@@greggibson33 There _aren't_ any, but as much as pricks like you enjoy your double standards whenever you're running things, I'd that say turnabout is fair play.
its not impossible to change the starting site Kijuju was the place chris & sheva met irving & later on moving into other unknown location close to kijuju Simply erase sheva & change kijuju site on whatever europe conflict (which already common in the movies) & later on move to area where progenitor virus is (which still in africa)
What’s funny this was controversial for a short period of time when OG RE5 came out. The Sheva actress (who is black) was asked by a gaming journalist about the “issue” and said it was pretty dumb and nothing to worry about considering no one had an issue with killing Spaniards in RE4.
Karen Dyer. She’s also the English voice of Street Fighter’s Elena. Although Sheva wasn’t modeled after her (it was another actress), apparently she can pull off cosplaying as the characters she dubbed (that’s my polite way to say she looks good wearing a “tribal bikini”).
More like a regurgitation of an bad take made in 2009. I recently saw a story from a Swahili gamer (according to him) who said that RE5 was the shit at his high school because the zombies were speaking Swahili. And it was a huge hit there too.
It's only something that English-speaking westerners get worked up about. Ironically, it's them projecting onto other people, as though the many nations of the world all conform to *their* "racial politics". That is to say, it's ignorant.
You must have heard about a certain someone voicing a trans monster in Dead By Daylight, and now they want reparations (I wish I was joking) because their character is a monster? No one can EVER make The Easily Outraged happy!
They COMPLETELY miss the point that none of the Infected is an evil person - literally ALL of the Infected people are victims, and the character needs to prevent further infection from occuring that will create even MORE victims.
The journalist seemed to highlight the lack of development and costume to make a claim that Africa was backward. But they'd probably get in trouble if the African zombies were in gleaming modern cities and all wearing Gucci. So you might be lambasted for portraying Africa as ramshackle, but the same people might bust you if you portrayed it as exclusively made up of bustling modern metropolises - as minimising the aftermath of colonialization.
_"... Resident Evil 5's primary antagonists are black people"_ Oh, so Albert Wesker and Excella Gionne are black now? JFC, you'd think professional writers would know what "primary antagonists" means.
Lmao, that's actually assuming said "writer(s)" knows anything remotely about the game other than 'bLaCk ZoMbiEs (in Africa) wHaAaAt!?' 😂 The fact that a black woman is one of the protagonists is something apparently lost on all of them as well, the cover art admittedly makes her look almost bi-racial maybe even white, and they've never delved any deeper than the cover.
The term "Redskin" is actually a native American rank of one of the tribes most elite warriors. They covered themselves in red clay/dirt before battle. Pretty easy to see how they became knkw as Redskins.
Interesting... School told me it's cuz scalpers called them redskins based off blood covered skin after scalping, making them appear red. If that's not true crazy they told me that as a preteenXD
It was actually a council of American Indians that chose that name for the sports team, too. This idea that it was a bunch of racist white people who named them that is a false narrative invented by white Liberals with a Savior complex.
These are the same people who would be advocating for "infected person's rights" in games and movies. Then they find out why double tapping the flesh eating monsters is the only cure.
The best part about the boulder punching is in Resident Evil 8 when fighting Heisenberg Chris blows up the factory and Heisenberg calls him "that boulder punching asshole" meaning Chris punching a boulder is just common knowledge in Resident Evil world
I like the idea that Chris is indeed famous for this. A body camera or something managed to capture it and the feds use it as propaganda. "Who needs superviruses when even regular people can punch boulders?" Chris is super embarrassed by this and everyone he knows teases him, and of course all the villains who try and use super-science to take over the world know him solely for this. Not his years of dedicated service or numerous successful missions, but him desperately punching a boulder to destroy a weirdo in a volcano.
I don't know. About you guys, but if I play a video game and the world takes place in a certain region, I also expect ethnicities that live in that region to appear in that region.
Yeah, that kind of annoyed me about FarCry 5. It's in Montana (just for reference, I live in North Dakota, so similar population) but there's black people everywhere. Oddly enough, the minority group that should be everywhere in the game, Native Americans, well... Apparently Ubisoft isn't aware those people exist.
Sidenote about blackhawk down: Malaysian filmakers recently released a movie covering the battle of mogadishu, but from the malaysian armed force’s perspective, who were operating under the UN banner. Its should be on netflix, though im not sure if its region-locked, n im not sure if its dubbed in english.
This was a dumb argument in 2009 that everyone mocked relentlessly and time has not changed that fact. The difference now is IGN has lost all of its influence and people are wiser to desperation and hate-clicks.
They would be just like Daleks, ED 209s. Absolutely deadly, but can't climb a flight of stairs! Just stay upstairs and youare safe! LOL!@@richardhockey8442
My sister tried to get offended at me around that I’m just like what are you on about I full completed that game with my black best friend. Just parroting some crap she heard, told her why wasn’t she upset about 4 and the Spaniards, crickets smh.
Make it look like an accident or ship her to a different continent. If your parents are young enough, tell them they screwed up and to try again. Maybe adopt a more diverse kid idk.
Ugh, I can't stand it when people don't know what they are writing about, which has been the norm. Like Drinker says nobody is gloating in killing them, even in later titles we see how Chris changes what he goes through because of how grueling it is. These people call themselves "gaming journalists" but know s*** about the games they are writing about . The make me tired
Takes me back to college, hanging out playing Resident Evil 5 at my friend’s apartment. Him (he is black) playing Chris, me (I am white) playing Sheva, and two of our friends (one Italian and the other Native American/Hispanic) watching us play. We never talked about race, it just never crossed our minds. We were all just having fun fighting zombies and laughing at stupid deaths. Great times.
All of the West-African immigrants Ive known here in the states had none of the weird issues with racism or whatever that the rest of Black Americans sometimes have. Like, sure, most black people in the US can trace their ancestry to slavery a few hundreds years ago, but not people living in Africa today or people who immigrated since slavery ended.
The Land O' Lakes thing was funny for me as a Native, mostly because it let me wise-crack them for removing the Native but keeping the land. I honestly kind of liked having her on the packaging. Stuff like that feels more like, I don't know, acknowledgement to me. I feel differently about sports teams using Natives as mascots, though, mostly because usually mascots are animals and I don't like the association. Also having been to some Sioux games (before they changed the name), I didn't much like how my tribal name was getting used there. It certainly wasn't respectful. Of course, I don't pretend to represent all Natives or even just my own tribe, just myself. Actually I had an uncle who was very much a fan of the Chiefs and the Redskins, seemingly just because of their names. I know there were Sioux from Spirit Lake who liked UND having that name and were very upset when they changed it. But I also know there were plenty from Standing Rock who were against the university's use of the name. Of course one of my problems over the matter is that no one ever much bothers asking us, unless a court orders it.
They want to force black people into settings where they don't belong, and blackwashing existing characters. All the while they also don't want black people to appear in settings where they DO belong. It's almost like it's about erasure and not representation or something.
the Devs on HellDivers 2 would have been like "you know what, we're gonna make em blacker and Darker now"! and whenever a Softie spoke up and said "but muh pedo flags" the Devs would laugh and say "the black capes just got five feet longer"
@@LaZd-Hes a butthurt railgun user who didnt like his braindead gameplay loadout getting nerfed and he has to try. Hes the exact person the dev in the community forums is insulting and hes too far gone to get a refund, but also still enjoys playing the game. aka he made it up lol
Bros. Im Kenyan. When me and my friends first heard the zombies in RE5 speak Swahili, we lost our shit! It was the greatest thing ever and the kind of stuff no one would believe could happen until we saw it for ourselves. I still load it up to this day just to hear all the quotes again. "Ndiyo yule pale! Mshike!" 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
I've replayed through the whole of Resident Evil 5 a few months ago in co-op with a friend and the game aged TERRIBLY mechanics-wise imo. It came out around that time Capcom was unsure whether they wanted RE to be horror or action, so they made something that was kinda bad at both. Had all the cliché trappings of it's time too like a few corridor shaped levels, scripted turret sequences and unnecessary QTEs. Reminder of the absolute "masterpiece" RE6 that came after it being the peak of that Capcom phase. It's super due to a remake and tbh, Capcom is in a much better place now, and is frankly one of the few companies I'd half expect to have the balls to try it in [current year]. Besides, please, Sheva and skintight bodysuit evil Jill both deserve the HD treatment!
If you've seen how Dragon's Dogma 2 was deliberately ruined in pursuit of MODERN AUDIENCES you wouldn't say Capcom is in a better place now *or* think they have balls.
Watch The Electric Underground’s review of Resident Evil 5. He explains all the awesome mechanics of RE5. It’s an action game through and through (so is RE4).
@@kanrakucheese I haven't checked much on Dragons Dogma 2, but if you mean they have that annoying "Los Angeles demographic in medieval Europe" thing modern Fantasy tends to have, they already had that in Dragons Dogma 1, it wouldn't make much sense to change now. I meant they are in a WAY better place now than they were in that 2009 to 2013 window when they were catering way too hard to the western market and trying to make generic western games instead of playing to their strengths as a Japanese company. I remember the term "Crapcom" was being thrown around a lot those days.
@@kanrakucheesewhat was ruined on DD2? And to the guy complaining RE5 is outdated, play better, its the tightest RE ever made up today RE6 have more mobility, RE5 have more consistency
@@Jasper_Silva No, I'm talking about how they deliberately limited the character creator. The demo has a bunch a bunch of options that are fully implemented and work fine, but can only be accessed by memory edits or modding. These are all things essential to making attractive female characters (which they removed, now you have "body type"s)
I genuinely wonder who it is that's "Speaking for us" when it comes to some journalists trying to be political. Is it just me that's noticed the target "victims" are usually not even part of the conversation. I'm of African descent and it didn't even dawn on me while playing the game. It's like you can't win, the same person would probably complain about the "lack of diversity" if they rewrote it to be "PC" in their eyes. The devil truly makes work for idle thumbs and it appears that journalism has become so mundane in the media circles that all of them have thumbs idle enough to be this devilishly stupid. Keep up the good work Drinker & Mauler
4:30 TJ Storm was a martial arts actor. I remember a show growing up with him in it in the 90s. Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter (uncredited in both), but don't see the show I'm thinking of.
Sub-Saharan, or central, Africa is where a large portion of some of the earliest zombie stories, legends, and mythologies, started popping up. So, these ‘journos’ acting so panicky and horrid about this, and wanting it expunged, is a form of cultural erasure. The returned dead, the vengeful deceased, ghouls and disembodied wraiths are a part of all of our cultures, stories and spiritual traditions either written or oral.
"Africa was a dark continent full of disease, slaughter, cannibalism... a desolate apocalypse, the few remaining broken walls of ruined buildings the only visible remnant of civilisation that once inhabited the land." and then the zombie virus arrived
Once upon a time, long before George Romero, the ONLY zombies were black ones. The term "zombie" comes from a mythical voodoo practice of faking someone's death and then enslaving them with cocktails of drugs. A "white zombie" was a novelty in the horror genre.
@@EvilDoresh I've watched that film and got it on DVD alongside two other films that Bela Lugosi was in. Also Plague of the Zombies had zombies created from voodoo.
Hate to be the "Um, actually" guy here, but T.J. Storm has only played Godzilla in 2014 and King of the Monsters (2019). After that, Godzilla isn't portrayed via mo-cap in Godzilla vs. Kong nor will there be mo-cap performance for him in GxK: The New Empire.
They should rewrite the story because that game had some issues, but Capcom did solved those claims of racism in RE5 by giving Sheva a Tribal bikini in her costume.
Sigh, I miss the days where a bit of afterthought level superficial pandering was considered enough to STFU the critics, and everybody then just moved on.
No black zombies allowed? Well, tell that to the stuntman in the first Paul WS Anderson _Reaident Evil_ film who portrayed a zombie and went against Alice before she meets the dogs, IIRC. I believe he was also one of the stunt coordinators.
Well, you could have gone, but the security forces would have harassed a person like that all the way. Not limited JUST to minorities either - they would have rotated subversives through their "prisoner handlers" as well for information. Their police services were PACKED with military types fresh from the Namibian/Angolan border war, after all.
5:11 I’m getting real sick of the Monsterverse slander. There’s nothing wrong with wanting fun, giant monster movies. I don’t care if it’s bad, it’s a lot more enjoyable compared to most stuff churned out nowadays.
@@zillauniverse7208 Agreed. Ever since Minus One came out we’ve been seeing a whole lot of people act like their suddenly experts on the franchise when they haven’t seen more than like 3 movies
I maybe in the minority on the panel, but I'm actually looking forward to seeing Kong Vs Zilla 2 lol. I know exactly wtf it's going to be and i can't wait!
“Zombies” actually originated in Africa. It was a form of punishment where the victims were given a potion which contained tetrodotoxin. They were called “Nzambe.”
I think the funny thing as well is that there are also lighter skinned zombies in RE5, it's one of the default 4 or 5 basic Majini you fight in that game. But once you get out into the wilderness and swamps and fight the tribe, they're all black. I always through it was a pretty good storytelling device, as there shouldn't be any white characters within the RECLUSIVE AND PARANOID tribe.
iirc, the lighter-skinned villager zombies in RE5 were a last-minute change that Capcom made after Western gaming "journalists" kicked up a stink about the early preview images. Didn't make much sense having such a racial mix in remote African shanty towns, but if they kept it all-black in the later wilderness areas then at least _some_ sense prevailed.
These people will claim that RE5 was suggesting that Africans are subhuman, and then turn around and complain about media literacy being dead, because people don’t care about how Helldivers 2 has a comedic edge to it.
The main zombie in Land of the Dead was a black guy. He was a kickass zombie too in a really good zombie flick imo. So underrated. I love the idea of zombies using weapons it was an interesting concept
Land of the Dead was and i love bad zombie movies, was as you say underrated, sure a parody of romero's earlier work , silly, stupid, but it had Dennis Hopper being Dennis Hopper, it's a so bad it's great movie,also i am maybe one of the few that like most Resident Evil movies and the Zombie Nation series , also Zombi and any eurotrash 80's zombie horror such my thing. the more bad english dubbing from Italian, where half the cast only spoke English, the other only Italian and somehow they still made a semi coherant film Zombi was literally set on a carribean island, all the zombies where black
@@hulkfan97 i liked the new one, not perfect, but i liked the direction, the tone, the authenticity to the games, it fell off , but it was decent. Overall a good zombie movie. the OG movies are a guilty pleasure that i rewatched, then again i rewatch doom, silent hill. house of the dead is a different level of crap though :) i can watch and love bad zombie movies, but bad comedy no thanks
@@davidrenton I won't ever see Houde of the Dead. I vomit humor. Why have the hot chick of the movie get her face snd boobs puked on. So unecessary and gross.
Who needs black zombies? All you need to do is change the name from Resident Evil 5 to 'Shithole Simulator: Haiti Edition' and offer custom skins for the "cannibal gangs" as pre order bonuses.
The zombies in the african spearman Outfits are wearing this because the Infektion made them wear this for some weird reasons u can find their writings where they wrote that they found it strange when some started ro wear Tribe clothing all of a sudden
Perhaps they can put Resi 5 on hold until this woke nonsense blows over and we get back to some normality. In the meantime Codename Veronica can do with a redo. If they do proceed with 5, then I hope the Japanese developers don't succumb to the western game industry mind virus to change the local, but if they do, I'll be staying away from it as I still have the Xbox 360 release.
Capcom deliberately ruined Dragon's Dogma 2 to appeal to the wokes (chest size is artificially limited to a very small range, but memory editing shows a much wider range was fully implemented).
@@phantombigboss8429 Have you played Dragon's Dogma 1? The *entire point* of the game is literally the strength of the character creator. A central game mechanic is renting characters created by other players and game does in-fact care about the height/weight of characters to a significant degree.
@@kanrakucheese Yea I played the game not as much as you though to care about miniscule stuff like that. Im still going to get the game. Idc if it was sweet baby approved. and the end of the day if the game is great nothing else matters to me. have fun missing out.
TJ Storm is also that black guy who got his soul sucked by Shang Tsung after battling Liu Kang! AND, the guy also lend his voice to other Capcom titles, like english voice for Birdie in Street Fighter 5 and Strider Hiryu in Marvel vs Capcom. So yeah, hes pretty cool!
The only reason why i think this could be a blessing in disguise is because i want with all my heart, if Capcom necessarily has to do another remake (which i honestly don't, but that's a whole different conversation), they'd better do Outbreak, i wanted it since RE2make came out, instead we had to endure that colossal disappointment of 3make
@@richardhockey8442 Vampires will probably be at the bottom, considering they tend to be rich white guys. Ghouls are problematic because they eat corpses without their permission, zombies are socially shunned (for obvious reasons) and werewolves would be seen as subhuman by this game journalist because you are saying humans are dogs (using their twisted logic/fake nonsense they write to get paid because they aren't knowledgeable in anything).
I remember reading the article about how RE5 was racist back in the day. Really goes to show how long ago the rot had set in. The guy's article said he wasn't saying the Japanese were racist, just that the imagery "dovetailed" with racism or something. Capcom's response was to claim that racism just doesn't exist in Japan because they have such a homogeneous society, which is an equally ludicrous claim if you know a even little about Japan.
I want to see IGN's take on mowing down in Spanish. EDIT: Chris' boulder punching ways were confirmed as canon in RE8 so it HAS to be included in a remake :D
Krrish 3 had a wheelchair villain, but his villainy didn't originate with the wheel chair, if I can still remember the movie fully. Could fly, but there was a certain twist to his powers.
I mean, at first glance, hordes of African people getting mowed down by the white main character can elicit a bit of side-eye. But the more you look into it you realize that Capcom did a fairly respectable job of depicting and pulling from African culture and mythology for some of the enemies and monsters in the game. Really, the further in you get, the more you realize the Majini/villagers are the victims in the story, same with the Ganados of RE4. The main villain is the hamtastic Albert Wesker, the dude who literally wants to apply eugenics and social Darwinism to the whole world.
"Game journalists" have discovered that talking about a game only about the story, the fun, the characters, the technology used, the performances...... what should be their job, can only fill a couple of pages of text. On the contrary, launching into ruminations on social reasons and problems (especially if invented and illogical) can give rise to speeches and articles of infinite length. If we add to this "contacts" from a certain economic and cultural area we have the result of today.
RE5 is still an outstanding game. The Mercenaries Mode is worth the price of admission alone (and I do play as Sheva most of the time -- she's fine AF). So, it's mostly black-person-on-black-zombie violence when I play. 😈
I played Resi 5 so much that i got bored of it eventually, which is a good thing in a way, but it wasn't scary and not really even tense and stressful like 4.
You heard it here first: zombies avoid biting black people.
Cancel zombies.
well i`m safe in the next zombie apocalyse
There’s a key and peele skit that is just this.
Damned if you do and all.
So Marv is no longer canon in Resident evil 2.
@quikgold513 Marvin Branagh is canon. How else are you gonna use the 'I shot Marvin in the Face' line?
@@snafuthegreatIf they could they would that's how bad its gotten.
You can't spell ignorance without IGN.
You can’t spell Scunthorpe without . . . oh nvm.
Orance
Ya it doesn’t have the same ring
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This is excellent, and will be used by me in the future, thank you.
@@ItoHiyori It's been used for 15 years on every single video that talks about ign
Despite beeing only 13% of the zombies, black zombies account for 53% of the biting.
I see what you did there 😄
Fact.😅👍
😂
Hahahahaah
It is more like 12% and nearly 60% by estimated up to date numbers
Every time a games journalist loses their job, an angel gets its wings.
Except only the ones you agree with.
@@greggibson33 There _aren't_ any, but as much as pricks like you enjoy your double standards whenever you're running things, I'd that say turnabout is fair play.
@@greggibson33 there is no1 to agree with, they all have a special vacancy in hell.
Atta boy Clarence.
@@greggibson33oh shut up!
I miss the days when black people were just people.
When was that?
Feral baboons? Im so sick of people pretending we are equal...we are certainly not
@@fabiosplendido9536 Early 2000s. We were THERE, man.... Then 2016 happened...
Late nineties and early 00s was really the time we figured it all out.@@FireRising86
I know you didn't. @@fabiosplendido9536
RE Patch notes :
Removed - black zombies.
Added - Blue haired Karen zombies and male feminist zombies.
There. We solved racism!
Special zombies include McIntosh, Anita and Zoe.
Have it take place on a college campus and I'm sold!
its not impossible to change the starting site
Kijuju was the place chris & sheva met irving & later on moving into other unknown location close to kijuju
Simply erase sheva & change kijuju site on whatever europe conflict (which already common in the movies) & later on move to area where progenitor virus is (which still in africa)
Karen zombies would make me buy 2 copies
OMG, please let this be a future mod.
What’s funny this was controversial for a short period of time when OG RE5 came out. The Sheva actress (who is black) was asked by a gaming journalist about the “issue” and said it was pretty dumb and nothing to worry about considering no one had an issue with killing Spaniards in RE4.
She is my hero!
Josh voice actor said it was dumb too that its just a game.
Karen Dyer. She’s also the English voice of Street Fighter’s Elena. Although Sheva wasn’t modeled after her (it was another actress), apparently she can pull off cosplaying as the characters she dubbed (that’s my polite way to say she looks good wearing a “tribal bikini”).
No wonder why I love the character so much.
Sheva based in the game and real life
I'm Zambian and black (99% of us are)and I played Res Evil 5 and enjoyed it. Am I honestly surprised that this is actually a conversation to be had.
western game 'journalists' - if they aren't complaining about something they start to fade away
More like a regurgitation of an bad take made in 2009.
I recently saw a story from a Swahili gamer (according to him) who said that RE5 was the shit at his high school because the zombies were speaking Swahili. And it was a huge hit there too.
It's white liberal feminists that come up with this nonsense
It's only something that English-speaking westerners get worked up about. Ironically, it's them projecting onto other people, as though the many nations of the world all conform to *their* "racial politics". That is to say, it's ignorant.
The West is collapsing, that’s why. Stay sane.
I've noticed this in both movies and video games - "diversity" only applies to the heroes. The cannon-fodder are always male, and nearly always white.
You can say that again!
Every advert has black representation in the uk.
UNLESS the advert is about domestic abuse and the abuser has to be male and white.
And they say recruiting down.... hmm....
See a white man? There's your villain, mook or disposable collateral. The writing/casting is so predictable it's a simple formula.
Oy!
We really need to see more marginalized representation in the undead.
👏 Stop 👏 erasing 👏 POC 👏 zombies!
We need a zombie of every race and ethnic group.
No no! We need *less* representation of marginalized groups in the undead! The undead can *only* be straight white men.
UD DEI (Un-Dead DEI)
NDEI (Necro-DEI)
ZDEI (Zombie DEI)
Cannae Die DEI (self-explanatory)
You must have heard about a certain someone voicing a trans monster in Dead By Daylight, and now they want reparations (I wish I was joking) because their character is a monster?
No one can EVER make The Easily Outraged happy!
Me, a black man, in the zombie apocalypse. "Well at least I'm being eaten by black zombies." Wtf!😂😂
It's important for marginalized people to see themselves eaten by zombies who look just like themselves!
I’m sure that’s internalized something or other….
🤣🤣🤣
black people can only be animated by voodoo magic I guess
LOL you wouldnt want to be eaten by wh'te zombies, that would be wacist lovebites!
IGN: (sees black zombies) Capcom is racist! They should be ashamed!
Also IGN: (sees Spaniard zombies) Nothing to see here. Carry on Capcom
*Spaniard
its because the Spaniards are white. snowflakes are too ignorant to tell the difference. lol
The funniest thing is that they're supposed to be European Spanish, but they speak Mexican Spanish.
@@l.apastore4208 Thank you for the grammar lesson friend
Spaniards don't even care.
Game: set in Africa
People: how dare they have black people in this game as enemies ?
They COMPLETELY miss the point that none of the Infected is an evil person - literally ALL of the Infected people are victims, and the character needs to prevent further infection from occuring that will create even MORE victims.
The journalist seemed to highlight the lack of development and costume to make a claim that Africa was backward. But they'd probably get in trouble if the African zombies were in gleaming modern cities and all wearing Gucci. So you might be lambasted for portraying Africa as ramshackle, but the same people might bust you if you portrayed it as exclusively made up of bustling modern metropolises - as minimising the aftermath of colonialization.
If they were all white zombies, they would be crying about lack of representation as its set in africa
Thing is they'd complain it's racist if there weren't black zombies too. They'd just say you're whitewashing africa at that point, you can't win
How dare you shoot asteroids in Space! You asteroid racist. 😆
_"... Resident Evil 5's primary antagonists are black people"_
Oh, so Albert Wesker and Excella Gionne are black now? JFC, you'd think professional writers would know what "primary antagonists" means.
They're neither professional, nor writers.
They're paid amateur parasocial enablers for the worst habits/misconceptions of awkward adolescents.
I guess they were meaning who you would be facing most often as Wesker and Excella popped up occasionally.
Its just an agenda writing ”journalist”.
Lmao, that's actually assuming said "writer(s)" knows anything remotely about the game other than 'bLaCk ZoMbiEs (in Africa) wHaAaAt!?' 😂 The fact that a black woman is one of the protagonists is something apparently lost on all of them as well, the cover art admittedly makes her look almost bi-racial maybe even white, and they've never delved any deeper than the cover.
I always thought he had a little bit of soul brother in him. Lol
The term "Redskin" is actually a native American rank of one of the tribes most elite warriors. They covered themselves in red clay/dirt before battle. Pretty easy to see how they became knkw as Redskins.
its commanders now !!!!
Interesting... School told me it's cuz scalpers called them redskins based off blood covered skin after scalping, making them appear red. If that's not true crazy they told me that as a preteenXD
It was actually a council of American Indians that chose that name for the sports team, too. This idea that it was a bunch of racist white people who named them that is a false narrative invented by white Liberals with a Savior complex.
@@metronome8471named after the dog that won't stop biting people.
Oklahoma literally means "Red People" in Choctaw. Whites excel at being offended for others.
What they are trying to say is that they see no difference between zombified black dude, and regular one. Come to conclussion yourself.
For the Land O Lakes butter thing, consider: They removed the Indian, yet kept the land. And that's... "progress"?!
Are aunt Jemima and uncle Ben still on the products?
No, I believe it's called Manifest Destiny
@@richardsanchez5444 Nope. They're gone, and now it's "Pearl Milling Company" and "Ben's Original".
washington commanders is such a colonist name lmao
Why are they erasing Native Americans?
We've already had this conversation... 15 years ago. Time is a circle.
Neat.
Capcom will not bow down.
They literally made Hunnigan black for no reason.
@@FishingParrot they already have
@baddog6003 hunnigan has always been black though? What's wrong with that?
Woke: "Don't kill the zombies! They're black!"
Survivor: "But they're eating everyone!"
Woke: "Shut up, racist!"
😂😂😂
Previously on The Woking Dead
Ha ha ha ha
Imagine they did a TV show that had this sort of humour? Comedy gold.
These are the same people who would be advocating for "infected person's rights" in games and movies. Then they find out why double tapping the flesh eating monsters is the only cure.
I’m guessing that the only place they want a Zombie Apocalypse is a country club and golf course in Connecticut.
Coming soon in Resident Evil 9!
It was so dishonest. The team leader is african, your partner was African. Chris is just a known character that players will recognise.
It was a dishonest argument even back in 2009.
The best part about the boulder punching is in Resident Evil 8 when fighting Heisenberg Chris blows up the factory and Heisenberg calls him "that boulder punching asshole" meaning Chris punching a boulder is just common knowledge in Resident Evil world
Most importantly, it re-canonizes past resident evil games after they hinted at RE7 being a reboot.
@@randommulato8871 could just be a set up for the eventual RE5 remake.
I like the idea that Chris is indeed famous for this. A body camera or something managed to capture it and the feds use it as propaganda.
"Who needs superviruses when even regular people can punch boulders?"
Chris is super embarrassed by this and everyone he knows teases him, and of course all the villains who try and use super-science to take over the world know him solely for this. Not his years of dedicated service or numerous successful missions, but him desperately punching a boulder to destroy a weirdo in a volcano.
@@Darkgun231 More like "Who needs super viruses when you have steroids?"
I think he knows cause of the mould brain
I don't know.
About you guys, but if I play a video game and the world takes place in a certain region, I also expect ethnicities that live in that region to appear in that region.
Yeah, that kind of annoyed me about FarCry 5. It's in Montana (just for reference, I live in North Dakota, so similar population) but there's black people everywhere. Oddly enough, the minority group that should be everywhere in the game, Native Americans, well... Apparently Ubisoft isn't aware those people exist.
Get out of here with that wishful thinking
@@ressljs
Ubisoft has wife's boyfriend-type employees.
I didn't see any polor bears in the game. Totally racist. That's how idiotic these people sound
Are the Haitian's cannibals in the game? Too soon?
Leon: Mr President I just defeated the zombies in Haiti
President: There were no zombies in Haiti
Haiti looks EXACTLY like that made up African country in RE5
There is no such thing as “too soon”
It's ok Opera and the Rock can sort it out. Or at the very least tell us to sort it out
@@magicjohnson3121Ba Sing Se moment
Blackawk Down remake needs to be set in Iceland..
You think they were no black and latino vikings? 😂
Blackhawks are Racist. Let's make it an Apache.
Sidenote about blackhawk down:
Malaysian filmakers recently released a movie covering the battle of mogadishu, but from the malaysian armed force’s perspective, who were operating under the UN banner.
Its should be on netflix, though im not sure if its region-locked, n im not sure if its dubbed in english.
@@arminxvs3372 NAH it will be set in dem caucasus mountains n shieeeet👨🏿🦱
" No Black Zombies Allowed" i love Democracy (Senator Palpatine)
Maybe Re5 remake could take place in Smurfville where Papa Smurf has secrety converted his town into infected
set the next game in Tower Hamlets or Ilford in London
When you remember zombies were originally black (the whole idea comes from Haiti)
This is where we get Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce.
@@metronome8471oh it suddenly makes sense! The reason why i love that sauce so much- voodoo.
This was a dumb argument in 2009 that everyone mocked relentlessly and time has not changed that fact.
The difference now is IGN has lost all of its influence and people are wiser to desperation and hate-clicks.
Gaming should be an escapism, not a target for identity politics. 🎉
That’s why leftists attack it. They know that the average person, who doesn’t play video games, will simply go “oh it doesn’t matter” and not care.
Best comment I have ever seen on the subject, thank you Tyler
Everything is politics, If it wasn't it's missed opportunity.
But we need strong black zombies and strong female zombies for a proper representation.
don't forget the wheelchair bound zombies
They would be just like Daleks, ED 209s. Absolutely deadly, but can't climb a flight of stairs! Just stay upstairs and youare safe! LOL!@@richardhockey8442
And the tranny zombies.
Though, I guess all zombies are technically trans.
Transanity? Transpecies? I dunno, but they definitely have transitioned.
And the fat zombies too@@richardhockey8442
Well, we've got Deborah Harper and Rachel whatshername. So we're halfway there.
My sister tried to get offended at me around that I’m just like what are you on about I full completed that game with my black best friend. Just parroting some crap she heard, told her why wasn’t she upset about 4 and the Spaniards, crickets smh.
I brought the smoke and drinks he brought the food and game. We’d get off work and have a good one.
Make it look like an accident or ship her to a different continent. If your parents are young enough, tell them they screwed up and to try again. Maybe adopt a more diverse kid idk.
Is your sister's name Karen?
Ugh, I can't stand it when people don't know what they are writing about, which has been the norm. Like Drinker says nobody is gloating in killing them, even in later titles we see how Chris changes what he goes through because of how grueling it is. These people call themselves "gaming journalists" but know s*** about the games they are writing about . The make me tired
the only thing they are certain of is which identity catechism they need to be spouting in every single article they write
Takes me back to college, hanging out playing Resident Evil 5 at my friend’s apartment. Him (he is black) playing Chris, me (I am white) playing Sheva, and two of our friends (one Italian and the other Native American/Hispanic) watching us play. We never talked about race, it just never crossed our minds. We were all just having fun fighting zombies and laughing at stupid deaths. Great times.
That is why TJ Storm, the Legendary Godzilla, is a CLASS ACT
Damn it I want my Black zombies! Thriller had Black zombies!
We need Black zombies.
BZLM, Black Zombies Lives Matter.
that was what was missing in RE5, all the black zombies breaking out into complex dance choreography as Thriller played.
When you know the whole zombie folklore come from Haiti.
I guess video games can't take place in Africa now. How diverse
*Resident Evil 6:* Located in Hollywood, a town teeming with Woke Zombies. Instead of biting you, they infect you with *THE MESSAGE.*
All of the West-African immigrants Ive known here in the states had none of the weird issues with racism or whatever that the rest of Black Americans sometimes have.
Like, sure, most black people in the US can trace their ancestry to slavery a few hundreds years ago, but not people living in Africa today or people who immigrated since slavery ended.
The Land O' Lakes thing was funny for me as a Native, mostly because it let me wise-crack them for removing the Native but keeping the land. I honestly kind of liked having her on the packaging. Stuff like that feels more like, I don't know, acknowledgement to me. I feel differently about sports teams using Natives as mascots, though, mostly because usually mascots are animals and I don't like the association. Also having been to some Sioux games (before they changed the name), I didn't much like how my tribal name was getting used there. It certainly wasn't respectful. Of course, I don't pretend to represent all Natives or even just my own tribe, just myself. Actually I had an uncle who was very much a fan of the Chiefs and the Redskins, seemingly just because of their names. I know there were Sioux from Spirit Lake who liked UND having that name and were very upset when they changed it. But I also know there were plenty from Standing Rock who were against the university's use of the name. Of course one of my problems over the matter is that no one ever much bothers asking us, unless a court orders it.
No one wants to point out the parallels of mindless undead and mindless living.
mod the game to give the zombies blue hair and have them moan 'racist' or 'cisgender misogynist' when you shoot them
Shawn of the Dead already did that nearly 20 years ago. You weren't paying attention.
They want to force black people into settings where they don't belong, and blackwashing existing characters. All the while they also don't want black people to appear in settings where they DO belong.
It's almost like it's about erasure and not representation or something.
Being a white 1970s kid growing up in the UK, I can honestly say I’ve never noticed racism or sexism as bad as it is today.
the Devs on HellDivers 2 would have been like "you know what, we're gonna make em blacker and Darker now"! and whenever a Softie spoke up and said "but muh pedo flags" the Devs would laugh and say "the black capes just got five feet longer"
They've also successfully split the fan base down the middle and fucked up their weapons a bit. They don't have any room to belittle the blue hairs.
@@Darksky1001ableSource?
@@LaZd-Hes a butthurt railgun user who didnt like his braindead gameplay loadout getting nerfed and he has to try. Hes the exact person the dev in the community forums is insulting and hes too far gone to get a refund, but also still enjoys playing the game. aka he made it up lol
@@Darksky1001ablestop spreading misinformation, you bug sympathizer. You don't even play the game.
Bros. Im Kenyan. When me and my friends first heard the zombies in RE5 speak Swahili, we lost our shit! It was the greatest thing ever and the kind of stuff no one would believe could happen until we saw it for ourselves. I still load it up to this day just to hear all the quotes again.
"Ndiyo yule pale! Mshike!" 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
I've replayed through the whole of Resident Evil 5 a few months ago in co-op with a friend and the game aged TERRIBLY mechanics-wise imo. It came out around that time Capcom was unsure whether they wanted RE to be horror or action, so they made something that was kinda bad at both. Had all the cliché trappings of it's time too like a few corridor shaped levels, scripted turret sequences and unnecessary QTEs. Reminder of the absolute "masterpiece" RE6 that came after it being the peak of that Capcom phase.
It's super due to a remake and tbh, Capcom is in a much better place now, and is frankly one of the few companies I'd half expect to have the balls to try it in [current year].
Besides, please, Sheva and skintight bodysuit evil Jill both deserve the HD treatment!
If you've seen how Dragon's Dogma 2 was deliberately ruined in pursuit of MODERN AUDIENCES you wouldn't say Capcom is in a better place now *or* think they have balls.
Watch The Electric Underground’s review of Resident Evil 5. He explains all the awesome mechanics of RE5. It’s an action game through and through (so is RE4).
@@kanrakucheese I haven't checked much on Dragons Dogma 2, but if you mean they have that annoying "Los Angeles demographic in medieval Europe" thing modern Fantasy tends to have, they already had that in Dragons Dogma 1, it wouldn't make much sense to change now. I meant they are in a WAY better place now than they were in that 2009 to 2013 window when they were catering way too hard to the western market and trying to make generic western games instead of playing to their strengths as a Japanese company. I remember the term "Crapcom" was being thrown around a lot those days.
@@kanrakucheesewhat was ruined on DD2?
And to the guy complaining RE5 is outdated, play better, its the tightest RE ever made up today
RE6 have more mobility, RE5 have more consistency
@@Jasper_Silva No, I'm talking about how they deliberately limited the character creator. The demo has a bunch a bunch of options that are fully implemented and work fine, but can only be accessed by memory edits or modding. These are all things essential to making attractive female characters (which they removed, now you have "body type"s)
I genuinely wonder who it is that's "Speaking for us" when it comes to some journalists trying to be political. Is it just me that's noticed the target "victims" are usually not even part of the conversation. I'm of African descent and it didn't even dawn on me while playing the game. It's like you can't win, the same person would probably complain about the "lack of diversity" if they rewrote it to be "PC" in their eyes. The devil truly makes work for idle thumbs and it appears that journalism has become so mundane in the media circles that all of them have thumbs idle enough to be this devilishly stupid.
Keep up the good work Drinker & Mauler
There’s nothing wrong with over the shoulder. That’s how I like my boulder holders.
Noice...
4:30 TJ Storm was a martial arts actor. I remember a show growing up with him in it in the 90s. Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter (uncredited in both), but don't see the show I'm thinking of.
Hope Capcom ignores the noise. It would do wonders for publicity, which leads to sales.
Sub-Saharan, or central, Africa is where a large portion of some of the earliest zombie stories, legends, and mythologies, started popping up. So, these ‘journos’ acting so panicky and horrid about this, and wanting it expunged, is a form of cultural erasure. The returned dead, the vengeful deceased, ghouls and disembodied wraiths are a part of all of our cultures, stories and spiritual traditions either written or oral.
Good point.
Romero zombies are quite different from any mythological revenants I've ever heard of. (They share a name with voodoo zombies, and not much else.)
Does anyone know what chefs kid story Chris gore was talking about?
i had to go and play it again to see black zombies lol,i truly never even noticed they were black i just thought oh crap zombies weres my gun.
Blue rotting skin, white tribal outfit & brown filter will make you forget things
"Africa was a dark continent full of disease, slaughter, cannibalism... a desolate apocalypse, the few remaining broken walls of ruined buildings the only visible remnant of civilisation that once inhabited the land."
and then the zombie virus arrived
Once upon a time, long before George Romero, the ONLY zombies were black ones. The term "zombie" comes from a mythical voodoo practice of faking someone's death and then enslaving them with cocktails of drugs. A "white zombie" was a novelty in the horror genre.
One of the very first zombie films of the 1930s was even called "White Zombie"
Exactly.@@EvilDoresh
@@EvilDoresh I've watched that film and got it on DVD alongside two other films that Bela Lugosi was in. Also Plague of the Zombies had zombies created from voodoo.
IGN also turned the comments off on that article haha
Cowards
Please excuse me for not reading too deep into a game that has Chris Redfield dealing body blows to a boulder.
Hate to be the "Um, actually" guy here, but T.J. Storm has only played Godzilla in 2014 and King of the Monsters (2019). After that, Godzilla isn't portrayed via mo-cap in Godzilla vs. Kong nor will there be mo-cap performance for him in GxK: The New Empire.
They should rewrite the story because that game had some issues, but Capcom did solved those claims of racism in RE5 by giving Sheva a Tribal bikini in her costume.
I would only accept a rewrite of that game if they gave Wesker a better conclusion that included Jill.
Use the beta version of the game to improve what they couldn’t back than.
LOL No. That game outsold all other resident evil games. Leave it as it was except for maybe better mechanics/movements.
Sigh, I miss the days where a bit of afterthought level superficial pandering was considered enough to STFU the critics, and everybody then just moved on.
Thank god they gave her one.
No black zombies allowed?
Well, tell that to the stuntman in the first Paul WS Anderson _Reaident Evil_ film who portrayed a zombie and went against Alice before she meets the dogs, IIRC.
I believe he was also one of the stunt coordinators.
This reminds of that part in Lethal weapon 2 ?
"You can't go to south Africa Sir, Cause your Black"
Well, you could have gone, but the security forces would have harassed a person like that all the way. Not limited JUST to minorities either - they would have rotated subversives through their "prisoner handlers" as well for information. Their police services were PACKED with military types fresh from the Namibian/Angolan border war, after all.
I still want Resident Evil Code Veronica Remake!!
My daughter Alexia got her name from that game
5:11
I’m getting real sick of the Monsterverse slander. There’s nothing wrong with wanting fun, giant monster movies. I don’t care if it’s bad, it’s a lot more enjoyable compared to most stuff churned out nowadays.
Yeah they should know not every Godzilla movie needs to be super serious high art quality like Minus One.
@@zillauniverse7208
Agreed. Ever since Minus One came out we’ve been seeing a whole lot of people act like their suddenly experts on the franchise when they haven’t seen more than like 3 movies
I maybe in the minority on the panel, but I'm actually looking forward to seeing Kong Vs Zilla 2 lol.
I know exactly wtf it's going to be and i can't wait!
You shoot a black cop in Resident Evil 2 after he turns, so… 🤷🏼♂️
IGN: "Spanish zombies being killed is fine. African zombies being killed is racism."
I mean, HUH?!?
“Zombies” actually originated in Africa. It was a form of punishment where the victims were given a potion which contained tetrodotoxin. They were called “Nzambe.”
Everyone memes on Chris Redfield and that boulder in RE5, but not enough people meme on Chris having the same voice actor as Sonic the Hedgehog. ;)
and the same as Ezio from Assassins Creed. Mmmm that voice
Isnt tj storm the parkour guy from *_Punisher: Warzone?_*
Wut, I didn't know he was in that movie😮
@@gabrielchin4161 rewatch it. You cant miss him.
I think zombies are. common to most nations and cultures. Indeed they make up the majority.
Mythologies tend to have the same or similar elements in different cultures. Pretty much all of them has a vampire variant or another, for example.
@@sigmacademy That is indeed true. However I was referring to people's susceptibility to brainwashing.
Ironically they are an African legend originally
@@davidbeddoe6670yep that was even brought Up in the Resident evil Manga
Zombies originaly come from the Voodoo Idea of raising the dead
The “Blawkhawk Down” incident in Somalia was actually the inspiration for Resident Evil 5
I think the funny thing as well is that there are also lighter skinned zombies in RE5, it's one of the default 4 or 5 basic Majini you fight in that game. But once you get out into the wilderness and swamps and fight the tribe, they're all black. I always through it was a pretty good storytelling device, as there shouldn't be any white characters within the RECLUSIVE AND PARANOID tribe.
iirc, the lighter-skinned villager zombies in RE5 were a last-minute change that Capcom made after Western gaming "journalists" kicked up a stink about the early preview images. Didn't make much sense having such a racial mix in remote African shanty towns, but if they kept it all-black in the later wilderness areas then at least _some_ sense prevailed.
Anyone I spoke with actually from Africa or living in Africa was super excited and had pride RE came to their part of the world
"other races can be zombies too" ✊😂
These people will claim that RE5 was suggesting that Africans are subhuman, and then turn around and complain about media literacy being dead, because people don’t care about how Helldivers 2 has a comedic edge to it.
Just when you think wokers couldnt sink lower...
+1 for Lamarr Redfield, voiced by Terry Crews.
The main zombie in Land of the Dead was a black guy. He was a kickass zombie too in a really good zombie flick imo. So underrated. I love the idea of zombies using weapons it was an interesting concept
That movie is so damn good.
Land of the Dead was and i love bad zombie movies, was as you say underrated, sure a parody of romero's earlier work , silly, stupid, but it had Dennis Hopper being Dennis Hopper, it's a so bad it's great movie,also i am maybe one of the few that like most Resident Evil movies and the Zombie Nation series , also Zombi and any eurotrash 80's zombie horror such my thing.
the more bad english dubbing from Italian, where half the cast only spoke English, the other only Italian and somehow they still made a semi coherant film
Zombi was literally set on a carribean island, all the zombies where black
@@davidrenton
I love the Resident Evil movies. Especially the new one Welcome to Raccoon City
@@hulkfan97 i liked the new one, not perfect, but i liked the direction, the tone, the authenticity to the games, it fell off , but it was decent. Overall a good zombie movie.
the OG movies are a guilty pleasure that i rewatched, then again i rewatch doom, silent hill.
house of the dead is a different level of crap though :) i can watch and love bad zombie movies, but bad comedy no thanks
@@davidrenton
I won't ever see Houde of the Dead. I vomit humor. Why have the hot chick of the movie get her face snd boobs puked on. So unecessary and gross.
RUclips won't even let me comment what I want to say on this video, it keeps auto-deleting my comment, and it's not even derogatory
Thumbnail accurately depicts Haiti currently 👌
The same people were bitching that there wasn't black infected in either Dying Light, or Days Gone.
They’ll just end up whining about Sheva being too light skinned
"You are *technically* correct, which is the best kind of correct."
Who needs black zombies? All you need to do is change the name from Resident Evil 5 to 'Shithole Simulator: Haiti Edition' and offer custom skins for the "cannibal gangs" as pre order bonuses.
The zombies in the african spearman Outfits are wearing this because the Infektion made them wear this for some weird reasons u can find their writings where they wrote that they found it strange when some started ro wear Tribe clothing all of a sudden
Perhaps they can put Resi 5 on hold until this woke nonsense blows over and we get back to some normality. In the meantime Codename Veronica can do with a redo. If they do proceed with 5, then I hope the Japanese developers don't succumb to the western game industry mind virus to change the local, but if they do, I'll be staying away from it as I still have the Xbox 360 release.
Capcom deliberately ruined Dragon's Dogma 2 to appeal to the wokes (chest size is artificially limited to a very small range, but memory editing shows a much wider range was fully implemented).
@@kanrakucheesethat sucks but does that ruin the game overall? its like throwing out the whole bag of cheetos for one bad cheeto.
@@phantombigboss8429 Have you played Dragon's Dogma 1? The *entire point* of the game is literally the strength of the character creator. A central game mechanic is renting characters created by other players and game does in-fact care about the height/weight of characters to a significant degree.
Alfred. lmao.
@@kanrakucheese Yea I played the game not as much as you though to care about miniscule stuff like that. Im still going to get the game. Idc if it was sweet baby approved. and the end of the day if the game is great nothing else matters to me. have fun missing out.
Most people just took away from the game, how funny boulder punching is.
TJ Storm is also that black guy who got his soul sucked by Shang Tsung after battling Liu Kang!
AND, the guy also lend his voice to other Capcom titles, like english voice for Birdie in Street Fighter 5 and Strider Hiryu in Marvel vs Capcom.
So yeah, hes pretty cool!
HAKIM THE MOTHERFUCING MACHINE?!?!??!
The only reason why i think this could be a blessing in disguise is because i want with all my heart, if Capcom necessarily has to do another remake (which i honestly don't, but that's a whole different conversation), they'd better do Outbreak, i wanted it since RE2make came out, instead we had to endure that colossal disappointment of 3make
Thank you telling Story about random Citizens of racoon City has such great Potential
When are we going to see the undead get true representation!!!!
who gets to sit at the top of the victimhood league: vampires, zombies, werewolves or ghouls?
@@richardhockey8442 Vampires will probably be at the bottom, considering they tend to be rich white guys. Ghouls are problematic because they eat corpses without their permission, zombies are socially shunned (for obvious reasons) and werewolves would be seen as subhuman by this game journalist because you are saying humans are dogs (using their twisted logic/fake nonsense they write to get paid because they aren't knowledgeable in anything).
I remember reading the article about how RE5 was racist back in the day. Really goes to show how long ago the rot had set in. The guy's article said he wasn't saying the Japanese were racist, just that the imagery "dovetailed" with racism or something. Capcom's response was to claim that racism just doesn't exist in Japan because they have such a homogeneous society, which is an equally ludicrous claim if you know a even little about Japan.
I love how they forget about Sheva, who's awesome as the only left handed character in RE so far.
I want to see IGN's take on mowing down in Spanish. EDIT: Chris' boulder punching ways were confirmed as canon in RE8 so it HAS to be included in a remake :D
I am still waiting for a super hero that drives around in a wheelchair but can fly
They have a Spider-Man person.That does that kind of
Marvel just did that with Sentry.
Krrish 3 had a wheelchair villain, but his villainy didn't originate with the wheel chair, if I can still remember the movie fully. Could fly, but there was a certain twist to his powers.
As a liberal I wanted to click on this video and say that EVEN WE THINK THATS BS
Haha god i hate IGN sometimes and i get the feeling its stupid shit like this why capcom have been reluctant to bring shiva back
They hardly bring back anyone who wasn’t from the first 3 RE games.
@@psychokinrazalon true but i also can't remember many others who lived that long lol like most of code Veronicas cast
You guys forget Josh Stone on the Desperate Escape he's playable along side with Jill.
I mean, at first glance, hordes of African people getting mowed down by the white main character can elicit a bit of side-eye. But the more you look into it you realize that Capcom did a fairly respectable job of depicting and pulling from African culture and mythology for some of the enemies and monsters in the game.
Really, the further in you get, the more you realize the Majini/villagers are the victims in the story, same with the Ganados of RE4. The main villain is the hamtastic Albert Wesker, the dude who literally wants to apply eugenics and social Darwinism to the whole world.
"Game journalists" have discovered that talking about a game only about the story, the fun, the characters, the technology used, the performances...... what should be their job, can only fill a couple of pages of text.
On the contrary, launching into ruminations on social reasons and problems (especially if invented and illogical) can give rise to speeches and articles of infinite length. If we add to this "contacts" from a certain economic and cultural area we have the result of today.
RE5 is still an outstanding game. The Mercenaries Mode is worth the price of admission alone (and I do play as Sheva most of the time -- she's fine AF). So, it's mostly black-person-on-black-zombie violence when I play. 😈
I played Resi 5 so much that i got bored of it eventually, which is a good thing in a way, but it wasn't scary and not really even tense and stressful like 4.
RE 5 just tried to be Re 4 all over again with diminishing returns