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New Resident Evil 5 trailer
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Mintmaster
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This soldier doesn't have forearms as wide as his head and half the width of his waist. Even Jay Cutler doesn't have forearms like Chris.
That is a SF type in the field.
Chris doesn't look too weird to me.
This game (as all RE games) is not about zombies but the evil within, afaik (I am not an expert on the series).
As for racism, I am immune to it to the point that I don't care about it (if it doesn't involve violence or supremacism). There are MUCH more important problems in my list of priorities.
I am a nationalist, and sometimes racism has something to do with it -reciprocal racism- so I am used to this, but I just want to feel free. I don't care that much about looks of other regions people, but MY people.
A couple of years ago, there has been a conflict in Ivory Coast, there are inter-ethnics confrontations, people is dying. Does anyone remember Rwanda? (tootsies and hutus, whatever it's spelled).
Okay, they are blacks, from a nazi point of view they should be even, fighting for the same interests, but they don't, they just hate each other. Proud Masai are a good example of black people that don't care about their skin colour.
Ironically, games brought about more killings to whites than to other races, no-one did complain.
It's just a game, without real people or featuring people based on actual facts (Manhunt 2 is an example of lack of humaneness, since they featured a kid who died IRL or something like that), who cares?!
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I don't see it. Those are specific examples with specific nationalities and specific locations evoking specific events... there is really no other way to interpret it, and what's being implied is unmistakable.
Is apartheid specifically being evoked? Are they being hunted down and slain by a slaver? Essentially, the rationale seems to be "there can be no white-on-black violence in Africa" (and I imagine they would share the same stance if this were taking place on a block in Harlem, so you don't even really need the "in Africa")... Not even in one scene, or what could be one level, in an otherwise enormous game that goes in many other directions.
Heck, their other qualms are similarly misplaced, because basically in the context of every Resident Evil, while the "zombies" (whatever form they take) are "the enemy," they're not really feared or reviled or detested so much as pitied, and seen as killing in self defence to get out of there. They are the victims. The only ones seen as evil or hated are the puppet-masters at the end, using the virus toward their own malevolent ends.
It's illogical. It's knee-jerk. It's silly. ...and it doesn't help them confront matters of genuine racism.
NovemberMike
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Ok, he has popeye forearms, which is kind of weird. That still doesn't mean the overall physique is completely wrong.
Me thinksk he looksk just fine! Aack-k-k-k-k-k!
archangelmorph
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Everything you've said here is true..
But none of what you've said here changes the fact that any developers of creative media with such a very strong and very real ability to influence people (regardless of intent) 's views, opinions and perceptions of the world we live in, need to be sensitive to the impact of such imagery presented towards nations and individuals who may or may not have issue with it..
I don't blame Capcom in this regard because we all know there's more to this game then any "focus of white-on-black-violence".. However I do blame them for showcasing the game initially in such a way that depicts the suggestion that this may be the/a focus of the game to the uninformed/unfamilar viewer..
It's certainly not a big deal.. It's certainly doesn't require further action by any party at this stage.. However it also doesn't change the fact that the TRAILER footage (not necessarily the game) is suggestive enough to cause controversy and offend certain groups (whether they are justified or not in their offense, it really doesn't matter..)
That's the reality of the situation and so people around here clearly shouldn't be so suprised (or offended even) by it..
I usually have issues when it comes to games that focus on terrorism with seemingly realistic views on the subject and gameplay that sells itself as the real thing. Because once you get down to it everything is political.
That said, a game with zombies, aliens or whatever… It’s really difficult to throw at it accusations that are actually based in every day life and our reality.
What is more important for me, is intent. Something that is very difficult to prove but I think that 90% of the time you can tell if there is any in a sec.
So for me at least, I think that RE5 is just another game. Nothing more.
I can’t be 100% sure it’s not the answer of the white to “Night of the living dead†where a black man is trying to survive from many white zombies. But then again those were different times with too much oppression and not an easy way to sent the message.
That said, a game with zombies, aliens or whatever… It’s really difficult to throw at it accusations that are actually based in every day life and our reality.
What is more important for me, is intent. Something that is very difficult to prove but I think that 90% of the time you can tell if there is any in a sec.
So for me at least, I think that RE5 is just another game. Nothing more.
I can’t be 100% sure it’s not the answer of the white to “Night of the living dead†where a black man is trying to survive from many white zombies. But then again those were different times with too much oppression and not an easy way to sent the message.
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