Satanic Video Games

[PaladinSoG]

I know I will probably get smited by someone but...I've never played Diablo *cringes and prepares for the "WHAT!" and "GASP!"*

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='PaladinSoG' date='07 February 2010 - 10:32 AM' timestamp='1265556769' post='2052474']
I know I will probably get smited by someone but...I've never played Diablo *cringes and prepares for the "WHAT!" and "GASP!"*
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I've never played Diablo. I think it's a bad idea to bring things into my home with demonic titles on them.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='07 February 2010 - 01:59 AM' timestamp='1265529560' post='2052381']
me and a friend of mine beat the coop for it in a day. i really want to get resistance 2!
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I only played Resistance II a couple times. Didn't find it as fun, although I didn't really give it a chance.
Both my brothers liked it.

[Lounge Daddy]

Dante's Inferno ... "fighting demons, “unbaptized babies” and other tormented souls." Do you get to battle single mothers, too?

[dominicansoul]

i play "frogger" and "pac-man"

i'm with raphael, anything...absolutely anything that has satanic undertones i would most definitely not play nor bring into my home...

[Ephrem Augustine]

I liked Tekken 1 - 3, but there were all sorts of hodge-podge attempts to include angels and demons that fell short, as most japanese anime tends to fail in understanding christianity. I almost wanted to wonder that upon first reading the title... Except that some of these titles are American. The question then rages, how much American pop culture fails to understand Christianity. Otherwise it looks a lot like Gnosticism: The serpent in the garden was really the angel of light who wanted to free the Adam and Eve from the oppressive demiurge creator and deceiver.
Otherwise, games like Street Fighter and King of Fighters have also been in my top five. Mortal Kombat became too weird for me, but it probably could be just as demonic.

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='notardillacid' date='07 February 2010 - 03:23 AM' timestamp='1265531029' post='2052389']
I doubt that a canadien can hold his own in Diablo II
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That sir, sounds like a challenge.

[quote name='Ephrem Augustine' date='07 February 2010 - 12:59 PM' timestamp='1265565565' post='2052539']
I liked Tekken 1 - 3, but there were all sorts of hodge-podge attempts to include angels and demons that fell short, as most japanese anime tends to fail in understanding christianity. I almost wanted to wonder that upon first reading the title... Except that some of these titles are American. The question then rages, how much American pop culture fails to understand Christianity. Otherwise it looks a lot like Gnosticism: The serpent in the garden was really the angel of light who wanted to free the Adam and Eve from the oppressive demiurge creator and deceiver.
Otherwise, games like Street Fighter and King of Fighters have also been in my top five. Mortal Kombat became too weird for me, but it probably could be just as demonic.
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Interesting thoughts. Btw, I think Mortal Combat is Japanese.

Another pretty "demonic" game I've witnessed/played that has a great concept but got taken too far (hence me labelling it) is "Dungeon Keeper (II)". You get to carve out underground hallways and rooms and stuff and make it defensible against "good guys". It got pretty hardcore on the evil thing though near the end and I just had to say 'stop'. It makes fun of the traditional dungeon crawl. Would have been interesting if you could play as the good guys in a similar fashion as the "bad". They just had the focus on the antagonists. But... at least the ESRB was nice enough to rate it "M".

[Winchester]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='06 February 2010 - 06:56 PM' timestamp='1265500563' post='2052191']
At one point you have to defeat Pontius Pilate [/quote]
Heard he's good at ground and pound, but not much of a striker.

[Era Might]

The last video game console I owned was Nintendo 64.

"It's a-me, a-Mario."

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='Era Might' date='07 February 2010 - 04:36 PM' timestamp='1265578570' post='2052667']
The last video game console I owned was Nintendo 64.

"It's a-me, a-Mario."
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Last console I owned was an NES.

[img]http://www.becks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nes-console.jpg[/img]

Wow... I remember when that actually looked futuristic and cool.

Best game ever:

[img]http://levelselect.co.uk/images/download-nes-02.jpg[/img]

[Winchester]

I remember talking my mom into buying me Legend of Zelda.

[Era Might]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='07 February 2010 - 04:43 PM' timestamp='1265579026' post='2052673']
Last console I owned was an NES.

[img]http://www.becks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nes-console.jpg[/img]

Wow... I remember when that actually looked futuristic and cool.

Best game ever:

[img]http://levelselect.co.uk/images/download-nes-02.jpg[/img]
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Yeah NES was the greatest. I have fond memories of blowing into the game cartridge every time the game froze. And sometimes you had to take out the cartridge cleaning kit and do a full cleaning inside the cartridge.

The best game was super dodgeball.

[Azriel]

Zelda. Best Game EVAH.

[jeffpugh]

Zelda is win.

[Era Might]

Metroid was a great game too. And Ninja Gaiden.

[MIKolbe]

nerd

[Era Might]

Yo! Noid

[Veridicus]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='06 February 2010 - 08:23 PM' timestamp='1265509391' post='2052258']
I like Guitar Hero. Only a few songs and Guitar hero that are "Satanic". I just beat them by playing them with the volume turned off (so that I don't have to listen to the song) and then I don't play them again after that.
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No idea why you got a -1 for that. Fixing it.

[quote name='ThePenciledOne' date='06 February 2010 - 09:11 PM' timestamp='1265512300' post='2052269']
Dragon Age Origins is a good game!

You play a guardian of the free peoples against dark spawn and honestly I saw some Christian elements in it.

Ok yes, there is a "sex" part of the game, but there is a thing called self control and you don't need to go into such things. And plus its an rpg, so depending on your character as a person will decide exactly what you do to begin with.

I bought this game for my brother for Christmas and I have played it as well, and needless to say its fun.

And the supposed "god" in the realm deal with dragons gone bad hardly the same as our God.
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Yeah I have Dragon Age Origins...not that I have any time to play it. This list seems to take a rather biased and shallow view of some of these games. Part of what's great about the RPG genre of games is the ability to choose good or evil. While there should perhaps be greater restraint in the level of decadence/sexuality they allow some T-rated games 'evil' options to go to, I don't think having free choices between good an evil in a game is an intrinsically bad thing.



And I'm surprised that the Baldur's Gate series for pc didn't make the list. I love that series...Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn is one of my favorite games of all time (after the Zelda games of course). In Baldur's Gate you play the illegitimate spawn of the god of murder (one amongst a fictitious pantheon of gods) and its within you character's developmental power to be a force of good or to embrace the dark heritage. I think some people's willingness to summarily dismiss a book or game simply because it contains magic or fantastical cosmology/pantheons should remember that even the beloved C.S. Lewis's & J.R.R. Tolkien's works were not just reiterations of Genesis...but were in fact their own worlds with their own demons and forces of good...and the characters made real choices between good and evil which had real outcomes on the course of the story.

Edited February 8, 2010 by Veridicus

[jeffpugh]

I love Baldur's gate! Minsc is my favourite party member. lawl.

[Veridicus]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='07 February 2010 - 08:09 PM' timestamp='1265594997' post='2052961']
I love Baldur's gate! Minsc is my favourite party member. lawl.
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I actually took a Cavalier all the way from Baldur's Gate 1 through Tales of the Sword Coast through Shadows of Amn through Throne of Baal. Gaming satisfaction.