Yep, I remember someone tried to make noise about it and it was roundly ignored. They thought they had the environment to bring it up again now and got a rude awakening.
Not entirely. Capcom came up with Sheva late in development after that “backlash” happened. Now granted people did like Sheva since her character was still cool (heck even I would like to see her again), but studios were starting to cower under journalists even back then.
@@alexkogan9755 Not only that but the town Majini's all of a sudden were multi-racial. You see white, black, Asian, and Arab Majini's. Also, did not see these people complain then about shooting Chinese people in RE 6.
@@terryrocks2j Yup. They treat Black people like a sacred cow to a cultish degree (Nazism in blackface I call it). The libs were also quick to stop using the “StopAsianHate” hashtag after 5 seconds of use and going back to treating them as “White adjacent” because God forbid some people actually hold themselves up to standards.
If anyone acuses RE5 for being racist you know IMMEDIATLY that they didn't played the game. They always use the same scenes from the start of the game. They have no idea what the story is actually about. Actually it's much worse, they dared threatening Capcom. They really are out of tbeir minds.
You fight alongside the African branch of the BSAA to stop criminals from exploiting people who can't fight back. It's the same story in other re entries. The game makes clear that the locals are not bad guys. Instead they are being mind controlled against their will with parasites (aka Las Plagas).
Actually, IGN played the game. They even gave it a 9 out of 10. The problem is that that was IGN from over 15 years ago. The IGN of today is overrun with gen z and the pod people who probably helped give the game a 9, now obey the virtue signal laws of current year.
I love how in the article, they say the solution is to have the main character as black and sympathetic, acting like one of my favorite characters, Sheva doesn't exist.
These halfwits have been pretending Sheva hasn’t existed from the beginning. Can’t remember which game it was but these same people were celebrating that a black woman was finally the main character in a game not too long ago. Thought it was a capcom game but I can’t remember what the hell it was, may have even been forspoken lol.
@@LockPickingPaws Holy fuck I didn’t know there were more Urban Chaos game. Riot Response had been one of my favorite games for years and I wondered why they only made 1.
Wouldn't portraying black people killing black people also be racist due to the similarity of black gang violence that was too often the default representation of black characters in media? Guaranteed they would still find a way to say it's racist.
@@LockPickingPawsI guess you never read the capcom diversity memo. Why do you think Ada says "I don't work and tell" in place of "I don't kiss and tell" like many of the other ridiculous changes made in the shitty ass RE4R. Be more mindful of what you're buying and have standards.
The crazy thing is I’m black and I never felt like RE5 was racist towards black people. Me and my WHITE friends would play co-op on it all the time and we had a ball 🎉
Zombies are zombies. I never even thought about the fact that they were black. Given the location it just made sense, so it never stood out. I am white, so maybe I am not the one to speak on that matter, but I just never thought about it at all. Just like I never really thought about that most of the zombies were white in RE2. I think that most people, regardless of color, just don't really think about that stuff all that much. Because most people are not obsessed with race. Having been an online gamer for the vast majority of my life, I have been surrounded by the most diverse people possible. Men, women, gay, straight, black, white and the list just keeps going. To gamers there are two criteria that matters: Can you play the game reasonably well? If yes, good. Are you a pleasant person to spend prolonged time with? If yes, good. If both of those are yes, then we are gaming together. It is as simple as that. Gamers are the most inclusive people I have ever met. No other community has tried that hard to help people enter their space. This whole "gamers are toxic" narrative is alien to me. Sure, they will make fun of you and say the most outlandish stuff EVER, but if you ask for help you will get an army of people eager to help. I simp hard for that community.
Right? I'm black and my best friend is white. But we played through RE 4, 5, and 6 together and I don't care if the zombies are black. Zombies are zombies, bro. I don't give a fuck what they look like.
And if they didnt have the game placed in africa theyd complain about it too 🙄 all they do is complain and im sick of hearing it. Giving in doesnt fix it either. It makes it worse cuz then these pos know they can win. Its just a matter of how long before they crack. This is why you dont bend to these pos people. Oh also theyre zombies and no longer human so why does their race matter? Is anyone playing a zombie who feels unrepresented?? Lol
And after the announcement of the DHS targeting gamers in their never ending effort to label every US resident as terrorists, that literally is the case. They really are 100% textbook propagandists.
Im Latino and a resident evil fan as well. RE4 was based in a Spanish village. I had absolutely no issues at all and is still my favorite game in the franchise.
Bro I'd be thrilled if a Resident Evil game took place in my country/culture. There's no disrespect whatsoever in what they do; it's just a setting. American corporate entities being offended constantly on behalf of other cultures/nations is pathetic. Who the f do they think they are.
They said the same thing re4 its wetbavks being killed by blond Leon it’s not Spain it’s Mexico and demanded Nintendo not allow it on gc and it’s not family friendly same shit re4 re5
They act like Sheva wasn't a playable character...these journalists can barely get through tutorials, let alone call themselves gamers. Nothing they say matters.
@@KingRumar Some games already have done that like Forza Motorsport. There's assisted steering and braking. The AI can finish races by itself. It's ridiculous.
Exactly! It doesn't make sense from the perspective of wanting representation to deny an entire continent of a genre. If a zombie outbreak happens in Africa, of course there's going to be African zombies.
I’m a black person and RE5 is my favorite one. If they change this game or refuse to remake it because of game journos I legit will burn every bit of resident evil game and memorabilia I own. I am dying for this remake. I will be so mad. They ALREADY changed the game when they released it the first time!!!
Bro please don't destroy what you love *and have already paid for* to "spite" people who won't know or care if you did destroy all your RE stuff!!! Cherish what we do have and enjoy without shelling anything out to people who hate our enjoyment! Though it is your stuff, do with it what you'd like.
don't go burning what you own. IF things look bad, don't buy the game, ignore the studio and future products, and keep an eye out for who was involved. Lets be frank- the people who made a lot of what we enjoyed back in the day have long been replaced. track down physical copies of the original RE5 in the meantime and hold onto them. keep em safe from further tampering.
Imma 6’5 black dude that grew up in South Carolina I’ve experienced actual racism and racial discrimination in my life before when you got these mofos sitting back sipping there coffee complaining about non issues it really upsets me man smh 🤦🏾♂️ like I just wanna game and get escapism damn
I think the rainbow colored haired, tattoo skinned, rainbow attire and piercings with social justice slogans make more sense as zombies because they scream, foam at the mouths and attack anyone who disagrees with them. The social justice activists act more like the rampant undead by spitting and infecting others with their beliefs.
Based on current woke standards, that particular african setting should've had pasty white people, Asians, native americans, indians, LGTV QLED zombie representation, etc. Tbh, those zombies weren't diverse enough in that setting, so these complaints are legit 😏
There in lies the problem. You have to have the populace as the enemy, just like in every RE game. They are the victims, they didn't chose to be zombies and RE5 shows this insanely well. If you say no shooting black people, then you say no RE5 in Africa.
@@danzig3764Bunch of mor0ns for sure. Taking away a person's legacy cause a few people are triggered! I'm sure their families receives royalties from those trademarks 🙄
The game is a Zombie-Apocalyptic-Genre that takes place in Africa, a region that is filled with mostly homogenous people and homogenous nations are NOT a bad thing because that is natural in the world on any time-period. Some nations are multi-ethnic, and some are mono-ethnic, and where a piece of fiction takes place usually reflects what people they have, and if a nation is infected with zombies then that means the zombies should look like the people of said nation. There is NO RACISM, NO PREJUDICE and NO HATRED in a story with that concept, the ones that do are the REAL PREJUDICED and/or DELUDED party. (If I am in a resort hotel in a zombie apocalypse, I would be seeing zombies in their swimwear or something.)
We live in a world where pointing out racism even if you have to practically invent it makes people feel superior. It's like "how dare you, I would never do that because I'm a better person." This kind of mentality has become such a plague, I'm happy there has been so much pushback.
Remember ppl, trying to save african ppl from a virus Even when You got help of an african person is racist if you are not african. C'mon Even Leon got to Spain to save part of our people from a milinarian fongus... And we don't cry, in fact we love it... Even with things like the dub of the Town...we loved it. D E T R A S D E T I I M B E C I L
You’re thinking too much, these people never stood behind their words. Get any POC and let them decide for themselves what they want to do especially if it’s not toeing the line for these cultist activists and they (the left) become the loudest and proudest racists in the room. Right now it’s okay to be racist against white people, Jewish, and Asians (until they benefit for defending Asians), but get a proud black woman who is conservative (you know, how all of Africa is) and they will lose their mind! “You better be a good little puppet and stay in the line WE made for you!!! You aren’t to go around thinking for yourself, k?!”
I made a joke back in the day that RE5 wasn’t racist because you blast black zombies. It’s racist because you plunder Africa’s gold and jewels in order to buy the weapons that you use to blast black zombies.
The RE5 make definitely isn't going to have Shevas sexy jungle girl alternate outfit. Anita Sarkeesian dedicated a whole section of one of her videos to how that 'exoticized and dehumanized' black women.
"Hello. We are from Sweet Baby Inc. I heard you are having a problem with one of your games. I'm sorry to hear that. Would you like to use us to help you fix your problem?" - "Remove Chris Redfield from the game. Put Sheeva in only." I totally would see SBI doing this.
I really can't figure out if IGN were ever credible or I was just blue pilled at the time. Certainly now I would only go to trusted RUclipsrs for reviews and opinions.
I remember this conversation from back when the game first came out, and I was still a kid and didn't quite have my ear to the ground to gaming like I do now. I thought it was stupid then, and I still think it's stupid now.
Chris was supposed to be the only protag at one point back before it was released and some of the enemies were changed iirc. Capcom changed them due to "complaints".
As an African i actually loved the fact that RE5 was in Africa. Me and my friends would come home from school and jump on the coop till we beat the game. Honestly while i love RE4, RE5 have me my best gaming memories.
I'm pretty sure the LGBTQ community would be the first ones to go if the zombie apocalypse did actually happen, next to fat people. Since for them preaching is far more important then survival. 🤣
Chris and Sheva gunning undead infected rainbow colored haired, tattoo skinned, with piercings mob make more sense as zombies. I'll laugh my ass off if we have zombie drag queens as the mini bosses.
Ain't no way the Tribal outfit is making it into the remake, if there is one. But yeah. Capcom has an ESG department. They've censored skirts and flirting. Idk how they'd handle Africa or even the crossdressing in CVX. Also, Sheva is bae.
I remember when RE5 was shown, one of the talks early on was how "bad" it was to have a white man kill hordes of black zombies. Then Sheva was introduced later and the crowd of people in the game began to be more diversified. There were whites and Asians suddenly in the next trailer after Sheva's introduction. It wasn't so much a problem, like it would have been today, but it was clear they were aware enough to maybe make some changes to get out of the idea of a sole white-man clearing hordes of black zombies. Mind you, I'm talking the very first EARLY trailers which had a more horror vibe to it. It was not marketed as the more action-oriented gameplay it became. There was talks of things like managing hydration and hallucinations due to heat exhaustion and stuff in the very early talks.
The moment I was absolutely slapped with the realization that IGN went limp, was the time they were discussing an early play of a call of duty game that triggered the hell out of them. Saying it was too violent or the content was not appropriate. Can't wait till we get back to reality.
Not gonna lie: I loved Resident Evil 5 when it came out. My only problem was the Jill subplot, I think that should have been Steve Burnside. It was game journalists causing pointless noise-then as now.
It was a problem back then, that's why they introduced the character of Sheeva Alomar. The problem is, the gaming landscape was different back then, we are more radicalized today, so that remake is going to suffer because of that.
I wish u were right Gary and Rippa about gamers being fed up with this whole woke industry but alot of people are still unaware or don't pay attention too youtubers. if I ask any of these kids I work with, (and they are gamers) who sweet baby inc is. They have no idea what I'm talking about.
Its weird, cause when RE5 was revealed. There were people claiming it as racist and reported. I remember game journalist back then defended RE5, EGM was one.
The two main antagonists, Excella and Wesker are white. So are some of their henchmen. They are the ones who unleashed Ourobouros upon the black west African people. Your partner character, Cheva, is a black African woman. There are S.T.A.R.S members who are black African fighting the same enemies you are. Taking one aspect of the game and using it to paint the whole thing as racist does not make sense. Seriously what do people even get out of trying to paint everything racist?
RE5 was fantastic. It had the control scheme that I wanted in RE4, the coop gimmick that was awesome as long as you had a real human to play with, and a solid enough plot. Smacking a gigantic crocodile with a stun baton is something that I'm not able to do in nearly enough games. These weirdos would lose their minds if they had to ability to make it to the Hong Kong levels in Deus Ex.
I remember back in the 90s, I had a subscription to PC Gamer magazine for many years. Awesome demo discs with every issue, and, most importantly REVIEWS YOU COULD RELY ON. Those were the days when game jounos were actually gamers.
1:29 it was a problem back then, cause originally it was supposed to be another single player game, but the vocal minority threw a shit fit about a white guy going around shooting black people, so that's why they added sheva
Do any of these journalists ever stop to think the Japanese aren’t worried about western sensitivities like they are? Last thing those devs gave a shit about, bet.
Since IGN has such a huge issue with Africans finally being a main part in a remake of one of the best-selling survival horror games of all time, then when Capcom does do a remake IGN shouldn't have any problems if Capcom blacklisted IGN from receiving a review copy then.
Actually, Eric back at 09 there was a bit of a pushback when the first trailer came out and yeah, the usual suspects cough cough moviebob cried racism, but people thought it was kind of stupid. It’s good to see something never change.
I personally think Marvel and DC could turn things around. The only problem is they would have to fire a majority of their staff to do it and hire competent writers again. Good luck with that.
I find this funny considering that a game reviewer was complaining about the opposite in which in another zombie game “Days Gone” had NO black zombies in it.
I hate it when foreign companies try to pander to current day American brain rot. Yakuza lead dev has the right mindset: "we make games for the japanese, fuck off". Or when the woke mob tried to cancel kingdom come deliverance, and the dev laughed in their face saying that there were no black people in medieval bohemia so wtf would he put them in his game set in those exact times. I wish more people did that.
When I saw the teaser trailer for Resident Evil 5 way back when, it felt like a breath of fresh air to be honest. The new location, zombies that weren't all fair skinned, decaying husks, and the return of Chris Redfield as front and center protagonist. I'm black myself, but the appeal behind "RESIDENT' Evil, for me at least, was the horror of finding that your neighbors or people you don't even know had been turned against their will into infected monsters. These beings pursue you relentlessly through the streets of the once bustling cities/villages they once inhabited with the simple goal of devouring you while you're alive to feel it. That's Resident Evil. And having that shift to an African setting brought more mystery to the franchise, same as 4 did. The villagers in 5 were just victims of the same evil that brought Raccoon City to ruin. Africa was just another backdrop for delivering the horror that Resident Evil captures so well, the horror of being hunted by people that aren't quite human anymore. But that's not what these journos see. All they can see is that another game has dared to "target" and "demonize" a marginalized group of people, and completely ignoring the context of the situation, rally to flaunt their virtuous selves by proclaiming that games like Resident Evil 5 are the problem and that they, the "virtuous ones" are the final word on what's just and morally acceptable in the world. This complex is all that these people have and they need to be humbled by us, the actual gamers for which this media was intended. IGN dude likely never even played the game as he fails to acknowledge that Sheva, a black woman, is a playable protagonist. The modern audience is a mere grain of sand on a beach surrounded by the rest of us gamers that never cared about race, and that only ever sought enjoyment and companionship from others that felt the same passion about our hobby, regardless of gender or race. We were accepting of all kinds of people, from all over the world, didn't matter their circumstances or what they looked like. That's what gaming is. Bringing people together to play just one more round before bed. Makes you wonder if these journo folks were even around when we were all enjoying the hobby back then.
"Double jeopardy means that once a person has been tried for a crime, they cannot be tried again for the same offense" Hence CAPCOM ovecame this cntroversial bullshit back then with original RE5, so coming again with the same controversy makes no sense.
we went through this when the original re5 came out. i think they had a major delay on the release so they could add more diversity in the races of the zombies. i swear they think everything is racist
Everyone else's concern: Black Zombies- Yay or Nay My concern: They are going to royally fuck up how great Wesker was in the OG RE5 with the remake aren't they?
Credit where credit is due. Youngrippa isnt just constantly at all hours of the day and night whining about the current state of pop culture, atleast he is trying to actually resolve the matter in a world where all he has to do to make money is complain and NEVER lift a finger to fix it, like...almost ALL the rest are doing so...salute!!!
They think it's fine if a black person kills a white person (zombie) but it's wrong for a white person to kill a black person (zombie). Let that sink in, and it'll tell you how messed up and corrupted these people's minds are. I thought the people that didn't like any killing in a video game were being a little silly, but these people are a whole other level of wack.
We had no issues killing off white zombies in the first couple games. “They’re infected so it’s ok” It’s funny they had no issues with killing the Spaniards of re4 “oh they’re infected so it doesn’t matter” No one had issues killing the Chinese zombies and infected Serbians of re6. “They’re infected” But when it always comes to re5 “that’s racist a white man killing black people 😂 “I guess they weren’t infected just offended”
You are correct. We are VERY much over this. These people think games and gamers are bigoted and awful, and need to be educated. The reality is these writers (I refuse to call them journalists. They're just bloggers) are paranoid fanatics, seeing evil in every shadow that they must attack.
There were some complaints back in the day when RE5 was first announced though I don’t believe it was from the gaming media, just a few indie publications.
As a 38yr old black man who grew up in the UK but was ACTUALLY born in Africa, I don't care about whatever nonsense this week I should be "offended by." Especially from people who've likely never left the country let alone their inner bubble. Fans are telling you goodwill is over and we aren't gonna show up to anymore "bait and switches", make good content or explain to shareholders why nobody cares anymore
We have the power to make new stuff and leave the originals to the way they are, the new versions of what we love are gone, just cheap versions. Support new works for a new generation of fans, like indie comics and the rippaverse.
I remember the day i stopped visiting IGN, I had used them for reviews since i was a kid, then the day before The Last Jedi came out they gave it a 9.8/10, I was already super hyped from the trailers and to see Luke again, I read their review and was like "Omg its that good?!" Got more hyped, saw movie, was most disappointed ive ever been over an entertainment property. Lost all respect for IGN and havent cared about their site since 😂
Capcom already hired a PR team to avoid any further situations like this in future game releases 15 years ago when RE5 came out, the bad guys won before the game even came out. Let this show that no matter how much ground you give it will never be enough. even 15 years later they will still demand more.
The RE5 re make has the potential to be an even BETTER co-op experience than the first game in an era where true co-op experiences with your best mates are few and far between. I hope game journalists do not deter CAPCOM from delivering us the true RE5 re make the fans want.
I think the rainbow colored haired, tattoo skinned, rainbow attire and piercings people with social justice slogans make more sense as zombies because they scream, foam at the mouths and attack anyone who disagrees with them. The social justice activists act more like the rampant undead by spitting and infecting others with their beliefs.
N'gai Croal was working as a journalist when RE5 came out and he had a fit. If you search N'gai Croal and RE5 you will; see the controversy. He said it misrepresented Africa. I asked him if he had ever been to Africa. I had multiple times. I informed him if he wanted to take that tack in his argument, he should go and realize it wasn't all people sitting around on picnic blankets, eating a bountiful feast and singing kumbaya. Part of equality is getting represented just like everyone else. I asked him why he didn't have an issue with a Spanish village being depicted in the same way and there was nothing but dead air. Selective outrage.
Equality in all things.....except infected zombie type creatures. RE5 was cool because it was a total fun coop game. I finished the game with a friend over xbox live and we both enjoyed it. It wasn't the best Resident Evil, but it was fun.
This was a "problem" back when it first came out. It was ignored then and should be ignored now
Yep, I remember someone tried to make noise about it and it was roundly ignored. They thought they had the environment to bring it up again now and got a rude awakening.
Not entirely. Capcom came up with Sheva late in development after that “backlash” happened. Now granted people did like Sheva since her character was still cool (heck even I would like to see her again), but studios were starting to cower under journalists even back then.
@@alexkogan9755 Not only that but the town Majini's all of a sudden were multi-racial. You see white, black, Asian, and Arab Majini's. Also, did not see these people complain then about shooting Chinese people in RE 6.
@@terryrocks2j Yup. They treat Black people like a sacred cow to a cultish degree (Nazism in blackface I call it). The libs were also quick to stop using the “StopAsianHate” hashtag after 5 seconds of use and going back to treating them as “White adjacent” because God forbid some people actually hold themselves up to standards.
@@terryrocks2jAsians aren't a protected class.
If anyone acuses RE5 for being racist you know IMMEDIATLY that they didn't played the game. They always use the same scenes from the start of the game. They have no idea what the story is actually about. Actually it's much worse, they dared threatening Capcom. They really are out of tbeir minds.
Facts
You fight alongside the African branch of the BSAA to stop criminals from exploiting people who can't fight back. It's the same story in other re entries. The game makes clear that the locals are not bad guys. Instead they are being mind controlled against their will with parasites (aka Las Plagas).
I agree
The complaints are always surface level. You just can't make a game set in Africa without these moralizers getting angry.
Actually, IGN played the game. They even gave it a 9 out of 10. The problem is that that was IGN from over 15 years ago. The IGN of today is overrun with gen z and the pod people who probably helped give the game a 9, now obey the virtue signal laws of current year.
Can’t spell IGNorant without IGN.
That sounds about right
"Noice"
Bringing back that classic IGN insult I see lol. They never learned.
HAHAHAHAAA! Well done.
Ha ha! Effin genius mate!!
I love how in the article, they say the solution is to have the main character as black and sympathetic, acting like one of my favorite characters, Sheva doesn't exist.
These halfwits have been pretending Sheva hasn’t existed from the beginning. Can’t remember which game it was but these same people were celebrating that a black woman was finally the main character in a game not too long ago. Thought it was a capcom game but I can’t remember what the hell it was, may have even been forspoken lol.
@@LockPickingPaws Holy fuck I didn’t know there were more Urban Chaos game. Riot Response had been one of my favorite games for years and I wondered why they only made 1.
Wouldn't portraying black people killing black people also be racist due to the similarity of black gang violence that was too often the default representation of black characters in media? Guaranteed they would still find a way to say it's racist.
She's a attractive woman in a videogame, ofcourse journos are gonna ignore her.
@@LockPickingPawsI guess you never read the capcom diversity memo.
Why do you think Ada says "I don't work and tell" in place of "I don't kiss and tell" like many of the other ridiculous changes made in the shitty ass RE4R.
Be more mindful of what you're buying and have standards.
The crazy thing is I’m black and I never felt like RE5 was racist towards black people. Me and my WHITE friends would play co-op on it all the time and we had a ball 🎉
Zombies are zombies. I never even thought about the fact that they were black. Given the location it just made sense, so it never stood out. I am white, so maybe I am not the one to speak on that matter, but I just never thought about it at all. Just like I never really thought about that most of the zombies were white in RE2. I think that most people, regardless of color, just don't really think about that stuff all that much. Because most people are not obsessed with race. Having been an online gamer for the vast majority of my life, I have been surrounded by the most diverse people possible. Men, women, gay, straight, black, white and the list just keeps going. To gamers there are two criteria that matters: Can you play the game reasonably well? If yes, good. Are you a pleasant person to spend prolonged time with? If yes, good. If both of those are yes, then we are gaming together. It is as simple as that. Gamers are the most inclusive people I have ever met. No other community has tried that hard to help people enter their space. This whole "gamers are toxic" narrative is alien to me. Sure, they will make fun of you and say the most outlandish stuff EVER, but if you ask for help you will get an army of people eager to help. I simp hard for that community.
Right? I'm black and my best friend is white. But we played through RE 4, 5, and 6 together and I don't care if the zombies are black. Zombies are zombies, bro. I don't give a fuck what they look like.
Bro im hispanic, and i quote Los Illuminados from re4 for basic conversation.
"Adras de ti"
True that also you kill Chinese zombies in RE6.
And if they didnt have the game placed in africa theyd complain about it too 🙄 all they do is complain and im sick of hearing it. Giving in doesnt fix it either. It makes it worse cuz then these pos know they can win. Its just a matter of how long before they crack. This is why you dont bend to these pos people.
Oh also theyre zombies and no longer human so why does their race matter? Is anyone playing a zombie who feels unrepresented?? Lol
Perhaps IGN propagandists can grow thicker skin. Problem solved.
And after the announcement of the DHS targeting gamers in their never ending effort to label every US resident as terrorists, that literally is the case. They really are 100% textbook propagandists.
Have they learned to code? Another avenue for solving problem of not eating as a game journalist
@TheGOAT-hj6slLooks like something to dig up and post on all their posts.
Don't mention skin! Eek! 😱😱😱
IGN stands for "Inept Grand-standing Narcissists".
PIN this comment, Rippa. 🤣
this right here. the only way it is wrong is that thats a large segment of "journalism" across the board
Perfect lol, actually surprised they didnt take down their old review where they gave it a 9 and called it amazing before letting this article go up.
woah this is edgy
You couldn't just come up with 3 words
Im Latino and a resident evil fan as well. RE4 was based in a Spanish village. I had absolutely no issues at all and is still my favorite game in the franchise.
Bro I'd be thrilled if a Resident Evil game took place in my country/culture. There's no disrespect whatsoever in what they do; it's just a setting.
American corporate entities being offended constantly on behalf of other cultures/nations is pathetic. Who the f do they think they are.
That was arguably the best re for sure
They said the same thing re4 its wetbavks being killed by blond Leon it’s not Spain it’s Mexico and demanded Nintendo not allow it on gc and it’s not family friendly same shit re4 re5
Yep RE4 is my favorite from the series hands down!
They act like Sheva wasn't a playable character...these journalists can barely get through tutorials, let alone call themselves gamers. Nothing they say matters.
Sheva is such a mamasita.
@@pasalasaga Seriously. She's one of the coolest and hottest characters in the series. AND SHE WAS IN ONLY ONE FREAKING GAME!
@@decepticonmecha Tbh, I only care about what Shinji Mikami made, which is 1, 2, 3: Nemesis, CODE: Veronica, 0 and 4.
But you are right about Sheva.
That’s why we should be seeing the Journalist difficulty (stupid easy) become the norm. They were never gamers.
@@KingRumar Some games already have done that like Forza Motorsport. There's assisted steering and braking. The AI can finish races by itself. It's ridiculous.
African here and i love RE5. I could now experience TVirus in my back yard
Exactly! It doesn't make sense from the perspective of wanting representation to deny an entire continent of a genre. If a zombie outbreak happens in Africa, of course there's going to be African zombies.
😂😂
Ign is cancer
I’m a black person and RE5 is my favorite one. If they change this game or refuse to remake it because of game journos I legit will burn every bit of resident evil game and memorabilia I own. I am dying for this remake. I will be so mad. They ALREADY changed the game when they released it the first time!!!
It's only the people who are _not_ black are ones offended.
Bro please don't destroy what you love *and have already paid for* to "spite" people who won't know or care if you did destroy all your RE stuff!!!
Cherish what we do have and enjoy without shelling anything out to people who hate our enjoyment!
Though it is your stuff, do with it what you'd like.
don't go burning what you own. IF things look bad, don't buy the game, ignore the studio and future products, and keep an eye out for who was involved.
Lets be frank- the people who made a lot of what we enjoyed back in the day have long been replaced. track down physical copies of the original RE5 in the meantime and hold onto them. keep em safe from further tampering.
@TheGOAT-hj6sl loser low skill gamer detected
@TheGOAT-hj6sl Bait-ass comment.
Imma 6’5 black dude that grew up in South Carolina I’ve experienced actual racism and racial discrimination in my life before when you got these mofos sitting back sipping there coffee complaining about non issues it really upsets me man smh 🤦🏾♂️ like I just wanna game and get escapism damn
No one is allowed to escape anymore sadly
Hey I'm black and the only thing I would change about RE5 is those damn Reaper bugs! Always with the one-hit kill move! It was so annoying!
The next Resident Evil should be in Wakanda 😂
With MvC being a thing, in some weird way that could happen.
I think the rainbow colored haired, tattoo skinned, rainbow attire and piercings with social justice slogans make more sense as zombies because they scream, foam at the mouths and attack anyone who disagrees with them.
The social justice activists act more like the rampant undead by spitting and infecting others with their beliefs.
Irony- Wakanda was created by 2 Jews.
Based on current woke standards, that particular african setting should've had pasty white people, Asians, native americans, indians, LGTV QLED zombie representation, etc. Tbh, those zombies weren't diverse enough in that setting, so these complaints are legit 😏
"LGTV QLED zombie representation." 🤣🤣🤣
That LGRV QLED was so funny lol
The LGTV QLED - Truly the under represented. We need to take action!!
@@KingRumar 😂😂😂
But they bitched about Kingdom come having a lack of black people and Ghost of Tushmia being made by white people. and Shogun not having black people.
So...basically IGN is making the case that RE should not include black people or Africa?
You'd be discriminating by not having them in then, now what do you do?
There in lies the problem. You have to have the populace as the enemy, just like in every RE game. They are the victims, they didn't chose to be zombies and RE5 shows this insanely well. If you say no shooting black people, then you say no RE5 in Africa.
That’s why they got rid of aunt Jemima, uncle Ben, and the land o lakes Native American because they thought it was racist.
@@danzig3764Bunch of mor0ns for sure. Taking away a person's legacy cause a few people are triggered! I'm sure their families receives royalties from those trademarks 🙄
Rewrite?! No! If Chris doesn't punch a boulder, what is even the point in the franchise existing?
The game is a Zombie-Apocalyptic-Genre that takes place in Africa, a region that is filled with mostly homogenous people and homogenous nations are NOT a bad thing because that is natural in the world on any time-period. Some nations are multi-ethnic, and some are mono-ethnic, and where a piece of fiction takes place usually reflects what people they have, and if a nation is infected with zombies then that means the zombies should look like the people of said nation. There is NO RACISM, NO PREJUDICE and NO HATRED in a story with that concept, the ones that do are the REAL PREJUDICED and/or DELUDED party.
(If I am in a resort hotel in a zombie apocalypse, I would be seeing zombies in their swimwear or something.)
Lol, that's literally Dead Island. Great game btw.
But according to the new mantra every location is as diverse as LA.
We live in a world where pointing out racism even if you have to practically invent it makes people feel superior. It's like "how dare you, I would never do that because I'm a better person." This kind of mentality has become such a plague, I'm happy there has been so much pushback.
The only thing that made me go wtf in RE5 was punching a massive boulder as Chris. All the crazy virus stuff and it was the boulder that broke me.
That and wesker being a full on matrix villain 😭
Remember ppl, trying to save african ppl from a virus Even when You got help of an african person is racist if you are not african.
C'mon Even Leon got to Spain to save part of our people from a milinarian fongus...
And we don't cry, in fact we love it...
Even with things like the dub of the Town...we loved it.
D E T R A S D E T I I M B E C I L
You right buddy. I'm African and it doesn't affect me at all. T-Virus can effect anywhere around the world regardless of our colour skin
You’re thinking too much, these people never stood behind their words. Get any POC and let them decide for themselves what they want to do especially if it’s not toeing the line for these cultist activists and they (the left) become the loudest and proudest racists in the room. Right now it’s okay to be racist against white people, Jewish, and Asians (until they benefit for defending Asians), but get a proud black woman who is conservative (you know, how all of Africa is) and they will lose their mind! “You better be a good little puppet and stay in the line WE made for you!!! You aren’t to go around thinking for yourself, k?!”
The IGNorance of these people never cease to amaze me. How are they still around?
I made a joke back in the day that RE5 wasn’t racist because you blast black zombies. It’s racist because you plunder Africa’s gold and jewels in order to buy the weapons that you use to blast black zombies.
Ha!
The RE5 make definitely isn't going to have Shevas sexy jungle girl alternate outfit. Anita Sarkeesian dedicated a whole section of one of her videos to how that 'exoticized and dehumanized' black women.
Sexy outfit be sexy. And my fetishes take importance over some losers' collective sob story.
"Hello. We are from Sweet Baby Inc. I heard you are having a problem with one of your games. I'm sorry to hear that. Would you like to use us to help you fix your problem?" - "Remove Chris Redfield from the game. Put Sheeva in only." I totally would see SBI doing this.
The same IGN that gave Doom 2016 7.1/10 😢
Godhand a 3.
@@matthewlongo6404 Godhand was a PS2 masterpiece. Absolutely hilarious game with one of the best combat systems ever made
I guess they forgot the part were Sheva Alomar was a strong black African woman.
If we could just seed these jurnos to the surface of the Sun that would be nice.
I really can't figure out if IGN were ever credible or I was just blue pilled at the time. Certainly now I would only go to trusted RUclipsrs for reviews and opinions.
I remember this conversation from back when the game first came out, and I was still a kid and didn't quite have my ear to the ground to gaming like I do now. I thought it was stupid then, and I still think it's stupid now.
Chris was supposed to be the only protag at one point back before it was released and some of the enemies were changed iirc. Capcom changed them due to "complaints".
I hope they don't this time. I'm getting tired of this woke virus infecting game industry.
As an African i actually loved the fact that RE5 was in Africa. Me and my friends would come home from school and jump on the coop till we beat the game. Honestly while i love RE4, RE5 have me my best gaming memories.
Hopefully re9 takes place in the middle of an alphabet festival 😂
I'm pretty sure the LGBTQ community would be the first ones to go if the zombie apocalypse did actually happen, next to fat people. Since for them preaching is far more important then survival. 🤣
The alphabet community would be the first ones to go, next to fat people if zombie apocalypse actually happened. 🤣
Chris and Sheva gunning undead infected rainbow colored haired, tattoo skinned, with piercings mob make more sense as zombies.
I'll laugh my ass off if we have zombie drag queens as the mini bosses.
Ain't no way the Tribal outfit is making it into the remake, if there is one. But yeah. Capcom has an ESG department. They've censored skirts and flirting. Idk how they'd handle Africa or even the crossdressing in CVX.
Also, Sheva is bae.
I bet the Google AI can help with that whole diversity in Africa thing. 😂
They might uglify her but since she's a "poc" there's a 50/50 chance
Can't wait for Codename Veronica remake and watching the meltdown online :)
I admired the tribal outfits because it made enemies look more distinct and menacing in a SURVIVAL HORROR ACTION GAME.
@@ravenloh6677 Yeah, the tribal enemies were cool, but I was talking about the hottest Resident Evil girl's unlockable outfit; Sheva's Tribal Outfit.
This is just so crazy. When playing RE5 back in the day, nobody was relishing killing black zombies. They were viewed as zombies, not black people.
I remember when RE5 was shown, one of the talks early on was how "bad" it was to have a white man kill hordes of black zombies. Then Sheva was introduced later and the crowd of people in the game began to be more diversified. There were whites and Asians suddenly in the next trailer after Sheva's introduction. It wasn't so much a problem, like it would have been today, but it was clear they were aware enough to maybe make some changes to get out of the idea of a sole white-man clearing hordes of black zombies.
Mind you, I'm talking the very first EARLY trailers which had a more horror vibe to it. It was not marketed as the more action-oriented gameplay it became. There was talks of things like managing hydration and hallucinations due to heat exhaustion and stuff in the very early talks.
The moment I was absolutely slapped with the realization that IGN went limp, was the time they were discussing an early play of a call of duty game that triggered the hell out of them. Saying it was too violent or the content was not appropriate. Can't wait till we get back to reality.
Oh, there goes gravity
Not gonna lie: I loved Resident Evil 5 when it came out. My only problem was the Jill subplot, I think that should have been Steve Burnside. It was game journalists causing pointless noise-then as now.
It was a problem back then, that's why they introduced the character of Sheeva Alomar. The problem is, the gaming landscape was different back then, we are more radicalized today, so that remake is going to suffer because of that.
I wish u were right Gary and Rippa about gamers being fed up with this whole woke industry but alot of people are still unaware or don't pay attention too youtubers. if I ask any of these kids I work with, (and they are gamers) who sweet baby inc is. They have no idea what I'm talking about.
IGN Wants to rewrite Resident Evil 5?! Well, let's give it the project to Shinji Mikami so we can all see the final conclusion then.
Its weird, cause when RE5 was revealed. There were people claiming it as racist and reported. I remember game journalist back then defended RE5, EGM was one.
The two main antagonists, Excella and Wesker are white. So are some of their henchmen. They are the ones who unleashed Ourobouros upon the black west African people.
Your partner character, Cheva, is a black African woman. There are S.T.A.R.S members who are black African fighting the same enemies you are.
Taking one aspect of the game and using it to paint the whole thing as racist does not make sense.
Seriously what do people even get out of trying to paint everything racist?
RE5 was fantastic. It had the control scheme that I wanted in RE4, the coop gimmick that was awesome as long as you had a real human to play with, and a solid enough plot. Smacking a gigantic crocodile with a stun baton is something that I'm not able to do in nearly enough games. These weirdos would lose their minds if they had to ability to make it to the Hong Kong levels in Deus Ex.
Black zombie lives matter
I remember back in the 90s, I had a subscription to PC Gamer magazine for many years. Awesome demo discs with every issue, and, most importantly REVIEWS YOU COULD RELY ON. Those were the days when game jounos were actually gamers.
Me and my sister are black and its our favorite resident evil game and we never thought it was racist i hope they change there minds
1:29 it was a problem back then, cause originally it was supposed to be another single player game, but the vocal minority threw a shit fit about a white guy going around shooting black people, so that's why they added sheva
I hope they remake the game and it gets TONS of numbers on Twitch or wherever
Hands that get put up in the air must come down when people start asking where the money, man stuff, and hot ladies went
Do any of these journalists ever stop to think the Japanese aren’t worried about western sensitivities like they are? Last thing those devs gave a shit about, bet.
Since IGN has such a huge issue with Africans finally being a main part in a remake of one of the best-selling survival horror games of all time, then when Capcom does do a remake IGN shouldn't have any problems if Capcom blacklisted IGN from receiving a review copy then.
Actually, Eric back at 09 there was a bit of a pushback when the first trailer came out and yeah, the usual suspects cough cough moviebob cried racism, but people thought it was kind of stupid. It’s good to see something never change.
Can't spell IGNorant without IGN.
I will stick with Nintendo the last family friendly company left on earth and I still want to go to Nintendo World
I personally think Marvel and DC could turn things around. The only problem is they would have to fire a majority of their staff to do it and hire competent writers again. Good luck with that.
If there was a biological outbreak in Africa, can Fauci be the final boss? Would that bring balance 😅
I find this funny considering that a game reviewer was complaining about the opposite in which in another zombie game “Days Gone” had NO black zombies in it.
Yea there were race hustlers talking about this the moment the trailer was first announced. This is nothing new.
I hate it when foreign companies try to pander to current day American brain rot. Yakuza lead dev has the right mindset: "we make games for the japanese, fuck off". Or when the woke mob tried to cancel kingdom come deliverance, and the dev laughed in their face saying that there were no black people in medieval bohemia so wtf would he put them in his game set in those exact times. I wish more people did that.
When I saw the teaser trailer for Resident Evil 5 way back when, it felt like a breath of fresh air to be honest. The new location, zombies that weren't all fair skinned, decaying husks, and the return of Chris Redfield as front and center protagonist. I'm black myself, but the appeal behind "RESIDENT' Evil, for me at least, was the horror of finding that your neighbors or people you don't even know had been turned against their will into infected monsters. These beings pursue you relentlessly through the streets of the once bustling cities/villages they once inhabited with the simple goal of devouring you while you're alive to feel it. That's Resident Evil. And having that shift to an African setting brought more mystery to the franchise, same as 4 did. The villagers in 5 were just victims of the same evil that brought Raccoon City to ruin. Africa was just another backdrop for delivering the horror that Resident Evil captures so well, the horror of being hunted by people that aren't quite human anymore. But that's not what these journos see. All they can see is that another game has dared to "target" and "demonize" a marginalized group of people, and completely ignoring the context of the situation, rally to flaunt their virtuous selves by proclaiming that games like Resident Evil 5 are the problem and that they, the "virtuous ones" are the final word on what's just and morally acceptable in the world. This complex is all that these people have and they need to be humbled by us, the actual gamers for which this media was intended. IGN dude likely never even played the game as he fails to acknowledge that Sheva, a black woman, is a playable protagonist. The modern audience is a mere grain of sand on a beach surrounded by the rest of us gamers that never cared about race, and that only ever sought enjoyment and companionship from others that felt the same passion about our hobby, regardless of gender or race. We were accepting of all kinds of people, from all over the world, didn't matter their circumstances or what they looked like. That's what gaming is. Bringing people together to play just one more round before bed. Makes you wonder if these journo folks were even around when we were all enjoying the hobby back then.
"Double jeopardy means that once a person has been tried for a crime, they cannot be tried again for the same offense"
Hence CAPCOM ovecame this cntroversial bullshit back then with original RE5, so coming again with the same controversy makes no sense.
Since when did the woke cult care about the law, which they think is part of the white patriarchy or whatever their current boogeyman is?
we went through this when the original re5 came out. i think they had a major delay on the release so they could add more diversity in the races of the zombies. i swear they think everything is racist
Everyone else's concern: Black Zombies- Yay or Nay
My concern: They are going to royally fuck up how great Wesker was in the OG RE5 with the remake aren't they?
Whatever they do to Wesker is the part I am worried about.
Always will remember renting RE5 from Blockbuster and playing through the whole thing coop with my friend
Consume next bland, woke product.
New to the channel, stopped by for the controversy... STAYED because of the Sowell poster! Love seeing educated individuals like you, Eric! ✊️
1984 wasn’t supposed to be a playbook, it was supposed be a warning.
It is Capcom that are bigots. They have been sucking ever since they removed the res sun flag from E. Honda's stage.
Re5 was pretty fun. I hope if they do remake it they don’t change anything. Even Chris punching the rock lol .
Plenty of caucazoids in those hordes. I'll grant the swamp portion tribals looked fucking goofy but c'mon.
Nigerian here, and I love Resident Evil 5 since the PS3 era
Credit where credit is due. Youngrippa isnt just constantly at all hours of the day and night whining about the current state of pop culture, atleast he is trying to actually resolve the matter in a world where all he has to do to make money is complain and NEVER lift a finger to fix it, like...almost ALL the rest are doing so...salute!!!
youngrippa and nerdrotic keeping us up to date
I identify as a Boulder and I find the treatment of boulders abhorrent
I love that LotR isn't destroyed, no one treated RoP as part of Tolkien's world
As a black person not once has this crossed my mind wtf has the world too…and quit using black people as ur token example to change things
They think it's fine if a black person kills a white person (zombie) but it's wrong for a white person to kill a black person (zombie). Let that sink in, and it'll tell you how messed up and corrupted these people's minds are. I thought the people that didn't like any killing in a video game were being a little silly, but these people are a whole other level of wack.
We had no issues killing off white zombies in the first couple games. “They’re infected so it’s ok”
It’s funny they had no issues with killing the Spaniards of re4 “oh they’re infected so it doesn’t matter”
No one had issues killing the Chinese zombies and infected Serbians of re6. “They’re infected”
But when it always comes to re5 “that’s racist a white man killing black people 😂 “I guess they weren’t infected just offended”
You are correct. We are VERY much over this. These people think games and gamers are bigoted and awful, and need to be educated. The reality is these writers (I refuse to call them journalists. They're just bloggers) are paranoid fanatics, seeing evil in every shadow that they must attack.
Kotaku is still around??😂
There were some complaints back in the day when RE5 was first announced though I don’t believe it was from the gaming media, just a few indie publications.
I like that overlay were did you get it ?
Resident Evil doesn't need any more fucking remakes.
Change my mind.
your isom no 2 trailer was a banger, if u guys do plan on branching out definitely go towards, animated series/movies
As a 38yr old black man who grew up in the UK but was ACTUALLY born in Africa, I don't care about whatever nonsense this week I should be "offended by." Especially from people who've likely never left the country let alone their inner bubble.
Fans are telling you goodwill is over and we aren't gonna show up to anymore "bait and switches", make good content or explain to shareholders why nobody cares anymore
marvel is coming back if they roll with the deadpool vibe
We have the power to make new stuff and leave the originals to the way they are, the new versions of what we love are gone, just cheap versions. Support new works for a new generation of fans, like indie comics and the rippaverse.
I remember the day i stopped visiting IGN, I had used them for reviews since i was a kid, then the day before The Last Jedi came out they gave it a 9.8/10, I was already super hyped from the trailers and to see Luke again, I read their review and was like "Omg its that good?!" Got more hyped, saw movie, was most disappointed ive ever been over an entertainment property. Lost all respect for IGN and havent cared about their site since 😂
I remember people freaking out when this game came out. X-play gave it a purposefully low score just to save face.
Capcom already hired a PR team to avoid any further situations like this in future game releases 15 years ago when RE5 came out, the bad guys won before the game even came out. Let this show that no matter how much ground you give it will never be enough. even 15 years later they will still demand more.
The RE5 re make has the potential to be an even BETTER co-op experience than the first game in an era where true co-op experiences with your best mates are few and far between. I hope game journalists do not deter CAPCOM from delivering us the true RE5 re make the fans want.
They can make it like IGN love but the twiste is: they have to buy as much copies as it sold back then.
I really believe if there's a zombie outbreak, some will consider it racist to shoot black or Mexican etc zombies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think the rainbow colored haired, tattoo skinned, rainbow attire and piercings people with social justice slogans make more sense as zombies because they scream, foam at the mouths and attack anyone who disagrees with them.
The social justice activists act more like the rampant undead by spitting and infecting others with their beliefs.
These days journalism is "enforcing" the power instead of "challenging" the power in the old days.
N'gai Croal was working as a journalist when RE5 came out and he had a fit. If you search N'gai Croal and RE5 you will; see the controversy. He said it misrepresented Africa. I asked him if he had ever been to Africa. I had multiple times. I informed him if he wanted to take that tack in his argument, he should go and realize it wasn't all people sitting around on picnic blankets, eating a bountiful feast and singing kumbaya. Part of equality is getting represented just like everyone else. I asked him why he didn't have an issue with a Spanish village being depicted in the same way and there was nothing but dead air. Selective outrage.
I agree with IGN, solely based on the reasoning that I'd much rather them remake Code Veronica instead 😂
Glad I could make it to this livestream cuz the amount of idiocy that’s been going on in the gaming sphere has been inexcusable.
Equality in all things.....except infected zombie type creatures. RE5 was cool because it was a total fun coop game. I finished the game with a friend over xbox live and we both enjoyed it. It wasn't the best Resident Evil, but it was fun.
love the video, you guys spittin facts!