naznatips on 01 August 2007
| stof said: What's racist is to assume that Africa can't be a setting for a videogame because of the continent's predominant race. It's a lesser form of racism; one born out of good intentions that springs from ignorance, but it's still racism. |
The topic has sort of moved beyond this part of the discussion though stof. I mean no one here (as is pretty obvious from the statements) believes that it's wrong to have a game set in Africa based on the race. The original complaint is stupid and baseless, but as has been pointed out, given some of the slightly deeper political situations in Africa itself, the idea of a first world country going in and murdering a 3rd world country's populace to "save them from themselves" doesn't go over very well. There are some valid complaints about the premise of the game. Honestly my biggest complaint with it is I just think the writing is going to be bad.
