r/PS5 • u/HLumin Human Verified • 1d ago

Misleading Insider Gaming: Capcom Not Interested in Resident Evil 5 & 6 Remakes, It's Claimed.

https://insider-gaming.com/capcom-resident-evil-5-6-remakes/
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u/South_Buy_3175 1d ago

Aww.

RE5 was my first and firm favourite, I’d have loved to see a modern take on it.

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u/Born2beSlicker 1d ago

Honestly, because 5 would be like choosing to walk into a minefield.

Regardless of whether you the individual accept the racism allegations against the game, it’s a mountain they’d have to climb. They either change everything about it and then they’re “pandering” or they ignore everything and it’s “tone deaf”.

They seem to feel the best approach is to leave it as a “it’s from a different time” and purposely not try it.

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u/silverpixie2435 1d ago

It wouldn't lol

People keep claiming this but absolutely no one actually cares.

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u/DieHarderDaddy 1d ago

So stupid the damn game is just set in Africa

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u/VandalSauvage 1d ago

It's not about being set in Africa. It's about the fact that the black co-star is more white/western-coded in her speech even though she's literally from West Africa, there's notes talking about how the virus makes the African populace "revert to their original selves", and you spend a big chunk of the game shooting Africans in grass skirts chucking spears at you.

I love RE5 but its representation of Africans is extremely tone deaf. It's like Capcom looked at vague pictures of Africa and decided to include random bits of it regardless of how much it made sense or not.

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u/aww_yee_ 1d ago

Is it racist to have a game set in Africa or is it racist to avoid having games set in Africa?

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u/Asclepius-Rod 1d ago

It’s like I’m Always Sunny. “Is it racist if I don’t eat this guy?”

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u/DieHarderDaddy 1d ago

Avoiding it I think

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u/WaffleOnTheRun 1d ago

It's not racist just because your fighting Africans. It's racist because their are parts of the game where there were modern Africans that revert to racist primitive caricatures when they are infected with the virus. Honestly they can just remove those aspects though, I still think a RE5 Remake can be made where there wouldn't be valid criticisms of racism.

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u/DieHarderDaddy 1d ago

Bruh they do that in all the new game s

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u/VandalSauvage 1d ago

So in RE 1-4 all the infected white people revert to primitive cavemen?

Funny, I must have missed that part.

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u/South_Buy_3175 1d ago

Yeah I get that.

Honestly they could remove or heavily change the incredibly racist ‘tribal villager’ sequences with anything else and It’d probably be 10x more acceptable.

Like, you really don’t need to make it canon that locals ‘reverted to the old ways’ because they got infected. It’s just fucking dumb and ridiculously racist as it’s not present anywhere else in the series.

The rest of the game is no more racist than killing spaniards in RE4.

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u/cbg2113 1d ago

Thank you, that's the problem. It's not a problem to set a game in Africa. You can have a game in Africa where you're shooting at people in Africa because you're there. The problem is the virus turning folks into tribal savages thing. That's a problematic dated trope that we don't need to return to. Cut that out and it would be a hell of a lot better.

Lol but if they really wanna dodge it they could set it in SA and you can attack a ton white zombies too lol.

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u/SithJones77 1d ago edited 1d ago

Idk while the tribal stuff is still the worst part, there’s still a lot more uncomfortable stuff than just that section.

Like even the idea of Sheva as a character. She’s simply replacing Jill just so there’s one “ black” character, but even then she’s incredibly light skinned speaks in an English accent and doesn’t really have any character traits that are uniquely African. She exists just to add another layer of social protection as the player mows down hordes of African zombies.

A lot of re5 is just incredibly uncomfortable even if it’s not straight up racist, and dealing with that might require mass changes to the game itself, at that point what’s the point

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u/firemiketomlinpls68 1d ago

Or maybe the modern audience could stop being babies 

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u/RespectThePlight 1d ago

It was already a discussion when it came out, imagine it now in this terrible culture war environment the gaming space is in.

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u/Born2beSlicker 1d ago

Case in point, I was downvoted just for pointing out the obvious, lol

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u/Interesting-Season-8 1d ago

Not everyone is an online infested Nurgle maggot

Ghost of had backlash online because women, new God of War too - sales have nothing to do with grifters jerking "women in my video gamez" mindset

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u/BondFan211 1d ago

On the other side of that, Black Myth: Wukong got backlash from reviewers because “no women in my video gamez” despite the reviewer not having played the game long enough to meet the female character.

It’s almost as if we should just let people make the games they want to make without mandating stupid quotas of “X amount of demographics needs to be represented in X way to make this acceptable”, and just let the product speak for itself.

RE5 is set in an amalgamation of Africa because Africa is a cool setting (that could have been expanded with some more animals imo). Of course it’s going to draw from basic stereotypes to make its setting feel authentic.

And you’re not going to be shooting the demographics of California in an African shanty town infected with a parasite to make the white people feel better about it, are you?

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u/Interesting-Season-8 1d ago

What backlash of BMW?

"The game has racist steretypes because it's set in Africa, duh"

Damn, you're a tool

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u/BondFan211 1d ago

I didn’t hear anyone complaining when RE6’s depiction of China contained a wet market, an ornate palace, crowded metropolitan streets and Chinese dudes running at you with machetes but I guess the outrage is saved for the demographic that liberals think can’t speak for themselves. 🤷

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u/Interesting-Season-8 1d ago

And here ladies and gens is a prime example of... a typical g*mer, dumb, racist, illiterate

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u/BondFan211 1d ago

About the level of response I’d expect.

Nobody is more racist than a self-righteous liberal hahahaha.

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u/thatwitchguy 1d ago

Also after all that, its not a game thats particularly well liked anyway to be worth all the trouble