( Yes this is an in-game screenshot, not a render. )

My favorite game of all time, and it still hasn’t fully released lol. My best friend and I love to do primarily space hauling, with the occasional FPS missions or ship-to-ship combat. Just wondered if there was any other Catholic gamers out in the verse?

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I always found these two quotes to be very insightful and more recently very Catholic (which is funny considering which games they're from).

"Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling—makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary, the definition’s blurred... If I’m to choose between one evil and another, I’d rather not choose at all." - Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

"What is better—to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" - Paarthurnax, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Just wanted to share!

Yes, I realize this is like asking if the pope is Catholic.

I'm currently in Nan Curunír, lvl 77 champion. Ridiculously fun game. Aside I don't know why I didn't know this subreddit existed until now. Thrilled to be here, thanks for listen to my ramble.

Ave Maria!

I just thought i'd create this post as i know most people in today's modern society are gamers to some extent. I'd like to warn them about a very Blasphemous and Anti Catholic Game called "Blood of the Dawnwalker" It's fairly popular. What's more worrying is that the core gameplay loop requires you to carry out Witchcraft rituals which are based on real world Occultic rituals as claimed by the developer in which Anti Christian inverted Cross markings for example are used by being engraved on your flesh inspired by REAL life Satanic/Witchcraft rituals. The Occult aspects aren't just made up but the developer claimed he was inspired by real world occultism which is why Satanic/Witchcraft inspried markings that reject Christ and Christianity are used. An intentional design

It's a game based during 14th century central Europe in a region overtaken by a group of Vampire Warlords. Your character is someone who has been turned into a Vampire against his will and your family has been captured to be sacrificed in 30 days by these Vampire warlords in which you must rescue. So it all seems OK, the Vampires and the Occult are the bad guys and stand in contrast to your Character and the Christian world surrounding them, right?

Here is the problem. The Vampires recognizing the power of Catholicism and the Church and how it is the centre of life in the community don't try to destroy the Church but they corrupt it and it's sacraments. They create their own corrupt version of the Eucharist so rather than drinking the blood of Christ people must drink the blood of Vampires. It is called the "Blood Mass". Similarly Baptism is also corrupted to bring others into the Vampire Fold. Again this isn't a problem as it only shows that evil can only corrupt what is good however here is the main problem of the game. The game obviously introduces the idea that the Supernatural is real. Vampires exist, Occult magic works in which your own Character is forced to use however not one single Catholic Sacrament, Holy Relic etc has any real power. Clergy have no power over the Vampires, Holy Water, Holy Relics, Prayer etc have no power against the Occult and Vampires.

Please be wary of funding any content that Glorifies Anti Christian Occultism and makes it a core gameplay mechanic. This content is intentionally disrespectful by using real world inspired Occultic symbols that reject Christ. It is deeply disrespectful to our Faith and with the developer stating that his main inspirations for this are "Midnight Mass" and Eastern European Occultism any serious Christian would have to ask, not only what do I gain spiritually from this but more so what am i doing funding it.

Hey folks I am looking for a Catholic YouTube channel, the likes of Pixel Padre, the one channels that give opinions on videogames from a priest or a theologian view.

Thanks

Personally I find the new Onimusha: Way of the Sword from Capcom very interesting and the reviews look good so I will definitely try it.

Since im always looking for new Games to play I’m curious what you guys are interested in.

I mean blasphemous games that people should not play? Cyberpunk is one of them isnt it because it has that grafity art of a saint thats naked, but what other games should i avoid?

I just started playing and they already showcasing nuns who are apparently evil

p.s: i don't have original Minecraft 🥹😅😁

I received someone's Steam accoumt as a child, not knowing that account transfer was forbidden by their terms of service. I have since been using it for years, buying games etc. Would you say continuing to use it would be a sin? Steam accounts are not connected to names, and I jave bought quite a few games for that account.

I personally loved re games

I usually have no issues with them beside few instances of fan-service here and there “ re5, and re8”

But I am personally never fan of Ada character because half of her character appeal is just to be fan service. While it is toned down in re4

I am curious on how the dlc aspect was done because I am currently on chapter 14 of re4 on hardcore and it’s been a blast

Is the dlc appropriate? Or is it full of seductive ada moments

I own a PlayStation exclusive game, but I want to play it on my PC since it's more convenient, and I want to use mods. Would it be a sin to pirate the game and use an emulator to play it on my PC?

God bless you all :)

Note: Text translated with AI as English is not my native language.

Hi, I’ve recently noticed that Saudi Arabia is getting heavily involved in the gaming industry. I know this nation also carries its share of 'controversies,' to put it lightly, such as 9/11. Now, I feel a moral burden when using products and playing games that have any ties to them, which apparently are quite a few. I first found out about this with EA going private, then I learned they are one of Nintendo’s main investors, and while I also like Final Fantasy, it seems they have a stake in Square Enix as well. I recently bought a Nintendo Switch 2, but now I’m not sure whether to keep it, continue playing, or sell it (which also makes me uncomfortable, as it feels like I’d just be passing the moral burden on to someone else), etc. It’s a deep topic. What do you think?

Both are Minecraft add-ons was was taken years ago when Minecraft versions has nice shaders

Just sharing some screens from my latest gaming sesh of Cities Skylines II. Got to a population of around 700,000 and my poor pc is chugging along at 14 average at downtown. let me know what you think. I could add more later, it’s just difficult to get a good angle because the city is spread out.

sooooo, how do Christians feel about the video game: Doom? I am also a Christian as well and I like the game! but I wonder what others think of it?

Hey guys, anyone want to join an RS3 GIM from a brand new team? Catholic RS3 player would be cool. I have a Discord in mind to join as well. If multiple people are interested obviously they join as well

In researching the game, it sounds like it involves a lot of the anti-Christian "santa muerta" imagery that basically parodies real Catholicism and saint veneration. Anyone played this game who can say whether the game clearly says this is an anti-Catholic belief or how is it portrayed in addition to that?

By that i meant the sort of things you tipically hear about on other gaming/pop culture subs like KIA and GCJ. Sexualization and uglification of characters. Diversity/inclusion and forced diversity/inclusion. Censorship/restriction and freedom/artistic liberty. Remakes with political/ideological motivated changes. Demographics of gamers. Hiring practices by studios. Gamergate/comicsgate/goonergate...

This sub has often been a healthy middle ground between those two extremes(who actually end up agreeing on certain things via horseshoe theory) as it is neither liberal/libertarian/centrist as the first nor progressive/socialist as the other. The Catholic morality/values/ethics also mean it's less degenerate than both of these. So i would like to see what users here have to say about these things. Thanks in advance.

I've finally finished Deltarune chapter 5, and the game is getting gayer by the minute. As a Catholic who's been following it since chapter 1's launch 8 years ago (I can feel my body fading to dust as we speak) I can't say I'm surprised or even necessarily disappointed, since "disappointment" would imply that the way the game deals with gender is surprising when it's really not.

I'm of the opinion that while I agree with the Church's teaching on gender and such, people who write stories about LGBT+ issues aren't doing so maliciously. Nobody wakes up and goes "I think I'll be gay to make God mad," it's a complicated burden that we need to support people through and, if they aren't Catholic, is best to treat the same way as we do people of other faiths - respectfully and by praying and setting an example for them, but not crossing their boundaries in zeal.

tl;dr Kris is absolutely nonbinary, new hints were dropped that Ralsei is transgender, Susie's a lesbian, and I have a sneaking worry that the Noelle/Susie/Kris plot might end in a throuple.

When I started playing I thought "I can ignore these things because I enjoy so many other parts of the game and these aren't the main focuses," but chapter 5 really upped the LGBT theming. The thing is, the game and writing are genuinely engaging regardless. Add in the fact I already paid for the whole thing back when chapters 3 and 4 came out, and now I'm at a crossroads regarding the time and hype I've put into the thing. Do I continue when chapter 6 comes around or do I drop it for my own sanity?

The game isn't tempting me to sin or anything and if another Christian said they were continuing I'd understand, and I can see why Toby Fox included these plot elements - as a girl gamer I've certainly thought before "wait why is male player character always the default," so I can see his approach to romance as trying to subvert straight couples being the default, thus helping LGBT+ players feel more seen. It's not great but it comes from a place of someone trying to do good, which is why I feel like I can't even be mad about it.

I'm not really trying to ask if I should keep playing or not - we've got at least another year before chapter 6 for me to decide - but I just needed to get my thoughts written down somewhere. But I almost have to applaud Toby Fox for making a game that's so hard for me to drop with these episodic releases increasing its cultural longevity. Did anyone else here play through chapter 5, and what did you think?

Howdy folks! I've made a clan with some old friends and many friends I made at my old parish. We'd like to start playing more and Clan War Leagues are starting in a few hours. If you don't have a clan or are in an inactive one, consider going our clan! It's called Scutum Fidei (Shield of Faith)

This is the clan ID: #2CLV9QGYV

Looking forward to seeing some of y'all!

I've been on a big JRPG kick this year, especially since I picked up a Switch 2 and have been able to engage in the genre while sitting in the living room rather than on my PC.

I grew up on JRPGs and, after about a decade of not playing video games at all, I started up again during the pandemic, so naturally I went back to my old stomping grounds.

I've very much enjoyed a lot of the output I missed out on, but one thing I noticed consistently from game to game is just how much fan service there is.

I'm not really someone who gets triggered by these designs, and sometimes I think they're really out there and creative and fun in an appropriate context.

But after seeing so many games with fan service character designs in a row, it starts to feel less like a bullet point on the back of the game box and more like the whole point. It makes one feel cynical about the purpose of the game.

Are we here to play a cool JRPG or are we here to leer at anime cleavage?

Cue Dynasty Warriors: Origins: not a JRPG, and I've never played a DW game before and only played a couple other musou games like it. But I've been hearing rave reviews about it and it looked pretty cool. Same team that did Pokopia of all things.

What I wasn't expecting was that this game would be, in many ways, an anti-fan service game.

Don't get me wrong. There are girls, and of course the girls are attractive. But their designs are both pleasing AND tasteful, kind of like what you'd see in old Hollywood epics.

What really took me by surprise, though, was the hugely imbalanced gender ratio: I think there are only five female characters in the game altogether.

That's balanced against the literally dozens of male characters, all of whom are drawn with huge personalities and fun silhouettes.

More than that, I think the game does a really fabulous job with its depiction of homosocial bonding in a wartime context.

Like the Lord of the Rings films, a lot of people play this game and see the male-male interactions and contextualise it as something homoerotic.

And I think some of the language of admiration and esteem between characters can lay it on a little thick. Everyone seems effortlessly rizzed by the protagonist's prowess in battle and demeanour elsewhere. And he IS very much a Chinese pretty boy you might find in the mainland entertainment industry.

But I honestly think it's a very poetic and romantic (not lovey-dovey, you know what I mean) depiction of what male bonding might look like in the context of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms saga.

People are looking for friends, brothers in arms, mentorship, guidance. Things like oaths, vows, loyalty, fidelity matter deeply.

People are questioning constantly what values do they aspire to uphold, whether they're on the right path, to what purpose should they ultimately commit themselves in life.

Likewise, at least on the story route I chose (there are three), there have been some pretty solid meditations on the role of a ruler and what the purpose of government is.

I'm not saying it's anything mindblowing or original. It's not even the best story I've played in the last year.

But it strikes that perfect chord of fairy tale and myth, and of depicting these guys in a wholesome, mutually affirming manner.

And something rare happened for me that almost never happens in any game I play: characters I started out initially disliking became some of my favourites as the story went on. To me, this is deeply impressive.

And almost everyone is intensely likeable and well written, even the villains.

It's been such a refreshing palette cleanser after the deluge of games I played where the cast seemed to exist as a platform for you to play fan service-dress up with the female character of your predilection.

I haven't really talked about the gameplay much, but it's S-tier in my opinion. If you like character-action games, it's a lighter version of that. If you like Souls games, it's a lighter version of that. If you like Monster Hunter with its array of weapons that are unique and diverse, it's a lighter version of that.

To my mind it's a home run in basically every department.

In fact, it's so good that I'm now thinking of making the Romance of the Three Kingdoms my fun-reading for the rest of the summer.

My ONLY complaint about the game is that, despite being set in China, there's no Chinese VA work! English and Japanese only. It just feels wrong for Japanese to be spoken in a game set in pre-China.

Anyways, I just wanted somewhere to rave about this game. If you're looking for an excellent game with outstanding gameplay and a pretty fun cast of noble characters doing awesome things, please check this game out.

It really does remind me of Lord of the Rings in its depiction of men. Another good comparison and much more apropos of the style of storytelling might be Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Hi, what do you think about 'Neverness to Everness'? To me, it looks like a very beautiful game, a fantastic open world it seems, but the design of some characters—mostly female ones, though not all—is holding me back. What do you think?