What are some allegedly essential and seemingly important stories or plot threads in currently on-going games/series that haven't been revisited in a while that are driving you insane? Resident Evil has probably a dozen forgotten characters/plots/details that should be brutally important, but to me, none are as egregious as the story of Resident Evil: Revelations 2.
Also, I mean pretty much all of Overwatch fits this, and I'm sure Destiny 2 still has some major hooks from prior expansions that are still dangling.
I feel kind of bad including this since Rev2 already does an immense amount of heavy lifting by bringing back legacy characters that were sorely overdue for spotlight, addressed some of the story fallout of RE5 and Revelations 1 (though Rev1's major unresolved ending is still hanging in the ether even now), and tied things up as excellently as you can imagine an RE story accomplishing, with a terrific cast of characters and a knock out ending. By the end of Revelations 2, all has been revealed that Alex Wesker's Fear Factor x Portal island experiment was designed to narrow down formerly-or-currently traumatized test subjects into the toughest of the tough, who wouldn't bend under pressure. Alex does this so she can quantum-copy her mind into a new body since her current body if failing due to brutal self-experimentation in trying to attain godhood/immortality that Spencer and Albert failed to achieve. The candidate she chooses is young Natalia, who previously survived Terragrigia in Revelations 1. Once Alex initiates the procedure and puts Natalia in stasis for six months, she attempts to kill herself to try and get rid of the "failed" version of herself. Once Natalia awakens, she has no idea she's got a slice of Alex living in her head (even though there are signs all over, especially if you play the DLC), and once Barry Burton and Claire Redfield kill the "failed" monster-Alex Wesker who failed to successfully commit suicide six months earlier, Barry and Moira escape the island and adopt Natalia into their family. The final ending scene reveals that by the time Resident Evil 6 is occurring, Natalia's body has been fully taken over by Alex after assimilating smoothly into the Burton household.
Resident Evil 7 eschewed most of the threads and details from prior games into an almost soft-reboot fashion, but needless to say it did not continue any of the tension from Revelations 2. Since RE7, we've had the remakes of 2 and 3 which would naturally have nothing to do with Rev2, and I know the full RE8 story has apparently been leaked, but I'm avoiding spoilers and I assume it will continue to tell its own story fully separate from Revelations 2. Apparently RE8 was formerly a version of Revelations 3, but there's a new Revelations 3 in development, so I can only hope Rev2's wonderful sequel tease is picked up.
Resident Evil 7 eschewed most of the threads and details from prior games into an almost soft-reboot fashion, but needless to say it did not continue any of the tension from Revelations 2. Since RE7, we've had the remakes of 2 and 3 which would naturally have nothing to do with Rev2, and I know the full RE8 story has apparently been leaked, but I'm avoiding spoilers and I assume it will continue to tell its own story fully separate from Revelations 2. Apparently RE8 was formerly a version of Revelations 3, but there's a new Revelations 3 in development, so I can only hope Rev2's wonderful sequel tease is picked up.
Also, I mean pretty much all of Overwatch fits this, and I'm sure Destiny 2 still has some major hooks from prior expansions that are still dangling.
