rare xenogears

[lain]

What is the deal with xenogears? I mean it is the hardest game in the world to find. I used to own it but someone stole it from me. I found the religous aspect of the game very cotradictory to my beliefs about God. What are your thoughts?

[Razgriz]

Xenogears takes a lot from the bible, though not Christianity per se. The entire timeline of the Xenogears world is based off of (very loosely, and huge changes.) the OT (the past) to the NT (where you start off in the game). The game was never was intended to be Christian by any means, though some subjects and wordings are rather inflammatory and controversial IMO, I do not believe that it has anything to do with Christianity or the Christian faith in itself (and it's also not a Christian game), so it's not contradictory because it's not Christian. If you feel that this isn't the type of game you should be playing, then you shouldn't.

To mods: Thanks. (for moving this thread)

[Rashiir]

It's rare because when it was released in America, Square underestimated how popular it would become and released only a small number of copies. I liked the game, though I didn't get much of the storyline since I got stuck in the Babel Tower.

[MasterDias]

I enjoyed the game although the second disk's gameplay could've been improved a lot. Square stuck in a whole bunch of religious references such as Noah's Ark, Cain and Abel, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
It wasn't really that offensive to me although some of it was a bit on the strange side. It had one of the best storylines in an RPG IMO and a superb soundtrack by one of my favorite video game composers, Yasunori Mitsuda, who also did the excellent soundtracks of Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Xenosaga.

[Razgriz]

Babel Tower, LOL, that place was miserable to say the least. Yeah, Yasunori Mitsuda is a great musician, I didn't like his work as much in XS as in XG though. On another note, XS doesn't have as much references in it...yet.

[Saint]

Love that game soo much. Yeah i heard that you can get a pretty good price trading it in, but there is no chance that i will do that. the story was out there (like quite a few Japanese sci-fi-"fantasy" games). Loved the anime cut-scenes. *my mistake on the game was not learning that you could gain back fuel in the gears. let me tell you, this made it very, very hard. i wondered why the gear battles were so insanely out of proportion with the character battles. i don't look for much in the stories of these games. and instead of offense i more see it as they being confused on the subject. kinda sad.