"The attack included horrible acts of mutilation such as pouring boiling water on the victim and inflicting cuts and burns all over his body", i am guessing Resident Evil taught him this as well /s
There is a reason the British press has been credited as being nothing more than a giant tabloid fest full of nonsense, it's even worse than the US and that's unbelievably hard to accomplish.
Unlike thorstein ^ and others looking for a scapegoat, there is no one to blame but the killer himself, period.
The paper that reported this didn't make any mistakes, MMOGameCentral however dropped the ball with the misleading headline-no one *blamed* resident evil for the killings (according to the article "The *comparison* to the Resident Evil games came from one of the killers as he *compared* the alcohol driven attack to the graphic video-games"). So yeah no blame just a comparison.
I Definitely agree only the killers can be blamed.
This is based on info from "one of the killers", who most likely was trying to get off a murder charge by "blaming it on video games", which obviously didn't work. What they did to this guy was plain sick.
A game doesn't give you the will and darkness needed to kill someone. If someone has premeditated murder on their minds its down to traumatic events in their lives, a very bad up bringing or they're just natural born killers as some would say.
There is no torture like that in any of the RE games I've played and I've played 9 or 10 different RE games. I don't even remember any type of torture in the games what so ever but it has been years since I've played some of the titles.
Minor charges were placed against Mr. Roys, Mr. Brown and Ms. Cooke. But the video game series itself will face the death penalty.
Update: The prisoner Resident Evil was taken over to Capcom headquarters to await it's execution.
Update: After being brutally tortured with 3 devastating tools (torture tools only known as RE5, RE:ORC and RE6) the game was officially announced dead on October 2, 2012 at the young age of only 6.
I think they should all get shot for doing that. Or at least life in prison or the death(what we do to best friend dogs peaceful death)penalty.
This has nothing to do with resident evil but if you commit sadistic acts mentioning a videogame at your trial gets you at least -10 years from your sentence usually.
They aim for a totally different demographic to video-games. I don't know anyone under 40 that reads a newspaper and most of them think video-games are the work of Satan. So makes sense to pin the blame on a computer game :D
They said this was blamed on the survival horror franchise Resident Evil, this isnt a survival horror franchise last time I checked infact it hasnt been for over 11 years
I live in Norfolk and trust me when I say this. These 'people' did not become this disturbed from playing Resi. They were disturbed and twisted as they were all from Yarmouth.
The only place worse than Yarmouth is Jaywick in Essex.
As the murderer was taken into custody, he was apparently heard shouting that Dead Space is NOT as good as Resi, and that Jesus had agreed with him during bingo the day before....
The newspaper didn't blame the murder on Resident Evil, one of the murderers made the comparison in a sad effort for more publicity and a possible defence for their actions by implying the game made them do it.
And no, Resident Evil isn't about horrific torture on this level. This headline is more sensationalist than the comment by the killer...the paper didn't blame the game, they reported that one of the killers mentioned it. Now it's suddenly the Resident Evil murder...sad that the real story gets hidden behind the sensationalist crap, just what the killer wanted.
He told me a great story once. His then 12 year old son had been doing poorly in school and had got into a few fights. Telling me he'd tried regular discipline and it hadn't sunk in he decided to get imaginative. Waiting for his son to be asleep for at least an/a (a hour doesn't sound right) hour, he donned a white apron which he had smeared in blood, and a surgical mask and burst into his sons room brandishing a carving knife and jumped onto the foot of his sons bed breathing heavily.
The moral of the story. Don't mess with butchers, they're mental.
Meanwhile, thousands die every year in the name of various fictitious magic men named Jesus and Moh...oops....just saying that gets you and RPG to the face...
Typical, gotta place the blame on anything else except for where it belongs. Same way every time someone commits a "satanic" killing it's the fault of Slayer or some other similar band. No one can take responsibility for their own actions anymore.
It's not about Resident Evil 6 specifically....the murder occurred in May, they just mentioned "Resident Evil". And again, no-one was really blaming the game, just the killers used that name to describe the aftermath of what they'd done.
Amazing how that went completely ignored, figuring the perp was only a couple years younger than the vic, this was more a premeditated act than a random one.
This is hugely misleading, the game has never been blamed for the killing. All that was said was the murder looked like something from Resident Evil. Shame on you for exploiting and misleading, much like most of the news papers we all criticize.
This has come from one of the killers saying the scene was like Resident Evil, considering what he did I don't think we should be taking his comments literally.
Wait i cant be the only one who caught the fact that the murder says according the article in may but yet re6 came out last week? The murdered was from the future?
No, from a video game about killing Zombies. That's believable!/s
Unlike thorstein ^ and others looking for a scapegoat, there is no one to blame but the killer himself, period.
I Definitely agree only the killers can be blamed.
There is no torture like that in any of the RE games I've played and I've played 9 or 10 different RE games. I don't even remember any type of torture in the games what so ever but it has been years since I've played some of the titles.
Update: The prisoner Resident Evil was taken over to Capcom headquarters to await it's execution.
Update: After being brutally tortured with 3 devastating tools (torture tools only known as RE5, RE:ORC and RE6) the game was officially announced dead on October 2, 2012 at the young age of only 6.
R.I.P Resident Evil 1998-2012
This has nothing to do with resident evil but if you commit sadistic acts mentioning a videogame at your trial gets you at least -10 years from your sentence usually.
Who takes newspapers seriously anyway?
The only place worse than Yarmouth is Jaywick in Essex.
You know there is this amazing thing called 'going to other places'.
And yes Jaywick is worse than Yarmouth.
And no, Resident Evil isn't about horrific torture on this level. This headline is more sensationalist than the comment by the killer...the paper didn't blame the game, they reported that one of the killers mentioned it. Now it's suddenly the Resident Evil murder...sad that the real story gets hidden behind the sensationalist crap, just what the killer wanted.
The same publication that thinks everything gives you cancer.
He told me a great story once. His then 12 year old son had been doing poorly in school and had got into a few fights. Telling me he'd tried regular discipline and it hadn't sunk in he decided to get imaginative. Waiting for his son to be asleep for at least an/a (a hour doesn't sound right) hour, he donned a white apron which he had smeared in blood, and a surgical mask and burst into his sons room brandishing a carving knife and jumped onto the foot of his sons bed breathing heavily.
The moral of the story. Don't mess with butchers, they're mental.
But, yeah...
And the fact that I'm not a true believer does not mean I'm intolerant.
I thought my comment was historically accurate but if I'm wrong, I don't mind being corrected...
And again, no-one was really blaming the game, just the killers used that name to describe the aftermath of what they'd done.
Killing is really bad. BUt a tourture killing like this is insane, inhuman and a sin to the greatest degree.
Although it still makes no sense how it has zero relations to that franchise.
This is just a sadistic act by insane people.