WSJ explores claims of racism in Resident Evil 5

"Because a virus being spread in a big city (like in the original RE games) would be preposterous right?"

Big city? Raccoon City was a tiny town in rural BFE*. It looks like it was built entirely to house and disguise the Umbrella labs which were buried deep beneath the city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RAC.jpg



*BFE is a midwestern term meaning "bum fucked Egypt", i.e. middle of nowhere

I was pretty hyped for Madworld until I saw the recent gameplay trailers.
Going for a more adult audience is one thing, but I think they went a bit far.

In 2 minutes not a single sentence was uttered that didnt contain a swear or some form of blow job reference.

Its a fine line, but I think my aiming for mature audiences, they took it to the most juvenile place possible. I'm no softy, but I couldn't stop wincing.

The animation is incredible though.

Not that that question hasn't all ready been answered a billion times all ready, but, the reason RE4 wasn't controversial is because there is no strong history of Americans oppressing the Spanish. Technically race never could have been raised as an issue to begin with since Spaniards are white, so it was a white on white violent act in RE4. The reason RE5 IS getting such attention is because, and maybe you noticed this, America has a very strong history of the white man suppressing black people with undercurrents that many people believe exist to this day, albeit in a much more subdued form. Slap on top of that the fact that AIDS is an epidemic in Africa and now you have a game that looks like a white dude killing a bunch of rabid AIDS victims in some people's eyes, not mine. Just telling you why it's getting attention. The game just has so many parallels to real-life history that people are going to draw those conclusions whether they were intentional on Capcom's part or not.

Exactly! Everybody intuits the pecking order of things.

It's fully legal to kill almost any race in most games but somehow you kill a few negroes and it's a big to do.

It's not like you're killing zombie negroes with 'grape drank' or something.

There is not one race that has not been slaves at some point. Black people are just overly sensitive about it. There are still slaves today in many parts of the world and in America too. People seem to want to forget that black slavery was started by the dutch and the other africans were selling their enemy tribesmen into slavery.

The chinese were defacto slaves when building our railroads in the 1800s, you don't see them crying foul all the time. The japanese were rounded up and incarcerated in the 40's, they don't bring it up every time their taco orders are messed up. People need to realize that horrible things have happened in the past. Horrible thing swill happen in the future, it's the failure to move on attempt to not repeat past mistakes that make it fucked up.

It seems a lot of people like to bitch about how some family member who died before they were even born were treated, but don't seem to worry that in many parts of the world people are still treated that way.

In many places in Europe there are still africans being rounded up and then kept captive to work off an insurmountable debt. Where I live I can drive down a street and see literally 30 african prostitutes selling themselves on the street to pay off debts they "aquired" by the people that brought them here. The thugs keep their passports until they pay them fees of about 50-100,000 euro.

Let's try to complain about that and make it better before we worry about people that died 2 generations ago.

Ummm, terrible example. 24 is actually considered very politically incorrect, right-wing, and I've heard many media critics accuse the show of veiled bigotry, and at the very least with a strong sense of xenophobia. I'm sure a quick Google search will reveal some academic's opposition to 24's views.

Similarly, Italian American groups protest marched against the production of the Sopranos TV show, because they said it continued to portray Italian Americans as dumb, violent thugs.

Yeah, seriously. They should just put all the racist content into a DLC add-on. That way the racists could just pay a premium for the racist content they're all hungering for so desperately.

"The Racist Pack - DLC - 2500 MS Point"

Here's another one to think about:
In college, there was a group of students of 1 cultural decent that did their work together, spoke in their native language and wouldn't even acknowledge me because I wasn't of the same culture.
One day a test came back and I saw a guy from that group, he got an answer correct that I didn't so I asked if he could tell me how he figured it out or if I could see his solution. He just shoved the paper in his binder. The next test came back and he saw my score, which was a full grade letter higher then his and all of a sudden he not only spoke English but he wanted me to help him!
People create issues where there never was an issue there in the 1st place but then when someone treats them that way, they play the racism card.
Sorry for my rant, things like this just piss me off because a little common sense, respect and courtesy would solve a lot of our problems.

I'll quote the Simpsons here, as my response to that. Bart's pet elephant, Stampy has proven too unruly to keep as a household pet so the family decides to donate him to an animal sanctuary. Then the elephant starts ramming his head into other elephants. Which leads us to:

Warden: "Well, animals are not like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life, or have been mistreated...but, like people, some of them are just jerks."

Jerks transcend sex, culture, race, language, everything. Some people are just jerks.

True but this applied to all the members of that group, not just the guy beside me. No one had any luck even talking to them socially never mind about an assignment.

This game is Japanese made, right? How can you accuse the devs for being racist when they come from a country that had literally nothing to do with Africa ever? They obviously didn't do it on purpose, it's just a coincidence. I doubt they gave the location a second thought. They just said 'Hey, wouldn't it be cool if this game was set somewhere other than the states?' and someone yelled out 'Africa' and they all thought 'why not?'.

BlaqueBeird,
That's my point, they do something different and people start making accusations yet RE4 was no different except that it focused on the Spanish but that didn't get this kind of attention!

Exactly, they shouldn't be offended because they aren't a minority group but if it is a minority group, then they can be offended - DOUBLE STANDARD anyone?
Same with religion, if Jesus is made fun of in South Park and Family Guy its ok but move on to another religion where a comic strip included Mohammed and then violence breaks out over it? - Sorry I' not picking on any religion, those are just 2 very easy and visible examples that have occurred, no offence intended.

Because the whole premise of getting hired to fill a quota versus to fill a job need is reprehensible.