**BioShock Infinite**

When are you getting it?

  • Pre-Ordered already! ^.^

    Votes: 5 38.5%
  • Launch Day :D

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Somewhere down the line... -_-

    Votes: 6 46.2%
  • NEVAR >:O

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • Total voters
    13
Which is your favorite Vigor?

mine is Ram, Lightning, and Fire so far...
and yes i already obtained all 8.
 
So I began playing this and I started to get the distinct impression it was written by an atheist/somebody who didn't really understand (or was even hostile to) religion. So I decided to see if anyone else thought this and I find this on the internet:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/01/b...st-resigned-over-antagonists-religious-views/

Creative Director Ken Levine stresses the difficulty in creating Comstock as a designer from a non-religious background, and he recalls how a certain end-game scene with the character nearly caused an Irrational artist to quit in protest.

“There was a scene in the game at the end where one of our artists got to a point in the game, played it, turned off BioShock, opened up his computer, opened Microsoft Word, and wrote a resignation letter,” Levine says. “It had offended him so much.”

Last month, Levine spoke of a certain Infinite character getting “highly altered” after input from religious team members. It seems the character in question is Comstock, and Levine used the artist’s concerns as a springboard for deepening the character’s traits regarding faith beyond his limited interaction with religion.

I can only imagine what it was like before. Contemplate the irony around the fact that the offensive, period depictions of minorities in the game (like the foreign hordes caricatures) would obviously be expressions from people which are coming from a place of ignorance, and here you have an allegedly modern writer espousing his views on religion while remaining largely ignorant of it. If you are a religious person, you are the caricature. Thank God people on the team decided to speak up.
 
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