Well im not the biggest resident evil fan, but i played some of the games and remembered some things that happen so bare with me. But, what do you mean by the plot twist "left off by Code Veronica"? The part where Chris says it's time to take down Umbrella once and for all? Wow, that really moves the plot in a whole new direction. It just reminds me so much of the other ones. Some examples are like the endings of resident evil 2 and 3.
Leon RE2: " Hey, it's up to us to take out Umbrella "
Jill RE3: " That's it! Umbrella's going down! "
Practically all games after RE1 and before RE4 talk about having to take down Umbrella, and in RE4, it showed us that Umbrella did in fact get taken down.
Then what was the point of playing Resident Evil 1-3?
Umbrella markets its bioweapons. Before Dead Aim, this was an assumption; now we know for sure. Seriously, Capcom is just lazy at finishing off their games (Megaman > Megaman X > Megaman Zero! 100 years after, X hurrah!).
Heres a little information about Dead Aim-
Chris's dramatic statement at the end of Code Veronica seems to, have lost some of its impact. Here we are, four years later, and Umbrella's still around. When you consider Dead Aim, with agents of the American and Chinese governments who're both specifically tasked with stopping Umbrella, Umbrella's destruction couldn't've been as quiet or civilized a process as RE4's introduction makes it out to be.
Dead aim may have been an uncharacteristic game, but it still held relevance to the previous RE games (The Spencer Rain obviously belongs to the same Spencer who owns the mansion in the arklay mountains).
Here's an interesting point: why does Wesker want Leon's body (cf. Krauser's Notes)? (Yeah, it could just be hyperbole, but this is Resident Evil and Wesker's got a thing for body collection.)
And why would Wesker go after Leon's body 6 years later? Because by Wesker's Report, Wesker was there keeping an eye on Leon and Ada through out all of RE2. Capcom has pretty much ruined the plot after RE2, RE3 makes little sense. Code Veronica made more sense than RE3, and its simply because it was a sequel towards Claire and Chris's side of the story, where as they could've done something better with "Jill and Carlos being in Raccoon City at the same time as Leon and Claire". Also Veronica holds more relevance to RE1 and RE2 than in RE3. Its proven in the files you pick up along the game (heck, the plot itself holds relevance to RE1, and its not just wesker, but the Ashford family)- and there is nothing in Code Veronica that relates to RE3.
The reasons for this is because:
-In RE3, Raccoon City was barricaded on all corners and sealed = So how the heck did Claire and Leon gain access to the city when you see them arriving from outside of town?
-Regardless of that, even if they did get to the city a day earlier, there would be cops and military police telling Leon and Claire that they are not allowed to enter the city because of the outbreak.
Another thing is people giving excuses about how Brad Vickers became a Zombie in RE2 simply because he was killed outside of the Police Station by Nemesis. It may not be important but for those of you that continue to beleive it: Brad did not come back as a Zombie.
Nemesis shoved a tentacle through his head, and all severe injuries or dislocation or beheading of the head will simply not allow reanimation (Meaning the T/G any virus will not bring Brad back alive because a tentacle went through his head - RE explains this).
And there are other things in RE3 that make no sense to the previous games which I wont even bother to mention.
Some things even turned out to play better, like the villagers, we should really have zombies at that level of smartness.
That will kill the whole purpose of the T-Virus. Also, the plagues weren't even a virus, they were just ancient parasites that were sealed away underneath the castle where Leon was in RE4. That holds no relevance to anything in any previous RE game. Yet RE4 still clings to Wesker and Ada and tries to hint a connection when no past RE games mention anything about Plagas. I would really like to see how Capcom pulls this off.
Yes, it is a new story, and we've yet to see how Leons story follows through. But if its a new story, why bother giving it the title of Resident Evil 4? The events that happened in Code Veronica were more logical than that of the events in RE4. And thats simply because Capcom didn't kill Umbrella for you, which was the point to playing the game - it seems like killing Umbrella for you is capcoms excuse to continue the series, but they got lazy because even I could've thought of a better way to keep the series alive.
I dont see how you found anything in code veronica creepy, frightening, or scary, that game was the least scary if anything.
I never said anything about the game being scary, creepy or frightening, I was just simply saying that the Hunters in Code Veronica were way more dangerous than in other Resident Evil (there were 4 types of Hunters, the elite class being the most powerful and the fastest - then there were others that could poison you).
Why is it so important to know what the others were doing those 6 years? they were probally trying to live out there lives normally or something.
Its important because the game has (or had) a storyline.
Seriously, with the confusions of RE0, RE3, RE4, and the 2 RE movies (and yes, the RE movies do not hold relevance to the series, I know that), I wonder what the hell, is capcom going to do to straighten out the series. How are you going to throw Jill Valentine's character in a movie that holds no relevance to what shes going through the game?
The plot is more tied and twisted than that of the plot in the Street Fighter games. The only plot that makes sense to me is RE1/RE2/RECV. Resident Evil remake unloosens some things from RE1, so I would put the remake over the original. Resident Evil Zero also has connections with many things left in previous RE games, but there are still alot of mistakes (like Marcus claiming that he is co-founder/creator of the progenitor when the previous games say other wise).
Either way, I see Zero as nothing but an interesting scenario of the things Rebecca has been through before RE1. I doubt Billy will be making any appearances in the future, however.