@swordx: I always only regard fiction as fiction. I chose to mention Xenoblade because of its ending, not because of magic. It's funny though, my mom was insanely angry when I put Final Fantasy VII and VIII on my Christmas list and was asking why I wanted those games. I told her I wanted them because I had really started enjoying JRPGs, but she had to ask me one question after that. She asked me if the characters used guns and yet at a I had already bought and played the Metroid Prime Trilogy under her permission and at friends house, we would play Halo 2's multiplayer, which she knew about. I've don't disrespect her authority nor do I think she is unintelligent, but she is very uniformed and overly protective when it comes to video games. She is concerned about blood or guns being in one game I'm playing while I'm debating whether I should get Kingdom Hearts for my six year old cousin, debating whether some things will scare him or if the game will be too complex for him as he can't even play Mario Chase in Nintendo Land.
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@Wings Do you at all find it odd that they are in disapproval of Pokémon, yet Pikmin is fine?
Quite honestly, beyond the whole Water Wraith/Plasm Wraith thing, there isn't anything they'd care object to in Pikmin. In you're referring to the violent aspect, as long as there isn't intense blood and gore and/or if it doesn't involve murdering other people in a senseless fashion (usually anyway, they have let me play stuff like Age of Empires for example since it's at least "strategic killing") they're perfectly okay with it.
Come to think of it, my parents are pretty darn oblivious to anything beyond Pokemon and the ever present media attention-grabbing FPS/horror games in terms of what they contain. Of course that's also because I also don't tell them exactly what goes on in some of the games I currently play such as Fire Emblem. That and they never bother to look up the games I have to begin with (though with the exception of Shin Megami Tensei IV all my games are T and under, and SMT in hidden from view before I can sell it on ebay anyway). The funny thing is, my parents have always been 100% okay with ol' Mario, yet from the very first game there has been magic of some kind involved (albeit undertoned for the most part not including the spin-off games).
I'm already planning to ask them to reconsider, because lately I've really been wanting to play some Pokemon, especially within the past few days.
When I first started to play videogames my parents where very strict. But when I got 12 they mellowed out a bit,letting me have 16+ games.I've only been allowed recently to have 18+ games,there's still a few games I can't have Call of Duty and GTA.
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@BlackSpy You know, J.R.R Tolkien was one of the strongest Christian authors alongside C.S. Lewis and his theological work still gets quoted to this day. I don't think The Lord of the Rings was explicitly planned to be a Christian novel, but there is certainly a lot of symbolism there which resonates with the Christian faith. I think as long as something gets popular enough, there will be Christian preachers proclaiming that it has demonic or satanic messages. I guess the bottom line is that we're all affected by the books, movies and games we consume both consciously and subconsciously. It's just important to recognise which influences are good to us and which are bad. If that means you have to avoid any potentially sacrilegious work, so be it, but I feel it's best to try understand the views of the author and consider them in comparison to your own views rather than rejecting them outright.
As for games I wasn't allowed to play, I grew up in an Atheist household and my parents weren't around much, so they didn't mind what I played from Warcraft to GTA. For that reason I don't really believe that violent games facilitate violent behaviour - after years of shooting virtual enemies I'm still a huge pacifist in real life.
always thought I'd change to Gyarados after I turned 20 but hey, this is more fitting I guess. (also somebody registered under the original Magikarp name and I can't get back to it anymore orz)
Tried a few games from the series years later (Vice City, San Andreas, GTA IV so yeah I gave it a decent chance) but I'm just not interested in these types of games. So despite everyone talking about it in school, in the end I never felt like I missed out anything.
@BlackSpy Funny you mention Lord of the Rings. Growing up I was allowed to watch those movies and Narnia (though the Christian messages in those were blatantly obvious) because they were "Christian satire" but almost anything else with fantasy was out of bounds. Which also included anything anime. Though there were random exceptions like Sword in the Stone.
As for Pokemon's general hate, I think it's like hard rock a few decades back. It was the popular thing all the kids were playing, so it just had to be evil.
The original Ratchet & Clank, I think that's it, and seriously I can't even remember why.
I think it might have been rated M here and that's why(I haven't played it even now, does it actually warrant an M rating?). My memory is really foggy of it though besides the teensiest platforming segment I did get to play and had trouble with...
Most ridiculous case I've heard: I heard once that someone wouldn't let their kid play Skylanders because the Undead Skylanders are all on a skull... >_>
The original Ratchet & Clank, I think that's it, and seriously I can't even remember why.
I think it might have been rated M here and that's why(I haven't played it even now, does it actually warrant an M rating?). My memory is really foggy of it though besides the teensiest platforming segment I did get to play and had trouble with...
Most ridiculous case I've heard: I heard once that someone wouldn't let their kid play Skylanders because the Undead Skylanders are all on a skull... >_>
My parents always let me play whatever games I wanted(not that games were that bad in the late 80's thru mid 90's). My dad always just told people that he trust his son isn't stupid enough to not be able to distinguish what is just in movies or video games and what is appropriate for the real world.
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My parents always let me play whatever games I wanted(not that games were that bad in the late 80's thru mid 90's). My dad always just told people that he trust his son isn't stupid enough to not be able to distinguish what is just in movies or video games and what is appropriate for the real world.
Yeah, same here. I don't recall not being allowed to play anything as a kid. I did refuse to play some violent PS2 games, but only because I didn't like guns at the time (and yet years later I aspired to be a weapons engineer...). I remember watching them play a bit and thinking "I've seen movies worse than this". XD
My parents didn't mind me playing Duke Nukem 3D (Bought it myself even though it had a BBFC Cert of 18) I must have been about 13 or so in their presence even showing them the shake it baby thing..
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@Blackspy Oh and Harry Potter is completely justified in many of my Christian friends' minds because Harry resembles Christ in the way that he comes back from the dead. I love Christ but Christians can really be annoying a lot of times. I can see why people call us hypocritical, because the carnal(fake) "Christians" are.
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Had the mortal kombat games when I was younger and other similar'ish games like primal rage; my parent's where ok with me playing gory games; was never told I couldn't play any my games; if I had come across custers revenge or the like I'm sure that'd have been a different story but blood and guts was A ok.
I think I will be the only person who has ever been banned from playing it but "Cannon Fodder". My friend described how certain enemies don't die and bleed out slowly and loudly on the battlefield so his mum confiscated it!
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Now my parents, as well as myself, are Christians, so when they found out that the games (or rather the anime, since that's what they knew about first) involved magic, dark powers and such, I was immediately boycotted from it. It was never fully explained to me at the time why I wasn't allowed to watch the show, so naturally I got curious and saw a few episodes in secret and didn't really see what was so bad about it. Later on I understood why, and appreciate my parent's diligence, but now things are just getting ridiculous. For some reason, while they disapprove of anything involving magic and witchcraft in games (also extreme bloody violence, but I don't like those types of games anyway), if I so much as mention Pokemon they attack it incessantly, saying it's "of the devil" and the like. I'm 18 years old, and well beyond the easily impressionable age, and my potential interest in the series has grown quite a bit, so I might just turn the tables at some point. Yet at the same time I want to respect them. Even so, I've already gone behind their backs and have played Fire Emblem games, which I'm sure they wouldn't like.
Okay. Anyone want to know why Pokemon is shunned by many Christians? Here's the guy who seemed to have started it all.
Now, clearly there are so many darn misunderstandings by this man, it cringes me to think how this happened. My first guess would be that his kid was playing the new video game "Poh-Kee-Mon", and told him to tell him what he was playing. Perhaps the child didn't quite understand what was happening on the screen and said it was "magic", and the Pokemon gave him "magical powers" to kill others in battle. Now I'll have you know, this is before the anime came out, or at least he has not seen the anime, otherwise he'd realize what Pokemon REALLY do (in the context of fiction).
Even though the uploader added clips of the anime into the video, I highly doubt the pastor knew about the anime. That kind of misinformation probably could only come from a child and/or 8-bits (which might be incomprehensible to some people).
Pokemon does not regularly contain any magic, dark powers, and it is not made by the devil, it was made by Gamefreak. There a few Pokemon whom have creepy powers, magical skills, and its design may reference something hell-bound (like ghost-types and Houndoom), but the ones that do are usually culturally based, not biblically based unless the Bible characters has made it that far in culture to become a Pokemon.
I had Christian parents, I went to a Christian private school. My parents let me play Pokemon. In fact it was one of my favorite video games, and imagine how awkward that would be in a Christian private school. I don't know if my parents heard the myths, or just thought those myths were silly. The only thing close thing to disaproval was when my mother told me "Don't physically fight others for fun like Pokemon do".
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I'm trying to imagine a bunch of 6 year olds in a gang, shooting each other over Pokemon.
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