A couple of possible explanations behind the racial allegations leveled at Resident Evil 5. The author believes that Eurogamer isn't thinking the scenes that they saw through properly, and offers alternative ways of looking at them.
Circana data shows Resident Evil 5 as the best selling Resident Evil game in the US, ahead of Resident Evil 4 remake and Village.
So the most successful RE is the one where a white man is killing Africans.
This can't be real.
New leaks from Dusk Golem detail cancelled Resident Evil projects, including a Rebecca focused Revelations game, while stating no Resident Evil 5 remake is in development.
Capcom's willingness to invest in experiments and scrap them sets them apart form many other developers (Nintendo have a similar methodology). Far too often companies push a game setting or game mechanic that is just not that good and the final product is middling or poor.
Dusk Golem claims a Resident Evil 5 remake is not coming this year, with a Code Veronica remake expected instead.
Dude Code Veronica is bad too but RE5 and 6 were mega successful and to me it makes much more sense for Capcom to do them instead. Nobody cares about Code Veronica except niche fixed camera era RE fans, i bet most modern RE fans probably don't know Code Veronica even exists. Based on all that i don't believe CV remake is coming but we will see i guess.
Actually RE5-6 was not Classic RE game.. They are not even Survival Horror game.. They are just an action game with coop and named by RE... And for me RE Code Veronica was masterpiece.. I remembered the first time i played it in Dreamcast.. It was absouletly excellent game. And specially for RE6.. I was quit from game after the camera shakes when Leon's kick to zombies.. There's a video about RE6 and they are telling the truth about that shitty game https://www.youtube.com/wat... here it is.. Enjoy it..
people are DYING for a Code Veronica Remake. Not sure who you are talking to, but the die-hard RE fans of the series are very familiar with every entry. That's what it means to be called a die-hard fan.
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I am sure If they were to remake CV that it 2ont have fixed camera angle. I hope whatever they do they take their time like RE2/4 remakes and not rushed with cut content like RE3 remake
Before they should do RE5 they should go back and remake earlier games. In a perfect scenario we would get CV and RE/Zero before RE5/6
It makes more sense for them to remake earlier games like Code Veronica. RE5 is a good game though - it's not THAT different from RE4.
RE5 just doesn't really need to remade in general. The co-op element makes it tricky - you'd probably add more moments where Chris is by himself enhance the horror but some would want co-op to stay.
RE:5 Was and still is a great game, with hands down the best Merc mode, that I still play from time to time with my brother.
RE:6 blah, I agree, it was awful.
Other than Code Veronica, 6 is the one ai want to see remade the most only because pretty much everything has to be redone; can't streamline that hot mess.
6 was pretty bad. 5 just tried too hard in being an action-oriented RE4.
In some fairness to Capcom, 5 was the first Resident Evil on then-new hardware for them (X360 and PS3). And it was pretty damn hard to follow up RE4.
Imagine everyone's surprise when EA of all companies dropped Dead Space.
The first half of 5 wouldn't be too hard to do in the more grounded style the remakes have gone for, but the second half gets pretty silly and uncomfortable at parts.
6 is a wash. You'd have to basically make a whole new game to salvage that one at this point.
Hopefully if and when they do a RE5 remake, they give it the RE3 remake treatment, because this is certainly one title that I don't want a faithful remake of.
Any game where you shoot a bunch of black people is considered racist. However, shooting Spanish and White people are alright because they don't make a big deal out of slavery that took place before most of them were even born.
Now, see how silly that sounds? =)
You know when u call the game not racist u make it worse... just drop it.
Games need way more diversity no downplaying that.
well not sh!t
I don't even know why I'm bothering to post this comment but NO-ONE WITH ANY SENSE IS CALLING IT RACIST BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK.
Seriously, people seem to ignore that completely. Some things appear to hark back to very old stereotypes of sexual violence and primitivism. I haven't heard anyone really say 'it's racist because you're shooting black people' because that would make no sense.
If they were mindless zombies no-one would have a problem with this, the fact that they are 'sub-human' in a sense is the problem.
'It is a sad, but known fact that many of the people in South Africa are at war.'
Being a South African who lives in South Africa I can assure you how fallacious this statement is... it also makes me question how much of real Africa the Western world knows, beyond the simple media representation.
Yes, there is disease, a lot of ppl have little access to the comforts of the modern world, and conflict is strife (mainly central Africa) but that does not mean that Africans are barbaric, or savages as Joseph Conrad put it in Heart of Darkness. The eurogamer was not incorrect in his statements... we've passed this old stereotypical of Africans in Africa.
Regardless I think this guy makes some noteworthy comments in his blog but the situation can be seen from two sides because it is a controversial topic.
I just hope that Capcom use this opportunity to express some debatable messages and thematic elements, but nonetheless I found the RESI5 demo an absolutely blast and can't wait for it to be fully released.