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IGN Res 4 Spanish Zombies : 👍 Res 5 Black Zombies :😡 Res 6 East Asian Zombies : 👍

Despite beeing only 13% of the zombies, black zombies account for 53% of the biting.

I miss the days when black people were just people.

You heard it here first: zombies avoid biting black people. Cancel zombies.

Every time a games journalist loses their job, an angel gets its wings.

RE Patch notes : Removed - black zombies. Added - Blue haired Karen zombies and male feminist zombies. There. We solved racism!

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.

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.

We really need to see more marginalized representation in the undead.

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.

Me, a black man, in the zombie apocalypse. "Well at least I'm being eaten by black zombies." Wtf!😂😂

Game: set in Africa People: how dare they have black people in this game as enemies ?

Woke: "Don't kill the zombies! They're black!" Survivor: "But they're eating everyone!" Woke: "Shut up, racist!"

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.

For the Land O Lakes butter thing, consider: They removed the Indian, yet kept the land. And that's... "progress"?!

IGN: (sees black zombies) Capcom is racist! They should be ashamed! Also IGN: (sees Spaniard zombies) Nothing to see here. Carry on Capcom

_"... 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.

What they are trying to say is that they see no difference between zombified black dude, and regular one. Come to conclussion yourself.

We've already had this conversation... 15 years ago. Time is a circle.

I’m guessing that the only place they want a Zombie Apocalypse is a country club and golf course in Connecticut.

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.

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

It was so dishonest. The team leader is african, your partner was African. Chris is just a known character that players will recognise.

" No Black Zombies Allowed" i love Democracy (Senator Palpatine)

Are the Haitian's cannibals in the game? Too soon?

Blackawk Down remake needs to be set in Iceland..

When you remember zombies were originally black (the whole idea comes from Haiti)

Maybe Re5 remake could take place in Smurfville where Papa Smurf has secrety converted his town into infected

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. 🎉

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.

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.

But we need strong black zombies and strong female zombies for a proper representation.

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

That is why TJ Storm, the Legendary Godzilla, is a CLASS ACT

Damn it I want my Black zombies! Thriller had Black zombies!

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.

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!" 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

No one wants to point out the parallels of mindless undead and mindless living.

I guess video games can't take place in Africa now. How diverse

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

IGN also turned the comments off on that article haha

There’s nothing wrong with over the shoulder. That’s how I like my boulder holders.

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.

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.

Please excuse me for not reading too deep into a game that has Chris Redfield dealing body blows to a boulder.

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.

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.

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.

This reminds of that part in Lethal weapon 2 ? "You can't go to south Africa Sir, Cause your Black"

Does anyone know what chefs kid story Chris gore was talking about?

I still want Resident Evil Code Veronica Remake!!

Hope Capcom ignores the noise. It would do wonders for publicity, which leads to sales.

Isnt tj storm the parkour guy from *_Punisher: Warzone?_*

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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. ;)

I think zombies are. common to most nations and cultures. Indeed they make up the majority.

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

My man Chris on the panel hahaha great convo

*Resident Evil 6:* Located in Hollywood, a town teeming with Woke Zombies. Instead of biting you, they infect you with *THE MESSAGE.*

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.

"You are *technically* correct, which is the best kind of correct."

The “Blawkhawk Down” incident in Somalia was actually the inspiration for Resident Evil 5

Thumbnail accurately depicts Haiti currently 👌

IGN: "Spanish zombies being killed is fine. African zombies being killed is racism." I mean, HUH?!?

+1 for Lamarr Redfield, voiced by Terry Crews.

"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

"other races can be zombies too" ✊😂

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.

Is there a reason UKposts shows Madame Web Ad before playing your videos? :)

You guys forget Josh Stone on the Desperate Escape he's playable along side with Jill.

When are we going to see the undead get true representation!!!!

Just when you think wokers couldnt sink lower...

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

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.

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 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

"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.

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.

Looks at Hati

Never ever wear sunglass indoors knob

Most people just took away from the game, how funny boulder punching is.

I am still waiting for a super hero that drives around in a wheelchair but can fly

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

I wonder if SBI proposed having a team of witchdoctors discover the cure.

Drinker you savvy supplier of soliloquy, if I may humbly recommend a new series on your channel. I’ve thought it would be interesting to compare the bad movies of now to the “bad movies” of a time almost forgotten. For example, examining the protagonists of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and comparing them against the protagonists of the Resident Evil movies of a bygone era. I think it would shed interesting light on both franchises…good and bad.

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.

They’ll just end up whining about Sheva being too light skinned

They can't change the boulder punching scene, it was mentioned in Resi 8 its canon now. 😂

If this game iteration was set in rural Japan... the Middle East... Honduras. I'm black and an OG Atari 2600 gamer. All I can say is that Farcry already did a release in a similar African setting. No one cared.