I recently crawled from under my rock to check out games that were being featured at this year's E3 convention. I was just curious if anybody saw a game that they really liked? Resident Evil 5 seems to be shaping up pretty well. I am worried about the whole you vs. 80 enemies at once thing, but I do like the idea of co-op. Fallout 3 was Amazing with a capital A.

I really didn't get all the fuss over FFXIII. Either way, gamers will be able to play it, right? I couldn't care less about all the fanboy arguing.

speaking of RE 5, i think it will become a favorite game for many many racists. "lone white man exterminating hordes of black zombies"

Although I'm not at all familiar with the series, there is something to be said about having a developing team of probably all Japanese game designers interpret an African culture, or perhaps not even culture, but for lack of a better phrase... how about humanitarian crisis?  These aren't exactly people with degrees in anthropology.  These are people who stem from a culture that is about as removed from the situations they were asked to research as it gets.  How is it appropriate to make light (even if the game is violent and dark, it's a game) of these kinds of situations?  I don't really think the setting of a poor Spanish village is quite as inflammatory as an impoverished/war torn African village.  Especially if you mean Spanish, as in Spain.  Otherwise, you need to get your terminology right.
 
I don't think it's necessarily a racist game, at least in intent, but I think it's kind of tasteless.  I would say the same about anything of the same nature coming out of Hollywood, etc.  Sure, the imagination can roam, but it's just kind of flat-out ignorant to think anything worthwhile is being said by giving the good looking white man with big guns free range over hordes of helpless black "monsters."  I think sometimes there are things that should be left untouched.  The developers of Resident Evil should have had the foresight to recognize the potential animosity any kind of "black and white" story would generate.  Really, it doesn't matter if the tone of the game isn't promoting racism--the kind of imagery being employed is just plain out stupid.  It's one thing to have violence against unrecognizable mutants of no particular race.  To have obviously Black zombies as the main shooting fodder in this game... c'mon.... of course a lot of people have the right to take offense.

Quote from Eikichi Girl on 07/28/08 at 19:41:47:

 
People like that are idiots, they'll use anything they can to push their agendas forward.

I liked the graphics on Valkyria Chronicles and the new Prince of Persia
Killzone 2 looks solid and Resistance 2 also looks promising.
But yeah, E3 has become week over the years.

I like Sir Asura because I can count on him to post a wall of shit every time he posts.

Quote from Alizarin on 07/29/08 at 19:55:59:

 
Indeed, it beats "U R Lame, lolz."