15 Things I Learned While Playing Resident Evil

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Paragon Fury

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Last week I brought you 15 Things I Learned While Playing Record of Agarest War [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.269347-15-Things-I-Learned-While-Playing-Record-of-Agarest-War#10380658].

This week, I bring you the next list; 15 Things I Learned While Playing Resident Evil.


1: The best way to keep a story going is to just keep making the plot more and more convoluted. Don't stop until you've bottomed out the proverbial rabbit hole, and then keep digging. Eventually it'll all make sense.

2: The proper response to a large outbreak of undead is not apparently a large application of military force, but rather small, 2 or 5 or 7 man teams of specialists/police/random people off the street. Because you know, they can totally carry enough ammo to kill 500,000 or so zombies by themselves.

3: The first thing you do with any weird plants you find in ancient underground ruins is apparently start experimenting on them for genetics-altering viruses, not, you know, reporting and cataloging the things you find to major government and international agencies. Because nothing could ever go wrong.

4: Chainsaws are bad, mmmmkay?

5: Moving and shooting is apparently no longer covered in basic training. Instead, no matter what the threat is, you must stand there, assume a proper firing stance and hope to kill it before it kills you.

6: It's apparently racist to show white person in a country full of black people shooting black zombies/infected, even though this person has shown no care for race in the past, other than "zombie" or "not a zombie". Its also apparently racist to show infected, uncivilized savages being shot at by said person, even though in the context of the setting it makes sense.

7: Steroids are good, mmmkay?

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8: Without exception, black sunglasses=bad guy. Awesome as hell bad guy, but still bad. Also, he will never run out of said sunglasses.

9: Calling in an orbital laser strike on a boat while you are on it will not cause it to sink. Or take damage for that matter.

10: Japan has issues with pharmaceutical companies.

11: Apparently you can build a massive underground research/weapons facility underneath a major city, and not one person will notice. Nor do you have to worry about silly things like blocking subway lines or water ways.

12: People should stop making movies out of video games.

13: When in doubt - Shotgun.

14: When really in doubt - Flamethrower.

15: No matter how long you have been kidnapped, how many sewers you crawl though, nor how many times you are nearly mauled by a zombie, your clothes will never get dirty or tarnished.
 

Double A

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I don't think the rule threads work as well when you switch from sarcasm to being serious repeatedly
 

Rad Party God

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Hehe, made me chuckle. And yes, I've (sadly) already realized how silly are the Resident Evil series, but silly or not, they're still one of my favorite series of all time.
 

Sniper Team 4

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Fun times these threads are. I STILL can't get over the fact that, in Resident Evil 5, Chris and Sheva storm into a room and witness a guy getting infected. All they had to do was pull the triggers on their already drawn guns, and BAM! Guy would have been saved, two less zombies, and they now have a local who would probably be more than willing to give them all sorts of information. Instead, they stand there constantly yelling stop (because that worked all the other times Chris. You idiot) until it's far too late. And then, they fall for it again with the blond chick. Live and learn does not apply here.

Also, what happened to the military soldiers that Sheva was talking to? They vanished pretty fast.
 

PlasmaFrog

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16. A game's voice acting can truly be the most horrifying yet hysterically entertaining when compared to the actual game-play.

Barry - "But just take a-look-at-this, it's Forest!"
*Stares off into the forest in the distance*
Barry - "Oh my gawddd!"
Jill - "It's awful!"
Barry - "I'm going to find out what caused Forests' Death"
*Bends over to observe corpse*
Barry - "It looks like he was killed by a crow or something."

Never, ever, have I laughed so hard in my entire life.
 

triggrhappy94

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The best, and only weapon, you should give your partner is the shock rod and/or the bow.
 

Osaka117

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Very nice list, but you forgot some:

When you hear someone say "STARS!" from in the darkness, run away fast!

There's always a secret science lab below every Umbrella controlled complex that has a convenient self destruct sequence ready to conveniently clear out the area.

There's nothing better than a delicious and nutritious Jill Sandwich to keep you nourished through your rough day of undead killing.

When really really in doubt - rocket launcher.
 

The_Blue_Rider

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Awsum thread :D

However i never really got why Chris being muscular was a problem, he's got pretty realistic proportions, and even though he wasnt the beffiest guy around the first time he showed up, he probably works out a lot to, you know, deal with ZOMBIES TRYING TO KILL HIM
 

SenseOfTumour

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I never once thought about how insane it was that I was calling down orbital lasers onto a ship that I was standing on until now, heh.