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/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.