Comments on: Croal: Resident Evil 5 trailer dovetails with “with classic racist imagery”

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:21:25 +0000

I thought the game was set in Haiti.

By: Hero of Canton

Hero of Canton — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:01:35 +0000

Capcom should go the whole hog and add in a black-and-white-minstrel unlockable outfit for Chris Redfield and his amazing performing back muscles.

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:30:42 +0000

they should replace all the black people in the games with rabid bears, cause Africa is full of rabid bears

By: Zumi

Zumi — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:35:08 +0000

Great article. The guy is spot on.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:34:53 +0000

I think it’s that new dev interview that has reignited the debate.

By: grandmaster

grandmaster — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:29:16 +0000

Has it taken N’Gai two years to see it? Or has he been ‘uneasy’ for all of that time?

By: Shatner

Shatner — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:06:34 +0000

Pah, Castle Crashers is the most racialist game EVAR

Holy crap. That vid was from 2006? What? This game is seriously overdue.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:59:13 +0000

LOL

Man, maybe I should have copyrighted that idea before I wrote it down!

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:57:46 +0000

Killing white middle class zombies has been done to death. Putting a Jihad twist to it would instill some freshness in the genre.

/Starts working onscreenplay

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:55:24 +0000

I wonder how people would react if there was a game where the hero was a bearded Arab running around killing white American zombies!?

Maybe Capcom should consider doing that for Resi 6…

By: Random_H

Random_H — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:52:22 +0000

SplatteredHouse:

Which doesn’t the fact that it is - indeed - a classic racist motif. And as such he’s right if he claims it to be racist imagery.

The intent and reasoning behind the actions and depictions in the game really have nothing to do with it. As AMG said “at the very least open it up to discussion”.

cheers,

Alex

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:48:29 +0000

My first thought when I saw the trailer was “What are they thinking. They will get into a lot of shit for this.”

In a perfect world there would be no probs with a zombie game set in Africa.

By: AMG

AMG — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:46:39 +0000

You can’t ignore that imagery. White man shoots up a town full of black people. It doesn’t matter that it’s a game and they’re zombies or whatever, you have to look beyond that and at the very least open it up to discussion.

By: patlike

patlike — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:25:33 +0000

It was always going to happen. There was no way the game was going to be released without there being a debate on its content.

By: mart

mart — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:24:14 +0000

OH MY GOD.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:20:03 +0000

Great. First “The Cole Train” in Gears of War depicts a racist’s view of a black videogaming hero, now this shit? I mean why now - the trailer’s been around for about 8 months?

So lemme guess, no spanish got upset about RE4 but we’re all supposed to get upset about this? Fuck political correctness right in its arse…

By: SplatteredHouse

SplatteredHouse — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:11:14 +0000

“They’re hidden in shadows, you can barely see their eyes”

I suspect that things are a bit more scary, that way.

“and the perspective of the trailer is not even someone who’s coming to help the people. It’s like they’re all dangerous;”

Errr…I think you’ll find that’s because they ARE all dangerous. They’re infected. You want to stop and ask their circumstances, well good luck with that!

“they all need to be killed. It’s not even like one cute African — or Haitian or Caribbean — child could be saved. They’re all dangerous men, women and children. They all have to be killed.”

Has he seen Night of the Living Dead? Zombies (sorry, “the infected”) just aren’t the people they once were, anymore, and won’t be again.
I suspect N Gai won’t be able to get too far with the game, if he insists on questioning the legitimacy of his character’s goal, for every kill.

I’m really intrigued by what Capcom will do, to flesh out their story concerning the origins of the virus. But then, as the producer says, you have this whole scenario of ten years having passed, that they can use to further enrich the story, and player immersion. I’m really looking forward to playing this, having understood what Mr. Takeuchi had to say.
End of May, we’ll learn some more about the game.

By: morriss

morriss — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:02:56 +0000

I’m not racialist.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:58:35 +0000

It sure is a hot potato. Unlike the Allah Akkbar chant in Z&W it will be hard to just whip out Ctrl+Z on it.