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Blog calls Resident Evil 5 "Racist"

Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 15:08 EDT

Criticism about the content included in games is nothing new, as developer Rockstar discovered about Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. However, the gaming industry may be facing its first public outcry over a game being racist even before it has been given a release date.

The blog Black Looks, which comprises of primarily African American women, blasts the 2008 game Resident Evil 5 by commenting:

"The new Resident Evil video game depicts a white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people. The Black people are supposed to be zombies and the white man’s job is to destroy them and save humanity…

This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages, the killing of Black people by a white man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young… fearing, hating, and destroying Black people."

Capcom has not issued a statement yet about the blog post. However, the reprecussions of the blog are sure to send shockwaves through the gaming community as game developers employ more and more mature content in their games.

Source: GamePolitics

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posted 3:12pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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That's a funny thing to say

posted 3:12pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I noticed this right away when I saw the trailer. I haven't decided yet if I think it's racist or not, Africa's population is mostly black.
posted 3:14pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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OMFG your kidding im black and i didnt find it racist. personally i think their blowing this out of proportion Snap man stop pulling the race card

posted 3:15pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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They need to stop this crap, weren't most of the zombies in the other games white people, don't they beleive in voodoo alot down there, and bringing back the dead.(ZOMBIES).

posted 3:15pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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What an ignorant comment to make. The game takes place in Haiti, not 'what looks to be Africa'. This blogger obviously knows nothing about the game other than the fact that "omg black people" are in it. Obviously the goal of this game is to eradicate all blacks... Give me a break. If the prospect of dead black people is such a disturbing thought for these bloggers, perhaps they should stop their arm chair quarterbacking on video games over a year from release and focus their efforts on preventing, get this, REAL LIFE violence on black people in our cities.

posted 3:16pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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That's funny, because I'm sure nobody would make a big fuss if the game were set somewhere else and you're a black man killing white people...

posted 3:16pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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What? "and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young… fearing, hating, and destroying Black people." marketed to children? all resident evil games are rated M. A white man killing African Zombies, think there might be more to the story than just this.
posted 3:17pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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omg, this is interesting. altough i dont think this game should be viewed as being racist, giving that he game is not even out yet. although i do find my self in rare but racist situations i just ignore it. as a foot note i'm going to ask if crack down got any critism of being racist toward mexican and spanish related people?
posted 3:19pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Great, another game that could be black listed due to mature content. My question is the whole race thing is always questionable, and based on perspective. In this case it's someone from the black comunity voicing out because of a "white guy in army gear killing black people in africa." First, what if it was a black guy killing white people. Or if it was a black guy killing black people. It all comes down to people killing people. I don't get why we still have to have race involved. If people keep pointing it out then people will continue to be racist. Don't get me wrong, I have not seen why this game is where it is, it may have a good reason for the setting, but you never know mabey it is.

posted 3:20pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Dude, Gorillanuts, don't you know that gorillas have the smallest junk for their size out of any primate?

lol

"gorilla are generally small. The penis cannot be seen even. with an erection. Gorilla testes are approximately. 70%. the weight of human testes ..." - doi.wiley.com/10.1002/pros.2990050605

 

Yeah, that's right.  Smaller than ours

posted 3:21pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Ha ha ha dumb ******.... What about the previous resident evil games ,your killing whilte boys.... im not racist ,so ill put this in a different way..What if one day your son is playing resident evil and he saw a zombie get burnt so just because he's black the kid is going to say it a black guy ...next thing you no there ,going to say "in assassin creed it is a kkk guy killing jews....

posted 3:27pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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just to start off im black, i see what most mean if u think about it really hard but i dont personlly think its racist but i dont know i think its something new for this franchise but realisticly it does look alittle weird, but would the affended party think it would be better if the main character was black killing other black people?

posted 3:27pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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redsock hahahaha kkk guy kill jews

posted 3:28pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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opps i mean tzilla

posted 3:29pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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tzilla do u hear ur self u sond alittle kramer to me

posted 3:36pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I could see it was going to come up, it was just a case of when. People will attack games for anything and everything, making excuses for immorality in society is nothing new. It'll blow over.

posted 3:40pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Now i know why i dont like alot of black people, they always complain if something has to do with a black person that isnt a good thing. Alot of black people complain, and they will get there way, but if it was a white man, or white women, they would not care at all. They would say absolutely nothing. Unless they had a good reason.

 

Im so proud to be white. Not saying im racist though

posted 3:43pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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it is a little racist to me im black but its a video game

posted 3:45pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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lmao, what a douch'e. idk what i kill as long as its fun. lmao. We've killed white people before! OMG RACIST!! its an epidemic in africa. get over yourself you self concious retard.

posted 3:52pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Anyone who finds this racist has more problems than just an inferiority or superiority complex.  Some people need to get a grip of reality and that's the cold hard truth of it all.  It's funny since no-one complained about  GTA: San Andreas being racist.  Double standards anyone?

posted 4:11pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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WTF??, ok they are ZOMBIES, it's not racist in any way, if you look back the other resident evils they kill white people too, and the fact that this man is white has nothing to do with racism, it's all because they haven't played any resident game before, and for those who doesn't know this game is MATURE (NOT FOR CHILDREN).

posted 4:12pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I stay in South Africa and I agree with u guys, why is there no such thing as racism against white people?, but anything that hints that any black person is inferior is considered racist? Here in South Africa us whites are about 8% of the population, while 90% are black, surely the minority SHOULD be more sensitive to offense than the majority, yet even here it isnt. I'm not racist, after all, I'm also African lol
posted 4:18pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I think the mother fu***** who run that website are racist. They don't get angry whenever a bunch of eastern european white people get killed in Resident Evil 4, but they don't like it when black people are killed. The story takes place in Africa, so what do they expect, for there to be no black people in Africa? How ridiculous would that be? These idiots are distinguishing who gets killed by the color of their skin. That is more racist then the game they're calling racist.
posted 4:22pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I'm so sick of having to listen to this crap all the time. We've seen a 5 MINUTE SCENE of the game...for all we know right after this he flies to Alaska and kills eskimos then flies to Japan and kill Asians then to Switzerland to finish off all the white people over there. Such absurd statements like this are what's REALLY dangerous to society. I want to find this blog just to let the lady know what a TARD she is...OMG I SAID 'TARD'!!!

posted 4:22pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Wow, I guess after discussing this in PS3forums.com, I'm a bit tired...but anyways.

@SonyJunky619119: With your logic, I should hate Christians because of the things a few idiots say (Pat Robertson, Fallwell when he was alive, etc etc.). Really, I hate blanket statements like those. Seriously, it's never a lot of black people who complain about these things. (just look at the opinions of your fellow black gamers) Its usually the same old idiots who "claim" to be the voice of all black people. Don't worry, our pals Jesse and Al are going to get their two cents in as soon as they are done trying to defend Michael Vick!

posted 4:36pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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If that is racist then iresident evil 4 was racist killing innocent spanish poeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, why blak poeple alwyas have to complain and moan and act as if they had it the worst, the JEWz HAD IT THE WORST the have been killed and enslaved for thousands of years the have almost been extinct killed continuoulsey, but are they complaining? no?, why cant they just forget the past?

posted 4:38pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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psn id: gingo... lol theres so much wrongf with tihsi  don't know where to start. Well first of all have they not played any other resi games...killing WHITE people, second it would be kinda weird if it was in Africa and everyone running around was white and thirdly as i read somewhere else, name one game (shooting humans) that you don't kill black people? exactly

posted 4:40pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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ok, I knew this was gonna happen as soon as I saw the trailer. I'm a 28 year old black man. That trailer is NOT RACIST. This needs to stop as thegame97338 said. It's a video game, they're zombies, get over it.

posted 4:47pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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props to  se7enthsign for pointing out that the black people who bring stuff like this are in the minority, most of which just want to find someting to complain about.

posted 5:00pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Jeez...Oh so you want all the zombies in a game in Africa to be white? well that would make sence...or not! ..what if it was a black man killing white zombies? would i complain? no!! because it's a game...it dosen't matter..

posted 5:12pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Those girls don't even know the plot of the game!! I don't myself since i haven't searched for if it even has been revealed. But my guess is something that a WHITE american man makes some sort of chemical that infuses all the African that makes them feral and then the player controls this guy who kills all of them and probably gets life needed help by several black people.

posted 5:29pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Wow, what a suprise some extremist racial group got a hold of this one. See, this is exactly why these kinds of groups are bad - cause they make the REAL issues sound like bulls***. No doubt Capcom will be apologizing in a second, probebly even changing the whole game setting - would.. not.. suprise.. me.

posted 5:33pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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The only racism I see here is the person on the blog who made that comment. Why does it have to be a white man killing black people. Labelling people as black and white is what should be considered racist. It isn't a white man killing blacks, it is a person killing other people (well, zombies actually). If they're going to get upset over the killing in this game, then they should be upset over killing in all other video games too, unless they think that killing is only a problem if the people being killed are black.

posted 5:34pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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no. if the guy was in all white clothing and replicating some sort of KKK acts on the black people. tjhen i woulf find thids racist. africa is full of black people. if in a world war game u had to drop a bomb on japan would that be racist or history. everything now a days is considered racist. im sick of it. and im black and i find nothing wrong with this game. ITS JUST A GAME. stop complaining.

posted 5:35pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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dumb people, do spanish guys said something when they got killed on RE4? no they didnt and so far other country dont said a sh*t about it.

posted 5:48pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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lol F that. I was Leon killing the Spanish (my own people) in RE4 and I didn't mind. I find it darned cool if it takes place in Africa. The environment creates a whole new feeling. Also knowing that voodoo was and is practiced in some areas such as this makes a perfect reason to have zombies.

posted 5:54pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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A blog can be anybody 13-year old kid from texas with nothing better to do/think. so mehhhh.

posted 6:01pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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im from africa myself and i dont find that to be racist in anyway, afterall its only a vidoe game. people r always trying to find ways into silly little arguments over "videogames", i mean come on get over yourselves!

posted 6:03pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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SHE NEED 2 SHUT DA F*** UP. I HATE DIS S***. EVERY TIME ITS SOMETHING WIT A WHITE GUY AND A BLACK GUY ITS SOMETHING WRONG. BUT RE4 WAS KILLIN SPANISH PEOPLE (I THINK) AND IT WASNT A PROBLEM.

posted 6:07pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Its blogs like that and stuff the naacp spews that gives those groups zero credibility hypocrite jessie jackson and loser al sharpton will probably be all over this one. They need to get a f-n life its game
posted 6:24pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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This is ridiculous its not racist the first one the white guy shot white people is that better, is it ok to kill white people but not black people and the 4th one is Mexicans (or Spanish people) is it ok to kill them.
    There just trying to make it sound racist if your killing zombies in Africa then the people are guaranteed to be black there I dought there are any white people tribes or small town in afreica (not including south africa) but this is just rediculas.

posted 6:25pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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After watching the trailer for the first time, I could kinda see why the blogger made the comment but obviously this person never played any past ResEvil games. I don't think its racist but I could see some feeling airy about it.

Hopefully the media doesn't get a hold of this one, it could kill the game or might sell many because of its controversy. Key word of the day, "Double Standard".
posted 6:37pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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jee makein a big deal already i knew this would happen god man shut the f@#$ up im latino ok i love all my ppl no matter what f@#$in color they r u kno look at re4 it was with spaish ppl so what they are sayin that we r inhuman 2?????????????f@#$ u its game its not meant to offend ppl its meant to have fun killin zombies dammit no what f@#$in color they r so stop bashin games man damn try to find another excuse to hate on a game

posted 6:53pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Yea It's not racist... People have to know the fact that their zombies first off. 2cd it's a mature game dont let U kids or younger family members see it. I can understand why most black people would think it's racist but if you're a true gamer like me you should be able to understand that this isn't a racial issue. To the guy who was talking about black people complaining it's not all of us, it pisses me off to somethings that black people complain about...

O yea i'm black

posted 7:15pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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this thing depends on the situation, the AC  comment was stupid, if you think of it, its war and between 2 groups, in RE:5 if the story takes the dude to africa cause they killed all the zombies in the other parts then ok, but if its just about location and having the same characters just new continent then u can call it racism since why would you be a white man in africa killing zombies besides the devs wanting that same character?

the chance of meeting black dude in america and eu is much more then white man in africa, the chance of white man beeing in african army is minimal or even any kind of freedom or anti zombie group, but its not rare to see black dude in army when u live in the us or eu.

i havent seen the trailer, but if its kinda like white man joining a group or team of black guys fighting there then it could be something else but if he flew to africa just to kill zombies that doesnt threath his life then thats weird

posted 7:19pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Ok so I can easily say its prejudice to be killing spaniards in RE4, and its inhumane in GTA. These women should seriously have their mouths gorilla glued shut so they don't piss anymore people off.

posted 7:22pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Ok so let me just ask rite! Sooooo say for instance there was an outbreak virus that turned african people into zombies rite an the americans white soliders go over there an kill them does that make them racist becoz they r saving the plant? emmm wtf stfu blogger an seriously get a life its called a game in previous games it was white zombies now there black its suddenly racist stfu!

posted 7:32pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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for god´s sake thats bull****, so in  RE4 leon was killing spanish ppl and noone said anything.

and now chris is kiling africans and the world stats to fall apart? wtf is that? its not capcom fault that in africa 90% of the ppl are black ,what if in the next RE claire go to german and start killing blonde-blue-eyed zombies???

posted 7:44pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I've said it numerous times already ever since the first trailer appeared that this was going to happen. The gamers aren't going to be bothered, it was always going to be the non-gaming public that attacks it. Capcom isn't racist regardless of how racially insensitive it is. Capcom is a bunch of Japanese people not White people, but of course just as I predicted, it's going to catch hll for it. I really wished capcom had a few people that would have told them earlier that White on Black racism is something they needed to be careful of before the trailers came out. They really screwed the pooch on this one.

posted 7:47pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Ok, so if they change them to white zombies its ok? What a bunch of idiots. Who cares, its a game, get over it. This is why there is still racism in the world......because people like this keep bringing it up. If people stopped making issues of nothing, there would be no more racism.

posted 8:02pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Sadly that's not really the case, there's always going to be racism, as long as their are people with closed minds and there's a lot more of those people than there will be of anyone else. Actually wasmt Jill already killing european blone blue eyed  zombies in code veronica? But anyway like I said if hispanics felt the same type of racism that black people have been generally exposed to they might have been pissed at RE4 but they don't feel the same way. Black people are always going to be more sensitive than other races it's just a fact of life.

posted 8:06pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I found a list on the web that accurately portrays how I feel about this issue.

Resident Evil 1 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 2 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Code: Veronica - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Survivor - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Gaiden - white people are zombies
Resident Evil: Survivor 2 Code: Veronica - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Zero - white people are zombies
Resident Evil: Dead Aim - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Outbreak - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 4 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - white people are zombies

Resident Evil 5 - AFRICANS ARE ZOMBIES?! RACISM

posted 8:06pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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they r so f**king dumb man s**t they need a life of course they dont have 1 so they go around tryin to do bash because it kills time 4 them they have a borin a** life re5 is gonna rock so they need to shut the f**k up and if they dont like it then dont buy it its common sense mature games r always gonna exist because we dont wanna play lil kiddy s**t so deal with it

posted 8:07pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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HA! The game doesn't come out until 2009, jokes on them!

posted 8:12pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Things like this are completely stupid and unfounded. People use the fact that they are a minority to gain pity, and it is exactly what they claim to be against, racism. Resident Evil, up until the 4th game has always had white people, then 4 came along and it was in a Spanish speaking nation, and now it seems to be in an African country. The game has remained the same, but now that it takes place in an African locale, the game is racist. People just want someone to empathize them, so they may get attention, and have people feel sorry for the race they belong to. If you think this way, you are just as racist as the opinion you claim to fight against.

posted 9:19pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I am black, and know I don't think this games intentions is to spread a stereotype or some negative concept, it also makes the people seem hypocrite-like for not even acknowledging the caucasians as zombies but......that was white on white violence.....you have to know that everyone has diffrent interpretations and perceive things such as this, so there not stupid, possibly misinformed but a picture says a 1,000 words, imagine how many words a 3 minute and 8 second video will say......probably a google plex, idk. This is the media, in some way or form they lead and mislead you to certain "things", and thats natural.......But Alpha 2, never say Blacks are soft, you would see who's senitive when somebody gets back down or even worsed, bodied!!!! N!99@s be out in these hoods like it's no tommorow and they will clap u and ya fuccin moms like nothing happened.....Just for that one comment your being racist, just post another reply saying "scratch that", because your trifling, not every black is like that, and that's a mutha phukin fact, so get your facts straight.......
posted 9:21pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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WOW! All I gotta say is; HA HA HA HA HA and umm....HAHAHA!!!

posted 9:34pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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oh yea, you have to take in consideration that such turmoil relevant to this occured in history and without a doubt was the most notorious thing that ever happened to this country.....and yes, other races have also followed pursuit in these occurrences, but ther not as infamous as Slavery, segregating and what not, so hispanics imo shouldn't feel as hurt or what have you, even now of days blacks are perceived as such humans and this is the mass majority who have a thought process like so, so drawing to conclusion, thats probably why "these people" (I said that because for all you know they could be any ethnicity trying to defend blacks) thought like so, I don't blame them, think out side the box and you will get a concise idea of why this happened.....point blank......
posted 9:39pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Forget that the dude is white.. He's always been.. Where Capcom F'd up was giving the zombies an actual ethnicity which as never been in any of the Resident Evil.. They always just been Zombies... Stupid move Capcom.. Stupid move..

posted 9:39pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I am hispanic, and to clear anything up, RE4 does not have zombies, it has cult members who are spanish. I dont recall anyone making a big deal of this at all. Nor did I care, I was glad to hear my mother laguage bieng yelled during the game, also it also does happen to be that the bad guys were also spanish.As for RE5, it seams a bit to premature to start taling crap about rasism when the game is not even out, they dont know anything of the story. And this game is not for children.

posted 9:45pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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If the game was set in the Philippines, and the zombies were asian would they give a s***?? If the game was set in the Domican Republic and the enemy was Black Hispanic zombies would they care then?

posted 9:47pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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one more thing, the people were initially black before they were zombies *cough*.......Still getting the game despite some might think otherwise.....I just see things from more than one perspective.
posted 10:05pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Yeah k nice, but I think the people at Blacklooks dont realize that its not that its about black zombies, its about a locale and the residents of that place, like in RE 4 it wouldnt make sense to me if the game was in spain and the zombies spoke german. or if RE5 was in africa or haiti and the zombies were asian.

posted 10:22pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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I don't think the game was intentionally meant to be racist, but is based on location, and the origins of voodoo. I do think some of the ignorant comments "some" of you are making "is" racist. It's always easy for people to make oblivious comments about racism, who have never experience it. Have your opinions, play the game if you want, but don't talk sh*t about things you obviously don't understand.

posted 10:32pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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and you are right monotoplis but I doubt the average person / non-gamer is going to know the plot and setting of this game, the trailer itself may deceive even the most unbiased, all you can ask is "why?" the location is one thing, the people are totally diffrent aspect so I don't get your logic or anybody else's......It's as easy as 1+1, everyone reads the same book and most likely understand the theme of the story like one way and another......Ya dig?
posted 10:42pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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Funny thing is when reading the article by bonnie ruberg is everything I envisioned it be.....very deep and talking about opression of African Americans and blacks in general in history and the pop culture perceptions and how it connects to the game...... I'm suspecting you guys are very naive and didn't read the article. You could call BS all you want but it's legitimate as can be.....
posted 10:44pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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ffs will you stop the f***** rasist thing please i'm so sick of it f****** makesme puke. First of all it's a game, ah f*** it, can-'t be ar*** i dont give a **** who i kill in a game!!! it dos´nt make me laugh more if i kill a black,white, yellow or what i ever i try to kill aslong as they all drop !!

anyways sorry PSU for all those words just makes mad to listen to such crap.

posted 11:29pm EDT - August 1st, 2007
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What a load of BS. Would it help if Capcom added a little more white people in the mix? Will that shut everybodys mouth up? I know for a fact that Capcom isn't aiming that direction. Quiz, where did blacks originally come from? AFRICA! What color are most of the people that live over there? BLACK! Some People have nothing better to do, but cry about how there are more blacks than whites, or more whites than blacks. In RE1, did you see any blacks in it? Not that I recall. Everybody needs to pull that tight knot out of there panties, and LIVE WITH IT!!! DON'T LIKE IT? NOBODY IS PUTTING A GUN TO YOUR HEAD TO BUY THE GAME.
posted 12:22am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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lol, all I need to say is that the "black zombies" are out to kill him also u jackass!
posted 1:04am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Such stupidity.  If the US doesn't want to have this racist game that's fine.  People will just miss out while other can get this masterpiece from Japan or Europe

Since when does gaming have to involve real life bs anyway?

posted 2:20am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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so if it takes place in a white area its not rasist... but if ur shootin black ppl it is??? hmmmmm wooow THE REAL RASIST PPL ARE THE PPL THAT SAID IT WAS RASIST CUZ THEY CANT EXCEPT THE FACT THAT EVERY 1 IS EQUAL AND THERES NO LIL HOLD OFFF ON DIFF RACES WTF... and its in africa... WOW ut oh black ppl.. thats rasist to see black ppl....

posted 2:23am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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UT OH PPL THERE USING CREATIVITY RUN RUN SCREAM SCREAM INSTED OF USA IT TAKES PLACE IN AFRICA!!! O_O OMG RASITS BASTERDS!!!

posted 2:38am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Im black and dont see this as racist in the least bit. She's totally taking the game out of context, and after reading her comments as well as another person who runs that site, she seems to know nothing about video games (aside from solitaire as one of the second bloggers writes) and belives that all gamers are pre-teens and under.

This is the same way the media always tries to throw the blame on something popular for the worlds problems. Raise your children right, and most likely they'll be upstanding just people. First person shooters, GTA style games, Manhunt, and any other line pushing game does not influence anyones behavior....

I swear RE5 better not get pushed back or banned because of this crap.

posted 2:39am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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OK here is the thing... If this game was racist then would Refield be killing all of them while he is walking through the town and they are all walking by him with out a care in the world?? Then it cut's to a scene where he goes into a house and tries to save a BLACK person but he get's turned in to something ZOMBIESCK and attack's Chris.. So all in all he is defending himself. But like I said in the begining of the trailer he is not killing anyone. Racist I don't think so I just think people want to make a name for themselves at any cost.

posted 3:30am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Hmmm. Racist, nope never crossed my mind untill i read this! n im Black  

posted 4:11am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Well,this is definitely not the first time Capcom has done something like this.PM me if you wanna know which one it was.And i do think that developers should be more careful because critics will WANT an excuse to attack games.But i still hope Capcom goes Bankrupt or something along those lines

posted 4:39am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Let me guess, they would be fine if it were the other way round... that wouldnt be racist at all... its a video game, could they be clutching at anymore straws?

posted 5:53am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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I watched the trailer and though I did not jump to the conclusion that it was racist... it did trigger some warning signs. I've seen a lot of people on various forums point out that all other zombie games have you killing white zombies. I'm sorry but that's a horrible argument and only holds up on the internet... yes all the other games had white zombies, but practically all the other games were about white people. Starred white protagonist, white villains, white support characters... so on and so on, so leave that tired "white zombie" thing out of it. The true test for resident evil 5 will be when the game hits and we'll see whether or not the game black support characters and fellow protagonists.. if it doesn't, then something is obviously up, since the story takes place in a predominately black area. Time will tell
posted 5:55am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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I'm African American and I think there is NOTHING RACIST about that trailer. Those who think it is racist, are only projecting what they want to see. "Black people as inhuman Savages?" WTF!! Is that what THEY think black people in Africa are? Also, no two black people will ever have the exact same veiwpoint as another, as we are humans with differing backgrounds, so those idiots don't speak for any one but themselves.
posted 7:46am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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haha, thats just rediculous..

posted 8:52am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
81

yea that is what I thought when I saw the trailer but i thought again... and I realised it is stupid...

it is more like doing the opposite of what they want to do... if we put black people in a video game and we don't care it is better because there is no racist intessions in that game.

 

It is getting really bad. There are extreamists everywhere... and they see the bad in everything.

posted 10:18am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
82

HAHAHAHAHAHA damn that was funny

posted 10:22am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
83

They're just nucking sh!t up for everyone. When it was Europeans in RE4 it was no big deal, they're killing Arabs in MGS4 and it's no big deal. It's a VIDEOGAME. Next thing you know Anmals and Cars will start complaining about their Nucking rights. And ya, I'm Black and I see nothing Racist about that.

posted 10:38am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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capcom better be carefull rember resistance fall of man

posted 10:53am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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I read almost all the comments about this game. Me I don't find the game racist, and I'm not going to put out my ethnicity becasue that's ignorant to me. One thing most people don't realize it seems is people have been complaining about other games. Did anyone know that GTA: Vice City was changed at one point. Yeah Haitians complained about it they just did it too late, but I could see their point. If you still play VC you remember most of the time. They would come after you for no good reason you didn't even have to shoot them. There are others besides this, but they won't come to light because people aren't that pissed about it.

BTW all this their were "white zombies" crap in the other RE games besides RE4. That's stupid I've played a couple of the games, and last time I checked you couldn't tell the race of those zombies.

posted 11:33am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Wow that is lame, if it was a black man killing white people it wouldnt be racist, im a proud white smart young individual

posted 11:37am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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I suppose this is another way that the white man is trying to gather up people to kill all the black community.  This has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.  First off, why were they looking at video games?  Second, GTA San Andreas.  Black guy is main character and civilians are of all different descent.  I didn't hear a word about GTA being racist, be it killing white, black, latino, etc.  Apparently it doesn't matter as long as the black guy is the main character...Hence, Saint's Row. Lastly, this is a GAME. It's not some sort of training video.  Not as much as Dead Rising was to stay in a mall and take pictures.  I guess Final Fantasy is racist too since almost all of the characters are white.

posted 11:56am EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Playstation3Pride yeah it would be more then likely. This is why I hate when things like this happen. Because people like you try to play out that if blacks are killing whites it's not racist trying to be innocent. Like I said people from all different races have complained about certain videogames. For another example Tony Hawk there was this one guy who complained that their weren't any other black Pro skaters besides Kareem Campbell.

Then they have been German's complaining about the WWII games. They hate the fact that their isn't one single game out over here that lets you kill the americans instead. So it's most people complaining then you think you just don't see it.

posted 12:25pm EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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Who didnt think of that. I'm black, but i dont even like this game, but if I did... How you think I would feel pretenting to be a white man killing black people? They did go a little over the extreme with this one.

posted 2:19pm EDT - August 2nd, 2007
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This is such BS. We are in 2007 almost 2008 and this sh!t is still going on. I have allot of black friends and i work in the entertainment industry so i know more blacks then i know whites and they all agree with me. This cr@p about slavery and segragation isn't and shouldn't be an issue. Talk about history fine. The whole Pearl Harbor situation are we racist about Japanese? No, and by we i mean ppl in general im not racist i don't see colors i see people. The Nazi's nearly wiped out all the Jewish ppl, i havnt HEARD ONCE a jewish person complain about anything race wise. Some ppl just can't leave things alone, this isn't a race thing this is a stupid thing that shouldn't be happing in 2007.

 

Some ppl need a reason to complain, and use history as a means of sitring up cr@p. Leave it alone and for anyone black, white what have you who still use race or history as a reason to hate or cause issues when we have bigger issues  to deal with, you need a reality check because your the racists if everything is about color.  Sorry about the long rant but this is just too much.

posted 6:38pm EDT - August 3rd, 2007
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That will be fun jaaj ,agree whit "redsock"   ajja

posted 10:42am EDT - August 4th, 2007
92

place a black girlfriend for chris redfield then everybodies happy lol

posted 10:22pm EDT - September 23rd, 2007
93

...next thing you no there ,going to say "in assassin creed it is a kkk guy killing jews....

 

 

AHAHAHAHAHAH TRUE!

posted 11:19am EDT - September 28th, 2007
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wow this is by far the biggest pile of bull***t i have ever heard within the last few hours or so its not racisist to kill african zombies whats racisist is these people who have nothing better to do but ruin video gamers lives they are pathetic. if someone has a problem with it then they dont have to play it. you know they say that they game is going to make us want to go out and kill african. yeah cause zombies totaly exsist. ITS A GAME PEOPLE DONT BE STUPID. every other game we all killed white zombies were there reports of teenagers killing white people cause they thought they were zombies NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

posted 11:19pm EDT - October 27th, 2007
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Some people are rediculous

posted 11:00pm EST - January 9th, 2008
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sorry Chris has already killed all the white zombies.

an Leon all the European ones.

like seriously.

wtf?

posted 7:13pm EDT - March 10th, 2008
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RE4 was actually spanish with more pale faces, but still he is an officer not a millitary operative. He's trying to save them, but it's probably too late anyways. Also, Umbrella has places all over, eventually we had to go to Africa, and it'll probably South America or Asia next. (RE4 was Europe, the rest were in America)

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