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Resident Evil 5
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KvP on 16 Mar 2009, 12:33 ---A cannibalistic white guy in peasant garb carrying a hatchet doesn't carry the same connotations as a cannibalistic black guy in African tribal dress carrying an ornate spear?
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And this game portrays cannibalistic black guys in t-shirts carrying hatchets, so where does that fit in?
KvP:
As unexceptional, ambient racism? The sort that's only debatably there (although they could've acquitted themselves by not having all the zombified characters angrily shouting in a dialect not comprehensible to 99.9% of players)? It's only the villager stuff that really strikes me as exceptionally tasteless so far.
ackblom12:
I don't actually think I've seen anything that I would actually consider tasteless when taken into context of the setting in the game. Maybe with the exception of the practically hilarious alternate costume for Sheva.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KvP on 16 Mar 2009, 15:53 ---It's only the villager stuff that really strikes me as exceptionally tasteless so far.
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But given the setting and given the plotline – which the NYT guy establishes is white exploitation of Africa – what are they supposed to do? What about reports that there are also neutral and friendly native Africans in the game? Does this not affect the perceived racism at all?
Besides, and this is really important, you're not playing a video game adaptation of Zulu II. They're fucking zombies. He's not fighting them because they're black. From what I've seen it's really clear that he's fighting them because they're zombies.
Cire27:
People are being so overly-sensitive to this. There was arguing about racism in RE5 before it even came out, and I don't understand it. There are zombies trying to eat me, I will shoot them. The fact that they are Black is only a factor because we are in damn Africa. In 4 they were Spanish. In Raccoon City, there were mostly white, as far as I can remember. White and American, I still had no problem shooting them. Because they were zombies.
If the main character wasn't Chris Redfield, and was some random black guy, would this even be a problem?
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