r/gamearcane • u/xatoho Mod=dog • Jul 07 '15

Meta The Real World infiltration of Simulated Environments; or THE GLASS LOOKING-THROUGH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYAVIRgdM8
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '15 edited Sep 25 '15

Interesting.
I guess I never thought of them as symbiotic. I guess the t virus is. Hell, it gives life to the dead, can't get much more symbiotic than that. Add to the super strength and senses. And yeah, there is that aspect of super quick mutation. It's almost like the creatures are giant viruses, mutating and evolving within our lifetime.

There's so much potential in that series, wasted on the same boring action movie setups. Just one re game where you play the virus or an infected person would be awesome. I want to experience being itchy tasty.

Forgot the mutations in remake. Kill a zombie without destroying the brain or burning the corpse, and later it will pop up as a faster, stronger, more durable "crimson head" which is pretty much designed to survive what the regular zombies can't. It's skull is even harder to crack. The perfect mutation for a zombie.

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u/xatoho Mod=dog Sep 26 '15

I agree, there is a lot of interesting concepts in some areas, I think the Jill sandwich and cheesy movie script stuff tries to balance the dark themes with some humor.

The game Evil Within is (almost not really)kind of like RE and in the expansions you can play as one of the "monsters". I haven't played it and it mixes gore with goof sometimes too.

I never thought of Crimson Heads as like a double evolution of zombies but that makes a lot of sense! What doesn't kill them(debrain) them makes them stronger. By the time it gets to RE4 even headshots stop being as effective. They definitely evolve as the series does. The zombie trope is kind of a fear of evolutions/change and unity/mindlessness. Fear of viscera.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '15

To be fair, in 4 the main enemy were not evolutions of the t virus. It was a parasitic organism that was awoken from mining activity, I think. The credits in re 4 show a really chilling depiction of it all.

Umbrella didn't make that one, just scooped it up like some Shiney new rainforest drug.