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I can't believe I got warm by a fire fed with my manuscript. What a nightmare.
Posted by: Terensire
"I kind of hate you people. You are like the guy who "solved the secret of sandtrap" a few months ago. We have a good game. We like the game. The game likes us. There are one or two things that kind of don't make sence. THEN YOU MORONS COME IN WITH BIBLICAL REFERENCES AND F#@$ UP THE WHOLE THING!.
Now whenever I play I will be thinking of this, and how Bungie puts little messages in the game, AND I WILL GO INSANE!!"
Yo Ryguy Not biblical. Dante did not write the Bible, The Inferno was a social satire most of which critiqued the terrible things that the church had done like say offering to pay your way into heaven. Regardless, its not that a few things here don't make sense and the religious folk are jumping to conclusions, the game is basicly a Sparknote article of the entire poem. Both main characters are knocked unconcious on the way to the city, both pass through evil people being punished for their crimes (greedy lady crushed by atm, homicidal police man shot by firing squad), the final level an underground land of ice. The point is that what Bungie has done is taken an amazing and classical piece of literature akin to works like the Odyssey or Shakespear's plays and integrated it into their own story. It was not done to anger over-sensitive and uninformed gamers like you who want any excuse to fly off the handle, but instead to enrich the entire experience and make it more enjoyable by asking you to use your brain. Were sorry thats to taxing for you.
I agree. This game isn't an attempt at subliminal evangelism. None of the Halo games are. The writers of the game's plot simply embedded references to some of the most influential works of literature of all time into the storyline. There's nothing religious about it and there's no need to dig deep to find out a greater "message" in the game.
I'm going to contrast this to something like Fight Club because a lot of us have seen the movie or read the book. That book is FILLED with references to so many things, mostly popular culture. But that doesn't necessarily mean, as most of us know, that the book is about popular culture itself. And if anyone thinks that it is, then they're thinking in the absolute wrong direction from what the point really is.
Another work of literature that is said to have a lot of Christian themes embedded in it that a lot of us read as children is The Chronicles of Narnia series, which I personally read and enjoyed when I was younger and even still I think they're good books but I had no idea that C.S. Lewis was making ANY religious references or themes in them until I was in my senior year of high school and one of my literature classes pretty much dissected it. I'm not religious personally. I was raised in a Southern Baptist household so I'm familiar with Christianity, but the more references that I found in this series of books the more I was like "Wow. This is pretty well thought out."
I see it as more like an easter egg hunt. Some of the things you see are obvious and some of them take an educated mind to understand or take time and research to be able to put together. But none the less, they're all there for everyone's enjoyment no matter who we are or what part of society we belong to.
You'd be surprised, though, at how many modern works make references to classic ones.
[Edited on 10.15.2009 1:38 PM PDT]