#i'm gonna just stick to pre re7 games from now on

[fullysowerewolf]

My Issues with RE8 and how it changes the series lore

My stream of consciousness rant about RE8′s story down below. Spoilers ahead.

Capcom has really stopped giving a shit about its continuity. They have Ozwell Spencer know about Mother Miranda and Dimitrescu’s immortality and seeking out that when he wasn’t even focused on immortality until his health was stating to decline in the early 2000′s. Why didn’t he just contact her again and use the Mold when he was dying instead of bothering with Alex Wesker? He had legitimate proof of extended lifespans via Miranda, so why even bother? Why wasn’t Wesker interested at all is using this bioweapon that can virtually do anything? At least 7′s explanation for the Mold and its history with HCF made sense, as it was just a creation of another random biotech company that HCF’s employers were interested in acquiring as a product. They’re just rehashing Las Plagas but even worse.  Or even Alex herself, when she had the same issues as Spencer had in wanting to immortality? This is a massive retcon that shits on the lore.

Speaking of retcons, what the fuck is up with the BSAA? After two major games, two spinoff games, and supplemental material showing the BSAA to be the main good group of the series, they suddenly turn around and are deploying bioweapons on the field? Where is the development for this? There is nothing to explain this turnaround. What the fuck happened since RE6 to now that has made the BSAA this way? It’s been literally eight years in-universe since RE6 there’s been diddly squat that explains anything that’s been going on with Chris, Leon, and the rest of the world we care about in RE. This is horrible storytelling. You can’t just drop a massive status quo shift without explaining anything that led to it. It’s the RE4 bullshit all over again, but even worse this time around since they’ve had two games to establish what this new direction is for the story, and they’ve done nothing but fuck around with some bland randos and throw in one cameo from a character we actually care about.

The Mold makes even less sense than it did in RE7.  Everyone rightfully called bullshit when RE6 dropped a fucking T-Rex transformer on us, but when they go further beyond and put actual Transformers, Dragons, Superbabies, Telekinesis, and whatever the hell Ethan was by the end of the story, people are just fine with that?  Capcom clearly has given up on having any of their science make any sense, and don’t come at me with “Oh, it’s just RE! They’ve never made any sense with their Sci-fi!” No, shut the fuck up. They did. The T-virus made sense, the G-virus made sense (before RE2 2019 ruined that its lore) and all of the other bioweapons made sense and had rules and consistency up until RE6. And even 6 had some logical reasons for why its monsters were they way they were, with the C-virus being a mashup between G and T-Veronica. The Mold and/or the Caldou parasites just do whatever the hell the plot needs it to do. It causes hallucinations and gives superpowers like telekinesis and hive-minds? Ok. It can make vampires and werewolves? Alright. It can make people turn themselves into a swarm of insects and reform whenever they want? Whatever. How is Ethan as a resurrected Mold-controlled meat puppet equivocal to Leech Marcus from RE0 able to even conceive a child? He shouldn’t even have any sperm at that point. He was a corpse! How was that even able to happen anyway as he was really no different from Lucas, Mia, or the other Bakers before they mutated, and they didn’t become mobile Mold puppets? Oh, right it’s the Mold, how could I forget that it just works however the plot wants it to be.

There is no reason for Chris to not have stopped this whole plot from happening by just getting into contact with Ethan alone and explaining that Miranda has replaced his wife. Call him and say that they needed to do further checkups on him regarding the Mold. Or that they need him to come in and collaborate on some info that pertains to the Dulvey incident. Whatever excuse he can to get Ethan in on what has happened so Chris and his team can do their thing. It’s just so nonsensical. He doesn’t explain a single thing to Ethan about what’s really going on when he had every opportunity and resource to do so. Ethan would have believed him, he knows he works with this kind of shit and Chris is responsible for saving his and Mia’s lives, you can’t tell me he would have brushed him off. Also why is Mia not in prison? She was an agent knowingly working for a bioterroist group who trafficked bioweapons across the world. They would have locked her ass up as soon as she got treatment for the Mold after 7. Why is she walking around free after all of that? Why am I supposed to care about Rose when she’s basically a combo of Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin when they could have used both of those characters instead and is the daughter of one of the most mediocre characters ever in RE? Chris’ story hasn’t even changed either. At the very least if he chose to retire and this was his last game as a playable character, it would make sense and would end his term on an alright note. But he’s still in the same position as he was eight years ago.

I was right to say that RE7 was the sign of worse things to come as this has killed any interest I had in Resident Evil as a series. If RE2 2019 and RE3 2020 didn’t already do that. I couldn’t care less about what is going to happen next. They ended the story that started in the 90′s with 5 and have just spinning their wheels since, adding plotlines that get dropped and characters are never seen again, including older ones people are dying to know.

Summary; RE8 is a storyline trainwreck, Capcom have given up on making a sensible story, and I’ve given up on expecting better.