Resident Evil 5 = Racist

[borisvodofsky]

Seriously, Aside from the fact that half the game is Load SCREEN. I just can't play through it anymore because it feels like for every white guy I get to shoot, I have to maul through 30 black guys. I don't know why, but this just makes me very uncomfortable.D: I think they've really gone too far with the HIGH res Textures, I honestly feel like I'm commiting some sort of atrocity. D:

 

[AlgaeEater]

In before thread lock / deletion!

IN any case... this subject has been beaten to death. It's just a game. Far worse stereotypes going on in RPGs that go under the radar in my opinion anyway.

 

[Mike Gayner]

WTF this retarded shit was on some gaming websites when the game came out too - Americans are far too queasy for this sort of thing. FFS the game is set in Africa - it's not racism moron. You feel better about slaying white zombies than black zombies?

 

[JoshGuru7]

I guess I get to be the one to link the famous PA comic?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/2/18/please-check-one/

 

[zerocool84]

WTF this retarded shit was on some gaming websites when the game came out too - Americans are far too queasy for this sort of thing. FFS the game is set in Africa - it's not racism moron. You feel better about slaying white zombies than black zombies?

and if there wasn't any black people in it, people would be crying racism for not having any blacks when it's set it Africa

 

[nemesismk2]

The game is set in Africa so there is no racism involved because most of the population are black.

 

[kylebisme]

...and RE4 is bigoted against Spaniards.

 

[Skurge]

Are you serious guy? I live in Africa and thers a bout 5million black people for every white person.

Racist my ass. What nonsense, thread should be locked.

 

[shortylickens]

Congrats buddy, welcome to one year ago.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/624-Resident-Evil-5

 

[Maximilian]

Nice troll OP

 

[djmartins]

You feel better about slaying white zombies than black zombies?

Probably does because being racist against whites is not only accepted, it is strongly encouraged.

 

[Craig234]

I think the OP's comments reflect well on him for having the concern, but he should look at the context.

If it's a legitimate 'set in Africa' game, no problem.

Of course it's possible for some hate group to use that as a cover for any kind of hate crap (kill all kinds of black people! Oh it's set in Africa nudge nudge wink wink).

Followed by expansions for 'African Genocide' rape and chldren killiing, and the 'set in the early 20th century lynching' expansion. Hey, it's not the game, it's set in that time period.

Finally, while a legitimate 'set in Africa' game is no problem, it's perfectly ok for someone to not be comfortable with it anyway and choose not to play it. I don't play every game.

The right to put out things doesn't mean they all have to be acceptable to everyone for their entertainmet. I defend idiots' rights to write a book denying the holocaust - and my right to not read it.

In World of Warcraft, ther are quests I won't do because I don't like the ethics of them - things having nothing to do with a RL issue like racism.

For example, a ghost woman wants you to go kill the wife and kids of the guy who killed her husband. Sorry. People can play how they like on this.

 

[Regs]

This is exactly why I don't or ever will play the game. Not enough color variety.

 

[KMFJD]

When do they release resident evil 6: kill da cracka

 

[Borealis7]

Far worse stereotypes going on in RPGs that go under the radar in my opinion anyway.

yeah. my fiend is a dwarf, and he's no good with an axe at all.

 

[vj8usa]

Wolfenstein was racist! All the Nazis I killed were white.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

I'll defer to Yahtzee in this one. RE5 IS racist, but not because you're a white guy killing black people. It's because after 3 levels, the game goes from being a reasonably modern, if zombied, Africa to gibbering tribesman in loincloth with masks and spears.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I'll defer to Yahtzee in this one. RE4 IS racist, but not because you're a white guy killing black people. It's because after 3 levels, the game goes from being a reasonably modern, if zombied, Africa to gibbering tribesman in loincloth with masks and spears.

RE4 was about killing tons of mind controlled Spanish peasants. I don't think its any more or less racist than RE5.

 

[Kabob]

Seriously, Aside from the fact that half the game is Load SCREEN. I just can't play through it anymore because it feels like for every white guy I get to shoot, I have to maul through 30 black guys. I don't know why, but this just makes me very uncomfortable.D: I think they've really gone too far with the HIGH res Textures, I honestly feel like I'm commiting some sort of atrocity. D:

Moronic troll posts like this need to be locked...and the OP's temp banned.

...and RE4 is bigoted against Spaniards.

I thought they were German...

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

RE4 was about killing tons of mind controlled Spanish peasants. I don't think its any more or less racist than RE5.

Ack, I referenced the wrong RE.

As for RE4...well, it's not like those spanish peasants were running around in Conquistador armor or Flamenco dance outfits.

 

[Kabob]

As for RE4...well, it's not like those spanish peasants were running around in Conquistador armor or Flamenco dance outfits.

True, but in acts 3 and 4 they were all in robes and chanting...

WHITE PEOPLE ARE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS!!

 

[DrunkenSano]

The ones pulling the race card and see racism everywhere are racists themselves. How about you stop seeing everyone as a color of their skin and just see them as people? Who cares if there is too many black skinned people in the game or lack of or whatever, just play the damn game.

 

[Dumac]

I'm racist, and I say that RE5 is not racist. I can tell.

(I'm not really racist, btw)

On a more serious note, I find it perturbing that you can blast the heads off of purely white guys for so long, but once they turn into black guys it becomes taboo.

 

[Skott]

I find it funny that the OP has no problem killing people but gets worried he's killing people of a certain color? I think he should stop playing PC games now. LOL

 

[AFurryReptile]

In before thread lock / deletion!

IN any case... this subject has been beaten to death. It's just a game. Far worse stereotypes going on in RPGs that go under the radar in my opinion anyway.

For example, the nonhuman elves and dwarves in The Witcher are heavily persecuted by the humans. I think in a lot of cases these types of plots add to the story line while simultaneously showing an example of how ludicrous it all is in a real-life situation. "Being" racist and "showing" racism are two completely different things.