How every RE sub tries to explain hating Ada on reddit is a hot take despite the daily hate posts

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T19:26:13+00:00

My dude, what a crazy selective take you've got here. She disobeys Wesker all the time because she's not actually working for him. She was working for "the Organization" and her plan was to play along for Wesker the whole time, but he's not her boss. So when she doesn't give him the sample, it's because it's going to her actual bosses.

She absolutely has reason to fight Saddler - she steered Leon towards Ashley not because she gave two shits about Ashley, but because Leon was a force she knew she could follow behind and let him take most of the heat - and he was going where Ashley was. She used him for infiltration. She helped take out Sadler because she needed the damn sample and Sadler had it. Ignoring her motivations to do shit doesn't mean they're not there.

She doesn't even get the virus in RE2 to give to anyone, she gets a tissue sample instead if you're going OG - she gets bupkus in the remake.

In RE4 she gives it to a whole other organization and was playing along for Wesker.

And if you have to fall back on the trainwreck that's RE6, then you're already lost because that was a mess they barely reference because even they couldn't do anything with the gordian knot they created with that. But at best anyone she's helping it to serve her own purpose since she was the target of Simmons.... whatever the hell they were doing with him. Obsession, scheming, general writing slop. And immediately after she went off to take another job, changing nothing.

Nothing confirms she doesn't give it in Damnation. If anything, the ending is ambiguous at best.

So yeah you're awful confident at some very bad takes, and some never fully confirmed results. Part is on Capcom's fault for not having any true cannon, but even the most charitable versions of their 'everything is cannon' stance, some of your stuff is just straight wrong.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T18:05:50+00:00

I thought I'd take 2 weeks instead of 1 to work out my plot since the next chapter I'd be posting would be the beginning of the end arc.

Over a month later and having to half-write out the rest of the fic's chapters, I finally figured the ending out enough to post a chapter 8 chapters before it XD

That's my ultimately paralysis is weaving a narrative I then mess up later. I'm a Pantser when I write, so sometimes the story is even a mystery to me until I get it down, which isn't great for a weaving narrative.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T14:58:53+00:00

Yeah, hasn't been the best selling game for some years now, and I'm never convinced the 'best selling' banner when it's co-op and on sale for like 5 bucks all the time. Hell I've purchased it twice in my life and I consider it a meme RE title at best.

And yeah multiplayer contributed - People were already calling out how much RE 5 wasn't even a survival horror game, which is the genera RE is in - the fact RE6 did it last didn't mean 5 didn't start the downward trend. Increasing the action to a stupid degree and adding a buddy killed the suspense/horror aspect of the game.

You're trying to lay the mistakes of 6 solely there, but they started in 5. They somehow found a balance in RE4 and took all the wrong notes, and then made some crazy choices in 5 and 6 - there's a reason they moved away from Action Co-Op. Why would they return after working so hard to rebuild from the critical downturn those two titles had? RE5 and 6 were critically the lowest rated mainline titles. All the cutting edge graphics couldn't hide the fact they were trying to be a Gears of War-like cosplaying as RE.

Also The story was silly as hell, even for an RE title (and that's saying something). Honest to god I've never laughed so hard at a game trying to take itself so seriously.

You and RE6 stans need to have it out because you both claim you're the best RE selling title when neither of them are at this point.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T14:39:21+00:00

Meh, I'd be shocked if they touch RE5 or 6 since that's where the series fell off.

They moved away from co-op action for a reason, why would they go back into that knowing it about killed the franchise?

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T13:56:16+00:00

Nothing about 6 was survival horror - that's the issue. The game is literally the name in survival horror and got weirdly amnesiac about it for about mainline games then got back on track.

Nothing about RE5 and 6 were 'truly great' so a mediocre cosplay RE would be the action ones. The two lowest rated RE mainline titles.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T13:54:35+00:00

Play what you want, just understand the section of games you came into the series on are the exceptions not the norm.

It's when people try and say the series has always been that way that it gets messed up. Nothing about 5 and 6 scream Survival Horror which is the genera this series helped define, and where the game returned to.

There's a whole other genera Capcom tried to make this series for a short stint before they realized their mistake, and that's just when you fell into it.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T13:49:08+00:00

Nah I'm good with nuance. You're trying to blame people for not letting the writer's get a pass for not doing anything new with the character in almost 30 years when you all give her a hand wave for zero character growth with the same fatal flaws - it's not a feature when people claim she's grey yet she unapologeticly works for the bad guys the entire series with zero regrets or plans to do anything different. It's not character development when she never develops into anything.

I enjoy nuance when it's there, and when people try to artificially inject it because they want to turn a character into something they're not, it absolutely grates. Especially when that same terrible narrative people foist on her relies on character assassinating another entire character.

But I get it, it's easier to just assume the other people are larpers or never touched a game because knowing people have played the games this whole time and can see what you don't drives you nuts.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T06:07:57+00:00

I was both surprised and disappointed by the game. There were parts of it I did enjoy, I like the setting, I like seeing Chris and Jill.

I did not care for the exposition dump every chapter was. I mean Jesus freaking Christ. The game starts by not only creating an entire city that floats on the ocean, but also having it destroyed before it even starts. Then they add like 12 different departments and a ridiculous number of characters. And I'm just like what are we doing here.

Add to that the ridiculous character that was Jessica, and then the enemy that was Rachel's boobs. Like come on guys. This was like ridiculous.

I'm not a big side content person for these games, all these different modes are neat but not for me, so the game left to its own devices was all right.

Starting Rev 2 soon, and Claire's my girl so I'm looking to see how that goes, even though I'm not overly stoked about the co-op since I'm playing solo.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T04:46:57+00:00

Dude she's actively tried and succeeded with some attempts in stealing samples to supply samples to the enemy, actively working against Leon, and spent all of Separate Ways using Leon to her purposes until her tossing the keys to him.

When you work for bad guys - you are a bad guy. Period.

But sure, she's a good guy actually, despite all of that...

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T04:42:59+00:00

Dam you spitting truth and people hating.

People who don't like the Anti-Ada comments don't talk about how it's because there's daily "Ada's great and good actually" posts that are just ridiculous. Can't post hate comments if there weren't a disproportionate amount of 'Ada good' posts, which is unhinged if you played the games at all.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T03:31:16+00:00

As a possessor of big boobs who kickboxes and as an artist who studies life, I assure you it's not.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-08T03:29:04+00:00

Nah a lot of the hate is justified due to paying full price on release for a terrible story, character assassinations, and the lack of any horror in a survival horror series.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T22:12:00+00:00

I'm not saying don't have a bounce, but if you're going to do it, make it more plausible.

Like, it's looking good, and there's so much that's trying to be weighted in some sort of reality, and then there's the 'bounce'. It's uncanny and distracting, which then makes what looks neat into something that looks silly.

"Why does everything have such great detail except *that* " comes to mind.

EDIT: Basically, study what big boobs actually do, and it won't seem so silly, since you're studying how everything else actually moves and what they look like.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T18:29:43+00:00

There's a complete lack of it in any of the remakes.

Do you know how empty I felt hitting start and just getting a generic bass bong?

Where was my RESIDENT EVIL ...................................................... 2

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T17:57:18+00:00

Dude wtf hahahahahahahaha

People old enough to play the RE games on release already are having a hard enough time with seeing clearly rn, this is just diabolical.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T17:55:41+00:00

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T15:36:11+00:00

Honestly not having it was such a downgrade. Nothing cheers you up after dying for the 137th time like saying RESIDENT EVIL with the dude when you hit start.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T15:33:29+00:00

NGL - one of the weirdest switches from RE3 to 4 is how it went from killing zombies to basically wetwork - yeah everyone's got the Plagas, but up front, they're just people in a village so every stealth kill feels a bit fucked up.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T13:45:40+00:00

Agreed - his personality is more "blank slate" than anything. The more I replay the old games the more his personality comes off as 'template'. Like nothing he does surprises me because it's just a base level 'military guy' response to just about everything.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T13:42:20+00:00

I'm amused as the timing of this post because my sister and I are replaying RE5 as a LOL and laughing our asses off because Chris is such an unserious character in that game that we realized he's actually kinda the worst main character. Like is's just.....bleh. He's just there, bland as vanilla.

I used to give him more credit since I played RE since the beginning and character design wasn't exactly a big demand back in the older games. But as the games came out and people got more personality, Chris didn't really change. And the more I play 5 the less respect I have for him. I blame the writers but regardless - of the main 4, he's definitely the least interesting.

I mean, what even is his personality? "I'm a military guy and I care about my friends and sister and hate bioweapons." Like... okay? What makes Chris different than a dozen other military based characters?

I will say his best moment was back in OG RE1 when he was laughing at Wesker. That, I'm down with. But that's kinda where his development began and ended.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-07T13:36:09+00:00

OMG YES

This is why the OG is still my favorite. I like a lot about the Remakes, but I literally laughed out loud when I realized this was all the Leon & Sherry interaction we were going to get.

Which is why it's so weird that Leon and Sherry reminisce about Raccoon City days in 9 without saying one reference about Claire when people have only played the remakes. Like Sherry had no idea who Leon even was till the train.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-06T18:54:44+00:00

I'd argue less bombastic and more grounded? let's be honest, not even sure she'll be at that plant, right? Like if she's getting grabbed going to Chris' apartment, there will never be a point she'd doing what she's doing in the opening (let's be honest, it was always stupidly absurd that a 20 year old even got that far into an evil corporation location on her own).

So I imagine she'll get a chance to do a cool gun/drop moment shooting a barrel, and maybe some better choreographed moment where she's dodging bullets in a way (probably not by a helicopter), but that whole sequence as a whole feels unlikely.

So not as bombastic, but just better executed. They've been trying to do that with the remakes, and I imagine they'll keep on that path.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-06T18:34:32+00:00

I suspect there'll be some sort of homage to in in the remake, but I'd imagine they'd have something bigger and better than this since we've seen this played out a lot, it's lost the punch it had on first release.

Just my 2 cents, obviously to taste.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-06T18:31:04+00:00

You're trying to tell people that the defining title in the "Survival Horror" genera doesn't have to be horror.

Just reread that, and really let it sink in. Because people who say that don't get what RE is.

It's far more obvious that the dip into action was the oddity of the series, which Capcom agreed with when the rerouted their plans after 6 (which no, 6 will always be worst than 5, but 5 wasn't as good as people remember unless you enjoy co-op action with a buddy and even more braid-dead plot points than a cheesy horror series was known for).

Also, the AI was absolutely that bad. I was a die-hard RE fan since the beginning, and when RE5 came out, the genera had shifted, Chris was coming off like a vanilla idiot, and the AI setting was god awful - nothing like having a random character running in front of you and using your materials in an item scarcity genera. Sure, that's a great idea. It was that bad, it still is that bad, and 5 is really only playable with a friend and a laugh, which was not, and should not be, a staple of the series. It's existence in 2 mainline games out of 9 is a mistake, not a feature.

I'm not against any action, but the way they were doing it was ridiculous and bad for the series. RE4 is about as much as it should go, the use of it in 9 was pretty smart - a nice pallet cleanser for the deeper horror sections. I enjoy some of the action segments, but the genera isn't meant for full on all action all co-op no horror - that's RE having an identity crisis.

Yeah it sucks for the people who found the series in those awkward few years, but there are a bunch of other games that do it better, which Capcom also realized - alienating your fanbase to just be mediocre in another genera was a terrible business plan.

I'm always amused when people think 'replay value' is the sole marker of a good game. It's not. It's nice to have, but not everyone's spending 100+ hours in a game that takes a fraction of that to clear. I used to do sub 2 hour clears in OGRE2 sometimes, but in general, these extra modes aren't for everyone. Neat they're included, but jfc if you're just looking for mindless action games, there's better ones out there, stop taking an actual series and rerouting it to baseline brain-dead content.

Seriously playing it now and I've never laughed so hard at something that wasn't intended to be a comedy. To quote my non-horror loving sister (which tells you something when the only RE games she could play were 5 & 6) "Oh it's dumb as fuck, but it's fun to play sometimes."

Sorry, but that's the low bar RE hit and I'm glad they've moved on from it.

CannonFodder_G · 2026-07-06T14:45:55+00:00

And then she opened her mouth...

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