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Resident Evil 7 Spoiler Thread

About to make my first attempt for the speedrun trophy, any good pointers? Should I use this run to also knock out the item box/healing trophies as well? Getting the Platinum is an itch, and I have other games I'd like to finish before the March onslaught so I just kinda want to get it over with.
 
so what's happened to umbrella (chopper, them saving you at the end of the game), whether the albert gun is connected to wesker or if it's just a nod to him, "redfield" and that's actually chris, all that...

none of it will get answered until re8? judging from what the dlc looks like i don't think banned footage vol 2 will explain anything i mentioned above
 
Just beat it and got ending one. Even though I had fun the majority of the game, that last boss was a let down. I mean you really don't experience a final boss battle...
 
Teknoman said:
Just beat it and got ending one. Even though I had fun the majority of the game, that last boss was a let down. I mean you really don't experience a final boss battle...
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IT has a cinematic type boss, but it goes for the whole loads of enemies instead of a final boss trope in the mines.
 
Finishes it this week. Had a blast until the final part. The big ship was kinda okay because i liked the atmosphere in there. But after the ship, the mines part, it became such a let down and felt really rushed. A shame because it really was great from the start.
 
Dervius said:
I don't know, the unconventional flow does keep you on your toes the first time through,
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There's nothing unconventional about it really. There's a boss battle at the end of every major area, it just happens that what should be the final boss isn't really much of a fight at all, and having a bad, anticlimactic, largely cinematic final fight is not unqiue to RE7 at all.
 
Alienous said:
I'm not sure Eveline can read minds. She can control people's actions by creating an urge for them to act a certain way, but I'm not sure about reading minds.

As I understand it Lucas received those body parts from an organization, so that he could synthesize a serum that would stop Eveline's control on him. So I'm guessing Lucas just hid them around where the other members of the family couldn't find them.
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I thought she led our protagonist to the Baker house via e-mail under Eve's control - so then Eve read her mind, knew about the protagonist, enticed her to lead him there. Unless the e-mail was forged.

So Eve never knew the body parts existed to be conjured into the serum that kills her, then. I mean, doesn't Lucas taunt you about wanting them? Therefore, he knew they were important, so wouldn't Eve want them destroyed? Since she can teleport anywhere and is all knowing, I dunno.

tl;dr plot sucks.
 
RhyDin said:
I thought she led our protagonist to the Baker house via e-mail under Eve's control - so then Eve read her mind, knew about the protagonist, enticed her to lead him there. Unless the e-mail was forged.

So Eve never knew the body parts existed to be conjured into the serum that kills her, then. I mean, doesn't Lucas taunt you about wanting them? Therefore, he knew they were important, so wouldn't Eve want them destroyed? Since she can teleport anywhere and is all knowing, I dunno.

tl;dr plot sucks.
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The source of the email is the biggest mystery of the story I think,

On your other points, I think in one of the files toward the end of the game it states that Lucas had been taking a medication that meant he wasn't vulnerable to Evie's coercion anymore.

No proof Evie actually knew about the serum really, nor of mind reading. Also I don't think she actually teleports anywhere, its the hallucinations of the infected. One of the symptoms is being able to see/hear her.

Gotta say considering the past few games this is a series low for convoluted story lines. It's just murky enough to be interesting but nowhere near the clusterfuck of some of the older entries.,
 
Maybe Eveline felt a kinship with her deceased fellow test subjects such that she was unwilling to destroy the D-series bodies? They could have been part of the family too.
 
Ogs said:
So er, who was the girl behind that wall behind the bed where you get the arm ? Looks like too big ex test subject for them to be carrying around.
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I believe she was one of the D-series girls, similar to those baby/fetuses you see. She just survived longer and grew older?
 
Ogs said:
So er, who was the girl behind that wall behind the bed where you get the arm ? Looks like too big ex test subject for them to be carrying around.
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It's just a D-Series subject that was likely in the cargo hold in the ship. The NA cell had been compromised, so they were mov8ng Eveline and significant elements of related research to the Central America cell.
 
So, did Eveline have the D-Series parts on her when Jack found her in the swamp or did she "persuade" members of the family(or Mia) to return to the ship and salvage the parts? Probably no definitive answer to this, but theories are always interesting.
 
Finished the game, really liked it.

I don't get what the mines were about though. Jacks says he picked up Evelyn from the boat, so did she have time to spend the Molded to the mine? It never really explains exactly how it works, but on the ship at one point Mia says something like "She's vomiting, more than her body mass. If we don't stop her we'll have more of her friends to deal with." I took that to mean that the mold was something she had to physically spread. Obviously it goes quickly once she's puked some out but I thought she had to puke out an initial mound before it could overtake an area.

Also, why were there notes and stuff in the mines? I guess a survivor from the boat took the syringe thing you use on Evi there? One note says "Are they watching us from that helicopter" or something like that, was Umbrella or the other company watching the miners turn into Molded or something? That whole section just felt a little unclear to me.

Not a big deal, I don't play these games for the story anyway. Just felt like the ship answered a lot of questions and then the mine brought up a lot more right afterward.
 
I finished the game last week, and overall I enjoyed the experience, but I'd be sad if this is the new direction the mainline RE series is taking.

This really felt more like an Outlast sequel with higher production values and a combat system than it did a RE game. In fact, remove and alter a few things, and one could've had me believe I was playing Outlast 2.

I enjoyed the first half of the game much more than the last half. The Lucas and Ship chapters were terrible, and I had to fight to stay interested enough to clear them. The Salt Mines weren't so bad, just because I knew I was reaching the end. All 3 of these chapters just felt sloppy and rushed, though.

My biggest letdown was the fact they didn't make better use of wheelchair-bound Eveline. She was so creepy, finding her unexpectedly in rooms one moment and gone in the next. I just couldn't wait for her to finally attack me, but instead, we never even saw her escape her catatonic state, despite the opening cinematic having footage of her rolling around and pulling up to the camera like a bad ass (which threw me off, haha).

Don't even get me started on the molded. I would've enjoyed the game more if they had not been in it at all and the areas that they infested were just creepy and eerie quiet zones with a few paranormal scares here and there.

I also hated that the Bakers couldn't duck or crawl, and gave up a pursuit so easily to return to their origin point, which was usually central to a place you needed to go. I rarely felt vulnerable due to the fact they couldn't crawl or shimmy (outside of scripted moments), and that they didn't actively patrol areas randomly. Outlast did that much better. Seeing them shimmy or crawling towards me would have given me a huge starte, and I'm sad they passed that feature up.

I sound like I'm just beating the game up, when I actually really did like it when I treat it as a spin-off, rather than a mainline sequel. I'm crossing my fingers for the extremely unlikely event that the free Chris Redfield DLC plays more like a melding of Resident Evil 4/5/6, and it ends with a Resident Evil 8 logo, confirming the return the formula that the series has become known for since 2005.
 
Kazuhira said:
I can't believe i've never noticed that the Baker mansion was remodeled by the same architect from the first game.
I feel so stupid now..
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Wait, what's this from? Only thing I noticed was the picture of the Arkays from the '90s that seemed kind of random to be hanging in a LA house.
 
Really enjoyed the game and hope we get some of the answers in the DLC, like how are Umbrella back, is that really Chris and did Ethan know more than we first thought ?

I'm also guessing with the free DLC being called "Not a Hero" that Mr Redfield's real identity will be revealed, maybe Hunk, as some have thought, no way the real Chris would work for Umbrella.
 
wild wild rice said:
Why. Why did it have to be Chris Redfield.
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STARS get the odd games. Leon gets the even ones. Chris skipped his turn so he got relegated to cameo status.

Edit: Why do so many people want Chris to be Hunk. They spent way too much time building that character over multiple games for him to be another Chris.
 
RecRoulette said:
STARS get the odd games. Leon gets the even ones. Chris skipped his turn so he got relegated to cameo status.

Edit: Why do so many people want Chris to be Hunk. They spent way too much time building that character over multiple games for him to be another Chris.
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Because his new face is whack.
It's the worst "update" any face has ever gotten. Say what you will about claire and jill, they at least work for the most part.
 
When doing the item box/resource management trophy, you can't even use it one time optionally can you? Like all three times are accounted for during the story.
 
Watching Jeff Green play this game after playing through it once myself, I definitely think the first part of the game, with the house, and Jack, and the cop, etc, are clearly the strongest parts.. It's so front loaded with cutscenes and interactions, and shocking intense moments, then as you are introduced to Momma, the game loses a bit of that and it only goes down hill from there, and fast.

Really wish they kept that style for the rest of the game, because it's awesome.
 
RecRoulette said:
I get why people don't want it to be Chris, but why Hunk specifically?
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That's just do to a theory that works pretty well.
Hunk would be around that age, the small views we have had of his face kinda fit, and since it's umbrella it would make sense for it to be him.

I don't think it's hunk though. I think capcom just fucked up.
 
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