Whats your view on movies or games making up creation stories

[Lars]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

 

[Spirit of Light]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

I Seldom watch movies, and dont play video games, so it does not bother me if they borrow some aspect from religious text

 

[Father Heathen]

 

[danieldemol]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

Well since religions made up creation stories i don't see any reason to be against anyone else doing it.

 

[Martin]

I like that one about the "big bang".

 

[exchemist]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

I would never watch such a film (likely to be too dull/annoying) and I don't play video games.

 

[ChristineM]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

Many reliions have made up many (at least 3800) creator gods. I see no problem with games following suit, just so long as gamers don't try to make a world government out of it

 

[SomeRandom]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

Do you mean in world mythical lore? If so, then I’m all for it. I’m a high fantasy nerd

 

[Brickjectivity]

If its done well then i find it interesting.

Mainly this one from my favorite turn based RPG. On Playstation 1. Jade Cocoon. Seems to borrow some elements of sin of creation from Abrahamic branch, and somehow borrows some names from it too. But overall blends its own rules to it

The most famous example is actually not a game but is a book by J.R. Tolkien called The Silmarillion. It is published as a prequel to his Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books, but he writes it simultaneously and just publishes it after the others. One reason its so popular is that he weaves in bits from stories from various cultures of the British Isles to invent a mystical world of different species of men. He comes up with languages for different groups such as elves and orcs; and these are based in those cultures. Its all invented, but its an entire fictional world. Since him others have imitated him, but he's the one who invents the modern concept of wizards, elves, orcs, etc. When you see elves and orcs in something like WOW these borrow from Tolkien and indirectly from the Silmarillion.

 

[sun rise]

I absolutely loved the book and TV Series "Good Omens". Parts are from a literal reading of the Bible but a lot was just made up.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The most famous example is actually not a game but is a book by J.R. Tolkien called The Silmarillion. It is published as a prequel to his Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books, but he writes it simultaneously and just publishes it after the others. One reason its so popular is that he weaves in bits from stories from various cultures of the British Isles to invent a mystical world of different species of men. He comes up with languages for different groups such as elves and orcs; and these are based in those cultures. Its all invented, but its an entire fictional world. Since him others have imitated him, but he's the one who invents the modern concept of wizards, elves, orcs, etc. When you see elves and orcs in something like WOW these borrow from Tolkien and indirectly from the Silmarillion.

Ehhhh. Mostly true but Tolkien borrowed extensively and heavily from Norse beliefs (hence the elves, dwarves, orcs and wizards.
Not as much the Briton Isles as Tolkien himself indicated a disliking of the Celts.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Ehhhh. Mostly true but Tolkien borrowed extensively and heavily from Norse beliefs (hence the elves, dwarves, orcs and wizards.
Not as much the Briton Isles as Tolkien himself indicated a disliking of the Celts.

A dislike of Celts. Interesting. Do you think it flavors his description of any of the characters in the books in an obvious way? I don't know what a Celt is other than from films.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Do you think it flavors his description of any of the characters in the books in an obvious way?

Not that I've noticed, but I'm not actually watching these sort of things to analyze them in such ways. With Middle Earth, I've just noticed a very hefty Norse "story base" that I've always been surprised Gandalf doesn't lose an eye.
Usually it has to be way obvious like in Fight Club for me to notice, and then before long I'm pointing out how Fight Club is a Marxist sub-culture based on the strong parallels between that and the descriptions used in the basement scene (and Palahniuk has said maybe a million times that Foucault strongly drives his stories).

I don't know what a Celt is other than from films.

Among other things, they've often been repressed and oppressed and just hated by the English Anglo-Saxons (proper image of that anyways).
The culture was very widespread throughout Eurasia pre-Roman empire, and after that the Briton Isles and Ireland (or the Insular Celts) and where the Celtic culture lasted the longest.