| foont said: I still feel like some people are missing the point. Let's just look at the imagery. Images in books, movies, and video games are not accidental. They are used for a specific reason. For example, in Star Wars, they intentionally made the Empire visually similar to the German WWI troops and Nazis. Now I'm not saying Star Wars is racist. I'm saying that they used these images on purpose. It wasn't an accident or a coincidence. They did it to make the Empire seem more evil. Hell, German troops in World War I were even called Stormtroopers. This is an artistic choice.
This reason people might be offended by RE5 is for a similar reason.
So why would some people be offended by this? Maybe because it's too close to home. Maybe because it's in bad taste, or simply innappropriate. Maybe it's just too soon.
You can choose to read it however you want. But I don't think we can say that people don't have the right to be offended.
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I read it like this (who dug those pic comparisons btw because they are great):
Both are reflections of reality, or actually representations of reality.
The fascist army pic is representative of a huge thing that occured in Europe of the '30s and '40s.
The riot pic with those people with clubs is a representation of the primitive conditions of many nations in Africa right now. And it's a fact you will often see animal cruelty being performed in public (taking this example since it was meantioned in the OP article about villies kicking a bag) in the developing world - while it does NOT happen in Sweden and most Western nations.
People and cultures are different. Some cultures are more developed than others. But so what? Just because some people make a big deal of it, like racists (but also the opposite - those who love everything exotic just for the sake of it) you shouldn't stop artists, in this case game developers, from portraying the reality - or even a caricature of it.
