This is an old subject, and it will probably be debated back and forth until we are all gray. Violence, religion, and sex have all been used to get us to play, and oddly enough, religion seems to draw the most fire. I wonder why they re ever released. Since this is an RPG column, that s mainly where I will focus, but this topic can be applied to just about any genre.
Religion is the biggest hot subject in RPGs, or at least a good number of people make it out to be.
Xenogears drew constant fire because it apparently had anti-religious elements in the plot. Now, I have yet to find a single soul on the Net who can easily explain what the big deal was. The closest I ve come is someone saying the main character questioned why religion existed, and that he was used by religion somehow. That s it. Most of the war was smoke screen apparently.