Wow...this game was just, awful. I am honestly almost insulted by how half-assed of an attempt EA and Visceral Games made when creating this game. The combat is literally just God of War reskinned with a scythe instead of the blades of chaos. The level design is only good for about the first two rings (Lust and Gluttony), then it just becomes a repetitive, uninspired borefest with the non-sensical aspect of just stuffing a bunch of enemies from previous rings into later ones, which makes no sense at all, with the exception of the lame, generic demon guys with horns. The storyline is a pile of shit with Dante being so one dimensional and unoriginal that i may even venture to define him as being only one-half dimensional. Aside from some pretty amazing artistic design on certain levels and enemies, this game takes no liberties to add anything original or unique to its crappy copy and paste adaptation of the original text; instead it just dumbs down the underlying symbolism of the original text. The 9 rings, while they did work in the poem, tend to overlap way too much, with regards to Fraud, Greed, and Treachery being too similar, and also with regard to Violence and Anger being too similar, and i think having Heresy be a ring is just intolerant of other religions. Oh and of utmost irritation is the fact that you fucking kill Death in the beginning of the game and steal his scythe! That makes no fucking sense what so fucking ever!!! How can you kill that which is the actual embodiment of being killed!? And even if Dante were to somehow do such a feat against what is essentially the most powerful force in the universe, how the fuck could he then later on be killed by demons or be able to kill other demons? Wouldn't that also eliminate anyone on Earth from being able to die, and would therefore put an end to any new spiris entering the after life? SO FUCKING DUMB!!! God, I thought this game was gonna be bad ever since i saw the first trailer, but i didn't think it could be this awful. I hope Visceral Games is banished to Pluto and revoked of their rights to produce anymore cow tripe on a disc that bears the false label of being a "video game."
Dante's Inferno
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Stopped reading right there, thinking the game is awful is your opinion and I respect that, but if you want us to read your "wall of text," the least you can do is not start off like that.RickRoll said:
mate you should have got it by now, hate is only funny when yahtzee does it
if you dont like a game, then its your thing, but "dantes inferno: discuss"? its too open. be a bit more specific, or have a theme
also, after
also, you basically just say "i hate it its bad i hate it wahwahwah" be more specific
if you dont like a game, then its your thing, but "dantes inferno: discuss"? its too open. be a bit more specific, or have a theme
also, after
i skim read just in case you were going to be ironic, then i sawRickRoll said:
noRickRoll said:
also, you basically just say "i hate it its bad i hate it wahwahwah" be more specific
what? hes probably one of the most original and deep characters this year. do you think about what you were writing or just copy yahtzee and think you are funny? or did you skip all the cutscenes?RickRoll said:
While I'm not as...zealous as RickRoll seems to be, I also noticed every detail (copy and paste from God of War, the problem of killing Death, boring levels, etc) just playing the demo and have to agree with his assessment of Dante's Inferno: 1 out of 5 stars. If that.
Death is literally the door to the afterlife.Dantes Inferno is a brawler/action title,so therefore fighting death to reach Hell makes sense.There's a certain amount of appropriate symbolism in defeating or overcoming Death to pursue an agenda beyond Death.It dosen't mean Death dissapears all together.At least thats the impression I got.
I'll agree with the recycled enemies and was slightly let down by fraud.There was more than enough imagery in the poem to make it the standout level in the whole game.
Overall though I enjoyed it.
I'll agree with the recycled enemies and was slightly let down by fraud.There was more than enough imagery in the poem to make it the standout level in the whole game.
Overall though I enjoyed it.
It's a video game.Let it go.RickRoll said:
And there is no intended discussion here....
OH,well to be honest.The discussion wasn't stated in the opening post.So it's not all that "Duh!" worthy.RickRoll said:
OT:I liked it.Even if it was GoW rip off.And I will keep on playing it and will probably buy at least one of the dlc's.
I'm not critiquing, it would be fair for me to first read everything you wrote to do that.RickRoll said:
I'm saying starting off like that you're going to make people not want to read anything you wrote....that's all.
Plus I'm getting tired of seeing DI bashing...=/
People are talking like ripping off God of War is a bad thing, sure its unoriginal but God of War was a great game, so GoW + Hell + Demon Boobies = Fun
wow don't make me friggin' laugh! how the hell is a guy who just runs around for 5-6 hours yelling "BEATRICE!" and occasional cheesy, stereotypical hero lines that are grammatically structured in a lame attempt to make him sound ancient and smart make him an original and deep character? oh, are u referring to all the crusades he partook in and how he's kind of an anti-hero. ya, well that's been in games before and frankly all that does is make him into one of the biggest asshole characters of this year.The Cheezy One said:
no, i'm not going to just let it go. why should i? video games should have better storylines and their crappy storylines shouldn't just be excused because they are video games. that's why people like Roger Ebert think that video games shouldn't be considered a form of art; because developers more often than not simply half-ass their games' storylines. that being said, i do think that video games can and sometimes should have stupid storylines, but killing Death is beyond just a stupid storyline aspect; it absolutely trumps the point of the rest of the game and completely disrupts the logic of the mythical world of Dante's Inferno. I really see no way you could explain and justify Death's death as being logical, possible, and not intrusive on the ability of killing anyone or being able to die.RanD00M said:
It's good but there are some things that COCK ME OFF RAGGH.
1. No backtrackinbg. I see something I can't reach, assume I come back later..NOPE, THAT ITEMS GONE FOREVER HAHA.
2. Instant Death Platforming. Especially when the camera is cocking with me. I touch that lava even a bit and I die instantly and go back to the last save point.
3. INSTANT DEATH PLATFORMING RAGGGHHH!
4,5,6. THE FUCKING PLATFORMING!!!!
1. No backtrackinbg. I see something I can't reach, assume I come back later..NOPE, THAT ITEMS GONE FOREVER HAHA.
2. Instant Death Platforming. Especially when the camera is cocking with me. I touch that lava even a bit and I die instantly and go back to the last save point.
3. INSTANT DEATH PLATFORMING RAGGGHHH!
4,5,6. THE FUCKING PLATFORMING!!!!
Sounds like someone spent a few frustrating hours on the Arena section...
Seriously though, Greed was quite original, and to be frank, God of War wasn't the first beat-em-up, epic action game ever *Devil May Cry rip-off* *cough*. And though I'll admit Dante borrowed heavily from GOW (as do the developers, so I really think the fanboys should give up on that one), I thought it put enough new paint on it to be quite fun.
As for killing Death, which seems to be a complaint of yours, I got news for ya: some random guy named Kratos never killed off half of the Greek pantheon either. That's also dumb. Very dumb, but it's fun to do, so why hate on it?
If you don't like something, that's cool, but it doesn't make that something terrible in and of itself. I hate Oblivion, but I wouldn't call it 'zomg worst rpg eva.' It's not, I just don't like potato head elves.
Seriously though, Greed was quite original, and to be frank, God of War wasn't the first beat-em-up, epic action game ever *Devil May Cry rip-off* *cough*. And though I'll admit Dante borrowed heavily from GOW (as do the developers, so I really think the fanboys should give up on that one), I thought it put enough new paint on it to be quite fun.
As for killing Death, which seems to be a complaint of yours, I got news for ya: some random guy named Kratos never killed off half of the Greek pantheon either. That's also dumb. Very dumb, but it's fun to do, so why hate on it?
If you don't like something, that's cool, but it doesn't make that something terrible in and of itself. I hate Oblivion, but I wouldn't call it 'zomg worst rpg eva.' It's not, I just don't like potato head elves.