Hindus Ask PAX To Drop Smite

[TheSYLOH]

What i really want to see is a team battle.
Moses, Jesus and Mohammad vs Zeus, Shiva and Thor.

Admittedly the Abrahamic religion team is support heavy.
Moses acts on Debuff with his curses of Egypt, Jesus healing and Resurrection and Mohammad does physical DPS and Tank.
The polytheistic team seems to have doubled up on lightning elementals, but has strong close combat capabilities.

 

[direkiller]

I trust the Penny Arcade guys to stand up to these enemies of free speech.

still no characters from the Abrahamic religions i see.

why is that exactly ?..

oh yes...they are shitebags.

still /golfcalp in the name of "freedom of speech" eh ?..

especially when its quite clear they won't actually dare offend anyone who might actually be able to mess with them in return.

cowards.

Jesus could make an awesome Melee/Support if done right (set him up like a melee version of Hel, call the stance changes "Prince of Peace" and "I Bring Not Peace, But a Sword". Yahweh is OP, being invisible and all though. Since none of the Jewish or Muslim prophets are accused of being divine, it's kind of hard to use one of them as a "god" unless you think Mohammed and Moses could beat of Odin and Ra...

You can always go with when Yahweh was part of a polytheistic religion and bit less powerful.
Yahweh Sabaoth"God of the armies" make him a puppet master style champ.

 

[piclemaniscool]

Every time I hear another gripe about this game, I try to relate it to a religion I'm more accustomed with. then I realize a hack and slash game starring Jesus would be hilariously awesome. Maybe fantasy RPG, fable style.

 

[direkiller]

Every time I hear another gripe about this game, I try to relate it to a religion I'm more accustomed with. then I realize a hack and slash game starring Jesus would be hilariously awesome. Maybe fantasy RPG, fable style.

it's not so much another gripe
as the same guy/group griping to diffident people to stop promoting the game.

 

[DanDeFool]

I still think Smite should include the Archangel Gabriel and Lucifer in their lineup. While not really "gods", per-se, they'd still make good characters, and maybe the hindus would chill out if they weren't the only modern religion whose deities were being trivialized.

 

[cikame]

Hindu deities were mean't to be worshipped... by Hindus.

The world doesn't have to take steps to avoid upsetting me, what makes any other human more special?

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

Could we please stop saying "Hindus ask..." whenever this particular group makes a noise? I doubt they represent a majority of Hindus. I wouldn't think it fair if the WBC was just called plainly "Christians" in every article.

 

[Nieroshai]

It's all fun and games til it's your own faith being portrayed by an outsider. People need to focus more on themselves within their faiths and less on whether anyone else respects them. Hell, I'm a Christian, I know none of you respect that. And I don't care, I'm here to talk games and nerdy crap.

I respect that, I'm a Christian too.

I feel that people need to learn to not push their beliefs into everything. Hinduism is the 3rd largest religion in the world, it makes sense that people would draw inspiration for it.

My favorite games, movies, and anime draw heavily from other myths and religions. Norse, Greek, Hindu, Japanese, Chinese, what have you. My favorite author, David Eddings, called it the Mythological Fishhook. There's something about these myths and creeds that draws us into them, and the story by extension.

I think we could all take a page out of the Hindu playbook and treat all religions as legit, but have your own favorite flavor. Life would be a lot more peaceful.

 

[CentralScrtnzr]

I'm sure there were also Greeks in the Classical Age performing various public religious rites and those of private cults offended by the representation of the gods in the epic poetry of Homer and the like. But, by a landslide, the Greeks embraced what was really the popular fiction (or non-fiction, as they might have esteemed it) of Homer. People still read Homer today, some of them even enjoy it; the religious rites of the ancient Greeks are now long dead. I'm sure there's some argument in there for the staying power of media in the mind of the people against the appeal of blind adherence to gods and idols.

 

[II2]

Gabe and Tycho are big Tribes fans and Hi Rez has done well by them recently in that respect...

That said, while their voices obviously carry a lot of weight at *their* convention, Robert Khoo handles all this stuff directly, not Mike and Jerry. He's a pragmatic guy; I expect he'd relay the concern on to the Smite devs, but leave the decision to them.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I love how PAX ended two days ago and this is still on the Most Commented list.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

To be fair, this group has every right to complain about the portrayal of their god in a video game.

Equally, everyone else has the right to completely ignore them, and go about their day.

I remember Bill Hicks on offending Christians...

"So, I'm doing a gig in the deep south, and these guys come up to me after the show, shove me in the chest, and go "come here!", musta been physics majors, I'm guessing, and they tell me they don't like what I said about Jesus... I told them, "So, forgive me!"

 

[shadyh8er]

Oh come on! I'm a Hindu and the first thing I thought when I finished God of War was "how cool would it be to fight Shiva?"