EA Unveils Dante's Inferno
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Well great. Another literary classic gets hacked up into crappy video game form that has very little to do with the actual book. First Beowolf (Which, admittedly, was a stupid movie first), and now this. Ugh.
Next it'll be a first person Tom Sawyer shooter.
Next it'll be a first person Tom Sawyer shooter.
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I still don't find penny arcade funny tbh. If you like it a lot, could you show me your favorite strip that made you laugh please?SomeBritishDude said:
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If this was anyone else, I would say this was a very interesting idea, originality is the spice of gaming life, and they are taking chances with this one.
But seeing as it's EA, the chances are it will be sequelled out of it's arse, therefore killing anything good about it.
First rule of plagiarism: Don't leave the original Author's name in your title.
Redwood are squatting in the abandoned home of a great person. If JESUS was releasing a 'Dante's Inferno' videogame with a kiss and a thumbs up, I'd still find the usage offensive.
The game itself could be great, but it's a... Faux pas - that they have not distinguished it as being 'inspired by', rather than 'fused with' like some Frankenstein monster.
Redwood are squatting in the abandoned home of a great person. If JESUS was releasing a 'Dante's Inferno' videogame with a kiss and a thumbs up, I'd still find the usage offensive.
The game itself could be great, but it's a... Faux pas - that they have not distinguished it as being 'inspired by', rather than 'fused with' like some Frankenstein monster.
Might be okay depending on how they take it, it's going to be difficult to make this game interesting though.
Congradulations, EA. You've turned a triumph of gothic literature into what appears to be a stupid, stupid action game. Fail.
While I think this would be a great idea in the right hands, I can't help but notice a few things:
-They should've used a much more creative visual style, something similar to Gustave Dore's original illustrations.
-Where the fuck is Virgil?!
-I don't remember that much sort of action; it would've been better to go less with the "action" part and more with the under-used Myst-style "adventure" part. Fighting demons is just a cop-out to save themselves extra brain muscles.
-How they hell (excuse me) do they expect us to believe Dante is a beefcake cross/spear bearing fighter? Dante was (both in real life and the Commedia) a frail, bookish type.
-There isn't that much architectural construct and environments in Inferno; it's mostly dark forests and fiery plains and cold caverns.
-Most of the shades are human in appearance and nature. Here, they just look more Doom/Oblivion clones.
-Again, the fact that there is any fighting whatsoever, turns me off.
This is really sad for me, because I always thought that if the developer would be the sort to take risks, it would be a stellar and unique game. As it stands it just looks some dumbed-down, grittier Devil May Cry. *sobs*
-They should've used a much more creative visual style, something similar to Gustave Dore's original illustrations.
-Where the fuck is Virgil?!
-I don't remember that much sort of action; it would've been better to go less with the "action" part and more with the under-used Myst-style "adventure" part. Fighting demons is just a cop-out to save themselves extra brain muscles.
-How they hell (excuse me) do they expect us to believe Dante is a beefcake cross/spear bearing fighter? Dante was (both in real life and the Commedia) a frail, bookish type.
-There isn't that much architectural construct and environments in Inferno; it's mostly dark forests and fiery plains and cold caverns.
-Most of the shades are human in appearance and nature. Here, they just look more Doom/Oblivion clones.
-Again, the fact that there is any fighting whatsoever, turns me off.
This is really sad for me, because I always thought that if the developer would be the sort to take risks, it would be a stellar and unique game. As it stands it just looks some dumbed-down, grittier Devil May Cry. *sobs*
Probably the credit crunch has hit the Hell bad so Dante must do some downsizing and restructuring, before asking for a bailout. Nine circles? Too expensive to maintain- Hedge funds have dried up. Not to mention the whole gas and electricity bills thing. Those boiling oil caldrons don't heat themselves out of nothing. In the end of the game Dante has a board meeting with the hell's CEO where they discuss the gold parachutes policies for the management, and the hell's investments in fiscal heaven's off shore companies.
Bah. At first i thought this was a joke, because it's so pythonesque. Bloody hell
Bah. At first i thought this was a joke, because it's so pythonesque. Bloody hell
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that DMC 3 was based off that very book, and in the book, both Vergil and Dante are poets. How in God's name is a poet going to kick ass in Purgatory? Also, there were demons, but most of the people in hell were stuck with their punishment and bitched about it to Dante and his ghost companion. I just hope they make Satan look like his book description (three heads chewing on the biggest traitors in history, 6 wings, covered in fur and trapped in ice). Ugh, this is going to hurt.