A lot of RE fans are growing up. It isn't 1998 anymore, and chances are the story line, characters, zombie pop culture, as well as zombies in the mainstream media will adapt with the times. So what do you see the zombies in the future of Resident Evil being capable of?

Neo is right. Zombies aren't known for changing. Thee idea of them has been around for nearly as long as humans I assume. I see Resident Evil doing a reboot before 10 years. Like, just restarting everything and making it even more dark than it used to be. Seems that is what the trend is these days.

Completely unrelated To the topic but Nite what are the new rankings?

Look in the announcements thread.

RE in 10 years? Hmm... After a few sequels and spin-offs, I'm seeing a reboot. The staff at Capcom has been talking about a reboot so I could see it happening.

Damn... 1998... It's been a long time...


Come to think of it, in 5 years RE will turn 20.

Dark, reboot type stuff likely.

Also, zombies are known for changing.

If you look at the earliest zombies in film, they used to be more like mind controlled people, and stuff like that. Before they were the undead, brain eating variety.

Of course I think in the past several years, they have had another change. Things like V-Acts(Crimson Heads from REmake), 28 Days Later & that Dawn Of The Dead remake, have all introduced a new type of zombie, a more scary, faster, more vicious kind.

I'm sure we'll get something else in the future.

Oh, and the Las Plagas infectees are essentially playing a zombie type role. More like the earlier ones that I mentioned.

Spike, I think those zombie types have always been around. I wasn't speaking of just media. But zombie lore from the ooooold days.

LOL even the spencer castle incident which took place in 2006 is getting to be a long time now. so who knows what things will be like in 10 years from now.......

oh yeah only 7 years to go untill its been 20 years since the mansion incident

You think Chris plays xbox or play station or maybe even wii? lol

I don't know, but I hope it doesnt turn out the same way as some of it's siblings from the PS days

I think Las plagas, are more like a Vodoo zombie, which in retrospect was the first zombie ever really mentioned.

A zombie has a few definitions

A soulless corpse said to be revived by witchcraft, esp. in certain African and Caribbean religions

Originally, a snake-deity of or deriving from West Africa and Haiti.

So it is kind of cool to see the Vodoo kind of Zombie make a its mark on mainstream entertainment.

IF anything they are more like Zombies than the other ones.

What we think of as Zombies, used to be what Vampires where like in stories.

Vampires used to be classified as dead creatures, that walked the earth thoughtlessly consuming human blood/flesh
and zombies were people who were brought back, by a shaman and commanded to do what the shaman wanted.

It's strange to see how vampires changed, same with zombies haha

I like the Las plagas to be honest. I like how they can still think for themselves but not enough to actually question what they are doing. Like an older zombie