Resident Evil called 'racist video game series'

Wow, talk about destroying your faith in humanity. You keep saying that people can't be that stupid but they keep proving you wrong. If the author of the article can't look past color or stereotypes than he himself is the racist.

Ugh, more horseshit from ignorant people.

Did anybody take a minute to see this idiots pass Articles? Seriously this guy is a joke he comments that Jeniffer Lopez is out of touch with her latin roots because in the movie EL Cantante her character doesn't bring them up.

Now while I don't like "J-LO" this guy is the type of writer that if you are compared to him you would go home and cry yourself to sleep, after being exhausted from destroying any sort of object that allowed you to formulate thought and letters into legible words and ideas, so that your cursed affliction, which you thought was your life's dream will never scar the eyes of the innocent ever again.

Everything in his world centers around people not depicting his culture right or just destroying his culture all together, blaming J-Lo for a script she didn't write, for not knowing her culture. Basing her connection to her culture from her portrayal of a different character in relife makes me wonder if he can even separate movies from reality. Really He must think Speedy Gonzalez is disconnected from his mexican roots because he speaks English.

Now my point isn't to defend Jeniffer Lopez, she isn't very talented. My point is this F&CKTON can not possibly be taken seriously, in his depiction of the Resident Evil franchise. Like most people who use racism, and bigotry for the own gain, he is more racist in his accusations than the people he attacks. What do I mean, since J-lo didn't give every last detail of Puerto Rican life in New York she is some how disconnected. That is like me saying you are not black enough, if when you speak about your childhood you didn't, get chased by cops, grow up in the "ghetto", get beat by YO MAMA, or listen to rap. That is called a freaking stereotype, but Resident evil he has the nerve to attack. What a Freaking Hero.

how freaking dumb can the bloody article get....

where is the bloody game set??? (RESIDENT EVIL: 5)

africa.... u bastads... then the zombies would mostly... 99% be black woudn't they....u stupid idots

Duh, the only black zombies are from Thriller.

I just love how you can kill White's but never a Non-White. It's also great that Voodoo is from Haiti but everyone from there and Africa are also only White. No Blacks at all in Haiti or Africa. Most people in this World are nothing but Assholes wanting to control what others can do. Fuck'em All.

If this article bothers you, read the comments that follow it. They're absolutely inspiring.

Werent there people who complained to George Lucas for not having any people/aliens who have spanish accents in Star Wars?

AlterNet is a cesspool. If they published an article saying that the sky was blue, I'd check another source just to be sure.

This trash wouldn't get past the editors of any reputable news site.

Exactly. Instead of trying to blow these colored zombies up, we should invite them with open arms, welcome them into our communities and show them that even god loves brain eating undead people.

i think it would be hilarious if all the zombies and people in africa were white in this game...see no more rascism.

btw, i felt really bad killing will smith zombie in RE2

Morir es vivir

Is the world being stupid a recent thing or has it always been this way and i've been too wrapped up im myself to notice?

My I mean isn't making a big deal because people are of a different race just another form of making judgements based on race. Isn't this guy just as bad as the people he claims are rascists?

I don't know, maybe I should just go back to ignoring everything that wasn't written by someone with an ounce or morality or intelligence.

There's only one thing I can say to the person who wrote that article:

THEY'RE F***ING ZOMBIES!

Considering this game takes place in Africa, can't it be almost guaranteed there will be some positive African characters?

(FYI, I don't play RE because all horror games scare the bijesus out of me)

Looks like left-wing media is finally trying it's hardest to be as factually inaccurate and rabble-rousing as right-wing media!

Look at the comments on the article and you'll see most people who read that site thought the whole premise was bullshit long before Joystiq posted it.

If we're going to make a big deal about the accents in RE4, we do have to remember that the localization wasn't done in Japan. The localization was done in the USA and the predominant form of Spanish taught in America is the Mexican variant. Just be glad they didn't get Puerto Ricans to do the Spanish vocals, we'd be chuckling over them saying "emberasada" when they mean embarrassed.

If you read this article id like to point this out...
"Like many of the most popular games, including Kung Fu, Warcraft 3 and Shadow Warrior which depicts Asian and black immigrant bad guys, most video games deny humanity to the nonwhite, especially Latinos. " Warcraft 3!?!?! when did warcraft 3 present asian and black immigrants AT ALL? not to mention Kung Fu which might as well be hundreds of years old(and if i remember correctly was only people of asian decent) and shadow warrior? ive honestly never heard of it, so how can it be one of the most popular games out right now... Not to mention saying that the los ganados have "stereotypical mexican accents" My brother has been to mexico and spain for a spanish teaching degree and assures me that it is indeed an accent from spain, also leaving out, How can an accent be stereotypical? its how people talk not like its a bad thing.
Just clearly another case of some person who is overly sensitive about other peoples cultures (i researched, pretty sure hes caucasian). Have you ever seen someone of spanish or african decent complaining about their race being killed in RE? no because only whites are pompous @$$'s that judge a book by its cover while all the cool african americans and spanish are too busy kicking some zombie butt.(Im white, polish, so you cant yell at me for making fun of my own people, its the law of racism :D )

let's assume this guy's article is actually vaild. The moment he mentions RE4's spaniard enemies as "mexicans" he totally destroys his argument and actually makes himself look racist

Oh nos! You can't make Sam Fisher gay, thats would introduce an actual story. Are you still running around like idiots saying that Resident Evil is a franchise known for good storytelling? That is a non-argument. Joystiq, condescending tones make people appear to be assholes, correction is the key, not being a jerk.

As I previously said:

Traditional Japanese culture places heavy emphasis on pride, and sadly in modern Japanese society this pride has prominently taken the form of arrogance and ignorance and/or apathy. This is the reason for the country's poor mental health care and stigmatization of mental illness, which is the reason for the disgusting suicide epidemic in Japan. While developers of Resident Evil 5 have no intention of portraying black Africans in a light other than the zombies in the locale of the latest entry in this series about zombies, the seeming anti-cosmopolitanism that the Japanese society promotes leaves them oblivious to the controversy that this depiction could cause. There is no intentions of racism, just a lot of societal obliviousness. However, RE5 would never depict had a black man who killing Japanese zombies, because of the number of fanatical, hypersensitive Japanese who would instantly threaten those at Capcom because of a supposed depiction that taints the Japanese people.

Please, as if we haven't had hundreds of African-Americans murdered by Caucasian Americans in America before Resident Evil came out...

hahahaha if you look at the authors past articles you can see a sorta everything is being racist, theme.

This game is set in Africa. The majority of people in Africa are black. Would you rather play a game set in Africa where all the Zombies are white? 'Cause that would be racist. Also, note that the accents in RE4 were SPANISH accents, not MEXICAN accents and they weren't way overdone at all, as far as I can tell. ALSO, realize that, to me and I'm sure most gamers who actually know WHAT THIS GAME IS ABOUT those people are all ZOMBIES (maybe not undead zombies, but they're some kind of zombie)!! These aren't people who are just walking around - they're people who've been infected with something that makes them want to kill you, so yeah, you're going to defend yourself. Finally, no one knows the specifics of the story, so for all we know, the main char could be in Africa to rescue the Nigerian President's daughter or something, working for a private firm. Yeah, cause that's really racist.

dude whoever wrote this sucks

I think yous are all pretty dumb talking about this considering you looked over a very important piece of evidence in this case...

WEVE KILLED ALL THE F**KIN WHITE ZOMBIES!!! WITHOUT BLACK ONES WE CANT KILL ANYONE.