Ah yes. My x girlfriend Chelsey was of that ilk. One of my favorite RPG
games was called Lufia and the Fortress of Doom, which was the first in a
now five-game series. The basic story is that four godlike beings called
Sinistrals have set their sites on the world and it's up to a small group of
mortals to find the sentient sword known as the Dual Blade, which is the
only weapon capable of destroying the Sinistrals. Of course the series
involves the usual experience levelling and stat boosting. Chelsey's issue
was that it isn't right to use special items to make the character more
powerful. She also seemed to imply that if Maxim and his descendants had
just prayed to god the Sinistrals would have gone away. LOL.
But thou must!
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:58 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format
Hi Dark,
Yeah, seriously. There were Christian publications that actually
stated He-Man was satanic and urging Christian moms and dads not to
let their kids watch it during the early 1980's when the show was
originally aired. As incredible as that sounds to me today it actually
happened.
However, one must keep in mind the mindset of the readers and writers
here. One of the main characters of the show, Evil Lyn, was a
sorceress who could wield powerful dark magic as could Skeletor. On
the flip side the Sorceress of Grayskull also could wield white magic
to combat the villains, and He-Man did not derive his power from God
but from a magic sword. Since in the mind of many Christians all magic
is evil, satanic there is no such thing as white magic and dark magic.
In their opinion all magic is evil, and the authors of such
publications objected to witchcraft etc being practiced on TV for
their children's entertainment. Plus I guess the idea of the hero,
He-Man, getting his powers from a magic sword instead of God was
pretty objectionable as well.
It is basically the same argument leveled against Harry Potter and
other such popular series. Any time there is a popular series be it
He-Man or Harry Potter with magic involved there are people in America
from the Christian Right who will get on TV or write articles in some
publication or other asking for censorship of the content based on
their religious views. In fact, it doesn't even have to involve magic
per say. I heard of a case where some Christian publication claimed
that Darth Mahl was suppose to represent Satan in the Phantom Menace
which was totally off the mark.
I am pointing this out only to state that rating a game, movie,
whatever is really complicated because it seems everyone has his or
her own opinion on what is and is not appropriate for their children
to watch, play, read, whatever. For some it comes down to their
religious views. For others, such as myself, I base content on more
general principles like if I think it is too violent, too gory, or too
sexually explicit for a child and will not share it with them.
Still, I agree that sites like Audyssey and Audiogames.net does need
some rationale for how they rate their games. I think everyone does
this on some level anyway, and most of it is common sense so to speak.
Excluding issues of religion and such a person should be able to tell
if this or that is alright for a child, teen, or needs to be labeled
for an adult based on its content. Something like Jim Kitchen's
Battleship is fine for people of all ages, but Dungeon Master
obviously needs to be labeled for adult gamers only. I think most
people would agree with that assessment and would do the same if it
were up to them.
Cheers!
On 4/17/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
Lol tom, heman too violent or satanic? with all the morality it included
that is just insane!
while I agree everyone has a slightly different opinion, some more extreme
than others, equally there does need to be some sort of rationale worked
out
for such things and some thought given into it, especially when
considdering
wratings for sites like audiogames.net.
for example, the game flexible survival is both a mud, and an rpg written
in
glulx format, yet, because it's subject matter is exclusively s/xual in
nature and it's descriptions can be pretty graphic, on audiogames.net it's
catagorized as an adult wrated xxx game. It's rpg features are certainly
mentioned! in the entry, and there is no restriction on trying it, just as
there is no restriction to someone playing tripple j shooter or any other
of
Jim's adult games, but I am concerned people know what they're getting
into
before trying the game hence the wrating.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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