A Christian review of Titan Quest

[Batman]

Don't know how I missed this one last year.

Clicky McLinky

Interesting point of view regarding magic...............

[Infares]

Pat Robertson said during a discussion he had on 700 club many years ago when talking about RPGs was definitely the connection between occultism and magic, and how far over the fantasy line the magic in a game was. Coincidentally, he said that most of the problem with Dungeons & Dragons was the Occult references and mythological figures from various real religions (including Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Aztec, and others) and that there wouldn't be that big of a problem if the mythology in the game were built from the ground up by the creators.

Frankly, I'm non-religious personally, and in my mind ALL mythologies including Christianity and the above are "built from the ground up by their creators" it's just that now we have The Matrix as a mythology, and the mere fact that it's only been around for tenish years is what makes it fantasy and not religion.

[The Rock-man]

Originally Posted by Infares

Frankly, I'm non-religious personally, and in my mind ALL mythologies including Christianity and the above are "built from the ground up by their creators" it's just that now we have The Matrix as a mythology, and the mere fact that it's only been around for tenish years is what makes it fantasy and not religion.

Well it most probably is in some shape or form, "Jedi" is a religion to some people, and Christianity is based on older mythologies or at lest appears to

[bkjones2SAGE]

Interesting. You'd almost think he's forgotten about the magic in the Bible (King Saul, the king right before King David, had a witch summon up the spirit of a prophet, Samuel). In no way does the Bible accept that sort of divination, but I say, give me a break! It's a computer game. Or it's a book. Take it for what it is, and quit with this sort of censorship. And, if you've read some of my off topic religion posts, I'm speaking from the fundamentalist Christian point of view. Not condoning something is way different from sweeping it under a rug and pretending like it's not there.

[The Envenomed Kiss]

He acts like necromancy is some horrible unforgivable crime, but didn't jebus do it?

[bkjones2SAGE]

I'd say there's a significant difference between resurrection and animating the dead. And probably it's on the side of the raisER rather than the raisEE.

[Infares]

Originally Posted by bkjones2SAGE

I'd say there's a significant difference between resurrection and animating the dead. And probably it's on the side of the raisER rather than the raisEE.

God himself rose an army of skeletons to help Elijah (Maybe it was Enoch, one of the two.).

[Angry_Games]

Originally Posted by from the review

The game does use magic but never anything close to real magic

yeah thankfully it doesn't use REAL magic, like pulling rabbits out of hats, pulling quarters from behind a Satyr's ear, cutting a woman in half and putting her back together again, etc.

sheesh lol

REAL magic

like there's some REAL D&D type or bible nonsense magic that is REAL wahahaha

[Infares]

Originally Posted by Angry_Games

yeah thankfully it doesn't use REAL magic, like pulling rabbits out of hats, pulling quarters from behind a Satyr's ear, cutting a woman in half and putting her back together again, etc.

sheesh lol

REAL magic

like there's some REAL D&D type or bible nonsense magic that is REAL wahahaha

Yeah, the kind where you light red candles and use Ouija boards!

"OMG Sarah likes me!!"

[bkjones2SAGE]

The skeletons thing is from Ezekiel and seems like it's more of a vision than something really happening. God's basically telling the prophet Ezekiel that, though Israel is spiritually dead (this is right before Israel was exiled into Babylon), He would put life back into them. The vision talks about bones being brought together to form skeletons, an "army" (an image to describe the size of the number), and then life being given to the skeletons. Very symbolic.