Talk:Resident Evil (1996 video game)

message: I believe that the 2002 version should be merged with RE1. Both games are the same.142.240.254.1 (talk) 19:48, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. Both games are different and notable. In fact, the 2002 title is a remake of the 1996 title. They are both completely different games, and merging them into a single long article will confuse readers, not to mention the fact that the article about the 1996 game is already very long. --Niwi3 (talk) 20:42, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Currently, the plot description reads: "[...] Upon release, the Tyrant turns toward Wesker and impales him. The player then apparently kills the Tyrant and a self-destruct system is triggered. After the player calls for a rescue helicopter, the Tyrant bursts through the roof of the lab onto the helicopter pad and attacks. Vickers drops a rocket launcher and the player fires it at the Tyrant, blowing the monster apart. The player escapes in the helicopter and the game ends as the mansion explodes."
The scenario doesn't always play out like this. For instance, if Barry dies in the catacombs earlier in the game, the Tyrant will not burst onto the helipad. Instead, Jill will set off the flare and get rescued by the helicopter without having to fight the Tyrant for a second time. If Barry is alive and Jill trusts him (she waited for him to come back after he dropped the rope earlier in the game), he will knock out Wesker. Barry and Jill will then head into the lab and Barry will accidentally release the Tyrant.
I will attempt to rewrite this so it fits with better with all the possible scenarios. Chris TC01 (talk) 16:52, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Correction 

message: I have edited the plot section, and added a segment concerning the storyline's canon. Is this better suited in Trivia, or is it not necessary at all? 81.103.44.251 (talk) 23:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Analysis 

message: I like that song... anyone remember the name of it?
It's the Moonlight Sonnata. If that is how it's spelled.
It's Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. Keiran Horn 18:07, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the name of the song Jill plays on the Piano? 

message: The Article said that only the PC Version contains the Uncut intro. This is not entirely true, as the European Playstation Version of Resident Evil Director's Cut contains the uncut intro as well.
If I remember correctly, the US Director's Cut still contains the censored intro due to a failure in production of the Master Disc (someone put the wrong file on the disc), but I have no citable sources for that.
I would like to know were people got the idea that George Trevor is the Elder Crimson head inside the coffin? there is no evidance in the game to support this and if i recall correctly there is a note or something saying that the Elder was a recent experiment while Trevor had been dead for around 40 or so years.
:I have heard this theory. It is based around the Lisa notes. When referring to her mother and father's coffins, she refers to the inside (referring to corpse?) of the coffin of one being "white" (bone) and the other being "red and slimey" (rotting flesh?). Other things relating to this theory is that Lisa Trevor stole peoples faces and wore them as masks. The coffin of the "Crimson Head Elder" is opened after placing four masks on a stand. Also... if George was underground when he found a coffin with his name on... I don't think they burried him in the false tomb within the mansion...a little hard to be looking underground and fall a floor upward.--OsirisV (talk) 12:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncut Intro 

message: I noticed that the release dates are taking a lot of space in the infobox. I think we should merge all the dates, except of the original Playstation release, into the Differences between versions section. --Mika1h 20:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release dates 

message: has there been much research done into the origins of Resident Evil? i personally consider the statement that it was completely based on sweet home as one of the most suspect comments in the history of videogames, the game is pretty much 80 percent based on Alone in the dark, and has very few similarities to Sweet home at all.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.243.181 (talk) 16:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alone in the Dark 

message: I'm thinking maybe this should go. The article was already large, and now even moreso with the addition of The Umbrella Chronicles brief. We've got an article on RE creatures (I think it still exists). Maybe we should just ditch it. Gamer Junkie T / C 08:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, the RE creatures article still exists.  I'd say get rid of the list in this article and stick in a link to the creatures article. Geoff B (talk) 09:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you think we need more input, or should we just go ahead with this? Gamer Junkie T / C 01:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I'll just go ahead with it. If anybody wishes to argue a reason for it to stay, they can chime in here. Gamer Junkie T / C 05:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Creatures section

message: Does anyone know for sure if Rebecca dies or if she survives? Neither the PS1 or GC versions make it very clear?
Anyone know?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanyboy nazz (talk • contribs) 20:49, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebecca Chambers? Please answer 

message: In the GameCube remake section of this article, the following sentence occurs:
The script was rewritten to have a more serious tone and improved translation, as opposed to the cheesy B-movie dialogue and "English" script of the original.
English is a disambiguation page, which means it should not be linked to directly; this link needs to be piped to go to the article for the specific sense intended here. Unfortunately, while doing dab work for English, I got to this article and was uncertain what that sense was. I suspect it's either English language or England, but I need some help. Anyone? Thanks, --Tkynerd (talk) 02:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't write it, but it's almost certainly referring to the English language. There generally isn't any actual English language translation for most games anyway, since most European and PAL region games are ported from the American language releases. Gamer Junkie T / C 08:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply. An IP has already (rather rudely, in the edit summary) changed it to Engrish. I suspect that's probably correct, but I'm not sure. I'm leaving it for now, as it will no longer show up as an incoming link to English. If anyone wants to restore it to English, please pipe it, e.g.: English. Thanks. --Tkynerd (talk) 23:37, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[English]]? 

message: What to do:
*More references everywhere (the existsing sources might be used more too).
*More reception, including reviews, annual awards and retrospective lists and articles.
*More development.
--Niemti (talk) 10:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  To make this one a GA, too (RE2 and RE4 already are, RE5 and RE6 are GA ready, no one cares for RE3) 

message: I used to run a video game magazine back in the 90's and we would make VHS recordings of games when they came in for preview/review. Anyways, I've been digitizing old press media I've held onto from magazine and in with everything I found a 20 year old tape that had an hour and a half of gameplay of an early sample of the game. I've posted it up on YouTube if anyone is interested in watching it. I'm looking for the print letters from Capcom so I can pin down an approximate date for the recording which I'll add later to the description when I find it. Cheers! BcRIPster (talk) 03:43, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended footage of early (PS1) Biohazard demo 

message: If the 2002 version had plot changes, what is the latest version of the original story? People without PS1s or back-wards compatible PS2s cannot play the original disc. Is the only way to play the first game to find the PC version?
Are any higher console versions like PS3 or PS4 offering this as purchaseable downloadable content? 64.231.169.3 (talk) 01:29, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: original present distribution

message: The article states that the film Zombie was a "negative inspiration". Can the author elaborate on the meaning of this? Goze211 (talk) 00:42, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Shinji Mikami hated the movie and thought he could direct something better.-- OsirisV (talk) 21:52, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: A question

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I'm fixing the following statement: "In February 1997, it was the best-selling PlayStation game up until then." There are two problems with this statement. First, the cited GamePro issue is cover dated February 1997, which means it was published around December 1996, so it can't possibly tell us anything about sales of PlayStation games into 1997. Second, as far as I can see the source says only that "Resident Evil became the top-selling PlayStation game of all time"; it doesn't say when it earned that title or how long it held it. I'm adding in a Next Generation article as an additional source, but unfortunately it doesn't indicate how long Resident Evil was the best-selling PS game either.--Martin IIIa (talk) 18:57, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best-selling 

message: There's now info out there from last year that indicates that the title was originally in development for the Super Nintendo before being moved on to the PS1. Here's some notable sources:
- http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2017/12/04/resident-evil-was-originally-in-development-for-the-snes.aspx
- http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/12/resident_evil_nearly_got_its_start_on_the_snes
- http://nintendoeverything.com/capcom-says-resident-evil-was-initially-in-development-for-snes/
Hope this info helps! KGRAMR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KGRAMR (talk • contribs) 16:51, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. In addition, it's interesting to note that these sources say it was a spiritual sequel while another source on this page says it was supposed to be a remake. TarkusABtalk 17:26, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Resident Evil originally planned for the SNES

message: We have the official numbers from Capcom, which is great, but there's some caution involved. That page only lists all the games that sold over 1 million, and it doesn't list all the games sold. Keep in mind that the page counts ports as separate releases. For RE, there's at least several versions that sold under 1 million and aren't listed. I know that there was a PC version, The Sega Saturn version, the NDS version, and PS4 HD Remastered that aren't listed. Each of those could have sold 999,999 yet not be listed. 
If we say that all versions of the game has sold "8.63 million units in total", that sounds very definitive, but that is missing at several ports of the game that I now of. Harizotoh9 (talk) 03:09, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales numbers 

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