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June 2020

Capcom is promoting the game simply as "Resident Evil Village". In a developer diary, Capcom state that while there is an VIII in the logo and the game is considered the 8th game, the choice to title it Village is very intentional. This can be seen in various sources including YouTube videos and dev posts on the PlayStation Blog. Calling it Resident Evil 8: Village or any variation that isn't "Resident Evil Village" is just incorrect.

LightSamus (talk) 11:23, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the page from "Resident Evil 8: Village" to "Resident Evil Village". Here are some more sources for it being "Resident Evil Village", in case they're needed.

Lady Dimitrescu

Should we make an article about Lady Dimitrescu? She's being subjected to a sort of Fandom explosion very similar to Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Emblem Three Houses. You can probably find well over enough news articles talking about her. Jericho Morales (talk) 03:41, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Far too early. If after the game is out and she is still a major topic of discussion (with both development and critical reception) then that's a possible option. --Masem (t) 19:53, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Jericho Morales (talk) 21:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To continue this, coupled with details since and this IGN article, there's a lot more details to support it. I'd still wait until the game releases so that one can frame everything properly, but support for a standalone is definitely likely there post-release. --Masem (t) 21:16, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hoping for you to help with the article when the RE:8 Village was released. So Wikipedia won't miss out on these major and frequently talked characters. 180.194.141.59 (talk) 03:30, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On the subject of a page for ~~tall goth vampire mommy~~ Lady Dimintrescu, the official Resident Evil TikTok is kind of cashing in on her popularity https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe4njHm8/ 2603:7000:1F00:6B91:9166:DE91:DFD:4FD7 (talk) 04:55, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone already created this. See Lady Dimitrescu. Added wikilink to RE Village main article. DirkDouse (talk) 23:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

now this is epic!

so someone already made an article about lady dimitrescu which made me wonder why we didn't include the fan hype in this article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minemaster1337 (talk • contribs) 16:52, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Because this article is about the game. Not the character. Jericho Morales (talk) 19:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ethan character model in post-credits scene

OceanHok, where should it belong? I disagree that it is a "trivial" detail. I think this is an interesting information that at least be mentioned somewhere. Neo-corelight (Talk) 05:30, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it belongs anywhere. Narrative content does not belong in the development section unless the developer comments on it. It also does not belong in the plot section if you need to use a camera hack to see it. If there isn't any official confirmation from Capcom that the unknown figure is Ethan, then this doesn't belong anywhere and has not much value including here. OceanHok (talk) 06:48, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have to agree with OceanHok here. I know there have been cases where RSes report on what players have found when using modded versions of games (eg P.T. (video game)) but I think in those cases, no one is trying to assert that what was seen was necessarily part of the plot. In this case, that the "mysterious figure" model was based on Ethan may have been just a shortcut used to show a figure at the end of the game and re-used assets. I do think that this can be placed in a footnote, but that's about as much weight as it should be given. --Masem (t) 07:30, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As comparisons, Fallout's trains that are actually hats on NPCs and Skyrim's small tables that are actually buried shelves are similarly "trivial" details. Unless the coverage is something like on the order of Hot Coffee mod, it probably shouldn't be mentioned in a general encyclopaedia article. DonQuixote (talk) 07:50, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A bit late reply on my behalf but, regardless whether it belongs in the article or not, one can clearly see that the figure is indeed Ethan during the close-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNFSzCKSaAk

And, given how much attention this gained among players, with numerous articles bringing it up, for instance here and here it is a bit peculiar to not mention anything about it, especially as post credits scenes in general are otherwise always mentioned in Wikipedia articles.

One could mention his post credits appearance and add that it is uncertain how the creators of the game intended it; maybe, as has been speculated, it could either be a hallucination, or possibly the creators of the game hinting about a continuation.

I did add it some year ago; however, it was instantly revsersed with the peculiar motivation that "it was a matter of interpretation", so I don't believe I will make another attempt, but perhaps someone else.

Regards Okama-San (talk) 22:29, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Steam Awards

Wikibenboy94, WP:USERG is a guideline about the acceptable use of sources, not about what content is appropriate for inclusion in an article. The source for the Steam Awards wins is not user-generated, it was PC Gamer which is clearly a RS. Whether or not Steam Awards are notable enough for inclusion is not up for us to decide, we should follow the reliable sources on this, and plenty of RS coverage has been given to the Steam Awards. Do you think that People's Choice Awards shouldn't be included in articles as user-generated too, or the various fan-voted awards in established award ceremonies (e.g. Billboard Music Award for Top Social Artist)? Alduin2000 (talk) 12:32, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Does "stylized as…" belong?

Right now, in a footnote on the game's title, the article includes

Stylized as VII.I.AGE Resident Evil. Known in Japan as Biohazard Village (Japanese: バイオハザードヴィレッジ, Hepburn: Baiohazādo Virejji), stylized as VII.I.AGE Biohazard. Commonly referred to as Resident Evil 8 or Resident Evil 8: Village.

My thought is no, per MOS:TMSTYLE: not only does trying to indicate the VIII tucked away in the logo run afoul of the guideline against colorization, attempts to emulate font choices, or other elaborate effects, but even "Village Resident Evil" contradicts the suggestion that When a stylization appears only in a logo rather than within text (in either primary or independent reliable sources), it generally does not need to be mentioned at the top of the article. In running text, the game is universally referred to as "Resident Evil Village"; for example, the official site uses "Resident Evil Village" on every occasion, never "Village Resident Evil" (let alone "VII.I.age Resident Evil"). With that in mind, I removed it. However, my edit was quickly undone. So: should these "stylized as" messages be included on this page? — Kawnhr (talk) 18:11, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's trivial and should be excluded. Popcornfud (talk) 18:59, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No.the body goes into the hidden VIII in the logo, but nearly no one calls this RE 8 to make that a stylization to point out at the top. --Masem (t) 19:15, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

People do call it Resident Evil 8, and there's actually several articles used as sources here that refer to it as such. But that's not what I'm asking about here. — Kawnhr (talk) 19:47, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]