Resident Evil 5 announced

For the first time ever, I'm highly anticipating a Resident Evil Game.

Resident Evil 5 announced.

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The only thing that surprises me about this: That it's called RE5 and not STREET FIGHTER VS S.T.A.R.S.

Surely Capcom has co-opted a Resident Evil character or two for one of the 8.32 million Capcom Vs. the Universe games by now, right? Maybe that Nemesis zombie?

Well, Jill Valentine was in both Marvel vs. Capcom games.

And one of Jill's super moves in Marvel vs Capcom 2 is that she calls out a Tyrant from RE1 to finish you off.

looks very nice.

*Sniff* This is the Happiest day of my life. *Sniff*

Any setting is better than another deserted mansion with an underground lab.

I do wonder if the setting will change by the time they finally release it. that happens sometimes with the RE games.

Yeah because that's exactly what Resident Evil 4 was.


You ass.

No shit. That was my point.

Since the change in location was one of the best things about RE4, any new location in 5 is good news.

new extended trailer:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22801.html

check out that punch move he does. Meaty! cannot wait for this one.

The music at the start of that trailer gave me the creeps.

Was that Jill right at the end?

That's kinda what I was wondering as well.

Christ, it looks like a KKK member's wet dream.

I must admit watching Chris take on the hordes of potentially muslim (due to the call to prayer at the start) Africans was kind of creepy.

looks awesome. I can't imagine how this is gonna go over. White guy vs the negro hordes.

Come on people! Don't look at this trailer from a racial angle. It was just the reality of the given situation. You can tell that because the black zombies moved a lot quicker than all white zombies we've seen up to this point!

Yeah, but replacing the blind berserkers with the Harlem Globetrotters might have been a bad idea.

Yea but with the intense light contrast on display they'll be impossible to spot hiding in the shadows, that is unless they smile.

That's what I was thinking.

It looks fucking amazing though. All I ask for is being able to switch weapons on the fly, and I'm sold. Who am I kidding, I'm sold anyway.
Although I suppose I have to get a system that will play it first. Fuck.

You've got a while, so don't worry too much just yet.

It's not due out until 2009, so you have plenty of time to save up.

Got a few big screenshots from the trailer that Capcom sent over....

http://www.creature-corner.com/?type=news&id=2669

I absolutely cannot wait for this game.

It's actually 2008.

edit: And thanks for pointing out that the trailer is up on Live, Alex. This thing looks much better on my TV.

Nope, it's 2009

Where is that info from? Everything I've read says 08.

edit: Ah, I found it now. It actually seems to just be before 2010, but you're still pretty much right. Jesus that's a long fucking time. I wonder if they pulled a Killzone 2 with that trailer if it's that far off.

It's Capcom, so it'll be released after your parents die and your children are born and fetching silver flecks your hair.

RE: the end of the clip, I'm guessing that's supposed to be the Sherry Birkin character from Resident Evil 2.

That was my guess.

I also posted this in the Favorite Youtube Videos thread.

About a month ago, my little brother discovered Windows Movie Maker. He made this trailer a couple hours ago. It's the extended E3 trailer but with One Man Army by Our Lady Peace playing over it. I'm real proud of him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAgF7oSovU

http://kotaku.com/378535/clearly-no-...d-on-this-game

I love how there was no racial controversy regarding Resident Evil 4, a game where you exclusively kill Spanish zombies.

EDIT:
I guess I should clarify that what I'm saying is despite the history of blacks in America, racial issues are still stupidly brought up and its exclusive to black people. Of course, N'Gai Croal is a black man himself, and it seems silly for him to post something like this about a game that's developed in Japan, even though this is a Japanese game. And while the Spanish race hasn't been as exploited on such an inhuman level, like stupid religious extremist comments and everything else we bitch about, its pretty baffling that shit like this still almost feels mandatory to bring up.

Speaking Spanish isn't a racial thing.

I'm probably gonna feel stupid after I read that article later (kotaku is blocked at work) and feel free to correct me if I'm totally off here...but what's the problem with killing nothing but Spanish zombies in RE4, anyway? There are Spanish people in Spain, after all.

I think there's black people in Africa.

Sounds to me like he totally gets it, I don't see the problem.

I don't know how anyone can watch footage of this game and not see the issue here. The Western world, particularly the U.S. and England, has produced hundreds of years' worth of literature and films portraying people of African descent (aside from the ones who have been "civilized" by the white world, of course) as nothing but bloodthirsty savages, cannibalistic monsters who would love nothing more than to devour every white man they see. Just because Resident Evil adds the conceit that they've been infected with a virus that makes them that way, it doesn't really excuse it.

Not to mention, the whole beginnings of the zombie genre is steeped in racism. Until Romero came along and recontextualized the idea of what a zombie is, the entire concept of the zombie was born out of racial fears. Watch any zombie movie pre-Night of the Living Dead, and you'll see nothing but voodoo priests sending zombies out into the world to kidnap white women and bring them back to their village, while bloodthirsty tribesman chant and dance around a bubbling pot. The very idea of zombies was built on fear of black people and their culture.

while it's true that this basically looks like Simon Shoots a Thousand Fuzzy Wuzzies: The Game, my selfish hope is that any potential shitstorm will die down so as not to delay my precious Resi 5.

I wouldn't count on it. Just wait until the mass media gets a hold of this story, it'll make Hot Coffee look like a pleasant dream.

But the game isn't about any of that (and I will add that this discussion is moot because none of know what the game actually is about). The game isn't "adding a conceit;" the ethnicity of the antagonists is defined by the geographical setting, plain and simple. I'm not saying you're wrong about the anti-African history of colonial literature, but the problem with applying that to a trailer for a videogame is that you're forcing meaning where there isn't any. You're cherrypicking images and elements that fit your argument and recontextualizing them to mean something that they're probably not intended to mean. Now, I could be wrong and the game could turn out to be racist as fuck, but I doubt it.

I'm confused, how's this different from the thousands of white people we've killed without remorse in these games? I mention this in the other thread, but I hate the conceit that black people need protecting.

There's certainly areas of society where black people are currently fucked, and need a readjustment of perception from the general public. There are several battles worth fighting that are far more intrinsic and dangerous to black people than this. The best way people can win those battlesis for people to stop thinking and acting in any fashion like any minority is inherently on a different level than every other.

Um, that would be because Haiti's where the real life roots of the idea come about. Certainly early zombie flicks took advantage of it, but through the filter of the flagrant ignorance and racism of the time. I saw nothing in that RE5 trailer that hints towards that same flagrancy aside from the fact that there's black people in it as opposed to the Spaniards who acted in the same fashion in RE4.

Personally, if done well, which as I said in the thread in the Chewer Catch-All, nobody really knows how Capcom's going to handle this, I'd absolutely love to see a piece of media acknowledge the roots of the idea of zombies in Haiti. I just hope they're doing their research.

But images have meanings beyond the ones they're intended to mean. It's the whole Confederate flag argument: A person can put the Confederate flag on their bumper with the intention of displaying pride in their Southern heritage, but that person's intentions are irrelevant. The fact that the flag was a symbol of slavery and racism for so many years won't change simply because the person's intentions were benign.

The image of the cannabilistic African is an inherently charged image. That doesn't mean the makers of RE5 are racist, but it does make them incredibly insensitive.

The only thing I will lend creedence to is the fact that the Japanese are woefully ignorant of black people. Not racist, mind you: that would imply they actually know something about the people they're stereotyping. Just ignorant. That said, this almost makes it more innocent, since the backdrop for RE5 was almost certainly a result of wanting to explore the roots of the zombie myth, rather than "round up the niggas for inspection via bullet".

Until we find a picture of the Japanese developer's office with a dark skinned effigy being hung by a noose with a sign saying "Die Jigaboo Die" I think the racist talks needs to end. This is searching for controversy where none exists.

Racism aside, I think we can all agree that RE5 is gonna rock!! It will have the most realistic hair-rendering of the whole series. Look at the luscious locks on that dude.