#re7 ff

[a-vicious-faithless-angel]

"Things would have been 10x better if Mia just told Ethan the truth"

My god almighty alright so let's tell my husband my horrific fucking trauma that's lasted 3 years that I have to live with everyday with the fact that Ive played a part in this. Let me tell him about all the fucked up shit that I had to live with for 3 years KNOWING what I did not even knowing if I'd ever escape

But sure!!!! It's easy peasy!

[piracytheorist]

Small Signs (1/1)

Fandom: Resident Evil 7

Summary: Ethan wakes up, thinking of his wife, who has been missing for three years. Little does he know today will be the first news of her he'll get since she disappeared.

Word count: 1.4k AO3

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Another dull day.

Another day Ethan wakes up and the other side of the bed is cold.

One would think that he would get used to it, after all this time. But no. Some days he still finds himself waking up and instinctively reaching to hold her.

She always responded to his touch, no matter how deep her sleep. She would sigh and move her body closer to him, then nestle there until she actually woke. He would wait for her to wake up, work honestly be damned, he'd think sometimes.

He stretches his arm, laying it where she would've been, hand on the pillow, fingers running softly over the fabric. He would’ve been mad to think that her scent could have stayed on it after three years.

He sighs. Three years of confusion.

Work be damned, he used to think, but it's the only thing that has managed to keep his mind occupied. His co-workers realized quickly that he was dealing with Mia's disappearance on his own way and time, and they left him alone about all the "You should move on" stuff as soon as they started.

Not that he doesn't appreciate their sympathy. But they’re not in the know.

Even their friends feel distanced to him now. They’ve mourned Mia already, and he’s now the odd one out. He still enjoys their company, but despite the remarks on how it isn't too early to start going out again being rare, sometimes it feels like they can’t get it.

He just wishes he had any fucking way to explain to them the very last message he got from Mia.

"Stay away. Forget that you ever knew me. Have a good life."

It still sends shivers down his spine to think of it. He remembers the moment he watched it the first time clear as ever. How he'd stayed frozen, almost shivering from shock, in front of his computer, for who knows how long after the video had ended. The sirens blaring in the background. Mia's distraught, tired, dirty face. Her telling him to forget her. Completely. As if she never existed.

A part of him – a small one, but a part nonetheless – was almost angry at her request. She'd lied to him – and admitted so – and after all those years of being together, she just expected him to forget all about it? Their love? Her admittance? Her guilt?

Her?

He groans in frustration. Despite anything else, he feels guilty for being even that little angry at her. And for the life of him, he can’t believe she didn’t love him. She couldn’t have just left him… there must have been another reason.

Maybe he should do as she said and have a good life. Maybe he should really move on. Maybe he should just do as their friends want to tell him but won't.

But still... If they had known...

The police had instructed him to not tell anyone about Mia's last video. Even if they hadn't, he still had no idea how to even start that conversation.

"Yeah, first she sent me that sweet message, with the promise of coming back soon, and that same night she sent me this one and it scared the shit out of me. And then she disappeared without a trace. Can you see now why I can't really move on?"

If only he knew what happened. Without a body found, he believes he'll spend eternity hoping he'll get news of her. Not that a body is difficult to get lost and destroyed to the point of no recognition, that fucking voice he hasn’t been able to mute even three years later, says again.

If only he could just know what happened. How, or why she disappeared. If she died, at least if it was quick and painless. At this point he's gotten used to the jab inside his chest at the thought of her actually being dead. It still hurts as much as first, but the pain comes less often and more anticipated.

He wants answers. What was with the creepy video, why she lied to him, what she hid from him.

Who is he kidding? Most of all, he wants her.

It isn't like that every day. He gets up with his alarm clock and loses himself in the morning prep routine, focuses on work, goes back home and finds ways to spend the day by either cleaning, tidying up, maybe distracting himself with a beer with friends and then goes to sleep, hoping the next day will provide opportunities for distractions again.

He's given up on the piano. He was pretty mediocre at it already, so it's not like he has any memories of himself playing exquisite sonatas and Mia sitting next to him, being entranced by his fingers dancing across the keys. But he's supposed to be happy for it. He's supposed to give heart to it.

He doesn't feel like he has much of a heart left. Sad thought, he's aware. But it's also true.

The alarm clock on his phone finally rings. He silences it and gets up.

That one small difference, waking up a few minutes before the alarm, stains his entire day. When he opens the cupboard to take the coffee jar, his eyes fall on the sugar jar and he remembers how Mia took her coffee with sugar, and how that jar has barely seen any use in the past three years. When he washes his now empty coffee mug, the lack of a second cup to wash brings a feeling of emptiness in him. When he brushes his teeth, Mia’s old toothbrush is almost taunting him. He didn’t throw it away at first, because, well, she could have returned at any time, right? After the designated three months since she’d first used it passed, he felt as if throwing it away would send out a sign of resignation to the universe, or something. So there it stays and haunts him.

He’s almost managed to forget about that and ignore its existence. But today, being such a day, when he opens the towel cupboard to take out a new one, it catches his eye. An unopened pregnancy test box, probably expired by now.

The last pregnancy test Mia’d had was negative. “When I come back, we’ll try again. It will be positive, then. I know it,” she’d said.

He just had to change the towels today of all days, didn’t he?

He thinks that getting out of the apartment will make him feel better, with some – relatively – clean air in his lungs. Instead, it makes him feel emptier. No goodbye kiss, no see you later, her house keys still and always missing.

Even with work he can't get his mind off. Especially when an old man calls him for help with his computer and starts talking about how it was a gift from his lovely wife.

Is it too much, that he once dreamed – and sometimes, his traitorous mind still dreams – of himself and Mia growing into an adorable old couple like them? Is it because he was so damn happy, that the universe decided a different path for him?

Ethan feels thankful, albeit reluctant, when Jim invites him out for drinks that night.

Had he been asked, he'd never believe that his sullen mood that day would be a sign. A sign that, while Jim would be talking about a particularly demanding and annoying customer, Ethan's phone would ring with a notification. That he'd turn it on and in a shocked state he'd see that he got an email. From Mia.

Dulvey, Louisiana. Baker Farm. Come get me.

It's her account, he knows it. He even knows the password; he had logged in a few times over the past three years in the frail hope it would somehow bring her to him. Last time was one and a half month ago, on their anniversary.

He doesn't even stop to think. Louisiana, fuck, that's nearly across the country.

Well, no time to waste then. He starts picking up his stuff.

"You okay?" Jim asks.

"Yeah. I- I gotta go."

"Something wrong?"

"No, I just- I gotta go."

"Ethan, what the hell?"

What the hell indeed.

He nearly runs to the exit, not looking back at his friend.

Mia is out there, calling out to him, and he's going to get her back.

~

A/N: Boi has no single clue what nightmare he's getting himself into XD

Anyway, I headcanon that Ethan plays a bit of piano. There are enough appearances of pianos both in RE7 and RE8 (and even a puzzle with one) so I'm going with that. I feel that it's just a hobby to him, so practicing everyday is not his priority, and after Mia disappeared it would just feel wrong to him. Boi's sentimental af.

I looked all over the game's credits, and I couldn't find if the dude Ethan calls at the begining of the game has a name (or even who voices him, lol), so I gave him one myself. I just thought it'd be cool to tie it in that way.

Also, hey, this is the first time I write for this fandom. Yay me! Here's to probably writing more fic!

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149. Daddy Said Shoot (Resident Evil)

Title: Daddy Said Shoot Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26073754 Platform: AO3 Creator: Coffin Liqueur (HP_Lovecats) Work Type: Fanfiction Fandom: Resident Evil Rating: M Pairing: Gen Word count: 1,225 Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, canon-typical blood and gore, some language Number of comments: 1 Completion Status: Complete Short summary/description: Like everything else around her on her family’s old estate, the magnum’s all too familiar to Zoe. As per usual, that’s only so much of a good thing.

[theonyxranger]

im sure this has been said already but capcom literally doesnt know how to make a new resident evil without making chris’ design somehow even worse every time

[smokeybrandreviews]

Greatness Awaits

Yesterday, Sony had a pretty solid State of Play. I am, and have been, a total PlayStation fanboy since the ate Nineties. The PS2 is arguably my favorite console of all time so I'm always here for the Sony drops It’s been slim pickings for the current gen of consoles but I was rather impressed with everything presented but there were, for me, three standouts.

Final Fantasy XVI

Final Fantasy XVI looks interesting. Obviously, it's gorgeous, it's an FF title, but this thing feels, narratively, like something else I've been a huge fan of for some time; The Wicked and the Divine. W and D is a comic about reincarnated Gods that kind of live, fight, and die, only to repeat the cycle all over again. I am getting those same vibes with this newest FF entry. It looks like the principal characters are mortal versions of Summons and you eventually unlock that god mode for battle, kind of like Bloody Roar meets Pokemon. I am intrigued but i can't say I'm excited. I'll get it because it's an FF but i don't really care about this game right now, not when Final Fantasy VII Remake part II is still a figment of Nomura’s imagination.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6 looks dope as f*ck. I am loving the art style, i am loving the animations, i am loving the aesthetic. Curious where this thing falls in the timeline because Bison is dead and it doesn't look like it takes place before Gill did his Messiah thing. Is it an actual continuation of the story re we finally progressing past the Third Impact timeline? Either way, I'm hyped. I'm terrible at Street Fighter, most Capcom fighters actually, but i am looking forward to this new SF, which is odd because i feel next to nothing about that new, mainline FF title. Also, thanks to some pretty substantial roster leaks, i got a look at my darling Cammy. I’ve been a Ms. White main since she was introduced way back in the Nineties and i must say, she is lookin’ FIIIIIIIINE!

Resident Evil 4 Remake

REmake 4 looks pretty awesome. I'm reserving judgment for now because i didn't care for RE4 when it originally came out, I'm a Raccoon City purist and i absolutely abhorred what 4 did to the franchise going forward the following twelve years until RE7 fixed what it broke. like, RE4 was fun to play. It was innovative and injected a ton of great, new, ideas into a franchise that was already a few titles deep. That said, Capcom took the exact wrong lesson from why 4 is considered so great. Action in my Biohazard games should never trump the horror elements. If i wanted to run and gun down zombies, I'd play House of the Dead. REmake 4 looks to have decided to lean heavy into atmosphere this go around, however, I'm going to reserve judgment until we see some actual gameplay. If they revamped the system, made the game focus more on the horror and not the action, it might be worth a pick up.

[nancydfan]

We could’ve had a scene mirroring the last game where Ethan clasps Mia’s hand when he finds she survived after all. Mia taking her husbands hand in hers so glad he’s still here

WHY CAPCOM WHY

I’m SO GLAD the one thing they decided to continue from Mia and Ethan in re7 is her having a secret and Ethan knowing there’s something she’s not telling him.

(I’m not glad.)

Mia should have been there in the end helping save Ethan. She’s a trained operative ffs. I know she’s a mom now but holy hell Capcom it’s not her whole identity. Not to mention, the ending feels super rushed to me? It was all completed in like 20 minutes? And I felt like we had at least an hour left. Mia being a bigger part of that (also helping save her hubby!) would help fix that imo.

Idk I’m probably rambling (I just woke up.) but I agree there are some wonderful connections they could have had. Ethan waking up after the explosion and Mia looking down on him with some exposition of how he survived. Perfect! We all accept he doesn’t die anyway. Capcom, it was right there!

[nuka-rockit]

Resident Evil 7: biohazard

a summary

[retphienix]

Maybe I’ll go OFF at some point and really doll out what this game makes me think but I just wanted to touch base on the FF7 remake.

The short of it?

I Am Enjoying It But The Game Simultaneously Infuriates Me.

For pretty much all the reasons I suspected before release. This format sucks and since I’m looking to touch base on my worries more than my praise it’ll SEEM tilted to the negative, which it is, please don’t assume that’s all there is to this but here-

Pros:

(mostly good) FAN SERVICE TO DEATH’S DOOR AND BACK. Gorgeous because it’s square and that’s what they do (read as: Waste money on and push away from RPG gameplay) Fun gameplay.... mostly. And I mean that. Mostly, as in like 90-95% fun gameplay. This game is less final fantasy and more Yakuza in Midgar. I’m serious. And that’s good.

Cons:

Because fanservice- THIS GAME IS MILKING THE EVER LOVING CRAP OUT OF FF7. I mean it when I say it’s genuinely slow paced and dragging its feet because it wants to milk every living second of time from what FF7 concisely told decades ago. You likely won’t HATE how slow it goes, but as you think on it it really bothers me how much this is just dragging Midgar along because they arbitrarily decided it had to be a full 30+ hour experience, IN FRIGGIN MIDGAR.

Gameplay has problems! Dumb ones! Namely in order to more optimally play you will likely be switching characters every THREE SECONDS because AI controlled partners have terrible AI! They don’t use spells outside of Auto- spells (auto cure being the only one I’ve seen in this entry) and MAYBE cure outside of that? But I was likely imagining things. Them not using spells or abilities wouldn’t be a deal breaker (since commanding them is easy) but the problem is this and I mean it: The AI refuses to build bar. That’s it. That’s the man issue. You need bar to cast anything, the AI sticks their thumb as far up their ATB as possible and spend combat blocking for 6 seconds, swing for 2, block for 6, repeat. It’s extremely annoying when you see ranged characters like Barrett or Aerith just standing there when they should be building and spending bar like crazy. ONLY THE PLAYER CHARACTER WILL EVER EFFECTIVELY BUILD BAR, WHICH MEANS ONLY THE PLAYER CHARACTER WILL BE ABLE TO CAST ANYTHING EVER, So you must switch frantically in combat if you want to be effective, or just say screw it and put near everything on PC and switch when you want someone to build bar to cast cure once or for Barrett to FRIGGING USE HIS OVERCHARGE FREE CAST ABILITY, it’s infuriating and honestly makes other gameplay decisions pointless- Oh sick I can have them cast a spell when I do? Oh wait they will never have bar ever so it’s just another level of micromanaging needed.

The industry practice of taking a finished game and splitting it into multiple entries, stroking your ego as hard as possible to milk it dry for a 30 hour experience, and selling it multiple times thanks to multiple parts- is pretty gross and I can already feel myself being annoyed that if I want to beat FF7 I’ll have to buy who knows how many games. I’m down for the fan service, I’m annoyed that I already beat this game decades ago for the price of one game, now I have to do who knows how many. Fun.

Other stuff. Camera is too darn close even a max range, it’s a literal headache in close corridors and guess what Midgar is made of since it’s a tight knit city/trash city? Yep. Running around Wall Market is both breath taking and vomit inducing thanks to that.

While most of the fanservice is handled very well, wonderfully even, some is just kinda dumb. Or rather, it’s repetition makes it feel kinda dumb, like Barrett doing the FF victory fanfare? Cool! Him doing it during multiple cutscenes as well as a random proc during combat finishing as well as just because sometimes? Okay guys we get it, it’s FF. Please stop, it’s actually downplaying Barrett as a character and instead using him as a vehicle for reference stroking.

Stop taking control from the player to focus the camera on something we clearly already saw for 12 seconds longer than literally any human brain would need to see what is going on. It happens a LOT in this game. Not a TON, but a LOT.

Moogle Medals are a waste of potential. They initially appear to be a collectible kinda like TinyMedals in DQ but instead of being a set number in the world (like a good amount of DQ games) they randomly spawn (like some DQ games that usually incorporate randomly generated maps). That’s not a deal breaker, but it does make them lose a ton of meaning very. Very. Very quickly. You have to go out of your way to get some of them and then find out they spawn infinitely in boxes or can be farmed with a minigame you literally don’t have to play as they are a participation reward. Coulda been a fun collectible with nice rewards like (stretch but bare with me) the coins in RE7 but instead you just farm them up and get the rewards and move on with no reason to look back.

Plenty of other stuff. On both ends honestly. Clearly I wanted to rant about it a bit, but I’m 30 hours in and having fun? So? There’s that? I clearly LIKE it, but I can’t say I love it since that’s, well, not why I came here in the first place I guess? Maybe I’ll change my tune soon. I probably will. Multiple times. But more or less what I’m saying is: Before launch this struck me as a cash grab. It’s not, really. It also struck me as an ego stroking game that will milk the heck out of FF7 to a degree that might devalue FF7 in general. It. Feels like I was right about that.

It’s not bad. I won’t say that. I thought it would be. I really thought it’d be all glitz and graphics and terrible “We hate RPGs because we’re modern Square” gameplay but no. It’s great gameplay with some faults, great sights and fanservice with some faults.

It’s, well. Imperfect, but pretty great, and nothing really is perfect anyway?

I just still hold a lot of misgivings. The AI being a small one, and the financial practice of milking your golden goose to death to make, what? 300 hours of gameplay when RUSHING because you make 10 friggin “Full games” and call them each a part of FF7?

That part bothers me plenty. I love FF7, I don’t really like seeing it milked this hard to charge multiple times for stretched thin, but fun and pretty versions of what the original offered.

It’s conflicting. Good game. Has me hopeful and worried that they don’t milk it to death before they finish the stretched out narrative.

[noprxmises-blog]

                              the most dangerous words you’ll ever hear him speak are:

                       ❛ ━━kill them. ❜

[noccalula-writes]

What are your favorite games and franchises? Top 5?

OH BOY have I got feelings on this subject. 

Please keep in mind - I’m a storyteller and a writer. I fucking /love/ a good story. I DM a DnD game and my biggest weakness is that I don’t often include enough combat because I am so much more interested in telling a story. So for me, there’s got to be an emotional investment for a game to really land. I also hyperfixate like a motherfucker so I often refuse to pick up new things purely because there’s not enough space in my head for them at the time, so I’m slow getting to things as they come out. 

So, I’m first and foremost a survival horror bitch. I cut my teeth on Parasite Eve before I played any others - my mother scrimped and saved and fought her way through Wal-mart back in like 1998 to get me the original Playstation gaming console and Tekken 2 (which was my first PS game, I played it in an arcade near her barber shop as a child - Tomb Raider 2 was my second). The old Playstation discs at that time came with demos for different games, including Metal Gear Solid, which I replayed until I could have done it in my sleep because poverty meant I wasn’t likely to get another game anytime soon. I mention this because the Parasite Eve trailer used to give me nightmares but I was super, super hooked. 

I am a huge Silent Hill fan. Huge. That is a tragedy I could write a whole ‘nother post about, because as excited as I am to finally get my hands on Death Stranding (again, poverty, so it’ll be another minute before we can get a PS4), we’ll never get another SH game again unless some major reconciliation happens with Kojima and Konami, which is unlikely (and also hard to hope for - I’m happy Kojima now has the creative freedom to go as balls to the wall as he wants). 

I am an equally huge Resident Evil fan. I’ve always maintained that my first fandom was The X Files, but my wife pointed out a few nights ago that my RE love started around the same time in the late 90′s, so now it’s a chicken and egg kind of thing. Point being, it’s either The or One Of my longest lasting fandoms/interests. RE and Silent Hill get compared to one another a lot - RE7 did nothing to help that - but they really are apples and oranges to me. Fruit, sure, but two totally different tones and experiences. 

I’ve been a huge Tomb Raider fan for forever - my first high school boyfriend was loaded and bought me Angel of Darkness to come play at his house and while it was def critically panned, I do recall enjoying it - so that’s been fun to get those games remade with updated graphics. I’ve only played the one but the others are def on The List. 

So now that I’ve talked for an hour, my Top 5 fave games ever - 

#1 - Resident Evil 3 I am beyond jazzed for this remake, and a lot of people in the 90′s complained about RE3′s lack of clear cut boss battles, but I don’t know what they’re talking about. The entire fucking game is a boss battle - Jill vs. Raccoon City, and of course, Nemesis, who used to give my mother nightmares and caused me to sleep with a leaf-stabber by my bed for years. Jill is far and away my favorite protagonist in RE; she’s got a resilience of the spirit that somehow isn’t conflated with naivety, which is uncommon in ‘nice’ female protags. She’s savvy but she’s still kind, and she’s committed as fuck to survival - not to mention, as zealotous a Chris and Jill shipper as I am, she and Carlos had hella chemistry and I’m excited to see where that goes (JD Pardo would have made a fuck of a Carlos Oliviera, btw). It was An Experience and it’s forever at my #1. 

#2 - The Last of Us 

There is no comparison for emotional weight in video games, as far as I’m concerned. SPOILERS if you don’t already know the ending (this game came out in what, 2014?) but to me one of the biggest thing in the game’s favor is that the protagonist made the wrong choice. He had an option to potentially eradicate the cordyceps fungus and maybe save the world, turn the tides back for humanity, and with the weight of the world in the balance, he chose to save Ellie instead. It was, on a global scale, the wrong choice - but it was the human choice. It was the thing that a dad who never properly grieved his dead daughter would do for the surrogate daughter he inherited by accident. As for Ellie, there is no other character quite like her in games, and she’s fucking quality LGBT representation, especially considering how little we see queer children in media. I still cry every time, we play this game twice a year like clockwork and every single time, I still cry. 

#3 - Silent Hill 3 

All of SH’s games will have a special place in my heart - and if you wanna talk shit about Downpour, I’ll meet you in the Denny’s parking lot at 11, you better square the fuck up because I will defend Murphy with fists - but 3 is the best, hands down. I felt like it did the best job of streamlining the series’ ... uhm... somewhat complicated lore into something more understandable. SPOILERS: The villains are horrific - the Missionaries strike fear into my heart every time I play, and Claudia eating a miscarried god fetus to become god herself? Fucked up on a level you rarely see. I suppose if you didn’t catch it in the last sentence - your protag Heather vomits up a fetal god late in the game. Yes, you read that right. The best thing about this game though? Heather. I could climb up my feminist soapbox and talk about Heather as a subversion to video game tropes all fucking day - she’s a nonsexualized teenage girl whose father is killed for her character development. She’s self-sufficient, tough but still vulnerable, and hard as nails in a fight. As I might have mentioned a time or six, she also voluntarily aborts a god because Fuck Your Plans, She’s Got Her Own. 

#4 - Final Fantasy X 

Listen. I don’t know how much of this is because of actually enjoying playing the game and how much of it is emotional attachment. As most of you who follow me know, my mother died when I was sixteen. When I was about fourteen, I dated a rich kid who used to bring his PS2 to our very not-rich house and play games for us to watch - the sort of neophyte version of Watching Guys Play Videogames, if you will, which is another rant for another time. He got a Gamecube specifically so I could play RE Zero and Hunter The Reckoning. He was a neckbeard but he was also desperate to keep me from ditching so he did the smart thing and plied my very poor ass with money and food. The #1 game in the watching roster, though, was FFX - and if you know anything about the game, you know how heavily spirituality features into the story. My mother, very caught up in a very Eastern Philosphy Meets Quantum Physics internal seeking about the nature of things, was hooked from the word Go. She used to sit and watch Trey play for hours - we all did, but having her join us and love it that much? Wonderful. Half my memories of this game are both of us crying - crying when Yuna dances to send the souls, crying when Yuna reveals she’s on a suicide mission, crying when she and Tidus fall in love anyway, crying when she sends her Aeons to die in the final fight, crying over ‘the fayts are waking up’, crying when the big reveal about Auron comes up, crying crying crying. My wife bought it in 2011 and I watched her play through it again and while it suffers from the same issue as all FF games - too much filler and weird battle scenarios - it was cathartic. I miss my mom. 

#5 - Resident Evil 6 

Eat my entire ass. You already knew this was coming. I will defend this game to my grave for the fact that we have complex, interesting narratives surrounding female characters who have actual personalities. Was it perfect? No. Did it take RE out of horror territory and move it more into action? Woefully, yes. Is this series deeply problematic for where it chooses to set down your mostly-white protags and have them kill their way through? Big time. Don’t gloss those facts. But it’s got emotional punch in spades and a few weird character breaks that ended up being kind of brilliant - Chris has been so resiliently relentless in his fight against bioterrorism that a major PTSD break was inevitable. Leon would of course risk life and limb to help Helena, even though she implicated herself in something terrible. The icing on the cake to me was a grown up Sherry Birkin, wide eyed and believing like hell in the fight she thought she was on the right side of and getting knocked down only to get back up. Ada’s entire side campaign was brilliant. I hate some of the control choices they made in this game - the running from the Haos scenes near the end of Chris and Piers’ campaign makes me want to eat my own fist - but so it goes with most RE games (until RE4, moving your protag was like driving a tank). Jake and Sherry are My Unsinkable Ship. There are at least six scenes across this game that never get easier to watch - when the bomb hits the city and the cut scene of the mass infections begin, I still get sick to my stomach - and that, to me, is the mark that this game struck a hell of a chord in terms of storytelling. 

This was long. 

[resident-evi1]

someone tell me you’ve seen the new resident evil movie tell me all your feelings >.<

[smokeybrand]

Greatness Awaits

Yesterday, Sony had a pretty solid State of Play. I am, and have been, a total PlayStation fanboy since the ate Nineties. The PS2 is arguably my favorite console of all time so I'm always here for the Sony drops It’s been slim pickings for the current gen of consoles but I was rather impressed with everything presented but there were, for me, three standouts.

Final Fantasy XVI

Final Fantasy XVI looks interesting. Obviously, it's gorgeous, it's an FF title, but this thing feels, narratively, like something else I've been a huge fan of for some time; The Wicked and the Divine. W and D is a comic about reincarnated Gods that kind of live, fight, and die, only to repeat the cycle all over again. I am getting those same vibes with this newest FF entry. It looks like the principal characters are mortal versions of Summons and you eventually unlock that god mode for battle, kind of like Bloody Roar meets Pokemon. I am intrigued but i can't say I'm excited. I'll get it because it's an FF but i don't really care about this game right now, not when Final Fantasy VII Remake part II is still a figment of Nomura’s imagination.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6 looks dope as f*ck. I am loving the art style, i am loving the animations, i am loving the aesthetic. Curious where this thing falls in the timeline because Bison is dead and it doesn't look like it takes place before Gill did his Messiah thing. Is it an actual continuation of the story re we finally progressing past the Third Impact timeline? Either way, I'm hyped. I'm terrible at Street Fighter, most Capcom fighters actually, but i am looking forward to this new SF, which is odd because i feel next to nothing about that new, mainline FF title. Also, thanks to some pretty substantial roster leaks, i got a look at my darling Cammy. I’ve been a Ms. White main since she was introduced way back in the Nineties and i must say, she is lookin’ FIIIIIIIINE!

Resident Evil 4 Remake

REmake 4 looks pretty awesome. I'm reserving judgment for now because i didn't care for RE4 when it originally came out, I'm a Raccoon City purist and i absolutely abhorred what 4 did to the franchise going forward the following twelve years until RE7 fixed what it broke. like, RE4 was fun to play. It was innovative and injected a ton of great, new, ideas into a franchise that was already a few titles deep. That said, Capcom took the exact wrong lesson from why 4 is considered so great. Action in my Biohazard games should never trump the horror elements. If i wanted to run and gun down zombies, I'd play House of the Dead. REmake 4 looks to have decided to lean heavy into atmosphere this go around, however, I'm going to reserve judgment until we see some actual gameplay. If they revamped the system, made the game focus more on the horror and not the action, it might be worth a pick up.

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52. Cabinet Man (Resident Evil)

Title: Cabinet Man 

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23365141 

Platform: AO3 

Creator: Coffin Liqueur (HP_Lovecats) 

Work Type: Fanfiction 

Fandom: Resident Evil 

Rating: T 

Pairing: Gen 

Word count: 2,217 

Warnings: Language, a description of in-universe fictional gore, one very vague sexual reference 

Number of comments: 0 

Completion Status: Complete 

Short summary/description: In the years before the Bakers’ infection, Lucas had come to a point of not ordinarily being interested in showing Zoe anything he built… but making an exception for one project of his that puzzled her.

[krinseldraegun]

All the video game asks

Played obsessively? Kingdom hearts!Influenced me creatively? Final Fantasy Tactics AdvanceWho did I play with as a kid? Nobody really. I played single player games for a long timeWho do I play with now? I'm back on a single player binge, but my best friends occasionallyCheat codes? Yeah, pretty often when just burning through emulated games for fun. Outside of that not too often.Ever buy strategy guides? Only for Final Fantasy and pretty much just to collectMultiple copies? DDR Supernova and KH1Rarest/most expensive? I have no idea. I don't have many expensive gamesMost regrettable purchase? A couple games in my steam library were pretty fucking bad and I got them for cheap like half a decade agoMidnight release? I went to the LoZ Breath of the Wild midnight release despite not preordering it bc I had a friend who didEver made new friends from a game? I met my best friend because of maplestory!Picked on for liking games? NahA game you've never played that everyone else has? Most Legend of Zelda games, most spyro games, most crash bandicoot gamesFavorite game music? The OSTs for most Square games are absolute bangersIf you had to, game related tattoo? If I'm doing a game related tattoo I'd rather go all out than get some small tattoo. Like a sleeve of Yojimbo's FFX designFavorite game to play with friends IRL? Mario Kart!Lost a friend over a game? Kinda, I knew a person who was convinced that if the game wasn't structured like Mass Effect or a Telltale game it wasn't an RPG which is objectively wrong.Date someone that hates gaming? It's a big part of my life and always has been. That'd be like asking someone who's been on a football team his whole life up to graduation and maybe college if he'd date someone who hates sports. I don't think I could. Someone who doesn't play games but doesn't hate them? Maybe. I don't really have to worry about this question though 🖤Favorite handheld console? 3DS hands down. It's just fucking goodGame that I know like the back of my hand? KH1. I can beat it without dying with starting equipment in under 9 hoursGame you didn't understand but now love? FFX had quite a confusing leveling system for me when I was a first grader. Good shit now thoughGame related clothing/accessories? I have a couple different KH necklaces, a couple KH shirts, a moogle pin, a palico pin, and the KH 2.8 limited edition pinGame you've logged the most hours in? Recently it would be FFXIV, but Modern Warfare 2 is definitely the mostFirst pokémon game? XD Gale of DarknessArcade game player? I'm really good at time crisis 2 and for a while I was really good at House of the Dead 3Gaming rivalries? Nah, neverGame that makes you rage? Dark Souls and For Honor, but I still 100% Dark Souls 2 SotFSEver play in a tourney? A small local one with friends for Sm4sh. I'm not good at sm4shGaming setup? My computer desk has my gaming pc, wii, ps2, and ps4 hooked up to my TV in my room next to my mini fridge and my ps3 is out in the front roomHow many consoles? 5. PS2, PS3, PS4, Wii, Xbox 360 that's collecting dust in my closet3DS/virtual boy headaches? Everyone gets Virtual Boy headaches, that's what it does. My 3DS doesn't give me headaches thoughGame based off favorite media? YESS I played a LOT of Megaman Battle NetworkBootleg/plug & play? I had an atari plug & play for a bit iirc. We got it for free and it didn't survive longGaming parents? Both used to play, now my mom doesn't and my stepdad only plays panzer general and candy crush despite having a ps4 proEver work in a game store or have a favorite game shop? Never worked in one but my favorite is a local store ran by a really chill dude named David who also hosts smash bros tournamentsSweat blood or tears because of a video game? Sweat often. I get really into games and start stressing a lot. Never blood. Tears is an almost because of the lightning field minigame in FFXE.T.? Never played it, but a game that ended up being shoved in a landfill to that degree must be terribleGuilty pleasure game? None that I can think ofDream sequel? YA BOI WANTS A NEW .HACK// GAMEVR and motion control? I absolutely love VR. I'm waiting to get my own VR setup, but I'm kinda waiting for the cost to go down and better games to come out, but games like superhot and RE7 really show promise for the idea. I've always been a fan of the .hack// series so I've been waiting for VRGenre not for me? RTS and fighting games. I'm terrible at both and I kept getting people telling me I'd be good at starcraft because I'm 1/4 korean and it just isn't happening and it's made me hate the game.Game that started it all? It actually was my first game, and it was Kingdom HeartsGaming when you shouldn't? Too often. Way too oftenMost played arcade cabinet? Either Time Crisis or House of the DeadMario Kart? I'm pretty damn good if I say so myselfRelaxing games, animal crossing, harvest moon? Not really. A lot of them require you to come back day after day for progress without a clear endgame and I can't do that. The idea of needing to consistently log into a game just for maintenance doesn't work for me and is why I burn myself out on mobile games fast.Competitive games? Absolutely! Team based shooters I love competitive modes and ranked modes forCustomization time? It varies, but in games with a lot of customizing it can take around an hour or two if I'm trying to get something specificPreferred class? Tanks! I like being on the frontline being the wall between my team and the enemy!Dream game to make? Real time open world action RPG that's a mix between high fantasy and magitek that has a story mode and an open, create your character and group with friends mode that has its own list of quests and missions separate from the main line but has events that overlapForgotten to eat or sleep? Yeah. Not on the eat part but definitely the sleepGame I begged for as a kid? Kingdom Hearts 2, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days, KH Re:Coded, KH 3DDLC? Expansions that add a decent amount of new content to a game are wonderful. Locking non-episodic main story content, fighting game characters, and non-cosmetic items behind paywalls is wrong and games shouldn't be pay to win.Steam sales? I have no money to give in with and I'm picky with games I enjoy.Sims voodoo doll? Never played a lot of the sims and if I did it'd likely be more just dumping OC's in a houseRoller coaster tycoon murder? Never played it100% games? First game I got the 100% trophy in is Dark Souls 2 SotFS, and that's after miracles were nerfed into the ground3 games for the rest of your life? Pls don't make me do this. I can't choosePhone games? FFD opera omnia, mobius FF, KHUx, but rarelyKonami code? Ye boiTrade in or keep forever? I keep specific games and trade in the restBuy a console for 1 game? Almost? I bought a 3DS for monster hunter and kingdom heartsGaming convention or tournament? No... I wish...Gaming specific tv or monitor? I don't have any mahney. If I did have the money I definitely wouldGameshark etc? I had a ps2 gameshark. It never corrupted anythingOld nokia with snake? Nope, but I had friends that didHappy childhood gaming memory? Pretty sure I cried the first time I beat Kingdom HeartsArcade tickets for prize? Nah, the games that didn't give tickets were more funBest game ever? Can't think of any. My favorite game is KH, but it isn't the best game. No game is perfectFirst game beaten? Kingdom hearts!

[princesseblade]

What gets me is that RE Vendetta came out right around RE7??? and I thought they delayed the dlc in the first fucking place to fix his face and they DIDN”T???and like ok despite  Chris looking maybe slightly east asian in Vendetta , he still LOOKED like himself? if I’m making sense..fuck he at least still had brown hair lol. There’s just like no excuse for this they shoulda just rebooted it or  they should not have used Chris for this. like if they just gotta keep beating a dead horse then please start a new cast ffs end their misery! 

Side note this was a perfect time to update us on Jill...and I could give two fucks less about her tbh but you’d think making a whole game where her well-being was more important than an entire country’s she would’ve been the one giving Chris backup on radio, (they literally use some nobody)but yet again nothing, just like in RE6 where Sheva even got a mention and Jill didn’t. 

I mean I’m laughing at that personally but dang you didn’t use your other cash cow?  

I dunno I’m just confused and tired after watching that what a god damn mess. 

[cool-kink-sis]

From Re7 wiki

The photograph of the elderly Eveline marked with number "E-001" can be encountered at the beginning of the game, long before it is relevant. It is unknown who took the picture, though it was likely taken by Lucas, as he kept observing Eveline throughout the 3 years gap after escaping Eveline's control and wrote a report about it on his laptop. Can you imagine the people Lucas is emailing saying “we need you to grab a photo of Eveline as she is now so we can determine her state.” And Lucas is like “ffs you want me to take her damn picture as an old lady? Yeah, she’ll love that, totally will let me do it cos ofc she’s so happy shes old n wrinkly now.” Which then leads to a good couple of days of Lucas trying to sneak a photo before just giving up and pretending to find an old camera and showering Evie in compliments so she feels better and managing to get the photo that way. 

I dont even think that worked, she don’t look particularly happy in it but shes clearly aware that she’s having her photo taken.