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Mormon on New Vegas & Christianity in Games: disrespect is the safe route. by fucking newbie 05/29/2013, 1:22pm PDT
Here's what Skip Cameron thought you should know about a religious person's view on religion in games:

Another hack from Kotaku wrote:

Rather than taking the safe route in the entertainment industry of making Christianity, and especially Mormon Christianity, a punching bag or the butt of a string of jokes, Obsidian has shown that at least in post-apocalyptia, Mormons can get a fair shake.


I know it's an old as shit article from Kotaku, but that's not interesting and neither is the fact that they're sucking developer cock - that's what game journos do now. I'm quite struck by theis perspective on religion, which makes the article a window into the perspective these editors have on the industry and its consumers - and presumably that perspective is a product of forces working within the industry, as in publishers, as in the guys running Kotaku knew it would please Bethesda and Obsidian and EA if they released a submission that didn't make the game industry out to be militant and derisive atheists. Is this a problem for the industry now, did Jack Thompson and Tipper Gore make video gaming godless?

Have I missed something? The guys who made the original Fallout were deathly afraid of creating controversy just by mentioning religious matters, and the only mainstream game I can think of that puts Christianity in a prominent role is Assassin's Creed, which sweeps the whole thing under the rug by going on about a corrupt knightly order and some kind of goddamn conspiracy.

Where are these jokes exactly? Are they in Gabriel Knight? Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader? Maybe the Cain & Abel story in World of Darkness we see in Vampire: the Masquerade? The papal mechanics in Total War games? Crusader Kings? Show me a game that is some kind of incredible success - or just well-known - and even mentions Christianity in a negative context and I'll show you a hallucination.

Or am I wrong? Tomb Raider gives us implied rape, Heavy Rain is daddy's self-dismemberment for the kids, Persona 3 has suicide after suicide, Hotline Miami is another in a long line of blood-smear gorefests that nevertheless can't meet the bar Soldier of Fortuneset for realistic violence, but there's not one goddamn game I can think of that shits on the Christians.
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Mormon on New Vegas & Christianity in Games: disrespect is the safe route. by fucking newbie 05/29/2013, 1:22pm PDT NEW
    Re: Mormon on New Vegas & Christianity in Games: disrespect is the safe route. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/29/2013, 2:15pm PDT NEW
        Yeah, wasn't Lebbeus the one with some kind of conflict with his dad? by fucking newbie 05/29/2013, 3:23pm PDT NEW
            Re: Yeah, wasn't Lebbeus the one with some kind of conflict with his dad? by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/29/2013, 3:36pm PDT NEW
    I used Google to try to find an anti-Christian video game. Apparently the NT by answer is: ALL OF THEM 05/29/2013, 2:18pm PDT NEW
    You gloss over these words "in the entertainment industry" by Last 05/29/2013, 2:56pm PDT NEW
        The Book of Mormon NT by South Park Guys 05/29/2013, 3:02pm PDT NEW
        Mocking Xtianity: K. Smith's Dogma; he even particip. in anti-movie protest NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/29/2013, 3:15pm PDT NEW
            Thanks, Paul. It was rhetorical. by Last 05/29/2013, 3:23pm PDT NEW
                And I'm going to know it's rhetorical, because... ? NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/30/2013, 1:50am PDT NEW
                    You won't! Bwahahahahahahahahahah! I did this to you!!!! NT by Asperger's Syndrome 05/30/2013, 8:32am PDT NEW
                        Master Chief, err I mean, Asperger's Syndrome: Suck My Dick! NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/30/2013, 5:11pm PDT NEW
        You make a good point. Admittedly Cameron talks about how it's great that a game NT by respects his cult. 05/29/2013, 3:26pm PDT NEW
        Sure. Still, it's on a game-related site about a game, so I thought I'd ask what NT by the deal was in that area specifica 05/29/2013, 3:29pm PDT NEW
            Posted in the wrong fucking place like a cretin by fucking newbie 05/29/2013, 3:38pm PDT NEW
    Re: Mormon on New Vegas & Christianity in Games: disrespect is the safe route. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/29/2013, 3:11pm PDT NEW
        Well and good, but we get in-depth journalism in the Olympics and find that to by fucking newbie 05/29/2013, 3:31pm PDT NEW
    Fallout 2 had parody scientologists, does that count? NT by Worm 05/29/2013, 3:59pm PDT NEW
        No. They run away from it with endless disclaimers because of PC. by fucking newbie 05/30/2013, 6:54am PDT NEW
    He has a very liberal view of "disrespect" by skip 05/29/2013, 5:02pm PDT NEW
    Mormons have a HUGE persecution complex by E. L. Koba (raised mormon) 05/29/2013, 9:40pm PDT NEW
        I learned more about Mormonism in this post than anywhere else. NT by Shredder 05/29/2013, 10:30pm PDT NEW
        Yeah, but the root beer is TOP NOTCH. NT by Festus McGee 05/29/2013, 10:40pm PDT NEW
            I thought Mormons aren't allowed to consume soft drinks either NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 05/30/2013, 1:52am PDT NEW
                Just ones with caffeine are off-limits. NT by Stephanie Meyer 05/30/2013, 8:39am PDT NEW
                    Which is why Utah is the root beer capital of the goddamn world! NT by Festus McGee 05/30/2013, 9:48am PDT NEW
        Re: Mormons have a HUGE persecution complex by Vested Id 05/30/2013, 3:41am PDT NEW
 
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