RESIDENT EVIL 5 (Zero Punctuation)

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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Resident Evil 5.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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[@guineverehaas2427]

9 years later and yhatzee is still referring to the canon of resident evil as a gross octopus for resident evil 8, I love the consistency 😂😂

[@ILikeIcedCoffee]

I noticed that too!

[@CorporateG0th]

When you look back though he kind of sounds like the sort of flaxen haired golden boy from the writhing neckbeard meatpile in one of reddit's stygian caves that 2022 Yahtzee would make fun of.

[@lam1501]

"You're carrying your armor in a pocket of your armor"

[@kilroy987]

AAAAAAaaaaa...

[@RadeonX0X]

Armorception?

[@s4tchm0j0n3s]

Yo dawg

[@lennychurch]

@@RadeonX0X Armorcursion.

[@caesarspeaks]

Technically that’s how a plate vest works

[@Ironbat92]

5:02 Capcom should put that on a banner somewhere. I can see it now: "Capcom: We're not bad people..... Just Idiots"

[@swimteamizzle1114]

"Talk about sidestepping a pothole to fall off a bridge..." That is the greatest thing ever

[@edwardmather4422]

9 years later and I still quote that

[@JesseGolo]

I can't stop laughing at the idea of running from your assistant before they can heal you.

[@gregsampson2307]

You are ABSOLUTELY right about Capcom, they aren't bad people, they are exceptionally stupid people with very nice computers.

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

And currently are holding a lot of awesome IPs they do bugger all with and you can almost hear the other developers clawing at Capcom's doorstep just waiting to snatch up the licenses when their stupidity finally catches up with them and they can't afford rent anymore

[@paulkerrigan9857]

Greg Sampson Fancy a cuddle? Lemme squeeze yer love-handles! :-)

[@gregsampson2307]

Paul.....no just no.

[@NoahDaArk]

NotAGoodUsername360 *me laughing six years in the future at all the amazing Capcom games we’ve gotten* Ooh you sweet summer child! If only you knew

[@megabuster3940]

Talented stupid people

[@Ward1706]

"Capcom aren't bad people. They're just _idiots_."

[@nomadwhy1166]

True

[@peanutinc.7670]

Completely agreed.

[@CegeRoles]

Konami on the other hand, they're the complete package.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Wait which video do you talk about how You didn't think they were racist until the spear chucking natives part?

[@droylajarhirthefelinethief81]

Anthony Vitera Because stereotype.

[@adrianshephard6321]

So Yahtzee has in his inventory, a .44 Revolver, a switchblade, a DS, a Cadbury Cream Egg, Branston Pickles, a comic?, a bust of Capt Picard, the Tardis, and a purple dildo?? So that's the kind of things Yahtzee carries around with him...

[@tehwzle]

Yes, I'm being that guy - TARDIS (It is an acronym after all) :3

[@adrianshephard6321]

Lol, my bad.. So, can anyone else figure out who or what the comic is?

[@tehwzle]

Adrian Shephard www.compalcomics.com/results/images/141/023.jpg That one I think...

[@timebomb4562]

+Adrian Shephard so he does

[@timebomb4562]

+Adrian Shephard ohh btw that's a beano british comic with loads of cartoons in them

[@bighonkies]

the bit about him running away from his sidekick killed me

[@chickenking1753]

I kidnapped a hobo but he refuses to go anywhere near re5, what do I do now?

[@kinghosed4261]

For this next trick, you're going to need a bathtub full of sulfuric acid...

[@whateverIFeelLike]

+King Hosed Hahahaha

[@chickenking1753]

Damn, I was really hoping it would'nt come to that.

[@cpt.shmitt7387]

Find another hobo.

[@chickenking1753]

***** Every time I find one they pay me just to get me to go away.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

"It's like watching someone beat their fists against a wall, then running off to the hospital before coming back to do it some more. And they used my medical insurance. AND IT'S MY WALL." My thoughts exactly.

[@superturkeylegs]

SHEVA! SHEVA! HURRY! HURRY! SHEVA! HURRY! COME ON! COME ON!

[@paradoxacres1063]

2:47 Easily the *funniest* part of this Review

[@Cteklite]

I trained my dog really well, and it's going pretty well, minus the fact that he's even worse than the AI.

[@shady4091]

"Chucking spears. Oh dears." XD

[@khdarkriku17]

"What the hell happened to the pirate merchant guy?" He exploded.

[@lxjoe96]

Who was he referring to? The dude from 4?

[@khdarkriku17]

+lxjoe96 yes

[@gingermcgingin1733]

He was supposed to return in RE 5, but saw the writing on the wall & noped on back to rural Europe.

[@keithadams7619]

Considering he kept coming back to do business no matter how many times you shot or knifed him at previous checkpoints, you'll forgive me if I have my doubts an Island explosion would do the job.

[@keithadams7619]

Considering he kept coming back to do business no matter how many times you shot or knifed him at previous checkpoints, you'll forgive me if I have my doubts an Island explosion would do the job.

[@nis5e]

A Revolver A Stiletto knife A Nintendo DS A Cambery Creme Egg A jar of Marmite A Comic Book A Captain Picard Bust A Doctor Who Tardis An exquisite Dildo

[@Squalidarity]

I spy...

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

Not just any dildo, an EXQUISITE dildo!

[@JacobWilsonVO]

Farbror Nisse it's branston pickle not marmite

[@JacobWilsonVO]

Farbror Nisse yahtzee talks about it all the time

[@nis5e]

Jacob Wilson He also talks about titties imgur.com/g5BXRIf Like these titties

[@teacherofthefinearts9033]

I was drinking soda wheIn he talked about how you are running away more from the AI controlled player than the enemies because you don't want to be healed from a tiny little scratch with a full healing herb. Lol, now I have to clean my keyboard. I remember taking away Sheva's handgun and giving her a better weapon since she was better with conserving ammo on those weapons than the damn handgun.

[@alexandercastro-vera8641]

I haven't fully played through RE4 but when I beat the lake monster, I felt like a badass. Although it took a few tries because of the monster's constant jumping into my boat.

[@brandontaylor6677]

"It makes him look like someone left a Chia-pet on top of a fridge" Lovely imagery

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

"YOU'RE CARRYING YOUR ARMOR IN A POCKET OF YOUR ARMOR" These kinds of paradoxes make me laugh loud as fuck

[@CommisarHood]

In answer to the whole racism thing I will paraphrase a quote from someone much smarter than me "Do not be so quick to attribute to malice what can just as easily be attributed to stupidity or laziness."

[@lavetissene339]

Yep, that's what he said

[@guardingdark2860]

"What happened to that pirate-merchant guy?" He went off to be in Assassin's Creed 4.

[@lumumbaoluchiripatrick4874]

Replying to this 6yrs late but this is really funny especially in the context of modern-day AC games

[@Sticksnstones77]

I played the game after watching this review and I found all the issues he had with the partner AI to be true. But about halfway through the game I realized you can change her tactics from support to attack. On support she stays by your side, only uses her pistol, wastes healing items, and won't use her other weapons. On attack she will run off to kill things, use her bigger weapons when appropriate, and is more frugal with healing items... Basically solving all her problems

[@oomsou5018]

I remember back then when I saw the game not single alarm in my head was screaming this game is racist. To this day not a single thing has changed. Yeah I don’t detect a hint of racism from this game. I do however detect a ton of shit this game is.

[@cshos66]

from "dis place be fucked" to "OH DEAR" i couldn't stop laughing. i have to wonder what that says about me as a human being.

[@SiegeTF]

Rest in peace, David Bowie.

[@MrLujino]

"What are ya buyin'?" "What are ya sellin'?" "Heh heh heh heh, thank you." "Got some rare things on sale, stranger." "Come back any time." Best dialogue in any capcom game to date.

[@joncurry9829]

Aaah, I'll buy it at a high price

[@meyers0781]

A doggo girl from the future agree.

[@John-xf9mc]

Stranger! Stranger! Now THAT'S a weapon!

[@First-Last_name]

"I've covered wars you know" "Zombies, huh? I had a feeling you'd show up..." Frank west, Dead rising.

[@DearlyDepartedDaz]

"They aren't bad people they're just idiots;" sums up my opinion of humanity quite nicely.

[@fired1000]

How can a review about a game I never heard of before be this entertaining? YOU SIR ARE TALENTED

[@MemoriesInMonochrome]

3:57 The Swirling Storm Of Chaos @_@

[@davidencoification]

240p? what is this?! Africa?!

[@AlphaoneSirius]

No this is the noob channel you should subscribe to this idiot because you are no different

[@davidencoification]

what?

[@davidencoification]

what?

[@bevolverbocelot9567]

davidencoification no, it's 2011, lol

[@Bloodkiller811]

davidencoification Not cool.

[@TheShadowNovus]

"Talk about side-stepping a pot hole only to fall off a bridge" Bwahahahaha xD

[@KRIMZONMEKANISM]

I don't get it... why do people think this game is racist? News flash kids! Africa's population is mostly composed of black people, and the fact that some are still living in a tribal old fashioned way is not racist. And African chucking spears at you is as racist as japanese people coming at you with a katana. -_-

[@JerkyMurky]

Before this game came out i would have agreed about the not racist thing, and before we continue... im black. I didn't understand the hate... at first. Then half way through the game, 9 foot tall African tribesmen "spear chuckers" who jump 90 feet attack you like the super offspring of master chief and shaq... THAT SHITS FUCKING RACIST!

[@KRIMZONMEKANISM]

But aren't they zombies?

[@DoReMi123acb]

the problem is that the survival horror mechanics, the games aesthetics were all poorly done and this made the flaws in the game become more highlighted and some what exaggerated. I mean in res evil 4 the mostly poor spanish population attacked you with strategy and good pacing and it felt like survival horror not burly white dude running around gunning others. in this game the pacing is off and enemy a.i just throw themselves at you inviting bullets.

[@KRIMZONMEKANISM]

the Ai is to blame then? I mean this game just gets worse and worse xD

[@WHATISUTUBE]

i13m By definition a game can't be 'racist', but a person (such as yourself) can be an overtly sensitive person with a persecution complex who sees racism in everything. The spear chucking shit was in line with RE's realistic portrayal of people. Along with midget Napoleon who runs a castle in Europe and that one guy in RE6 who runs the world. You know, realistic portrayals. You're the reason why no games take place in Africa and/or can never feature black's unless they explicitly talk about what a success story they are and how they are great assets to their community and how they are rising above oppression to the point of comedy. It's not as if RE has historically featured racist caricatures of Blacks while portrayed every other race realistically and in high regards. So I don't get how all of a sudden you can jump to ''THEY BE RACIST Y'ALL'' on a game in the series.

[@Cloverlord444]

Hah! A "Chris Sandwich"! (Joke on the "Jill Sandwich")

[@vicegirlsusa]

I was going to ask what the joke was, but then I realized and felt stupid.

[@greenredblue]

It's been years, but that "AND THEN" still destroys me.

[@lightsidesoul]

The best way i can see having a support NPC have access to healing items (and being able to use them on the player character) is to have a NOT NOW button that makes them back off unless your under a certain percentage of health that the player can set.

[@CaptScapegoat]

Chris Sandwich... Ah, I see what you did there.

[@hiddensquid183]

"You're carrying you're armour IN A POCKET OF YOU'RE ARMOUR"

[@thetruephoenixful]

"you're carrying your armor in a pocket of your armor" my brain exploded

[@chexfan2000]

i replayed this recently… yeah you can’t give sheva anything but the gun you want her to use. i let her have the health items though, didn’t have to care abt my health ever, that was nice

[@TheKrigeron]

"Capcom aren't bad people, they're just idiots" Fav'd

[@jameslabbe4119]

Whenever i have a bad day i can come here and laugh myself silly over the inventory and sidekick jokes. Just brilliant

[@Dreamerx47]

2:47 i never really understood how people could laugh at something they already know but i seriously cant watch this without laughing every time.

[@marcamp001]

I strongly agree with his description for the inventory systems. In RE4 an egg indeed took the space of an egg, and your armor was equiped somewhere outside the case. But in RE5 eggs could quickly fill your inventory if it wasn't already filled by the 2 armors and the guns and ammo that you need to carry around. =p RE4 has probably had the best inventory in the whole fanchise.

[@IrishJohn101]

2:47 Oh God I know that feel...

[@TooMuchSascha]

"What're ya buyin', stranger?" "Partner repellant!"

[@ashape1044]

I always made sure that the female sidekick didn't have a hand gun.

[@vejolta]

is there a playlist of this guys videos? cause i think im in love :O

[@atleastthehairsgood797]

chris "fuck boulders" redfield haha

[@timebomb4562]

we all liked the merchant and i didn't find ashley annoying but i dont know where i'm going with this

[@henrynelson9301]

That reasoning behind this game being racist is so stupid. You do realize African tribes isolated from modern society still exist today, right?

[@First-Last_name]

In the game there were notes at those river tribes. They were tourist traps charging obscene amounts of money to trick silly foreigners. They the virus hit and made them go all full tribal. So like if you look hard enough the game was trying to show them as savy opportunists, not backwards tribes or something. That though wasn't as fun to bring up. People love controversy.

[@InsaneDragon19]

"Chucking spears. Oh dears" Best line ever

[@RandomZombie412]

Now, I'm split with this, on one hand, I love RE4, 5 and 6, with all my heart, as a devoted fan of the series, I shouldn't be laughing my ass off, it would go against everything I've defended to this day, on the other, I love Zero Punctuation, and all his reviews, I love this game, but yes, a majority of what ZP said was true, especially the stupid inventory and the armor bit.

[@peppermillers8361]

Thomas Vincent Kennedy that's okay, if you like a bad game, I won't blame you.

[@Jaceblue04]

I'm actually GLAD that Ashley shouts "LEON!" when she's in trouble: when she does I know that I need to help her. It's better than what most escort mission NPCs do when they're in trouble: try to fend to themselves and end up dying, WITHOUT asking me for help.

[@DavidHulse-gy3ys]

Frankly a large majority of the boss battles could have been averted had the protagonists remembered they have guns in their hands and shoot the bastards before they genetically mutate themselves into some nonsensical bullshit pile of dragon vomit.

[@Forcedminer]

Yeah what did happen to the merchant?? Man i love how i reviewed this!

[@Lycanzoid]

I am so sorry man. I killed the merchant. He's dead. I'm the reason he is gone. My condolences to the Merchant's family. Winning Resident Evil 5 won't bring him back.

[@frittatas8551]

RE5 is wayy more fun as a co op

[@madmanjoe1002]

Chris "fuck boulders" redfield.

[@First-Last_name]

Jill "sandwich" valentine.

[@TheBerzekerC]

Oh Yahtzee, you had to switch your buddy to Atack so he uses anything aside from the pistol

[@oomsou5018]

Don’t be mad that you’re finding tribal people who throw spears in Africa when they very much still exist to this day.

[@SeeqSimp]

I giggled like a maniac at "EAT IIIIIIIIIIIT!"

[@TheDragonEevee]

Just wait till Resident Evil 8 if the cycle continues, if Capcom last that long.

[@NegitoroIsBestShip]

I know this is old news but with hardly 150 mill in the bank (which sounds like a lot until you realize rockstar spent 200 mill on marketing alone for gtav) I really have my doubts crapcom has the cash for 2 more res evil games let alone just 1.

[@TheDragonEevee]

Kennedy Renn Deep down is gonna be a masterpiece or Capacom is going down the shitter.

[@assh1]

***** Resident evil 6 showed me that resident evil 5 wasn't such a bad game after all. Aside from Leon's campaign that game was a SHITTY gears of war clone.

[@BottomGlassCinema]

+Theo Truter News from the future, we didn't have to wait until Resident Evil 8...we had to wait for 7.

[@helsin9758]

You were right

[@DanielSabzghabaei]

Spears...oh dears... hahaha killed me.

[@TVlord5]

But the REAL question is: What're ya boyin?

[@lxjoe96]

Stranger, stranger!

[@MemoriesInMonochrome]

😆👏🏼💯🌟

[@ProblmSolvd]

My mistake, it was the VZ61 (Scorpion). I just call it the TMP since thats what it replaced.

[@TheRatSquid]

I don't understand why people are getting hung up on the racist bit when Yahtzee himself said the game was not racist! He made a very good point that any racist undertones in the game were not racist because they had no malicious intent to them. Which means he is not accusing the game of being racist.

[@Marcus_Aurelius42]

He's accusing Capcom of making a moronic design choice by throwing in an African tribe setpiece with little justification or explanation. It is exactly a moronic design choice by a developer that one would expect something like that from. It is racist if it is fueled by hate, but he states that isn't the case. It was an ill-advised design choice in a series that has made its living largely off if ill-advised design choices.

[@MagcargoMan]

@@Marcus_Aurelius42 "with little justification or explanation" He mustn't have played the game properly because throughout the level you can find journals belonging to one of the tribesman that say the weapons and outfits were ceremonial and they didn't normally wear them, and only after the parasites infected them did they start using them.

[@griffnuts]

Forget about the fucking octopus!!

[@andrewquinn2934]

3:10 just put everything inside the tardis

[@musicloverfromA45]

I start watching your videos today, 5 hours ago and i can't get enough. you'r one glorious bastard.

[@PuggetronicsPioneer]

"I never thought I'd miss that wailing jug eared chimp"

[@AbderianForge]

LEON

[@wwar5237]

I don't see racism in this game. as an African who has lived on this continent for 30 years, I thought the odd shit out on the title was all the mixed race folks between the locals. this is not south America. the only people who seemed to be offended by this game was the western world. because this is an Asian made game, it gets attacked from all sides. apologies for it not being a Bethesda title. apologies for there being no game breaking glitches or dead servers after 1 year. when the world sees through racist eyes, everything will seem racist. this was 2011, it's now 2020 and look exactly how crap the world has become because of society needing enemies to throw milkshakes at.

[@DreadKiwi]

That last line actually made me laugh.

[@jaydiggity6201]

Descendants of The Khoikhoi have existed in Southern Africa since 5th century BCE. Some of them still adhere to their ancient way of life. Which involves hunting wildlife with bow & Spear and yes they live in mudhuts still. Some groups do still live very primitively even in places like Papua New Guinea present day. Not everyone wants to adopt western civilization and culture and all the bullshit that comes with it. It's not racist to say that something is the way it is or has been the way it was. They live in a better way and are one with nature and the earth ............. We are disconnected ...... technology doesn't make a race civilized. We simply have access to something they don't. Everything is circumstantial.

[@MagcargoMan]

@@HadBabits You didn't play the game. In the village levels you can find journals mentioning how the outfits and weapons were ceremonial and that the natives only started wearing them when the parasites infected them.

[@HadBabits]

@@MagcargoMan I've played some, though it has been ages so I'll concede I've practically not played it. Anyhoo, that is actually interesting in a ludo-narritive respect; or in less wanky jargon, how we experience games and their stories. Does it invalidate one's criticism, or experience, of a game if the developer's essentially left a post-it somewhere with context contradicting it? Does that context actually inform the design of the environment and narrative or was it something thought of after the fact? And does that even matter? None of this has anything to do with RE5 specifically btw. You obviously have much more first hand experience with the game and arguing about it would be a waste of both of our time. But I am a game dev in my spare time and I find these things interesting :)

[@VendErre]

Capcom, supposedly, wanted to get into the voodoo roots of zombies, so of course they'd toss a few tribals in. Oooga booga booga.

[@magita1991]

Am I the only one that didn't hate Sheva? I don't love her but I didn't hate her. At times she could be annoying but I never had a horrible experience that some had with her AI.

[@JacobWilsonVO]

Same here. I'm enjoying her as a partner and at times you do feel like a team. However chris can be a bit forceful with his commands.

[@lxjoe96]

If you understand how her AI works, she becomes much more manageable. - She rarely gets headshots but she's spot-on with body shots - Therefore don't give her handguns cause she burns through the ammo. Don't give her a shotgun cause she has no concept of range. - Give her a rifle - she'll one-shot everyone, and she'll use the ammo efficiently. - Give her a machine gun and she'll cover you effectively, but won't burn through the ammo (it's quite common). - DO NOT, obviously, give her a magnum. - Sometimes she'll try to run ahead. make sure to use the call button and she'll stay with you. - give her green herbs and red herbs, she'll heal you if necessary with the greens, and they're quite common. She doesn't know how to combine, and reds can't be used by themselves, so she won't waste them (they are rare). ETC. If you get to know the AI, you can use it to your advantage

[@N0obWithaGunUK]

my teacher gives us RE homework every week so i spend alot of time on it

[@snakelord2]

Resident evil 4 was amazing this game while not amazing was really good but they got kind of stupid with the inventory system but Jesus Christ I think they could of made Chris a little smaller lol and the boulder at the end?.........I call steroids XD

[@dugbaz488]

And again. Old review for old game but I watch it over again every year or so because it just makes me laugh. This review just points out the funny terrible things in the game I was willing to overlook.

[@rodney2x48]

Capcom wasn't being intentionally racist. I mean, this is a Japanese gaming company that has been the laughing stock of gaming and the disappointment of fans next to Square Enix. It's still pretty racist and it runs of stereotype, but it's mostly harmless, IMO. It's not really based on hatred, just stupidity and it comes off as a joke rather than an insult. I'm still wondering how people took it seriously after actually playing it, that is, if they even played it at all considering how over sensitive a bunch of people are these days.

[@sexypizza55563]

Rodney 2x4 They weren't being racist at all. To say that RE5 is racist for the village parts is like saying there aren't any rural villages in africa where people throw spears, but there are. It would only be racist if the majority of enemies in RE5 were black tribesmen throwing spears.

[@lobster123burger]

+Surprised Robot why are you typing up a paragraph to explain what Yahtzee already explained in one sentence? "Capcom employees are not bad people, just stupid."

[@rodney2x48]

lobster123burger Because I had a lot of free time on my hands and I love overexplaining shit needlessly. It's a habit.

[@Marcus_Aurelius42]

+Surprised Robot At least you're honest about it :)

[@hethrham123]

I would say one of the inventory scene had a Cadbury egg but then there is always a Cadbury egg.

[@stygian3824]

Someone care to explain why having tribal africans as enemies is in any way offensive?

[@Liam-vu7wo]

Modern Africa isn't really like that. The majority of people live in cities and work in factories. It would be like showing America in the old west, or Europe during the industrial revolution and claiming that's how it is now

[@nevermore7285]

I think it’s mentioned that they aren’t normally like that, but the Plaga caused them to regress somewhat. It’s similar to the Cult or Military Plaga how it forms them into groups and such. I guess the best way of describing is imagine if a western reenactment thing was taken over and all of them started acting like cowboys and such. The Plaga don’t really do personal lives and tend to warp or distort whatever cultures they infect.

[@SteveIsMe1291]

R.I.P RE4 Merchant Guy

[@HylianMadness]

I agree with Yahtzee about the Resi series. All the games up until Resi 4 sucked ass. They weren't scary, they controlled like a sack of molasses mixed with shit, the dialogue was horrible and cheesy while still being played straight, they were just all around bad games. I don't get why everyone bangs on about why they were so good.

[@Realag666]

I had fun with the remake of the first one, zero and Resi 2 :D I feelt like this were some kind of scary puzzle games and I like puzzle games for some reason. That said, Resident Evil 4 is my most played Game ever and it is the Game I enjoyed the most with Xenoblade Chronicles as a gamer

[@prometheusspanky5023]

ok i can take poor controls and cheesy dialogue, but re2 was scary as fuck. not to mention you always had the possibility to be stuck forever if you didn't conserve your ammo properly (although I ended up with well over 100 handgun bullets by the end of the game), so that itself is kinda scary. and the stupid ink saving system was retarded.

[@ShadowofTwilight22]

The poor controls add to the fear of the classic RE games,maybe they're not scary now but they were terrifying for their time. Also no, if you SERIOUSLY believe that REmake isn't scary then wow, you're just mad.

[@MichaelLeroi]

Meh, I loved RE-make and Zero

[@prometheusspanky5023]

MichaelLeroi I just pooted and it smells like car exhaust.

[@ReprovedReaper1]

if I'm not mistaken the partner AI have two different "modes" don't remember what they are called something among the line of "Aggressive" and "Defensive" if they are in Aggressive mode they will use the best weapon they have while they are in Defensive mode they will use the Pistol (or the weakest weapon they have).

[@Lookin4aBoxToLive]

The funny thing is that if they didn't show black zombies they'd call it racist because of that.

[@MagcargoMan]

You can never win with SJWs.

[@fightingmedialounge519]

Not really.

[@birchwood8540]

i did the same thing giving sheva the machine. it took me half the game to realize you had switch her to attack mode to use the damn thing.....

[@AgnosticCube]

oh come on RE5 is not rasist. There a considerable amout of people in afrika who still live like that.

[@lobster123burger]

AxelGaming No, a considerable amount do not.

[@mannythaman]

lobster123burger well, a small majority of African people still live in such primitive ways. kind of like the amish, but even more traditional.......somehow.

[@felisasininus1784]

mannythaman1900 What the hell is a small majority? >50% is majority, how can a majority be small?

[@thec4232]

+Rectus Rectumius Strictly speaking, a majority has nothing to do with your proffered 50% figure and can still be meaningfully referenced in a plurality system or even a binary one with agnostic or unknown factors. Also, the use of the term small implies relativity and subjective assessment. His assertions are internally and logically consistent, even if his choice of rhetoric seems to offend your apparently confined semantical aesthetics. It would have been nice if clarification had been made and evidence was provided to bolster claims, but that's tangential to your direct questions to which I have indirectly answered.

[@felisasininus1784]

The C Majority doesn’t mean larger than half necessarily, I was wrong, but what it does have to mean is a number greater than all others, thus relative to none should it even seem “small”. Within the African natives, only if the largest number of people are primitive, can they be called a majority, and only if you compare them to the rest of Africa would they seem small, but why would you compare like that?

[@YouSoSpice]

David Bowie + JC Denton = Wesker Genius.

[@irl_lizard7880]

It's boring, poorly-designed, dreary (they didn't even create a game with a carefully balanced palette, they just slapped on a filter to mute the colors), tons of badly reused ideas from the previous game, almost every enemy is a reason of an RE4 enemy, and it has a less memorable OST... awful. I'd rather play RE6 again.

[@irl_lizard7880]

*reskin, not reason

[@suripios_4121]

Still, it's really fun. Especially the mercenaries mini-game. Multiplayer is awesome

[@kickodude]

"you're carrying your armor in a pocket of your armor!" It's like Inception...or better yet....ARMORCEPTION!

[@Pfisiar22]

Why yes, perpetuating stereotypes IS racist. And guess what, the spearchucking mudhut thing IS a stereotype that is no longer true. So yeah, that is pretty ignorant and racist on Capcom's part. Probably not intentionally malevolent though. It's probably more "the audience will never believe this is Africa without war-paint covered tribal people. Let's throw them in to set the scene". So yeah, Capcom isn't just insulting Africans, they're insulting the audience too.

[@60b1in]

Pfisiar22 I still like mudhuts and spearchucking. Does that make me a racist?

[@Cyarb92]

Chucking spears is awesome! Especially if I throw it from my mud hut next to lake it's built near and stabs a fish. If it's bad ass can it still be racist?

[@MagcargoMan]

So people like the Surma don't exist? There are still tribes in Africa. Of course there are also cities and modern towns but there's still many tribal groups too. Or are you saying they don't exist at all? Seems like your guilty of trying to erase the existence of many ethnic groups. Also, it's very well worth noting that in the village level of the game, you can find a journal written by one of the villagers that says that those outfits and weapons were ceremonial, and that they didn't wear them normally; only after being infected by the Las Plagas parasite did they start to.

[@Uberdoctorwhofan1]

this may explain why me and capcom games get along so well.

[@Jaceblue04]

I know a way to make your partner use something other than their pistol: when you hold the "partner command" button, a small menu with 2 options opens. These 2 options are "Attack" and "Cover" In "Cover" mode, your partner will use their side-arm acting on defense. In "Attack" mode, they'll use the best weapon they have on hand and act on offense. It you can choose which mode you want them use by holding the "partner command" button and selecting with the D-pad.

[@jmar4life]

i love his characters in his videos. they're hilarious to look at

[@marcusdranz]

You deserve an Internet, good sir.

[@joeldunsdon]

The running away from your partner bit made me laugh, hard!

[@moonraven6145]

also minor point, but they kinda explained the Tribal warrior thing, with it being really unusual that the tribe were wearing the clothes of their ancestors and basically went insane according to a Note you found, still rather contrived but they sort of explained it.. kinda

[@Jackonian]

This guy's analogies are some of the funniest I've heard since 2 the Gryphon, it's fucking brilliant