That second link has to be a parody site. It's just too over-the-top to be real, as well as subtly making fun of what they're espousing. Hopefully that's the case, anyway.Sakurazaki1023 said:
Christian Game Publisher Looks to Walmart for Help
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I have the game. It's... underwhelming. It's not awful, just not particularly good, either. (And this is a Christian speaking.) Badly done tutorials, a strangely bland story, and a weird grudge against rock music (!?!). However, I thought the idea of giving a backstory to EVERY NPC IN THE GAME (optional reads, obviously) was a great touch.
That RTS actually sounds like it might be entertaining.
Also, Christian non-fiction, how does that work?
Also, Christian non-fiction, how does that work?
I is confuzzled.ninja51 said:
I mean, don't most religions shed a very bad light on suicide? How is it going to kill everyone?
You've been ninja'd waaaaaaaaaaaay back, and facepalmed at for deliberately misunderstanding what was written.FelixFox. said:
Christian non-fiction = missionary biographies, self-help books with Christian values inserted, etc.
I'm sorry, that's not what I meant at all. I mean, generally speaking, when a Christian group tries to rebrand something as Christian, like, for example: CCGs in the early 90s, or even the Left Behind films. The quality of the product is usually inferior to the mainstream by a noticeable margin.JimbobDa3rd said:
Some Links:Gigaguy64 said:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/220960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_forces
http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-12-12/news/17323217_1_wal-mart-eternal-forces
Basically, the "Left Behind" game has been around since 2006 and Wal*Mart has been involved before, it's good to see they are deciding to give the games another shot though despite the initial protests. Also I was a bit miffed over the whole thing about the "ban" on the game with our troops in The Middle East.
I'm a Christian, albeit not a deeply spiritual one. The big issue with Christian video gaming has by and large been that a substantial number of people in the US as Christians and widescale portrayal of a lot of the beliefs is found threatening to many minorities and political views. It largely being a matter of Christians losing their free speech rights, and while I do not agree with all Christian speakers, I believe "my own" people are just as entitled to the right to express themselves as anyone else I defend.
The thing with "Left Behind" is that it's a Christian based post-apocolyptic setting, based on a fairly liberal interpetation of Christian spirituality. It's similar on a lot of levels to Steven King's "The Stand" but more overtly religious.
The plot being that "The Rapture" comes and tons of people who are deemed worthy are taken to Heaven. They simply disappear. This incidently includes young children. This mass disappearance creates a lot of havoc as planes go plummeting out of the sky as pilots disappear and things like that. Those "Left Behind" are left to try and find salvation by serving god.
The Anti-Christ "reveals" himself working for the UN and begins taking over the remnants of humanity, doing what he can (very subtly) to prevent people from realizing what is going on, destroy the remaining believers who know the truth and are trying to save people, and preparing for everyone's souls to be pulled down to Hell after the End Of Days completes.
This leads to those who find Christ becoming fairly militant and fighting against the forces of The Anti-Christ and getting fairly militant about "spreading the word" and destroying heathens and such that confuse the issue.
That's a simplistic version, but that's what it's about. All told it's pretty interesting, and something even non-Christians can get into, from their perspective it's no differant than reading a fantasy novel based on say Norse mythology involving Ragnarok.
On the other hand understand that it's "modern" and involves a very solid "Christianity is the truth!" attitude. As a result some of the more extreme aspects of the stories are going to make paticular groups uncomfortable. Think of say how before it's release there was a big deal about whether EA was going to have the guts to have Mohammad in Hell in "Dante's Inferno" since he was present during the Poem. "Left Behind" tends to be less than politically correct at times, but then again this is "The End Of Days" not a "we are the world" essay on liberally interpeted sociology.
Not saying this is everyone's cup of tea, but that's the situation in a nut shell. I never played the game, but I'm familiar with the novels as I've read the first one (haven't managed to get the others as $1 paperbacks yet, and there are tons of them) where things get moving, and did some reading up on it since it sounded fairly interesting.
As I understand things the video game version is thematically similar to a less insane version of "Warhammer 40k" where you have clashing armies, propaganda, and a "convert or kill" doctrine in place. Albeit in this case instead of it all being "For The Emperor" it's done in the name of a real religion and in a conflict foretold by real religious texts (ie Revelations).
Liking nuns with machine guns is probably a prerequisite.
Ahh, well, guess I never thought of that... I've lived in the same city all my life, and it is the 3rd largest in the state so we have like 5-6 Gamestops, tons of walmarts, Best Buy, and other places before they closed (gamecrazy). Walmart sucks for PC games here. It was next to the Latino music section and they had more Latino music then PC games.Gaderael said:
I usually go to Best Buy, Amazon, Newegg, or Steam for PC games. :/
Oh, I have Steam, and it is great. I've bought a couple of games off it so far, but I prefer having the hard copy if I can get it. Also, I don't have a Credit Card. I have PayPal, and it takes almost two weeks to transfer funds from my bank account to PayPal.Rainboq said:
The problem with the Left Behind series isn't that it's Christian. It's that it's BAD.
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/page/29/
This blog has been dissecting the first book in the series page-by-page over the past several years, and has recently moved on to the second. The author of the blog makes strong arguments for why they're the worst books ever written, from a moral, theological, and literary perspective.
The best part is that the guy who writes the blog is an evangelical Christian. He just hates that people are taking such a twisted and warped reading of the bible and calling it a "literal" one.
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/page/29/
This blog has been dissecting the first book in the series page-by-page over the past several years, and has recently moved on to the second. The author of the blog makes strong arguments for why they're the worst books ever written, from a moral, theological, and literary perspective.
The best part is that the guy who writes the blog is an evangelical Christian. He just hates that people are taking such a twisted and warped reading of the bible and calling it a "literal" one.