N'Gai Croal

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N'Gai Croal Anonymous 05/07/15 (Thu) 09:00:57 51d94b No.72

He's mentioned very briefly as a member of GameJournoPros, but since there's a section for sensationalism, should we mention him kickstarting hysteria over Resident Evil 5? As a Newsweek editor, he wrote an article complaining about the fact that most of the zombies were black (the game is set in Africa, after all). Dan Whitehead of Eurogamer was involved in that debacle, too. It's kind of an inverse of the "Medieval PoC" incident.

Anonymous 05/07/15 (Thu) 12:22:20 12762a No.87

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Is that guy even still involved in the games industry?

bonegolem ## Board Owner 06/01/15 (Mon) 22:12:03 115cd7 No.515

>>87

He has a consulting company. No longer writes.

Sounds at least worth checking. Maybe I'll peer review.

Here's the original interview.

https://archive.is/oUS2h

Here's Neogaf

https://archive.is/3CrWq

Here's Kotaku

https://archive.is/z6czb

Bonus: doesn't have anything to do with Croal, but guess what future hearder of corrupt journos started the moral panic before him. No, guess.

https://archive.is/y00BL

>I've watched this trailer several times and I keep having the same difficulty. It doesn't make me say "That looks cool!" And it certainly doesn't make me say "I want to do that!" Maybe a subsequent trailer will. But not this one.

>My problem is that it presents a fantasy I don't desire. It looks like it's an advertisement to virtually shoot poor people. I know "Resident Evil" games are supposed to be about hiding from and shooting zombies – this one probably is too. Shooting zombies is something I can get behind, just as I can support video game fantasies of shooting Nazis or even causing mayhem in a big city. But when I see a town of what looks like impoverished African villagers – the very image of global poverty, the very spectacle that since my youth has been coded in me to evoke sympathy and charity – I don't want to pull the trigger.

If you're disturbed by shooting a poor African but not at all by shooting a poor Spaniard / Mexican / Japanese / White guy, you've got a kind of moral dissonance going that you should get fixed, or you may end up 7 years later so insane that you say a journalist having an affair with his subject (that he's known for years) a few days after the article is not a breach of ethics.