Resident Evil - Timelines/Playing Orders

List Of Continuities in the Wiki
Prime (Called Main Timeline here): The main universe. Added

Flagship Expanded Universe: The expanded universe created prior to Resident Evil 4. However seems that the producers have said that it was never meant to be canon(?). Added

Makino (Novelizations of a game and a CGI movie): I will investigate further but seems that the novelizations are interchangeable with their original material, so, I am considering it the same as the main universe.

Makoto (Novelization of another CGI movie): I will investigate further but seems that the novelizations are interchangeable with their original material, so, I am considering it the same as the main universe.

The Beginning: licensed novel prequel to Resident Evil 1, according to the article "Its heavily altered English translation was used as a basis for S.D. Perry's novel series" which could be taken as the English translation being an alternate universe to the Japanese version.

Makoba: Radio play prequel of the first game "Tragedy of Makoba Village".

Gaia: Musical apparently non canon.

Gaiden: Game from Game Boy Color seemingly ignored by the rest of the games. It was made before 4 and apparently it could fit in the same universe as the main games until 4 was released, if the Expanded Universe was not declared always non canon by the producers I would fuse this with the Expanded Universe, and it would be the "Early Expanded Universe Before 4". Added

Operation Raccoon City: Described as a "What If" by its creators since it takes place during 2 and 3 but it contradicts their events. I have assumed that 0 and Remake happened in its past and the universes diverge at some point after that. Added

Perry (Called Novel Timeline here): As pointed out at a different point in this thread the writer was bold enough to fabricate a backstory for the T-Virus in the first novels, but sadly for her the next games revealed a completely different backstory for it and she adapted it in the Zero novel, so, maybe the universe has 2 different variations. Added

Anderson (Called Live Action Movie Timeline here): Similarly to the Transformers live action movies this movies present retcon after retcon that if put together reveals that events doesn't really make much sense. Added

DeCandido: First novelizations of the movies I have considered the same as the movie universe but once I watch the movies and read the novelizations I will see if they can be considered the same. Added

Shirley: Novelization of the 5th movie by a different author of the first 3 movie novelizations, according to the wiki is an amalgam of
Anderson and Decandido, sorry 4th movie, you got no novelization. Same treatment as the previous universe. Added

Waggoner: Novelization of the 6th Movie. Same treatment as the previous universe. Added

Roberts (Called Live Action Reboot Timeline here): The live action movie reboot. A second moving is coming. Added

Netflix: Netflix live action TV show. Added

WildStorm: WildStorm comic, could be part of a bigger Wildstorm universe? Added

Marvel: Marvel comic prequel to the first game. Added

King's Fountain: Comic adaptation of 2 and 3.

Tinhangse: Another comic adaptation of 3 and Code Veronica.

Yulang: Another comic adaptation of 0.

Earth-30847: Marvel vs Capcom. Added

Monolith Soft: Part of the Super Robot Wars Multiverse, would come later once I have finished Resident Evil, Dead Rising, Super Robot Wars, UGSF, Mazinger Z, Tekken, Soulcaliburn, Street Fighter, etc Timelines. Yes, except the two Transformers timelines, the Nintendo and Kingdom Hearts timelines every timeline I have made is leading to the eventually Super Robot Wars/Project X Zone Timeline.

TEPPEN: mobile game crossover with other properties.

Dead by Daylight: I am not going to do that for the moment.

BIOHAZARD 1.5: Guidebook with info about the lore and the upcoming Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 2 prototype. Added

Confidential Report: Mobile Phone game timeline.

BAKAHAZA: Parody game with crossover with another IP.

Bioroid: Musical Parody.

BIOHAZARD Rose Blank: Fanfiction novel that won a competition.

BIOHAZARD to the Liberty: Fanfiction novel that won a competition.
 
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Lucid_Dreamer said:
As for Timeline 10, Am I right that this is a reference to the "true story of BIOHAZARD" book? if so that I'd recommend that you also incorporate the "Flagship expanded universe" into that timeline. Basically in the 90s Capcom had a team of writers brought in to help improve the story quality of the games, and they also wrote a bunch of expanded universe content which was Japan-exclusive and, sadly, frequently clashed with the established plots of the games.
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OK, I saw that "BIO HAZARD The True Story Behind BIO HAZARD" contained "Resident Evil The Book" so, sorry, it is actually the same book. But, there is anything that sugest that flagship universe was the same as that universe? Or it would be better to just list it as an alternate timeline?
 
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"the true story behind BIOHAZARD" is written by Hiroyuki Ariga who has connections to the Flagship staff. Personally I would group all of the early japanese sound dramas/novellas and short films into the same timeline for simplicity sake. This would look go:

July 1998
Tragedy of Makoba Village
True story behind BIOHAZARD
BIOHAZARD 1 (except spencer mansion doesn't blow up apparently...)

August 1998?
Biohazard the Bewitching Beast of the North Sea

September 1998
The Doomed Racoon City Vol 1-3
BIOHAZARD 4D Executer
BIOHAZARD 2
BIOHAZARD 2 Drama Album - The Little runaway Sherry


October 1998
BIOHAZARD 2 Drama Album - The Female Spy Ada lives!



as for the SD Perry continuity, its cool to hear about your process with these media however these novelizations have far too many contradictions to the game lore to take place in the same timeline. Also Caliban Cove definitely should go before Nemesis (i would also argue that Nemesis should go after City of the Dead, since City of the Dead includes a chapter focused on Jill before the events of Nemesis but I digress)
 
Lucid_Dreamer said:
as for the SD Perry continuity, its cool to hear about your process with these media however these novelizations have far too many contradictions to the game lore to take place in the same timeline. Also Caliban Cove definitely should go before Nemesis (i would also argue that Nemesis should go after City of the Dead, since City of the Dead includes a chapter focused on Jill before the events of Nemesis but I digress)
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No, I was not planing to add the SD Perry Novels to the game timeline. I was talking about the Umbrella Chronicles novellizations and the novellizations of Damnation and Vendetta
 
Jozaca said:
No, I was not planing to add the SD Perry Novels to the game timeline. I was talking about the Umbrella Chronicles novellizations and the novellizations of Damnation and Vendetta
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oh I see, I don't know much about those so I can't comment
 
Flagship Timeline Added (Or at least what I could find, since I am not sure if there is a date of what day exactly of September the events of Doomed Raccoon City or 4d EXECUTER happen) also I don't know where Ada and Sherry audiodramas happen but they must be after 3, right? (I have not read/listen to them)
 
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Jozaca said:
Flagship Timeline Added (Or at least what I could find, since I am not sure if there is a date of what day exactly of September the events of Doomed Raccoon City or 4d EXECUTER happen) also I don't know where Ada and Sherry audiodramas happen but they must be after 3, right? (I have not read/listen to them)
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Resident evil wiki lists the Sherry audio drama as taking place 2 days after Resident evil 2

It also lists the ada wong audio drama as starting on on October 5th

There are transcripts for the audio dramas on projectumbrella.net but I havent been able to read them yet
 
After seeing different details of Resident Evil 4 Remake I think it would be safer to just split the Timeline 1 in Original and Remake Timelines
 
Jozaca said:
After seeing different details of Resident Evil 4 Remake I think it would be safer to just split the Timeline 1 in Original and Remake Timelines
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RE4 Remake Finally confirmed that the remakes and originals arenìt in the same universe?
 
Megatron said:
RE4 Remake Finally confirmed that the remakes and originals arenìt in the same universe?
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Well, a file says that
Operation Javier only had one survivor: Krauser and that him got abandoned by the USA government. Given that Darkside Chronicles ends with Krauser, Leon and Manuela leaving in a USA government helicopter I guess that the Darkside Chronicles are no longer canon
 
Jozaca said:
Well, a file says that
Operation Javier only had one survivor: Krauser and that him got abandoned by the USA government. Given that Darkside Chronicles ends with Krauser, Leon and Manuela leaving in a USA government helicopter I guess that the Darkside Chronicles are no longer canon
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then 2 options:
1) RE1 Remake Treatment: the version with the most connection (in this case is the RE1 Remake) but Original files in the other versions that aren't in the Remake are also canon.
2) Originals are a universe, Remake are another (But choosing this one will mean that RE1 Remake is no longer canon, which is folse since Capcom confirmed as the canonical depictions of the RE1 events).
 
I've been playing through the RE series lately and I did the originals followed by the remakes and then did the tie-ins (i.e. outbreak) and yeah... the remakes felt very different from the originals and don't really sync up with other canonical material unless you look at it as a "broad strokes" kinda way.


I think Resident evil 0/Remake 1 should be treated differently though, as the Umbrella/darkside chronicles definitely treat these two as canon, so they likely share canon with both the original timeline and remake timeline, if that makes sense. Not to mention REmake 1 is a much closer adaption of the original game than the others are.

Personally on a playthrough I think it would be best to do all the original games up to code veronica (so Re1,2,3 maybe Outbreaks, Survivor, CV) and then do RE0 and REmake 1, as RE0 also opens with some text referring to the events of all of those games
 
Lucid_Dreamer said:
I've been playing through the RE series lately and I did the originals followed by the remakes and then did the tie-ins (i.e. outbreak) and yeah... the remakes felt very different from the originals and don't really sync up with other canonical material unless you look at it as a "broad strokes" kinda way.


I think Resident evil 0/Remake 1 should be treated differently though, as the Umbrella/darkside chronicles definitely treat these two as canon, so they likely share canon with both the original timeline and remake timeline, if that makes sense. Not to mention REmake 1 is a much closer adaption of the original game than the others are.

Personally on a playthrough I think it would be best to do all the original games up to code veronica (so Re1,2,3 maybe Outbreaks, Survivor, CV) and then do RE0 and REmake 1, as RE0 also opens with some text referring to the events of all of those games
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Yes I have been wondering how to writte the playing order, since all of the playing orders in this site seem to just put the games in chronological order and not take into account wether you are supposed to play something in release order.
 
Megatron said:
then 2 options:
1) RE1 Remake Treatment: the version with the most connection (in this case is the RE1 Remake) but Original files in the other versions that aren't in the Remake are also canon.
2) Originals are a universe, Remake are another (But choosing this one will mean that RE1 Remake is no longer canon, which is folse since Capcom confirmed as the canonical depictions of the RE1 events).
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Lucid_Dreamer said:
I've been playing through the RE series lately and I did the originals followed by the remakes and then did the tie-ins (i.e. outbreak) and yeah... the remakes felt very different from the originals and don't really sync up with other canonical material unless you look at it as a "broad strokes" kinda way.


I think Resident evil 0/Remake 1 should be treated differently though, as the Umbrella/darkside chronicles definitely treat these two as canon, so they likely share canon with both the original timeline and remake timeline, if that makes sense. Not to mention REmake 1 is a much closer adaption of the original game than the others are.

Personally on a playthrough I think it would be best to do all the original games up to code veronica (so Re1,2,3 maybe Outbreaks, Survivor, CV) and then do RE0 and REmake 1, as RE0 also opens with some text referring to the events of all of those games
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I just don't consider the 2 and 3 remakes as being the same as the remake of 1. I mean, they are not the same "set" of remakes. 7, 2 Remake, 3 Remake, Village and 4 Remake are all coming in quick sucession with the same engine, meanwhile 1 Remake was a single remake released in 2003 that updated 1 to the "level" of Code Veronica, but I mean, technically 4 is in the next "level" and it is still remade as if it is considered outdated. I just think that they released 2 because of popularity and the same with 4 now, but they would eventually remake Code Veronica and 1 Remake. 7 and Village have the weird status of being with a similar feeling of the remakes but still 7 sports a 7 that indicates a continuation of 6, so, I would just put 7 and Village in both timelines until more info is gattered. I mean, they are going to release a 4th CGI movie, so, the "old" universe is still not abandoned, I guess
 
Until this point I just considered that we just have the remakes as another version of the events because some of the games already contain slightly contradictions, so I just guessed that the events of 2 in canon are some mix of 2 Leon A, 2 Leon B, 2 Claire A, 2 Claire B, Darkside Chronicles, Outbreak, Outbreak #2, 2 Remake Leon A, 2 Remake Leon B, 2 Remake Claire A, 2 Remake Claire B, 3 (with its alternate paths created with quicktime events) and 3 Remake, so the remakes adding new version to the mix wasn't anything that made me think that an inconsistency was created since they were already so many retellings.
 
Jozaca said:
I just don't consider the 2 and 3 remakes as being the same as the remake of 1.
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I agree there, Resident evil 1 remake felt like a significant overhaul of the original game but basically the same with a few additions to the story

the remakes of 2 and 3 felt wildly different in their tone and how their plot progresses. it felt like a Studio A24 remake of some eighties b-movies.


Havent played the remake of 4 yet, but im thinking I might just leave all the remakes till after I played everything else
 
Jozaca said:
Resident Evil Revelations [Jessica's Report] (Could contain spoilers of revelations have not checked yet)
Resident Evil Revelations [Extended trailer]
Resident Evil Revelations
Angela's Diary
Resident Evil Degeneration
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I've been using your timeline on my own playthrough of the series (super useful btw)

I'd say "Jessicas report" should be after revelations, as it uses graphics from the game that could be considered spoilers. I'd also say Angela's Diary should be after Degeneration, as some of the details revealed in it are supposed to be a "twist". Also both documents make more sense when you have the context from the main piece of media.
 
It is OK now?
Also keep in mind that I had not finished everything in the timeline so, they are some parts in which I may be wrong that is why there is the "(WIP)" thing
 
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Jozaca said:
It is OK now?
Also keep in mind that I had not finished everything in the timeline so, they are some parts in which I may be wrong that is why there is the "(WIP)" thing
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yeah that works

Oh I understand its WIP, just given that I am working through the timeline myself I thought I'll give you some notes if thats ok
 
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