give me hope
>>750526731This. If you're struggling to follow along RE's story these last few years you're definitely brown or darker... Or worse! You're an honorary shitskin (aka wigger)
>>750525605What does a "conclusion" to RE even look like? It's basically a long-running monster of the week cartoonLike those kinds of cartoons it occasionally has some episodes that tie a few things together and have some bad guys from previous episodes return, but the good guys always win and the status quo is always restored by the endIf RE ever does end it'll probably be on an episode that doesn't feel any more or less "conlcusive" than the rest of the series
>>750529189No, blame Grace for that one
>>750526000>ends the series.They never said they are doing this just this plot line. You can start over with a new cast
>>750529406>this plot lineOk but what exactly is "this plot line"? What is there to wrap up? And regardless, the only story element fans have any interest in is the ultimate fate of the protagonists
>>750529534>Ok but what exactly is "this plot line"? What is there to wrap up?They couldn't think of a proper setup that returned anything classic since most villains die so fast, so, the Connections. 7 introduced them, 8 kinda side-piddled about but showed they were reaching far and wide technically, and 9 was the "big reveal" of their political power and how far they'd been digging this whole time. It's dogshit and the games are way too disjointed, but the one connective tissue that remains is these buggers. But 9 makes them look like a complete joke the way the story handles itself, and pulling out a cure for all Progenitor-based viruses means the next mainline non-remake title is going to have to pull a new virus out or return to moldy boys again. It's actually comical how they seem to want to continue escalating but they've functionally de-escalated.
.... What even is the chronological story of resident evil? Can an autistic break it down for me and also list the games in order? I've only played re4 and kinda want to play them for Halloween.
>>750525605bullsht
>>750529534At this point it's the destruction of every BOW on the planet
>>750529758Does anybody ever give a shit about the connections? I don't think anyone would even care if they were never mentioned again
They should've established another overarching big-bad after Wesker. Instead all the villains die at the end of every game
I refuse to believe they have a plan when they do shit like introduce Zeno and kill him in the same game. Having a morally grey Wesker that helps the gang, having him conflict with Chris and then murdered eventually when the real Wesker shows up again, you had mileage with him but they just killed him which did nothing for the story.
>>750525605Just make a game set in racoon city with a different set of survivors. It will print money, trust this gaijin
>>750529796re0, scientists within umbrella have an inner politic war that starts the first t-virus outbreakre1, spencer estate, deals with the real brunt of the outbreak's problems, wesker is established as a villain and comes to hate chrisre2 and 3, t-virus breaks out in raccoon city, one of the scientists wanted his god creation and shit went wrong in an umbrella snatch and grab on him, most heroes (leon, claire, jill primarily) escape but the city gets firebombedrecv, claire goes search for her brother immediately after 2, gets captured by umbrella, wesker uses her as bait to lure in chris revealing he survived the first game and now has superpowers, the pair get away though only these three survive the whole plotre4, leon goes to spain to rescue the president's daughter, wesker gets a sample of a different virus in the las plagasre5, chris goes to africa, finds out wesker wants to viral outbreak the world with his new derivative stuff and had kidnapped jill from the first game, heroes kill wesker before he can succeedre6, a big guy in the us government gets yellow fever for ada wong, turns his secretary into a clone of ada only to reject her anyway, tries to cover up that he's doing bad guy things, and said secretary goes yandere to try to end the world; multiple heroes stop it on multiple fronts, also wesker has a son named jakere7, ethan winters gets trapped in a louisiana estate trying to rescue his missing wife and kills the viral-mutated crazy family there plus the connections get establishedre8, ethan winters gets trapped in a european murder cult villain trying to rescue his kidnapped daughter and kills the viral-mutated crazy family there plus the villain caused the series to happenre9, grace and leon fight the efforts of the connections who are trying to use grace to find "the ultimate weapon" that spencer left behindalso there's a bunch of CGI movies that are canon but basically don't mean anything but more dumb fun action antics
>>750530353>european murder cult villainvillage, oops, brain was thinking a bit ahead there, but yeah, the plot of this series is honestly not that complicated, it's just long-winded and kinda stupid.
Series should end with Chris and Jill fighting some supreme BOW that is the last of the BOWs in the husk of the Spencer Mansion alongside Wesker
Well duh either Leon gets magically de-aged like Jill, or Leon has a son that's literally just him again or the story is rapidly running out of runway on top of Requiem's whole deal being finally putting an end to the whole Progenitor virus story, because the entire story is pinned to events in 1998.Either way I don't really think there's much Veronica would add anymore outside of being the "lmao Wesker is back" game. We already know where this shit is going with how much they keep namedropping Tricell in fucking everything since RE4's remake and spinoff material.
>>750525861No, and that's the problem. They can't create a story that spans through multiple games anymore. Every story begins and ends in the same game. Sometimes it looks they're trying tho. Who knows, maybe the Connections will actually lead somewhere. But they really need more overarching villains like Wesker
What story? There will always be viruses. No way they'll conclude the series.
Are they going to make those Russian soldiers that were also at the Spencer mansion during RE 1 in Umbrella Chronicles canon finally?
>thus concludes Resident Evil: The Dark Seeker Saga
Can't wait till we get a virus that originates from space so they can finally jump the shark and have you playing as Leon suplexing aliens.
tranny evil.
>>750525709I've heard some people unironically play these games for the story and I couldn't believe it.
>>750526438>reddit spacing>troon meltyevery time
>>750525605It ended in fucking 2009. They've been doing monster of the week shit since.
>>750525605They've started and finished so many story points I don't even think it mattersFuckin umbrella got shuttered like 10 fucking years ago
What storyline?
>>750528481>RE9Was utter dogshit both story and gameplay wise
>>750529758>is going to have to pull a new virus out or return to moldy boys againPlagasbros it's showtime... we're even due our RE4 memberberries nostalgiabait game...
>>750525709He means the focus on these characters because they're getting too old.
Maybe one of those 10 games won't be a front-loaded piece of shit where the fun evaporates after exactly 2 hours
>>750525605so what happens when the story is done?
>>750528720>and then 9 hits with Zeno who dies like a bitch, so if that was supposed to be a build up to anything it's pointless now.Zeno's purpose was to establish Wesker can and has been cloned, the plot of 9 had something about transferring memories right? There, you now established the tools for a full Wesker clone with his original memories intact.
>>750532453To be fair, Rev2 established it first. Spencer literally failed the final steps of a plan that Alex Wesker managed, albeit she fucked up the very final step herself.
>>750532543Something is totally going to happen with that plot point, right? They wouldn't leave the fact that Barry is raising a girl that now has Alex Wesker's mind implanted in her alone and do nothing with it... right?
>>750525861Brother we have a resident schizo who believes 6 is the greatest game ever made in all aspects, especially the story
>>750533859considering the directors and people in charge of the series change every other game, even if you got a couple recurring, that entirely depends on how someone's feeling since each game that isn't directly carrying on an arc is pretty much constant soft reboots and management changes.
>>750525709the thing they ruined with the original 4
>>750525605But there's 26 letters in the alphabet and they have only used like 3 or 4, you could have 20 viruses left
>>750534595>the D-Virus
>>750530010There's no reason to care about them, after almost 10 years since they were first named we finally got an actual member and he was joke who got sidelined by a Spencer fanboy, on top of retconning half the villains into their stuff. The fact that they've been secretly under the noses for 30 years and none of the protags showing any interest in them makes it lame, we don't even know any ambitions they have unlike Umbrella.
>>750530010I still don't know exactly what they are despite being mentioned in practically every new entry in the series now.
>>750535121Basically Bigger Umbrella but financing BOW terrorism and BOWs out to governments. War profiteering and political manipulation. Can't create anything worthwhile on their own so they endlessly recycle everyone else's shit instead. It's functionally closer to a GI Joe or Captain Planet villain organization at this point, evil for the sake of evil without really much rhyme or reason to it.
