Finally, Equal Time For The Chosen People

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 17 Comments

I bet you’d go to synagogue more if your rabbi was shadow spec.

Screen-shot-2009-07-21-at-10.22.36-AM14.png

Taken from new Evony clone HI THERE!, where you can fight with “Holly light” and, apparently judging by the counter at the top of the page, the developers assume that only real females would pick the scantily clad druidess.

I couldn’t get past page 2 on my Macbook running Safari. Maybe you can do better!

Hat tip: Thomas Bidaux

This entry was posted in Told You They Were Hardcore, _. Bookmark the permalink.
  • Jeremy Preacher

    You know, part of me thinks that’s a hilariously awesome bit of PC-ness and… part of me is appalled that the rabbi’s head is uncovered.

  • Raelyf

    Lacking a Cpt’n Picard facepalm emoticon, there is no appropriate response for this.

  • Aufero

    The idea that Evony is profitable enough that someone would want to clone it fills me with horror.

  • Bleaktea

    If your rabbi has bone-white skin and glowing, crackling eyes, it may be time to consider a new temple.

    (That said, “rabbi” can be an interesting way to play a wizard in a modern fantasy setting… but somehow I don’t think that’s the aim here).

  • http://tprjones.com TPRJones

    It occurs to me that having you cleric class be able to choose to be “Rabbi” or “Mullah” or “Priest” or “Reverend” wouldn’t be all bad. Then players could enact the modern day Holy Wars and work off some of that aggression in video games instead of on each other. After all, recent studies have hinted that more playing violent video games may lead to less real-world violence committed by those with such tendancies.

    Who knows, maybe we could drop game CDs and cheap laptops on the hot spots in the Middle East and end all the wars!

  • NBarnes

    Actually, I was thinking really hard about playing a rabbi wizard in an upcoming D&D campaign that a friend is running. He runs magical-historical, and I was pondering a character who was really interested in the metamagical ‘whys’ of the universe.

    I probably won’t, ’cause I’d probably do something stupid like have him leave his head uncovered and then feel like an appropriating insensitive jackass.

  • http://slashgab.wordpress.com Ninetytwo

    I’m going to dual-spec Cantor / Moyel.

  • Jeremy Preacher

    Moyel would be a wicked effective melee class.

  • tannenburg

    Why does this whole idea force me to relive the Inquisition song-and-dance number from Mel Brook’s History of the World in a technicolor flashback? Why?

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    Trying to view screenshots of the game takes you to a forum where a lolicon catgirl fetishist has posted them up on the thread. Unfortunately, the thread it set so that only registered users can view attachments.

  • Gx1080

    [/imagen]http://koltchak91120.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/double-facepalm.jpg[/imagen]

  • Gx1080
  • http://tprjones.com TPRJones

    “Moyel would be a wicked effective melee class.”

    I find your ideas very terrifying.

  • Vetarnias

    Hmm, are you quite sure it’s called “Hi There” and not “Hit Here”? Some of those URL names are quite confusing; just ask the proprietors of Pen Island…

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    The logo top and center makes it pretty clear that “Hi There” is intended through color variation. The ambiguity was nonetheless well spotted. Either way, I figure that chances are they either got the domain name from a cyber squatter or a relation.

    I get the feeling that this game isn’t so much an Evony clone as it is both games are just two drops in the bucket of a bunch of browser-based Civilization-clones.

  • Steve

    “That said, “rabbi” can be an interesting way to play a wizard in a modern fantasy setting… but somehow I don’t think that’s the aim here”

    The old DOS game Darklands actually did that, although in a Christian setting. The cleric class is a Catholic priest, and to cast spells you pray to various saints.

  • Vetarnias

    @geldonyetich

    Yeah, that was clear to me as well; yet I can’t make the connection between the URL and the real name of the game.