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Resident Evil 5 Producer Comments On Racial Stereotyping (Again) |
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Resident Evil 5 Producer Comments On Racial Stereotyping (Again) |
Poor Jun Takeuchi producer of Resident Evil 5 cant catch a brake on this worn out topic and ends up hit again in an interview with mtv.com's bloger known as multiplayer with the same old question and gets the same old answer but what i like about this and all the other interviews on the topic is the comment sections that goes with it, check it out.
Multiplayer: I know you talked about this at [Capcom's Las Vegas promotional event] Captivate, but I have to ask you: the way people talked about the game and some of the reactions of: “Oh, is this a racist game?”… A lot of that has died off. But we on the MTV gaming blog actually published one of these interviews that got a lot of the reaction. We interviewed a gaming journalist who talked about his feelings when he saw the trailer. And he talked about: “I don’t feel like anybody black worked on this game.” That was his gut reaction. And I’m curious if you had anticipated that kind of response, if you had foreseen that people were going to react that way — and how that reaction affected you?
*To answer the question that was posted on your blog, there are black members in the development team.
Takeuchi: No, we certainly didn’t anticipate the reaction. We were quite surprised by the reaction that came out. I think everyone understands that we never set out to with the intention to make anything that was racist — that was never our intention. We think it was a bit of a misunderstanding when we published the first images of the game back in the day. And we think that as we move along and allow people to see more the game and more of what’s going on and more of the story, people will get a better idea of the game. I think you can see that that reaction has started to die down a little bit. To answer the question that was posted on your blog, there are black members in the development team. We do have staff working on the game, who are aware of the historical background and we are constantly checking these kinds of things with them.
Multiplayer: Just one other question on that. You didn’t anticipate that kind of reaction. Has this experience taught you anything? A lot of people talk about how race is very much something that is discussed in America in a different way than it would be in Japan or even Europe. What has this experience taught you about how racial matters are viewed?
Takeuchi: Certainly the most important thing we have learned is that different countries do see the same things in different ways. I think it’s very important as we go along and start other projects to learn from other countries and learn from other companies who are working in the video game and entertainment sectors, learn from their experiences, and not have the same problems again. You know, we have had the reverse problem with some games in Japan as well. But we’re in the business of making entertainment. We’re not out to make anything to deliberately shock anyone, so I think we can take a couple of lessons away from this experience.
Check out the comments section after the story via the source link, i find it to be the best part of all the posts that have came out on this topic.
Video-Source: multiplayerblog.mtv.com
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