African women's blog upset over Resident Evil 5

[Yes this site is a threat,hmm strange nobody speaks about GTA though, how it was all peaches and cream with the public to rape, pillage, and destroy a city till the hero became black.....we dare not make that correlations]


Actually, I don't think that's accurate. GTA was catching flak with the media long before San Andreas.


[Now back to the racism of the game itself, RE4 they didn't look Spanish, they didn't dress Spanish you wouldn't have guessed what they were from just a screen shot. That right there is the point probably put forth, why the need for clarity of race now. Seems the series was perfectly happy with its homogeneous violent streak up until now why the need to change it. Nobody wants to say why, nobody wants to take a guess on how it seemed ok to do that? The answer is easy, black people are portrayed horribly in video games, and media so adding more clarifying traits is ok because who is it going to hurt. Past RE they would be almost naked, or mutated the town destroyed, look at the nice fruit stands and such, seems these zombies care about their neighborhood, not like some zombies!]


Can't say I agree with this either. Have you actually seen Spanish people living in Spain? What does it mean to "dress Spanish"? Are you actually familiar with the fasions or people living in rural Spain? Either way, they were Spanish in RE4 and they did look human at the start of the game. The people at the start of RE4 weren't nearly naked and were living in a decent looking village. I really don't see how the apparent start of RE5 is any different than the start of RE4 other than the setting is now Africa where [surprise!] most of the people are black.

Stop and think for a second...Maybe they don't look 'Zombie-Like' beacuse they were just turned into zombies, not bitten/mutilated by other zombies.

I think Capcom was going for a more realistic zombie look, its just too bad they chose brown skinned people to do it with and it brought all of you loonies out of the basement to rage about it.

How does that effect her argument at all?

You realize this trailer probably takes scenes from very early in the game.

The spaniards of RE4 didn't start looking like freakish zombies until for than 2 hours into the game. Otherwise they looked completely human, if not a little backwoods. This is the same case here. Its a remote town, full of poor people, and there's a zombie/parasite outbreak that turns all the locals nasty. Who knows how it progresses from there, we saw a 2 minute trailer.

The game looks phenominal. I'm only sad that it probably won't hit the Wii, since its gameplay mechanic looks identical to RE4.

"In 2005, a United Nations report expressed concerns about racism in Japan and that government recognition of the depth of the problem was not total."

From a human rights group and the BBC.

I think part of the problem was that Capcom didn't offer any context for this trailer. You can't blame people for judging it based on the trailer alone if that's all Capcom has decided to show. The game is still a year off, and I doubt they'll run into any serious opposition until it's closer to release, and we have more information. Hopefully they'll use that time wisely.

I am aware of some of the social problems in Japan but it is still not fair to the developers of this game to assume they are racist because they are Japanese.

Why on earth would hispanics be pissed?

I couldn't disagree more.

Then disagree. She has no idea what she is talking about because she *doesn't play videogames*. If she had any idea what Resident Evil was about, this blog post would not exist.

She has no clue what's going on and is just starting the hate machine back up. She's just as racist as any white supremacist and hurting her own cause by being so blatantly ignorant.

You don't have to play video games to analyze the imagery and symbolism in the trailer. It's so loaded with it, it's going to pop.

Also, if you had this woman play on Xbox live for a day, do you think she would be any happier? I'm waiting to see what happens when the racist cesspool that is XBL is discovered by the mass media.

1) Resident Evil is a single player game, so Xbox Live is out of the question.

2) There is only symbolism in the trailer if you're looking for it.

3) You're just trying to fuel the fire.

"1) Resident Evil is a single player game, so Xbox Live is out of the question."
You said people who don't play games shouldn't talk about games. I'm just pointing out where that argument might backfire. If you're talking about specific games, then none of us have played RE5, yet we still feel fine talking about it.

"2) There is only symbolism in the trailer if you're looking for it."
I disagree, symbolism in film is pretty well defined, and this trailer was loaded with it.

"3) You're just trying to fuel the fire."
No, I'm just expressing my opinion. If there's a fire, I've got nothing to do with it.

@John

But I think the point Sceren is trying get across is that she doesn't know the context. We, as gamers, know the history of the series. We may not know the details of this sotry line, but we know that problems are caused by the "evil" Umbrella Corporation. We know that most of the games have featured white zombies. We know that Chris has been white from the start. The only reason that the zombies are black in this game is because the location is Africa.

Knowing all that I don't see how anyone can jump to the conclusion that RE5 contains racist themes. Should Chris magically become black so that it's not a white person shooting the black zombies? That's just silly. I don't recall any outcry when people were killing Spanish people in RE4.

I might not go as far as to say that someone who doesn't play games shouldn't comment on them at all, but they should, at the very least, do a little background checking before leveling something as serious as charges of racism.

Vid hit the nail on the head I'm at work so I can't write a well thought out reply.

Maybe I was a little to general in my first comment. So let me rephrase it.

People who don't play videogames should not comment on videogames without first researching the proper information.

I'm just sick of this crap.

first of all douche, it was sarcastic.

If i really wanted to hurt people, i could walk outside and go nuts....actually all i play is GH2.

Not in RE4. They looked different. Odd even. But not like zombies. Not until much later.

Not in RE4. They looked different. Odd even. But not like zombies. Not until much later.

There was a black sounding autobot? So your saying black people speak differently than other people? How racist!

This shit is pointless. Something will always offend someone no matter where it is or what it is.

It's time for people to get the fuck over themselves.

OK, but who's creating the situation where black people are evil and you have to kill them? This isn't the real world, it's one where the game developers have complete control over what happens.