Resident Evil 7

It sounds more like "artstyle mixed with conceptual thought process and several hundred hours of research". Their looks are not meaningless, they can't be since they were designed not to be.

If so then watch the intro to RE3 and check how many police officers have the same uniform as him before telling me that both Leons and Claire's costumes were designed specifically for them to look distinctive among other characters. I'm playing trough RE2 right now and as far as I can tell there's nobody, dead or alive, in the station with that uniform.

If you want to be so specific you can also tell me how Leon got his uniform before first reporting at the station on his first day.

Ah, excuse me, it maybe was me who misunderstood you.

Yes, I do agree that their wardrobe was designed specifically for them, but for that reason I don't think that just because Claire has a knife holster means she's trained or prepared- it's just an extra detail for her to look more unique. With this logic we could argue if they train how to use rocket launchers at the police academy.

Despite how they look I do believe that both Claire and Leon were made to be the everymen. If you read the descriptions in the manual there's nothing out of the ordinary written about these characters, even in game they behave relatively normal (for RE standards anyway). Leon is a well meaning, naive cop who has a bad day on the job, and Claire is the big sister type through and through. Hardly exceptional.

As for Ada's attire RE2 is still my favorite incarnation of the character. Can't really say much about her depiction in the Chronicles games, but from the looks it seems that other then the high heels she looks relatively the same.

Well, It is possible they are in the PC Files.

I know past RE Games have had that. But its also possible they arent, which would suck.

i always thought this was kinda funny, the first time i saw her reloading the G. Launcher that quick i was like ''that shit looks fucking complicated!, how does she do that?'' even the spark shot, if i ever see something like that i would be more scared about getting my ass electrocuted than using that against zombies lol

Can confirm, even a newbie can load it with ease. Reloading handguns under duress flawlessly, though? Less easy.

The earlier version had more enemies spawned in certain areas and some of the enemies had higher poly counts than the final version so part of it could be attributed to lag. I can't remember beyond there was occasionally a frame rate associated lag drop with certain sprites getting loaded up (grenades) but they were still working in the raw, I'd have to go and fish the raw build out and dump out the models & animations again to compare the animation frame counts. 

And sharontubul is correct about Kevin also wearing the same uniform as Leon. Kevin also knows Leon too. 

There's also the thing that the uniform variations are more or less negligible because many police forces have a variety of weather or rank specific uniform differences.

There's also the possibility that what Leon and Kevin are wearing are the newer uniforms, because if everyone will also recall - S.T.A.R.S. were supposed to get their own specific uniform (which is what Chris is wearing in CV), but in the meantime it certainly doesn't appear that Albert was particularly strict about the uniform policy (look at Forest!) provided they did what they were supposed to do in the first place.

Of course, there's certainly odd design decisions that I like to choose to forget:

Bio1 Jill having a single leg on her trousers because the other was ripped off, was scrapped until it got brought back with Jessica.
Bio1 Barry originally being a giant cyborg character (they were all pretty much supposed to be a cyborg security team) that reminds me more of Guile than anything.
Bio2 Ada originally running around in a top, shorts with a lab coat on being 'Linda' - no red dress to be seen.
Bio CV Steve was originally blonde, then there's also the blatant German stuff going on with the Ashfords that got edited out too.
Zero Rebecca and Billy... weren't initially in it, there was punk looking characters that were civilians or something and Billy also looked totally different too off the top of my head.

Though I really think the fact that Jessica's wetsuit design exists says enough about certain bad designs coming about.

The characters of 7 don't have anything particularly unique about any of their outfits, like even less than the Outbreak characters that I can actually recall and visualize in my mind and I think that adds to the reason why they all blend together to me and don't stand out at all.

It's like... how do I put it... when you have people that make up original characters. Tons of people make up these super overpowered characters (see: Alice in the movies), and you have people countering this by making more normal characters that may be a bit bland, like instead of going the whole 'test subject, wanted by Umbrella, magic blood, SUPER POWERS' route because it gets kinda annoying and cringey when it's done over and over again... someone else makes a normal character like an Outbreak one, or may make one that can cross the paths of main characters like.... someone could have a TerraSave or B.S.A.A. member OC instead.

That's just how it feels like to me.