Capcom Says No to Another Resident Evil 5 Controversy
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Capcom Resident Evil VI Notes:
White v White = Alright
White v Anyone Else = Racism
I played it for....til the Humvee part on 2P and that was the worst
splitscreen Ive ever seen...
White v White = Alright
White v Anyone Else = Racism
I played it for....til the Humvee part on 2P and that was the worst
splitscreen Ive ever seen...
Personally, I felt that the worst depiction of a black person in RE5 was the guy you had to escort, Sheva's pointless friend. The guy who climbed a ladder then turned around to watch Sheva and I climb it while baddies walked up behind him and calmly lopped off his head.
If a clearly deranged or possessed person is running at me with obvious intent to kill, I'm not going to stop and consider whether or not blowing off this person's head is racially sensitive. I don't care if he's black, white, yellow or purple.
Also, keep in mind that these people attacking you aren't doing so because it's in their nature to be irrationally violent or whatever. They're doing it because they've got mind-controlling parasites latched on their spines. If that ever happened to me, I HOPE someone would kill me.
Zombie outbreak in a corporate building, and nobody notices for a week because they never came home anyway.
If a clearly deranged or possessed person is running at me with obvious intent to kill, I'm not going to stop and consider whether or not blowing off this person's head is racially sensitive. I don't care if he's black, white, yellow or purple.
Also, keep in mind that these people attacking you aren't doing so because it's in their nature to be irrationally violent or whatever. They're doing it because they've got mind-controlling parasites latched on their spines. If that ever happened to me, I HOPE someone would kill me.
The next RE game should take place in Japan. That would actually be pretty sweet (assuming the game wasn't as bad as 5)ditto9 said:
Zombie outbreak in a corporate building, and nobody notices for a week because they never came home anyway.
On the upside, imagine if they DID find Noah's Ark on the surface of the moon! EVERYTHING would become a lot more awesome.Broken Blade said:
There's a bloody DLC for that game!? Oh..ayashi said:
Jill is better than Shiva though, anyways. Shiva can't even use any weapon besides a pistol lest you force it into her hands every goddamned minute.. *mutters*
OT: The racism thing was pathetic. What do you expect to find in Africa, a horde of all white people? Heck no!
You're right. There were times when the villagers would give out that LU LU LU LU LU call. Kinda like the stereotypical Native American or Middle Eastern war cries you see in movies. I think that this was a case of ignorance on Capcom's part and over reactions by critics. People really over reacted to the game even though it actually had several different races(there's even an asian looking one) for the npc models. People of all races over react to certain situations they perceive as racist or that are near and dear to their hearts. Take for instance the Kanye West/Taylor Swift event. First of all at that point I barely knew who Taylor swift was yet alone heard any of her music. One thing I did know was that Beyonce had a better selling album and more playtime on each of her singles than Taylor Swift but she didn't get the award. I didn't see anything wrong with Kanye speaking his mind but i think he should have done it in a more mature way. I stopped watching award shows when I was in middle school and realized that the outcomes are pretty staged. Either way it wasn't that big a deal in the black community. The white community on the other hand flipped the F out. So i'ts all in perspective and what issues/images set you off, that's all.Xzi said:
They looked like a 7 foot pole with a baskeball-sized lump of spikes at the end... Great for hunting gazelles!dathwampeer said:
EDIT: That was just one set of spears, used mainly In the first set of villages (where you have to ride a boat around). The others looked fairly standard. If you were hunting whales...
Yes. In fact, I think it's more racist than people who have ordinary racist thoughts.Mornelithe said:
People who are going "It's in Africa, of course there are black people!" are completely missing the point.
It was never about how it was a white person shooting black people (though that did probably help). It was never about the fact that it was set in Africa.
[HEADING=3]It was about how said Africans were depicted and shown[/HEADING]
[HEADING=1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhopxZqQrmo[/HEADING]
MovieBob says it wonderfully.
But what I find the most disapointing of all is not the claims of racism, but the god damn reaction to it. I mean, for god's sake, everyone was knee-jerking and going "IT'S IN AFRICA, THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AFRICA, NOT RACIST, GOOD BYE!!@#" and not even giving one thought as to why someone would think that.
And guess what? It was barely much of a controversy. One man, albiet a black man, on Engadget I believe, stated his concerns over how Re5 was portraying black people and how it could be considered racists. And some of the responses to him were absolutely disgusting.
We really got to clean up our act when we're faced with controversy and claims. We can't be taken seriously in controversial topics if we've all got our heads shoved so far up our asses we could see what we had for breakfast.
As for RE5, I played the game and it was enjoyable. While I was playing it I did feel a bit uncomfortable gunning down those zombiewhateverthefuck you want to call them, but I got used to it. I did understand why someone would think it would be racist from just a glance at a trailer, or gameplay footage.
It was never about how it was a white person shooting black people (though that did probably help). It was never about the fact that it was set in Africa.
[HEADING=3]It was about how said Africans were depicted and shown[/HEADING]
[HEADING=1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhopxZqQrmo[/HEADING]
MovieBob says it wonderfully.
But what I find the most disapointing of all is not the claims of racism, but the god damn reaction to it. I mean, for god's sake, everyone was knee-jerking and going "IT'S IN AFRICA, THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN AFRICA, NOT RACIST, GOOD BYE!!@#" and not even giving one thought as to why someone would think that.
And guess what? It was barely much of a controversy. One man, albiet a black man, on Engadget I believe, stated his concerns over how Re5 was portraying black people and how it could be considered racists. And some of the responses to him were absolutely disgusting.
We really got to clean up our act when we're faced with controversy and claims. We can't be taken seriously in controversial topics if we've all got our heads shoved so far up our asses we could see what we had for breakfast.
As for RE5, I played the game and it was enjoyable. While I was playing it I did feel a bit uncomfortable gunning down those zombiewhateverthefuck you want to call them, but I got used to it. I did understand why someone would think it would be racist from just a glance at a trailer, or gameplay footage.
Yeah! Zombies are people, too! Rotted, cannibalistic people who will stop at nothing to devour you, but people nonetheless!are.you.the.god.its.me.vader said:
Actually, I no someone who was born and raised in Japan, and she told me Japanese xenophobia only seems to apply to other asian nationalities,; other races are fine. Maybe they had to rethink their ideas of superiority after WWII, I don't know. Sorry off topic I know.Carlston said:
OT: Yeah RE is definately racist. After all, you'd never find a black person in Africa, and they'd never become kill crazy savages because they were infected by a virus that causes people of every other ethnicity to turn into kill crazy savages /sarcasm.
