Left Behind Games, the company responsible for the insane Eternal Forces series, is bringing its classic brand of heavy-handed, poor-quality Christian wackiness to the Wii and Xbox 360 with a new game in the works called Bible Adventures. The game will draw from LBG's (not Lesbian, Bisexual & Gay) other Jesus-friendly franchise, Charlie the Church Mouse.
"Parents and kids already love the Charlie Church Mouse Bible Adventure games for the PC," says LBG CEO Troy Lyndon. "Our strategy is to follow Nintendo's example by including up to 18 story animations and mini-games, providing significant value for our customers. We expect our financial projections to grow exponentially as we transition from a PC game developer to a Wii & Xbox developer."
The franchise aims to "educate young children" by providing "lessons vital to early childhood development through Bible stories." Children definitely need to know that if you promote slavery, frogs will literally fall from the sky and that the whole world, including Native Americans, were created through the incestuous affairs of a man on a boat with his kids and two of every animal.
Also, this news seems to indicate that God is biased against the PS3. What a friggin' fanboy!
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7:20 PM on 12.10.2009 | 
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But yeah... this is yet another game I will avoid like the Plague.
I could barely get past Charlie the Church Mouse. Last I checked churches killed mice.
Oh yeah, it was one of the various unlicensed NES and SNES Bible games produced by Wisdom Tree. The AVGN reviewed them a year or so ago.
It featured one of the most accurate representations of Noah loading the animals into the ark, as shown by this screenshot:
I realize it's easy to pick on people who are kind, but I really wish you would show a bit more respect for something even if you don't personally subscribe to it Jim. I don't see you trashing Judaism, Mormonism, Buddhism, or Islam any time they're in the news. You don't need to come back with some defense, I'm just respectfully asking you to be a bit more respectful. I'm not trying to insight some flame war, just saying my piece. Because just like you have a right to try to undermine and slander Christians, I have a right to ask you to just take it easy, because aside from the small portion nut job evangelicals (who may be who you're exposed most to because I think you may live in the south) a lot of us are actually pretty dang cool people.
I'm not saying you're a total jerk so don't miss hear me, just talking to you like a grown up, because with your wit and humor I know very well that you are one.
Carefully calculated intentional mispelling and grammar mistakes, underhanded ad hominems, circular logic, etc.
Yay.
1. There aren't many Muslim games
2. We live in a world (especially if you live in the US) dominated by Christian culture and faith.
In reality most of the criticism you see for Christians applies to every religion. I know for me it does, but matters of theology usually only revolve around Christianity on an English speaking website. It is the biggest religion after all.
And Mormon's are the easiest to make fun of. It's just that there aren't that many, and their policies and views don't impact the world, so we tend to not even bother.
I just wonder JesusNinja if in your calling Jim immature for believing slavery in the bible to be wrong, and for tales of impossible feats to be worthy of such a label? Seems to me to be of rational mind. Should we coddle people with irrational beliefs? We certainly don't when they aren't called religion. It seems perfectly mature to question something both ridiculous and harmful. Only children accept the first answer given.
But that's me speaking for myself. Jim might think something completely different.
The reason he (and probably everyone else) thinks your a troll is that this is a hugely atheist site. Your comment is honestly the first pro-Christian one I have seen here.
I don't think I've ever seen a religious game that wasn't christian. I mean no offense, just saying.
and @ jesusninja26:
I don't think that Jim was being particularly distasteful, and besides, if this were an article about a Muslim or Hindu game, I'm sure that he would have had a similar point of view. He's insulting the games, not your system of beliefs, so peace out.
anyway, with the technology we have these days why can't a Christian game be a little less goofy and at least more like a visualization of the Bible.
Even if you don't believe in the Bible if a game can be cinematic like say MGS 4 (which is basically an interactive movie; but I still loved it) or Heavy Rain. I think that would be a lot more interesting than an actual gamey type of a game. Doesn't really work as a platformer. 'cept maybe David and Goliath.
Most of Europe is actually atheist now, and growing Muslim population especially in France.
Comments like, "will draw from LBG's (not Lesbian, Bisexual & Gay)" are just blatant troll pot shots that have nothing to do with the game being discussed.
And then, "Children definitely need to know that if you promote slavery, frogs will literally fall from the sky" yeah because that is what Christianity is all about. No mention of the real message of the Gospel, loving people, helping those in need which is why most Hospitals in the US even exist. And most of the non-profit organizations exist that help feed/clothe the poor, or take in battered women.
Just tacky pot shots, that honestly are meant to stir up the ignorance of others.
Again Brice, thanks for actually discussing this, welcome to being a big boy who gets it. I appreciate it and wish more Dtoiders were like you in the face of a differing opinion.
So back to the original thing I brought up, I wish Christian game companies would be a bit more in tune with things so they wouldn't be so cheesy. I acknowledge that many of them are. The one exception might be the 'Guitar Praise' game which although is only on PC's is decent.
It's not the Gospel that promotes love and helping those in need. It's called altruism and charity and it's evolutionarily advantageous to commit acts of kindness. When Christianity is comprised largely of Republicans, it's hard to be an advocate of Christianity being a force of philanthropy.
And if by Christian non-profit, you mean they don't try to "save" your "soul", then no. They just are trying to capitalize on your afterlife, not on your wallet.
The LBG comment was stupid and childish, but what do you expect of Jim? He's never struck me as a particularly intelligent fellow and while he strikes a funny bone on occasion, he's just usually a pandering sheep.
Did you know that the Democratic party actually used to be the 'Christian Party' if you will. But somewhere in the last 60 years that all changed, and things flipped.
Any non-profit I've witnessed or helped with has been about serving the poor with food or clothes here in my town, or giving free medical treatment to people down in the jungles of the Yucatan. It's too bad that the ones that don't do it right are the ones that stick out to everyone.
And your last stanza, agreed.
Catholics can be literalists or not, that doesn't mean the Bible is any less loony. The fact that the Bible has to be interpreted is sign enough of God's lack of foresight.
But this is really REALLY distracting us from the point. The point is that Jim is a juvenile cunt.
To be fair there are two different kinds of Republicans.
Republicans...
...and Fox News Republicans...
...guess which ones are loudest.
Yeah.
I say fire Michael Steele, disassociate the party from Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, and let Megan McCain run the show.
The party will split between Conservatives and Progressives, the Conservatives will die off in 10 years or so, and there might actually be a half decent major party.
However, I do agree with a lot oomments. I don't think Jim was trying to be very malicious here, as I think he was the one who did an article on that one game, Haruman, that was being just blasted by the Hindu community a while ago. However, the "Christian" game developers seem to be fixated, like many conservatives, on the idea that the "aw, shucks" '50's were the epitomy of greatness.
As you might imagine, this could explain some of the cheesiness and general lameness of these games.
I don't think it is accurate to say that Christianity is largely composed of republicans as there are a great deal of Christian Democrats out there. But I will not deny the fact that the most vocal Christians are Republicans, and they are, thankfully, a minority among Christians, as the most vocal group so often is.
As for Republicans and philanthropy research as shown that registered Republicans give more to charity than registered Democrats across all income groups. No, I don't know who did the study but I read it on Slate.com.
At any rate I think this company has just as legitimate a right in making their game as any other and I am glad they are exercising their right to free speech. I also think that people have the right to look at the game and think it ridiculous. What I hope everyone does though, is that they try to respect the views of others (so far as others themselves are being respectful). Lastly, Jim's comments didn't really strike me as all that disrespectful, but well aimed at his target audience. Clearly, Left Behind Games is not counting on Destructoid to move their products.
And even worse I don't have any tolerance for things committed by people who do things in the name of the book (Catholics condemning condom use when it comes to AIDS in Africa).
Do Christians have charities and help people? Yeah they do, but so do plenty of other human beings. That doesn't mean they are no exempt from their responsibilities. Especially when these organization impact claim to have some higher form of knowledge that impacts so many lives.
This is a blog with full of humor, so making fun of something as easy as religion makes perfect sense.
PANCAKE TUESDAY!!! (it's a Christian holiday, so it's a rare merging of religion and a Dtoid meme)