With the talk of more remakes I've seen old discussions about Resident Evil 5's racism pop up again lately except now it's smooth-brained gamer youtubers complaining about people discussing the racism
is dying light racist? i thought that like, a lot of the survivor NPCs in that game were POC because it takes place in like turkey or something. theres like 2 'white' western characters and one of them (the player) is secretly working for the evil organization that is using the zombie outbreak to develop bioweapons - they even have you burn anti-zombie drugs at one point to keep the survivors desperate enough to help you with your mission. the other one is just some british guy that was in town teaching parkour, but he ended up as the leader of the tower so thats somewhat problematic i guess but he admits its entirely undeserved. at the very least a huge amount of sympathetic NPCs, both plot-important deuteragonists like jade 'the scorpion' aldemir and sidequest-giver characters like Spike or Tolga and Fatin, were either POC or at least heavily muslim-coded, and the zombies have always been very diverse in dying light games. dying light 2 has prominent black characters, one leads the Peacekeeper faction and the other is like a deuteragonist/pseudo-love interest (idk what all the endings entail but my playthrough's aiden was uninterested in relationships) that drives and helps resolve much of the plot and is quite competent, explicitly faster/better at parkour than the player character and an excellent crossbow sniper.
plus the plot of both dying light games are like super political, touching on themes like factionalism, humanity's propensity for self destruction and ignorance, government conspiracies involving bioweapons, how people make selfish choices instead of thinking about others, etc. it even has a last of us style ending in dying light 2 where you have to choose between potentially saving 1 person (with a choice of who the person you save is) or potentially saving the world/The Last City.
I'll admit I stretched to include it. Didn't remember specifics, mostly going off of "zombies in a foreign country" and imo there's a bit of white savior-ism with the PC. A quick google does reveal that the main villain and his whole gang are former not!Turkish military, though.
Games where one (1) white guy dies: unthinkably political, monstrous
Games where hundreds to thousands of PoC zombies are murdered indiscriminately (Dying Light, RE5): as apolitical as can be
With the talk of more remakes I've seen old discussions about Resident Evil 5's racism pop up again lately except now it's smooth-brained gamer youtubers complaining about people discussing the racism
is dying light racist? i thought that like, a lot of the survivor NPCs in that game were POC because it takes place in like turkey or something. theres like 2 'white' western characters and one of them (the player) is secretly working for the evil organization that is using the zombie outbreak to develop bioweapons - they even have you burn anti-zombie drugs at one point to keep the survivors desperate enough to help you with your mission. the other one is just some british guy that was in town teaching parkour, but he ended up as the leader of the tower so thats somewhat problematic i guess but he admits its entirely undeserved. at the very least a huge amount of sympathetic NPCs, both plot-important deuteragonists like jade 'the scorpion' aldemir and sidequest-giver characters like Spike or Tolga and Fatin, were either POC or at least heavily muslim-coded, and the zombies have always been very diverse in dying light games. dying light 2 has prominent black characters, one leads the Peacekeeper faction and the other is like a deuteragonist/pseudo-love interest (idk what all the endings entail but my playthrough's aiden was uninterested in relationships) that drives and helps resolve much of the plot and is quite competent, explicitly faster/better at parkour than the player character and an excellent crossbow sniper.
plus the plot of both dying light games are like super political, touching on themes like factionalism, humanity's propensity for self destruction and ignorance, government conspiracies involving bioweapons, how people make selfish choices instead of thinking about others, etc. it even has a last of us style ending in dying light 2 where you have to choose between potentially saving 1 person (with a choice of who the person you save is) or potentially saving the world/The Last City.
I'll admit I stretched to include it. Didn't remember specifics, mostly going off of "zombies in a foreign country" and imo there's a bit of white savior-ism with the PC. A quick google does reveal that the main villain and his whole gang are former not!Turkish military, though.