N'Gai Croal comments on RE5 trailer, but all we see is another Capcom hit

Bathyj - 636 days 15 hours ago

Its seems if you're an angry, oversensitive black person, with a chip on his/her shoulder, then everything is about race.

Thankfully thats just a minority group with in a minority group. Most black gamers wouldn't have a problem with this I would think.

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-EvoAnubis- - 636 days 16 hours ago

I'm black too, and I feel that if you look hard enough, you can find racism anywhere if it meets your private agenda.

People seriously need to let things like this go. Hell, if there were no black people in the game at all, someone could call racism. You just can't win . . . there's just no pleasing some people.

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crck - 636 days 17 hours ago

Anyway, one has to wonder how many white people this fool has shot in video games without a second thought. I hope Capcom makes a zombie model look just like N'Gai Croal. hahaha

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gano - 636 days 17 hours ago

I was just about to indicate that. The funny part is they make it seem
as if africans have nothing to be offended about, slavery just calmed
down 40yrs ago. Tho the truth is if your not of that color u will never
understand.

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beavis4play - 636 days 16 hours ago

so, if a white person is shown as dangerous(zombies RE1,2,3, code veronica....) this is ok, but if blacks are shown in the same way- it's a crime? hogwash.

and on the slavery issue and not understanding if we aren't that color. i guess you forgot all of the millions of whites who were slaves at diff. points in history. newsflash, slavery didn't start with black people. and also, many countries with a "black only" population continue to enslave, mutilate, and torture each other. where is the outrage to this stuff that ACTUALLY HAPPENS FOR REAL!!!!!

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Bathyj - 636 days 15 hours ago

7.2

Hogwash, theres a word that doesn't get much play. I'm going to start using it more to try and keep it alive.

That'll show these c0ckimaimee rapscallions and their rambunctious skylarkings.

Edit
Ha, I wasn't allowed to type C*ck.

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UJUSTLOSTONE - 636 days 11 hours ago

and Bubbs for you Action

I hear what your sayin man !

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gano - 636 days 15 hours ago

You don't understand, and obviously didn't read what N'gai was sayin
but sorry roman times(ex) don't count. Are you living in rome? As well as was a televison program made about you sayin you were a monster
and came to still cats wives? Or been told not to be taught native tongue. No....hmmmm. I'm not sure if your feelings were hurt somwhere but in regards to in the native land I know a country that steal people
stuff,lies,and conspire to get what they want. And still as a colored person shot for being jus that. Whites(as you put)are also suppose to be god, jesus, a saint and so forth. This was not to be offensive, jus more of (and you proved) some won't and never will understand, ever. To those who do thank you for taking the time to read what he said and the courage to help get those who don't to somehow understand.

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allforcalisto - 636 days 15 hours ago

A white dude killing white people in prior resi's ISN'T THE DAMN SAME!!! its not in the same ball park. The devs behind the game have said they've got inspiration from black hawk down.
Look Croal himself isn't saying this is KKK training material. However he does make a great point. When people like him bring up this issue ignorant fools say "oh it's just a game." wait so we were all defending Bioshock and saying it was art for purpose. Maybe because we thought that games are saying things. Lets not play dumb.

seriously if one more person says "wellzz in da priorzz resi' so dat was racist" i think i might explode. I think the only thing worse than that is these stupid asshats saying "Omg so dat means GTA san andreas is Raysist"
Yeah gta the game where you kill people of all complexions and backgrounds. Gta A game where the protagonists have been black, white, italian, now eastern european.

think about it. Croal is probably one of the most intelligent and well respected gaming journalists.

I think resi 4 felt just as ugly as this game, but no one really spoke about it. It was ugly in the same way Hollywood is ugly. "oh look the president's aryan blonde daughter needs to be saved from these non zombies medditeraneans" who will save the day? some 90's looking blonde with baywatch hair.
In addition what makes these games even more f'd up than prior resi's is the fact that they're making the "zombies" less stupid. by giving them more "intelligence" you make them more human, by doing that it kinda feels like you're killing civilians. Thats what resi 4 felt like, and of what i've seen of this game it's what it looks like too. I dont think we've even seen an inch of how much commotion this game is gonna cause.

reason why the protagonists in all the main series resi are white is because they believe white's will be put off from buying the game. Appealing to demographics. but then we kinda gotta realize something about the demographic. in the resi 5 gs forum all i saw for weeks was "cant wait for me to kill sum n*****s" "'cause its africa u know they''re gonna run fast"

lastly ppl saying "they're japaneez they' cant be raysist". This game and the japanese like everywhere and everything else has been inspired by hollywood and america.

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gano - 636 days 15 hours ago

Might still kick ass, but thank you for understanding. Truly.

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gano - 636 days 15 hours ago

Some cats i swear make it seem as if you have nothing to feel bad about
but forget that feeling is still there even when it's not intentional.

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Action Bastard - 636 days 15 hours ago

Are you really that dense? And can you point out a single zombie in RE4, let alone this trailer? See, things in the this world transcend the teachings and/or life lessons of the 11th grade.

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gano - 636 days 15 hours ago

Would not be new homie sorry you fail. Tho it's like sayin i'm spit in your face you will drink it and be glad i did it.

J-seb good point and basically the thing that would have prob
made this whole thing null and void.

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Action Bastard - 636 days 14 hours ago

Actually, the villagers in RE4 were infected by a parasite known as Las Plagas. And it appears this will be no different in RE5. So I ask, have you played RE4?

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kingOVsticks - 636 days 13 hours ago

if your color blind but to say that you don't see color isn't true. You can forget color but you can see it for example I see a tall guy I notice that hes white but I treat him no differently thats being aware of his culture and race.That doesn't make you racist at all, if you treat him differently because he was that color then its racist. It may be hard to understand where the writer is coming from but if you have no history with resident evil and you just watch the trailer the average person is going to make that assumption thats its racist black or an assumption along those lines. The trailer doesn't make anything obvious you can't tell that those people are zombies and you can't tell that the white guy with the gun is trying to help them. Anyone else will see these crazy black people in turmoil attacking this buff white guy with a gun.Some people might go on to say that the black people are protecting themselves while this solider is there to slaughter them. I on the other hand see the game for what it is a game but to say that no one will notice how the game will come off is naive. Seriously, fox is going to a have field day when this comes out.

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Action Bastard - 636 days 12 hours ago

That's why I am glad N'Gai wrote his take on it. Hopefully, if Fox does try to clusterf*ck the game, he and others with a sensible, honest view will speak out as well. I'm of mixed race and do feel I can see both points rather clearly. For most gamers and RE fans alike (myself included), we see and understand from jump what this game will be about. If you played RE4, you saw this as an enormous step forward graphically for the series. You also saw some stellar lighting and the over-the-shoulder view we've come to love. Race wasn't the focus. More than anything, the location intrigued us to where the story had gone. Chris was a welcomed sight even if he looked like the guys in high school you just wanted to hit in the mouth with a brick. But there is an opposite, a logical and honest opposite to that spectrum and it deserves to be acknowledged. There is the view that this is, in some way, is feeding the dirtiest part of our subconscious. That these people of color, regardless if they're African or Haitian, must die. Realistically, step back and look at the trailer. There is no identification of Chris as a cop or soldier or "hero". There is a village of people, damn near defenseless people, being murdered, We KNOW as gamers, this is not the case. We are the fortunate ones. I think Capcom has done ZERO wrong. Could the trailer have been constructed with more sensitivity towards not only the race, but the culture depicted? Sure. That's not a crazy thing to think.

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