The 11 Most Racist Video Games

These eleven games are so seriously un-PC that it's amazing they ever made it to shelves

[xino]

that is why I seriously dislike Square Enix with their stereotype and racism!

but someone already made a list like this and the Ethnic Cleansing was also voted no1.

all these top 10 are getting so freaking old!

GamesRadar are the ones who usually abuse it.

[iamtehpwn]

Final Fantasy XIII was racist on so many levels, Sazh's character.

The chocobo living in his afro, He's got a kid, His theme song, etc.

[kaveti6616]

The fact that he has a kid makes SE racist?

You guys need to learn what racism means.

People throw that word around like it's a worth a penny.

[Swiftfox]

Don't understand how that is racist.

Some black indivduals have afro's. Afro Samurai, and one of the young kids from the Boondocks have afro's and are very well recieved. I thought the chocobo was a cute.

It's racict for black people to have kids?

His theme song is Jazz, a form of self-expression launched by the black community in the early 1900's.

Think people missed the definition of racism.

[ExplosionSauce]

It's stereotypical. And what does the kid have to do with it?

[Newtype]

He has a chicken in his hair....ROFL.

[Hideo_Kojima]

My friend went to japan and someone screamed out at her saying your black your black and rush towards her to hug her he was genuinely happy that he saw a black person...

[Rage_S90]

yh yh but the fact that the black guy is comic relief is racist if not stereotypical

[radphil]

Being African-American, I groan when people keep trying to play that FF13 was racist. You guys need to know the difference of something being stereotypical and racism.

If the game was racist, they wouldn't make Sazh one of the most logical thinking characters in the game.

In fact, I find this situation funny. People keep referring to FF7 and 13 for references to african-americans, and yet no one mentioned Romancing Saga 3 or Last Remnant, in which in RS3 the guy was a legendary mercenary, and in Last Remnant, there was more than 1.

Honestly I could go into complete detail upon all different situations, but I have a feeling it'll just go downhill after a while. =X

[NecrumSlavery]

I remember Barret as a foul mouth angry Mr. T, but I liked him. Sazh's chocobo fro isnt really racist, but it sure as heck is a little weird.

You know what game is racist, House of the Dead: OVERKILL, they take the "Let's make a Stereotypical Samuel L. Jackson Black Guy" and amp it up to "WTF?"

[Rush]

If it was a fried Chocobo I would agree otherwise it's just cool.

[ambientFLIER]

radphil

"Being African-American, I groan when people keep trying to play that FF13 was racist."

Were you born in Africa, and then later became a US citizen? Or did you just mean to say that you were Black?

[radphil]

@ambientFLIER

I'm to the first scenario you stated.

On the side note pertaining back to the main topic, basically people just cry racism when they mean something else. Now for example the Tom Sawyer game that was in the game, that's way more towards racism than what FF13 was with Sazh.

The situation in FF13 is stereotypical, the situation in the game I recently spoke of was towards racism.

[QuantumSponge]

"The chocobo living in his afro, He's got a kid, His theme song, etc."

WHAT

[GiantJedi]

Gamesradar makes top 7s

[tanman777]

Thank you for being correct. Also they have been making top 7's since 2006, before top tens were an abused thing.

[UP]

Sazh was the coolest character in FF13

[Simon_Brezhnev]

Capcom should be included especially Street Fighter series and no im not talking about Resident Evil

[tacosRcool]

That black guy from that Tom Sawyer game scares me

[IHateYouFanboys]

i wish theyd remake shadow warrior for XBLA/PSN, that game was absolutely epic, a great follow up to Duke Nukem 3D.

[Theoneneo81]

amen great game also Dark Forces was another classic fps

[YoungKingDoran]

dont forget rise of the triad

[MWH]

a remake or even better, a sequel. we wish.

[zhuk is god]

I agreed 100%, I played that game from a shareware demo cd-rom of pcgames. !What memories¡

[tplarkin7]

Isn't racism dead? Today, racism is calling someone a bad name to make him angry. If someone insults me, I don't invite him over for dinner.

[pixelsword]

Come to Detroit, where a routine traffic stop can get you executed by police officers; or New York, where doing nothing will get you shot multiple times if they suddenly decide that a brown, leather, wallet-size gun does exist and can kill six policemen instantly... unless more than twenty bullet wounds can be inflicted in less than five seconds.

[VileAndVicious]

I find it funny that people actually disagreed with you when all you did state actual events that have happened.

Bubbles by the way.

[Anderson8]

if you think racism is dead your an idiot

[VileAndVicious]

This is the type of world we live in. A place where ignorance runs wild. Some people truly believe for some reason that race isn't an issue and everyone gets along.

In a perfect world maybe...

[Vaud-Villian]

Racism and hyper sensativity collide in a grey area. It's often hard to distinguish the two but there is definitely a few areas and people that are genuinely racist.

[QuantumSponge]

"Isn't racism dead?"

Go to "Fundies say the darndest things" and take a look at their RSTDT section. There's your answer.

RSTDT Top 100: http://www.fstdt.net/Top100...

[Bolts]

I really want to play Bonetown. That game sounds hilarious.

[kaveti6616]

There's a difference between racism and stereotyping.

Racism is a notion of believing that one race of people are superior to another.

Stereotyping is a way of generalizing a person's behavior or characteristics based on common notions about his race or ethnicity.

I have no problem with SE making a black character with an afro because even though it's stereotyping it's not like they're doing it to purposely offend people.

[never_waste_a_bullet]

yeah exactly, no one seems to understand this anymore

[antz1104]

But can't stereotyping be a form of racism, especially when it boils down to what a group of devs thinking an ethnic group should be portrayed a certain way?

On the list topic, Im surprised Clayfighter with the asian restaurant worker and RE5 with the poor, mud hut living, spear-chucking zombies didn't make the cut.

[specialguest]

You actually believe that RE5 was racist?!? The setting of the story is in a village in Africa, Sheva's village which happens to resemble poor parts of Africa. This setting is very fitting, because there was a real outbreak of the Ebola virus that happened during the 70's in Republic of Congo. That's why this environment works well when we're talking about outbreaks and zombie themed games.

Why is this racist? Is it because there's no pretty houses with white picket fences, and lushes green grass yards?? That's just stupid.

The voice actor of Sheva explains why she doesn't believe RE5 is racist. http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[menoyou]

its not racist, youre just a sissy brainwashed into thinking stereotypes arent real and that everyone should pretend to live in a world where nothing is bigotry and everyone is equal and all that nonsense

[thebudgetgamer]

are you anthony cumia?

[Falloutxii]

While I agree the word racist is thrown around too easily, Racism does still exist in this world.

[kaveti6616]

Yeah, but people who call shout racism at every little thing cheapen its significance.

It is NOT racist to make a black joke.

It is NOT racist to say that Asians eat dogs. It may be rude, it may be stereotyping, but it's not racist.

[thebudgetgamer]

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

-_-

[Falloutxii]

@ kaveti6616
I agree, For me racism or being racist is defined by the way you treat other people, instead on what you say.

[gamesmaster]

racism is portraying or inferring your race or a given race is superior to another. The persecution or prejudgemnt of someone based on ethnicity.

jokes can sometimes cross this line, but only when taken too far.

[zhuk is god]

racism Its other way to call the animal instinct to protect the herd from different outsiders. It's in our AND

[soundslike]

the writer is obviously over-exaggerating the asian stereotypes that made it onto this list as racism, because he is asian.

[Lykon]

interesting list but a bit politically correct...i like stereo types . I remember playing serious sam and laughing when i released a secret room full of effeminate homosexuals with enormous heads, i'm gay but i loved the piss take, it was unexpected and funny.

[Cajun Chicken]

"Who wants some Wang?"

http://fps.maros.pri.ee/ind...

[skottey]

What is the point of this? There is racism in all media but you never hear about the 11 most racist "movies" or "books." Once again videogames are picked on with a double-standard.

[pcgia]

Shadow warrior was a badass game dammmit!

They even had a shareware version you could play with online servers and a global ranking. There was only like 4 maps you couldn't play in the shareware version.

It was the first FPS game I played online like crazy and it kept an online k/d ratio and would list your world ranking. I was in the top 200 but shortly after I started playing the servers got shut down.

[ELite_Ghost]

GTA IV why?
lmao i'll tell u why, my friends and I were just playing for fun, and decided to kill black ppl (for no apparant reason), after killing 3, the game gave us 1 star.
After killing 1 white guy, we already had 1 star.
Now also when just free roaming around the city, we see cops shooting at a black dude! Now LOL , plz tell me thats not racist!

[skottey]

There is a highly disproportionate number of blacks in prisons. X number of blacks out of every 100,000 is higher than y number of whites out of every 100,000 in prisons. This isn't racism, it is a fact. For whatever reason, blacks commit more crimes. Stating a fact is not racism. GTA is just showing a segment of reality with the police shooting at blacks as you speak of. Your comment fails.

[Zashule]

Wow. This is on the front page... Unfortunately I guess this means no more N4G at work for me, I really don't want to get fired.

[ambientFLIER]

I wish some people learned the difference between Racism and Stereotyping before throwing around big terms and trying to participate in discussions.

Allow me to assist you to not sound like idiots:

Racism - The belief that your culture is superior to another. Example - Black people are less than white people.

Stereotyping - The belief that you can generalize a culture with a statement.
Example - All black people have afros.

[QuantumSponge]

Is is sad that the Spanish language learning game is the most racist out of all of those?

(Well, except for "Ethnic Cleansing", but that one's completely intentional, not to mention utterly awful).