It's been a while but IIRC she's not looking for him like in RE2. She got caught trying to infiltrate Umbrella headquarters and then sent to the Island.
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New Resident Evil 2 Remake Interview with a slew of new details (Dengeki Online)
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Well I only mean cycle as in getting the original 3 done, despite how slowly they're doing it. My mind jumped straight to wanting a remake of 2 of the moment they announced REmake on GameCube.
There are probably circumstances that contributed to this 17 year gap (17 years?!!!!?). The right people not being there to do it, Capcom losing their way in general, maybe having no faith in their ability to do it, or underestimating how much demand there was for it. Trying to work out how to do it creatively once they decided to, any changes they'd make, how to handle the camera etc..
Capcom seems in a better place and they seem to have absolutely nailed REmake 2 from a creative standpoint. In theory I believe that probably lifts most of the question marks and bullshit as to why we waited 17 years between these two.
Oh boy, if this remake is half as good as the original (and it seems it will), you are in for one hell of a ride.
That's good enough, I thought that she went to the Umbrella HQ because she was looking for Chris since he said in his diary he'd be there. Thanks.
"-There are Main Weapons and Sub Weapons in REmake 2. Main Weapons are things like the handgun, shotgun, while Sub Weapons are things like the knife and grenades. Sub Weapons often have two uses, one as an option in combat, and one as a defensive item, a concept they brought back from the remake of the original Resident Evil. They say there's more sub-weapons than we've seen.
-Gunpowder from RE3/RE7 is in REmake 2, and with it you can make three kinds of bullets. You can simply use two weaker gunpowder to make handgun bullets, and a weaker gunpowder+stronger gunpowder to make Shotgun shells, and a stronger+stronger for another type of ammunition.
-Herb combinations are back, and REmake 2 has three types of herbs, Green, Red, and Blue. They mention there's enemies in REmake 2 that can poison the player, which blue herbs can fight against. In a new combination for the series, you may combine Red+Blue Herbs. Doing this not only makes you invulnerable to poison for a period of time, it also raises your defensive power by a lot for this period of time until it wears off."
-Gunpowder from RE3/RE7 is in REmake 2, and with it you can make three kinds of bullets. You can simply use two weaker gunpowder to make handgun bullets, and a weaker gunpowder+stronger gunpowder to make Shotgun shells, and a stronger+stronger for another type of ammunition.
-Herb combinations are back, and REmake 2 has three types of herbs, Green, Red, and Blue. They mention there's enemies in REmake 2 that can poison the player, which blue herbs can fight against. In a new combination for the series, you may combine Red+Blue Herbs. Doing this not only makes you invulnerable to poison for a period of time, it also raises your defensive power by a lot for this period of time until it wears off."
Yea I think she was there looking for some incriminating evidence on them, IIRC Chris had actually warned her off it after he had already tried and failed, but I can't remember what part of the canon that titbit is from. It might be somewhere in the game.
Where is Newsbot when you need him?
Ah right, yea me too. Never stopped hoping for it. Even after they announced they were doing it in 2015 I still wouldn't let myself believe it was real.
Well like a lot of Japanese developers they lost their way in the PS3/360 gen by chasing western trends. RE was an action series for the guts of a decade, they probably rightly figured it was a bad idea to remake one of the classics as an action game. It's good to see that they have realised what people want from them.
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Oh okay cool so he did get in contact with her. That's a detail I must've missed.
News Bot? Permabanned for his political comments in Etcetera as far as I remember.
Oh shit, did he even make it over to here? I knew he got a perm in the old off topic but didn't know he did it here too.
Edit: I actually checked the wiki and it seems you are right and I was wrong. She was searching for Chris at the start of CV, so I have no idea how Leon contacted him.
Yeah he made it here, didn't have a lot of posts so you'd probably be able to see it all for yourself if you search well enough.
Yeah check it out.
Dusk must have an idea, anyone's thoughts on the matter I'm ready to hear.
Maybe Chris surfaced after news got out that she was missing
Regarding Leon contacting Chris in CODE: Veronica, the circumstances are a little different depending on if you are discussing CODE: Veronica or The Darkside Chronicles' "retelling" of CODE: Veronica's story.
In CODE: Veronica, Steve discovers that Umbrella has surveillance on Chris, and Claire sends this information to Leon, which is how Leon was able to locate Chris. In The Darkside Chronicles, where it has already been established Leon is working for the United States government, Umbrella does not know where Chris is, either, but Leon uses his contacts and sources within the United States government's intelligence community to track Chris down.
In CODE: Veronica, Steve discovers that Umbrella has surveillance on Chris, and Claire sends this information to Leon, which is how Leon was able to locate Chris. In The Darkside Chronicles, where it has already been established Leon is working for the United States government, Umbrella does not know where Chris is, either, but Leon uses his contacts and sources within the United States government's intelligence community to track Chris down.
Ah, the original version makes complete sense then, was that addressed in-game?
It's weird that the second, more recent version makes less sense. If Leon could find out where he is, why didn't he do this for Claire in the first place?
Yeah. Steve tells Claire outright that Umbrella has Chris under surveillance, and Claire says she will contact Leon with the information so Leon can warn Chris that he is being watched. She also sends the coordinates of the island to Leon to give to Chris so Chris can come rescue them. The original reason why Leon could not do it himself was he was going to be in the middle of the events of the scrapped Resident Evil 3.5.
As for why Leon did not do this in the first place in the updated version, it sounds like he at least tried, as during one of the interstitial segments, Leon admits that Chris was, for all intents and purposes, a ghost after leaving the United States. He may also have been too busy with his own training and other responsibilities in his new position to put his full attention on finding Chris himself, hence why he had to rely on contacts and other sources.
Is that different then the original?
Also, will future games (i.e. post-RE7/RE2R games), reference RE2 as the original or the Remake version?
The game is going to be top notch. The lack of Crimson Head foes is a missed opportunity, I think. I won't judge until I finish both playthroughs, the game just might be better paced without them.
It isn't fair to the rest of the games coming out in 2019 that the GOTY is coming out in January.
I am so, so, so excited for this game.
Less than four months to goooo
I am so, so, so excited for this game.
Less than four months to goooo
They said it will, so unless something changes I see no reason to not expect them. It's the same engine as Resi 7 which ran at 60 fps on everything so I have no reason to doubt them.
Did they ever confirm which was the official version?
This would be a great possibility to be honest.
This explanation helps a lot. Chris' disappearance at the time was something I always wanted to know more about. The way they handled it in 2, (a game I played before the first game) made Chris and STARS sound like legends to me way back then.
I feel like this is only there as another bone they're throwing to the RE speedrun community lol.
Now I'm wondering if the RBG combination is also gonna give you more defense? It would be dumb to remove that effect by adding the third herb.
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This is all great to hear, but what I really want is them to either announce this for Nintendo Switch, or even better, do RE3 REmake exclusively for Switch.
Because Revelations was amazing, and i like when they do smaller games for smaller systems. I think something like that would be great. Of course when i say "exclusive" I mean timed exclusive...as I think actual exclusives are a bad idea.
RE3 wouldn't be a smaller game at all. RE3 had a much bigger scope than RE2.
RE3 wasn't smaller. RE2 has fewer areas where you backtrack more (the RPD, Umbrella) and then shorter sections like the intro in the city and the sewers.
Meanwhile in RE3 the city is greatly expanded, you visit the RPD again, you have the city hall, the hospital, the park, getting the fuel for the railcar, the gas station, the clock tower, you don't linger in any of these areas for too long. You're constanly on the move through Raccoon City and visit a lot more (admittedly smaller) locales.
As someone that played the game recently I can tell you 100% this isn't the case. It's campaign is longer than either of the campaigns in RE2.
What you're talking about?
RE3 had the Raccoon City itself as its big stage, with locations like downtown, clock tower, the city's hospital, park, R.P.D. and even a lab.
It also had brand new mechanics as dodge, gunpowder to make bullets, the stalker system with Nemesis and choice events that leads to different encounters. And that's all without considering multiple endings as well, which RE2 didn't had.
Btw, just by playing you should know that Resi 3 takes more time than 2 to finish it, but if you doubt it for some reason, a quick search is the answer for that:
Gimme dat purple herb action. Hopefully the higher difficulties promote using red+blue in boss fights to reduce the damage you're taking.
Oh no. I'm going to get really mad while playing this game.
Thanks for the summary, OP! I'm so hungry for this game.
While Capcom has never explicitly stated one way or the other, it is generally accepted that the original game is the official, canon version of events. That said, Capcom tends to play rather fast and loose with the canon to suit their needs at any given point.
For example, while REmake is overall considered canon over the original Resident Evil, Revelations 2 directly references dialogue and events from the original that were not present in the REmake.
The master of unlocking and Jill sandwich jokes are referenced, neither one was on REmake (at least not on their original form.)
No, it was the same with A/B scenarios. The difference is the remake will have only one canon scenario (Leon/Claire) instead of two semi-canon scenarios (LeonA/ClaireB, ClaireA/LeonB).
Remake will probably overwrite RE2, just like REmake is currently the canon version of RE1. Although it was much easier with REmake, since the only major changes from RE1 to REmake were the addition of Lisa Trevor, Crimson Heads and Edward Dewey not loosing his hand (but even then Revelations 2 refers the "Jill sandwich" dialogue that only happened in RE1, and was changed in REmake). Compared to that, REmake 2 already introduces much more changes to the story and characters' look.
Okay cool.
I feel like Clarie at least doesn't look that drastically different. Like you can see how the RE2 Remake Claire would grow up to look like Rev 2's version.
Seriously now, taking Barry's cheesy, badly written lines from RE1 and making them a part of his dad humor in Rev 2 was a legit genius move.
am assuming you haven't played RE2 recently. And that time analysis is based on playing through a single scenario, not playing both Leon A Clair B, Claire A Leon B... The 4th Survivor and Tofu Survivor...not to mention Extreme battle mode.What you're talking about?
RE3 had the Raccoon City itself as its big stage, with locations like downtown, clock tower, the city's hospital, park, R.P.D. and even a lab.
It also had brand new mechanics as dodge, gunpowder to make bullets, the stalker system with Nemesis and choice events that leads to different encounters. And that's all without considering multiple endings as well, which RE2 didn't had.
Btw, just by playing you should know that Resi 3 takes more time than 2 to finish it, but if you doubt it for some reason, a quick search is the answer for that:
Re3 has a couple different Endings, so does RE2. however unlike RE2, RE3 only has the one bonus mode. I would say you can easily get 3X the amount of hours of *unique" content from RE2 than RE3...if not more.
FUCK YES. All improvements. And I'm glad they're sticking by Clair's redesign, my home girl looks awesome
I hope they add a few new enemy types. The 1.5 Spider Zombies looked really cool and was disappointed that they were scrapped in RE2.
Seems like Capcom is hinting at Irons mutating into a boss character. I feel that RE2 could have used an extra boss or 2 in the police station. REmake added 2 new bosses, so maybe RE2 will add 2 new bosses for Clair and Leon, and hopefully a new area for each as well as expanded Racoon City streets. Racoon City is easily my favorite setting in the series so more of that would be dope.
Seems like Capcom is hinting at Irons mutating into a boss character. I feel that RE2 could have used an extra boss or 2 in the police station. REmake added 2 new bosses, so maybe RE2 will add 2 new bosses for Clair and Leon, and hopefully a new area for each as well as expanded Racoon City streets. Racoon City is easily my favorite setting in the series so more of that would be dope.
So I replayed RE2 yesterday (Claire A Leon B) Still as fun as always. So hyped that I threw a fast chibi fanart together:
