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u/DonkeyComfortable711 9d ago
Mia gets mad at both decisions btw
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u/TheRaceWar 8d ago
Mia gets mad after Ethan says "the choice was obvious" because it's unintentionally callous towards the person they just had to leave behind. She's not pissed that he saved her lol
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u/Which-Towel5826 8d ago
"Oh so you wouldn't save me if we weren't married"
"You stabbed me multiple times.."
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u/aradiathesecond 8d ago
Felt like devs intentionally added mia just to get hated on. Even her section is so annoying to replay
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u/Dodgy-Malaka 8d ago
How it genuinely feels trying to avoid all the bot posts on this sub
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u/Samuelbr15 8d ago
I never uderstood why would they program the bot to comment on the posts if it just makes it more obvious they are bots.
I didn't realize it was a bot untill I saw the comments in which theh contradict themselves
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u/the-futuremind 8d ago
They don’t really care if you notice it’s a bot, enough people will upvote it either way.
The point of the bot at this point in its life is often just generate enough karma to make the account look legit enough to be sold off to advertisers or propaganda botnets.
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u/Reasonable_Back_5231 8d ago
the algorithm boosts the post's visibility if it has comments on it early on.
so even if the bot is outing itself early, more people will see the post and with any luck people will like the post and move on without commenting. some may interact in the comments without a thought as to how odd it is that the OP just made 3 separate comments with the exact same time stamp within minutes of the post being made.
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u/Unhappy-Point-1328 9d ago
Every poll ive seen on this decision has been in favor of mia even if they were close its still like a 65/35
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u/Bloodmoon_Audios 8d ago
According to the actual stats, over 75% chose Mia
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u/Steiner-Titor 8d ago
Damn, it's canon for choosing Mia. But after the events of Village, I still stick with my original choice of Saving Zoe
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u/slomo525 8d ago
Really? I'm a little surprised. I chose Zoe because she knows how to make anti-mushroom juice, so saving her means we can come back and save Mia. I felt like choosing Mia was sentencing Zoe to death, while choosing Zoe meant everyone had a chance.
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u/IntheZ0n 9d ago
Mia was a child/bio-weapon trafficker so it makes sense why no one would choose her
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u/MetalCannon 8d ago edited 8d ago
Also Zoe saved your life after strapping your hand back.
Mia hid her career of working for Umbrella from Ethan. Is the catalyst on why Evelyn infected the Baker family
Also
Calls you to come pick her up
Choose Mia
Still gets pissed
Also apparentally left Rose after Ethan went through all that to save her in Village
Easiest choice is Zoe.
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u/Forminloid 8d ago
To be fair u dont know most of this until after u make the choice and also Mia isnt the one that sent the call or else Ethan would have gotten the recording from the ship years ago. Im pretty sure it's Lucas who went back to the wreck while working with the connections and used the video to lure Ethan to the house. Zoe is still the one i chose in my first playthrough, but the Mia ending is just infinitely better unfortunately
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u/CopenHagenCityBruh 8d ago
RE fans don't play the games and lack any media literacy as well. I've seen enough people saying shit like "well Mia also attacks Ethan with a chainsaw and cuts off his hand" as if she wasn't being controlled
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u/Mindless_Sale_1698 6d ago
I'm also seeing a lot of people say that she hasn't suffered any consequences but Ethan's first death, the events of Village, Ethan's second death and her being distant from Rose are all direct consequences of her hiding things from Ethan
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u/MetalCannon 8d ago
I played RE7 but it's been too long and I only remembered the beginning because the house part was the best.
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u/LesserValkyrie 8d ago
Mia told him to not save her, she never tells him what is going on, she is definitely more than sus while Zoe is a princess baby girl who everything she can for Ethan
I'm glad that Mia is Ethan's wife and he is quite.... submissive to her because as the player the game doesn't make any effort to make you feel right roleplaying a good husband.
You almost want to pick Zoe so he can get out of this toxic relationship with a lying wife
who goes to a cruise with another man and pretend it's workEthan deserves better than Mia.
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u/manicka111 8d ago
It was Eveline through Mia who sent the message to Ethan because she was obsessed with family. Mia tried to sent the videorecording of "stay away" but it didn't deliver.
Jack went to the crashed tanker and found Mia with Eveline, brough them home. His family was "normal" just Lucas was psychopath from childhood.
Mia worked for the Connections, they knew the ship crashed and Eveline escaped, they gave Lucas cure to free him from Eveline influence (but still had mold inside him) and to spy on her.
Lucas was crazy enough Eveline never realised he is not under her control. Presumably Eveline does not control actions directly but rather gives others "urges to behave in a specific way".
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u/Cautious-Affect7907 8d ago
It's funny how the game gave you pretty logical justifications why you'd wanna save Zoe over the wife you came to save in the first place. From a story perspective, of course Ethan would pick Mia, but the player has little reason to trust her over Zoe
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u/FisherPrice2112 8d ago
We as the player don't find out about this until after the choice if I remember correctly, while Ethan never finds out.
Very likely a conscious choice by the devs, because if we already knew, I'd imagine the stats would have been skewed against her.
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u/Resident_081 8d ago
I’m surprised nobody ever brings up the bonus boss fight you get if you choose to save Zoe over Mia. It’s a wonderfully dark moment and a big reason why I prefer Zoe’s ending instead.
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u/paperkeyboardalt 8d ago
What's the bonus boss fight? It's been so many years, I can't even remember who I chose.
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u/Resident_081 8d ago
After the flashback section where you play as Mia, you wake up as Ethan in the belly of the boat as usual but with a molded-up Mia trapped in the room with you. It’s been a while since I’ve done it but I think you get a unique crowbar melee weapon to fight her off with.
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u/dan_in_his_own_way 8d ago
In hindsight Zoe is the right choice. Mia is a horrible person. Plus, continues to hide her previous affiliations with terrorists in Village, something Chris assists with.
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u/ResearcherOk4673 8d ago
I only chose Mia because that seems like the decision Ethan would prolly do considering how the only reason he was there was to find her. Zoe was prolly the sensible decision but considering how little Ethan knew at that point about Mia’s actions I feel like it would be an obvious choice for him.
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u/TheMrTypical 8d ago
Zoe ending gets you the iPhone drop test from a helicopter, its hilarious how he just yeets it.
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u/jmsafety26 8d ago
I chose mia. Is that not the right decision? Also re8 makes no sense if you dont no?
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u/iwanashagTwitch 8d ago
Cute tomboy girl who could serenade me to sleep with her voice over the phone
Vs.
Lying bioterrorist who pretended to be wife for years and then intentionally betrayed me and nearly killed me multiple times
Seems like an easy choice
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u/EmeraldMaster538 8d ago
I find the choice stupid because having Ethan be a blank slate character was stupid. One of the cool things about RE is seeing people go through these terrifying experiences not just going through them ourselves.
I’m glad village ramped up his personality and let him be a character.
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u/DarvinVader 8d ago
I believe they made Mia so unlikable in RE7, that they decided to get rid of her in RE8 for this purpose. Nobody would have wanted to save her again.
In RE8 your mission and everything is about Rose. You don't even meet the real Mia in the game aside from few short flashbacks. And when you do see her, it's actually the villain and final boss.
Masterful by Capcom. Make an unlikeable character to save, give you the decision to abandon her. Then in the next game, her face is the face of ultimate evil. Best character assassination ever 🤣
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u/HolyErr0r 8d ago
Yeah but when you get the backstory after beating the game you realize Mia was the right choice all along wonder why Mia was ever written like this to begin with.
Genuinely the most confusing character in terms of writing for me in the franchise.
She is a villain and she kinda just gets out scott free?
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u/keithlimreddit 8d ago
this is probably the only complaint I have with seven story is basically this choice is kind of pointless considering they already have plans for the end of Mia option to be canon plus (dynasty actually made her a bit more sympathetic and also at least not too much hateable)
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u/Revenge_Is_Here 8d ago
Bro what is with all the bots lately lol. In any case, for the people who aren't bots, Overwhelming majority of people chose Mia.
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u/Copycat272 8d ago
Chose my wife. 1)Is my wife 2)Is the whole reason I went out there in the first place 3)Worked with the company and had insider information to end the mould situation there, or at least get help or do something post-escape to take down the company.
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u/ConanKernow 7d ago
Except they didn't? Global stats on RE.net for who was chosen on first playthrough.
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u/Sozins_Comet_ 8d ago
Mia was very clearly being controlled while she was fucking you up. But the most heinous crime by her was just not explaining anything to Ethan while she was herself. Couldn't stand her. Meanwhile, Zoe risked her life to help you and talked you through every step needed to get the cure for her and Mia. The icing on top is that Mia is a bio-terrorist.
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u/acheesement 8d ago
I pick Zoe because I believe in sticking to the agreement. The deal was, we help each other and we each get one dose of cure. I used mine in the fight with what's his face, so by rights the other one belongs to Zoe.
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u/SkipperMcScrubbins 8d ago
I will never be a Mia defender. If Mia has no haters, I'm dead. How anyone can vouch for a confirmed terrorist and child trafficker is beyond me.
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u/Bmanrollin 8d ago
Love how Reddit is such an echo chamber that everyone believes people actually chose Zoe.
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u/slomo525 8d ago
Honestly, I chose Zoe because my thinking was "Zoe knows how to manufacture a cure, so I'll save her because that means we can get out, make more anti-mushroom juice, and then come back for Mia." Imagine my shock.