Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

[Deus Flux]

I'm considering buying this game. I know many fans are disappointed with this game but after doing research and watching videos (and also with the new patch out now that fixes several issues), I have a pretty good idea as to what to expect -- a Resident evil-themed TPS, nothing more nothing less, correct?

With that, my question is for people who like this game.. is buying the special edition worth the $45 - $50? The artwork looks a heck of a lot better than the normal retail version. I mostly play single-player and occasional multi.. is the campaign worth it?

[leftshoe18]

Finally got a chance to play ORC and so far I'm (surprisingly) enjoying it. The Birkin chase was actually pretty intense and the atmosphere leading up to the first wave of zombies was actually pretty good. The firefights with the Spec Ops are kind of out of place in Resident Evil but at least the gameplay is serviceable if not a bit clunky.

[Smiley]

It's really sad that Dracarys has been taking my thunder these past couple of weeks. Guess I'll have to try harder.

Maybe if I challenge why ORC and RE6 are so much alike....?

[Darkmoon]

Will you two either A) Discuss like adults or B) ignore each other please? I get more complaints about you two fighting than just about anything else.

[News Bot]

You need to learn how to read better, I never said the virus contains plant cells.

To quote myself:

"so a virus from a plant causes a plant type reaction in cells it infects"

Nowhere here does it says the virus has plant cells, just that is causes the same type of reaction seen in plants.

Nice cop-out. A virus from a plant cannot give different hosts "plant type reactions" (a reaction which occurs only in plant cells, which a virus doesn't have) just because it once came from a plant. Viruses do not inherit plant traits or cells just by being able to infect them. Even if the virus had genetic material from a plant (like t-Veronica), it still doesn't have their cells, thus cannot cause or experience plasmolyzation. Ever. Conversely, Jessica and Lisa can't experience it because they also do not have plant cells. It's not "more detailed", it's "more retarded".

Keep proving how fucking idiotic the stuff you come up with is though. You're amusing everyone but yourself.

[Dracarys]

Except not once has the series claimed, outside of a single mistranslation, that viruses contain plant cells. You are trying to twist facts to give credence to something that is fundamentally bullshit and clawing for any excuse you can while doing so.

You need to learn how to read better, I never said the virus contains plant cells.

To quote myself:

"so a virus from a plant causes a plant type reaction in cells it infects"

Nowhere here does it says the virus has plant cells, just that is causes the same type of reaction seen in plants.


THis is seriously off topic and cannot be bothered with someone who cannot properly read english. Out.

[News Bot]

Most things in the series are somewhat plausible even though they stretch the realm of possibility to its limits. It's grounded in reality, it just has something fictional (Progenitor Virus/Plaga) with extreme qualities while still abiding by reality, for the most part. Nothing is really biologically impossible in the series, it is impossible because it a work of fiction and nothing like the Progenitor Virus/Plaga exist to allow for such things to happen, although some of the things they do are possible.

http://projectumbrella.net/editorials/Biology-Evil-Part-1

http://projectumbrella.net/editorials/Biology-Evil-Part-2

[Drake]

The series deals with virus' and biological components. While a good bit are far-fetched, a few can occur. As such, the series deals with biology and anatomy. The series uses a good deal of scientific fact and builds off of that, creating things like the various virus' and parasites we've encountered.

[News Bot]

No offence to the wife, but this nothing in the RE series with regularly pulls BS biological facts and treats them as completely possible.

Except not once has the series claimed, outside of a single mistranslation, that viruses contain plant cells. You are trying to twist facts to give credence to something that is fundamentally bullshit and clawing for any excuse you can while doing so.

[Dracarys]

A Wife with a Master's in biology and anatomy is my back up on that.

No offence to the wife, but this means nothing in the RE series which regularly pulls BS biological facts and treats them as completely possible. If bringing up reality here then we're treading into 'the entire series is bullshit' territory.

[Wrathborne]

Eep, this shit looks like its getting real now.

Can we just agree that Slant Six and various translators havens done their job right and move on?

[Drake]

Perhaps, but it is also wrong. Plasmolysis cannot occur in human beings. You may refer to the action of skin tearing as "The tissue underwent a tearing akin to plasmolysis in plant cell, as cell activation occurred" but you cannot directly state that "Plasmolyzing of tissue during cell activation" occurred, since such an event is, as I've said, biologically impossible for humans to undergo.

A Wife with a Master's in biology and anatomy is my back up on that.

[News Bot]

Plasmolysis would cause the tissue to tear, by the english text naming the process it is giving more detail how the tissue tears. Same result, more detail.

In plant cells. Viruses do not contain plant cells. It is biologically impossible. A cross-species virus (such as Influenza) cannot inherit cells from different species, and it wouldn't cause new hosts to "absorb" cells from old hosts through the virus. It is literally impossible and a glaring example of you not having any idea what you are talking about. Please provide a source

WHy is there talk of 'biologically impossible' in the RE series. Have you seen some of the crap it has came out with?

Doesn't mean you can rewrite the series with a convoluted explanation that defies both reality and fiction in order to suit a mistranslation that the writers don't acknowledge.

[Dracarys]

It clearly stated in the original Japanese script that the skin tore, which is a far call from their cells undergoing plasmolyses, which is biologically impossible to occur in a human being.

Plasmolysis would cause the tissue to tear, by the english text naming the process it is giving more detail how the tissue tears. Same result, more detail. IN the RE universe a virus from a plant causing this is not even close to a stretch.

WHy is there talk of 'biologically impossible' in the RE series. Have you seen some of the crap it has came out with?

[News Bot]

Sorry but if not gonna show it off then gonna have to go wit RE5 being the first canon reveal of Proginotor origin so REmake fits with it perfectly.

My argument gets shot down? By this fact you refuse to prove? No.

Well we have you relying on speculation (which is incorrect) and claiming some biologically impossible nonsense. Sounds like someone who should get exclusive information!

To be fair News Bot I do remember you saying the series didn't have retcons.

Referring to specific things, though. Such as Wesker's revival. Not a sweeping generalization of 16 years of writing, such as the origins of the Progenitor Virus being changed (though people who only play the games wouldn't know it as a retcon), or REmake taking precedence over BH1. Plus, when I likely made said statement, I didn't have the information available to me back then that I do now.