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>so I was pretty surprised when Chris showed up in CV with no mention of what he did in Europe and also no mention of him apparently being attacked according to RE3.
That's because the RE3 Epilogue Files were written late into development as a bonus. For the most part, they're just advertisements for upcoming games or spinning off of confirmed plot details. As for not mentioning what he did in Europe, he's only been in Europe for a couple of months at the time of CV, and under constant surveillance (that's how Claire gives Chris' info to Leon by the way, Umbrella was tracking him, she literally says that).
>Years later I learned that CV was supposed to be something like what I was looking forward to and it's so strange to me that they decided to change the story completely to being about Chris & Claire finding each other.
That was in the very, VERY early concept stages, and it was changed because RE3 was using Jill and because Kamiya added a line to the end of Claire's B scenario (see pic related).
>The Chris & Claire stuff hasn't even ended up being consequential in RE either, they hardly even interact or mention each other at all after CV even though they both go through big personal crises
This is because RE as a whole pretty much had no direction 4 onwards. From 2 to Dead Aim and Outbreak 2, Sugimura and others at Flagship were directing where the series would go. When he died, Flagship pretty much dissolved, and the writing for RE games was split multiple ways.
The guy who wrote 5 also wrote Revelations 2, which follows up on sequel hooks from 5. The writer of Revelations references his own game later on in 7, Village is the only real direct sequel RE has had since CV, etc.