[QUOTE][h=1][URL="http://kotaku.com/video-games-are-the-next-big-religion-991525452"]"Video Games Are The Next Big Religion"[/URL][/h] How do you feel about the idea of gaming as religion? I wouldn't blame anyone for feeling skeptical, and yet it's difficult to disagree with many of the points Andy Robertson makes in this talk that compares gaming and religion. These things have a lot more in common than you'd think!
I'm not sure I'm convinced, though—maybe that's my aversion to religion—but I definitely feel a tad unsettled by the comparison, or the idea of "Church of the Latter Day Player." And yet, with this framework, a lot of the fervent love for games and how that can sometimes be expressed [I]makes sense. [/I]Games aren't just a hobby for many people, they're an identity, after all—which can inform a lot of your lifestyle and values. Like religion.
And if nothing else, [URL="http://kotaku.com/5909361/this-sunday-video-games-go-to-church"]video games have begun to be incorporated into Sunday services in some places...[/URL]
(Via [URL="https://twitter.com/GeekDadGamer/status/362993821950296064"]Andy Robertson[/URL])
[URL="http://youtu.be/UX8J5ORkcUo"]Geek Sermon: Join The Church Of The Gamer[/URL] [FamilyGamerTV]
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source: [url]http://kotaku.com/video-games-are-the-next-big-religion-991525452[/url]
related links:[url]http://kotaku.com/5909361/this-sunday-video-games-go-to-church[/url]
[url]http://youtu.be/UX8J5ORkcUo[/url]
This is interesting in a way, it's almost close in a way.
People weren't lying when they said Kotaku was full of shit were they.
Patricia Hernandez? Isn't she the one making one shitty article after another?
What, you guys dont have an NES shrine in your closet?
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;41696531]Patricia Hernandez? Isn't she the one making one shitty article after another?[/QUOTE]
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go figure
[QUOTE=Cmx;41696535]What, you guys dont have an NES shrine in your closet?[/QUOTE]
what are you, a gaming inquisition?
[QUOTE=Cmx;41696535]What, you guys dont have an NES shrine in your closet?[/QUOTE]
i have a reggie fils-aime shrine
Gaming has tenants and directions you must uphold?
What a load of shit.
Are the manuals that come in the cases our Bibles then?
I'd die for my PC over Jesus any-day.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;41696531]Patricia Hernandez? Isn't she the one making one shitty article after another?[/QUOTE]
yeah thats gorilla hernandez alright
kotaku - terrible even by the standards of gaming 'journalism'
Stop giving kotaku clicks and post the article in pastbin
[QUOTE=Gwoodman;41696635]Are the manuals that come in the cases our Bibles then?[/QUOTE]
They've been skimping on them though. Now they just tell us what to do and give us no beautiful tales.
Games can't be a religion because you'd be believing in something that exists.
Ave Newell!
oh god kotaku is so fuckin awful jesus christ
I thought Apple was the next religion
[QUOTE=dass;41696931]They've been skimping on them though. Now they just tell us what to do and give us no beautiful tales.[/QUOTE]
I miss manuals that actually have more than health and safety information and the controls layout in them
[QUOTE=d00msdaydan;41697021]I miss manuals that actually have more than health and safety information and the controls layout in them[/QUOTE]
I still remember those that came in the PS1 games that literaly filled the whole game box and made it heavy on its own. CB3: warped used to have one of those. Hell, Gran Turismo 2 comes with 2 manuals, one for the actual game, and another as a guide for how to play the game, like accel/decell, cornering, how certain cars handle like mid engined or 4WD, and other stuff. It even makes the box bloat a little.
But ofc, there are small manuals that still give a lot of insight about the game world, like MGS1's manual that has info about all the characters, enemies, types of enemies, places, weapons, how-to's, stories from the prequels, and even a small poster between the pages.
Now, all you get is what could very well be a torn page of a book, with a cd key and a how-to install that nobody needs anymore. Curiously, the first game that gave me that was HL2. Was kind of... sad, to get just that for a "manual".
patricia hernandez is a fucking awful journalist
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41697134]patricia hernandez is a fucking awful journalist[/QUOTE]
Is there anyone at Kotaku who isn't?
Can't wait for model railways to become a religion too.
We could then make shitty excuses to kill gamers.
Garry then said: "Let there be physics!"; and thus, you could throw toilets
On the sixth day, he said: "Let there be multiplayer, so our players can multiply with everything at their disposal, and some day cover all the internet!": and thus, you could throw toilets at people
On the seventh day, Garry was finished, and took a break to look at his creation. [sp]hl2.exe has stopped responding [/sp]
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Garry then called the game crash holy, because that is what happened after all his work.
Since then, game developers have worshipped this day by adding crashes to their games
[QUOTE=Drury;41697169]Can't wait for model railways to become a religion too.
We could then make shitty excuses to kill gamers.[/QUOTE]
But then you're stuck in a quandry, if you own Train Simulator, because that is both a game and a model railway.
No, that's a simulator that gamers took for themselves.
WE MUST LIBERATE TRAIN SIMULATOR
why do they let this person touch a keyboard
Oh Gaben thou art in heaven, forgive me for i have sinned and bought Alien Colonial Marines at launch.
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