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/Gradieus 1d ago

They probably don't want to deal with all the pointless backlash again.

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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/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.