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I guess I’m not so offended by the idea that the game puts Muslims on the anti-Christian side…I mean, if the game divides everybody into “Christian vs. everybody else”, then obviously, like the game designer says, the Muslims are on the “everybody else” side.
What’s more offensive, I think, is something the PC Gamer reviewer realized:
I rather think that the idea of a “Christian v. everybody else” game is precisely what’s offensive. You might as well argue that the sexism you point out isn’t offensive. After all, if you’re going to have a game where men are naturally superior to women, then obviously, women are going to be pretty much useless in the game, right?
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I rather think that the idea of a “Christian v. everybody else” game is precisely what’s offensive.
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But the idea is that the “rapture” sucked away all the Christians, so then there’s just evil and not-as-evil battling for what’s left. The game takes place in a world minus all Christians. The player of the game is on the side of “oh my God, the Christians were right!”
That’s just a nitpick. Still a terrible game concept. I doubt it will sell well. I hadn’t even heard of it prior to this thread.
[QUOTE=ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]
Thus, the last Left Behind book – Glorious Appearing – concludes with the ultimate triumph of Jesus in a phantasmagorically gruesome holocaust. As predicted in Revelation, the savior returns to Earth, chides Satan for defiling the planet (and for inventing Darwinism), then proceeds to slaughter all unbelievers, dissolving their tongues and bursting their bodies like overstuffed sausages. As millions die in transports of agony, the ground becomes a swamp of blood and mud, and some extremely unpleasant things happen to the Jews who refuse to convert. As for the born-again? They stand around watching and cheering.
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Estuans interius ira vehementi
Estuans interius ira vehementi
[QUOTE=Charger]
But the idea is that the “rapture” sucked away all the Christians, so then there’s just evil and not-as-evil battling for what’s left. The game takes place in a world minus all Christians. The player of the game is on the side of “oh my God, the Christians were right!”
That’s just a nitpick. Still a terrible game concept. I doubt it will sell well. I hadn’t even heard of it prior to this thread.
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Well, they are Christians, it’s just that they converted after the rapture.
I think there could be a good Armageddon game, maybe with various religions duking it out. It could even have this as the theme song (you can ignore the slideshow here, I just linked to it for the song).
We Muslims do believe in Jesus Christ…we however disagree that he was God incarnate or the Son of God or part of the Trinity or that he was crucified and came back after how many days.
[QUOTE=DataZak]
We Muslims do believe in Jesus Christ…we however disagree that he was God incarnate or the Son of God or part of the Trinity or that he was crucified and came back after how many days.
[Rodney King]Can’t we all just get along?[/RK]
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Bumping this thread because, thanks to the cool folks at Cracked, I have been informed that a a first-person Jesus simulator is available. I know nothing about game playing on Steam, but this bit from the link is golden:
Didn’t the Dude (my free translation of El Señor) die to save the world? Anyway, I’m wondering wht this means:
What does “pass” mean there? It seems to me, though, that this game might have the potential to be more Christ-like in actual play than LB: EF. It also seems to have the potential to be, well, not so divine.
Yep; “It’s December” pretty much sums up why there’s more crazy Christian crap now.
If I’m going to play a bloody game that involves lots of killing people, just because you can, I’m going to go for the ‘tried-and-true’. Carmageddon. Let’s go squick some peds…
And not put all the blame on poor God, for a change. “I ran them over because it was FUN, OK?”
Re-reading the thread got me wondering about the game’s “losing spirit points” and then the character is on the evil side. I thought the fundied out types preached OSAS.
