Trivia / Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

• Colbert Bump: Due to Capcom extensively citing The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 as the primary visual and thematic inspiration for this game during the promotional "making of the game documentaries", many younger gamers who would otherwise be unfamiliar with or disinterested in 1970's cinema outside of The Original Star Wars Trilogy or Jaws are introduced to this horror classic through Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
• The Danza:
  • Jack Baker is voiced by Jack Brand in the English version of the game's audio.
  • Peter Walken's face model and actor in advertisements is Peter Fabiano of Capcom.
• Easter Egg: In a small bit of Shown Their Work, the tanker breakroom in Mia's flashback has a bottle of Louisiana Hot Sauce◊ sitting on one table, which is a real, locally-produced brand that's fairly popular in its namesake state.
• Killer App: For the PlayStation VR.
• The Other Darrin: Chris Redfield is voiced by David Vaughn instead of Roger Craig Smith.
• Prop Recycling: Much of Beginning Hour is recycled assets, animations and remixed puzzles from the prologue, set in the kitchen, attic and basement of the Bakers' guest house. Even Jack Baker's "Welcome to the family, son!" sucker punch is recycled from his cheap shot on Ethan after you "kill" Mia for the final time. Considering that the demo character canonically escapes before Jack can do anything; Jack technically used it the first time after defeating Mia.
• Schedule Slip: The free DLC Not a Hero was intended to be released in Spring 2017, but Capcom creators believed due to the reception the game is receiving from fans, they are trying to make it up to the fans' standards and expectations. It was finally released on December 12, 2017, along with the End of Zoe DLC story.
• Teasing Creator: Capcom have been teasing the fanbase mercilessly in regards to the Dummy Finger, to the point that even official customer support emails have humorous mentions to it. In the final game, the Dummy Finger reappears as part of Lucas' Birthday puzzle.
• Word of God: The multiple theories as to Redfield's real identity were shot down by director Koushi Nakanishi, who confirmed that he is, indeed, the same Series Mascot Chris Redfield that fans know and love.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The earliest version of the game was in development in 2013 and set to be in the same style as 6, but was scrapped after the game's mixed reception. This resulted in the team going for the more Evil Dead-styled "compact but deep" horror of the final game.
  • Ethan and Mia were originally strangers, not married. Ethan was originally was an investigator and Mia was a missing person.
  • According to this article, the creative team decided early on to have something shocking and gruesome happen to the player character near the start of the game to set the tone. One idea that was floated in the pre-development stages was to have Ethan get sliced in half with a chainsaw, and have to crawl to safety dragging his entrails behind him. This was deemed far too extreme, so they went with Ethan losing a hand via chainsaw instead.
  • The Baker family originally had a pet dog named Diane who would attack the player which was cut from the game.
  • Zombies were considered to return and were going to be sound-sensitive. You'd have to hold down a button to have the player character hold their breath in order to get past one. This was ultimately cut for making the game too tense.
  • "Not A Hero" went through some story changes after it was delayed. Originally, the ending of the DLC would involve Chris arresting Lucas for his crimes but this was ultimately scrapped and the DLC proper has Chris killing Lucas outright.
  • The Baker family other than Jack had different names before being renamed as well as having another son. Marguerite was Meg, Lucas was Kevin, and Zoe was Anna. The grandmother was actually named Marguerite before being nameless. In fact the grandmother and Eveline were originally separate characters, which explains why there's a grandmother's room in the final game.
  • The Molded looked liked a masked man before looking like a humanoid mold monster with teeth in the final version. They were also originally had hair.
  • While Andre's corpse was found in the water, Ethan was to find him in the basement with no limbs, and finds a flashlight in his corpse.
  • A late August 2022 interview with Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi revealed that Capcom executives repeatedly demanded that the then-fledgling game must have live service features, Microtransactions, and "other online elements" that, in their minds, was "what the players are asking for". When Takeuchi tried to make a compromise with these execs, they ended up cutting everything they asked for, as all of the online stuff was irreconcilable with the single player horror game dev team originally planned. Takeuchi summed up the execs' reaction as "marketing's worst nightmare".