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Top 5 religions that would make great games

When it comes to finding inspiration for new games, developers are happy to look to films, books, comics, myths and folklore to find rich veins of inspiration. Why not consider major religions too? Sure, we get the odd title like Dante’s Inferno that’s willing to creatively interpret religious writing or God of War that lets you massacre the less fashionable deities, but where are the games that let you dragon punch Muhammad in the face or headshot then teabag John the Baptist? Every religion has great source material for a game setting, and here’s the top 5.

* Anyone a bit uptight or sensitive about religion might want to make their lives less stressful by not reading this list. I won’t be offended if you don’t want to be offended.*

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NukaCola5193d ago

I don't why can't get a Scientologist game. I mean I enjoyed Mass Effect and would love to play as John Travolta as you travel across space and into other demenions, battling up to the Xenu warlord or what however the Science Fiction story goes.

darksied5193d ago

You mean another Battlefield: Earth? Ugh

Istanbull5193d ago

I'm a muslim but the West and especially USA is very biased against muslims. I mean go to the article and see what the journalist wrote: "hard to find smiling muslims"

You see? This is BIASED!

You guys think ALL muslims have beards and wear Arabian-style clothes with a funny looking hat.

I'm muslim but I wear normal clothes, I don't have a beard and I look like the average Joe.

But my faith is Islamic!

Americans really should stop thinking all muslims have beards and wear Arabian clothes.

guitarded775193d ago

@ Istanbull

You say Americans stereotype Muslims while you stereotype Americans... GTFO.

The Killer5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

Thats very insulting for Muslims! in Islam, we are not allowed to show any images or sounds that represents prophet Mohammad nor any other prophet as a sign of respect for them. the core idea is a fail attempt for a game and a success attempt to invoke the Muslims.

and i did a search about smiling Muslims on Google images and i found many, this shows the guy ugly inner hate for Islam and Muslims.

@DarkBlood (BELOW)
I dont know where u live in, but the crime rates in the atheist countries surpasses by far the crime rates in the religious countries unless there is a war.

in USA, women and children are being raped and killed or harassed with each seconds/minutes! so what are you bubbling about?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

-Alpha5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

"In Islam, we are not allowed to show any images or sounds that represents prophet Mohammad nor any other prophet as a sign of respect for them"

But that's just in Islam. Anyone not in Islam can draw a picture of your prophet because they have no religious obligation not to.

Do not assume everyone has to oblige to your religious beliefs unless you are willing to oblige to every other religious belief yourself.

The Killer5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

well, that will be being offensive and causing trouble with the second largest religion in the world! 1.8 billion Muslims.

If i start drawing insulting pictures of your mother and father or wife or any person that is dear to your heart, will you accept it and be quite about it? is that what freedom means? can i make fun pictures of how the Jews were killed by Hitler? will that be funny for the western world?

you have to learn how to respect others even if you dont agree with them!

will it be ok and normal to start cursing and insulting people in the street and not expect to get beaten up by the end of the day?

This freedom excuse that the west uses to insult Muslims cannot be used to even touch on the Holocaust subject! so enough with the double standards!

So just because someone doesn't have religious obligation towards a religion, it doesnt mean that you can go and start cursing that religion, unless you are seeking trouble. and what about moral obligation? so you have no morals to respect others faith?

-Alpha5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

Keep religion to yourself and don't apply your standards to anybody else. Because when you do that you give equal right for others to do the same to you. You offend other religions simply by following Islam, would you respect it if they tell you not to do something offensive that hinders your freedom?

In the same regard I have no duty to your religious demands. Get over it. I can and will draw Muhammad if I so choose because I do not have any reason to obey your religious text.

And sorry, respect is earned, and I do not respect someone who openly does not hold gays and lesbians to equal rights as other human beings and even compares them to animals.

I don't respect religions just because they are institutionalized. Scientology is mocked today, but once it becomes an established religion and sheds the social stigma of "cult" it will be expected to be "respected" like any other religion.

I respect your freedom to believe in it, that's it. I don't respect your assertion that I have to obey your religious laws. Good bye

anasurimbor5193d ago

@Alpha-Male22

Tell that to Comedy Central.

White-Sharingan5193d ago

What country is atheist? I have yet to see a country where atheism reigns over theology

Rice5193d ago

Alpha-male22, NEVER rationalize or argue with religious individuals, never. You'll either get harassed, assaulted or end up killing yourself with their logical fallacies. I tried it and I lost, my arguments were valid and I provided EVIDENCE but in order for them to see by faith they had to shut the eye of reason so what can you do.

kaveti66165193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

The real killer is wrong.

Countries with predominantly non-religious or atheist populations have very low crime rates.

Finland, Sweden, Switzerland are some major examples of largely non-religious countries where the crime rates are extremely low.

Now, that doesn't mean that religion causes more crime or that atheism reduces crime.

I've always attributed the data to other causes such as poverty and a differences in cultural makeup.

For example, racism is still a strongly held tenet in America and because our country is a cultural and ethnic melting pot, it is understandable that the crime rates are higher.

But I also agree with Alpha-Male that people shouldn't have to follow other people's religious beliefs just because they are dominant in society. Just because there are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world doesn't mean that the other 5 billion people in the world have to respect or follow everything in the Koran.

At the same time, I have no desire to draw Muhammad and don't understand why Alpha-Male will do it just to offend people.

Even if you have every right to draw Muhammad, Alpha-Male, I think it is a little childish of you do it simply because you've been told not to. I mean, that's exactly how children act. You tell them not to touch a stove and they touch it just because you told them not to.

I don't go out of my way to offend people.

-Alpha5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

I never said I wanted to draw Muhammad. Nor have I ever. But if I wanted to, I will.

If you recall, Muslims went nuts after a political cartoon depicted Muhammad. While the artist had every right to draw Muhammad to illustrate his point, he had insane death threats go his way for simply drawing Muhammad. If you recall, this was a hot topic in the news. The religious fundamentals were so sensitive to a drawing that sparked debates of religious rights vs. freedom

This is why Comedy Central banned the drawing of Muhammad, even when they allowed South Park to depict Muhammad before.

Again, if I want to draw Muhammad, regardless of if I need to or not, I have the freedom to, and I do not have to consider what Muslims want when I do it. I suggest you look up the "Draw Muhammad Day" notion that grew out of this controversy

kaveti66165193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

Alphamale, I know as much about the matter as you do, okay?

I know about the stupidass "Draw Muhammad" day too.

All I know is that it doesn't matter if the fundamentalists are crazy. They have already proven that they will commit violent acts in retaliation to simple things like drawing Muhammad or the whole "Satanic Verses" incident.

And these acts are hard to predict and hard to stop.

Comedy Central made the right decision when it censored the Muhammad image. Why? Because Comedy Central is not willing to put the lives of its employees in Jeopardy just to prove a point. What if I worked at Comedy Central? Do you think I want to get my throat cut just because Trey Parker and Matt Stone want to express themselves?

You can't fix crazy, Alphamale.

And you keep spouting on about rights, too.

You want to be objective, right?

Guess what, then. You don't have rights. None whatsoever. You have a cortical layer of brain matter that makes you think you're entitled to things. That's a tangible reality.

Just like the Muslims and Christians and Jews may be wrong about their beliefs, the people who believe they have rights are just as likely living in their own fantasy world, following the elegant text of a Constitution written and ratified by a group of political hypocrites far too long ago.

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HolyOrangeCows5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

"I don't why can't get a Scientologist game"
Because their lawyers would eat those people for breakfast, and then have them killed.

Islam: Convince people that the "trinity" is meant to be polytheistic, wage jihad.
-Part 1 would be boring as heck and the jihad would be disappointing, dying at the end, with a lack of 72 virgins.

Religion-themed games are doomed to being boring.

[Insert internet "religion v. atheism" fight here]
LOL, get the popcorn, folks! Here come the basement debaters pretending to know what they're talking about!

http://i704.photobucket.com...
lol

Also found this picture on accident. Totally true:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T...

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@The Killer
"in USA, women and children are being raped and killed or harassed with each seconds/minutes!"
And in some islamic countries, women aren't allowed to show their faces. Pile human rights violations like that on top of the inevitable victims of the bad side of human nature nonconsentive sex (pssst...forced marriage), murder, or what ever "Only in America!" BS you're going to mention.

Blackdeath_6635193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

there will be so many complaints and offended countries will ban the game and it will get a bad reputation and could cause political unrest(for example Iran said it will not enter the 2012 Olympic games if they don't change the logo which is apparently racist ) and then the company making the game could risk losing alot of its fans and thus income and company gets headache and the list goes on and on and on...

dantes inferno worked because it addressed certain parts of religion or aspects of religion like death in this case. if thats what your thinking of i think it may work like you can have a game about incarnation maybe, which could be an adventure game inspired by the Hindu religion. what you did in that article is rather than being inspired by you were basing your thoughts on certain religion.
to be honest it just wont work.

im-12-years-old5193d ago

Inb4 fox news gets hold of this article.

RyuDrinksTheDew5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

i know this is meant to be funny...

...but it* just isnt, this article fell flat on its face.

DarkBlood5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

sigh religion does more harm then it benifits something has to be done about it in 5 or 10 years give or take

The Killer5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

between UK and USA, 516,000 abortions per year, that's 516,000 legal small babies murder per year.

lesbians and gays can now marry and adopt children! even animals don't do that!

Rape, homicide, drugs, suicides etc are the highest in the so called "not religious countries"

Enough of your hypocrisy! time to leave your mother's basement.

UPDATE

This is a nice link for the crimes in USA alone!
http://www.disastercenter.c...

Murder: 15,000 in 2009
Rape: 89,000 in 2009

thats just the official numbers, and we all know many rape cases doesnt get reported for many reasons! so be assured that it is higher!

-Alpha5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

-You are under the assumption a fetus is a legal baby. It is not a "legal baby", and the discussion about whether it is a human is the center of debate today

-Religious folks have abortions too

-There is nothing wrong with lesbians and gays adopting and marrying. Just like there is nothing wrong with women having certain rights ;)

-Heterosexual animals don't marry or adopt either. Your analogy is pointless and your attempt at trying to degrade homosexuals to the level of animals is seriously ignorant

-Rape, homicide, drugs, suicides, etc. aren't the highest in non-religious countries. In fact, studies have shown non-religious countries have the LOWEST crime rates. I will provide sources unlike you. Here is one of many: http://www.timesonline.co.u...

Here is a quote from a scholarly university journal:

http://moses.creighton.edu/...

"the U.S. is the only prosperous democracy that retains high homicide rates, making it a strong outlier in this regard (Beeghley; Doyle, 2000). Similarly, theistic Portugal also has rates of homicides well above the secular developed democracy norm. Mass student murders in schools are rare, and have subsided somewhat since the 1990s, but the U.S. has experienced many more (National School Safety Center) than all the secular developed democracies combined."

TheGreenMan5193d ago

Uh...seriously? Maybe you should watch some Discovery Channel or Nat Geo there buddy, because homosexualty is very common in animal kingdoms. But that's just the first dumb thing that I got from reading your post.

Let me ask you - how many people have committed murder in the name of abortion or homosexualty? I'm sure you don't know the answer. The truth is, neither to do I. But I can tell you one thing, it's a HELL OF ALOT less than murders committed in the name of religion.

You call for the end of hyposcrisy, yet a vast amount of people who consider themselves "religious" have no problem killing in the name of those beliefs, which is counter to the teachings of the prophets who founded them. That my friend, is true hipocrisy.

Non_sequitur5193d ago

The problem with that study is that it must prove that those criminals were without a reasonable doubt religious to correlate crime with religion.

The Killer5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

@TheGreenMan

Many kill for the name of democracy and freedom and to establish secular states (atheism)! millions in palestine, iraq, afghanistan, afrika and other places in the world! in fact the atheist killings in the range of millions! considering many diseases and weapons were made from the secular states!!

Animals are not homosexuals! if there is a rare case it can only proves that it is a sickness and out of the ordinary! other wise, it will be common! just because very few animals which can be counted by the hand fingers are homos, it doesnt mean it is natural thing! and the funny thing is i see these homo animals only in TV and places where they live with humans! i wonder what kind of brainwashing these animals got from the humans to make them homos!

i challenge you to show me 1 case were there is a homosexual animal which is found in the nature and it is proven that this animal had no interactions with humans!

IMPORTANT!

and just because a person have a cross or a beard or a shaved head (Buddha) etc it doesnt make him a religious! what makes a person religous is if he follows his religion teachings! so when u say relisous people do abortions or killings you would have to prove they are REALLY religious otherwise it is not right to stick the crimes of criminals who belongs to a certain faith to their religion!

-Alpha5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

@sequiter

There really isn't an "official" measure of religious belief.

To say someone is a "true" Christian asserts that there are a group of Christians that are "true", but the simple mechanism of believing in a religious doctrine is enough for many to label themselves as a follower of that religion.

I see what you are saying, and I think paragraph 6 may be of some help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

@Killer

You really need to do your homework first:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Scientifically recorded evidence of homosexual behavior in animals, just like you asked. This is so common knowledge that the fact that you deny it happens is a bit absurd.

The observed scientific findings suggest that the driving force of sex is pleasure, hence why homosexuality in animals is not only common but natural. I will gladly source you the proof of what experts in the field have found if you are up to openly approaching the topic.

TheGreenMan5193d ago

Wow...I'm not sure where to start, or why I'm even wasting my time considering there really is no talking sense into you.

First, I didn't ask you to tell me how many commit murder in order to establish secular states. I asked you how many people kill in the name of abortion of homosexualty. Nice job of dodging the question...

Second, I challenge you to show me 1 case of homosexualty that is SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to be a "sickness." The fact is, I could show you plenty of articles and videos that display homosexualty among animals in their natural habitat, but you would surely dismiss them by saying the camera counts as "human interaction." It's sort of like asking me if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Third, the bloodshed from the Crusades alone is enough to prove my point that religion has been a major component in the wars fought in human history. Not to mention, those series of wars have planted the seeds of hatred between Christians and Muslims that still exist today.

You say that Atheist killings are in the millions? Show me some proof. All I have to do to show you proof that millions of people have committed murder in the name of religion is open up a history book.

White-Sharingan5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

@The Killer- Actually, its been proven that most animals in the wild do have homosexual behaviors, including sexual interaction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

And please, don't start with the whole "wikipedia is not a credible source", you can just go to the links sourced if you want credibility. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the sources.

Edit: Goddamnit! Alpha-Male beat me to it

@Below- here comes the verses LOL

Non_sequitur5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 tells congregations to expel wicked ones from among them. Which can lead us to conclude that it is possible to behave in such a way that one can lose their Christian status.
@White_Sharingan
Is there a better source on how to be Christian than the Bible?

The Killer5193d ago (Edited 5193d ago )

@above

an animal may try to do some sexual things with the same genre if the opposite genre is not available! but if it is available there is no such cases only in ZOOS and human interacted animals! u still havent showed me a proof! the word homo/homosexual means that a genre prefers its own genre over opposite genre, in other words gays! but the studies the scientist have shows animals are sometimes/rarely bisexual! and the reason is the lack of females!

have you ever seen lesbian animals (to female animals having sexual activities)? is there? of course not, and thats the prove that there is no such thing as homosexuality in animals!

and as for the killings in the name of religion, if Hitler and USA and NATO is not a proof that they fight and kill for their Godless beliefs then you need to travel around the world!

Yes many use religion to kill, but many use anything to kill! some people use games as an excuse to kill! now shall we blame games for killing? some people blame the sky for killing people, now shall we hate the sky and call it a murderer? your logic fails!

any way u need to travel around the world, to see what u cant see now!

any way, i dont think i will convince u in anything nor u will convince me of anything!

EDIT

Islam is not like christianity or any other religion! Quran is the only unchanged book of God on earth! and we can debate it if anyone wants on private messages since this is my last bubble to comment with. and yes in Islam it does say kill the persons who deserves killing! and if u wanna protect killers and persons who deserve killing then that makes u a criminal's supporter/defender!

any guys, just wait an see what happens when u die! that time there is no sorry or let me do it again! this life is the test, when u die the test is over!

I am happy that i am a Muslim! and i know what will happen to me to a certain degree when i die!

WhiteSharingan5193d ago

@above- We've given you proof enough as it is, where on earth does it say that this only occurs in a zoo?

So now you're saying being bi is fine by gay is not? so it's much better to have sexual relations with both sexes than just one? have threesomes and such? amazing. You have to love how religious people try to adapt.

At first, you could never be with someone of the same sex, and now you're saying it's fine to be with someone of the same sex as long as you also feel attraction towards the opposite sex. Sorry buddy, your argument is just silly.

You claim your religion is the right one, and yet, it's not even the biggest religion in the world, what does that tell you?

For all we know, the real religion could be from an african tribe who only has 10 believers, or like I believe, none at all.

I do have to give you credit though, we throw hard evidence at you, and you're like a cement wall, like all fanatics, a cement wall you guys love to call faith.

Reminds of a clip from a show called family guy ( http://www.youtube.com/watc... )

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Elven65193d ago

The US isn't atheist or secular, it was originally but the church and the state have merged since then. The anthem was even changed in the 50s to add religion to it IIRC.

Disclaimer: I'm religious myself to a certain extent and I don't have a problem with any other group be they religious or not. I think everyone should have the right to practice their beliefs (or lack of if that's the case) with a certain degree of tolerance (it's impossible to go 100% given how diverse society is).

DarkBlood5193d ago

holy shitzazz guys lol i was just talking about the games though i realise my comment says about it as a whole in general

no need to give your self heartattacks over it

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