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God botherers and game banning
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Absolute disgrace, its these damn religous oiks and their freedom of speech. Just because a game promotes religion and actually encourages people not to kill theit enemies we should demand its taken off the shelf.
Where's my lighter? I'm going to go and burn a vicar before going off to play Grand Theft Auto 3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178055.stm
On a more serious note could someone explain the difference between cunts who want to stop me watching Jerry Springer the Opera and the cunts who want to stop me playing Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
Where's my lighter? I'm going to go and burn a vicar before going off to play Grand Theft Auto 3.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178055.stm
On a more serious note could someone explain the difference between cunts who want to stop me watching Jerry Springer the Opera and the cunts who want to stop me playing Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
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The irony is that computer game manufacturers love this type of publicity; it’s the kind of publicity you just can’t buy. Still, I don’t think the people pissing and moaning about this computer game have really thought things through all that well. If you start banning computer games that may offend some people’s sensibilities, then you’d have to ban an awful lot of other stuff too.
http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/left-behind-eternal-forces/749748p1.html
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/745/745956p3.html
http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/leftbehindeternalforces/review.html
Would just note though that the original article says that groups campaigning to get it banned include "Christian Alliance for Progress, the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, and Talk2Action"
none of which sound like 'hardline atheists', quite the opposite in the case of the former I assume.
The fact that churches are promoting it seems rather sinister but banning it is obviously wrong...
On the game, it seems a bit shit and the reviews obviously aren't that good. This publicity might get it a few more sales, but anyone who thinks that GTA was successful because of the controversy is having a laugh.
The premiss of the game makes it sound pretty fun, but judging from the picture in the article the graphics don't look all that great and I'm willing to bet the gameplay isn't all that awsome either.
Doh, serves me right. I spent so long looking into the background of the game to check whether the claims stood up that I didn't properly read beyod the word 'liberal' and substituted 'atheist'
Point still stands - where are the howls of outrage that we normally get from the left that groups want to ban a PC game?
Don't. Please don't. They'll just make more of them.
Left Behind, as the article says, is based on a series of books where the main plot idea is that the Rapture has happened and those left behind struggle on. As far as I know, the main character regains his faith and starts trying to convert others.
So, in the game you're trying to convert those pesky evil folk, real bastards like 'rock musicians' and 'college intellectuals' and recruit them to the side of God, as it were.
I can actually see the point of the protesters but it's such a terrible product that the only message anyone will get from it is that the Devil has all the best games.
ETA: "This is the first Christian developer that tried to produce a triple-A title, the summer blockbuster of video games," says Brian Crecente, editor of the games blog Kotaku and a video games writer for the Rocky Mountain News newspaper."
Marvellous.
No I mean like someone 'normal'
i should not be allowed to pay for a poster campaign calling for the murder of someone i dislike, i should be censored......