Current Events > IGN says Resident Evil 5 can't be remade, only re-written. Because it's racist.

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just like anything can be racist to somebody

Ok fine, forget RE6 and remake Code Veronica then.

The crossdressing sociopath who wants to fuck his sister might also cause an IGN article lol

One of the earliest scenes in that game, when you first reach the town, is the one white woman in Africa busting through a door and then being dragged back into a house by a black guy (zombie).

I don't have a whole lot of examples of racism in that game, or things that would lead to the accusation, however I'll never forget that scene.

Don't see how that would be racist

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b388590a.jpg

The easiest solution is for Capcom to hire Sweet Baby.

As said rednecks are more known for domestic abuse. I actually don't recall ever seeing domestic abuse thrown around as a black stereotype.

A bunch of black men accosting a white woman is definitely a racist stereotype

A bunch of black men accosting a white woman is definitely a racist stereotype

thank God that's not the case then, huh

I see how that one scene could be considered racist but I also feel that if you immediately see that as intentionally racist the problem lies more with the viewer.

My bad, it was just the one dude grabbing her. I misread the initial post describing it.

I see how that one scene could be considered racist but I also feel that if you immediately see that as intentionally racist the problem lies more with the viewer.

The fact she's the one white woman shown in that entire village, and I think maybe even the whole game, is too on the nose.

More like people are intentionally dismissing it because they don't want to think deeply about it or insist there's no issue merely because that's the desired outcome they want.

It's tone deaf at best, enforcing the recreation of racial stereotypes that has led to many U.S. black men dying because they think it's humorous at worst.

I don't know if you know this, however the Japanese have a history of using racial stereotypes in their games.

It's no big deal to them because it's not actually a part of their history, so they can flippantly make jokes about it. Also the nation has a history of being racist/xenophobic in general, however I'm not attributing that to all of them, just saying it's rather well-documented.

That's not even the right person. You look like a clown lmao

and I think maybe even the whole game, is too on the nose.

More like people are intentionally dismissing it because they don't want to think deeply about it or insist there's no issue merely because that's the desired outcome they want.

Yes it is. The only results for googling his name are both pictures posted in the thread.

My dude, that is a gay guy from TikTok who makes recipes from old-ass cookbooks.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dynZWsDfJRg

Maybe the right one is him, I don't know.

Both of the pics come up when googling his name plus IGN.

Yeah, my dude, that doesn't matter because the dude in that picture is very obviously B. Dylan Hollis, a guy born and raised in Bermuda, and not Matt Purslow, some flavor of British.

Prove Google wrong then.

Google isn't wrong, you just can't read. It's showing that picture because Purslow shared a video of Hollis on his twitter account. Google also shows a picture of Cloud Strife and Rafaam, SUPREME ARCHAEOLOGIST, when you search for his name.

This is him
It's literally the first Google images result
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3982309c.jpg

theres an entire stretch of game where the infected go native and revert to tribal clothes and weapons

i understand the game isnt overtly and actively racist, but at the very least can we as gamers acknowledge that this may have been in poor taste

but at the very least can we as gamers acknowledge that this may have been in poor taste

Resident Evil 5 is actually the Resident Evil most in need of a remake. A whole new environmental structure and scenario design that reigns in the action and dials up the horror would bring it in line with capcom's of remakes but all of this doesn't account for Resident Evil 5's most notorious problem: Racism.

All in set in a fictional West African country Resident Evil 5's primary antagonists are black people. Yes it's technically the Oroborus virus that protagonist Chris Redfield is fighting but the parasite's host is depicted as a nation of mobs and Primitives who are violent even before their infection. Intentionally or not Resident Evil 5 positioned Africa as the Dark Continent an uncivilized World harboring a diseased population that needs gunning down via Western intervention in the name of Global Security.

This insensitive treatment of people of color was hotly debated even as early as Resident Evil 5's debut trailer with writers such as eni croll and Steven totillo pointing out the game's uncomfortable postcolonial imagery the arguments and think pieces continued well into the game's release window with IGN's own former editor-in Chief Hillary Goldstein having also wrestled with the subject but that was 2009 a time when race was apparently a debate rather than a reality.

In the 2020s in a post black lives matter World there is only one acceptable response to a white man shooting waves of Africans for an entire video game: "No."

There is one thing I do. I have a job to do and I'm going to see it through remakes may be able to redefine their Source material but there's only so many changes you can make until it's not a remake at all but an entirely new game and if you take Africa out of Resident Evil 5 is it Resident Evil 5 anymore even with a vastly improved more sensitive take on the continent, perhaps one with a black protagonist and a more empathetic look at the outbreak The Experience would simply be too divorced from the original to hold the name Resident Evil 5.

So where does Capcom go now? Personally I'd look backwards code Veronica is an ideal candidate as is the original Resident Evil but if the only way is chronologically forward then a total rewrite of what comes next is the logical path because what followed Resident Evil 4 was not one terrible game but two.

Resident Evil 6 double down no triple down on the action-packed setpiece heavy shooter design to the extent that much of it could be mistaken for a third person Call of Duty spin-off were it not for the monsters its restrictive level design practically puts you in a choke hold forcing you to endure a barrage of bombastic moments that have no interest in evoking any sense of fear Resident Evil 6 is a survival horror only in that it's a horrible game that you have to survivelaying but this time around it doesn't have to be like that.

Capcom now has the opportunity to ignore the past and completely reinvent this chunk of the timeline. In Resident Evil 4 remakes post-credit scene evil mastermind Albert Wesker details his plans for world domination to ad Wong reflected in his glasses is an image of excel gon and the stairway of the sun two significant plot.

Elements from Resident Evil 5 which indicates capcom's intentions butthere's more to consider this scene is largely a replication of the sequence from assignment ADA a non-canon chapter from the original Resident Evil 4 it shift from unofficial to Cannon points to a willingness to change furthermore the end of this scene is completely

Rewritten when learning of wesker's plans rather than dutifully deliver the stolen last plaga sample to to him Ada betrays her shadowy boss and forces her helicopter to turn around. In this moment unclear Capcom has given itself the freedom to do whatever it wants I just hope it's not a remake of Resident Evil 5

Full Article: https://www.ign.com/videos/the-resident-evil-game-that-cant-be-remade

https://youtu.be/IMY4LwVIypU?si=Qe_WfhonHA0-fM_j

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Reminder that IGN gave it 9/10 lol

No. It's one of the best parts of the game. You go underground in ancient ruins and solving puzzles tomb raider style

what? no its not

which doesn't make any sense.

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^ it's because the zombies dressed similarly to the first enemies you faced in the game.

they only started dressing "like their ancestors" once they became more infected, which doesn't make any sense.

edit: at post 137

expecting sense in a video game?

has nothing to do with what i said, awesome

expecting sense in a video game?

that guy deliberately ignored the tribal thing to drag responses outta ppl jsyk

they thought it would be cool to use stereotypical views of Africans, but in the game, it doesn't have any kind of logic supporting it.

Sounds about right. Everything is racist nowadays.