Comments on: For God’s Sake https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/06/14/for-gods-sake/ My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Ludologist [researcher of the design, meaning, culture, and politics of games]. This is my blog on game research and other important things. Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andy L. https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/06/14/for-gods-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-46225 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:21:10 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=344#comment-46225 I have not played the game, but it’s my understanding that it involves an alien invasion.
I know that you’re not supposed to bring weapons into a church, but I’ll bet that if it was infested with violent aliens soldiers from beyond the moon then Bishop McCulloch would approve of using force to remove them. Even if you’re silly enough to take the game literaly, wouldn’t that be all the game ”
encourages”?

]]> By: the advergamer https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/06/14/for-gods-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-40691 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:55:24 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=344#comment-40691 Full marks and frag points to the Bishop for sheer chutzpah! He’ll be claiming copyright on ‘second life’ next. At the very least he’s generated some ‘awesome’ publicity for his own fantasy adventure title which has been losing members for years. And it could work…cultural imperialism and a fairly dark and violent missionary past could make his franchise a big-seller. Particularly at Christmas.

]]> By: Ian Smith https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/06/14/for-gods-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-38329 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:29:02 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=344#comment-38329 How did Sony do it? Did they video inside the cathedral and then convert the video to graphics? Whatever, I’d be pissed if someone pictured the inside of my house then made millions out of it on a shoot em up. Regardless of the unfortunate wider issues of the church and Christianity versus massive profiteering corporations, it’s bad taste from Sony. Why not set the game in VT?

]]> By: Robert Padbury https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/06/14/for-gods-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-37829 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:11:14 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=344#comment-37829 Look at all that free publicity that the church is giving Sony!! The whole situation is kinda pathetic, and it ends up only making the church look bad, and gets people talking about the game.

When stuff like this happens, there’s always this subtext in the conversations that’s along the lines of ‘violence never existed before videogames’. Don’t mind the millions that God kills in the bible. No no, that’s compassion apparently.

]]> By: Petri Lankoski https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2007/06/14/for-gods-sake/comment-page-1/#comment-37793 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:33:31 +0000 http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=344#comment-37793 Fall of Man is not the only case. There is also motion to EU parliament to ban Rule of Rose, because it “features children and perverse, violent and sadistic images that are harmful to human dignity.” I commented the motion with links to motion in my blog (http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/~plankosk/blog/?p=89).

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