Concern over video game

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I’m all in favor for this. Maybe like a sequel to Catechumen.
 
As a person with visual storytelling experience, the written word is not as great until portrayed visually. When anything is portrayed in a game, the designers need to be conscious of their audience. No, it’s not just a game. Parents just need to google the title and get the description, which sometimes includes a sample of actual game play. Once you have that, make a good decision.
 
if your concerned don’t buy it, it would be harder to take it off him after you bought it.

Video games can be evil and addictive
 
The necessary computer skills are one hurdle, followed by a working knowledge of how storytelling works, and imagination. It can be done but it’s more time-consuming than producing a year’s worth of comic books. Anyway, it’s still a very good idea.
 
Don’t mean to offend you, but it’s good to be against religious extremists…
 
I don’t view it so much as that but rather as defending the Church.
 
What would that even look like? Video games that aren’t martial in nature don’t even interest me.

I’d play a video game about the crusades or reconquista for sure though.
 
There were some bible games during the Nintendo era. They are really bad.

Jrpgs have some things in them similar to what is taught by the Church but they are intentionally vague about it.

And hey can always play some castlevania and throw holy water and crosses around.

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I don’t think evangelization should be the point of fiction because it discredits faith.

It is probably better to have Catholic themes than explicit exposition of articles of faith.
 
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That answer is very common here but it’s not true. A lot of people ‘evangelize’ their own ideas here. They don’t feel discredited.
 
Missing the point.

Screwtape letters is good… but Narnia was probably better.

Different point similar context:

In the bible is a unicorn a unicorn or is it just a rhinoceros?
 
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I’ve played Far Cry 2 through 4. I suppose the bigger question centers around the violence and language. If you are ok with that then the religious aspect isn’t much worse than other shows or movies.
 
My favorite in game book was “2920, The Last Year of the First Era” by Carlovac Townway in The Elder Scrolls. It is an in-universe historical fiction, describing the events which occurred in each of the months of the last year of the First Era and the reasons why the Second Era began. There are a total of twelve books in this series, one for each month.
 
Well, there are non-violent games that are very popular, normally sports games. I don’t think anyone finds baseball or basketball particularly objectionable. That said, if you had a traditional “adventure” or “strategy” based game, I’m not sure how’d you scrub out all the violence.

A few random-ish thoughts on video games: First, one of the most popular genre of games right now is so called “open world” games. Rather than traditional “linear” games that give you a single straightforward task (i.e “run this way, jump over these obstacles, save the princess.”) open-world games simply plop you down in the midst of a super complex world and let you make your own decisions. They can be quite violent and adult, but that’s the player’s choice, not the game’s. In games like Fallout and Skyrim you can be a murdering thief or an altruistic hero. You can solve every problem you come across with violence or you can talk your way out. The game doesn’t force you to do anything.

Second, I think people need to remember that the era when video games were aimed solely at kids is long gone. Most video games are no longer simple, straightforward things designed for 10 year olds. The best games are incredibly rich from a narrative perspective. There’s a ton of good character development and high production value. My point being that I think a lot of people see a game with a lot of violence, assume it’s meant for kids, and get disgusted with the idea of ten year olds being exposed to that. There are a ton of games now that are squarely aimed at adults, so we need to judge them by that standard.
 
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On a different note. Has anyone played the witcher. Is it possible to avoid the sexual content and still play the game?
 
If it’s wrong for kids it’s wrong for adults. Sin does not stop becoming sin once we reach a certain age. Yeah, I’ve seem a few unwanted (meaning I go to a website looking for this and there’s an ad for that) images from video games and they are clearly sexually perverted. Every parent should type in the name of the game into a search engine, determine what the content is and say no when it is bad.

I know electronic game designers. Those images don’t appear by accident. And I find these games to be a waste of time in general. I’ve seen the recent crop, and the only surprise I saw was one complex game where the female character’s boobs did not look like balloons. Other than that, it was clever and your character was a hero defending his village/town. As someone who also studies non-Western mythology, I saw interesting elements added.
 
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