| Nautilus said: I can actually agree with you to some extend. They do really use Chris as a jack of all trades. One thing I do get kind of pissed off with RE is that they don't nearly make enough use of their "legacy" characters as much as they should. If rumours are true, RE 8 was originally RE Revelations 3, and Rebecca Chambers was supposed to be the lead. I love Rebecca! And she hasn't been used since when, RE 0? It's like characters outside of the main cast just dissapears: Rebecca, the Chris buddy from RE 5, it took Barry almost 2 decades to resurface, Carlos, and so on. Even Jill is missing in action since Revelations and that was kind of a spin off series(and it was released back in early 2012). I do hope that, with RE 7 and Ethan, they manage to make a compelling storyline that keeps all the characters that appeared within them to keep reappering, much like RE 1-3. Still kinda sour that they killed Lucas in RE 7. He was a really good villain. |
Agreed. I've always found Capcom's poor use of legacy characters as abysmal at best. Rebecca got one use for RE: 0, but she also had a use for that CGI movie, which did try to play her off as a main character, but she became nothing more than a damsel in distress, a far cry from what she was capable of, back in 1998.
Barry had some use with Revelations, but he still felt like a sideline character, despite what he himself is also capable of. They even scrubbed him out of REmake 3's ending, which ticked me and others off, because that was scrubbing an actual main character from the first game, away from the third game, despite Jill being the main protag.
I mean, Wesker saw a use for 3 games, 4 movies, and yet going by the timeline, we hardly saw much of him and he got more treatment than Barry/Rebecca.
Even though I'll never play 8, I do hope they do not turn Chris into the bad guy, or the same Chris we got in the second half of Resi 6 (Depressed, agnsty, easily annoyed, can't keep his head cool, jumping to conclusions etc)
Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see
So pay up motherfuckers you belong to "V"
