Christian Game Publisher Looks to Walmart for Help

[Starke]

A game about Christianity? What would it have, slaughtering millions for having different beliefs? Forcing Jews to live in ghettos? Covering up the molestation of 200 deaf boys? I think I'll stick with games that DON'T promote the most evil cult of all time.

But... Decabo, you just made the baby L. Ron Hubbard cry.

 

[RickD3487]

I hate to be the one to state the obvious, but it sounds like this is one game franchise that will definitely get "left behind", lol...

...I think I just died a little inside.

 

[Starke]

I hate to be the one to state the obvious, but it sounds like this is one game franchise that will definitely get "left behind", lol...

...I think I just died a little inside.

If it makes you feel worse, there's probably worse puns to be had. I suspect that anything much worse will provoke Collin Fox to appear and knee you in the groin, but, that's probably the only way he's making ends meet these days.

 

[Booze Zombie]

"Welcome to The Bible Game! Remember, even though you're about to sin.. don't sin."
"Uh-huh, where are the naked ladies?"
"We don't have nudity in this g-."
"Would you look at that! I want to give already, I had better go donate this game to a better cause..."

 

[SaintWaldo]

Wait. Fiction and non-fiction!? I didn't think Christianity had both categories!

This is clearly a misleading report. Clearly.

So Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, and the Medicis didn't actually exist? Who knew? Thanks internet!

 

[Starke]

Wait. Fiction and non-fiction!? I didn't think Christianity had both categories!

This is clearly a misleading report. Clearly.

So Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, and the Medicis didn't actually exist? Who knew? Thanks internet!

Thomas Aquinas was an Illuminati Plot, the Medicis were insane, and Francis Bacon was delicious.

 

[SaintWaldo]

Wait. Fiction and non-fiction!? I didn't think Christianity had both categories!

This is clearly a misleading report. Clearly.

So Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, and the Medicis didn't actually exist? Who knew? Thanks internet!

Thomas Aquinas was an Illuminati Plot, the Medicis were insane, and Francis Bacon was delicious.

And, again, all Christian nonfiction. That's my only point.

 

[JEBWrench]

I really don't know anyone that goes to Walmart to buy games...

And us folk who live in places too small to have any other places to buy games.

 

[Hulyen]

I want to say there actually was a Lucas Arts game back in the late 90s along these lines, though it was more simcity than RTS.

Afterlife - You had to maintain heaven and hell instead of a city. I've played it, it's not too bad.

 

[HuntrRose]

Wait. Fiction and non-fiction!? I didn't think Christianity had both categories!

This is clearly a misleading report. Clearly.

well non-fiction has the crusades and spanish inquisition

I thought wallmart didnt like having alot of landfill material?

Isn't the Bible sold in the non-fiction section?

Probably in the subcategory called religion. Still, much the same..

 

[literallyanythingelse]

I'm a Christian, and a game based on Left Behind *sounds* cool, but it really was awful from what I've heard.

To be honest, my view on Christian games is the same as Christian music. I don't care if it's religious, I just care if it's GOOD. If the latter arises from the former, then good for them. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have been the case for Left Behind.

I agree. And really why not cator to a huge segment of the US and for the matter the World. I say like LOTR and Narnia make something good with a message .. good job.. Just through a message on anything, you aint gonna win.

WOAH... LOTR has a Christian message?

 

[Macgyvercas]

People go to Wal-Mart for games? Isn't that what GameCrazy and GameStop are for? (Knock GameStop if you want, but I have never had a bad experience with them)

 

[lijenstina]

I heard in the next expansion we get to colonize the moon.

Only after he finishes playing Duke Nukem Forever.

 

[brunothepig]

It could be fun. As long as forcing their religion on me doesn't happen. Or it takes a back seat to the FUN! Defending from the forces of the antichrist sounds like a lot of fun. I'd prefer to be on the evil side, but whatever.
A thought: Will any religious folks be complaining about how there's depictions of evil and satan in this game? Is this all we have to start doing to avoid controversy? Just say the game aims to show the evil of Satan or whatever. "The whole point of releasing Dante's Inferno was to show sinners where they might end up.

 

[Aptspire]

So let me get this straight, a game made by christian game developers about killing demons is fine, but when anyone else makes a game about killing demons it's considered glorifying Satan. I've seen people claim Doom is blasphemous when it's the exact same concept, you (the player) killing demons.

This double standard is so tragically (and ironically) hilarious.

http://lhla.org/breaking_news/?p=3966
http://objectiveministries.org/zounds/gaming.html

That second link seems real enough (yes, some Americans are just 'that much' into Christianity) although it is ironic that the 'reviewer' gives 'scores' to games he hasn't even played, and bases them solely on the imagery compared to the Bible

 

[Decabo]

A game about Christianity? What would it have, slaughtering millions for having different beliefs? Forcing Jews to live in ghettos? Covering up the molestation of 200 deaf boys? I think I'll stick with games that DON'T promote the most evil cult of all time.

But... Decabo, you just made the baby L. Ron Hubbard cry.

Scientology is indeed stupid, but you can't even compare the horrors that Christianity has brought about to those of Scientology. I'm currently in a Western Civilization history class, and we're talking about crusades that the pope promoted. It annoys me to see people try to jam this religion in everywhere they can, even though it's the greatest source of violence, discrimination and intolerance in human history.