Gods, these people are worse than Christian and Islamic radicals. At least they embace gaming as a properganda tool (albiet very poorly).

I hope this doesn't stifle growth of the Indian game dev industry (or what industry might be trying to grow there to begin with).

crazy people are crazy.

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 Yes those people in another country who released the game only in their country need to respect our religion which is technically theirs and in fact if you want to even be more technical who better to decide what is wrong or right for our religion then the very regions it was birthed from.

Ah it reminds me of the Muslims and the cartoons just you know without the rocks and burning of course there is still time; there is still hope.

I will say this it does make me proud to see Hindus in America embracing the American way pushing their beliefs off on everyone else and making demands.  I just get ... so ... I can't go on excuse me I have something in my eyes.

It's just certain American and Australian Hindu groups trying come up with a false issue in order to raise money and promote their causes.  A non-issue like this is is perfect. Let's look at a couple of things:

1. There are many ultra-Hindus still India.  People still get hanged for marrying outside of caste. The Dalits (untouchables) still suffer horribly.  http://www.ambedkar.org/

So the logical point is, if they're not upset by the video game, how offensive can it really be?

2. Let's face it. It could be a lot worse.  How many games have a pseudo-Christian church as the ultimate villian?  How many games do you actually fight/kill God?  Video games haven't been exactly friendly with religion.  Frankly, when it comes video games if your religion doesn't come off as the festering pit of humanity that corrupts the world, you should be happy.

3. Does anyone see a group Indians developing a game that is offensive?  I mean if they are not Hindu themselves (which they probably are), they've grown up with it enough to know what the general populance would find offensive.

This may seem like a dickish question, but have Indian game companies thought of making games not based in Hinduism? Obviously I'm not saying they should back down from this bullshit outrage, but as a business it seems like they might want to expand their creative options.

This is going to be one of thse situations isn't it, where thousands of people complain about something that they didn't even know they were offended at until someone else told them to be.

Kind of like the Johnathon Ross/Russell Brand debacle in the UK, the first time it showed, 6 people complained, once it hit the headlines, 15,000 people watched the re-run and then complained...

Hmm... Aside from MegaTen, Hamlet 2, Dogma, and Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 (not to mention South Park), I think Sony should ignore the protests. What can I say, aside from "equal oppertunity".