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Isn't It About Time Somebody Makes a Christian Game?

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azlan88

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Atheism seems to have been a common theme in games throughout the past decade. Final Fantasy X kicked it off by drawing an insulting parallel to the Catholic Church (I'm not even Catholic), and the Xenosaga series, one of the greatest RPG's of all time, was based on the writings of a German philosopher, who theorized that if humanity gave up all sense of morality, we would become what he called "supermen." And guess who the final boss was in that game? A grotesque parody of God.
Now Final Fantasy XIII, a game which I used to look forward to, has continued with the industry's recurring theme, the antagonists being religious zealots.
Demons, atheism and now most recently the lionizing of Islamic heros (Assassin's Creed franchise) polute the industry, and my question is why hasn't anyone made a big budget Christian game for a change? Are the Christian developers cowards, or is the industry just too hostile for a Christian project to exist?
 
Are you talking about a first-person shooter type of game? If so, I don't think a Christian game developer would be able to hit it big in that area.
 
There was a Christian FPS game a while back. It failed miserably.
 
It seems like most Christians don't have enough creativity to create their own games.

Since I saw this thread.. I've been looking up Christian console games to see if I could find anything.. and it honestly just reinforced my opinion of how Christians seem to rip a lot of things off.. while ignoring "Thou shalt not steal!"

I mean, I'm an artist.. in the lowest form of the term.. and when I paint something.. or paint out a concept that I find interesting.. the last thing I want is someone to steal that HARD WORK.. so when I see a game like "Guitar Praise".. which is a direct rip off of Guitar Hero.. I honestly despise it.

I also read an article where someone was discussing making a Christian version of GTAIV.. but they couldn't come up with an idea that would replace the GRAND THEFT AUTO part.

Honestly, Christian game developers would make so little money that the game quality would be extremely poor. Christians don't even all have the same beliefs derived from that 2000 year old book that's been translated over and over again by MAN.. that means even less money to Christian game developers because they might accidentally upset one of the sects with a word or two in the wrong translation.

So, what you're basically stuck with is what has already been done before. Cumbersome, boring, and poorly created trivia/platforming games littered with forced bible quotes and annoying biblical characters dressed up in robes with giant beards. Or you could wait for some Christians to completely rip off another game and replace the bad parts with praying, throwing scripture in peoples general direction, and gathering animals to put them on Noah's Ark.
 
Let's be honest, Christian have more important Big budget projects. Translating the Bible, converting the lost....

The second problem is that theses games would further allow Christians to put themselves in a spiritual bubble. The lost aren't going to come to Christ just because they played a Christian video game. I play a game called Nodiatis, and MMO RPG. It does have magic as a theme to it, but it does not have any ties to faith or anything like that. It's just a old age fantasy game. I have a clan on this game of 24 Christian users who stick out and make it harder for faith not to be an element in the community. Perhaps this is more like something you could sink your teeth into.
 
Years ago a few friends and I tried to play Dungeons and Dragons, but as christians. It can't be done.
 
You should try the first person shooters from NLightning Entertainment. I don't think their bad. Maybe not the best, but their pretty fun. They have free demos available.
 
azlan88 said:
Final Fantasy X kicked it off by drawing an insulting parallel to the Catholic Church (I'm not even Catholic),
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I think that's largely up to one's interpretation.

azlan88 said:
Now Final Fantasy XIII, a game which I used to look forward to, has continued with the industry's recurring theme, the antagonists being religious zealots.
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But the protagonists use magic and such, so it's not exactly atheism, not in the usual usage of the word.


azlan88 said:
the lionizing of Islamic heros (Assassin's Creed franchise) polute the industry,
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Um...no. Have you played the game before you judged it? I mean the whole game.
The group of assassins that the protagonist works for in the first game was based on an old Islamic group, yes. However, towards the end of the game the protagonist discovers that the group is not what it seems and the leader lied to them all. If anything, it's demonizing Islamic heroes. Not to mention the assassins of the game hardly, if ever, make any mention of Islam or Islamic beliefs.
And Assassin's Creed 2 is taking place in Italy and won't even be based on 'Islamic heroes'.
 
Nick_29 said:
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http://www.guitarpraise.com/home.php

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Not a bad game. The only problem I have is that the guitar is from Satan. Other than that, this is a must buy title!!!
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Is that a sarcastic comment on the guitar? (I hope it is).

The game doesn't look too bad, if you can get off the asolute rip-off. I have a problem with rip-offs.[/quote:16g0i688]

It was! I just had to poke fun at the Devil music christians!!

Yeah, it is a rip off, but it is also a clean title for families. Most Guitar Hero games have a lot of occult and satanic imagery, like the third one where you sell your soul to the devil.
 
Twisted Hawk said:
It was! I just had to poke fun at the Devil music christians!!

Yeah, it is a rip off, but it is also a clean title for families. Most Guitar Hero games have a lot of occult and satanic imagery, like the third one where you sell your soul to the devil.
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True, but you have to put it in context with the "rocker" world (which is well and truely over). I don't think many kids at all would take it seriously. I guess it just depends on the person.
 
Nick_29 said:
[quote="Twisted Hawk":134gp5qp]It was! I just had to poke fun at the Devil music christians!!

Yeah, it is a rip off, but it is also a clean title for families. Most Guitar Hero games have a lot of occult and satanic imagery, like the third one where you sell your soul to the devil.
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True, but you have to put it in context with the "rocker" world (which is well and truely over). I don't think many kids at all would take it seriously. I guess it just depends on the person.[/quote:134gp5qp]

Good point. Most of the time, I don't think they take the occult stuff seriously. There are quite a few bands that maybe do this, but I think for the most part is was in response to the right wing christians. I still don't like the image though.
 
Twisted Hawk said:
[quote="Nick_29":3qffwvbi][quote="Twisted Hawk":3qffwvbi]It was! I just had to poke fun at the Devil music christians!!

Yeah, it is a rip off, but it is also a clean title for families. Most Guitar Hero games have a lot of occult and satanic imagery, like the third one where you sell your soul to the devil.
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True, but you have to put it in context with the "rocker" world (which is well and truely over). I don't think many kids at all would take it seriously. I guess it just depends on the person.[/quote:3qffwvbi]

Good point. Most of the time, I don't think they take the occult stuff seriously. There are quite a few bands that maybe do this, but I think for the most part is was in response to the right wing christians. I still don't like the image though.[/quote:3qffwvbi]
Same here. The image isn't healthy, and is uncool now (not that it was 'good' when it was 'cool'.
It seems we are in agreeance.
My only real 'problem' with rip-off games is because they're basically stealing another perosn's idea, and guitar hero was a pretty original game. But I can see why they did it, and contragulations. Not saying it's bad...just that I wouldn't buy it.
 
Dance Praise....SUCKED. Not gonna lie. I'm a huge avid DDR fan. The concept for the game is awesome, but unfortunately, not originally instigated from a Christian mind. The step syncing for what you see on the screen was shoddy at best, and I never really got the feel for it because of that.

Guitar Praise I don't know anything about.

The Bible Game for the PS2 was extremely disappointing. Juvenile and elementary questions for one who has grown up in the church. I haven't played it, but a good friend indulged the idea, and he unlocked everything within a matter of an hour and a half. In the bag..now what? lol.

What a GOOD Christian game needs is a story that portrays a character's need to realize that, yes, there IS something bigger than them, but that thing is NOT the bad guy. I have MANY ideas on portrayals of spiritual warfare and puzzles and riddles which the player HAS to use either a Strong's Concordance or the Bible itself.
 
I've been thinking of a cool idea for a game lately. It's takes place during the rapture. You control a person left behind in order to help out the fight against the Anti-Christ. In this case, your given a gun to paralyze people, and then you capture them to be converted into Christians. I think it possibly has some potential.
 
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