Headphonics - I dunno, I thought RE4 was pretty good at atmosphere and gameplay, and was a huge leap forward from the previous REs I played. It's still absolutely nothing compared to the incredibly creepy and cool looking preview video they'd originally had for RE4 where Leon was in the mansion fighting the Hooked Man and those scary dolls.

RE4 was never really meant to be SCARY I don't think, unless the designers are stupid enough to think it is...

i just never really felt it was that atmospheric, and the gameplay was pretty AVERAGE i thought for a shooter, and was actually made kind of annoying by weird and awkward controls for an action game

also idk if you were around for this but i'm pretty sure it was VERY MUCH meant to be scary.  there will all those ridiculous quotes from capcom, like "you'll piss your pants!!!!" that kezay et al had in their signatures at the time.  it was PUMPED UP as horrifying by developers/publishers/fans/pretty much everyone and it wasn't even close to that!

you pay for the game right? so you give the company money, and the racist ideologue who came up with the ideas in the first place gets paid for his bullshit and the game is treated as a success - this is a hypothetical ideologue, not in reference to RE5. i'm not calling you anything other than a bit of a dickhead here because all you're showing is a disregard for the kind of damage this thing can do - and it can, like for example the kid who plays this and gets it into his head that africans are all a bunch of cannibalistic zombie maniacs or the adult racist who plays this and feels his beliefs are being validated and sympathised with.

i'm not saying it's the most damage racism can do, you're right that this is "just a game", but just because it's not as bad as some other bullshit, you think it's okay to indulge in it because you like to shoot shit in videogames. if that's the case, then go ahead and have a great time.

Yeah, I'm sure it'd make so much more sense if Kenia would be full of white people right? I'm sure that'd give the kids great perspective of the world!

Ah, I didn't even know that there was a trailer before this one. Maybe it looked like ethnic cleansing before, I don't know, but the recently added trailer I watched on YouTube (can't watch Gametrailers at work) featured quite a few pasty-faced zombies.

So as to not offend anyone (Albeit! Many black people I've spoken to have not been at all offended! Funny that it are the white people who are offended) they go and make the game impossible by logic. I mean sure there are white people in Africa but that's like less than 3% of the population. To have you kill white dudes and women is like making the game in US and have you kill black people over and over and over and over and over again.


I've seen the original trailer, not this new one. I saw absolutely nothing racistic about it. So what, you kill black people. You've killed black people in past Resident Evil games (Re 2 and 3), funny how it got attention just now. I also love how some people say the main hero should have been black too. 

 

the thing is, on first glance, this really LOOKED VERY BAD. I mean, you've got a white dude coming in portrayed as saving a bunch of apelike Africans who want to club him on the head. take out the little subtitles and you've got a scene that just looks deliberately like a race war.

I suggest to never see Lord of War movie then.

of course that's not intentional, but that's not the point. other movies and mediums don't have this kind of problem because, well, they've reached the basic understanding that releasing a trailer of whitey killing darky is fairly discomfiting. but videogames, being made by some of the least aware people on the planet, haven't quite reached that basic level of understanding!

It's not discomnfitting at all. I really don't care if the guys are white, black, green, or rainbow colored. It's a murder showing and I don't think anything is past that. Fuck all that race shit, it wouldn't be any better if it'd be black killing whites or Indians waging war with Japanese.

the game isn't racist, and the chances that it was intended to be racist or racially insensitive are almost zero, but let's face it, there's a very real context to see it in and you don't have to stretch at all to reach it! these kinds of things really shouldn't be an issue and are indicative of a larger problem in gamemaking as a whole though.

I hate nowadays games. Everything tries to be politically correct. Fuck that, people should be able to themselves handle the material in games.


And you can't really say "What about kids?" because last time I checked, games were you slaughter tons of people, black or white  wise, isn't exactly the game you should sell or buy to a minor. If they do anyway, then it's their fault and Konami is not at all responsible if a 11 year old starts screaming hysterically every time he sees a black person.