you could replace ethan with an unvoiced wooden mannequin and nothing would change

I think he's the protagonist of the best RE game.

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>wife suddenly disappears
>worried sick not knowing what happened
>find out your marriage was a sham cover story for a covert operation
>suspect she was potentially fucking her colleagues
>discover your wife has been shacking up with some randos in the middle of nowhere for the last three years
>decide to confront her
>some redneck kills you by crushing your head and splattering your brains
>literal mold takes control of your corpse
>mold decides it would be funny to use your memories to role play as you
>moldman fucks and impregnates your wife
why did capcom do him so dirty?

I liked him in 8. His debut game and the return of Resident Evil with 7 was an overall awkward game in terms of writing that felt like it was fighting to be a westernized game through a Japanese lens starring a character meant to be relatable. Now, village has flaws from its development and it deserves the criticism it gets for being really bad on the replay, but I feel like the main story gave Ethan his spotlight to shine. He feels like the last time we get a very "Capcom" protagonist since after him came the grounded portrayals of the main cast and Grace.

RE7 was great

Village was too bonkers 4me

>shitpostjeet

>>734122824
You forget, in RE7 Ethan resists merging with the hivemind and at the end of the game basically becomes the hivemind. There is a reason Chris had a detail watching him 24/7.

capcom makes one critically panned game re6

wahh this generic dude saved the franchise

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I only ever played RE 7 and Village from the franchise
Now that he's dead I don't care about the series anymore
Maybe once Capcom sees that this new game sells like shit just like the rest of the franchise they will bring back Ethan and I will care again

>>734122697
didnt the REmakes sell more than 7 and Village?

>>734123742
revelations sucked as well

>>734123834
the franchise practically died after 5 and 6
re7 was their hail mary, new mc, new setting, new playstyle, everything all in an attempt to breath life back into it and it worked
they capitalized on that success with re8 and then decided to do remakes since the fanbase was once again extremely active and hyped
they literally ignored 1 and did the shittiest job possible on 3
>wow leon kennedy is so popular
said the people who only put in the work to do a good job on the two remakes who featured LK
now they want to graft the remakes and the new game to the reboot they started but they have literally no direction

>>734122824
The mold isn't its own thing, that's really Ethan, resurrected. You've played too much Prototype.

>>734122697
Ethan WINters is the true protag of RE

>>734122697
Why do pajeets hate Ethan so much?

>>734122697
i don't have any strong feelings about him one way or the other

I think he should give up his semen.

>>734122748
I prefer that over grace that won't shut the fuck up with the scaredy noises

>>734122697
>resi
>resident fucking evil
>DYING FRANCHISE

Just because they waited a while to do another mainline entry after they fucked up 6 doesn't mean it was ever dying at all though?
If anything he just turned up in some mediocre games that weren't as egregiously bad as 6 so it was ok.

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>>734123742
It is worth noting that RE6 was considered as not doing as well as CapCom had hoped. It still made crazy fucking bank though and has had a very long tail. People that are saying the franchise was nearly killed are fucking delusional.

>>734122824
Consider that mia was getting moldy dick and either didn't notice or didn't complain. To the point she was willing to get pregnant.

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>>734124308
I chuckled in a sensible manner.

>>734122697
I like him and the ending of Village with him sacrificing his life for Rose is the only time I've had an actual emotional reaction to an RE game other than Revelations 2. His rogues gallery is fantastic too, all these cool villains that are obsessed with him make him seem more interesting.

>>734124203
because he has the personality of a cardboard box? There is nothing interesting or good about him and his voice actor is terrible

>>734124180
the moment you experience physical death it doesn't matter that your (((psyche))), memories, engram, or whatever you choose to call it, lives on
that is just a copy and for all intents and purposes even IF you cannot distinguish the two and even if the copy is literally you, it is still a copy

>>734124229
This

So browns not only think RE isn't dead, they go on debates about which bland avatar is the least bland.

>>734122697
Not sure you could say he's bland. He's second only to classic Leon for one liners and with his wife and kid probably has the most fleshed out back story of the protags. Glad he didn't get overused though.

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>>734122697
Last game before Ethan was RE6.
Think about that

>>734124861
You experience physical death every morning and every 10 years.

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>>734125198
Last game before Ethan was Revelations 2.
Think about that.

>>734122697
Whiny tryhard bitch. Can you imagine having a beer with the guy and he’s just like “GRACE! I’ll never let them hurt you…” and you’re like “dude shut the FUCK UP!!!! Fucking chill already” and he’s just clutching his knees to his chest rocking back and forth, beer going flat as he mutters “grace…” repeatedly until you say “Ethan, I’m leaving” and abruptly leave and never see him again

>>734125559
******Rose

>stupid 300 threads on /v/ about grace fucking with me

>>734122697
Replace this with Leon. Leon was the worst thing to happen to this franchise. No internal monologue, no conflict, no particular attachment to anyone, just a generic macho hot man for no reason

>>734122697
>>734125756
t.indians seething Japs like white men and not pajeets

>>734125837
Ethan is also white what are you on about?

>>734122697
>verified engagement bait xjeet didn't play the games
wow imagine my shock

>>734125870
i like them both, only jeets be hating

>>734125950
checked his steam acc and he did tho? I mean are we really gonna pretend Ethan was a good lead?

>>734122697
Fucking boring lame ass protag. He's the ugly girl in the games he appears in. His propose is to make the more interesting characters look better by comparison

>>734122697
>first game literally save the franchise
>second game literally showed himself as a good father
Brown solid will never understand this because (aside from the fact that he's brown) he literally lived day by day posting 4cuck screencap on muskrat platform for engagement bait with the likes of pirat cucktion, johannigger, groomz, etc, no room for media literacy if you were in his position lole

>>734122697
He stands out among the other RE protags as a regular ass white guy. lol

The gangrape wolf vid with him is hot. I love whiny men. Shit makes my dick diamonds

>>734122697
>normgroids love temu Deadpool complete with his witty humor
Imagine my shock!

Ethan and Grace are both shit, did not need slow as ass normalfag protags who look like npcs with dialogue that mostly amount to them screaming like react streamers. Felt like an overeaction to Jake

>>734122840
I love the writing and tone in 7. I liked it more than 8 in every way.
>westernized game through a Japanese lens
is always really enjoyable to me

>>734122697
I remember edgerunnertroons seethe and cope and said they revived dead game while it sold 20m copies before tranime
So that might be blatant lie from xittertrannyfaggot

>>734122697
Shit shit shit fuck fuck fuck they turned me into a fucking mold Duke I'm a fucking moldy mint.

>>734124861
You entire body turns over multiple times in your life, identity is transitive. There's likely not even any subjective core that persists instant to instant, just a chain of thoughts all structured to have a subjective aspect.

>>734122824
Your cuck fantasy isn’t what happened, the Ethan you play in the games is still Ethan, but the mold saved his life and resurrected him, with the caveat that his biology changed. But it’s still ethan. he is now made of mold the same way that darth Vader is made of robotics that saved his life. But they are still carrying the same soul of the human they were, which is literally the entire point of the character

If you still don’t get it, then just imagine the mold being superpowers that Ethan got, which makes him part of a mold hive mind and makes him incredibly resilient even though he still feels pain

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Why didn't they get warski as well?

>>734128540
>>734125372
>comparing the slow process by which humans replaces cells to having your head caved in and your body instantly assimilated by mold
ok

>>734128624
I fail to see where that is not what happened
it is established that his mind was absorbed by the mold and implanted back into his new mold body to serve as a father figure to evelin
the fact that he couldn't be brain washed like the others is explained by his mind actually not being his but a part of the mold hivemind and thus the mold itself
so at what point is he still ethan anymore and not a .exe running on mold

>>734129025
Does the speed really matter? Even if slowly you're acknowledging that the specific underlying matter isn't fundamental to what we understand as self given every part of it can be swapped out. But with regards to speed the vast majority of bodily cells are recycled quite quickly. It's basically just ligaments and tendons that sit there for decades.

>>734128624
anakin skywalker died to make the zombie called darth vader. if you watch epiii in theaters you can hear anakin's heartbeat stop, and only start again after vader boots up.

>>734129239
the fundamental difference should be obvious and the speed is indeed a major factor
would you argue that progressively replacing parts of a ship during a 10 year period until no original parts are left is the same as blowing it up and then shredding what's left to mix with a completely new material and build a new ship?

>>734129446
this is also why his ghost looks like anakin skywalker in epiii, he died at the end of epiii his soul was trapped in darth vader

>>734122697
He's sick of bugs

>>734123742
People barely cared about the franchise when RE5 came out. RE6 practically put the nail in it's coffin which is why they had to completely reinvent it in 7

Ethan was great. Just a guy on a quest to save his family.

Insufferable. Never stops going Jesus fuck fuck fuck shit. He's Grace except instead of stuttering, he curses.

>>734122697
He's barely a character. They could have made him a silent protagonist and nothing would have changed, because he says so little of worth and displays so little personality.

>>734125159
Ethan had one liners?

>>734129540
Yes it doesn't matter. Whether I replace one plank of a ship a week until it's all changed or just keep replacing the planks in a session the same outcome is reached that you have the nominal ship with no original parts.

By trying to invoke some painful, extreme process you're evading the actual concern, it's a thought experiment so you'd just have to imagine all your cells painlessly and seamlessly turning over in a day as the equivalent.

You might be trying to say time is important as the new parts will be integrated by virtue of mixing with the originals for a while but ultimately when all originals are gone you're still saying identity is transitive.

>>734122697
He looks like a cool Tom Cruise-sque secret agent action hero and I like him a lot. I also really loved the love story he had with Mia in RE7.

>>734122697
The Winter's stuff probably will return in Chris's game with the BOW BSAA

>>734122697
Chris Redfield: Anti-Umbrella
Leon Kennedy: Neo-Umbrella hater
Ethan Winters: Umbrella Enjoyer
Grace Ashcroft: Umbrella's Kid
Sherry Birkin: Umbrella's illegitimate and lame-o kid.
Claire Redfield: Sorta Anti-Umbrella, but will bend the rules sometimes.
Jill Valentine: Mind controlled Umbrella enjoyer

Out of tall the protagonists, only Ethan genuinely enjoyed manipulating Umbrella to his own selfish ends. He used The Connections and Mia to get closer to Rose, and he even manipulated Rose's future to get a better understanding of the state the world was in. All while he sat cozy in between Mother Miranda's buns.

>>734122697
The entire concept of thinking of a franchise as some eternal thing that needs to be saved after decades and countless games is absurd and it makes me want to beat the retarded autists that are obsessed with these shitty games.

>>734124145
im more fond to RE7 as the demo launched with full horror experience like good old RE games, but i cant blame them the success of RE7 made them go bonkers with RE8 going full action mode. The RE8 game overall is ok, story has concluded for ethan's journey but i cant help knowing what comes next of this mold zombies and its entirety and what organization(s) are gonna do with this information for their next master plan.

>>734130342
A franchise is like a company, if it goes under then lots of neighboring businesses do too.

>>734130052
his head literally gets stomped on until it cracks and his brain oozes out
he is dead
the mold absorbed his memories/mind, entirely replaced his body at a molecular level with mold and injected his memories/mind (which are now literally part of the mold) back into his body, I'd hardly call that a resurrection
same principle as the ship, you blew it up with tnt then proceeded to turn whatever remained into sawdust them you poured said sawdust into a different material which you then used to reconstruct the image of the ship

>>734122697
Jerry get apple watch

>>734130401
I don't care, the idea that specific work roles have an inherent value is another absurdity.

>>734122697
>toyed with like a ragdoll by umbrella experiments
>died like a bitch for literally nothing

kekaroo

>>734130391
they honestly should have kept re7&8 and any future games inside the new timeline with minimal involvement from anything pre reboot
they could have continued the original story after they finished remaking 5 and 6 but they got big money bags in their eyes and started doing crazy shit

>>734122697
I agree he sucked so fucking much and the "Ethan chads" thing is so fucking forced.

The man who saved RE

>>734123742
It's just woketards twising themselves into a pretzel to take the contrarian position because the guy being quoted is a chuddie.

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>>734130508
It's true that the occupation which defines value is absurd, but just because it's absurd doesn't mean we have to take it literally. We do absurd things all the time, but they aren't literal. You come to McDonald's to get a hamburger, not see the cow get killed. Fundraisers to help starving children in Chile are offered to customers, every time they buy a Venti coffee at Starbucks. That's absurd in and of itself. Absurd things are all around us, we can observe them and become better by acknowledging them, but we must not accept them.

>>734123742
Weird thing is that the franchise has been going full RE6 again lately, the problem was never the ideas for that game but the execution. We just need sexy Sherry again.

>>734122697
I miss Ethan.

>>734126236
Are we really gonna listen to a performative who's in it for the money?

>>734130602
plausible, but im expecting people are tired with multiverse shenanigans. Wasnt RE4 or RE8 revealed that one of those zombie virus founders discovered another form zombie virus thus the settings of the game happened?

RE7 didn't save shit, the remake of 2 did. What do you think people wanted more, RE8 or the remake of 4? That's why RE9 is what it is.

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>>734122697
PT saved resident evil, kojima saved capcom

>>734130843
Are we supposed to reject reality because some guy is a grifter?
Ethan was a non entity.

Some of his one liners showing how fucking done he is with the situations he gets in are very funny.
He's a bit like Ash from Evil Dead, starts as a relatively normal guy but becomes more and more pissed as crazy shit keeps pilling on him.

>>734130885
>I invent the idea of evil residents

>>734122697
>Attempt to write everyman hero
>End up with madlad with will of iron who responds to horrific sights with dad jokes and fixes broken bones with bottles of antiseptic
>Just roll with it for RE8 and end his story before he outstays his welcome
>Straight up turn him into a fucking guardian angel in the DLC
Task failed successfully.

Ethan in 7 was supposed to be a blank slate because the player is supposed to empathise with his situation, its half the reason the game is first person.

The whole Mia thing is ultimatley just there as a reason for Ethan not just GTFOing the second he is able to

>Main antagonist start to make her big speech
>Just try to shoot her at the start while yelling "SHUT UP YOU CRAZY BITCH"
Video Games villain would not last long with more protagonist like him

>>734131089
It's kind of insane that's all she had to be, and then by RE8 they just made Mia the hidden villain who got away with everything for literally no reason (and is apparently a terrible mother to Rosemary)

>Kitboga alike
>loved by pajeets
Hmm... what's happening here

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>>734131143
Ethan is left wing.
Leon is right wing.
Chris is a right wing mouthpiece with leftist ideals.
Claire is left wing.
Jill is right wing.

It's so obvious that Ethan relies on vox populi and the emotion of the audience to do his heroism. He's not like Leon that ends up looking shady just through self-defense (even though he's the one getting bogged down with Mutated T-Viruses and several women complaints).

>>734131432
And Ada is chinese

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>>734131515
No affiliation necessary, just Chinese.

>>734122697
boring in 7 cool in 8

>hint at psychic powers shenanigans after RE: Village
>drop it afterwards
was the DLC chapter THAT bad that they decided to scrap that idea entirely, or it's simply Capcom being Capcom?

>>734131765
it's the jap mind virus
>if it doesn't make sense it's good
every jap made or influenced game suffers from idiotic narrative
>metal gear
>darksouls
>silent hill
>resident evil
>persona
the list goes on and on

>>734131765
The original plan for 9 was an open world multiplayer game in some city in Asia so that's not it, they probably are keeping her for the future games in some years (unless they forget about her)

>>734131765
im guessing the story ended, the tease where ethan didnt died was just a theory, rose's story pretty much concluded in her own DLC. What happens after is pretty much chris's responsibilities since he is the head of the operation. But as for now capcom shifted back focusing on leon's story, im expected we are going to have another leon for RE10 and grace's concluded story

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>>734131908
RE9 really has some super-evil vibe about it, which can only be contained in Ada's lens of personality, so i believe you when you say the original game was supposed to be set in Asia.

>>734132007
they'll have chris appear in re10 so leon can unceremoniously kill him like hunk

>>734132092
>Leon...Don't forget...about my sister
*BANG*

So what's next after CV remake

Rev 3? Another spin off? 5 remake?

>>734132092
as ceremoniously as RE(X) will be named, capcom gonna go full out bust mode and bringing back old aged characters otherwise it's gonna flopped hard compared to RE9

>>734132347
Rev 3, these games sold very well and it gives more time for the next main entry.
I'm not sure 5 will ever get a remake, at least in the next 5 years
0 or 1 (a new remake) are probably the next ones

>>734132480
Rev 3 is what i want the most solely for raid mode

>>734122697
He's just a normal guy and that's a good thing
Horror is inherently at its scariest when the people involved are powerless to do anything about it. That's why RE stops being scary when you start to focus on elite bioweapon elimination operatives instead of people in desperate scenarios needing to fight off a city-wide zombie outbreak with a single handgun

>>734122697
>first male lead that isn't a literal anime character
>people supposedly hate him
huh, funny how that works
I thought he was fine

I remember people loving him since he was introduced in 7 9 years ago, the hate against him seems very recent

>>734132891
Its 90% xitter engagement bait

Now that getting views and comments gets you paid people are throwing out all sorts of bait and trash opinions

>>734130807
Until they bring in someone who can literally fist fight B.O.Ws its not that extreme. yet. Leon doing all that cool shit in cutscenes and being allowed to parry tyrants and RPGs is getting there I suppose

>>734122824
>>find out your marriage was a sham cover story for a covert operation
That didn't happen retard. Ethan was just a random guy at the beginning, Mia was with him because she liked him. She lied about what her job was.
This is what happens when you don't play the games you talk about.

>>734124180
Technically in Prototype you can even still argue then that Zeus and Mercer truly are one and the same. It's his body, his biomass, his memories, his personality, everything. It's not like Alec Holland, where the Swamp Thing is just the plant life as this separate collection of organic material that was imbued with another living thing's memories, it's just straight up everything Alex Mercer, just temporarily conked out.

Like I feel they presented it pretty well in the story that Zeus is basically the last sliver of what's good in Alex Mercer, who is only able to present himself after amnesia blocks the trauma that fully turned him into a bad person, along with the irony that it's only able to present himself after he both figuratively and literally became a monster. It's a fable of a man's only good qualities being tasked to clean up his own mess.

>>734122697
I liked Ethan cause he was a decent every man but you also could feel him getting more jaded and fucking done with everything over the course of both games. He went on a character arc and the only other protag I can think of doing that is Isaac Clarke from Deadspace.

>>734132891
I remember that everyone liked him for being a well-fitting change of pace. Other than arguably Claire, there was no other mainline Resi series where the protagonist was just an everyman that was caught up in the nightmare but was desperate enough to fight his way out. It helped that this was in conjunction with the whole "no more Michael Bay, let's re-ground things" mindset as well, and not to mention Village later doing well to cement his character traits. Guy had no intent to revisit anything and was fine living out his days in witness protection if it meant his family was safe, and he went through hell again when it turned out they weren't.
>>734133130
I assume you mean big BOWs, since RE7 ironically enough was the one to introduce fist fighting the enemies and what not, in the End of Zoe DLC

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>>734122697
Very great character that I liked so much.

>>734122697
How is the twittard answer a contradiction to what the other dude said?

>>734134770
>since RE7 ironically enough was the one to introduce fist fighting the enemies and what not, in the End of Zoe DLC
And that wasn't even Ethan with his super powers it was just fucking swamp action grandpa, ex marine(?)

>>734130930
Waiting till Suzy says something, at least she plays the games unlike that grifter

>>734134826
zoe should've been the protagonist

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>What if I let Ethan come inside me every night, behaved like a tradwife, and loved him and cuddled with him every day?

>>734135308
NO ONE COULD BE THAT EVIL

>>734122697
Ezan winfers

Ethan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Grace

>>734136065
Based and white poster

>>734122697
Ethan is one of the best RE protagonists and its not even close. The twist in 8 that he was dead since the beginning in RE 7 was great.

>>734130409
I think he's trying to say that it still is Ethan's soul but just his physical cells were replaced with mold. You can't measure a soul anyway so it could've remained long enough until the mold (regenerated) him enough since it's make believe.

>>734136223
>Ethan's soul
fair point I guess, still think capcom did him dirty with just 2 games and having him die

>>734136354
Yeah I agree. Also a better way to say it maybe is that his soul was dormant after Jack stomped his head, then the mold regenerated his brain enough for him to "wake up". He might've been dormant and close to actually dying since there wasn't enough mold regenerating yet and prevented him from dying flat out, it just needed to regenerate him enough (when he woke up being dragged by Jack).
I don't like the idea he's a soulless husk either.

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>>734122824
This is cuck fanfiction.

>>734129239
>Does the speed really matter?
It's a matter of integration, really. In the case of a slow replacement of cells, like what happens to humans naturally, each new cell has time to be integrated into the old system and at any given time the majority of the "old" cells are still in tact, allowing for physical continuity. If you instantaneously (or near instanteously) replaced 99% of someone's braincells, that sort of integration wouldn't be there.

>>734136065
>Grace >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ethan

>>734122697
I like him, he cracks me up.
>What kind of sick medieval shit is this?

>>734122824
Stop watching cuck porn, that shit is literally killing your brain cells and your post proves it

Ethan is based and I'm tired of pretending he isn't. He's a chud that happened to find himself in a RE situation. Twice.

>>734137019
>posted from bharat

If Ethan is so great why does RE8 have Chris on the cover?

>>734122697
He was unironically a better protagonist than Leon in any game after 4.

>>734137996
Ethan is shy.

>>734137817
>He's a chud
Literally fucked two women. Has a child. And random women flirt with him.

>>734122697
Its the opposote for me.
No Ethan, No buy simple as.
Im not gay so I don't like characters like Leon. It's just too try-hard.
Ethan is a simple man, with simple motivations, not a Mary Sue homo- and FoidBait.

>>734138551
What is your point? Chuds can't fuck women now?
Also as far as we know he only fucked his wife, who he's been loyal to even years after she disappeared.

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>>734130807
it's pretty weird that the series devolved to a point where the franchise could have ended if RE6 performed badly enough, and they decided to soft reboot it with RE7, only to return to RE6's design style with RE9
that's on top of all the fucking weird spin offs that no one asked for
>re:verse
>umbrella corps
>biohazard resistance

>>734122697
he is not wrong

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>>734122697
main character of the two worst RE games
aside from this fact I forget he even exists

>>734138551
Chud=/=incel

>>734138757
What pisses me off about stuff like Re:verse and Resistance is that they never remade fucking Outbreak. Both titles were great, but limited in scope being for the PS2.
Modern consoles are all about the online, and that's where Outbreak would shine.

It's thought to be cool to shit on Capcom but in retrospect I've only ever had fun playing RE games, even when certain sections or titles are lackluster.
RE1r, RE2, RE2r, RE3r, RE:CV, RE4, RE4r, RE5, RE6, RE7, RE8, RE9 (in progress).
RE5 and RE6 were kinda shit but I had a lot of fun playing Mercenaries with my friends.
Still need to play original RE, might go with the DS release. Want to play the RE7 and 8 DLCs, putting off purchasing RE8 for PC as there's a surprising lack of variety of Lady Dimitrescu nude mods.

>>734138936
>worst
Seething Purityfag
RE7 and 8 were objectively the best of NU-RE games. RE8 is still one of Capcooms top sellers 5 years later per their earnings report.
Dilate

>>734139129
>FPSfaggot having a meltdown because someone shit on the game where 90% of it is shooting the same 2 blobs

>>734138753
Chuds are incapable of long term relationships.

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>>734122697
The worst bland and forgettable protagonist in the RE franchise
A shit main character, for shit games, of course Americans will love it and tell you 7 and 8 are excellent

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>>734122697
>What do (you) think about Ethan Winters?
He is the best resident evil protagonist.

>>734139198
Sick projection.

>>734122697
Not really surprising he doesn't like Ethan and RE7 in general. He is your stereotypical post RE4 fan, someone who just wants an action game and doesn't like the slow, inventory management style of the older games.

>>734139275
no one cares what you think hindu

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>>734139181
>third person cuck thinks running around the same area shitting his strings for 2 hours is peak gaming

Too low test an activity for ErhanChads

Ethan is the only RE MC that actually fucked and procreated. That alone sets him above the other characters.

>>734140118
I wish he didn't swear, thats reddit

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>least prominent protagonist appearance
>last game half a decade ago

...
>still loves rent free in faggot's heads

Quite perculiar.

>>734139198
Compared to libtards who have no moral compass? Hilarious.

>>734122824
>>moldman fucks and impregnates your wife
Fortunately that's not your wife either, so moldman got kek'd

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Surprisingly high considering he only had two games and came out of nowhere

>>734122748
Given how much people complain about the random voice lines characters make being unvoiced is a compliment.

>>734130602
I half wonder if they're even going to bother remaking 5 and 6. It's very possible that the fully feel 5 and 6 was a mistake and don't want to revisit them.

>>734140483
>Billy's eyes

>>734130880
The remake of 2 literally copied from RE7 with how they did Mr. X. It was also following what RE7 started which was a return to the mechanics of the classic RE games.

I miss when Resident Evil was just about killing zombies and the occasional bioweapon boss.

>>734130401
the loathsome dung eater...

>>734122697
>>734122824
>random nigga
>go look for your wife in some bumfuck nowhere haunted redneck house
>see dead bodies, weird body horror, your wife turning into some weird horror movie monster and your only reaction is some variation of "fuck!" but you keep going
>get killed
>become a mold monster but for some reason you're so OP you just keep your memories, your own will and your sense of self.
>beat mold monster final boss just to save your bitch of a wife despite just being a normal untrained nigga
>live years with healing super powers and never question it. Impregnate your wife.
>your wife gets replaced by some eldritch horror lady to kidnap your half mold child
>cock so good she just decides to fully replace your wife and cook for you and shit
Who even is this guy???

>>734140483
>Thought this was due to the RE8 hype
>Grace is on the board, its post requiem
I kneel.

>>734122697
Is there anything more cucked

How does 9 play? Is it more similar to 2, 4, or Village?

>>734139587
You seems angry fatty, go eat a burger with a lot of estrogens, it will be 15 bucks, and don't forget the tip

>>734141545
Playing as Leon is like RE4R with RE6 elements.

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>>734141452
>Who even is this guy???
A GOD

So Mia was a bitch? I haven't played Village
Qrd? IDC about spoilers

>>734141789
Miranda shows this video to Mia to torment her

>>734141452
Legitimately why didn't Christ just fucking tell him about the skinwalker instead of barging in like a movie supervillain to kill his "wife" and kidnap his child in front of him before also kidnapping Ethan himself?

>>734142045
>torment her
Mia is a cuckquean.

>>734142112
>YOU'LL THANK ME LATER ETHAN
>*scarpers*

>>734142175
A non-consenting one

RE7 was so well received because it wasn't trying to be RE game. The overarching story of RE is completely retarded. The tone of Village is fucking retarded.

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>>734142336
Hot.

>>734142603
Did you not finish RE7?

So we went from
>immortality
to
>transferring my memories/conciseness into other living beings for being resurrected

Meanwhile in Real Life, we have A.I. there is Video Footage where Michael Jackson is stealing Chicken Nuggies, or Michael Jackson is singing Christmas Songs or other current popular songs with his Style or even creates new Songs if you give him some prompts.

I think it was funnier when you think Ethan isn't a moldman and it was the special green sauce is the reason he could attach limbs back. The fact that it keeps happening and losing fingers to the lycon at the beginning of village was triggering my guro fetish.

>>734142652
NTA but that's just acknowledging it didn't try being a RE game until right at the very end.

>>734122697
Ngl I thought his games rebooted the series
t. only played the 7 demo

>>734122697
He is no different from Henry from SH4.

>>734124145
RE2 Remake was announced as early as 2014, revisionist.
The remakes were coming one way or another. The franchise would receive the breath of fresh air even without RE7 and Ethan.

>>734142791
they didnt bother rehiring the guy who rebooted the series and went back to their japanese ways

>>734122697
I don't like him at all. I didn't like him silent, I don't like him talking.
Im not convinced capcom actually had a plan for Ethan to be a mold man and did that "you reattached your hand because you're moldman" as a retroactive thing. I don't like Mia or any non Jack Baker characters for that matter. Ethan's 2 games both have bad sloppy gunplay and dogshit enemy variety and ultimately go nowhere meaningful while escalating way too far way too fast. What seemed like an attempt at rebooting and re-grounding the series spiralled out of control faster and farther than the mainline series did in a microscopic fraction of the time with so much less context given and all of that falls on Ethan.

>>734142905
Japanese can't do grounded to save their lives. The writing has been on the wall for a long time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9TniAUA1Q

>>734122697
>release game to rebrand the series as a serious horror affair again
>the literal next game goes batshit insane on the lore again
>the third game in this soft-reboot has returned the series thematically to the exact same spot it was in during RE6
what even was the point of doing all this?

>>734143131
Resident Evil had zero consumer faith after RE6 so they had to release one really good game to get the audience back before they could go right back to making the crazy shit they wanted to so it would sell.

>>734140483
>Will go though hell just to save his wife
>Will go to though hell 2.0 just to save their daughter
I get why women loves Ethan

>>734143131
The nips have mega autism.

>>734140483
>Billy is the least popular main character in the franchise
Good.

>>734143131
I don't like that Village only partially leans into the hallucinative aspect. I was fine with the idea that Ethan was in this surreal Grimms Fairytales dreamscape brought on by [I don't know what][the tree]. But then Chris shows up and he's completely sober minded and he's still fighting big werewolf guys and Frankenstein monsters shit while not under the effects of the shit.
I think it would have been way cooler to at the end be like "The big lady was just a big lady, not a vampire, the giant mechanoid man didn't fucking happen, the fish guy mutated into a giant fish(this is kosher), you were tripping balls on the dolls, but all the werewolf people were actually just psychotic people zombies"

>>734143408
Billy's story is done I hope he never comes back to get raped

>>734142649
Al Bundy as a everyman Resident Evil protagonist would be lit.

>>734122697
he looks gay and weak

>>734122697
The RE2 remake would have “saved” the franchise too, just a little bit later.

>>734143861
You're supposed to look at the picture not the mirror.

>>734143505
capcom just cant get away from their ridiculous settings

>>734122697
I’m pretty sure whatever next mainline game that would come after 6 was going to be praised to the roof if it was at least good. His game are not as talk as much now with the remakes and why 9 leans towards the remakes gameplay rather than 7/8.

>>734124297
If it was such a fucking hit, why did they course-correct as hard as they did then? I’ll tell you why.

7 and 2R are a direct result of REmake HD coming out in 2015 during a period when the series was directionless and fan enthusiasm was tepid at best, and sold better than anyone was expecting, sending the signal that fans wanted the franchise to step away from the action schlock, and get back to the horror.

It’s ironic that the game that undersold on GameCube and prompted the tonal shift in RE4 is also what prompted a shift back to horror when it was re-released in HD and sold really well.

>>734144118
yeah i know

>>734124297
Capcom was smart to see the writing on the wall. 7 was still riding on the coattails of 4/5 being good games even if 5 had some issues. Would re7 if they kept going with the tone of 6 do just as well? No that's insane

>>734122697
I like how sick of everything he is in re8, yet he's like a dorky dad at the same time.

>>734129985
>you're the one who's
>uh
>cursed

>>734144485
>why did they course correct then
Because the entire world was practically destroyed in RE6. You had underwater cloning facilities full of the scariest most dangerous motherfuckers on earth, punctuated by giant mutant sharks. NYC was occupied by giant Trex and fly zombies. China and Russia were being terrorized by "Nemesis but hes 20 times bigger now"
How do you scale that up? The only way forward was down.

>>734131432
>Leon is right wing.


No with that gay ass hair cut and tendency to whine alot.

>>734144621
He starts getting tired of everything in the 2nd half of 7
It's really bizarre people pretend re7 doesn't do the player progression power thing when it does it to a tea
First half of re7 Ethan is whining and going fuck fuck fuck using his little Glock and 2 shotgun shells but by the mines he's loading up heavy magnum rounds, and landmines saying he doesn't have time for this shit

>>734124297
>cites Wii U as reason for japanese game market's return to growth
Capcom really didn't know what they were doing during those years, where they

>>734144709
No they course corrected because it was the first disappointing re game and was a stain on the franchise. If re was going to survive another decade it couldn't keep going like this

>>734144878
Idk what tell you, 6 is better 7 and 8 and 9.
6 is so fucking good that RE9s combat is effectively a less slick version of RE6

>>734144932
Shut the fuck up, this isn't even a funny shitpost

>>734132092
Chris is Resident Evil so no

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Was it rape?

>>734144972
Not a shitpost, pure earnest opinion(and fact)

>NOT MY HUNK A RINO
he's just a guy, do you niggas get that attach that easily to just some guys

>>734145039
Miranda loved his cock so no.

>>734145073
Nope
Bad game
Retarded anon
>>734144270
7 is talked about still, 8 was forgotten though

>>734145143
Not an argument

>>734143131
Getting people interested in RE again. 5 was mediocre and 6 was outright bad, if they had released a RE7 on the same line as 5 or 6 it would have been the end of it for good, they had to reinvent themselves in some way

>>734145186
Argue what? A bad game is bad? I don't have too, it's just factual. Now shut up, this meme isn't funny

>>734144932
>RE9s combat is effectively a less slick version of RE6
>combat so good they make it shit on purpose after replicating it for their next game
Kek

I think 8 is the only bad modern re game.
The remakes 7 and 9 are perfectly good games for what they set out to do
Worse thing you can say about 3make is I wish their was more.
8 is just ehhhhhhhh, the most memorable thing about the game was people gooning to a character.

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>>734144932
>6 is better 7
This is why democracy doesn't work.

>>734122697
Shit.

>>734145510
There's a reason 6 is the best mercenaries in the series. The gameplay is tight, rather than the intentionally sluggish gameplay of 7,8 and 9

Do people actually think re6 has good combat? It's a shooting game with no bullets.
>Oh you're supposed to melee
The melee is one button lol why are we pretending that's enough
Re4 original is far more satisfying and fun at a visceral level

>>734145607
RE6 is and will always be shit.
Including the combat.

>>734145684
But enough about re9

>>734146065
Doesn't even make sense. I had like 80 bullets by the time I was done with the care center as grace?
But cope, actually imagine liking re6. Tells me everything I need to know about you

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FACT: If RE7 and RE8 were natively third person and you were allowed to see Ethan's face, he would be lauded just as much as any new character.

>BRO THEY COURSE CORRECTED BECAUSE RE6 WAS TOO EPIC AND BIG AND THEIR WAS NO WAY THEY COULD TOP IT AND NOT BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST MAINLINE THAT RECEIVED BAD SCORES AND VISIBLE FAN OUTCRY
6 nigga cope is so strange

>>734145849
Agreed, but there's a point I will always defend: 6 has the most effective and non-retarded villian in the whole series, Carla.
>Her whole motivation was a shot of self esteem to fuck over Simmons and the world.
>Did to Chris what Wesker just tried to do
>Had control over several BOWs
>Fucked up several cities
>Infected Simmons and made Leon, Helena and Ada kill him
>Had a plan if she ever got killed
>Made Chris "fight" against Leon
>Effectively kidnapped Jake and Sherry for her own plans, didn't need to wait for someone else to kill them and then take over the bodies like Wesker did with Steve and Krauser
>Did most of this shit as almost regular human being
Man I hate that Carla is forever trapped in that shit game

Gary Stu

>>734140483
Piers is forgotten...

>>734146316
People saying he has no personality as i lf Chris is just flowing with charisma is funny. The most intriguing part of chirs is all fanon shit. I still hold that the only the game with a protag that actually enchanted the game is re4 original.
Just that Leon and his lines added anything, every other release the protag is whatever
Hell if I had to name a 2nd game with a protag that added anything it would Ethan re7, his few lines and visible confidence increase over the course of the game is charming

>>734122697
cool and tragic hero, certainly more of a character than the jerkoff dudebros they keep spamming like chris

>>734146448
Name a single other RE protagonist who canon dies TWICE

>>734146985
This is cool if you're 10

>>734147052
out of .00001!

>>734146363
...anon her motivation is revenge because some autist that loves Ada made her look like the hottest Asian woman on the planet qnd functionally immortal. Then she kills herself. Fuck outta here.

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>What's your most memorable Ethan Winters character moment?
>Uh I like when the character yelled "FUCK!" or "SHIT" and maybe "FUCKING SHIT" when something shocking happens

>>734122840
You're the one who's cursed.

>>734147434
Take your pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02KVQq_Nss

>>734124861
I hate it when retards like you start spouting pseud mumbo-jumbo like you understand the secrets of the universe.
Ultimately, the nature of consciousness is an unanswered question. You may as well just say you don't believe the soul would return after the body is reconstituted; what you're saying is just as irrational, you're just being more of a reddit twerp about it.

>>734147820
>the nature of consciousness is an unanswered question
then it's not pseudo nonsense

>>734122824
People get pissed at this post but it's true, hence the reason Ethan in 8 acts like such a whiny bitch compared to 7

>>734122697
Resident evil would have been just fine without 7. Its pretty dumb to think only 7 could gave “saved” it. It didn’t need saving.

>>734147948
I understand that you think you're saying something meaningful, but this is gibberish.

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>look these tweets up
>the one shitting on ethan got ratio'd 1:3
>the response saying his games saved RE has a much much better ratio and far more likes to boot
Warms my heart seeing the masses appreciate ethan and 7/8.

>>734148201
Looking at 6 it definitely needed a course correction. Even if you argue that 7 itself wasn't quite the right direction to be correcting to it was still more interesting than what 6 was doing.

>>734122697
i really like his last convo with duke

As boring as Ethan was I'd take him over stuttering Grace any day of the week.

>>734122697

>>734148618
>the response saying his games saved RE has a much much better ratio and far more likes to boot
all of which are retarded because the popularity of 7 and 8 have nothing to do with ethan
he's barely a character

>>734142112
All the roids he took before 5 to try and keep pace with Wesker fucked with his brain a little

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>>734148618
>look these tweets up
>the garfield avatar browses this place
wow, shit opinions from a /v/tard?? no way...

>>734124180
>>734124861
I played RE7 ages ago and really don't remember Ethan canonically dying. When did it happen?

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>>734122697
>Ethan saved the franchise
>The only new characters normalfags actually remember from those games are Jack and Lady Dimitrescu
Sure thing, buddy.

>>734143131
>>734142905
Do you understand that the guy who did RE7 has not worked on 8 and 9?

>>734122697
Shit character for a shit game. I don't see how people can say it saved the franchise when it was a complete change in tone and just turned into first person horror slop.

>>734152787
What does that have to do with anything?
I don't like Ethan and I don't like the rebooted series.

>>734124203
Envy

>>734152852
>I don't see how people can say it saved the franchise when it was a complete change in tone
You have no awareness.

>>734122697
He is really boring and 7 is good despite him not because of him. 8 just fucking sucked in general.

>>734129591
>this is also why his ghost looks like anakin skywalker in epiii
The edited version is not canon.

>>734152536
Jack Baker kills him immediately. the "welcome to the family son" into curbstomp was ethan's death. we thought it was a knock out, but it was revealed in a scene in village that ethan died there and became mostly mold. that's why hes able to shrug off a lot of the damage that's dealt to him.

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mmh. thought he was indian.

>>734122697
he mold
leon is good but ethan? he mold

>>734154231
He is

>>734144485
They started "course correcting" when indie horror walking sims like Outlast were cool then started creeping back towards 6. Like how parrying disappeared for a bit because it was too action-y but now it's a core mechanic of recent games again.

>>734130880
We wouldnt have got the remake of 2 without 7's positive reception giving the greenlight. Use your head.

>>734148201
It really did. 5 already lost a lot of 4’s momentum, then 6 was dire. You had a slew of derivative B story side games coming out at the same time.

If 7 had been slop it would have death spiralled the franchise.

>>734154231
hes a polack living in norgay

i'm gonna go on a limb here and say the waifufags are teh onyl thing keeping the franchise alive.

>>734145039
>>734145092
She raped him.

>>734158245
Being pounded by ethan 24/7 doesn't seem like she did the raping

>>734158729
She raped him by tricking him into having sex with her.

>>734147434
For me it was the part where after being handed the shards of his daughter's mutilated corpse, he was told by a random fat man that he could put her back together like Humpty fucking Dumpty and proceeded to treat collecting the rest of said corpse like a goddamn Final Fantasy fetch quest

>>734158779
He didn't seem to mind.

>>734158729
Male rape is often confused for cold wisdom, yes. But when men are raped, they probably aren't aware and have no wisdom on the matter.

>>734122748
FPBP
I was talking with friends about Resident Evil yesterday during a VTM session, and despite yapping about the lost potential in Village, I completely forgot that Ethan was a character.

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>>734122697
>Rock Solid OP
Can we please stop posting this retard here? All he does is come to /v/, learn what the hive mind opinion on a current thing is, then share it on twitter for upboats.

where did this desperate re6 fanboy come from fundamentally a resident evil without horror is not resident evil you would know this if you played from re1

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Emily/Rose teamup when

>>734159381
I don't understand how fans aren't pissing their pants over this franchise. This is Disney-tier worldbuilding for a gothic horror series.

>>734159473
>Disney-tier
IQ has fallen, this is a net plus to the average gamer now.

>>734159325
>RE9 guy says "this is a post RE6 leon"
>retards think RE6 was always good
>retards say RE6 was always good

>>734128540
>There's likely not even any subjective core that persists instant to instant, just a chain of thoughts all structured to have a subjective aspect.
There is, it's called "consciousness" and it's why anesthesia works
btw during anesthesia your conscious brain activity completely halts, enjoy this information

>>734125397
Rev 2 was good
RE7 is horrendously cringe slop

am I reddit for liking Ethan? the guy literally had his body mutilated multiple times and even had his heart ripped out and still powered through all just to save his daughter, how can you not like that?

>>734159887
Listen this is fine and all, it's just somewhat undercut by the fact that he never found out what a bitch Mia is.

Resident Evil always had fun action with horror, some games focus more on horror and some more on the action, I enjoy both extremes. RE7 is fun. RE6 is fun.
>b-but I need to pretend one is the best thing and the other is the most horrible shit ever made
Yes, if your personality is based on tribalism for a franchise.

>>734122697
boring

>>734122697
Why did they try so hard to not show his face though?

Bringing him back would be the only way Capcom could get me to play another RE game. 7 and 8 were the first interesting games they made since 4.

>>734159887
You're reddit for worrying about how your opinion makes you look online and not just enjoying what you fucking enjoy.

>>734122697
He's not my favorite but I liked him
And yes his games did save the franchise
And also only feminists and grievance studies minorities hated him

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>>734122697
isn't he just supposed to be a stand-in for (You) the player, and that's why he had no face?

>>734159887
Yeah I liked him. Not overpowered but takes constant insane beatings in his stride (obviously until the end of 8 where it’s revealed he is overpowered). Acts more like a realistic guy than Leon or Chris.