/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9842328
It's crazy that when this came out, I never could have imagined that one day people half my age would lust over Rebecca Chambers armpits.

>>9842328
I wonder if Quebec translated the title in to French like they autistically do with movie titles

>>9842328
i finished 2 and 3 a million times but still haven't finished the first one

>>9842328
You may joke about it but this was, not that many years ago, a hill where a sizable part of the RE Spanish-speaking fandom was willing to die on. It just didn't matter how thoroughly you tried to explain basic English syntax to them.

>>9843720
Gay

>>9844185
Resident Evil is an awkward title to begin with, at most it works as a sub title for the first game (I guess also RE7), and makes less sense for most of the titles in the series.

They should have just tried to workshop the original Biohazard name somehow, make it distinct enough.
>Total Biohazard
>Lethal Biohazard
>Deadly Biohazard
>Bio Organic Weapons
>Bio Organic Hazard
>Bioweapon Hazard
Even Mutant Evil would work better.

Doesn't the title refe to "an evil that resides [somewhere]"?

>>9844659
refer*

>>9844647
All your suggestions are trash. Resident Evil is better.

>>9844647
All those titles sound like bargain bin games

>>9844185
Is just that "El Residente del Mal" sounds better/funnier than "El Mal que Reside"

>>9844659
Yes, the word resident can be used an adjective.

>>9844647
Resident Evil has 90s Japanese charm

>>9844647
eww
>>9844745
>>9844747
this

the taiwanese title is 惡靈古堡 which means
"ancient tomb of evil spirits"

Yo contra el barrio

>>9844745
It only makes sense for the first game, though. The rest of the series is about terrorists using bioweapons to make zombies and kaiju monsters.

>>9845338
It makes sense in that the residents of whichever locale the game takes place in have become "evil". Be it the citizens of Racoon City, the Spanish villagers, the hill billys who own the property, etc.

>inwonende boosheid

You know how radioactivity shit was all over comics and other media in the 80's and early 90's?

Easy to forget now, but that's exactly what people would have thought about when hearing "Biohazard", and that stuff was not only non fitting for the game, but was cliché and not in fashion anymore.

>>9845359
case in point, and this is why "Biohazard" would have not worked in the US and in any other country following US culture

>>9844647
Sound like shit punk band or Troma film names.

>>9845395
you're a fucking idiot if you think the greatest game of all time "wouldn't have worked" because of a name change. quit deep-reaching for intellect you don't possess.

>>9845724
I love Resi to it's fucking core but I don't think you could reasonably call it the greatest game of all time.

>>9845724
Plenty of great games failed to capture an audience because of shitty marketing.

>>9842328
Latin speakers would usually call it "Residente Aveel".

>>9842328
Damm Chris is Pissed

>>9845359
>be me
>be 4yo with no knowledge about the English language
>still trying to figure out how to speak correctly in my own language
>Ooh, that looks cool, big bro should we play it?
This is exactly how it turned out for me, it could've been called "Cute Rabbits on the run" and I still would have wanted to play it.

>Nobody knowing where they took the "Resident Evil" name from.

>>9846516
Yeah but you're not from the US. And there is a 5 months window between the moment it released in the US and in Europe, guaranteed Euro publishers looked at US sales and more/less trusted and invested in a product if it performed well there.

And marketing is super important in the US, RE was aimed at teens, and teens would have thought of the radioctivity trope that was all over their childhood comics and cartoons with the name Biohazard. Guaranteed many would have dismissed the game as for being "kids stuff" just because of that.

>>9846519
Exactly, unlike Biohazard, Resident Evil conveys that it's a horror game just from the name alone.

For me this is just like people claiming "Rock Man" is a better name than "Mega Man". Absolute idiots who prefer a thing just for being Japanese.

>>9842328
>For me? it's Tembleque

>>9845724
Why are you suddenly talking about Tetris?

>>9846527
>Yeah but you're not from the US. And there is a 5 months window between the moment it released in the US and in Europe
If he is from South America, he could have played through bootleg disks. Latinos were able to play games for cheap even the japanese games that neither americans or europeans had.

>>9846527
They should've called Guts Man "Rock Man" because English speakers don't use "guts" like the Japanese.

>>9845283
>belt scroller/beat /em up
Is the proper translate.

>>9845359
>radioactivity shit
>biohazard
lol retards

>>9845395
>>9846527
It's not exactly obscure knowledge that bio organic hazards and radiation hazards are two separate things, and the symbols are noticeably different. Radiation causing mutation isn't particularly plausible as an excuse for monsters because those mutations are always cancer tumors, but a virus engineered to turn humans into angry and drooling cannibal retards with shitty skin is, comparatively, incredibly grounded. Take a hobo with weak legs and give him some PCP, and you're already halfway there to a zombie. The other bioweapons are maybe a lot less grounded, but "We extensively genetically manipulated and selectively bred a number of different animals to try to turn them into deadly fighting creatures" is still a lot more realistic than "radiation lmao", just compare a poodle to a pitbull.

Using selective breeding and genetic manipulation, you could probably use a crocodile or grizzly bear as a basis and then breed some sort of very aggressive and resilient animal, one which would probably have some serious problems surviving as a species out in nature (and likely be very cost inefficient), but one which would be extra dangerous if you dressed it in kevlar, fed it some meth and painkillers, and then let it loose in a crowd.

>>9842328
>Mexican "humor"