I still remember the part where you go from Somalia as viewed by a white man from Boise, ID to Africa as viewed by a 19th century Englishman with straw skirts and spears and magic temples

Even as a teenage boy, I was agog

Especially when you find that journal entry that states that the enhanced parasite they infected these people with, increased their jumping power

Literally the black people have an extra leg muscle, that's why they're more athletic than the otherwise superior white man shit

At least the discourse around 5 is better today than it was in 2008 wherein anyone calling this racist shit out was belittled. And it sucks because I'm a big Biohazard fan but even when I was a lib playing 5 for the first time it raised my eyebrow and go "well shit".

I played the hell out of 5 back in the day and was blessed to do so with people laughing in disbelief at the way the racism got more and more ambitious over the course of the game

Like it starts with a familiar "hostile hordes" trope that can hide its racism beneath the broader class paranoia of modern zombie media

But then you have the tribal African zombies showing how dark it truly gets in the rural hideaways of the Dark Continent

And to top it all off you have the final sections filled with ridiculously stereotyped "African militants" wearing camo pants and red berets with mini guns

It's all totally problematic but at least it was energetic in its derangement, Japan especially at the time was so behind the curve when it came to matters of race

Japan: does the remake and turns all the bad guys into variations of Mister Popo

"What if we made RE4 but with co-op!"

Should have been a giant no-issues money printer. But then somebody at the studio twisted the racism dial until it broke off.

Can't they just remake Resident Evil Outbreak instead

Like make it a Left4Dead clone, people would eat that shit up

I have been playing through all the re games with a friend, if you haven't played it's fucking wild how racist it is, even for the time it sticks out. All the controversy was centered on the first act which is fuckin bad but it gets so much worse anyone saying it's not that bad because "there were Spanish zombies and these are african zombies" either hasn't played it or cannot be trusted it's fuckin wild. The tribal shit after the first act is 1930's cartoon level racist.

can they just make a sequel to village please, that shit was gas, stop making remakes of games that sucked then and will suck now

lmao why would you want a resident evil 5 remake anyways? What's next? Umbrella Corps remake? Resident Evil pachi-slot machine remake?

I think they can and will ultimately remake it. The trick I think is mostly just to shift the story focus on to Sheva, have Chris as more of the partner character, and just take out the whole swamp / grass skirts section. The issue would be the story angle between Chris and Wesker, but I think that could still play out fine with Chris as secondary.

What if the Resident Evil was the short-sighted bigotry we carried in our hearts all along?

Code Veronica remake first please!