So the Holy Ghost rides shotgun?

Ahem, that’s “Holy Ghost Machine Gun.” Ask Benny Hinn.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! My Spirit points are so high I could nuke Mecca and still survive to see the horses in the sky.

“No, you only winged him. Now he’s a Unitarian!” (With no apologies to The Simpsons.)

I love how they’ve turned into a bunch of Tipper Gores over this.

Despite what’s been “reported,” your Left Behind units do not easily form into some kind of roving militia intent on killing non-believers. In fact, there are no missions in the game aimed at causing a war or killing others. You train up soldiers only to defend your people when Carpathia starts sending in the big guns.
Yes, you’re offered sniper rifles, gun turrets, even tanks and helicopters. And there are points at which a gun battle is necessary to avoid a massacre. (When this happens, there’s no gore. Units fall to the ground and fade away.) But if you go in guns blazing, nine times out of 10 you fail.

So, as usual, the thought of Christians defending themselves
when being attacked is considered horrifying, how dare they. Roll over and play dead, while your family and country get massacred, that must be the only way to be a “good Christian”.

mwaahahaha…mmm… eeeeeevil…

For war games, nothing beats Battlefield II. I’ve also enjoyed Call of Duty II and III, but, in online play, too many people want to play sniper, which just gets annoying. Battlefield makes battle more realistic where the people have to choose a variety of positions (Engineer, Medic, Special Forces, etc) for a team to win. Gears of War is interesting, and I’m enjoying playing through it, but I haven’t started to love it yet. The like I have for it could develop into love over time though…we’ll see.

I tend to prefer RPG’s such as Zelda (all of them, but, currently Twilight Princess) and Final Fantasy XII (what an epic!).

For a quick pick up game, nothing gets the blood pumping like Wii boxing.

And, for mindless killing (if that’s actually what the Left Behind game involves), I much prefer Grand Theft Auto. Nothing makes you laugh quiet like your character saying “Don’t blame me. Blame society.” as he pulls some poor motorist out of their car.

This is honestly one big “WHATEVER!” moment that people really take way out of proportion

The other one is “The Purpose Driven Life”. What a bunch of drivel that is, talk about the dumbing down of America. (I am probably just jealous–wish I had thought of stringing together a bunch of pablum and making millions off of it).

If anyone read the series then they would know what this is all about. So if you didn’t read the series, either go read it and know what the story is behind the game OR don’t talk about things you cannot possibly understand.

I’ve read a few books of the series, but quickly grew bored with the almost complete lack of character development and the terrible dialogue.

Esthier’s comments are spot-on as to why I find this game troubling – they’ve sacrificed good theology for the sake of gameplay and are giving a distorted view of Christianity and conversion.

If anyone read the series then they would know what this is all about. So if you didn’t read the series, either go read it and know what the story is behind the game OR don’t talk about things you cannot possibly understand.

ugh.

Graceless on December 13, 2006 at 9:54 AM

What’s not to understand? Muslims Christians are killing non-believers. It’s pretty cut and dried.

Oh, and they regain points by answering for their crimes praying.

The whole Left Behind series takes place in the “end times”. A large majority of Christianity believes in the rapture, which this is after. At which point those who are “left behind” are preparing for the anti-christ. So as much I think premillinialism is wrong :P I’d still have to defend the game and say the game doesn’t at all encourage any of those things. Because for one, in the eyes of the game creators, all the Christians already got raptured up. The game takes place in a sort of “oh shit we have a second chance to get saved scenario.” ;)

ugh.

But yeah, this video game is stupid and offensive to Christians.

If I want to play a violent video game, I’ll play Grand Theft Auto. They should be coming out with a new one soon, and yeah it all works the same there too. If you kill a certain amount of people, you get police stars which go away if you do a few things.

But I don’t even like the “converting” part. Conversion is something people do to themselves. Christians can help a person understand what that means, but Christians cannot “convert” nonbelievers. That part in and of itself is offensive.

I played the original Shogun version, and dug it very much. Something about having 5,000 samurai per side squaring off in the snow gets the mind going.

Shogun was way cool; I just had a booger of a time trying to figure out the units and what their specialties were…reading a bit would have helped..:)
As for Crusades, in the original Medieval, if you played as a Christian country, you couldn’t make war on other Christian countries or you risked ex-communication. My father got around this in a rather novel way by doing away with the pope and installing one under his control when he played as the Germans. During the course of the game, crusades are called on the Muslim countries…and the Mongols appear at a certain point and generally beat the snot out of everybody.
I remembered something else about the left behind game that a buddy of mine (works at Electronics Boutique) mentioned; he claimed that when you ‘convert’ someone, their skin color changed (to white). If that’s true, I think the designers got some real tough questions to answer.

Larry Boy and the Bad Apple is a decent one on the PS2

Oooo. I forgot about that. My kids would love that for Christmas! Say what you will about me, I unabashedly admit that I probably watch Veggie Tales almost as much as my kids do.

Don’t like the idea? Don’t buy the game. The people upset over this are just upset because they don’t like to think about which side they’d be on in such a scenario. If this game made you think about it, then it has done its job.

At least we know that Congress will be intact.

IMO the whole Left Behind concept is elitist escapism. “You’re gonna be Left Behind (when the shit hits the fan) and we’re not! Better get with the program, or else!!!”

infidel4life on December 13, 2006 at 12:42 AM

Machiavelli said that one shouldn’t trust exiles. He also said that if one wishes to acquire a territory, one should provide one’s enemy an easy way to flee, but leave one’s own soldiers no way to flee.

But I do get energized over tired, retread, stupid sh1t like EnochCain’s remark. But now I sense the moment has passed. EnochCain, that’s just too stupid to bother with.

Anger issues?