Chris's New Look

[Faust]

Am I the only one that thinks Capcom is going back to how chris orginally looked. By this I mean code Veronica. When I first watched the trailer sure I didn't see the resemblance to Chris at first but looking at the much older games I see the resemblance. It seems like a much more aged version of the veronica version that of previous chris "incarnations"

http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/_img/chars/chris-redfield-resident-evil-code-veronica-2.15.jpg

http://images.nintendolife.com/news/2014/04/forgotten_classics_resident_evil_code_veronica/attachment/1/original.jpg

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9179517/Not_A_Hero___Screenshot_4.jpg

I'm not saying it was the right move but its not like he looks completely different.

[Grantorino]

We need those 20 inch bicep pythons back

[CarlTheSpud]

Wait for Wesker, then Chris will have to get buff again

[mert20004]

Since this page is revived, ı'll go ahead and write down my opinion.

Re7 redfake sucks, chris that is seen from re5 to all the way to vendetta is infinitely better. I would rather get a hulk chris who nonstop uses steroids than this crappy umbrella corps clone wannabe. His look also have nothing to do with pre-re5 chris ( especially re1 chris ) not to mention the absence of smoking and his funny voice.

[CarlTheSpud]

Cmon Umbrella Corporation, if you played Not A Hero Chris makes it pretty damn clear he does not like his new employer nor trusts them. So the wannabe stuff is out. Voice actors change over time, and the left will have you know smoking is NOT COOL. So we get stuck with a new Chris, I will agree he looks like no iteration of Chris thats existed. But its because of Wesker. His rival is "dead" so there is no need to be Hercules strong. Its all just grunt work, per usual at the BSAA. Until that call.... "Chrisss"

[mert20004]

I already know he shows distrust but the fact that they literally made him team up with blue umbrella is ridiculous and an insult to re1. I could deal with voice actors and new model more easily if he was shown with bsaa in not a hero instead of umbrella. Plus he looks like a umbrella created clone to me, regardless of anything.

Oh and he uses wesker's weapons without giving a crap about them. ( he doesnt ask where did they get the guns from. )

[CarlTheSpud]

Im glad you asked. Well to start Blue Umbrella is a very new Corporation that won over the BSAA by claiming they were going "Full-Anti B.O.W" and blue umbrella was (at face) doing just that, so the BSAA merged for that sweet Tech and even sweeter information. Chris' dispatch lady is ex BSAA as well IIRC and mentions problems integrating with Blue Umbrella. And of course the new outfit is gonna look lame. BU is like the UN for B.O.W stuff. FURTHERMORE if you look at the guns in your inventory screen there is some good flavor text saying that they are Albert's own personal designs with special rounds. Wesker being Wesker, of course those guns are gonna be named after him. Now, in my opinion, the best question is what the hell actually happened at the folks home and such, and how Chris showed up THE SECOND the MC needed him... Perhaps a training mission? Somebody leaked the information about the "mold" to Travis and I believe he cultivated it and distributed it as he saw fit. Also in Not a Hero Chris is told multiple times to take Travis ALIVE, obviously it didnt come to that, but someone wanted to know what Travis knew. What are the secrets?

[Faust]

oof, I mean re7 chris may not look good in the last shots we see in the base game's ending. Not a Hero/ End of Zoe Chris looks much better in my opinion than the few shots we see in the first game.

also the face isn't a call back to code veronica but just the modeling of the voice actor.

see pic -> http://image.en.yibada.com/data/images/full/155401/model-actor-geordie-dandy-became-the-face-model-for-resident-evil-7s-chris.png?w=650&l=50&t=40

perhaps they hired the actor thinking he resembled the original (re1 remake and veronica) but I doubt it.

Chris has a bad history of not having consistent appearance at all. I mean the cgi film vendetta has chris looking completely different again. I don't know why they can't find an organic way to make chris look like he's aged without making his bone structure completely different in every installment. I mean they can do it with Leon.

like c'mon https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/712ec1b51714e99a0e20a863420e8e11.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&strip=all

I kinda changed my mind when I saw leon's new re2 appearance (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate it but in game appearance doesn't seem as bad as the poster appearance). However I do still believe chris looks aren't as divergent as re5 and revelations Chris.

[mert20004]

Faust, hope ı didnt understand you wrong but vendetta chris looks somewhat similar to re6 chris with the difference of cutten beard. ( which is similar to marhawa desire, then re5, then rerev this goes on ) Plus vendetta's timeline looks more closer to re6 than re7 so there's also that, due to this leon's appearance is similar to re6 variant. Anyway the only time chris' consistency is somewhat screwed up ( other than re7 ) is umbrella's end. They copy pasted his remake model and forgot to make him somewhat older after 5 years. He looks somewhat older while looking similar to remake / game of oblivion models in rerev. This is also somewhat an issue with jill and wesker. Other than that, he looks mostly consistent while getting older if you look from the right angle until re7. ( Which is remake, game of oblivion, umbrella's end, rerev, re5, marhawa desire, re6, vendetta. ) You also need to keep in mind that from recv to all the way to vendetta, he had the same mocap who was reuben langdon. They decided to abandon him for someone else for no reason when making re7. When making re5, they used his remake / umbrella's end model just like jill and wesker, made his muscles bigger and made the face older along with a different hair style. His muscles start to get smaller from re5 onward due to following barry's advice as seen in a rerev2 file.

Oh and voice actor for recv is micheal filipowich while for re7, it is david vaughn. Plus the fact that they used chris in re7 is nonsense. Before releasing the game, they clearly said that the game wasnt going to feature any returning characters and they gave chris as example. None could have thought they were planning to lie.

[T8-TR]

The only issue I have with the Chriss in RE7 is his chin, or lack thereof.

[CarlTheSpud]

Damn nice Umbrella Corporation that pretty much covers it. I know Crapcom SAID no returning character's (particularly Chris) but when did we start believing anything they've said? IIRC they were already plugging Not A Hero the day RE7 launched. Also, the (blue) Umbrella Corporation might as well be a returning character and the BSAA (although i cant rememember if either are mentioned in vanilla RE7)

Something interesting to add about Chris (more ethan, but it may be relevant. When Eveline is killed and the umbrella squad repels, Redfield takes his respirator/helmet off and says "im Redfield. Im glad we found you." To which Ethan responds "The f*ck took you guys so long?"

Now wait... what?

[Faust]

the reworked model face people werehave to say, great response Umbrella Corporation. Turns out thee article I read got confused between motion cap and "face model". Which makes it even more confusing that capcom decided to switch voice actors. It seems to me according to my research that Reuben was stunts and movement based motion cap only. The face was seperately designed by hand. When re7 came around the staff needed a new face due to how the engine used photo-scan technology.


vv which looks like it's not going to change in the near future. vv
Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/residentevil/comments/886lsy/geordie_dandy_face_model_for_chris_in_re7_post/



Age Progression and Capcom lies:

I wouldnt include vandetta though, his eyes, eyebrows and nose are to different for me to call it a natural progress and he looks way younger compared to Re6 Chris. Also entertainment companies use disinformation all the time to hype up twists in the story so it's standard industry practice. Also I really can't agree that chris's remake/game of oblivion to rev/re5 aging was natural looking.

remake back to back model comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmB4eW8gXY

0:20 definitely doesnt look like the same person

Voice Acting Changes:

Voice actors change quite frequently in videogames to reflect the aging process, I mean Paul Mercier has been the only voice actor to play leon in two story driven experiences. (not counting matthew mercer voice work for the playable mercenary character in re revelations 2)


Wesker:

ok and I have to give a firm no to saying wesker's model was taken from umbrella's end/remake. Umbrella's end is a model very similiar (if not exact) to wesker's re4's mercenary mode game model. Not a big matrix overlap fan myself (even if its hilarious)


In the end we're talking about a series with a ton of plotholes and inconsistencies

[CarlTheSpud]

Hey now. All of Wesker's models are boss. Even his UMVC3 model. Fight me.