f13.net

In some ways I feel churlish about possibly opening up the work of one person to mockery. It seems like a one person studio who is doing a lot of work in trying to bring a MMO to life. Also, he appears to be using the Torque engine.

But then I read "Christian Young Adult Fantasy" and see the following screenshot and, well, it needs to shown.

(http://www.foundationsofhope.com/screenshots/torque/scubamask1.jpg)

If he pulls it off: great. Well done to him. But I don't like the odds.

EDIT:

Sites -

Game Website: www.foundationsofhope.com
Company Website: www.lethalgamescorporation.com

Nerf priests.

This website is seriously getting on my nerves. It bum rushes my ears the moment I opened it and I can't change the font size. Now their FAQ link doesn't work, though at least their Info link works.

The most annoying thing was that you left me with the wrong impression before I went in. I was thinking someone would try making something original like an MMO world where the garden of eve is in existence or angels have yet turned into demons or something as a kickass as the Word and Void series (modern world meets biblical fantasy). Instead I get another Fantasy world and one that doesn't look like a refreshing take on that premise like Chronicles of Spellborn.

Seriously this mismatch in expectations reminded me of this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw)

Fuck priests. Nerf carpenters.

Great, now i need to know how to get vodka off of an lcd safely.

I hope he makes it just because I like to see one guy in a garage get a game off the ground.

Not interested in playing though.

(Why does anything made with the Torque engine look like ass?  :awesome_for_real:)

This, I suspect, is rich vein of mockery waiting for the razor.

On the other hand, it's interesting to see the blind tendrils of religion groping around our seedy end of the internet. Coming soon: Choir Boyz Online - the most popular MMORPG for clergy with urge-y...

Now, where''d I put that axe?

Dude's name is Leathel Grody.  How is that for a seriously badass pen name? 

As for the game, I didn't realize lizard people were in the Bible, but I'm cool with that.

If you read the site, its his MMO that he is developing based off his own Christian Young Adult Fantasy book series.

The 2D MMO Maker seemed interesting, if limited by the 2D and now on hold while he does FoHO.

Is that a scuba-diving priest with a cape? Is he under water or above water? Why is he in a pose suggesting to me that he's riding a motorcycle? I don't get it! What's going on?!

My brain just asploded from all the shit wrong with this. 

I wonder what kind of foozles God will have you collecting 10 of. 

Lizard people? Ummm.  I wonder who they begat?  Or who begat them?

The raids are going to be awesome.  Bosses like "The Fornicator" or "The Blasphemer".  Because hey, we already killed Diablo. 

Scuba diving for Christ...  Jesus. 

Well you need to kill 100 leviathons before Jesus allows you to walk on water.

I was talking to a friend of mine about this game, and I think he summed up everything that is fail about this project:

   :awesome_for_real:

Its not the engine. Its the art.

2 of everything. It's an ongoing quest with lots of dings. Whoever wins gets to live on a boat and everyone else's characters gets deleted.


Manifestations of the 7 sins, obviously.


The raids will actually be missions where you attempt to "re-educate" entire towns on the east and west coasts of modern America.


That's actually a mission from the Vatican, they're sending you to find the Ark of the Covenant. Much like Jedi, they'll be added in a stealth patch.

A Vatican MMO would kick ass. 

FIFY.

For what it's worth, I'm very tired.

Being a Catholic, I should probably be supportive of this game (unless this dude's a fundie?  I can't be arsed to read the web site), but I'll probably go with the mockery angle on this one anyway.

Lethal Games doesn't strike me as a very likely name for the "publisher" of a Christian MMOG.  And if the design of the website is annoying, that doesn't give a lot of HOPE (lolz) for the design of the game.

I do sort of hope the priest with scuba gear (Holy Diver? geez this is a gold mine) is not actually underwater, but indeed riding a motorcycle.  That would make it entertaining in a Crispin Glover sort of way.

Funny, to anyone non-christian it's pretty appropriate.

Christian music doesn't have to suck.  It just tends to suck because making good music isn't the primary goal.  I would think the same issue would apply here.

Is this Christian death metal?

You're starting a religion?

Yep, one of the OG's too.

Finally!

I am pretty sure he lost the fundies when he put up the screenshots with dragons in them.

He might get the snake-handler niche group with the snake-ish people, however.

Yeah, but presumably a Christian named it. :headscratch:

Dude, no ripping on mortification. One of the few good Christian bands ever. They were from Australian, had 2 guitarists, 1 left handed. They'd do these dueling solos that look pretty awesome... cause, you know... dude was left handed and it was like this mirror thing... whatever.

Anyways, they had the guts to show up at metal-mania back in the 90's. All 20 bands before them and 20 bands after them hand pentagrams and were spitting blood, etc... and up comes this dude that says "I'm an ordained christian minister, and this is my deathmetal band, mortification." It was pretty awesome to see live.

please let there be pvp...please let there be pvp...

Who is ripping on them? Wasn't me. I think i still have a tapesomewhere.

I'm going to play the Carpenter class
-Self Rez
-Summon Zombie pets and name them! (Lazarus for instance)
-Summon Food (Loaves at lvl 1, Fishes at lvl 2)

Yeah...this is too easy...

Will there be a Heteroy class?

I wanna be a leper and infect the healthy. Lepers = Bible zombies.

I thought
Mormons = Bible Zombies

All of you idiots who want to play carpenter are going to be sorely disappointed.  There have been millions and millions and carpenters before and after Jesus, and none of them could do anything more than make tables.  Jesus was a hacker, you don't nerf a class because of rumors about one dude who just happened to be one.  And yes, rumors, did any of you witness this hacking? I thought not.

And yes Lantyssa, I am starting my own religion, I'm just waiting on the cult robes I ordered from that infomercial to arrive.

Jesus started off as Carpenter but was the first on his server to unlock Jedi.

I thinking of rolling a Televangelist specc'd in Weightlifting, but I'm not sure I want to grind telephone book-tearing for faction.

I'm waiting for the expansion which will add the Elvis impersonator & WWF fighter classes.

I'm rolling whatever class this guy is...

(http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/201105/wtf.JPG)

Spoilered for NSFW language!!  He's boisterous. 

Hey, it's my old friend.

(http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/39720/animated%20gifs/black_preacher_anim.GIF)

Edit: Holy shit, 32,000 posts.

To be fair "Angels and Demons" (which deals with Vatican politics and the Papal elections) is a FAR more exiting and better Dan Brown Book than "The Da Vinci Code", which I found pretty crap, even without all the blatant historical mangling he did in it.

As for this game I wish him well. There far too little independent gaming these days.

Yeah, I figured he'd been around the block here already... had to make sure to spread the good word though, in case anyone missed it.   :awesome_for_real:

Well, if schild is gonna be that dude, I'm rolling as

(http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/F/father_ted/pf/images/pictures/1.jpg)

I bags this preacher:

(http://www.morethings.com/fan/night_of_the_hunter/night_of_the_hunter-034.jpg)