The Sad State of Gaming

Now I'm no professional, I've said this time and time again, but I've gotta say that when I look at the internet now-a-days, it saddens me quite a bit. You see, when it comes to gaming, you've got your fanboys, your trolls, and then you've apparently got your activists. I'll save the other two for a later time, but as for this last one... one big acronym comes to mind... WTF?

I've been watching the on going struggle of people claiming that the game Resident Evil 5, made by Capcom, is a game that implies racist intent.



From the above screenshot, you can see Chris Redfield, a white guy, deep in Africa fighting what he always fights and that's zombies. The problem many a person seems to have is that it's Africa and that the zombies are Africans. I'm gonna call bullshit here, I'm not professional so I don't need to stay neutral here, though as Croal shows even if you are a professional you can retain a bias. It's a game where you fight zombies, ZOMBIES people, yo uare not genociding Africans, you are fighting zombies. Would it make it better if a black guy was doing it? I don't think so because as the usual "activist" double standard, using logic remains useless. That would likely go down worse because then it would exemplify black-on-black violence. No no the real problem here is that someone always has to say something about those things they feel they have enough control over. Video Gaming is an entertainment medium and because of that it has begun to get lambasted by those too scared to actually do the work of what they preach in their community. There's no problem with this game, but the violence in the inner-city is, the problem is those who speak about the bad qualities of the game(or really lack there of) are too scared to bring up these issues in their community and instead turn to the "safety" of the internet where they can speak about some game being made in Japan, like they can change it or something...

And that's not the only game getting the scaredy-cat roast over these webs, Sony revealed a game during their long and drawn out e3 press conference where the idea is to get your princess from a castle whilst the enemy try and do the same, the trick is that while you fight out on the battlefield, someone in the other castle is busily feeding your royalty cakes and shit to make her too heavy to carry back, you're doing the same. Of course I'm talking about PSN's upcoming title Fat Princess. Now some blogs(won't name em, won't give them the time of day for more traffic) are getting upset because it somehow portrays women in a bad light.


Yeah she's fat... and? Look, the first blog I read actually got the premise wrong, well not wrong so much as backward, you aren't feeding your own princess, but the other team's lady. The other blog barely talked about the game so much as spit out harsh word after harsh word, followed by a rather unflattering picture and I ain't talking about the one up there. Anger never gets the message across and to be honest, it makes you come off as a lame, a buster, a bum. I see no problem with this game, in fact it seems to be more creative than the millions of shooters that come out every month. I'm a big guy, so to say I'm not offended should so these ladies that you can have fun instead of trying to garner 15 seconds of fame off of rather droll bullshit. To change the princess to anything else completely takes the charm out of the game, simply because the princess is the loyalty factor here. If it were gold then the soldiers would come off as greedy and petty and the game stops being cute. It'd make no sense to be an animal unless you were to say it were a sacred animal, right then and there you've opened up another can of worms with the religious set. You see the real problem here is that everyone now-a-days WANTS to be offended by something, as if they can't get through their damn day unless someone says or shows them something that insults them. And when it's vague? They drum up some bullshit and give a bullshit argument to try and make you see it their way. Is this offensive? I kinda hope it is because you want it so damn bad, maybe you'll see that what you do is wrong. Don't bring down the industry I enjoy just because something else is going on with your psyche. I personally can't wait for both games to come out because it'll show that 99% of people in this world are sane and responsible enough to understand and have fun with games.

If you can't learn to take the piss out of yourself(thanks Brits for giving me that one), then you shouldn't be allowed a keyboard. Besides, the usual counter arguement fits here, if you hate the idea of being fat enough to wanna drum up some bullshit about an innocent game, then lost the weight. If you feel offended enough to write up a letter to Takeuchi about racism, perhaps you'd be better off rechanneling that energy to teaching those in your community to stop portraying negative stereotypes. I'm just saying, for the most part games are innocent entertainment, when they teach a value, it is typically one of a positive vibe, if you get the wrong ideas out of games then that is your problem I suppose, but I'm not gonna let you ruin the industy because you only see the negative out of every situation.