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Game with God

Posted by Hemos on from the yhwh-games-with-us-all dept.

Andrew writes "GamerDad has an article up about how religion is handled in computer gaming, titled 'Game With God'. The article features quotes from Sid Meier, Jane Jensen, Will Wright, Peter Molyneaux, Phil Steinmeyer, and Richard Garriott. Here's a snippet: 'While religion and spirituality add a lot to a game world, they often aren't used effectively. 'I don't think there are any games that treat religion at anything more than a superficial level,'; says Firaxis founder and Civilization creator Sid Meier. PopTop Software's Phil Steinmeyer agrees, noting that 'Religion is ignored in gaming, or if it is portrayed, it's wildly caricatured.'"

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  1. God shall smite thee.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If thou has thou character worship a false deity or god.

  2. bah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    religion is for the weak

  3. Re:Not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my g0d pwned ur g0d, ur g0d sux

  4. Re:uh,, Black and White anyone? by Com2Kid · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I bought B/W the day it came out.

    High hopes, buggy execution. The game needed some serious work and it never got it, not to mention the developer community did not spring up around it fast enough, the SDK really needed to be released at the same time as the game was.

    Also, the gesture system sucked, badly. The hotkeys were faster, more reliable, and overall much easier to use.

    The alignment system was quirky, the moster AI was dopey, all in all, I think I got maybe a month or so of play time out of it, mostly trying to get it working. . . .

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  5. Slashdot Poll: Which Religion are You? by SqueakRu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I imagine that this has been done before, but I'm sure a majority of people who read this site fall into "Atheist, Agnostic or Non-Practicing" or "Church of the Divine Cowboy Neal".

  6. Re:Obviously not talking about Japanese Games... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You just don't get it, do you? Sigh...

  7. Re:oh please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    u camping fag

  8. Re:Personally, I would go one step further. by hiero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Most gammers are relativlee intellegent ..."

    I take it then that you are not a gamer?

  9. Re:Semi-serious? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That just goes to show you don't know what you're talking about. No one is able to live a perfect life, so #1 doesn't matter. The original sin was disobedience.

  10. Re:uh,, Black and White anyone? by Roman+Levin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or he may be reffering to the shattered tombstones atop Jewish graves in a Wellington cemetery.