Resident Evil 5 is not racist
Seriously, people! You're all making a big fuss over nothing! If a WWII game has you in Germany, blowing away Nazis, it's not racist, it's true to life. If a game was set in Poland and you had to wave at one-armed men in trees, that wouldn't be considered racist. Well, maybe that last one. A little bit.
But, the point is, Capcom is trying to make it feel authentic and as real to life as a game of this type can possibly be. Black people live in Africa. Africa has become infected. The people living there carry the infection, turning them into murderous crazies trying to end our heroes. It seems pretty cut and dry to me.
Now, get back to complaining about the controls already!
Am I the only one absolutely pumped for Dead Space?
It kind of seems so, seeing as how the game hasn't been all over the blogosphere. As someone who makes a living working in the gaming blog sector, I understand the push that PR does the week before a game releases, as well as when and after. Why have I not seen all that much on Dead Space yet?
Aside from the buzz of one review, and a write-up here and there, the gaming blogs have been woefully empty of Dead Space stuff. This game is looking like it will revolutionize the survival-horror genre, which is one of my favorites.
Maybe it's all this damn Nintendo news, which I guess I can't be all that mad at, as it's kind of caused a resurgance in hope that Nintendo isn't all about Wii Fit and Wii Music anymore (even in myself, I admit, who severely doubted the company from E3 on). Whatever it is, I'm here to say that it's the only thing on my mind right now and I'm incredibly anxious to play it. If you've got no idea what it is, check out some videos over at GameTrailers by clicking this link.
Dead Rising on Wii = LOL
Okay, first of all, there isn't any AI with the Hitman character models and they're repeated a HELL of a lot more than in Dead Rising (I love Hitman, played through them all and enjoyed the level here, so I know what the deal is), but this is still funny. When my colleague Chris brought it up in the work chat, I found it to be quite comical. Comical enough to post here, I guess.
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