Questions regarding RE4

Evil Eivind wrote:

> And you may have a point -- the initial bodies were left undissolved,
> unmoving, as a nod to Resident Evil fans. Though the fact that they dissolve
> at all still seems odd, and that the bosses/mini-bosses don't. And I think
> most, if not all, of the mini-bosses were left undissolved, from what I
> recall... And certainly a call for celebration!
>
>

I'm not positive, but I think I read somewhere that the first few bodies
don't dissolve so you can 'check' them for things (ammo, herbs,
whatever) at your leisure. Remember, the very first time you played the
game, this was something you needed to discover (unless, of course,
you'd been reading newsgroups with spoilers, like I did). If I'm
remembering right, when you check the very first guy you kill, inside
the house, the message is something like "He's not a zombie" or "He
doesn't seem to be a zombie," so you discover this game will be quite
different from previous RE games -- living bad guys to shoot instead of
zombies. After that, bodies begin to dissolve to save memory, and you
need to check them before that happens if you want to get the goodies.
In most places, there's a good deal of randomness about where the bodies
would fall after you kill them, which would take up a lot of the game's
memory, keeping track of all those bodies. Bosses all fell in the same
place, so that took less memory. In fact, I think I remember killing
the village chief at one end of that warehouse, but his body ended up
right in the middle anyway. The same happened with the first El Gigante
-- once I had a rocket launcher, I'd lead it to one end of the compound
to kill it, but the body always appears in the same place. As for
mini-bosses, like chainsaw guys...not sure why they fall and stay where
you kill them (though I do seem to remember them dissolving in the mine
car ride, but it's been months since I played, so I could be mistaken).

My bad! I put the game back on to check, and sure enough the first two
chainsaw guys in the village didn't dissolve. Seems I was confusing
vanishing after the cut scene with dissolving. I did notice however, that
the mini bosses left better "glowing" goodies. One chainsaw guy in the
village dropped a ruby while the other dropped 10,000 pesatas (spelling?).
Maybe they don't dissolve to make sure you get your prize. I don't know how
your game is Wulf, but my game has glowing spots where goodies are left. No
need to search since it's pretty obvious. Ok Evil, here's a question for
you - what happened to the three guys on the hill just prior to entering the
village the first time? You only see them on the initial play through. They
are not there on any subsequent play throughs. It seems that Capcom prefers
to leave more questions than answers in their RE games. Perhaps the
translation from Japanese to English just adds confusion instead of solving
issues. Maybe they just like to leave things to the imagination. What I
might get out of the game may not be what you would get out of the game.
Have you heard of the "lady and the tiger"? A man gets caught in an affair.
His wife decides his fate. Her choice is between two doors. Behind one door
is a beautiful lady - behind the other door is a tiger. That's where the
story ends. It's left up to you to decide which door she picked. Maybe
someone at Capcom simply loves the notion of not resolving issues. Good
marketing ploy - it keeps you coming back for more! Has anyone figured out
what's with that dog in the barnyard? Blasted sickly looking thing creeps me
out!!!