The Doom 4 Honest Trailer.

I give this one full points for making two observations:

  1. Pointing out, however obliquely, that all these mother[EXPLETIVE DELETED] in-game need Jesus*.
  2. Pointing out that this project for explicitly using demonic energy as a power source got far farther down the development and rollout queue than it had any right to.

They also loved DOOM 4, as long as it wasn’t multiplayer.

Moe Lane

*The question of whether or not all these mother[EXPLETIVE DELETED] in general need Jesus is a complicated one, to be sure.  And something that I feel that this site does not have to take an official opinion on, or even an unofficial one with any sort of regulatory teeth backing it up.  But I think that inside the DOOM game it would be fair to take a pro-Jesus policy position. I mean. Demons.

3 thoughts on “The Doom 4 Honest Trailer.”

  1. I can only think of a couple of games that have tried to tackle the “big” questions of demons with respect to their ‘opposition’, as it were.

    Requiem: Avenging angel- a first person shooter from 1999 where you played as an Angel, Malachi. The game’s antagonist is Lilith. I have the game, but I thought it funny when reading the wiki page that it says “Requiem draws heavily on the Bible and Christianity for influences.” A game about angels and demons?!? I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

    Painkiller- another FPS from 2004. The game’s protagonist and his wife are killed in a car crash. His wife gains Heaven, but the protagonist had led a spotty enough life to be consigned to purgatory, where he is recruited by an Angel to kill four of Hell’s generals in order to prevent a war and earn his place in Heaven.

    Hellgate: London- I never played this one personally because the reviews were not very good at all. There was supposed to be an order of Holy warriors (Templar, I think) fighting the demon invasion, along with other player classes.

    With respect to DOOM, however, it very much comes from an era of games (FPS in particular) where story was mostly premise based. The main antagonists for Wolfenstein and DOOM were Nazis and Demons. That was pretty much all you needed to know- that these were guys who needed killing.

    These days I think they actually take the position that using Hell and demons in a game is less controversial than portraying Heaven and Angels.

    Strange days, no?

  2. Love me some Honest Trailers. For me the money quote was “If you have to program your computers to warn of demonic invasions, maybe you should just stop doing whatever it is you’re doing.”

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