karnak1: All the games from...
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Thanks for the recommendations. I'm positively surprised by your Vampire - The Masquerade: Redemption recommendation. Really good to know.
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Wishmaster777: Download Medieval II - Total War version 1.0, pick up a Catholic faction, launch a Crusade. There you have it. Very Catholic-friendly game. As a Catholic myself I like it a lot.
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Thank you. I was already intrigued by this game and so this one goes to my Wishlist.
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morolf: Maybe Kingdom come: Deliverance, for its non-hostile portrayal of medieval Christendom. Haven't played it myself though.
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Really good game indeed, all 50 gb of it.
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thegreyshadow: I'd recommend a masterpiece although it's a flawed one: Far Cry 2. Obviously, very adult outlook and very violent.
But in a sea of grey, the only good ones are the Underground folks, and it's even hinted that one of their leaders gave his life for his people, all due to Christian principles and beliefs. I was very surprised to see a fair portrayal of Christians in a major game.
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And this one has a nice discount right now, thanks for pointing it out.
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https://www.gog.com/game/driftmoon That said, consider that there are people who have played this game, who don't identify with that type of religion, who find the material in the game very "in your face"...just like you, OP, are trying to avoid on the opposite end of things.
So I'd like to recommend both the game and consideration of that point.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Regarding your point, well, I don't know how much "in your face" it is, but if it is too much maybe this should indeed be in the store page (although it is in the reviews. I wish people were so thrilled to point out some other things in other games the same way they bring this up in those reviews though); maybe a single phrase like "fantasy with Christian undertones". The thing is that, overall, the better the authors are at writing, the better they can get away with it. Tolkien's works are pretty Catholic (and, according to him, this was a conscient effort during his editing more so than during the writing, which is something that I find not that easy to do - I say this as a writer myself) and still people don't go writing "well, that was pretty Catholic of him" in their reviews of the books - well, that is, unless you are Catholic yourself.
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I pretty much own everything you quoted so I cheer you for your good taste. I'm pretty much a wargamer at the end of the day.
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Mafwek: Sweet Emperor of Mankind, this identity politics is really getting ridiculous!
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I don't think that means what you think it means, but ok. This has less to do with my identity and more with what I (and people like me) enjoy playing and what I don't. Many times certain themes and motifs remain hidden until you come across them, and store pages are quite often pretty vague regarding plot (and that's understandable). That's why threads like this may be useful for people like me (and hey, they may be useful for people unlike me as well. You may want to check what games appear in this thread and avoid them altogether because they are too friendly to people like me).
Obs.: and I got your Warhammer 40k reference btw ;P .