Bible Navigator X costs on Xbox Live News

Will it have achievements?

Are there any achievements? And by that I mean for my gamerscore and not by a bearded man in robes.

Yep, the achievements are:

* Turn water into wine
* Feed 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes
* Walk on water
* Etc

Can I make ammendments? Some of it is shit.

Sweet Jesus! ... so to speak.


Secret achievement.

* Fool the population of the world

360 exclusive too, eh? That should make for some great fanboy arguments.

God prefers the 360. Proof.

"God prefers the 360. Proof."

Considering Bill Gates is God, this is indeed proof.

The name suggests that the bible turned into some sort of Xtreme sports game or a scrolling shooter.

Will it have logic bugs?

I love the way they added an "X" in order to "get down with da kids"

LOL it isn't exactly a donation if it's mandatory is it?

I presume it has Hypocrisy, Self-Contradiction and We-Just-Randomly-Pick-Stuff-Out-Of-This-Part-To-Justify-Homo
phobia-But-Ignore-The-Rest-Because-It's-Inconvenient searchable indexes too.

Oh, and examples of translation errors being behind some of the 'miracles'.

Does it have quick time events?

If it does I'm not getting it.

Is there a gun pointing into the screen?

"Oh, and examples of translation errors being behind some of the 'miracles'."

That and the old "nobody actually wrote any of this down until a few hundred years after the people being quoted died you know" bug bear.

Translation errors are only half the probelm when you have a couple of centuries of "XYZ happened, pass-it-on" buggering about with the details before you even get as far as translating anything.

"The Xbox [360] isn't just secular entertainment anymore"
Ah yes, because if it isn't Christian or another religion then it's part of some unified secular group, that's why there has be a Christian equivalent of anything mainstream - even as far as Christian TV channels, rap and rock music and games too.

I don't have a problem with someone putting their religious text in a game or as an app on XBL, but that sort of attitude really annoys me.

How can a donation be mandatory? :/

You have been crucified. Continue?

Epic win! Actually that should be Biblical Win!!

Can we also have the "Great Orbiting Teapot: mini game collection" please.

What translation are they using and how good is it? Did they replace God's name JHWH with something like 'Lord' or not?

Anyway, I wonder how this will sell. I suspect a target audience conflict.

Heavens above!

@ kangarootoo

Actually, many scholars strongly suggest that Mark's Gospel (the first Gospel) was written approximately 30 years after the death of Christ.

Also, it is widely believed that two of the Gospel authors (Matthew and John) were disciples of Christ, and therefore witnessed the events themselves. Of the other two authors, Mark was a companion of St Peter (another disciple who witnessed the events) and is believed to have based his Gospel on his recollections. Finally, Luke was a companion of St Paul the Apostle, who was famously converted by the risen Christ soon after the crucifixion.

Thus, rather than being written a couple of hundred years after the events, it appears that the Gospels were actually written very soon after the death of Christ by people who knew him, or were based on the accounts of those who were with him.

Does it have dedicated servers?

"Can we also have the "Great Orbiting Teapot: mini game collection" please. "

None of your Flying Spaghetti Monster style satire here!

'This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore.'

Can you imagine how gutted you'd be if as a kid you just whacked on the Xbox and your dad comes and tells you he wants some quality Bible time. Way to ruin some poor kid's life.

£3.40? You can get it free in any hotel room or old building with a fucked roof!

@VandelayIndustries \ SleepyDeathFred: But there must be a Flying Spaghetti Monster version too as people MUST be told about the causation of pirates and global warming.

(Seriously. And the profits could go directly to charity)

Oh me oh my...

Let's publish the Origin of Species for free on PSN.. for free

ban this sick filth

My country does not have Indie Games channel, we're doomed now!!!

/heeds the call of duty and goes back to shooting infidels

Actually, yeah; I hope someone does do an Origin of the Species & The Descent of Man.

Probably for cheaper, too.

@SpaceInvader it's also true that the books didn't turn up till 100 years after they were supposedly written and were anonymous for a while until someone put these guys names to it.

@SpaceInvader

I don't doubt that most of what is written is based on personal accounts. My point was that a personal account passed on by word of mouth loses its integrity.

Some of the text was originally written soon after the events, I agree. But equally large portions were not documented for many generations. Even 30 years is a long time, especially if the text is not written by the original witness.


"Finally, Luke was a companion of St Paul the Apostle, who was famously converted by the risen Christ soon after the crucifixion."

Talking of the risen christ, I was listening to a radio programme recently about that very event. Is it true that when Luke first met the "risen christ", he didn't recognise him? I don't want to go out on a limb here, but is it not possible that the reason he didn't recognise him was because it wasn't in fact the same person (raising question over the whole "risen" aspect of things)?

I'm eager to learn (rather than just continually be sarcastic just for the sake of it), so a link or two wouldn't go amiss.

Btw, I +1'd both SpaceInvader and thesombrerokid, 'cos its important having both sides of the debate involved (there is nothing more boring than a room full of sanctimonious aetheists all in smug agreement - i.e. me and my friends when I was 17).

I am not going to be converted anytime soon, but knowledge is still good.

I think really a biblical game would work best as a beat'em up. You could even have a cross over with Origin of the Species and have Jesus take on Darwin to settle that debate once and for all. I would definitely buy such a game.

Slagging on the religious is so cool.

"This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore."

...and incest.

@SAMagic

"Ah yes, because if it isn't Christian or another religion then it's part of some unified secular group"

Well, yes. Because that is what the word secular means.

Either something is spiritual, or it isn't (even if that isn't its main focus). And if it isn't, it is secular. A game that doesn't have religious content is secular, simply because of the absence of religious content. It has to be one or the other.

Edit:
secular

Of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
Not pertaining to or connected with religion

This thread should be secular.

@GamerG
I love the way they added an "X" in order to "get down with da kids"

I assumed that it was because Bible Navigator I to IX had already been released. Bloody sequels, how's about some new IP?

@Skurmedel

You obviously have a bit of a bee in your bonnet, which I can understand 'cos people do confuse questioning of religion with mocking religious people (me included at times).

Is it that which you object to, or more any questioning of the existence of God at all (and all that entails)?

I'd have rather had a cool platform game about the Bible. That would have been sweet. Maybe heresy, but sweet.

Questioning is not the problem, as you, and myself do. That is in fact healthy.

The downright slagging that goes on in the above is though, some of the comments are funny yes, some are rather ignorant. I'm quite used to these discussions on the net and they tend to end in "group think" or a flame war.

@Skurmedel

Fair point, and I quite agree.

Been looking up groupthink. Interesting stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

Some good methods for avoiding it mentioned in the page. Though personally, I think I have an allergy to it, as I much prefer playing devil's advocate.