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First off, I really loved the TV series. At least the first season. The second season I just started and I remembered a few days ago dad was talking to me one time about how he wished he could play armored core, twisted metal, tomb raider on a modern system but the old games and I said technically they exist or were starting to exist and I'm not sure what he said about that.

All I know is I remembered this series existed so since I love the show (please don't be mad at me for liking the show idk how mean this subreddit is) I was after getting a job after simultaneously turning 19 next month June 9th gonna get all the games. I go to Amazon put them in the cart despite each game saying "1 or 2 in stock! Order soon!" Or something like that. Then go to eBay and see they cost way less.

Then I checked merch this series has because SURELY they got more things because of the show?! I found T shirts, metal wall art, a machete, a license plate, Sweet Tooth(s?) mask, PlayStation 30th Anniversary albums??? Ice cream employee (I Skream You Skream) some book on Kindle called Back To Black?!?! The games, thats about it. Kinda sad that this franchise is revived wnd there's barely anything to shoe for it. Buy I'd buy a PS1, PS2, and PS3 for this franchise alone, and I got greater a reason:

Since my brother kept on breaking controllers and deleting my games on the family PS5 to kick me off saying it isnt fair I'm almost 19 and did this when I was 18 and 17 too when I first got the ps5 for Christmas saying I am almost an adult, I am an adult, so why don't I get my own console, but oh wait the ps5 is like $900 now so good luck playing your games now. Because I'm not letting you use it.

Remembering this underrated game series, I'm like in my head ("who said anything about a fucking ps5???) So I was gonna get a ps1 2 3 one day, ps3 because that was my first PlayStation, and while I had a Wii, N64, PS3, Xbox 360, I think a GBA, I rarely played games due to my sister's growing up. I shouldn't have taken the PS5 for granted because now I physically can't use it and dad ordered Resident Evil 2 3 remakes (already came a few weeks ago) and 7 and 9 are supposedly in shipment so it kinda sucks that I gotta get my own system and I don't wanna fork over $900 when I'm just starting out with my own job.

But luckily a PS3 Fat is like $200 everywhere, and no matter what it's about $200-300 for every game ever. And I know it's on PS4/PS5 digitally but I don't think it's fair to pay respects or whatever to a revived franchise by buying digital copies.

I also looked at other ps1-3 series I'd be interested in and since Resident Evil is automatically on there, it don't count and I remembered Armored Core is a thing. I remember seeing dad had TM Black for ps2 along with some Resident Evil games and Armored Core games but all I found was not the ps2, but a cracked RE Code Veronica and Sims 2. And a DualShock 2.

Across the board on amazon or anywhere else, it's 30-$100 each is the funko pops, for $50 a better mask for Sweet Tooth than I saw at my local fair a few months ago I think. Found RC cars online. And i had a bright 3am idea: what if i 3d printed a Sweet Tooth ice cream truck using the ps1 model I found for free online, right? And that's assuming i can afford a printer, cause like I said: I'm just getting a job.

What if I made it have since the ps1 version has no back doors, what if I cut the roof off, made it like a lid, and on the inside is hollowed out, decorated to look like the inside, have a mini Sweet Tooth in there, and it's big enough to house all the PS1 games? Like a game storage thingy because he is the face of the franchise, almost quite literally and he's on the damn cover front and center for a vast majority of the games except 2 with Axel.

And then I thought what if for some odd reason I buy a ice cream truck and made it into Sweet Tooth's tru--- no I'm kidding. Probably not even legal.

I wouldn't go that far. Or would I?

Just thinking of improvising collectibles in case there reslly isn't much to get for this franchise. At one point I was wanting to play the series a lot to the point I found something similar on roblox and I rarely play it unless my sisters blackmail me 😭 but luckily I can buy my own system, hopefully so I don't have to spend too much money rn a ps3 fat. Unless someone tells me it isn't a good idea despite my wanting to mod it to last longer because I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the ps3 fat isn't built to last but I never did mods before so I'm probably gonna screw it up. Let alone fix it because I never took apart a console or electronic of any kind.​

RE1 (1996): You lie in a fetal position wondering how this came out in '96 while you shit on companies for making games relevant again. You call them "outdated" because your brain can't handle a camera angle that isn't glued to a shoulder. You’re single and can’t get a date because you have the social skills of a monochrome pixel.

RE2 (1998): You claim you love "classic horror," but this awakened something in you and you blame the game—specifically the Licker’s tongue. You’re just mad that a bunch of pixels from the 90s have more charisma and a better romantic life than you do.

RE3 Nemesis (1999): You’re the reason "STARS" is your most searched term on incognito mode. You tell people you like the "tension," but we all know you’re just waiting for Nemesis to corner you because you’re single and can’t get a date.

RE Survivor (2000): Your mom never took you to Dave & Buster’s as a kid, did she? Now you’re taking it out on a light-gun game that’s better than your personality.

RE Code: Veronica (2000): You are an absolute idiot. You let one person (Steve) ruin an entire game for you because you have the emotional maturity of a Bandersnatch. You’re single and can’t get a date because you can't handle one minor inconvenience without crying "game-ruining."

RE1 Remake (2002): It looks better than most modern games and you hate it because it proves your "graphics are everything" argument is garbage. You’re single and can’t get a date because your standards are as pre-rendered and frozen as these backgrounds.

RE0 (2002): You need to be locked up because how dare you hate this game? You’re just frustrated because you can't handle the inventory management—dropping items on the floor is a metaphor for how you handle your own life.

RE Outbreak / File #2 (2003/2004): You spend more time waiting for a remaster than actually playing games. You’re a rage-quitter who needs to go play Outlast and wait for a game that doesn't require actual teammates.

RE4 OG (2005): You spent the whole game complaining about escort missions while secretly going to DeviantArt and R34 for Ashley. You’re single and can’t get a date because you expect everyone to follow you around and hide in dumpsters on command.

RE5 (2009): You are racist and you will always be racist. You’re just mad that Chris’s biceps and Sheva’s mere existence have more screen presence than you. You blame the AI because you can't stand seeing someone different than you succeed.

RE Revelations (2012): You just hate Nintendo and you’re mad that a 3DS game had more atmosphere than your entire high school experience.

RE6 (2012): You have amnesia. Why won't you tell me a single bad thing about this game? Is "I forgot" your defense for everything?! You’re the person who buys the new COD or FIFA every year but cries when a Resident Evil game tries to be an action movie.

RE Revelations 2 (2015): No amount of polygons will make you love this game and that’s okay. Just step outside, turn around, and "look at the flowers, Lizzie."

RE7 (2017): You are a grown man who was forced to play this and you act like a 2-year-old in the basement. This awakened something in you and you blame the game—specifically your newfound fear of "family dinners."

RE2 Remake (2019): You hate quality-of-life improvements because you want to suffer. Also, you probably bought the remake the second you heard young Sherry was being remade. Officer? Right there.

RE Village (2021): You are gay. Whether it’s the 9-foot lady or Heisenberg, this game outed you to yourself and you’re still trying to blame the "horror" for why you’re obsessed.

RE4 Remake (2023): You’re the pervert who gave this a bad review because they censored Ashley and you can't look up her skort anymore. You’re mad they took the mods away and "aged her up" because you’re exactly the type of person Capcom is trying to avoid. Journalists from Kotaku might call it a win, but we know you’re just mad you can't be a creep. Leon is probably asexual anyway, so you want Ada despite your own biases, or you want Ashley for yourself because you can't stand a man who isn't interested.

You’re a larper who hates how realistic the women look and act because you’ve never seen one or talked to one in real life. Your own mother does not count. Nor your sister(s). You hate that Leon at his age can still do more than you can—he makes you feel old and dusty. Also, your complaints about Grace Ashcroft being "innocent and helpless" are a massive red flag—we definitely need to see your search history because we know you will turn around and say innocent and helpless women are yout type.

My theory is that, no matter how mad I would be considering my first game was 4 remake, and it's both my first RE game and game in general I ever beat. Not because I'm dumb but because of being gate kept by my younger siblings, of which I'm the oldest at almost 19, this is what happens as follows:

From what I saw of Chris, which I quit 8 due to hardcore mode one save slot only was a bad idea from the get-go, I see him as doing one or two things:

The lesser of the two that won't get me in trouble with the fandom: Chris retires and disappears off the face of the earth dealing with his trauma in unconventional means​ with no one to lean onto, completely shutting Claire out of his life because he thinks if he reunited with his other partners, to become the big 4 plus 5 backup members, than he'd one day lose them. And to aupport this chris would be delusional, which might not hold up to the rest of the og S.T.A.R.S. Bravo and Alpha Team members, but in chris' mind, whatever works, works.

Chris would realize he needs to leave and go in hiding and this fans could accept but initially won't.

And i didnt want to put this ​into words, but Option B, or the "blue pill," is that Chris writes letters for Jill, Bary, Leon, and Claire, saying goodbye to them and literally does disappear off the face of this earth saying he cannot handle losing another team, cannot handle more bio weapons, knows for a fact if he keeps this up one day his body will fail him and he would be immobilized or worse so he chose what he thought was the better of the two options for his mental health and sanity.

Since I am close to finishing RE5, I know for a fact Jill is never gonna die, because Wesker made it so her aging is slowed. By how much, only time will tell. But we need to be realistic about this: they wont live forever. Just cuz they make money, which is great and all, doesn't mean they'd exist by RE13, RE14, RE15, whatever. Jill I got no doubt will return until Capcom says screw it, cut the plug on Reaident Evil, which hopefully won't be for quite some time. But would it matter? Not really as I only played a quarter of the franchise. I got a lot to catch up on. But point being, RE5 did something good: gurantee Jill's survival almost indefinitely.

Claire is another one I got no doubt will be alive by RE15. So not much to talk about there. She is quite young and hasn't had much trauma concerning the fact she was in RE2, RECV, RER2.

Barry is a mixed bag, to be honest. He's 50 something, but Barry was only seen in a few games only and he isn't in limbo like Billy or albeit Claire's partner in RECV. So it's a 50/50 gurantee but also no gurantee. Capcom can swing either way here.

With Leon, I think his ring (unfortunately couldn't avoid spoilers but there's nothing to spoil anyways from that scene alone) isn't meant for anything else but for the sole fact that the purpose of said ring is for the government to see Leon finally said "Fuck you" and retired. Just cuz he got a home to go back to doesn't necessarily mean he settled down. To be blunt about it, and I know I'll get hate, but hear me out: sure, the man is "so fine" or whatever, he's too traumatized to settle down.

Leon probably will go into retirement and go to a nursing home or somewhere he can be truly alone, with little to no contact for the few exceptions that might have to be made. Leon won't "disappear," per sé, as what with Chris might do, in either context or meaning or definition of the word "disappear," "gone," "disposed of," whatever floats your boat. But I think he will want a quiet life, and hope to God nobody wants to send him on another mission, and I think with Leon in particular, that is completely and utterly understandable.

But if anything, we still got Sheva, Ashley, Moira, Claire, Jill, Rebecca, maybeeee Helena but again. She might be too traumatized to return so again, a big if. But not a definite when. Anyways, point being is the big 4 will get replaced, but maybe just the men. Jill and Claire might have their reasons not to go on past a certain point with the Umbrella adjacent bullshit in the near future, but they may will continue. Jill might abuse the fact she can't die technically and if so, good for her. She can if she wants to. But everyone eventually will die, and there will be other characters to introduce and give a second chance in the near future.

And we shouldn't be hung up on the fact that theyre the big 4, how dare anyone suggest this. But from a legitimate writer's perspective, I say this: pick your poison.

As long as there are lesser known or criminally underused or absent characters left to tell their stories, Resident Evil won't die, but characters might, can, and will and i know its a cold hard pill to swallow, but that's what i think. Im sorry if i piss any fan off for saying my piece of mind. So put that in your pipe and smoke it; because "the day will come where you don't be."