Ryoji Shimogama Interview - Community Questions

[Deathlygasm]

when can we expect these questions to be answered Newsbot?

[News Bot]

when can we expect these questions to be answered Newsbot?

Whenever Mr. Shimogama wants.

[Ohmycod]

I too am curious as to what inspired William Birkin, what the G anette might been like, and is he disappointed that some more of 1.5's ideas were not included in the final game?

[yurieu]

I too am curious as to what inspired William Birkin, what the G anette might been like, and is he disappointed that some more of 1.5's ideas were not included in the final game?

i can use this to make another question, if it does not mind to ask.

Does the RE2 birkin's mutations were inspired by john carpenter's The Thing?

[blackpower]

. I have a few questions to ask you about the transformation of Birkin, his transformation have been inspired by the film (the Fly)?

The transformation 5 was inspired by another film (the deadly fluid Blob)?

[News Bot]

All questions are now being reviewed and will be sent to Mr. Shimogama tonight. Thanks everyone!

[Ultimacloud123]

Is it too late to aski? If not I have one.

What are your thoughts on the current direction that the RE series has taken after your departure from Capcom?

[Vito]

I hope the Wesker face is one of them, always wondered about that one.

[TheBatMan]

I hope the Wesker face is one of them, always wondered about that one.

Personally I don't think it ever was Wesker's face. I mean why on earth would it be? I think it was just a case of Prime Blue putting two and two together and coming out with five at the time.

[Vito]

Maybe we can finally find out haha.

[News Bot]

Interview finished and posted.

http://projectumbrella.net/articles/Ryoji-Shimogama-Interview-Project-Umbrella

He doesn't remember as much as Kawamura for example, so it's quite a brief interview with little in the way of details, and we had to remove some questions that were simply "don't know/don't remember."

[alexdz]

Nice little interview, too bad he doesn't remember much.

[Lanzagranadas]

It´s weird that he doesn´t remember if he contributed to the story or not, I know it´s been 15 years but, still weird.

Funny that his idea of a T-103 capable of running and using fire weapons was rejected but then, soon after, we got Nemesis.

[Renard]

Funny that his idea of a T-103 capable of running and using fire weapons was rejected but then, soon after, we got Nemesis.

That's exactly what I thought. Maybe they used his scrapped T-103 concept in some way when they were making Nemesis?

Anyway, it was very nice of him to answer all those questions. I had didn't know G5 took over parts of the escape train in 1.5 so that you couldn't backtrack. I'll also have to look for the hidden Kanji next time I play RE2. I wonder if he really thinks his enemy designs were the reason for 1.5's scrapping?

And this is the G-Annette he mentioned that he drew: http://images.wikia.com/residentevil...8/G-annete.jpg

[Deathlygasm]

That's exactly what I thought. Maybe they used his scrapped T-103 concept in some way when they were making Nemesis?

Anyway, it was very nice of him to answer all those questions. I had didn't know G5 took over parts of the escape train in 1.5 so that you couldn't backtrack. I'll also have to look for the hidden Kanji next time I play RE2. I wonder if he really thinks his enemy designs were the reason for 1.5's scrapping?

And this is the G-Annette he mentioned that he drew: http://images.wikia.com/residentevil...8/G-annete.jpg

I have a feeling he was referring to retail G-5. In 1.5 G only had 4 forms I believe.