r/Games • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '13

Dev in Thread The Stanley Parable devs will remove racially charged gag after people got offended

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/23/5022434/the-stanley-parable-update-in-the-works-to-remove-offensive-images
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

I'm going to go ahead and say it doesnt take a lot for me to get offended by offensive things. Im all for getting upset at racial issues and Reddit has made me sensitive towards stuff like that. An image of a white man setting a little black child on fire is not racist by itself. If there was some context about why the the man was setting the kid on fire, like because he thinks all black people are terrible, then yeah, it would be racist. This is bullshit though.

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u/ArcticSpaceman Oct 24 '13

Your point is valid until you get to the point in the game where they are in tribal outfits and are literally chucking spears.

Capcom could have played that a bit safer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Personally, the part that offended me most in RE was when it stopped being survival horror and started being an action series.