Multiplayer's Tracey John writes:
"After unboxing and playing the Christian-themed "Guitar Hero" game "Guitar Praise," I got Tom Bean, CEO of Christian game makers Digital Praise, on the phone yesterday to chat about it.
During our conversation, he told me about how the company takes popular styles of games and infuses them with more positive and encouraging content; the company has also made a Christian-based, "DDR"-style game called "Dance Praise."
With that in mind, I asked Bean if he ever considered making a Christian version of "Grand Theft Auto" - you know, without the "grand theft auto" parts.
Here's what he had to say..."
From Gamertell:
"Digital Praise, the company responsible for the music games Dance Praise and Guitar Praise , has announced a planned merger with Left Behind Games Inc, most well-known for games based on the Left Behind best-selling series of books."
And here come the Hate-bots over a story about two game companies merging because they happen to be Christian studios.
"HIA GUIS DIS ES WAT I TINK OB REGIGIONS AND STUFFZ. I'L BE UR AL CURIOUS ON ONE PERTSONS OPIGION ON TEH VIDEOGAM SITE"
^^^^These are the people whom are on their way to debate each other.
@SilentNegotiator
if you hate free speech so much you should move to a country like iran, there nobody can diz religions(at least the islam)
Hah - games about made up super beings preying on the little guys - but enough about GoW3!
I think this is great - 2 christian companies getting in bed together.... Hey, was lightning outside?
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"if you hate free speech so much you should move to a country like iran, there nobody can diz religions(at least the islam)"
Yes, because me making fun of people debating theism on a video game website means I hate free speech. Excellent deduction, holmes.
"The Killer should be here any second now?"
I'm shocked he isn't here yet. I guess he went to the Saturday service? :P
called Super Noahs ark. It was a mod of wolfenstien and you were noah shooting feed at animals to make them go to sleep.
My friend had it and you needed to put a real snes game into the top of it for it to work.
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Anyways like Bart would say "All the good developers are affiliated with Satan"
lol
I'm glad they are hemorrhaging money, religion has no place in video games... just like in schools.
Well I dunno about you, but I think GoW3 looks frikin cool! >:)
I liked Darksiders too. xP
A good game is a good game. If you dont want to buy the Christian themed game...............then dont buy it. That is why there are different genres of games for different people.
I'm a nonbeliever, but I think religion in games is fine, especially if it's brought up in a secular, academic manner (Bioware does it nicely, as does Irrational Games).
And I also support those mindlessly pro-God games; let the religious idealogues have their own ways to entertain themselves.
I couldn't help but think of a GTA in Jesus form. xD
That sounds so fun.
Especially with a karma system.
Anyway >_>
I think it'd be tight to have some Christian games, wouldn't bother me.
Moar gamez!
PluggedIn writes: "That's why, when I see a rare game like Guitar Praise: Solid Rock come along, I have to take a moment to respond appropriately. So, here goes: "Wahoo!"
Granted, this game does not develop any new concepts. In fact, many secular reviewers have called Guitar Praise a "rip-off," "knock-off" and "copycat" of the original groundbreaking game Guitar Hero. And, in a way, they're right. But what that snarky group seems to be missing-while they smirk at the idea of "Christian rockers with a plastic guitar"-is that the game doesn't have to be radically different from others in this billion-dollar rock guitar genre to be noteworthy. It just needs a little cleanup on aisle nine."
How could a video game feel anything like a surging electric guitar pulsing in your ears or the bass from a kick drum thumping off your chest? It doesn't, and can't. Games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero have as much to do with music as MTV does today.
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They are called Digital Praise so I guess they'll find a way to make this game revolve around christianity (like their other games). I read the article, and when I said ''Christian GTA'', I was talking about the game that is talked about in the article. I know they want to make it clean. I have nothing against that. It's the religious aspect that I dislike.
When I said that no one is affected when you kill in a game, I meant that they won't be affected like if I wanted to kill them. When I play a deathmatch with friends, I don't feel like I hate them, it's just like a competition and sometimes just plain fun.
Now comes the part about my (future) kids. I've already decided that I'll tell them about all big religions, atheism and agnosticism, but more importantly, I'll try to teach them how to be good people. Not because there's a god threatening them, not because I told them to do so. I'll try to convince them that it's the best thing to do for themselves. Children are perfectly able to take descisions regarding all those religions. I grew up in a half-christian, half-atheist family, and was never remotely forced toward a certain religion. I chose atheism (or agnosticism, depending on the definitions).
Now my point is : they shouldn't make people do good things because God wants it. They should as much as possible make them do good by themselves, without any kind of ''imaginary'' threat or reward. So they'd be TRUE good people. Religion has a defined set of rules and morals that people must follow (or else they would be ''infidels'' since they wouldn't follow what's supposed to be the supreme authority and truth of the whole world). The problem is that it doesn't help people getting use to thinking about good and bad. They just follow rules.
I sometimes read small portions of the Bible when I have the time (I love debating about religion, morals, philosophy in general). All I read is how God punished EVERYONE because of ONE person, how he wants everyone to worship him, how he'll let people go to Hell if they don't obey. Isn't he supposed to be good and just? This isn't really a good thing in my mind.
In short : promote good, let people decide alone what they want to believe in. Your religion doesn't have the slightest impact on your personality anyway. Popes ordered genocides, countless wars revolved around religion, religious soldiers kill people even though they grew up being told ''thou shall not kill'', but some religious organizations help people in need around the world.
Same goes for atheists : some atheist communist groups made suicide-bombings ans other atheists go around the world helping people out (Doctors without Borders, a good half of Amnesty International, etc...). But while it may not affect your behaviour, it does, in my mind, affect the REASONS behind your behaviour. Religious people will tend to act because they fear God's punishment, or because they want paradise (isn't that supposed to be a sin?), or because they decided that god existed and he was right, end of the story. Atheists, on the other hand, do everything they do because they've thought about it on their own.
And I have something to say about that comment of yours : ''you could end up getting a great relationship with someone who actually loves you, and you could end up having eternal life.'' What the hell do you mean with that relationship thing? Only religious people can have relationships? And also, I'm pretty sure that if God is a good person, he doesn't care at all if we believe in him or not. He doesn't want to be worshipped (or to force us to worship him, like a tyrant). He'll just reward those who did good things in their lives.
Of one thing's very clear in my mind, it's that no religion on Earth really knows about the real god. Have you seen how easy it is for a religion to start? Look at scientology. It just pops out of nowhere. And it's not because some people in churches are dressed in white robes that they automatically know everything about god. The Bible has probably been changed a couple of times over the years anyway. Ever noticed how the interpretations always change with time? To better suit the society we live in? Personally, I think this is all a big tool.
Yeah so that's about what I meant. Sorry for the wall of text
poooor hypocritical braindead jewstians
sorry but why do christians always seem to copy everything, and harness everything that is "cool" to their own benefit? you see it EVERYWHERE. i mean it's obvious that the bible itself isnt enough (reading through it actually makes a lot of people into atheists), they have to use other methods to recruit young people.. sad really.
yes i'm an anti-religion atheist. but i still love all people :) even my christian friends. their religion just scares me a bit sometimes..