Something funny...

[Frodo13.]

Ive compleated Reistance. The fact that the character is shooting ALIENS and not HUMANS makes it an entirely diffrent matter.

The Church of England is making such an issue out of this. Think of games like GTA: LCS, where the vicar gets Toni to kill people and comitt crimes, there was no fuss over that. And think of all the war games where people have war in church...

[GommeInc]

Yea but you still need to remember the much younger children like under 10, I know people under 10 play the game because there parents don't care, children that young will not know the difference between fiction and reality, up until a certain age they'll probably believe anything you tell them

Then it is the parents to blame for letting underaged children play a game like that.

The church are just finding something to moan about. The Cathedral is being saved by someone destroying the evil that has fallen upon it. Why can't religious believers see the oh so obvious?

[Neil]

Then it is the parents to blame for letting underaged children play a game like that.

The church are just finding something to moan about. The Cathedral is being saved by someone destroying the evil that has fallen upon it. Why can't religious believers see the oh so obvious?

Yea but to them it's a big deal, I'm sure you'd feel the same way if they did a game and you're house was in it and looked almost exactly the same, there are various security issues aswell as other things that would happen

[GommeInc]

Yea but to them it's a big deal, I'm sure you'd feel the same way if they did a game and you're house was in it and looked almost exactly the same, there are various security issues aswell as other things that would happen

I wouldn't really mind? I wouldn't mind if any building I knew was in the game? I don't exactly worship my house and it's just a building to me. There aren't really any security issues either? To enter a cathedral, you either go through the main entrance, vestrary (sp) entrance or the entrace on the left of the main entrance? I doubt a game would add vents, boiler rooms etc.

It's fictional, they should accept it as that. The point of the game was and is fictional, it was probably far from from harming the actual people who worship there. I would actually find it quite humerous, you could point out what parts are what and where you sit in the cathedral on the game. It's just a low level excuse to moan.

[Neil]

I wouldn't really mind? I wouldn't mind if any building I knew was in the game? I don't exactly worship my house and it's just a building to me. There aren't really any security issues either? To enter a cathedral, you either go through the main entrance, vestrary (sp) entrance or the entrace on the left of the main entrance? I doubt a game would add vents, boiler rooms etc.

It's fictional, they should accept it as that. The point of the game was and is fictional, it was probably far from from harming the actual people who worship there. I would actually find it quite humerous, you could point out what parts are what and where you sit in the cathedral on the game. It's just a low level excuse to moan.

It is a security issue because you can walk around and look at all the things in the room, find good places for stuff, say if a terrorist wanted to attack it they could just use the game to find places to hide bombs or ways to get out quickly

[GommeInc]

It is a security issue because you can walk around and look at all the things in the room, find good places for stuff, say if a terrorist wanted to attack it they could just use the game to find places to hide bombs or ways to get out quickly

Churches aren't exactly hard places to plan an attack on. There are pews? So you have about 50+ pews to hide a bomb under. You have the altar which is probably good aswell. Although churches/cathedrals are quite solid buildings, and an attack would be kinda poor. Unless they bring in giant explosives the size of a water cooler water bottle. And another reason an attack on the church is kinda poor is that they're not crowded by objects and I imagine people check areas before and after a service? Would the game even have that good detail? The game seems kinda bare?

If they use the excuse for a terrorist attack, it is just a poor excuse at the end of the day, anywhere can suffer an attack. I doubt the cathedral would be any greater than a monumental building like Parliament or even the Tower of London. The only reason they have against the game is that it shows, graphically, the house of God being shot to bits and destroyed in one way or another.

[Neil]

Churches aren't exactly hard places to plan an attack on. There are pews? So you have about 50+ pews to hide a bomb under. You have the altar which is probably good aswell. Although churches/cathedrals are quite solid buildings, and an attack would be kinda poor. Unless they bring in giant explosives the size of a water cooler water bottle. And another reason an attack on the church is kinda poor is that they're not crowded by objects and I imagine people check areas before and after a service? Would the game even have that good detail? The game seems kinda bare?

If they use the excuse for a terrorist attack, it is just a poor excuse at the end of the day, anywhere can suffer an attack. I doubt the cathedral would be an greater than a monumental building like Parliament or even the Tower of London. The only reason they have against the game is that it shows, graphically, the house of God being shot to bits and destroyed in one way or another.

It would be pointless to attack a church but the thing is you need permission for stuff like that, if you use a real car in a game you need permission to use the cars name, I'm guessing this church is thinking the same way, even if an attack seems very unlikely who knows, who would of expected 9/11? It's just a precaution

[GommeInc]

But the precaution isn't required to be greater than any other place? And I don't think you need to ask permission to use a church. I've not come across it at least. A car is generally copyrighted as it were, to the company, but a church is, just a church? A landmark, not a trademark.

[CrazyColaist]

o they gunna sue sony?


o Sue em all you want!

[Neil]

But the precaution isn't required to be greater than any other place? And I don't think you need to ask permission to use a church. I've not come across it at least. A car is generally copyrighted as it were, to the company, but a church is, just a church? A landmark, not a trademark.

Yea but if they want to take it then they can, a boy did a Counter-Strike map that looked exactly like his school, they found out transfered him and deleted the map, just as a precaution