Talk:Resident Evil 5

the long, gruesome story paragraphs
Yo, long; why not add a change of pace such as the following to the picture caption? In other words: who's gonna want to trudge through all that yuck? Put some cites, links, embolden some words, ANYTHING but the long, monotonous "dump" of words there would be fine.207.151.38.178 (talk) 01:45, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Chris reflects on what he's fighting for in the game's final cinematic, then goes into a song: How's It Going To Be (What Are We Fighting For), strangely written by:  The Brown-Eye Wiskers, (Wesker himself and some of the Ganados); obviously a lead-in to the next great Resident Evil mini-series of gaming.

source re: Wesker not returning
This speaks to this dispute a bit: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/25/producer-wesker-not-returning-yeah-right/ Do with it as you see fit. –xenotalk 18:10, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The same text was on IGN. We cited it earlier this week. However, this seems a bit like speculation. Granted, Wesker will appear in Darkside Chronicles, as is said, but chronologically, that takes place before this game. That source provides little further information than Wesker is dead.  The   Guy  (edits) 18:57, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry - I did not notice. Glad this dispute is over. –xenotalk 19:57, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I congratulate the person who found those sources. I was about to pull my hair out. ✰ Ffgamera ✰ - My page! | Talk to me! | Contribs 13:22, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Looks like that's this affair over, but I maintain without these sources it would be prudent to write 'defeat' instead of 'kill'. Anyways, that's that concluded. Racooon (talk) 20:22, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

"Best selling single title in the series"
Hey everyone. K so I got rid of that part that says it's the best selling title in the series. Reason why is, yeah it says RE5 sold 5 million and RE2 sold 4.9 million. But if you look closer it's only listing the sales for the PS1 version of RE2 and that game was released on 6 different consoles. So based on that we don't know if it's accurate to say RE5 is the highest seller and logic tells you that unless the other 5 versions couldn't rack up a measly four thousand copies, RE2 is still the top seller. Anyway since we don't know the exact sales, I don't think the article should list RE5 as the top seller unless they decide to list all sales for RE2. Agree? Chris - 00:48, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * No, disagree. Capcom says RE5 outsold RE2. I'm willing to believe Capcom's story over your little theory there. Wikipedia takes its information from reliable sources. Your logic is not considered a reliable source.--Atlan (talk) 23:04, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

So you're saying wikipedia users are not allowed to use logic or common sense? I mean I understand sources are important, but if you know one is not correct, I don't understand why you would use it.

It's not really a "theory". Capcom doesn't list all of RE2's sales. It only lists the PS1 version's sales. You can't say Game A sold more than Game B if you don't know how many Game B has sold. Right? Chris - 00:48, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * No, I welcome any editor with logic and common sense. It's just that we have policies that dictate that verifiable info is to be added to articles, whether it is true or not. Read the first sentence of WP:V:"The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true.". I hope that clears it up for you.--Atlan (talk) 15:43, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

ronnie42 edit: the alternate is also going to be on 360, not sure where wikipedia is getting its biast source but its also going to be dlc now since capcom did a vote on this recently —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronnie42 (talk • contribs) 07:47, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Atlan, where did Capcom ever state RE5 sold more than RE2? Can you verify it? Also, RE5 is on PS3, 360 and PC, that is not a single version, that's three. The 5 million sales is all three versions put together. RE2 sold 4.9 on the PS1 alone. So, I'm removing the "best selling single title in the series" bit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.30.37.166 (talk) 15:14, 16 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The two links here and here lists the sales information. Regardless of whether it's all three platforms (or only the two consoles), I am of the opinion that the statement still stands that it's the "best selling single title in the series". --Remy Suen (talk) 17:48, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

No, because how can you say RE5 has higher sales than RE2 when you only count one version of RE2? RE2 was released on five or six different platforms and none of those are factored in. You have to factor them in or you can't make the claim. For all we know the other versions of RE2 could have sold 3 million copies together. We don't know that, so reporting that RE5 is the highest seller in the series is speculation and wikipedia doesn't allow that.

By the way, the Resident Evil page on wikipedia has the first RE game listed as the highest seller at 6.43 million. So that page contradicts the RE5 page. Do we all agree to take out the part of RE5 being the highest seller now? 98.82.80.216 (talk) 12:25, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it's not agreed. You just want to do it.  If you can find a source saying RE2 sold more than RE5, please let us all have a look.  If it's a reliable source, then we can add it to Wikipedia.  Currently, the sources we have say that RE5 is the best selling single title of the series.  You can't count the REmake as the same title as RE, because it isn't the same game, so sales for RE (and the source for that list of sales is dead, BTW) will be split between the two. Geoff B (talk) 14:03, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Toto
The song "Africa" by Toto" is in this game, but that is not mentioned in the article...why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.151.222 (talk) 17:42, 21 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Maybe I missed the intermission where the majini put down their weapons and perform this song. If you can find a source for that, it'll go in. POWERSLAVE TALK/CONT 06:18, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

2 years later, I felt the urge to post a comment to destroy any of these claims; there is NO song from ANY 3rd-party band IN THIS GAME; other than the orchestrated/studiomade "OST" that comes and was produced for the game.BenBulletDodger (talk) 02:45, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

exclusivity?
wasn't it originally supposed to have been released only on the 360? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.142.174.77 (talk) 09:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Not that I know of. RE4 was Gamecube exclusive at first, but RE5 was always going to be multi-platform.--Atlan (talk) 16:23, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Issue with "Gameplay" description.
I'm new to Wikipedia and haven't learned the tools yet, but I noticed in the "Gameplay" section of this article there's a sentence that reads "The game's penis plays a significant role." This is obviously someone making a joke, but when I went to correct it the plain text says what it should say: "The game's environment plays a significant role." This statement is also incorrect as that function was dropped in the final game, but that's besides the point. The issue is I do not know how to change it as someone is obviously using text tricks to change the final wording on the official page and I'm not experienced enough to fix it myself. Would someone who is more knowledgeable with this website please correct this issue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by JimboWolf (talk • contribs)


 * An anonymous user vandalized the article by replacing environment with penis. Such changes by anons or new users always trigger an anti-vandalism bot to revert it promptly. When you tried to revert the edit, ClueBot simply beat you to it. So there's nothing left to fix.--Atlan (talk) 09:49, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Control Mechanics Issue
Although the outdated controls have been mentioned under "Reviews" in the main article, I feel that details about it could be made in a section of it's own.

There's also another side of the issue where Jun Takeuchi defends his decision and insists that they are making a "horror game".

What do you guys think?Goldsickle (talk) 22:04, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Apparently Jill Valentine dies in this game?
According to her Wikipedia article, anyway. Geoff B (talk) 21:53, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

That is obviously uncited as she is perfectly fine in the last scenes you see her. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.192.87.210 (talk) 01:33, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

You can add more reviews
Also for the DLC episodes. --Niemti (talk) 17:40, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

8.2 Million Copies Sold!?
Under Downloads and Sales, it is said that the game sold 8.2 million copies. The citation for it links to Capcom's Platinum Titles, which says that RE5 sold 6.5 million copies.

Where did the 8.2 million come from? (Goldsickle (talk) 10:20, 18 December 2013 (UTC))

FAC nomination
Just a declaration of intent - I will nominate this article for FAC as soon as my current nomination (Dark Angel (TV series)) is closed. If anyone has any suggestions for improving this article now is the time to mention them. Freikorp (talk) 01:24, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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Sales numbers
First, Steamspy is not reliable and it's estimates are wildly off. The deeper issue, is that the article was double counting the Steam sales, leading to the sales number being 12 million instead of 10.9 million, 1.1 million off. Capcom lists all their games that sell over 1 million copies, and Steam sales are lumped into those as "DL" (download). DL covers all Steam, PSN, Xbox live and other download services. I believe the Steam versions sales are specifically RE:5 Gold edition right? In any case, just use the Capcom official numbers, and steamspy isn't needed as they already are counting steam numbers. Harizotoh9 (talk) 15:57, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. The steam figures got added by someone else and I didn't realise they'd already been counted in the Capcom figures. Damien Linnane (talk) 23:50, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

RE5 at GTO: 14 days in Shonan
Hi all,

I just realized that Resident Evil 5 did have a easter egg appearance in Japan's comic GTO: 14 days in Shonan, a spin off of Great Teacher Onizuka. Is it a good idea of mentioning it in this page or at GTO: 14 Days in Shonan page?

Here is the comic page of proof:

Thank you. - JC1199154 (talk)


 * Hi . This appearance would definitely count as triva, and I'd encourage you to read WP:TRIVA for information on how to deal with this in general. Since it's just a small appearance in one panel, I personally wouldn't mention it in the article as it currently stands. If the article had a plot section it possibly would be OK to mention it in passing there, depending on how relevant them playing the game is to the overall plot, though I assume it wasn't really relevant at all. Hope that helps. Damien Linnane (talk) 08:38, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Where are the sources?
There are no citations for the entirety of the header or subheader? What the hell? 2804:1530:104:A793:ECF5:7281:A238:8CEF (talk) 12:45, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Generally, information within the header or Lead section does not need to be cited so long as it later cited within the body of the article. Please see MOS:LEADCITE. --  StarScream1007  ►Talk  13:14, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Exactly, it's standard procedure to not have citations there as long as it's cited later in the article. So in regards to your question, the sources are later in the article. And please read WP:AGF. Saying 'What the hell' in regards to what is simply the standard policy for writing on Wikipedia for isn't a great way to open a discussion. Damien Linnane (talk) 22:51, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

2024 Sales
According to Capcom's website, even if you exclude remakes, RE7 has sold more copies than 5. Shouldn't that be mentioned, or are some of the version of RE7 "different" somehow and it doesn't count? PanagiotisZois (talk) 20:02, 24 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm only seeing one version of RE7, clocking in at position No. 4 with 13 million sales: . For RE5, I'm seeing versions at No. 7, No. 33 and No. 47, which add up to 14.4 millions sales. Damien Linnane (talk) 00:53, 25 February 2024 (UTC)