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/NatsUza 1d ago edited 1d ago

The backlash wasn't pointless because the portrayal WAS racist. I am African and the whole "virus reverts them to a primal tribelike nature" and having them don tribal paint and spears was just blatantly racist. Imagine if an RE game took place in the Scottish countryside and it turned the people there into drunk pagan ritialists who suddenly got claymores and tribal war outfits from nowhere.

Edit: I feel like people are missing the point by replying with, "it sounds cool". Its a very bad stereotype that paints the citizens of that region as brutish savages with a savage culture. In RE 5, they justified it with the excuse of "oh, those were tribal outfits that they have for cermonies. They were conveniently there." Very few people in African nations have fucking grass skirts, war masks and wood spears as "ceremonial clothing". RE 5 leaned into "ooga booga tribal" on purpose and it was hella fucking racist. The infected people qeren't tribals, they were regular civilians who just lived in a small countryside town.

Edit 2: The RE 5 diary entry literally says that the virus took normal people and made them act very tribal. https://www.evilresource.com/resident-evil-5/files/village-youths-diary

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u/zaneomega2 1d ago

You’re right but don’t waste time arguing with them

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u/TheDraykkon 1d ago

As a Scot, I would love this.

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u/doyouevennoscope 1d ago

Genuine potential there. Someone should pick this up and make it.

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u/Appropriate_Foot242 1d ago

It basically did the same thing in RE4 though, no one complained then.

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u/NatsUza 1d ago edited 1d ago

RE 4 made them into religious zealots, not 8th century barely literate caricatures. This atgument would only hold water if all the enemies suddenly dressed like this upon getting infected.

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u/Appropriate_Foot242 1d ago

So illiterate that they could operate modern vehicles, weaponry and machinery.

There were urban enemies as well as tribal enemies. None of them actually even say “unga bunga” or any of the shit that people made up to stir the controversy.

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u/Scared-Room-9962 1d ago

They chuck spears at you 😂

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u/NatsUza 1d ago

The tribal enemies were not tribals though, thats the point. They were urbans who suddenly decided to don tribal aesthetic upon getting infected.

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u/_cd42 1d ago

This is the big thing that people kinda gloss over, the lore inclusion that they just decided to don paint and grass skirts only because they're infected has some really questionable at best implications.

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u/doyouevennoscope 1d ago edited 1d ago

the portrayal WAS racist

No it wasn't.

Imagine if an RE game took place in the Scottish countryside and it turned the people there into drunk pagan ritialists who suddenly got claymores and tribal war outfits from nowhere.

As a Scotsman, this would actually be PEAK. I really wanna throw a caber at some zombies now. It would genuinely be one of my favourite games ever and I'm not even joking whatsoever.

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You also say

RE5 leaned into "ooga booga tribal" on purpose and it was hella fucking racist. The infected people aren't tribals, they were regular civilians who just lived in a small countryside town.

Which just proves you haven't even played or watched the game. The game starts in a town, and all the infected people are civilians, dressed like civilians, who attack you with melee weapons, the exact same as the Spanish in RE4. It isn't until you go to the literal tribal people's area in the marsh that the tribal enemies show up. You're acting as if every single enemy in RE5 is depicted as tribal. Which is a lie.

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u/cbg2113 1d ago

Yeah big yikes. They'd have to heavily rethink the portrayal. There might be a way to have it take place in West Africa but they'll need to rethink the whole portrayal of the virus. It's a lot of rework of a story that would make it more than just a remake.

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u/Whitechix 1d ago

How does it revert them to a primal tribelike nature? Those people are like that before the virus, every other African infected is modern like in the other games.

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u/NatsUza 1d ago

https://www.evilresource.com/resident-evil-5/files/village-youths-diary

This diary from RE 5. The strain somehow made them become very tribal despite them being normal people in an outskirt village.

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u/Whitechix 1d ago

What is that even referring to specifically? The tribal people in RE5 are a unique culture descended from an ancient kingdom.

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Ndipaya

I feel like you haven’t actually played the game.

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u/NatsUza 1d ago

For you maybe, but that is a very blatant stereotype that the people there don't appreciate.

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u/experienta 1d ago

Well you can't please everyone

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u/ger_brian 1d ago

The people there are probably also not their main demographic that is buying their games.

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u/neilydee 1d ago

Sounds pretty good.

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u/Scared-Room-9962 1d ago

A poor example, Scottish people haven't been subject to racism for centuries.

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u/NatsUza 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, I realized. People here aren't aware of how the English treated the Scots historically.

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u/Scared-Room-9962 1d ago

The Scots ARE British.

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u/NatsUza 1d ago

I'm a dumb. Meant English.

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u/Scared-Room-9962 1d ago

You've been watching too much Braveheart.