Resident Evil - My Biggest Unanswered Questions
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- Okay, so this is kind of a silly little video I'd been wanting to make for a while now, but what the hell? I've had a bunch of questions about the original Resident Evil rattling around in my head for 25 years now, and I need to have them answered!
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The Drinker poking fun at plot holes and consistency in genuinely good media with a sweet hit of nostalgia? There needs to be more of this content.
Agreed. He does a pretty good job of dissecting movies, I'd love to hear his take on some classic video games. Critiques, observations, and speculations would be very cool to see.
@@faesword7063 hes only ever really done resident evil reviews
@@randomt800kiddo2he has
@@calmdownbeavis7039 shit im stupid, i completely forgot he made that vid
Just knowing that Will is a Resident Evil fan makes me love him even more. He should review the CGI movies.
I love the idea of "villain OCD" where the villain, Wesker in this case, simply MUST leave keys, cranks, batteries, whatever, in some convoluted but ultimately accessible place or they just can't move on.
"Okay, I locked the garage door, put the key in the third flowerpot on the top shelf of the greenhouse, put the ladder back in the living room (where I just used it to change a lightbulb earlier, but it's a good spot for it), and the living room is only accessible if you get the decorative jewel (that's missing from a gargoyle's eye in the lobby) that I just threw in the swimming pool in the backyard.
Phew, now I can finally relax and get on with my wor-DAMMIT! I forgot to put the battery to the pump that drains the pool in the storage shed! (That can only be reached by...)
I feel like Wesker could be someone like that. I get the vibe that he's a extremely fastidious person.
It surprisingly fits the Wesker we see later on. He is a control freak afterall.
I think it's in character. The man uses everyone as a test subject. The puzzles are just apart of it. And also ways to abuse the characters. Think of Lisa in REmake. She was a monster. But on top of it. Locked behind one of the most convoluted puzzles of the mansion. You're pissing off Jill/Chris. But also Lisa who's been locked down there for god knows how long.
Like a less elaborate Riddler!
Liquid Snake, Revolver Ocelot, and Solidus Snake looked at Wesker's convoluted plans and said, "Hold our beers."
The scene where the zombie dogs break through the glass would still make people shit their pants in the modern day. Best jump-scare scene of all time
I still remember it clearly, nearly 30 years later!
The licker that jumps through the one-way mirror in RE2 is also a contender, I nearly shat myself first time I played that part.
I know it's coming and I still jump everytime.
I had a subscription to a gaming magazine back then. It happened to have a walkthrough for RE1. I was reading this to my brother as he played. We got to the hallway and I was reading "As you enter the next room, DO NOT STOP RUNNING because" and that was when the dogs came through the windows. Never forget that moment. After that, my brother refused to open a door until I was done reading lol
@@eviljoshy3402😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Love it
The one unanswered question about Resident Evil I have is, How is it possible that such a great, well laid out idea for a video game is so difficult to adapt to the screen? It boggles the mind how after 30 years, no one has even come close to making a worthy adaptation to this beloved franchise. Considering that Resident Evil is essentially a collage of popular horror ideas, you'd think making a movie would be a walk in the park.
The problem is that Hollywood has a disdain for video games, seeing it as a lesser form of entertainment. So whenever a studio gets their hand on a popular video game license, they always think they could do better so they just change everything.
That same sentiment applies to everything when it comes to Hollywood. Look at all the great novels that have terrible film adaptations that deviate completely from the source material. Or garbage live action adaptations of popular anime.
First movie was decent enough for a spin off of the games or something.
@@fattiger6957 The IP they're adapting is some as a rough guideline, and of course an already established name to draw in people.
@@fattiger6957 I think the problem Hollywood has with videogames is less about seeing them as lesser, and more that they see videogames as the only viable competitor to it's entertainment monopoly, and seek to sabotage its adaptations, to try and minimize videogames' appeal as a medium.
The worst part is how they keep getting worse. Like, you'd think that at some point they've hit rock bottom and couldn't possibly get worse, but somehow they keep one-upping themselves
The "Itchy tasty" file is the greatest diary entry in videogame history.
It is creepy as hell.
There's some pretty wild ones in TES3. Especially if you have any concept of the lore.
Absolutely. It is the standard by which all other video game diary entries must be judged.
You know it.
It is objectively the greatest file in RE history. Think about it...the first file that many of us came across in this game 27 years ago was the best! That isn't trashing other files in other games. It is just that they hit trips bullseye with this one!
If you guys haven't seen the interview of the original RE game cast on Residence of Evil's channel I'd highly recommend it. They are crowd funding a fan film with them now and it's so awesome hearing their stories about filming those cheesy scenes for the game. They had no idea they would become gaming icons.
I already donated. Id rather see a fan film than anything hollywood puts out. I swear RE is the first game franchise where they consistently do not follow the source material in every sequel they make.
Yeah I'm a bit frustrated with that because After the failure of the Netflix show I decided to start writing my own Resident Evil fan film. But to be fair, I'm not going the cheesy route. I'm using the REmake as my blueprint and I'm going to make it as close to a 1:1 adaptation as possible down to cutting two versions of the film, one with Chris as the protagonist, and the other with Jill. The only original content I'm adding is I'm going to tell a story about one of the bizarre murders as the intro or cold open and it will be a story I am crafting but is heavily influenced to be a more detailed visual representation of the descent into zombification in the same vein as the Keeper's Diary or more well known as the "Itchy Tasty" file.
I always assumed there were various secret ways around the mansion that we, the player, never knew about. I mean, Christ, some of the more "public" paths were convoluted enough. I played the original Resident Evil with my sister and we constantly joked about what Umbrella employees had to go through just to get to the toilet; shields, keys, tiger eyes, oh my.
Big ass mansion and only one bathroom. Umbrella is so paranoid that it might just be for show and require the employees to bottle all thier waste for manditory testing.
There's a funny cartoon parody of the architect of all the places where resident evil takes place. It's basically the manager of the building complaining to the builder about why he felt the need to design things like this.
"Yeah, in order for us to turn on the lights in the bathroom. The switch is located 3 rooms away and we have to use a suggestively disturbing switch"
The in game explanation is pretty great honestly.
Spencer is a Bond level eccentric villain so he hired a famous architect (George Trevor) to design his secret labyrinthian mansion in the mountains only to decide that the architect and his family knew too much and needed to die.
George tries to escape the mansion but gets lost in his own creation and slowly begins going mad before he finds a room containing a gravestone with his name on it placed there by Spencer.
The whole thing reads like an Edgar Allen Poe horror story.
“Only a handful of people out there that cares about it…”
**RAISES HAND**
The RE series is by far one of my all-time favorite game series. I’ve played every single game multiple times, know all of the backgrounds and stories, and saw…😒…the movies… (to be fair, the animated ones are fantastic in my opinion). The games are so much fun and I love the mysteries, intrigue, and scares that each installment has. That being said: RE Village? Screw Chris Redfield; the writers did him dirty in that one.
Whats your game tier list?
@@yujirohanmaisbestdad meant video games
@@yujirohanmaisbestdad Any other character ever in the franchise >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ethan Winters
Some of the voice actors have steamed RE8 and even they were making fun of Chris in that game lol. It's the fact that one of his men even says to him at one point "Hey, you probably should have told Ethan about Mia to begin with" and Chris is just like "Yeah I know."
Damnation was the best one out of all of the animated movies. Death Island and Infinite Darkness were kinda mid.
Dude, I spent forever trying to figure out the welded doors. At least I wasn't the only one.
Enrico was making his way through the underground from the training facility (as depicted in Resident Evil Zero; Rebecca bumps into him and says that was the last time she saw him alive). I’m guessing that was added in the prequel to try to address that little plot hole.
Wesker has full access to every area of the mansion (as he worked there for Umbrella). I always assumed he had master keys and knew lots of routes inaccessible to players. That’s how he takes your captured team mate to the prison. As to why, my guess was either to gain leverage against you, use them as bait for you or to further his research by pitting them against more creatures, which was his motivation for luring you there.
Barry’s disappearance I just put down to the fact that at that point there was no sequel. Furthermore, Jill seems genuinely surprised in the original end of RE3 when he turns up in the helicopter to save her. That would make sense of Chris’ story was canon, as she would have thought him dead at the mansion.
Richard and the snake I explain away as a bit of Wesker’s shenanigans or the fact that although the mansion looks decrepit, it’s actually far more advanced. Perhaps unbeknownst to the player the door locks are interchangeable or can accept multiple keys, or they can be unlocked and locked remotely.
Forest may have been injured elsewhere and been finished off by crowd (he was pecked to death but that might have just finished him off). His injuries could have just been bad luck or a surprise attack. He staggered outside to get away or rest and the crows finished him off. The grenade launcher (which isn’t present when Chris finds him) may have been useless against small targets like the crows.
Residence of evil is doing a fan movie called the keepers diary, it's got the original actor who played Chris in it as the guy who wrote the itchy tasty diary entry and they're trying to get funding on Indiegogo. Considering the dreck that is the Anderson movies it's probably the closest we'll get to an actual resident evil movie
Lets not forget Welcome to Raccoon City. That movie was even more of an insult than Andersons abominations.
@@jeffreymercado2082yeah that was really bad. Its the same with jeepers creepers reborn, the people behind it have no respect for the source material and just view the fans with disgust
@@jeffreymercado2082 Believe it or not, the RE series that came out in 2022 manages to be even worse than Welcome to Raccoon City. Lance Reddick played Albert Wesker, yup no joke. In one scene he looked like a piss poor knock off version of Blade. I bet even hobby cosplayers are more capable of making a better and superior costume than the designers did. There're more plot holes like holes in a Swiss cheese and then Wesker's 2 annoying pain in the ass daughters who acted like spoiled brats are the icing on the shit cake. And don't get me started on the Umbrella CEO who randomly started dancing in one scene because reasons... People assume that the random dance scene was in there because Netflix could better promote the show on TikTok because dance clips are very popular on that sm platform. That's actually very plausible. The overall plot and concept of the show was an absolute mess and I'm still puzzled that this show got greenlit by Netflix. That's a darned cheek if you ask me...
@@nikkili8944 Yeah its pretty funny how they managed to top an already bad movie franchise two times in only a year.
Just copy RE1 and you have such a great foundation, but oh well.
@@henriklarssen1331 Apparently that's too much to ask for. Why simple when you can make things more complicated? Netflix really did RE dirty. 2 giant steaming piles of shit within 1 year... That's impressive in all negative ways possible.
I always figured Chris found a secret or secondary entrance when separated by the rest and then bumped into wesker who knocked him unconscious. Wesker knew the in and outs of the mansion therefor I just thought there were entrances that the protagonists never found through which wesker moved around like the sly dog he is :)
I always assumed this too
Also, I always thought there was recording cameras hidden in the mansion, so Wesker can exactly pin point where everyone is.
@@Rafesco same!! Back in the day I thought that was exactly the purpose of the fixed camera 😆 took that thought as an absolute 😁
Actually there was supposed to be a game called *Resident Evil Blast* set between 1 and 2 it would have featured an umbrella agent if i remember correctly wondering around the bliown up ruins of the spencer estate and it would have revealed hidden paths our heroes never found. The game was quickly scrapped though cuz of resident evil 2 being developed at the time sadly but we can assume if there was to be anything taken from it canonically is that there are areas if the soencer estate left unseen.
@@TheRealSephiroth ooohhh I didn't know about this unmade game! That is so cool! But tells us how good and well done the game is cause a bunch of us figured that and filled out the blanks with our imagination just like that 😃
Always thought Forrest died because he had the one weapon that dint really work for a flock of birds, so he got swarmed and infected
The Drinkers original Resident Evil videos from years ago will always hold a special place in my heart.
RE1 was the first video game that got me hooked to the PS1 and gaming in general. I’ve never looked back since then! 😊
Remember memory cards…
@@GIBBO4182 128KB storage space per card. Jump forward to Baldur's Gate 3 and I've already racked up nearly 2GB worth of save files lol.
Good call. Real life is vastly overrated tbh.
RE2 was mine...took a couple days to get down the controls. Then I was zipping thru the alleys.
I really wanted the reMake for RE2 to actually have separate quest storylines...maybe even a way to co-op communicate thru it.
Same-this and metal gear solid
I always assumed the naked zombies were experimented on and either had an advanced form of the T-Virus that allowed them to keep getting back up or were meant to be a huge horde that were kept in the lab but limitations at the time meant you could only have x number of models loaded per area.
I'm so glad I'm not the only person that wondered how the hell the other characters got so deep into the mansion without keys, or killing enemies. Still made for an amazing, atmospheric game.
I presume it's the same way you find boxes of shotgun shells deep in an interdimensional Hell in Doom.
OG Jill did things to my teenage self. Too bad nobody has ever found the original actress. They managed to find Barry (Canadian school teacher 😅) and Wesker I believe. Maybe Chris too
The original Barry, Chris, and Wesker did a little reunion video last year, I think, reprising their roles with Chris and Barry on their way to a showdown with Wesker. It was only a couple minutes long, but it was kind of neat.
They found her but she didn't want make a interview or nothing like that, she did some modeling gigs after RE and there's some karaoke clips with her, if the guy didn't lie she's a mom now and that's it.
She has been found. raccoonstars.blogspot.com are planning an interview and have photos from her early modelling career. edit : scratch that ... they found her in 2020 and there still hasn't been an interview.
@@brunorocha1328I think OP's talking about the voice actor, not the real life cutscene actor. The voice actor for RE1 Jill has never been identified
Original jill is una cavanagh,took me a while to find her some years ago.
To bad she didnt wanna come back
Number 4 is addressed in Resident Evil Zero. It is assumed that he entered the cave system from the arklies lab facility, after having a brief conversation with Rebeca chambers. In the cutscene Rebecca says that was the last time she saw him.
@@guilhermehank4938wrong character. He is talking about the one who informs you there is a traitor (enrico)
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@@Absolution-so he was right
@@Nerdthatdreamsofelectricsheep ya i commented on the wrong thing. Oops oh well.
My biggest unanswered question is: Where is my Jill sandwich?!!!
I’ll take mine with an extra slice of Rebecca.
As a kid, I was convinced that the "Jill sandwich" line was some kind of clever play on words and that jill was a type of sanwich filling in Japan or something. Turns out it was just a dumb line.
Lol like an idiot I always thought he said jivled sandwich and had no idea what that meant.
@@joshreichert6564Understandable, for a while I thought he said Jibbled sandwich
I love it when Drinker nerds out about Resident Evil. It's how I discovered this channel all those years ago and I still regularly revisit those earlier videos.
Yeah all that used to pickle my noodle to, you'd go through an increasingly involved set of puzzles involving crests, statue eye jewels, traps, zombies etc to obtain a key hidden in some unrelated part of the mansion only to open a door and find someone was already there lol
My biggest WTF was the 2nd time you face off against the Snake monster he creates a hole in the floor(sure why not) but you can go down a rope into it and its just a weird space surrounded by walls with a tombstone leading to a hidden basement passage. Just an odd af way to get to the basement.
The tombstone is from the cut story of Lisa Trevor, Which was added to REmake in the early 2000s on the gamecube and its subsequent ports.
I never played attention to that lol
@@xproflipscarabThat's interesting
This was the first game of this type that I had ever played back during the days when the PS1 was considered to be revolutionary video game technology. That first part in the hallway when the dogs jump through the window and attack you scared me so bad that I dropped my controller and died. I didn't try to play the game again for a month, but after trying again, I couldn't put it down until I beat it. Such a great game.
Back in '98 my nefew left his PS with me with a copy of Resident Evil. Little did I know then that I would still be playing, and loving, RE games 25 years later
Barry: “Would you take a look at this!”
Jill: “Oh, Barry..”
Barry: “It’s made to kill living things.” 😎
if you think thats bad think about how much information you get from examining a pool of blood? "you go jill - ill be examining this" proceeds to stare at blood for 10 mins straight
@@richardd7614I hope it’s not Chris’s blood!!
"It Forest! Hoh MAH COAWD"
@@richardd7614The best scene was right after you kill the giant snake with Jill in the room with the piano. Barry walks in the room the very second you kill the snake, then walks right through the snake's burning corpse and says "Jill! Have you found anything interesting!" whilst being completely oblivious to the dead snake. Still makes me laugh to this day. Even the conversation involving a rope they have before Jill goes down the hole in the floor. Hysterical.
This game was why I bought a PS1. Between this and the OG Tomb Raider, I must have played them 20 times. Both had some plot holes, but they're absolute classics that can't be beat in today's climate.
I will never forget when I first got my PS1 and my brother was like hey get resident evil it looked cool to him so I did and we were both stuck to the TV playing it for hours and hours that night until we had to go to school
I remember playing the first RE to the point where I was able to run the whole game without saving and completing it fast enough to unlock the rocket launcher with infinite ammo. Man, good times.
The answer to some of these can be found in the S.D Perry novel. Which shows how Jill and Chris had exclusive parts, but if they did it that way the games would have been to short and unexplored in a single playthrough.
I don't think the parts are supposed to be simultaneous. The character that isn't chosen is kidnapped by Wesker. Just not sure who got what roll canonically
@@riftvallance2087 Yeah it wouldn't really make sense because the game is 95% identical whether you play Chris or Jill.
It made a bit more sense in RE2 with the A/B scenario thing, since Leon and Claire mostly have different encounters and routes through the game, and even meet up a few times. I think in that game, both playthroughs are canon. In RE1 only one of them can be, and I don't suppose it really matters which. They both escape and they both see some bad shit lol.
@@yewtewbstew547 Ya , it's more obvious when you are playing as Chris. Chris doesn't start with a gun . You get it after returning to the first hall to find Jill and wesker gone with Jill's gun left behind. Since Jill isn't running around without it the implications is that wesker bonked her on the head and dragged her off to the cell you rescue her from for the rest of the game.
@@yewtewbstew547 Also what kind of irks me is that neither playthrough is really cannon As Barry Rebecca Chris and Jill are all supposed to survive. When playing as Chris you don't even see Barry just as when you are playing as Jill you never run into Rebecca so there is no way to save all 4. It bugs me.
There is no canon path in the canon tho. Its merely said that both Chris and Jill uncovered the secrets of the mansion, exposed Wesker and Umbrella and escaped with Barry and Rebecca.
Its their way of saying both paths are canon...somehow.
I play RE1 remake every single October as soon as the first day hits. One of my favorite holiday traditions!
Also Shaun of the Dead and Army of Darkness are mandatory early on, and as the month goes on it gets more and more serious horror.
I'd love a faithful RE adaptation. I think Sam Raimi would do a good job. His movies have that same feel as the original PS1's mix of horror and cheese.
It's funny how many people insist the cheese is a fundamental part of Resident Evil and any adaptation should strive to capture said cheese. I always saw the cheese as an objectively weak aspect of it.
I don't want a cheesy adaptation of Resident Evil, I want a seriously terrifying one. 🤷♂️
@@JadeRunner I didn't say it was a fundamental aspect. But you'd be lying if you said the first few games weren't 85% horror, 15% delicious cheese.
George A. Romero wrote a script for a Resident Evil movie and was set to direct, but the studio, in all of their "wisdom" decided to ditch him and hand the project over to Paul "Wank Stain" Anderson instead.
@@Right_Said_Brett Eh, that script wasn't all that faithful to the games either, to be fair.
@@zufgh True, but the difference is that George A. Romero was a superb filmmaker and not a hackfraud like Paul W.S. Anderson.
The dog keeper’s diary terrified me. There was something about the degradation of the mind put to paper that just shook me so. On another note, my brother’s best friend brought his Playstation and this game over and after seeing it for the first time I had to buy a Playstation of my very own just to play this amazing experience.
Don't ever read the final notes from a miner that got trapped underground and wrote a letter to his wife and daughter in his finals hours. I read it and honestly wonder if the folks at Capcom did too.
Huh similar experience here, first saw RE1 at the home of my sister's friend and then asked my parents to get me a playstation so I could play it myself :P
Some of those are some interesting questions you pose Drinker. I think Chris being in the prison cell is the easiest to come up with a head canon reasoning. Chris was the best shot on Alpha team so it's not implausible that once he was locked out of the front door, he could easily turn and focus to take out the dogs and run out of ammo in the process (after all they all expended some on the run to the mansion) leaving him an easy hostage for Wesker to take once Jill and Barry left the main hall. Though that begs the question of why don't you hear him hit the door at any point and what you pointed out about all the puzzles (which I didn't think about until now) why are all the puzzles still unsolved if Wesker took Chris down to the lab? Perhaps he ran through the forest with Chris to the fountain and used the door to the heliport and entered the lab that way, put Chris in the cell, came back up, and welded it shut. Completely ridiculous logic but fits with Resident Evil's ridiculousness. Fun little video.
That was the only resident evil game that I played to completion, it’s an absolute gem! Me and my friends used to get baked and play it with all the lights turned off back in high school
The first game remains the best of the series.
I have been waiting for a worthy and faithful adaptation of this series ever since I was a little girl watching my older siblings play through the original game on our family's computer.
I can't believe the 2000s movie was the best it would get.
Ah, the fond memories of when RE was actually RE. 👍👍
So... always
Give us more videos like this, man! I like to hear what's goin' on in your head whenever you're pondering things like this.
I always thought it was silly that the Stars Bravo team went to the mansion and all get rekt immediately. Jill single handedly gets through the mansion ahah .With the exception of Enrico. Rip Enrico.
I waited years to have this discussion. Thanks for bringing it back.
1. I think as Jill, Chris was likely separated in the chaos and got in the mansion another way. He may have worked his way deeper into the mansion before Barry or Wesker (both?) locked him in the cell. Playing as Chris, Jill was more than likely walked into the lab by Barry before he locked her up.
2. For Forrest, I think he was attacked by one of the dogs before getting into the mansion. He then limped to the second floor and was finished off by the birds. Makes sense that he was already injured since a STARS member being killed by birds alone would've been a little embarrassing.
3. I would guess Richard locked the door to the hallway he was in himself. For the Yawn room, maybe the door was open before got attacked. When he closed it to escape it could've locked.
4. I think your theory on Wesker locking Enrico inside and putting the battery back is solid. Wesker does like to play games so maybe he was curious how far the others would go.
5. Maybe there was a butler who wasn't aware anything was wrong yet until the outbreak spilled from the lab into the mansion lobby. Or he picked up the papers on his way back from his 2 week vacation. He placed the papers in the library and met his end running into one of the zombies. Hey it could happen :).
6. I think the infinite naked zombies are just the games way of showing the number of human bodies Umbrella was experimenting on. How kind of them to only attack in small groups.
7. The door may have been welded shut by someone trying to escape a zombie or bioweapon. A nice touch would've been seeing someone with a welding kit dead on the other side when you get to the heliport.
8. The parts of the lab you have access to seemed pretty small so there likely was a lot more you don't get to see. The dog pens could've been in those areas.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Keeper continuing to write as zombie. How was he able to keep writing and even spelling just fine? Maybe his infection affected him a little different and he retain some of his cognitive functions before completely changing. The T-virus does cause mutations after all. Thanks again for reminding us what started it all.
The original PS1 era RE games have so much nostalgia for me
You know, on the topic of classic Resident Evil, I feel like talking to Pastra would be an engaging conversation. Particularly in light of his video comparing Nemesis in RE3 versus the Remake.
Hell, given the Five Nights At Freddy's movie looking to be a box office slam dunk, his experience with the series would contribute nicely to an Open Bar come that release in October.
I can just visualise The Drinker taking a long dump and spending the whole time puzzling over unanswered RE questions
I got to your channel a long time ago when I was looking up RE reviews because I was getting into the series. My love for it has grown so much because of the Drinkers content that I cant help but love all RE videos that he makes
Great video. Always enjoy listening to you discuss Resident Evil.
Trucker: Guys a maniac, whyed he bite me?
I really enjoyed this! I'm a huge RE fan and I hadn't ever thought twice about most of these. Great work!
This video coming out now is very serendipitous as I had just played through RE1 remastered for the first time a month ago
With Forrest, I always thought it was the snake that got him.
Since that boss encounter is near Forrest's body, once you found the necessary keys and all.
He would have similar bite marks like Richard. A Hunter is more likely the cause of his wounds leading to the balcony
@@susick480
🤔 ... Could be
Doesn't the snake spit acid? Like a projectile attack.
Or is that just the spiders and zombies that do that in RE1?
No.
Look at his trousers they have scratch marks on it, it's possible he was attacked by the Cerberus before entering the mansion he has similar bite wounds like that of Edward so I would think that an animal of some kind did this to him. He goes upstairs bleeding to the the 2nd floor towards the balcony mortally wounded to signal the others for help! most likely succumbing to his wounds and dying moments after being ambushed by the crows who then finish him off.
@@Peter-wd6dg
☝️Well done 👍
🤯
The OG PlayStation games were the goat.
@yujirohanmaisbestdadL opinion. The remakes are downgraded versions of the originals. RE2 remake cuts out two entire scenarios. And they don’t even use the two canon scenarios either. Leon B and Claire A. The only remake I’d say is definitely better is RE1. Anyone who says that RE2, RE3, and RE4 remake is better though just has recency bias.
@yujirohanmaisbestdadno they're not
@@generalflux2344I agree for the most part. The remake of RE1 is my favourite way to play the game but I actually think the remake of 4 is better. I never cared much for RE4 but the remake I really enjoyed. But the original RE2 and 3 are GOAT
@@generalflux2344nah, re4 remake is better than the original lmao. you can't even argue about the over the shoulder camera cause that's also the case with re4 og. and all the characters and story are done better.
@@generalflux2344I don't think it's necessarily recency bias, they just play better. However I do admit that content was missing from most of the remakes. I'd say definitively the only remake that is undeniably worse is RE 3 the others I think are debatable. I think they both have their strengths over each other but it all comes down to what one prefers in their game. Personally I feel that both are great and complement eachother.
Incredible love for OG Resi. Used to wear an Umbrella Corp vest to the gym.
It was pretty much a perfect kitsch interactive horror movie. Borrowed heavily from Alone in the Dark but turned it into something much more polished and immersive. I mean, I've *been* to Arklay Mansion. I've *been* to the Umbrella labs.
RE2 was also very much of it's time. We had (largely from the X-Files) a healthy distrust of big corporations, big pharmaceutical companies and sinister monster-based mystery adventures and RE2 encapsulated that excellently. I could finish that game in 90 minutes.
Itchy. Tasty.
This genuinely brings me back to the drinkers older videos especially on the games that ruined my childhood videos (not that resident evil is bad by any means) and I’d love for more videos that kind of emulate those kinds of older videos
I'm one of those people. This game will always have a special place in my heart. It is an absolute classic.
Going back and playing these on emulator made me appreciate how much patience we had back then. We've come a long way!
I never liked them then, I don't like them now. Luckily, and in my opinion, they've perfected the formula now tho.
I remember you bringing some of this up during your play through as well. Very fun video
Any sound affect or music from Resi brings a massive smile as my youth come flooding back 😁
Barry: What, what is this?
Jill: What is it?
Barry: Blood. Hope it's not Chris's blood.
You were almost a Jill sandwich
@@daogenify You're right.
2:14 there was probably a boulder outside and he couldn't help but act on instinct.
Thank you Drinker. As one of the few with the umbrella tattooed on my hand, this warms my heart. Indulge your whims, no remorse.
Damn, wasn’t expecting this but I’m here for it! Would love to see more covering retro games
I love the cheesy lines from the original
WHAT A MANSION!
I wonder if this Resident Evil will get a remake too as well.
You're serious? They remade it in 2002 for the Gamecube and have ported it to just about every major console except the PS2 since then.
30th anniversary in 2026…..
It’s a fun coincidence that I happen to be playing the first Resident Evil game currently and then see this video appear. I was asking myself ALL of these very same questions during my play-throughs of the game. I still absolutely love it, it’s still enjoyable, even today, if you’re able to just shut off your brain a bit to overlook this stuff .
Would love more of these videos! Resident Evil is special in a weirdly undefinable way that other series just aren’t.
I think Chris made his way into the mansion through another entrance, and came across Wesker first.
Wesker being alone with him pointed his gun at him and escorted him to the prison cell.
At least that's how I always imagined it.
What about rebecca?
Check out the RE1 Remake. Incredibly faithful and expands on some things like where the dog pens are!
This video was great. Different than the usual stuff. I'd love to see more!
Favorite video game series of all time. I thought I would be able to answer some of your questions but the only one that I have any inkling of an ideas for is the one about the News Paper Clippings.
Birkin and Wesker were both part of different Umbrella S.S teams that were sent into the Arklay lab during the outbreak (sometime between 0 and 1), they were sent into the Mansion and into the facility from 0 to see if they could salvage anything or clear it out, it is possible that either of them or a member of their team left them There. I don't know why, but perhaps they were carrying them as reference, as they knew that the attacks mentioned in the clippings were related to Umbrella experiments.
Where did Wesker keep all his glasses?
Will the Redfield Bloodline prevail?
Will jill get laid?
Will leon get ada's attention?
Will we ever see ethan's face?
Will Chris finally get Leon or Ethan to continue the Redfield bloodline?
@@marcodragneel8035 will Jill ever get a sandwich?
Can't wait for a resident evil 5 remake. But I fear it may be a little woke. Capcom recently had diversity training... Not sure why a Japanese studio would need that.
Not just recently(see the associated leaks from years ago by now).
As for why,the perceived myth of the global market and western standards.
Want them gaijin muniez.
Probably for that reason it wouldn't be touched. People complained about r@cism back when the game was released in the mid 2000s, and no amount of DEI training is going to change the game's setting and characters (though they could just say Kijibi is now in South Africa and make all the enemies white)
They could race-swap enemies and say they're colonialists.
I would much rather a Code Veronica remake. The original wasn't great, but it has a ton of potential that could be unlocked in a remake. Maybe they could actually make Steve not an annoying loser.
Among the many revelations and oh yeah… questions raised in this. The most shocking thing for me is when you said it’s 27 years old. Jeez when did that happen
"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product."
I like the S.D. Perry Novels. She fills in most of those answers and fixes a lot of the holes in the story.
Love it! Currently trying to get all achievements on the Resident Evil series! Finished 1 and now in RE2! So nostalgic!
Great video and a few of these have puzzled me as well. I always imagined Chris got in through either the window in the Kenneth Hallway or the back door near the bathroom and got captured by Wesker later. I always imaged that the dog pens were somewhere outside the mansion perhaps on the side if the west wing.
Great video for an all time great game. I've often wondered where all these zombies slept when they were presumably working in the mansion as researchers, maintenance staff, and guards. There's only a handful of beds in the mansion and residence areas, and Umbrella would have needed a barracks to house the number of zombies you put down in a run through. Cheers!
Resident Evil was my first Playstation game. I bought it at a flea market and it was mixed in with a bunch of Sega CD game that were selling for $5 each. I didn't even have a Playstation at the time and used a buddy's console in the barracks. I had to play it marathon style as I didn't even have a memory card at the time. RE hooked me as a die hard Sony fan ever since.
Love this style of video! Would be great to see you do more gaming stuff (that's how I originally found your channel).
Thanks Drinker. Now I am going to wide awake tonight thinking about these questions lol
Good video, Drinker. I just like to say that most of your questions can be resume to "gameplay mechanics".
But I agree with you, some are really head scratching mysteries! Hahaha
Thanks Drinker. A fun little trip down nostalgia street with a game I really love.
Prior to the RE series, a game I truly loved that had a very slightly similar tone, was "Realms of the Haunting" by Gremlin (1996)
That game was quite difficult and one of the factors was because as you started approaching the final act, you lost opportunity to collect healing potions and eventually ammo as well.
Drove me insane dealing with that (fun fact, my young teen daughter beat it before I did!) 🤯
Incredible game for its time though and I HIGHLY recommend it, if you can even find it anymore.
Cheers mate!
I wouldn't mind more of these!
Resident evil 1 on the PS1 was a most formative moment in my life. Blew my mind. The opening minute of this video alone brought so many memories to the forefront of my mind. Now….. back to the rest of the video.
In the novelization if the first game by S.D Perry it is suggested that the mansion has a lot of secret doors and passageways used by Wesker that aren't mapped out.
And it seems like a reasonable explanation considering all the strange puzzles you need to solve to open certain doors and find certain items in the game.
But again, it's just speculation on my part
This is one of my favorite videos you've made. I like these.
I always wanted to know why Forest, the "sniper", had a grenade launcher and no sniper rifle.
drinker, please do more of this! seeing you happily indulge your curiosity rather than waste your time on criticizing the godawful dregs of media is so much more fulfilling
Man I needed this. This videogame came out when I was 10 and it literally changed my life. The only thing I had every played close to as scary at the time was Doom. Seriously if Resident Evil and Doom never came out I probably wouldn't much of a gamer or horror buff at all and I probably wouldn't be a gun nut either..... well that I blame more on Half-Life, Counter Strike and Rainbow Six but still RE and Doom directed me towards those games.
May as well throw my two cents in here. I’ve been a big fan of Resident Evil since the second’s release, I was too young to appreciate the first game. However, the pair that will always be my GOAT, and that I always go back to play every few months is the Resident Evil: Outbreak games! I’ve played every level as every character, and only recently have I actually tried beating them on Hard and Avery Hard mode. I did manage to get through Hard, but VH is now giving me a run for my money in the final act of the first game.
Would love to hear Drinker’s thoughts on the Outbreak series!
Since fall of 1996. I finally found someone that’s asking the same questions I’ve been for years.
I would love it if you do more of these videos! Pick apart all the classic games...
🧡🧡🧡 I love this sooo much! I need a resident evil movie where the story follows an OCD Wesker sneakily setting up traps and resetting puzzles.
Thank you so much for making this, and no, you''re not alone...I've had the same questions since I played through "Biohazard" on on the PS1...
The Resi retrospective and Dog Soldiers is how I found your channel dude…indulge away
The waterfall actually makes sense - it isn't running when you show up, you have to trigger it in order to drain the pool so that you can cross on your way to the guard house.
RE1 is one of those games I only played last year when I set up my PSX. Everyone I could've talked to about it was either too young or too old to remember it well. More of this please. Enlighten the younglings about our older treasures.
Drinker and Resi - my fave cocktail. Keep it coming. And read “itchy, scratchy”.
Lol this video was a lot of fun and really took me back. Thank you!
first time opening up the front doors - one of the best jump scares ever in a game.. never looked too far into it when I was a kid playing this but definitely a lot more questions than answers.
From what I remember naked lab zombies are test subjects and that area with the door access to the lab, at least from what i remember from re1.5 we were supposed to explore areas like that in the discarded RE2 plot
the best part of the video is how you end it with "go away now" rather than "subscribe now" LOL. Clicking the like button for that.