IGN: The Resident Evil Game That Can't Be Remade

[The Pulverizer]

Action Games Are LE BAD!​

Resident Evil 5 simply can’t be remade, at least not to the standards of Capcom’s best work. And so the answer is not to remake RE5, but to rewrite.

With the release of the Resident Evil 4 remake release last year, Capcom’s project to remake the glory years of its survival horror series is complete. So the big question is: where next? The obvious answer is a Resident Evil 5 remake. But on the game’s 15th anniversary, it’s clear that moving forward chronologically will take Capcom’s remakes into the series’ weakest era – an era of gameplay and narrative decisions best left in the past.

Well, IGN. What horrible crimes has this game committed?

Resident Evil is a survival horror series - not that you'd know that playing Resident Evil 5 . It may feature a constantly flow of horrific imagery, but Resident Evil 5 is an action game through and through. That's evident in its cover-shooter mechanics. Vehicle chases with onrail turret sequences. And its constant rattle of assault rifles. Even its visual design evokes the sandy shade of modern military games that experience mass popularity in the late 2000's

It all speaks to a series that had lost its way. Rather than reflect on the tenants that laid the foundation of the series, Resident Evil 5 looked to the contemporary gaming zeitgeist in an attempt to find a new lease of life. The result is a hybrid of Resident Evil, Gears of War, and Call of Duty. It's as awkward and unwieldy as it sounds.

I know IGN writers don't play games, but has this Anglo retard ever heard of Monster Hunter World and Devil May Cry 5? A RE5 remake would fit very well with their line of recent action games. Not to mention that Capcom started making the modern Resident Evil survival horror games seven years ago, so RE5 would once again be needed to bring variety to the modern series as well.

The meltdown doesn't end here however...

Resident Evil 5 is RACIST!!!​

Remakes can of course completely redefine the structure of their source material. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, for example, is recognizably an updated version of the classic RPG. But it's open world design and gameplay mechanics are a world apart from the 1997 original.

And so you could argue that RE5 is actually the Resident Evil most in need of a remake. A whole new environmental structure and scenario design that reigns in the action and dulls in the horror would bring it in line with Capcom's other remakes. But all of this doesn't account for Resident Evil 5's most notorious problem... RACISM!

Spoiler: Live footage of a vidya journo when he gets to call something RACIST

Set in a fictional West-African country, Resident Evil 5's primary antagonists are... BLACK PEOPLE! Yes, it's technically a virus that the protagonist, Chris Redfield, is fighting. But the parasites' hosts is depicted as a nation of mobs of primitives who are violent before even being infected. Intentionally or not RE5 depicts Africa as the dark continent. An uncivilized world harboring a diseased population that is gunned down by a violent Western intervention in the name of global security.

This insensitive treatment of people of color was hardly debated even as early Resident Evil 5's release [IGN gave it a 9 out of 10 FYI]. With writers pointing out the game's uncomfortable post-colonial imagery. The arguments and think pieces continued well into the game's release window. IGN's own former editor, Hilary Goldstein, having also wrestled with the subject. But that was 2009, a time where race was apparently a debate rather than a reality.

Ah, yes. The dark age of 2009 when gay marriage was approved in twelve US states plus Washington, DC. Truly a horrific time for minorities. Just because racial grifters were less prevalent, that doesn't mean that black people were discriminated against. Africa was, and continues to be, the dark continent. Compared to the rest of the world, Africa is the least advanced region. How this factual statement makes this gay ass British writer uncomfortable is beyond me.

>In the 2020's, in a post Black Lives Matter world, there is only one acceptable response to a White man shooting waves of Africans for an entire videogame: No!

Conclusion​

Remakes may be able to redefine their source materials. But there's only so many changes you can make until it's not a remake at all, but an entirely new game. And if you take African out of Resident Evil 5, is it Resident Evil 5 anymore? Even with a vastly improved and more sensitive take on the continent, pehaps one with a black protagonist and a more empathetic look on the outbreak, the experience would simply be divorced from the original to hold the name Resident Evil 5.

So where does Capcom go now? Personally I'd look backwards. Code Veronica is a perfect option, as is the original Resident Evil [a game that's already been remade]. If the only way is chronologically forward, then a total rewrite of what comes next is the logical path. Because what followed Resident Evil 4 was not one terrible game, but two.

Resident Evil 6 doubled down -no, tripled down- on the action-heavy setpiece shooter design. To the extent that much of it could be mistaken for a third-person Call of Duty spin-off were it not for the monsters. Its restrictive level design practically puts you in a chokehold. Forcing you to endure a barrage of bombastic moments that have no interest in evoking any sense of fear.

Resident Evil 5 literally has a black protagonist. Again, these racial grifters don't play videogames. Also notice that he doesn't talk about how you kill Asians in Resident Evil 6 because they're white enough so it's okay! According to IGN black people are liturhly saints and their lives must be spared, even if they turn into flesh-eating zombies that pose a global threat.

If you're interested in hearing an adult British man sound like a whiny frail old grandma, then please watch the video using Invidious. IGN doesn't deserve more clicks than they've already gotten for their race-bait video.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

I always had an idea of modding RE5 so that the plaga mutations were locked out and all you fought were the standard majini from the first level. The ones whose heads didnt explode or didnt have winged parasites flying out them. I'd call the mod resident Evil South Africa.

Edit the texture files so Shevas white and blonde and Chris is wearing rhodesian camo trousers

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

What’s hilarious is resident evil 5 anti-Colonialism and extensionally had a white man bad plot. But shooting black zombies racist. Even Adam Sessler called black hawk down a racist zombie movie after the X-play review of resident evil 5 back in the day.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

They can remake RE5 and offend the blacks, or Code Veronica and offend the troons
How about they remake bad RE games like Survivor instead of ones that were already good? RE4 didn't need a remake at all.

 

[The Pulverizer]

IGN originally gave the game a 9/10 and said it was a lot of fun. Even the editor mentioned in this video said that he couldn't stop playing. Really shows you that these people are just grifters.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Set in a fictional West-African country, Resident Evil 5's primary antagonists are... BLACK PEOPLE! Yes, it's technically a virus that the protagonist, Chris Redfield, is fighting. But the parasites' hosts is depicted as a nation of mobs of primitives who are violent before even being infected. Intentionally or not RE5 depicts Africa as the dark continent.

Literally any video game set in Africa is inherently racist!

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Remake it so you're not killing zombie niggers, just plain niggers

 

[The Pulverizer]

Remake it so you're not killing zombie niggers, just plain niggers

But dood! You can't do that in a post BLM world because a nigga died of a fentanyl overdose once.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

But dood! You can't do that in a post BLM world because a nigga died of a fentanyl overdose once.

That should be a finisher, kneel on them lol

 

[The Pulverizer]

RESIDENT EVIL 5 & 6 BROKE ME!​

 

[Jason Wynn]

Forget the whole “DASS RAYCISS!!!” narrative they’re trying to pull.
Isn’t RE5 the game notorious for being nothing but one giant escort mission with some of the dumbest AI ever seen in a game? That alone is why it shouldn’t be remembered.

 

[The Ugly One]

They tried crying about racism when this game came out, and it didn't work then.

 

[Pampered Degenerate]

Remake it so you're not killing zombie niggers, just plain niggers

How would anyone tell the difference?

But the parasites' hosts is depicted as a nation of mobs of primitives who are violent before even being infected. Intentionally or not RE5 depicts Africa as the dark continent. An uncivilized world harboring a diseased population that is gunned down by a violent Western intervention in the name of global security.

This faggot should take a trip to The Congo without private security and then try telling us with a straight face (assuming that he still has a face) about the inaccuracy of this depiction.

 

[The Pulverizer]

This faggot should take a trip to The Congo without private security and then try telling us with a straight face (assuming that he still has a face) about the inaccuracy of this depiction.

He doesn't see race. He still won't when he gets back from Congo because the locals will put his eyeballs in spaghetti sauce.

 

[Bloitzhole]

RE5 depicts a lot of perfectly capable African soldiers, most notably Sheba, the special ops lady functioning as the secondary protagonist besides the rather braindead himbo Redfield. Iirc her black commanding officer Stone also plays a supporting role throughout.
Were they supposed to make the savage population in this RE set in Africa white? Was RE4 racist against rural spaniards for depicting them as cultish savages and crude farmers with no hygiene by the same logic?

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

This nontroversy really makes me feel like I was transported back 15 years in the past.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

They didn't have the same problem with his African set game.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

It's funny how they claim 5 can't be remade for "reasons" when Capcom seems to be deliberately ignoring 6. At least 5 had Wesker die for good.

 

[The Pulverizer]

Was RE4 racist against rural spaniards for depicting them as cultish savages and crude farmers with no hygiene by the same logic?

Bold of you to assume that it's possible to be racist against White people. These people buy celebratory McDonald's when they hear that White "colonialist" farmers are being slaughtered in South Africa.

 

[Tanner Glass]

RE5 was terrible but LOL at the racism angle.

A game set in fictional Africa with an African protagonist is what people whine about with regards to representation. Was RE4 also racist because it was set in weird fictional Spain?