It's a game published by a Japanese company and developed by a Canadian studio. So long as they have someone like MadWorld's Yokozuna, and a Dudley Do-Right of sorts, then they should be fine. Equal opportunity insensitivity, just like South Park.

So the people in RE5 were stereotypes, but the people in RE4 were not?

History has nothing to do with this. You can find so many races that have gone through oppression of all varieties. Saying "no, you can't do that with africans" just sounds like white guilt, and only allows the breeding of more hate. We shouldn't be playing the game of "you can't depict these people in this way, but *these* people are fine."

Indeed: people in RE5 were racial stereotypes, but the people in RE4 were not.

And history has everything to do with this, as long as history will affect the undertones that the scenes depicted have for those who watch/play them. Rationalizing in terms of "it's all in the past, so 50 years ago or 500 years ago is the same" is shallow.

Stereotypes are rooted in fact.

Please, explain how the spaniards weren't steroetypes, but the africans were?

Nope.Oh shit I seriously need to stop posting and do homework dammit.

In RE4 you have generic european country peasants - oh, by the way, they curse in spanish. So you are probably in Spain?

In RE5 you have africans, thus of course when you walk through a village they wear grass gowns, big shield-shaped masks and wield spears.

Plus your companion is a black woman- well, not that black, we don't want to mess up too much the aesthetic sensibiity of the white male audience - so she has her own jungle princess costume, complete of leopard bikini top.

Please... I understand that it's more clumsy than malicious, but still why defend the idiocy?

I think the stereotypes just add humor to the game. They aren't overly offensive or anything. They're just satire.

I've always felt that by making RE5 not seem as stereo typed( or they tried, I can't tell actually) that they actually made it worse, which is funny.

This and I agree with a few others that have posted.  If you get offended by stereotypes then you need to lighten up.  It would be like someone calling all Americans fat just because we have around a 35-50% or whatever obesity rate.  Even if you were fat and American does it really matter?  Not all stereotypes are right or whatever but does it matter?  Anyone that is offended by stereotypes needs to realize that just because someone says something "offensive" doesn't mean it is the end of the world.