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Capcom changed Chris' model in RE7 because his RE6 face isn't photorealistic
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How About No
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On-hands sound work for The Evil Within 2. It's awful but we'll get some sick splattering sounds out of it
SmackAttack
Member
Good. Get rid of everything from RE6 IMO.
Autoignition
Member
Oh god I want TEW2 so bad but I'm not sure this is worth it.
This is one of those terrible hypotheticals. "You get TEW2 but Mikami dies at the end of development -OR- you NEVER get TEW2 but Mikami continues making games for 30 more years."
lmao I feel like that was the choice we got when Mikami left Capcom.
Mikami stays on at Capcom but we never get another RE game ever again vs Mikami leaves Capcom and the series gets passed around in a half dozen new hands and is never as great as it was ever again.
And now we have ugly Chris Redfield to show for it.
YEAH I brought this back around to the thread topic.
Demoskinos
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Here we go again. Pages of people complaining about knowing chris is in the game when this has been official messaging from capcom for months now. lol.
As to the model itself I like the look of Chris but boy... his voice actor was kind of bad....
As to the model itself I like the look of Chris but boy... his voice actor was kind of bad....
Jawmuncher
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CVX for Darkside Chronicles even did a good job combining the two.
I can buy that design turning into RE5 and so on.
I think a lot of people give RE7 chris a pass of being "more like the original design", because he went back to being smaller and having similar hair.
That's not to say I dislike RE7 chris fully, I just don't buy that he's magically more similar to old school chris. When it's a 1:1 scan of a model.
I do get that people dislike RE5 chris, but the thing is at this point that has been his most consistent look. They stuck with it pretty well for pretty much a decade.
Which isn't anything to scoff at when he's basically had the most appearances of any character in RE games at this point. 5 to 6 and everything in between is consistent in my eyes.
CVX too, if we count the darkside version. Only REmake chris is the missing link really.
Not gonna happen. There's already references to 6 and Umbrella Corps in 7.
some of the current loose threads from Rev 2 and RE7 relate to RE6.
6 wasn't a disaster like DC3 where it ruined the lore or anything. Yeah you might not like it, but it didn't have any sort of character or story suicides in it. Some dumb story elements yeah. But nothing major enough that it should be 100% retconned.
I really enjoyed Resident Evil 7, and new Chris seems to fit the art style of RE7 more than the RE5 redesign IMO.
But my heart felt condolences to those that were attached to the previous design. I too had to go through a drastic transition of one of my favourite IP's so I empathize with the sadness.
But my heart felt condolences to those that were attached to the previous design. I too had to go through a drastic transition of one of my favourite IP's so I empathize with the sadness.
Not RE's specifically. But facial scanning was used in MGSV.
So there's a case to be made, that they could blend the older looks and facial scanning a bit more.
Quiet's outfit is bad ,but man was the facial scanning and transition to a game model absolutely on point from a technical point.
Fox Engine+Kojipro artists was truly something.
Weltall Zero
Member
That explains why it looks bad. Face scanning is never a substitute for actual design, as most action figure makers figured out decades ago.
ArtHands
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Yes. Chris Redfield from Resident Evil is in this game!
How About No
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RedAssedApe
Banned
Lame. Liked the other theories better
Mr. Smiley
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LolYep, working on it. Here's what I have so far
Old Player Model:
New Player Model:
Remember that this is hand modeled while Chris, like everyone else in the game, is someone's digital double. Not having RCS return as the voice and facial capture is odd tho. They're going for total photorealism:
This actually doesn't look bad.
He looks trash in that full body render though.
Razgriz-Specter
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5 is the same face as REmake, just slightly wider to fit his build.
Did you also cry when Remake chris didn't look like anime-concept art anymore?
In RE5 and 6 it just looks like he's been hitting the gym really hard. I totally believe it's the same person.
Not as bad as RE6 Chris,but worse than REmake and RE5 Chris.
Anyways,because the characters age they have to be redesigned constantly (except Jill..)
I just hope they don't ruin DMC5 Dante by using REngine
"RE Engine"
RE Engine is optimized for realism and VR. I think you're good there. Nearly every new Capcom release is on a different engine. DMC5 will probably be on UE4 or something else entirely custom-made for it.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Spoilers are getting crazy on this board. Just posting them in thread titles without any regard now. Maybe it's time to pack up and leave this place if this is gonna go on.
I was planning on playing this game, and I still will I guess, but having what I've now learned is an end-game reveal spoiled just like that certainly makes it a bit less enticing. This isn't a 10-year-old game, it's very recent.
I was planning on playing this game, and I still will I guess, but having what I've now learned is an end-game reveal spoiled just like that certainly makes it a bit less enticing. This isn't a 10-year-old game, it's very recent.
There have been articles and press releases about the DLC which is to feature Chris, so you would probably have stumbled upon it sooner or later.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
The reveal has 0 consequence to the game. It's just Chris showing up like "Hi, I'm here to do fucking nothing."
Which I'm sure is part of the reason that Capcom is being nonchalant and careless with the fact that he is in. It's just not a big deal.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Well, ok then.
This has been mentioned a few times in this thread. Even if Capcom sent messages personally to everyone who owned a PS4, advertising that they will be releasing DLC content for RE7 where you play as Chris, there would have been no evidence that he was already featured in RE7. I believe what's upsetting most people isn't just the mention of upcoming Chris DLC (let's be honest, it's not a real surprise he's getting his own story and it wouldn't shock me to see Leon/Jill/etc. eventually get their own as well), it's that he's already featured in the main game and not just the DLC. Granted it's at the very end and doesn't amount to much (at all), but it's still a nice surprise for long-time players of the series.
I actually had this spoiled for me too from the previous thread detailing his change. I didn't get upset over it or anything, but it was still slightly disappointing when the moment was approaching and I knew who it was underneath, thanks to the earlier "spoiler", so the effect was lessened slightly.
Again, not a big deal for me personally, but I can kind of understand where some people are coming from.
Let me get this right. You saw the thread title and thought it was big spoilers then you started reading the posts and you know think you figured out what happens? Wouldn't this be more on you than on the OP? Like you made sure if it is spoilers or not. If you had just not read the thread you would have no idea why and where he appears if he appears at all even.
Also the spoiler is very minor and you should just ignore it and play the game.
How do you know it's an "end-game reveal"? Because all the thread title suggests is that Chris Redfield appears in the game. It doesn't mention where, how and for how long. To learn that this is an end-game spoiler you had to enter the thread and read it, so it's your fault.
Noboru Wataya
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😖 Very much so.
If you think the face looks bad in the game, I'm happy to agree to disagree. But you're saying it doesn't appear photo-realistic. I think most people would call you out on that. Photo-realism is the strength of properly handled scanning like this; the challenge you're alluding to comes when you need to stylize it for context. And your example compares digital rendering to physically producing action figures, which are different enough to be meaningless.
You may be misunderstanding. I was talking about whether the thread write-up makes it sound like a spoiler (because it only mentions Chris in RE7, not that the Chris stuff is for the separate DLC). People were annoyed by the spoiler talk, but it's (mostly?) caused by how the thread is written. OP should have edited.