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Resident Evil 5
Johnny C:
The debate about racism is a prudent one and honestly the only real reasonable answer to this is it's complicated.
dennis:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 16 Mar 2009, 06:02 ---Earl Ofari Hutchinson wrote a piece in the Huffington Post about racism in RE5, saying the game is racist because the lead role is white, and he is mowing down "disease challenged" Africans.
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The Huffington Post is trash.
I had my suspicions back in early 2008 when all we had was the trailer, but as I've learned more about the game and now have actually played it, I see that the alleged racism is simply not there, and any perception is due only to the setting. The concept is really no different than that in RE4 with Las Plagas in Spain. The worst you could say about it is that the African hero-character Sheva is rather light-skinned.
As to the setting itself being racist, note that it is plot-critical that it be set in Africa, since Africa is where humanity began. They very well couldn't set it in China or anywhere else.
lolwut:
--- Quote from: dennis on 17 Mar 2009, 02:01 ---note that it is plot-critical that it be set in Africa, since Africa is where humanity began.
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allegedly
it's entirely possible that humanity started out in a different location but those that migrated to africa were the only ones that survived for some reason
anyway: will play through to find out what happens, but not really enjoying it as much as i thought i would. the whole time i'm playing i just keep thinking you could be playing Saints Row 2 goddamnit get it out of the case
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 17 Mar 2009, 00:41 ---The debate about racism is a prudent one and honestly the only real reasonable answer to this is it's complicated.
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No, it's really not.
There's 14 RE games where you kill American/European zombies.
There's 1 with African zombies.
It's really not complicated at all.
Blyss:
I have personally not found it to be a game that contains racism.
People are dying, as they always are in Resident Evil games... this time there just happen to be locals from Africa, and lo and behold, the design team did their research, and many of the people that live in Africa are people of color.
Shocking...
:roll:
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