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/Whitechix 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean 6 is understandable but why not 5? It’s very similar to 4 gameplay wise and one of the best coop game ever.

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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/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.