Comments on: The Church of Me: Sims and Religion. Why not?

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:35:54 +0000

“Your ideas of the 7 deadly sins are Catholic which is far from Christian with constant idol worship and worshiping of a man over God so . . .”
Jesus Christ, why do people tolerate Serondal’s posts? He really is one of the worst commenters on this otherwise fine little blog.

By: video games

video games — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:44:58 +0000

A game where you’re nice to everyone is just as boring as a “reality” TV show where everyone is happy and loving. It don’t make good TV, it don’t make good gaming. Destruction, hate, and violence – that’s where the money’s at!

By: Tims

Tims — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:48:54 +0000

Man, if only you could mod the game rules. That’d be awesome. I’d love to see what people came up with.

By: Railick

Railick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:38:15 +0000

Was there any major out cry over Civ 4 or M:TW 2 for having diffrent religions (that exist) running around trying to convert each other and killing each other based mostly on religion? I know it is historically correct in both cases but it may have caused some kind of uproar.

IT seems a lot of games slip under the radar of these kinds of people , they only pick out one once in a while with the rest of us snickering saying “If you think that’s bad you should see this game” but we don’t tell them about that game because we don’t want them to get even more angry.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:33:24 +0000

People get a lot less upset about fictional religions in fictional settings (like Black and White) than they do about religions as depicted in a theoretical simulation.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:34:26 +0000

I wonder how people reacted to Black and White 1 and 2 in this regard since the in-game people literally worshiped you and your hand and you were in fact a God. I don’t remember any out cry but it may be because I couldn’t hear them over the out cry from gamers saying the games sucked.

By: TinyPirate

TinyPirate — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:08:27 +0000

There is religion, at least in my game. My sims have started the religion of Simtology. The story starts with a simple man who wants to be a writer.. and goes down hill from there http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/06/15/the-diary-of-elrond-hubbtard-my-new-job/

By: mister slim

mister slim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:00:59 +0000

Really? I’d like it if my Sims sacrificed their children to me. Also I’d like a ‘turn to pillar of salt’ command.

By: Big Rocks McHuge Nuts

Big Rocks McHuge Nuts — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:22:56 +0000

In the world of the Sims, the player is the Higher Power, and the Sims know this. When one of their needs is particularly low, or something is blocking their path, they look up at you, wave their arms around and complain, as if to say “This is your fault. Sometimes they’ll just look up, as if to acknowledge the fact you are watching them. the “god” of the Sims is actually rather mundane, and they have no real reason to worship it (you). So to me it just doesn’t seem to make any sense for Sims to form religions.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:18:58 +0000

As a fairly hardline, science-oriented atheist myself, I don’t really get why the Sims inclusion of ghosts would be annoying. The series has always been very far from a po-faced straight simulation. I mean, at various points it’s had things like a Tragic Clown that emerges from the painting of the same name, Death showing up in person to collect Sims, plant people, vampires, life fruit, etc etc etc.

By: Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:14:11 +0000

P.S. Sorry if I have repeated something already stated; I didn’t quite feel like reading all 98 comments.

By: Bobby Jindal

Bobby Jindal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:12:07 +0000

I think the people on this website (and those who run it) are capable of sophisticated conversation and are like-minded on the issue of religion. The U.K. is a bit more secularized as I understand it. Here in America, however, religiosity is still a big issue and so I can understand if the developers dodged it for that reason.