Garras on 1/11/2010 at 13:23
I've been thinking a bit about games and their stories just lately, and thinking about how complex the Thief story can be, and how immersed you can get and how it can almost become a way of life. I wondered if any of you had ever thought about using Thief as a religion?
I hope this doesn't sound too 'out there', but let's face it - the Jediism 'religion' is based around the Star Wars films and franchise. And Thief kind of has all the religious material already available, what with the scriptures and stuff from the Hammerites, Pagans and Mechanists.
Has this idea ever crossed anyone's mind before? Would anyone be interested in 'creating' this?
Melan on 1/11/2010 at 13:44
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I hope this doesn't sound too 'out there'
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but let's face it - the Jediism 'religion' is based around the Star Wars films and franchise.
And it is dorky as hell. :angel:
nbohr1more on 1/11/2010 at 14:30
More believable than the story of Xenu... :cool:
(L Ron Hubbard should've hired the writers from LGS :thumb: ).
Garras on 1/11/2010 at 15:19
Ah, you must be referring to Scientology then?
Bluegrime on 1/11/2010 at 18:20
I don't do this part of the community but that thread title was too great to pass up. It did not disappoint.
Xorak on 2/11/2010 at 02:33
We are a small group, but someday we will avenge our Father Karrass. Every morning I cut myself as a remembrance for what Garrett did to that great man.
Honestly though, Jediism exists because some people actually believe in it as a way of life. What is the point of 'creating' a religion that everybody knows is just a game. Why turn religion into a gimmick? To me, the religion in the game isn't really profound or complex. Other than some neatly worded readables, the characters and tenets are pretty basic stuff.
negativeliberty on 2/11/2010 at 04:42
OP don't take this the wrong way but I think that's a bit self-defeating. I mean, even disregarding that it's, well, fictional, and that in this fictional universe there are several distinct religions (even if they are analogues to existing ones) please keep in mind that these are portrayed, at best, at power-hungry megalomaniacs (mirroring in fact the gods they worship, which should tell you something).
It feels very wrong somehow, taking an experience like Thief and turning it into something it's not. Like basing some spiritual nonsense on a great surrealist work when the artist was known to be adverse to religion, royally missing the point.
Although everyone's free to express their fandom however they see fit of course.
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To me, the religion in the game isn't really profound or complex. Other than some neatly worded readables, the characters and tenets are pretty basic stuff.
That's weird, I think it's a pretty well-versed yarn on the idiocy of religion, set in a fantasy universe no less where gods actually exist in some form or another and are every bit as twisted as they would be. You can't actually look at the apparent "tenets" of the various orders and not detect a fair amount of justifiable ridiculing in the writing itself.
Koki on 2/11/2010 at 07:36
There was a thread about Hammerit...ism not too long ago.
