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Don't forget that they actually, I kid you not, put in an in-game document that the parasite variant they put in the villagers only gave them the ability to jump higher
Yep
Like, they could have had a nice consistent message that Tricell was taking advantage of a poor, impoverished nation to commit unspeakable cruelties
But nope, big racist adventure in a magic temple for half the game
It’s just a video game there’s nothing racist about it. If you’re seeing racist stuff that says more about you tbh
(Heavy /s)
good. because if the developers didn't put the racism in, that's like not writing lines for the characters and telling us to 'use your imagination' or some shit. BITCH IF I WANTED THAT I'D BE PLAYING TABLETOP
I know it's sarcasm but I've literally been told that for pointing out problematic coding in media and other racist things, and it drives me up the fucking wall every time.
I often find that I can only achieve climax by yelling a slur after pulling off a successful 360° No-Scope
these are the cultural traditions of our people, and you should not be ashamed.
Who said I was ashamed?
Every day I am awaked by my Razer DeathViper keyboard, mouse and monitor blaring in every color of God's creation
Every day I know that I have spent more money than all the Poor's who only buy consoles after they go on sale
Every day I am reminded that I am a Golden God at the peak of the mountain and the unwashed masses below cry for a chance to experience my grandeur and I look down and whisper "(the N-Word with a Hard-R)"
I hear you (nongendered sibling. lol, fa-wait, shit). I can't get off without a 4pool and a comment about what im doing to someone's mom. my 3090 greets me each morning with a loud "you paid too much for this, and you're using it to play a 22 year old game that would run 120fps on your phone", and I get a little wet. it is a kind of morning bliss.
There was a backlash when they first showed off trailers and gameplay footage which led Capcom to make the city-dwelling Majini more racially diverse, while leaving the literal spear-chucking, grass skirt wearing and grass hut dwelling tribesmen enemies intact
Uh oh, people are calling our game horribly racist, let's throw a couple of Arab, Hispanic and white looking guys into the crowds you're endlessly mowing down, problem solved!
-Capcom, 2009
No discussion of Resident Evil 5's depiction of Africa and Africans is complete without mention of this particular unlockable outfit for Sheva
Edit: Did Sheva even exist in the initial gameplay reveal or was she added in response to the criticism?
Not that it absolves them in any way, but I believe RE5 was Capcom just being incredibly ignorant of the implications of the imagery and tropes they were employing, and that the backlash truly caught them off guard.
Like they'd had the same approach with Resident Evil 4, where they decided to to set the game in Europe and then proceeded to fill it with all the European things they could think of "Castles! Villages! Cathedrals! Monks! Napoleon!"
Unfortunately, most of the things you associate with Africa that have trickled down to you via news and pop culture tend to be... uhhh, not good (or true)
I mean Capcom has always done this. Look at the cast of Street Fighter. Every character is a fucking stereotype of the nation or culture they come from.
They don't usually end up being quite as negatively politically charged, though
The American stages in SF2 are a casino floor on the Vegas strip, an Air Force base, and a pier full of hooting longshoreman, so at least they got the US right.
This was also right at the start of the """""realistic""""" modern military shooter craze and you can definitely feel Capcom leaning into that trend which didn't really help the game's politics either
don't worry guys, wikipedia tells me that it's not racist because in one scene with a man dragging a screaming white woman, the man is "not obviously black" 😎
that's just someone going for an epic combo multiplier. have you ever PLAYED a video game?
And yet, its still the best co-op third person shooter available. Its the only game I can play with my spouse without her getting a headache.
I avoid these issues by not having friends and only playing single player games :cool-dad:
Wasn't one of the playable factions in that game basically Space Cholos?
Yep, just went back and checked
An entire chapter is you playing as Banditos with exaggerated Mexican accents and everything
Which is a damn shame because I loved playing it back in the day
Casual racism was tres chic at the time, not sure it would have helped much
I do like those games, but my wife is a normie non-gamer and doesn't really like RPG type stuff. Just kinda wanna shoot stuff and do some co-op actions. Also, emulation is way cheaper and would be much better, no need to buy old games like that.
6 is definitely -the- best coop experience that came out around 7th gen of consoles (possibly still the best)
i'm really sad that devil may resident evil will never get a proper sequel with 8 going first person again
I (re)played Resident Evils 1-6 last year and found 5 to be a downgrade from 4 in every single way, though that might just be my perspective as someone who played it single
was this the game with the picture of the black kid and the words bio terror
That's Resident Evil Revelations 2 and that opening was actually pretty funny because it was for a fake NGO dedicated to helping people recover from zombie outbreaks and shit
They also call themselves the "Unyielding Mop of Justice" which is just the most Lib thing I can imagine
The devs became aware of this while making the game and gave us the amazing cutscene where Chris punches a boulder to try and make amends.
Also game sucks balls too, it's like RE went horrible after that shit ass game.
Replaying 4 and then playing 5 for the first time was not a great way to experience the game. Even disregarding all the sacrifices in gameplay they made to fit online co-op, the tone and story were boring garbage, whereas Resident Evil 4 is absolute schlocky perfection, every single line of dialogue in that game is just deliciously and camera winkingly terrible in the right way
Wesker was fun, I guess, but not even DC Douglas hamming it up to the nines could save that game
To be fair, at that point in time they wouldn't have really been returning to survival horror as that's what all the games had been up to that point (disregarding spinoffs)
I'm just going to assume that version the game just straight up didn't work considering the two games it ended up spawning went in very different directions. RE7 was probably the best return to survival horror one could've asked for
Yeah, while I personally prefer the old school survival horror Resident Evils, I also really love Resident Evil 4, it's a great game in its own right. I really can't begrudge them for switching up the formula either- Resident Evil Zero really feels like they're scraping the very bottom of the barrel (Still an ok game though, and the HD rerelease looks great)
I usually try to temper expectations on video games, especially "AAA" titles, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not starting to get hype for Village
yeah if it didn't have multiplayer i would never have even touched it. but my friend got it for me during a steam sale many moons ago and while we had our fun with it in our own way it wasn't a good resident evil game and hardly just a good game period. I'm a huge sucker for legit co-op games so i'm already bias about it
And here this whole time i thought these games where being written and developed in Japan
No, not saying it’s ok. Did I say it was ok? I don’t remember saying it was ok. Went back to my post, certainly didn’t say it was ok.
What I AM saying is it wasn’t created by Americans. That is all.
Hey anytime! Seemed like you where having trouble understanding that they are two very different countries with two very different histories
