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Is there an in-universe reason why Resident Evil characters don't get infected from bites during gameplay?
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Pretty sure they use the cutscene rule. Only damage taken by the characters in cutscenes is canon, gameplay damage doesn't count.
As far as in-game reasoning, I guess it's that the characters you play as are just that good at killing shit and not getting bitten. It's one of things I found a bit refreshing about RE7, Ethan gets absolutely brutalized in that game, although his healing factor is explained in the story.
As far as in-game reasoning, I guess it's that the characters you play as are just that good at killing shit and not getting bitten. It's one of things I found a bit refreshing about RE7, Ethan gets absolutely brutalized in that game, although his healing factor is explained in the story.
And yeah similar to how Naughry Dog explained that Drake doesn't ever get shot in Uncharted but rather his luck makes him scrape bullets until it runs out. I imagine the bites are treated as non canon. Until they are canon heh.
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Read the OP. I mentioned that.
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I have decided that this is the answer. I think this was the only post that talked about information provided in the game, too.
I find it hard to believe that Chris Redfield has somehow never accidently been bitten by a zombie
This reminds me, I loved how RE3 showed zombies rising from their graves in the park. The zombies were basically dug underground because Umbrella didn't care about waste.
It showed how much poisoning they did to the city.
I did follow up with, the bites not being canon.
How is it he is able to punch a boulder without literally destroying his hand?
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Even cutscenes don't seem to matter always:
This is how I always view it. In all games, every 'hit' we take to our HP or what have you is a bullet that whizzed by Nate's head, or a zombie that nearly got its teeth into Chris before being pushed off. When you run out of health, that's when it actually connects.
Laws of the in game universe is some people have immunity, not everyone just turns.
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That's a fun way of looking at it.
Yeah, I'm going with this based on the 10% of people being immune. Works for me.
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I do appreciate with the few posters who humored me by actually engaging in the thread topic. Thanks!
Not even gameplay kills are cannon in Uncharted since he isn't treated as a mass murderer by the game's canon. RE games are nowhere near that lol.
If you are a mutating bio-weapon and have multiple eyes on your body, which ones do you see out of?
Also- how do you pee?
Plz answer.
Didn't one of the characters get infected when he wriggled around on the ground? I seem to recall that and it was hilarious.
Herbs. If everyone with a little bite had a green herb to munch/inject/smoke/shove in their ass then they wouldn't get infected. I could be wrong, but I'm almost certain that there are story beats that have the player getting a herb to a character before they get infected.
Most games in general, if you think about it. Say RPGs, if you were to think how the story is progressed in realistic canon, you never DIE. Oh, when you play a game, as a player, your party DOES die, but after a "Game Over", you continue from your last save point. Basically, in all these games, the story from start to finish is OF the gameplay where you DON'T die between checkpoints/savepoints/save states within a game. Death is non-canon because you are always going to try again and try NOT to die the next time. Unless it's written into the story, your characters never really die in their games. Their experiences from beginning to end are the equivalent of a no-death run.
I've thought about using a system like this for a zombie RPG. No one ever actually takes damage until their luck is out and then if they get hit, they get either a major injury or die.
Something about your insistence about hearing the bullshit has tickled me. Love the thread!
On this note, something that's always bugged me about Pokemon. In the original games when all pokemon fainted your character would 'black out'. Is there ever any explanation as to why this happens? Does the Pokemon upon winning a battle proceed to attack the trainer? :|
The most ridiculous shit is in Remake3, where Jill gets that bug to infect her from inside or some alien crap.
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Hahaha. It's all I want! Thanks for the post. It's like Kingdom Hearts or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. There's so much bullshit, but it's really entertaining to see it explained earnestly.
I played that part last night. It was genuinely unnerving to see the bug attach itself to her face and shove pieces of its body down her throat. I hated those enemies. Fucking nasty.
