be05d1 No.14769069
I think cults are really fascinating and I love it whenever a game has cults in it.
Lets talk about Cults and cultists in vidya. Bonus points if the cult itself does not call itself a cult.
A recent example would be the Cthonians in grim dawn who believe that all blood in the world comes from their god and must return to him for humans to achieve paradise. They like to offer up people for sacrifices and will even offer their own blood on a daily basis. There is also notes about a family who after the world went to shit joined the cult for some food and shelter, the husband hated it but the wife liked it in the cult and thought it was better than their previous life. Overtime the wife becomes more and more dedicated to the cult and Eventually decides that her husband and her child will be a lot happier when they are re-united with Cthon.She then arranges for them to be sacrificed, this means that they will be drained of their blood while still alive slowly.
Cults are quite fascinating.
da2121 No.14769081
The Fellowship in Ultima 7
87212d No.14769085
>>14769075
go back to >>>/vg/
d7dd84 No.14769110
>>14769089
lol ban incoming
a45585 No.14769137
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>>14769069
Unlucky ones are used as materials and cannon fodder, lucky ones become a powerful skelly Lich.
ba9273 No.14769138
>>14769089
God fucking damn it.
19598d No.14769146
Isn't Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines just you being inducted into an infighting cult with different sub-cults within the cult?
4dba4d No.14769164
>>14769151
Was about to post this one, silent hill cult was so good at being a cult that you barely know anything about it because of his secret nature
478ddd No.14769167
>>14769146
Not realy, i think there is a healthy difference between clans and cults…
be05d1 No.14769200
>>14769146
Its more just 2 different ideologies fighting rather than 2 cults. I really dont think you could accurately describe the anarchs as cultists, Even the camarilla Isn't really a cult.
489809 No.14769226
>>14769069
Four cults that I can name from videa nearly instantly. If I did a little more brainstorming I could think of more.
>RE4's Los Illuminados
>Strife's The Order
>The Cult of Sigmar from Warhammer Fantasy
>Imperium of Man's cult from W40k
58d2e5 No.14769251
>>14769069
>women
not even once
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968bd6 No.14769301
>>14769293
Something like ping ping yahoo
be05d1 No.14769631
>>14769137
I absolutely love the undead faction in WC3, even before I learned English I thought they were the coolest.
47da50 No.14769714
The Exile series has tons of cults. I think it's Jeff's favorite dungeon justification.
869ac0 No.14769782
Well the obvious ones that come to my mind are the Brotherhood of NOD and the Advent from SoaSE.
Both are good in the sense that they actually posess an angle from which they actually seem approchable and not simply evil.
478ddd No.14769802
>>14769069
>daedric cults
>imperial cult
>Talos cult (it's funny how it was banned and the nords never chimped out because of it)
>Sixth House cult
These come to mind from Morrowind.
60e29f No.14769849
>>14769802
Morrowind is a great game full of cults yeah.
dfdb01 No.14769889
>>14769069
>I think cults are really fascinating and I love it whenever a game has cults in it.
well … i know someone who love it too. you should try his .. stuff, it is full of it
be05d1 No.14769953
>>14769889
Thats a cult around a vidya though, I was thinking of cults in vidya. Unless star citizen has space cults it doesn't count. It is quite amusing and fascinating though how a cult ended up forming around a video game that isn't even near completion.
0465b9 No.14769974
Multiple, simultaneous, overlapping cults. All out to screw over each other apparently. The Fishing Hamlet villagers are my favorite. Mensis is a close second.
e4c06f No.14770002
MARINARAS AND FEAR BOOKS!
a151ed No.14770061
I remember Saturn's Shining Force 3 having a cult (Bulzome cult) which was basically like the jews, dragging two nations into war, wanting to awake their demon lord to rule the stupid goyim while the cultists would be the chosen ones.
Good game too, I might even replay it now that you mentioned it anon.
dbb58c No.14770183
dffb1d No.14770428
>>14769069
Salvation is a cult that worships and prays for The Dragon to come and bring destruction to all which they consider "Salvation", as well as the beginning of a worldwide renewal.
They have no actual role in the dragon's coming however, at the end their leader gets killed by the dragon who doesn't care about them at all
be05d1 No.14772169
>>14770183
>>14770002
>all the enemies in blood are actual models
Id buy a replica of one of those models.
fb8bbd No.14773159
>>14769069
Most cults seem to be doomsday cults, but are there any y'all anons know about that are different? There's got to be more out there than salvation seeking doomsday saying ones.
What would make you believe you saw a cultist in a video game, apart from say a national in unfirom, or an occupational employee in working outfit, or just a plain old citizen?
Does it have to appeal to medieval fashion to convince you guys?
What would make you interested in learning about a cult in a video game?
Asking all these for some light into how to write my video game's story.
be05d1 No.14773257
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>>14773159
I dont think scientology is a doomsday cult but I might be wrong on that one. One of the defining aspects of a cult though is not just believing in a doomsday but the reliance on the group. I dont know what exactly you think of sargon but he did a pretty good video about cults. If you'd rather just read the book he is analysing its called "the wrong way home" by Arthur j deikman.
48c569 No.14773300
I guess there's those Eden's Gate fags from Far Cry 5, but I haven't played that game. Don't really seem to be well-developed enough to be worthy of any discussion.
a88220 No.14773433
>>14769146
Nah, just a bunch of different societies with an overreaching aristocracy that's highly regulated and enforced. If you really wanna sit and nitpick then you could argue that either the Anarchists or the Tremere are cults but that's pushing it imo
1bbb3d No.14773832
Best cult because it's used perfectly for visual storytelling.
You start out fighting skull-masked weirdos in forests and ruins and then, well.
be05d1 No.14777712
65ecaf No.14778261
i liked Glory's companion quest and story alot tbh. it's your typical "nice guy helping kids but is actually a satan worshiping bad guy who wants to fuck the kids" kind of story.
the thing that was really cool was the fact that they incorporated a gameplay element into it. for those unfamiliar with shadowrun; the more implants and artificial limbs a mage gets the less potent/versatile their magic gets. long story short she is a mage but sells her soul to the game's equivalent of satan and has to cut off all her limbs, thus severing her magical abilities and soul completely just so that she stops being evil. she then becomes a terminator tier robot razor pussy
308d07 No.14779752
>>14773159
-The cult should refer to itself as a "Brotherhood", or a "Sisterhood" if the members are female.
-Aside from the high-level cultists running the show, they should be mostly disenfranchised youths; people who grew up missing a parent, etc. The cult largely recruits by promising to be the family they've longed for but never had.
-The cult should appear benevolent at a cursory glance, and ostensibly be working toward a noble goal.
-The cult should have the complete and total support of the media, various celebrities, and politicians, all of whom are pawns of the cult.
-The cult should assassinate anyone who tries to leave the cult. (The betrayer "commits suicide", or is framed and arrested for some heinous crime, or is suddenly fired and denied work by every employer, or whatever means fit the cult in the story.)
115819 No.14780002
What, no Cult of the Eternal End?
Has anyone tried the Shrouded Isle?
c566e1 No.14780519
>>14769226
The cultists in RE4 were pretty cool
Also the obsessiveness of the cultists in Dead Space were neat in how intense they were in their faith
e14090 No.14785645
>>14780002
tbh I love just about everything about Endless Legend except the gameplay itself. Turn-based is just unbearable. Shame they didn't make it GSG style.
490828 No.14785782
Dumping this because I don't really know any cults in vidya.
a67a97 No.14785843
>>14769802
>The Nords not chimping out
It's almost like Skyrim was written by people who barely understood how the cultures and societies were supposed to be.
e6ada0 No.14785853
>>14769802
>20 posts before someone mentions Sixth House
1850a7 No.14785874
Could the Dark Brotherhood in Elder Scrolls be considered a cult? Or are they just paid assassins and nothing more?
a67a97 No.14785914
>>14785874
They're definitely a cult. They kill for profit, but are driven entirely to do so under a united belief in the Night Mother and Sithis. That's the only way they get new contracts, is through the Black Sacrament.
fe49ca No.14788877
>>14773300
Actually they're much more interesting than I thought they would be. Not so much in their beliefs or aesthetics, but rather their goal. From the moment you escape and set out to liberate shit,the four cult leaders have one singular goal : Brainwashing your ass. As you complete stuff, you get captured, roped into the cult's selling pitch in different ways, and conveniently released suspiciously close to a major resistance base.
The main leader also regularly talks to you, and never in a hostile manner. You're not his enemy, the whole cult operation is acceptable losses for his true goal - getting you, the main force of the liberation, to become his horseman of the apocalypse. And the main choice at the end determines whether he succeeds or not.
The whole concept is kinda prisoner of the fact you've gotta have bombastic action sequences n'shieet because it's a AAA FPS, but I found it fairly bold for the kind of game it's in.
27f9c4 No.14788927
What's the difference between a cult and a religion?
1a1155 No.14788934
>>14788927
Membership numbers. Also, the willingness to stay in contact with people of differing faiths.
1351d8 No.14788935
There's a cult to some god of slaves in Pillars of Eternity, you can even sacrifice a companion to the pool of souls or whatever for stat boosts. For some reason it's impossible to not kill anybody before striking a deal with the leader, they aren't even supposed to be hostile to an average guy (quality rpg right there).
1a1155 No.14788945
>>14769137
I have always dreamed of a "Cult of the Damned" (rather than full Scourge) campaign where you only have the still-human Kel'Thuzad as a hero unit and must use your "worker unit" acolytes to slowly infiltrate Lordaeron's society. Your arsenal of units would be severely limited - some necromancers perhaps, permanent skeleton warriors and archers, but by the time you get your first abomination, it would be a WOW effect because regular human footmen normally would be something you could only tackle with superior numbers.
1351d8 No.14788958
Also I don't see the point in fighting Cult of C'thon in Grim Dawn, all they do is summon some real big demon, while aetherials infest the whole fucking planet, surely it would be beneficial to leave dealing with demons for when aetherials are done with?
5c34dc No.14789247
The Monolith faction from Stalker. Brainwashed Stalkers who have kept of their cognitive functions after being hit by a blowout. They now worship the mythical Monolith or Wish Granter which is said to be an alien crystal at the center of the zone. In reality they are being manipulated by a bunch of old and former Soviet scientists whose voices they think to be the Wish Granter's.
And the Order of the Sword from Devil May Cry 4. They worship the ancient demon Sparda who sealed the Demon World from the world of the humans as their saviour. They claim to help the people but in reality they are the ones behind the recent mass appearances of demons in order to collect demonic power and to cause mayhem so they can swoop in as the world's saviours. They also did research into anti-demon technology, created various ordinary weapons which work well against demons but their main achievement was infusing their soldiers with demonic energy to create "angels".
be05d1 No.14789252
>>14788958
Said demon already tried and almost succeded in wiping out all living things once. That is why everyone is so scared of the loghorrean coming back.
No idea why we wouldn't immediately start attacking the aetherials the moment the loghorrean died mind you but id did seem a bit more important than the body snatchers.
be05d1 No.14789284
>>14788927
mostly how they treat outsiders, most Christians dont consider every single non christian to be heretics worthy of eternal suffering, meanwhile Scientology will sue anyone "slandering" the church and will actively hunt down people who leave.
There is also the whole Dependence aspect of cults, they want people to depend on the cult emotionally and only the cult. Christianity meanwhile has a lot of people not part of the catholic church that still believe jesus is the son of god. I highly doubt anyone outside of the church of scientology believes Xenu is real.
2d8dc4 No.14789462
>>14788927
Devotion, how hard they try to keep you in, and treatment of non-followers. Most Christians won't really care if you're non-Christian and will still associate with you. Obviously they want you to convert and be saved, but they'll generally leave you be. If they treat you differently it won't be significant. (I'm not Christian, but my family, while still wanting me to be Christian, does not exclude me from any family events, nor do they give me shit for it or insist I'm going to hell.) Denominations that more actively push for conversion or treat outsiders differently are what make them more cult-ish. (Jehovah's Witness, Mormonism, etc)
One of my mom's friends is Mormon and she was invited to their daughter's wedding. Their own son wasn't allowed in one of the ceremonies because you have to be a devoted Mormon to attend. He had to wait with the other non-Mormons like my mother somewhere else or in some other room. (I don't know how Mormon weddings work. I just know there's the main wedding everyone attends and some other shit just for Mormons.) Mormons also have their own Boy Scout troop and forbid strongly discourage their members from being involved in troops outside their church. Same family, the youngest son was in scouts in a troop outside their church and the church was asking them to have him join their troop. The mom told their church she was fine with him being in a different troop with friends from school. Shortly after she was given the "calling" of Boy Scout leader for their troop. (While Mormons are now leaving scouts, the same principle might still apply.)
I don't care what Mormons say. Given this and other stuff I've experienced about Mormonism, even having been forced to attend their church a few times with my grandma who converted a few years back, I can say with certainty it's a cult. No other Christian church I attended with family ever pulled shit like this on their members.
f5df15 No.14789524
>>14789462
mormons aren't even christians, they're some pseudo-muslim heresy. they deny Christ is God, they think he's an angel or something inane
fe49ca No.14789546
>>14789462
At least they gave us this.
8ab1d6 No.14790079
Are there any video games that have lolicon cults?
455092 No.14790245
>>14769069
>Cults in vidya.
What about cults for vidya?
9eb545 No.14790278
>>14790245
Funnily enough those games themselves contain cults.
19c7ed No.14791244
>>14790245
Those are fun cults
2bb35a No.14791478
>>14790245
>tfw still haven't played Nier automata due to autism of wanting to play previous titles
Sould I just play it or do I have to slog through every game? I heard that this is a spinoff to one ending of many to a previous game.
fe49ca No.14791524
>>14791478
You're thinking of what Nier is to Drakengard and that isn't even really true. Nothing actually ingame in Nier makes you realize it's ending E, you have to read the supplemental book to know that. The setting's there but you can't actually make the connection from the games alone.
Sage for off topic.
2bb35a No.14791644
>>14791524
Well might as well give it a go then. Hopefully it's as good as I've heard. I miss platinum sometimes. I just want Metal Gear Rising 2
fe49ca No.14791651
>>14791644
>I miss platinum sometimes. I just want Metal Gear Rising 2
Well Automata's not it. It's the appearance of platinum combat without the substance and polish, grafted onto a bullet hell system that was designed for another combat system entirely.
2bb35a No.14791710
>>14791651
>bullet hell
Well might as well give it a go before shitting on it.
73e003 No.14791944
>>14791478
>>14791710
It's a good game with cute robot cults and panty shots. I still haven't played the previous ones but didn't run into problems. It seems reasonably self contained with the previous games just giving a bit of background info about why shit is fucked.
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c6e848 No.14803368
>>14788927
The difference between a cult and a religion is in a cult the guy at the top knows it is all bullshit and in a religion that guy is dead.
0bdb0a No.14803404
>>14788927
>>14803368
shadilay my fellow kekarinos, I'm euphoric about my own enlightenment as well
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341273 No.14803616
>>14773832
>Darkest Dungeon
Fantastic presentation. Iffy gameplay and design choices.
964cb5 No.14803630
>>14790245
Like Star Citizen? :^)
a67a97 No.14803646
>>14803404
Alright then, how would you define the difference? Obviously there must be one that makes some religions legitimate while others can just be discarded as cults, right? There's a difference between, say, Scientology and Mormonism, right? An objective one, not just "one sounds less bullshit to me".
625fb0 No.14803724
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>>14778261
Glory is a used up (in more ways than one) broken dyke. Eiger best girl.
964cb5 No.14803733
>>14803646
a cult is a religion that another religion does not want to exist
fe49ca No.14803814
>>14803733
By that logic everything is a cult.
No, at the end of the day a religion can reasonably be seen as coexisting with a nation's culture. A cult is a microcosm that actively wants to separate itself from said culture.
be05d1 No.14803946
30122b No.14805849
>>14788927
(((religions))) get tax benefits from the (((state)))