ITT: Games that borrow heavily from a religion's imagery and/or themes
I'm a slut for that kind of shit
ITT: Games that borrow heavily from a religion's imagery and/or themes
Charles Flores
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Liam Scott
Undefined Fantastic Object & Ten Desires have their characters/plot rooted in buddhism/taoism respectively
Kayden Hall
OG God of War I guess. Was going to say Dante's Inferno, but that shit is all over the place.
Camden Richardson
DOOM
Ian Campbell
Binding of isaac
Jackson Gomez
Xeno games
Especially Xenosaga.
John Garcia
Ones that come to mind for me:
The Shivah is a 2006 point-and-click detective game where you play as a Rabbi
Sekiro is of course saturated in Mahayana Buddhism
Asura's Wrath is a blend of Hinduism and Buddhism
Okami is basically supposed to be a Shinto folktale
Castlevania has plenty of Christian imagery
Blasphemous looks like it will be a mix of Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
What else can you guys give me? Also please remember to list the religion being drawn from if you post a game
Camden Flores
i love that album, gonna go listen to it thanks op
Camden Green
Lucas Bennett
Any time
If you haven't already, listen to Horse Rotorvator. It's one of their earlier releases but it's hands down my favorite
Jordan Myers
sekiro honestly has some of the best religious motifs ive ever seen in a game
Mason Stewart
Age of Mythology will be like cocaine for you then.
Christian Allen
El Shaddai
Charles Anderson
Persona franchise (especially endgame personas), smt
Hudson Bell
Dead Space 2 with the Church of Unitology being a parody of Scientology
Dante's Inferno is the run of the mill Divine Comedy's depiction of Inferno
God of War 2 has probably the most ancient myths turned into gameplay and is also the best game in the franchise, Ghost of Sparta is also great and shows the sinking of Atlantis
Okami has various aspects of Japanese folk stories
Blake Martin
SMT/P is just all over the place though, it doesn't focus on any one religion. It's a hodgepodge of Gnosticism, Christianity, Buddhism, Jungian psychology, Judaism, and esoterism/the occult.
Grayson Martin
>tfw we didn't get to kill the Buddha when we meet him on our path
Jayden Richardson
Ossuary is basically a playable Discordian parable. Up to you if you count Discordianism as an actual "religion" though.
Benjamin Torres
MAN IS THE ANIMAL
MAN IS THE ANIMAL
THE BLACKER THE SUN
THE DARKER THE DAWN
Landon Martin
Morrowind
>DOOM
lmfao no
Doom has never been biblical, it's metal kitsch
Julian Richardson
Do you think Buddha is a man you fool?
Jace James
AND I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HIM, MY EYES
Carson Ortiz
IT'S IN MY BLOOD
IT'S IN MY BLOOD
[prolonged jibberish]
Justin Nelson
Never ever gonna make it
Ayden Bennett
Dominions 5 for fuckton of fraction based off of real myths and Kingdom Come for proper temples and such.
Logan Jenkins
CRUSHED FROM THE SHOULDER
Jaxson Rivera
PAY YOUR RESPECTS TO THE VULTURES
FOR THEY ARE YOUR FUTURE
Jonathan Cooper
Indeed it is the idea you have to conquer if you seek something that cannot be reached as long as you carry this idea with you.
Ian White
Do you guys know of any good games that draw from Judaism, Jainism, or Eastern Orthodoxy?
William Green
27 posts in and still no mention of Bayonetta? For shame.
Charles Perez
Note the line about the zen master after that. You're defaulting to the standard western buddhist interpretation but there's something far more poignant and subtle about that sentiment
Justin Sanders
Jayden Hughes
OP here, it's pretty much just an original fantasy world with three realms that happen to be called Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Definitely referencing the Divine Comedy but not really anything specifically Christian about it or beyond that
Landon Gutierrez
I believe the greatest happiness human has is when he doesn't know he exists.
Jaxon Fisher
HOLY HOLY
HOLY HOLY
Jack Davis
Shin megami tensei every game is top tier for that shit no supplements
Cooper Watson
gimme post industrial vidya pls
Chase Flores
what a gay as fuck game. literally
Grayson Bailey
...
Thomas Reed
older megaten and smt is a love letter to religion, mythology, and occult stuff
Landon Allen
Thanks for the pic OP
For me its Astral Disaster
Lucas Edwards
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
Josiah Bennett
What religion/s?
Colton Foster
All of them
Luis Lee
incredibly based coil poster
Joseph Green
Darksiders
Jaxson Nelson
If you ignore the fact that Dark Souls is a meme it has some pretty interesting theology.
Landon Morgan
Original Silent Hill series has a ton of references to England's industrial music scene. I could argue some of the songs are also Coil covers.
Caleb Rodriguez
>Coil
Sorry, I meant Throbbing Gristle.
Aiden Perez
>play game
>man is the animal
Seriously though, it's set in a Greek mythology setting
Also I want to mention Cosmology of Kyoto, which borrows heavily from Buddhism.
Andrew Martinez
was just about to post morrowind. currently playing a pilgrim/monk khajiit going through the temple's quests, it's comfy as fuck
Hudson Hall
IT SEEMS THESE DAYS THE WEAKER ONES SURVIVE
WHAT AN AWFUL WAY TO FIND OUT YOU'RE ALIVE
Robert Edwards
Guys I just got to the Tattooed Man boss fight, do I need to unlock the Amber Rain spell or can I just kill him by grinding?