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Biblically Themed RPG Discussed

Posted by simoniker on from the very-very-odd-concept dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an RPGRadar interview with the creators of biblically themed PC RPG Eon Of Tears. This title, which the makers stress is not "..an edutainment title or a game under the pro-Catholic banner" is set to "show known events in a new, fantasy light." The main concept behind this early-in-development Evillusion-developed RPG is that the player will "...get a shot at the biggest events in the Bible: unleashing the ten plagues of Egypt, seeing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, leading the conquest of Canaan, or performing some of the miracles as Jesus Christ", and it's intended that your game actions affect your playable characters - "..a player that acts evil most of the time won't get to play Jesus, but Judas instead, or a Pharaoh's troop commander instead of Moses."

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  1. Okeley Dokely by JasonMaggini · · Score: 3, Funny

    I didn't know Ned Flanders was even interested in computer games.

    1. Re:Okeley Dokely by Dephex+Twin · · Score: 3, Funny

      Are you kidding? What about Billy Graham's Bible Blaster?

      "Keep firing! Convert the heathens!"

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  2. LOT PLEASE by metalhed77 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, what does it take to become the biblical figure 'Lot' and have my hot daughters get me drunk and have sex with me in a cave.

    What? Don't call ME sick, its in the bible!

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    1. Re:LOT PLEASE by SnowDog_2112 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Other great moments that they should let you reenact:

      (Lot) Offering your virgin daughters to the mob for sexual abuse instead of offering some random visitors from out of town.

      (God) Egging Satan into totally destroy Job, including killing all his children. He'll have more, don't worry.

      (God) Telling your followers to smash the infant children of their enemies against the walls for fun.

      (God) Killing every man, woman, and child at once in an effort to purify people, even though you know damn well it won't work.

      (Elisha) Calling forth God's power to summon a pair of bears to tear to pieces 42 children who called you bald.

      (David) Instead of merely sleeping with someone's wife, send her husband to the front lines so he dies and you can straight out marry her!

      Oh, there's so many more; I just don't have the time to include them all. This game could be a blast.

      I can't wait for the "Song of Solomon" expansion pack.

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  3. d00d by tx_mgm · · Score: 1, Funny

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    j35u5 r0xx0rz!!!

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  4. Top 10 Things Heard on Bibilical RPG by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    10. Hey buddy, stop whining that you can't come back! Resurrection only happens in the Hindu RPG.

    9. Wow! I just found the flying-nun habit! Now I can fly over the mountains.

    8. That does it, I refuse to play this anymore; it does not fit with Baptist doctrine.

    7. "That wasn't Lot's wife. That was MY wife!"

    6. Quick, tell me. Is a gander a goose, or another species? I've got to fill this ark right away

    5. Way k00l, if you can walk on it, water is no obstacle anymore.

    4. Who turned everyone in this domain into pillars of salt?

    3. Ark of the Covanent does 56 points of damage

    2. Who died and elected you Pope?

    1. I didn't kill you; I just sent you to Heaven

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  5. Call me callow... by Ratso+Baggins · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I'm more of a 6-week-Roman-orgy & throwing-christians-to-the-lions kind of guy. I guess I won't be Jesus either... but hey - who wants to (relive) wander(ing) around in the desert with a bunch of nerds...

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  6. good and evil by Ellen+Ripley · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... a player that acts evil most of the time won't get to play Jesus...

    So if you go into the temple to open a can of whoopass on the moneylenders, is that good or evil?

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  7. Re:Hmm.... by floydigus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh I don't know - I volunteer to play the beast master at Rome's colliseum when the Christians are in opposition.

    "Aha, a tiger for this one, I think"

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  8. MY ONLY QUESTION: by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you play evil, and are cast as a minion of the Pharoah or as Judas... do they let you win?

    If so, I am all over this game.

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    There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
  9. How many Jesuses by Godeke · · Score: 4, Funny

    The comment about doing evil things preventing you from playing Jesus makes me wonder: how many Jesuses were they planning to allow?

    "I'm a 10th level Jesus, just got my first disciple! How do I get him to go aggro again?."

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  10. Inexplicable Simpsons images... by gnovos · · Score: 4, Funny

    This entire concept leaves this image in my head of Ranier Wolfcastle as Jesus with a machine gun and flamethrower shouting in ancented English "Ressa-a-rect me nooow you da-ty coooomie pharose!"

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    "Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
  11. A first-person shooter may be? by danila · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just today I was thinking that there is supposedly a tree of life (not the one Adam and Eve ate from, the 2nd "uber-tree") still growing in the heaven. Why not make a futuristic shooter with Deus Ex-style nanotech and cool weapons? In it you will go to the heaven to take the tree of life by force from God, fighting all sorts of scary angelic creatures (seraphims, cherubs, etc.). Sounds like a winning idea to me...

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  12. Re:i'd buy it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "all the bitches love jesus"

    one of the most poetically beautiful phrases ever conceived :)