RE6...... Pre or Post RE5

do you think resident evil 6 will take place pre-RE5 or post-RE5

I'm gonna go with both pre and post.

I find it very confussing that Damnation would take place before RE6 and it will be released after RE6

After all The Raccoon City Incident ended in October of 1998.

RE5 took place in August of 2009. They say this game is set 10 years after the raccoon city incident. So this game could take place after August or almost immediately after RE5. Technically it's still 10 years if it's September 2009. 10 years and 11 months but still 10 years

Plus if this takes place before RE5 when the whole world is affected by BOWs would they really have sent someone so high up in the BSAA as Chris is to Africa to stop what appeared to be a simple Weapons deal? I was also thinking that maybe leon's story is kind of before or during re5 and chris's story is after re5.

Of course it's post. A worldwide zombie outbreak would have been mentioned at SOME point. All the numbered titles follow each other in the timeline.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Of course it's post. A worldwide zombie outbreak would have been mentioned at SOME point. All the numbered titles except zero follow each other in the timeline.

some of re3 took place before re2 though so they did have a game out of order somewhat.

kgould01 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Of course it's post. A worldwide zombie outbreak would have been mentioned at SOME point. All the numbered titles except zero follow each other in the timeline.

some of re3 took place before re2 though so they did have a game out of order somewhat.

Oh yes, I did forget that one. RE3 still ended after two, though.

I think it'll be a mix of both

*UPDATE* The game will take place in 2013.

Sargent D wrote:

*UPDATE* The game will take place in 2013.

I read about that too but isn't it quite contradictory with that "10 years after Raccoon City" part.

Mass Distraction wrote:

I read about that too but isn't it quite contradictory with that "10 years after Raccoon City" part.

That was a mistake on Capcom's part, here's a pic from the info for this game from Xbox Live.

I'm still a bit confused which one is the mistaken part, the 10 years after or the date?

Maybe they are rounding down? I mean it is approximately 10 years after Raccoon. Especially if you take the entire Universe's 10-16 billion year life span into account. Then those 3 years just seem paltry.

Mass Distraction wrote:

I'm still a bit confused which one is the mistaken part, the 10 years after or the date?

I think the part where it says 10 years after is wrong.

I have absolutely no idea.

Didn't they say the same thing about RE5, and it didn't come out til 2009, so it ended up being 11 years actually...IDK.

I know right, until they offically say which date is the real one I'm going with 2013.

Sargent D wrote:

I know right, until they offically say which date is the real one I'm going with 2013.

Wait wait wait wait wait.

Resident Evil 4 took place in 2004. I think we're all missing something to the puzzle. Leon's apparent relationship and close ties to the President. President Graham still can't be President, 9 years after Resident Evil 4. In Resident Evil 4, the first thing Leon says is "1998." He continues to say "Six years has passed since that horrendous incident."

It goes to without a doubt, Resident Evil 4 took place in 2004: 1998+6=2004.

The President had to have been elected in 2004 if he even wants to be the President until 2012 because as we all know a US Presidential term is 4 years and you can only have two terms.

If this takes place in 2013 then the same President Graham can't be President, and Leon would not have this special relationship with him.

The only way I could see this happening is if he was elected a 3rd term like FDR during WWII. This would mean that such bioterrorism should have been happening all over the US and around the world for the US citizens to feel the need to stay with Graham until it was all over, unfortunately Graham would have turned into a Zombie himself by default screwing everything over.

Again there's the 2008 issue. If the game were to take place in 2008, the President turned into a zombie in 2008, all the US in shambles, that sort of messes with the integrity with Resident Evil 5's plot, doesn't it? I mean there's the argument that it takes place during 2008 and proceeds after 2009, because RE3 took place before RE2 and ended after RE2, but it wasn't an entire three or even five years after. And if that is the case how are Chris and Leon going to meet up in the first place? I know there's no promise of that, but fans have been begging Capcom and the developers of Resident Evil to make a game with both Chris and Leon, it would be retarded if they're in the same game but never actually see each other. That's like teasing a toddler with a toy, and then smacking it across the face for reaching for it.

At any rate, I would like to think that Capcom are just really fucking up and it will all be explained later, because I gave myself a headache thinking about this at work. 2013 doesn't make sense. Just set it in 2012. That will restore order in my brain. Fuck.

Mercy wrote:

At any rate, I would like to think that Capcom are just really fucking up and it will all be explained later, because I gave myself a headache thinking about this at work. 2013 doesn't make sense. Just set it in 2012. That will restore order in my brain. Fuck.

Ha, I loved your entire post.

Yeah, so I guess I never really gave it too much thought about whom the Prez is in the trailer...I guess I didn't really care.

But now that you mention it, that is an interesting point.

I would think this would be after RE5. But maybe just enough to where it still falls within the President's possible terms.

I really hope it's a prequel to 5. It just makes more sense. Of course none of the events in 6 were brought up in 5 because Capcom didn't make 6 before 5. The 2013 date really irritates me as I've had this argument so many times with plenty of idiots over at GameFAQs. The date is contradicted within the same sentence and people still want to believe it anyway. And XBL seems to be the only ones to have the game as 2013. Capcom made a mistake and I don't see how that's hard to believe. Anyway, back to business. What makes me believe this game is a prequel is what Chris said.

"I can't keep running away, I have to face the truth, accept responsibility."

He's killed Wesker and he got Jill back. What can he possibly be running from? It almost seems like he can be referring to Jill's death or something. I would still like to believe this game takes place before Resident Evil 5.

Turo602 wrote:

Of course none of the events in 6 were brought up in 5 because Capcom didn't make 6 before 5.

Regarding that part, I really hope the people at Capcom won't be that stupid to make a prequel that should affect the whole storyline but doesn't.

Sure it would fit in between 2006 and 2009 but wouldn't make much sense storywise. At this point I take it that a numbered title is actually a sequel instead of a prequel, just like they have been thus far. That's just me, though.

The thing is if fans ever wanted a prequel to Resident Evil 5, we have Resident Evil: Revelations. Why would Capcom be so obsessed with being before Resident Evil 5? That would be two games before Resident Evil 5 and after Resident Evil 4. Yet again, it would have to be the end of 2012 if Leon and President Graham's relationship to make any sense.  Either way this game can't take place in 2013.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Turo602 wrote:

Of course none of the events in 6 were brought up in 5 because Capcom didn't make 6 before 5.

Regarding that part, I really hope the people at Capcom won't be that stupid to make a prequel that should affect the whole storyline but doesn't.

Sure it would fit in between 2006 and 2009 but wouldn't make much sense storywise. At this point I take it that a numbered title is actually a sequel instead of a prequel, just like they have been thus far. That's just me, though.

I still don't see how it would affect anything. This game could take place days before 5. Chris was on another continent in 5 continuing his mission on taking down bio-terrorist as he seems to be doing in 6. Meaning, they could of just controlled the situation in 6 but didn't really stop the threats. At this point, RE6 can go either way only time will tell.

It wouldn't be the first time a numbered title acted as a prequel. Take Underworld for example, part 3 was a prequel to the first.

If this game was indeed a prequel it would be like a Chuck Norris joke. Chris accomplished RE6 before RE5.

Mercy wrote:

The thing is if fans ever wanted a prequel to Resident Evil 5, we have Resident Evil: Revelations. Why would Capcom be so obsessed with being before Resident Evil 5? That would be two games before Resident Evil 5 and after Resident Evil 4.

I think it's for the best to keep making prequels. There's a lot of things that are unexplained and so many gaps in the timeline. I don't want these characters to age too much.

I'm just going to say capcom fucked up on the part where it says "set 10 years after the events of Raccoon City" and the date it takes place in is 2013. This whole year that it takes place in thing doesn't need to be a some huge 'rocket science' project. They most likely just fucked up. lol

Sargent D wrote:

I'm just going to say capcom fucked up on the part where it says "set 10 years after the events of Raccoon City" and the date it takes place in is 2013. This whole year that it takes place in thing doesn't need to be a some huge 'rocket science' project. They most likely just fucked up. lol

Read my post. It can't take place in 2013 unless Leon formed a good relationship with a new President and just totally forgot about Graham. Though that's not what the trailer suggests. 

@Turo: We don't know what happens in Revelations. It could explain a lot. It could even end with the Spencer Mansion or even after that... In a perfect world. We also don't know what could happen in a couple of years, referring to Chris running from the truth. We simply do not know. 

Well from what we know about Capcom they probably didn't think too hard about the whole president part of this situation. lol