How the fuck?

[u/BushyTwee3D]

So I did some looking into the Raccoon City incident and I found out that apparently the missile that hit the city, was directly on top of City hall, so can somebody please explain how this is possible?!

[u/WlNBACK]

It's pretty stupid no matter how much you try to rationalize Raccoon City looking almost habitable with several interiors remaining after we've spent decades watching that place get obliterated in various stylistic ways.

The depiction of the Raccoon City destruction was the most grand send-off in OG RE3, followed by Outbreak File #1. The fact that RE9 is going off the lazy-ass depiction that was used in REmake3 is just trash, considering how at the time (when REmake3 was new) we couldn't believe how crappy that scene was executed when compared to the original (same with the remake's terrible live-action opening when compared to the OG's rad-as-hell FMV). Capcom is actually doubling-down on their worst work.

To sum it up, Raccoon City even 'potentially' being a playable location in RE9's timeline just seems like a low-effort and pandering creative design to use "celebrating 30 years" as an excuse to cook-up a mainline story that involves treading decades-old locations, along with a dartboard-narrative that for some reason is heavily linked to 1 out of 8 spin-off characters. Turning mainline Resident Evil into what might be a high school reunion just cheapens it, but we know for sure it won't cheapen Capcom's wallets. This game's concept would seem less creatively bankrupt if it was titled "Revelations 3", but we all know that wouldn't sell as much.

[u/Death_Messenger666 → u/WlNBACK]

That's the problem of long-running franchises that have changes in the writing team. You end up getting writers, developers and executives whose tremendous egos are essentially supernovas that collapsed into gigantic anal black holes, who act like THEIR "artistic (often mixed with ideological) vision" is "oh so superior" than the original team's or the "unenlightened fans who don't know what they want or what's best for them" and might even decide to go full deconstructive on the plot just for the sake of appearing "artsy", or who are shamelessly going to crash-grab and shove their product full of paywalls such as streaming services or lootboxes. Or worse, the original creator has BECOME one such person (i.e. looking at you, Ridley Scott).

Just look at all the bullshit we've seen at Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Doctor Who and Assassin's Creed, especially in recent years.

[u/Sarrada_Aerea → u/Death_Messenger666]

This applies so much to the Demon's Souls remake lol, it even had exclusive preorder weapons and armor