Why don't game developers make religious games anymore?

Atlus

>>385184259
I'd pay for a grimdark biblical adventure game tbqh

>>385184259
You'd need religious organizations with some money to back them; they wouldn't be big sellers. Might be a good money laundering scam for a megachurch somewhere.

>>385184259
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>>385184259
edgy games are way fun

The binding of isaac

>>385184259
What do you mean by "anymore"? I can't think of a single game which has religion as its main focus, unless we're going to count deus vult games like medieval total war and such.

>>385184416
"YOU SPURNED ME."

"YOU DEFIED ME."

"WHEN ALL WAS PARADISE, YOU DENIED ME. WHEN ALL WAS PERFECTION, YOU SIDED AGAINST ME."

"SO I MADE THINE LOT THE LAKE OF FIRE, AND THE WAGES OF YOUR ACTIONS ETERNAL DARKNESS, AND THY COMPANIONS THE HORDES OF LUCIFER'S TRAITORS."

"...BUT IN YOU I SENSE A SPARK THAT IS IN NO OTHER."

"CONTRITION."

"IF EVER YOU WISH TO STAND BEFORE ME AS ANYTHING BUT AN ENEMY, STEEL THYSELF."

"PROVE TO ME YOUR REPENTANCE."

You play as a repentant demon. Ugly as fuck, weak as shit, and at first all your efforts amount to is distracting other demons.

Then you start shedding demonic features and gaining angelic ones- think eldritch abomination ones. Go the path of the seraphim and use six sword combos, or go the path of the Throne and unleash divine vengeance.

>>385184259

I think there's a market for it that hasn't been tapped yet. Every normie has a console at home now. Trouble is finding a western dev that isn't a raging anti-christian hippie lib

>>385184259
There wasn't that much to begin with, but if you want an answer. It's because it would piss off both religious people and atheist. Religious people wouldn't like it as they would view as a misinterpretation of their faith and atheist would view it as religion being shoved in their face.

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>>385184259

>>385184259
When did they ever make religious games??

>>385185113
You're a moron.

I played a Noah's ark game on the SNES that used the Doom engine. You ran around the Ark and used a slingshot to shoot berries at angry goats, who would then fall asleep. GOTYAY

It's a bit like SJWs. You can pander to religious people but you'll probably still piss them off and they don't buy games anyway.

>>385184259
I have this autistic idea about a Saving Private Ryan-esque game set in the crusades.

>>385185306

Spotted the numale

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Jacob wrestled with an angel all night long and when morning came the angel was like "hey dude, seriously, that's enough". But then Jacob told him that he wouldn't let him go without getting a blessing so they wrestled a while longer until the angel used his spiritual powers to break his hip. When Jacob finally relented the angel asked him his name, changed it to Israel for being tough enough to beat the shit out of an angel, and gave him his blessing.

>>385185403
You're also paranoid. I was calling you a moron for thinking normies would buy a religious game. Seriously why did you assume it had to do with your last comment? It's pretty much everything else you said that makes no sense.

>>385185514

Normies threw money at the movie Passion of the Christ when numales like you said it would flop. Try again.

Socially conservative people aren't creative

>>385184416
Biblical grimdark/hardcore/edgy is the best. I love "fear the wrath of God" type shit.

This is a bit of a tangent but I've been listening to the "Plagues" song from Prince of Egypt and the lyrics for the chorus are fucking brutal.

>I send a pestilence and plague
>Into your house, into your bed
>Into your streams, into your streets
>Into your drink, into your bread
>Upon your cattle, on your sheep
>Upon your oxen in your field
>Into your dreams, into your sleep
>Until you break, until you yield

>I send the locusts on a wind
>Such as the world has never seen
>On every leaf, on every stalk
>Until there's nothing left of green

I want a game with shit like that in it

>>385186047
I'm socially conservative and I can back this up 100%.

>BoI
>SMT games
>Castlevania (rip)
>Darksiders
>Lots of random ass indies

There was that one God or War clone that had a crusader and giant swinging satan dicks

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>>385185310
Wolfenstein engine actually. Super Noah's Arc 3D

What would be a good setting for a Biblical based game that's fun, violent but still depicts Christianity positively? I can only think of more destructive interpretations of the Second Coming.

>>385184259
Abrahamic mythology would be the perfect context for a shonen-esque action game where you fight progressively stronger angels and demons as your character grows more powerful. It'd basically be Bleach except the two main factions are Heaven and Hell and hopefully without completely fucking up all of its potential

>>385186047

Yeah all those Renaissance painters just made those religious paintings ironically, they were the original hipsters

>>385184939
underage

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>Why don't those darn developers make religious games anymore?

>>385186325
Hack and slash where you play as Moses demolishing Egypt

>>385186349
So, Bayonetta?

>>385184259
Games cost too much to produce, and advertise
Trigger the wrong person and your game is toast
No one wants to take the risk of publishing a game that was branded as "problematic" and have to deal with angry people that feel offended and would never even buy your game anyways.

Just see how steam reviews has changed the way the market flows, you sell a game, and get mixed reviews and it's doomed, when the bad reviews were from people who were too stupid to know their rig wasn't strong enough to run the game, or they couldn't update their fucking video drivers, or they completly ignored that the game was a roguelike and are demanding a save state so they don't lose progress when they die etc. Now add a bandwagon of sjw or moralists, and they'll ruin your game and your career if your content triggers them, and idea spread like the plague and suddenly your whol companny dies from virtual AIDS.

>>385186179
Also
>Bayo 1 and 2 (less so in 2 for abrahamic stuff)
>God of War

wasn't there like some e-bible game on the 360 under indie games? I remember it was even on the news

I'd play a king David game. Dude had an eventful life, would make for a good action or strategy game with a complex story. Also just something personal, but the books describing the exploits of the kings of Israel are pretty interesting to read.

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>>385184259
Did they ever, besides weird bootleg Bible story games? DOOM is all I really need to satisfy my Christian beliefs in the vidya department.
Or am I in a KotH thread?

>>385185413
fucking Jacob man

this son of a bitch almost killed his brother for stealing his blessings

that fucker loved some blessings like a mother fucker.

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>>385186080
Jonathan Edwards' sermons literally had people rolling on the ground in agony. Shit was hardcore.

>>385185310
it's on steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/371180/

>>385186047
That's never stopped any Christians from creating alternative and unconventional works, nor does that even imply that they're entirely socially conservative to begin with. I especially look to the Russians, weird mathematicians, and poets in that regard.

DOOM

Dating Sim

Play as God, choose your one pure virgin waifu from all corners of the earth to bear your son. NTR scenes too

>>385186325
The Land of Canaan after Noah's son Canaan started creating giants there.

Basically it's Attack on Titan, but with the story from apocryphal texts, not an anime ripoff.

Anything about pre-flood Nephilim and the fallen angels that gave birth to them would be amazing. Something like Shadow of the Colossus, but with angels and nephilim based off of the descriptions in the books of Enoch.

>>385184259
FF Tactics originally mentioned God on ps1.
Future ports replace it with Our Father.
Cucked vidya games

I just want an Eva ripoff game where I fight progressively stronger "angels" until they're all dead and the world ends because we fucked up.

>>385186862

>satanists believe that only occult symbols in 3-dimensional shapes such as jewelry or statues can be used to cast spells

what about fucking chalk/wax pentagrams?

>marihuana & pot parties
>raves & XTC
>vegetarianism
>cyberpunk culture
>alt "comix"

heh

>twilight films

why of all things was this the only recent example he chose circa 2007

Gnostic gospels for that Jap flavour
>you battle against the god of the bible

>>385187316
It was probably made then.

Vegetarianism is fucking evil though. Look at all those poor vegetables murdered.

>>385187421

I apologize if I phrased that poorly, I mean if it was made in 2007, why is that the only thing on there newer than like 1998

>>385187421
I only eat Mexicans, like YHWH intended. Vegetarians are anathema to Him.

>>385184416
>>385186080
Blasphemous just got kikestarted a month or so ago. Might be alright.

>>385187296
Shit I remember I had a concept along those lines. Like it would be like a standard Final Fantasy deal where you're on an adventure to kill a tyrannical "god" but you progressively find the god's church members are mostly innocent and you've been hurting so many on your quest. Then you eventually get closer to him and you risk all your party's lives to pursue your fanatical desire to end his "tyranny" once and for all. Once you finally reach him you try to beat him to your best attempts but it's all hopeless. Beaten and worn, you face your inevitable death before "god" forgives you and offers you redemption from what you've done.

>>385187774
Reverse FF12? Could work.

>>385187074
I've read a lot of cool theories about the antedeluvian world that would probably get the ancient astronaut crowd interested at least.

>>385184259
Because religious people are stupid and don't know how to program

>>385188205
Somebody isn't running TempleOS I see...

>>385188205
This game has been made by a multicultural group with different beliefs and sexualities.

>>385185663
yeah all the kids on MY block raved about these instant classics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_video_games

>>385185514
psshht, nuthin... personnel...

>RPG
>Inside the game world there are religions
>They give you magic
>You find a note saying that the world is an illusion created by evil gods and you must escape
>Finding this note changes npc reactions to a bit more hostile
>It triggers the appearance of other books and notes who progressively explain how to escape from the world
>The more you know, the more the game world hates you
>Stranger npc reactions
>NPCs are on to you
>They lay traps and say strange things
>Everybody hates you
>Strange things happen to your character
>It might start with harder quest and go towards quests where npcs are waiting for you to murder you with traps
>NPCs blatantly lie to you about things you know are lies

BECOMETH. GODS.

>>385187893
Never played FF12, but I DO know I'm sick of jrpgs with nihilism allegories. As a christian myself I've learned basically the only way a good religious game is gonna happen is if it's not directly religious, but its messages are. Of course I'd have to get around the fact I hate turn based combat like the pleb I am so I don't know what I'd do if I actually went and made it.

>>385188594
>Inside the game world there are religions
>They give you magic
That's Satanic anon, you need Jesus.

>>385185413
Looks pretty gay

>>385188701
The reigns of history BACK in the hands of man.

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>>385188594
w-wait a second..

this sounds strangely familiar

>>385184259
Besides japanese games and Doom, there are games that actually touch religious themes and symbolism?

>>385188786
Gnosticism

>>385186440
it was because the church was the main entity able to afford commissioning work, idiot

>>385186440
just because they believed in god doesn't mean they were socially conservative (although the people comissioning them were)
and leonardo da vinci was gay

>>385186440
Different time period. Today's conservatism would be liberalism 100 years ago.

>>385186287
dantes inferno? seemed kinda cool, i never tried it past the demo though

I enjoy games with religion as a theme. The bible is an epic tale like the Odyssey. It might be bullshit but if you look at it as a book of fairy tales, it's great. Aside from the flash aspect, that's why I love the Binding of Isaac thanks to all it's christian references.

>>385188929
It's a GoW clone, the first half is the best part, final circles are not really that fun or good.

>>385186325
maybe like someone inside soddom and gommorrah right before it was destroyed? leaves the narrative open to being anything, some good guy fucking people up to no avail, or some evil motherfucker sodomising everything in sight. then everybody dies.

>>385189057
>soddom and gommorrah
>depicting the bible positively
>the story where daring to look back at the place you spent your entire life for one final glance of it before it's gone forever is enough to get you smitten

>>385189148
You sound kind of salty

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This is my husbando

>>385188845
>Gnosticism
damn, niggas be crazy. that sounds like a dope game tho

>>385189462
Gnostics were murdered.

>>385188594
This is would be great psych horror

What makes a game religious?

>>385188923
i thought just the names of the political parties in america switched, not what was considered conservative and liberal.

i dont think cultures used to get along, and it would therefore be progressive or liberal to hate mexicans

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>>385184259
What's wrong OP?
Who hurt you?

>>385189148
>depicting the bible positively
if its not depicting itself positively with a story like that, how the hell are we supposed to?

>>385189816
Genuflect

>>385184259

I'm a Muslim

When I get better in game development I'm planning to make a game about Islamic states and war possibly brewing

I'm gonna have to go aggro and pretend I'm not talking directly about Palestine/Israel

Gonna have to call it different names

>>385184259
ONE MORE GOD REJECTED

>>385190192
Thought I had all the goat herders on filter. Thanks

Video games are anti-Christian degeneracy made by Jews to control normies.
>>385190192
Fuck off right now, Ahmed.

>>385185251
Super Noahs ark 3D.

>>385190620
Brutal Noah's Ark 4D when

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>>385190668

Dantes Inferno was pretty good.

I thought old Floppy Cock Lucifer going ayy jokes you never actually beat me you're dead as fuck m80 was good

>>385189148
>the story where daring to look back at the place you spent your entire life for one final glance of it before it's gone forever is enough to get you smitten
It sounds romantic to me

>>385189148
Sounds like they ripped off the tragedy of Orpheus

>>385187641
>Blasphemous
Looks quite good for an indie game, might buy it if it gets released.

>>385184259
Ubisoft is making Far Cry 5 right now.

dum fag

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There was an old DOS game called Spiritual Warfare, where you'd collect Fruits of the Spirit which acted like different shot types to convert sinners into pious do-gooders and solve puzzles.

>>385184259
>anymore?

That has never been a thing.

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>>385190192

Ace Attorney Investigations technically did a Palestine/Israel situation

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>>385184259
>you will never play God in a God Hand-styled game where you kick the crap out of lesser gods

Devs always do it horribly whenever they bring up religion, so I doubt they could pull off one fully about it.
Just look at Outlast 2 for example. Everyone was shiiting on that game really hard just for the religious stuff they threw in.

Adam's Venture

>>385188842
Pillars of eternity.

>>385190418
the biggest console producers and developers are japanese faggot.

>>385184259
They actually still do it's just relegated to cheap mobile platforms, and the rare indie title. A legit console release is too expensive of an endeavor for religious advocacy groups to fund.

>>385188923
Today's conservatism would be burning scientists, and free thinkers at the stake 100 years ago.

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>>385193382
>you will never play God in a God Hand-styled game where you kick the crap out of lesser gods and mortal infidels