When I first saw RE5 I didn't care, I don't even like RE, then someone brought to my attention that they were killing black people in the game and I still didn't care, eventually I was bombarded with information about the game and some standing points, I still didn't care; but even in all of my not caring I knew the that the fundamental issue with the game wasn't racism, it's that the desensitizing of killing people is just wrong, in video games or in any other form of entertainment.
It's really just because slavery only recently met it's end in the western world and racism is still a hot issue, most people are forgeting history and it's implcation these days - it's so sad but whatever, the issue here is that racism being the hot issue only highlighted the greater wrong, and that's that killing other human being is wrong.
The question is to me though is if this is due to the level of realism these consoles deliver; would this have been the case if we were dealing with 32 bit consoles like the PSX? (Not including CGI)
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