/v/ - Video Games

oh boy, I foresee no shitposting in this thread.

>games that deal with religion

>ah, all this fantasyshi-

>no, IRL religion

>and aren't fedora-tipping or holy book-humping

>and feature it prominently

that's gotta be one short list

VtM:Bloodlines and VtM:Redemption have devoutly Christian characters who have crises of faith after becoming damned through no fault of their own.

Redemption even features a rabbi lecturing the main character about Real Christianity. I challenge anyone to find a more realistic depiction than that.

i don't know if it counts as IRL religion but Wasteland 2 has a cult "Salvation Church" a.k.a God's Militia which was created by a violent scavenger who found a televangelist VHS.

They're basically the most brutal implementation of the teachings of the King James Bible imaginable.

You can approach them in many ways - either joining them, eradicating them or entering the power struggle between their wings (Church Ecstatic, Church Militant and Church Vigilant) and maybe even get them to (kinda) reform.

>>16228011

Who was that in Bloodlines?

>>16228024

The leader of the plague cult. Unless I'm misremembering what he tells you when you meet him.

>>16228070

Wasn't the leader that crazy woman in the hotel? It's been so long I'm probably miss-remembering stuff.

>>16227930

Xenosaga has biblical characters.

>>16228227

Baal worshipping arabs are my favorite

Age of mythology deals with (pagan) religions.

Founding a religion has been a staple of the Civilization series for a while, but those are usually real world religions in name and symbol only.

Religion is an aspect of a lot of grand strategy games, Crusader Kings 2 being an exceptionally obvious (and robust) example of that.

>>16228281

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

The Legend of Zelda was originally implied to be a Christian setting (https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Christianity)

Christianity plays a much more obvious role in the Castlevania series where the cross, the bible, and holy water are reoccurring sub-weapons.

>>16228295

You're welcome, sarcastic cocksucker.

>>16228316

Are you going to tell us about Black and White next?

>>16228295

kys faggot nigger

In The Shivah you play as a rabbi.

>>16228214

I think you're thinking of that Pisha chick under the hospital.

The one behind the plague was Bishop Vick, the southern dude.

>>16228227

>irl religions

Learn to read dumb nigger

>>16228386

Actually I was thinking about the chick right before you meet the Bishop in that quest. Forgot there was a 3rd person involved.

>>16228321

I suppose I'll skip that and tell you that the Left Behind series technically doesn't count because the Rapture is a Christian heresy with no biblical basis whatsoever.

Frostpunk lets you go "I can't believe it's not christianity" and while they do have some almost obligatory "w-well was it worth it?" message at the end, the system is actually rather well done with your citizens adapting more and more to the faith complete with new day start/end messages and people going to after-work services.

Expiditions: Conquistador has some religious mechanics in it based on your party. Characters with the Pious trait lose morale when you let natives do their pagan rituals. Gain morale when you preach the word of God, telling them they're doing it wrong, etc.

Vlad the Impaler is pretty Christian/heresy themed, though it's a text based game, so it might not be up your alley. You're a warrior that's been tasked with rooting out the evil that rests within Istanbul in the mid 1400's. Killing cultists, undead and the like. Neat artstyle, but there isn't much game to it.

Hard West is an X-Com-esque game based around a Weird West setting, with just about all your enemies worshipping Satan in one way or another. Special abilties range from ricocheting bullets off of metal objects to things like invisibility when there's no light touching you. I like it, but progress isn't saved through each campaign outside of weapons and items you can find that can be sold at a dude called the Fate Trader, and I know some people fucking hate that.

I'll post more as I think of them.

>>16227930

Total War Rome I and Medieval II. Too bad Crusades and Jihads are OP as fuck and exploitable.

Sanitarium also has a bit about Mesoamerican religion and how they give literally no shit about anything.

>>16228468

>Based on a Philip Pullman Novel

The latter.

>>16228414

>because the Rapture is a Christian heresy with no biblical basis whatsoever.

Lots of the details described in things like Left Behind are questionable, but you can't say "no biblical basis whatsoever" when 1 Thessalonians 4:17 exists.

>>16229228

Think of (((who))) gains by slandering innocent children's stories and you have your answer.

>>16229427

ones with Christian themes no less

>>16228034

No one cares about Utah Anon, even though it's awesome here and the settings would be incredible. The closest we've gotten in recent memory is the Kike of Us on Ps4.

>>16229604

Crimson Skies cared.

>>16227930

Inquisitor is a czech made rpg thats similar to diablo in gameplay. you play as a paladin, a priest, or a thief who is a noble. you kill unholy abominations, investigate heresy, get approval for torture to get confessions, and then execute the impure.

>>16229613

https://crimsonskies.fandom.com/wiki/Utah

Indeed it does, and it's everything I could want from a collapse of the Union. Technical lack of enforcement but strong religious culture none the less, isolationist, wasn't original proposed clay, fuck off from our capital foreign faggots (as opposed to today's Salt Lake of liberal weaklings), and limited merchant involvement.

>>16229660

You should play it if you haven't already. You get to fight Mormon airships.

>>16228006

>Bayonetta and DMC

technically they deal with heaven and hell as imagined in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, but yes

>>16228215

Xenogears and Xenosaga both deal with elements of gnosticism. Gears is especially heavy with it, with elements ranging from the church's depictions of angels having only one wing so that they need to work together to fly, to Sophia's soul looking for her other half, to Krellian deciding that if he cannot find God he will make Him (the demiurge).

Joshua Graham is the best paladin

>>16228468

Haven't played it, but I have read the book and religion isn't remotely involved. First book is ''what if people had animals attached to their souls and some russians figured out a way to torture children for material gain, and also, sentient bears?" there's some mystical force and a diviniation artifact involved but they're just mcguffins to help the plot along.

Second and third book are, "wait, I wan't this to be a multiverse series now, and for the heroine to be with a beta faggot who maims himself with this own knife". Again, some mystical forces, but nothing about god or religion specifically.

>>16229646

Even when you're just speaking in terms of its in-universe religions, though, Morrowind is probably the only case of an in-universe religion having a mythopoetic epic written in the real world for it.

>>16229753

>Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

Well there was also a Dante's Inferno videogame.

EU4, religion is very important.

>>16231663

and it plays like Devil May Cry, ironically enough

>>16229778

That region of the US has quite a lot of space for games and RPGs to explore, the pacific northwest is another area that has a lot of varied environments simply due to the geography of the region.

>>16231710

I heard it plays more like God of War.

>>16231925

Two videos on the subject.

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>>16227930

CK1 and 2 come to mind. As bad as the second one is, you gotta appreciate the fact that you can play as a reformed pagan, nomad in central Africa fighting shintoist greeks that practice satanism secretly . Surprised this thread is still pure.

>>16228468

The series wasn't memorable at all. It's as if an anti-theist boomer plagiarized SMT.

>>16229783

That's retarded, but the Prophets are definitely a kind of Space jew.