Hands-On: Dante's Inferno

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Sounds like there is no way in hell it will ever be released in Australia. So Giant, naked breasts or not a will probably not be playing it. Unless they censor the breasts to be man-boobs instead.

Precisely why I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Being that I actually liked God of War, and being that the design of this game is rather interesting and, dare I say, hellish, I may very well get my hands on this game.

 

[scnj]

I've read the poem and I'll give the game a go. I loved Dead Space, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do here.

What does this have to do with dead space?

Same development team.

 

[TitsMcGee1804]

dante's inferno is such a blatant rip off of god of war

...but god of war hits the nail right on the head and is more or less the perfect action game, so i cant wait for this game to come out

Copying a near-perfect game? yes please

 

[ThisNewGuy]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

by calling it "Dante's Inferno" while actually borrowing the story from Disney's Hercules.

Great.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I cant wait for this.

All those offended by Dante's poem being made into a game should get a grip.

I don't think people are getting mad because it's being turned into a game. I think they are mad because it's being made into a generic action game that doesn't stay true to the spirit of the original text.

 

[ThisNewGuy]

God people need to get off their fucking high horse. If they made it closer to the real story it would be a fucking movie.

As if the Comedy is somehow off-limits. Get real.

Yes I read story and it was fucking boring as hell. My image of hell is a lot less tame than the one put forth. Who the fuck would want to go on a sight seeing tour of hell in the first place?

At least the game looks a lot more in line with my image of hell. Granted, I won't be getting it anyway because its published by EA. Fucking grow up people.

EDIT: Shit, ninja'd.

Yes, that'd be great if the game was called Matrix3509's Action Game About Hell. I'd be right there with you on the whole imagery of hell thing. But it's the Divine Comedy portrayed as something quite different. That's like making a game called "Jesus's Journey Through The New Testament: the Empire Strikes Back" I'm sure people would be pissed off then.

This game had me from the words 'naked breasts'.

Did it lose you from the words ' unbaptized babies start pouring out of the nipples'?

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Well, good. Glad to hear that it's going to be a decent game, from all accounts. I'll definitely be checking this out, especially since they're spicing up that godawfully boring poem by means of retelling through a God of War-esque retelling. =(lolz)

It's a different medium, you lime-headed poofters. Different medium means a different presentation and adapted material. And with a title like "Dante's Inferno", it should really have some pretty decent action, not a lousy-ass walkabout through what could reasonably be called the most excited place around.

Heheheheee,good one, and thank you for it.

Thought there would be someone out there who would like it--Oh, nice, you even found the poor sod I was targeting, in your previous post! Excellent! Well played, friend, well played.

 

[matrix3509]

That's like making a game called "Jesus's Journey Through The New Testament: the Empire Strikes Back" I'm sure people would be pissed off then.

Actually, that game sounds fucking awesome. I would totally get it. Unless the game was published by EA, that is.

 

[PurpleRain]

If they do, I'll gladly accept its inaccuracies and blatant, outright offense mongering.

I'm reading it right now. The circle of lust is basically just harsh winds throwing people back and forth. Dante stops and talks with a lady about why she's here then he faints. There is no naked giant woman spurting babies from her nipples.

It's a poem for gods sakes not your first born son. Just let it go.

Truth. Right. Here.

The literature freaks need to shut up, no one is butchering anything, your jizz-stained copy of the divine comedy is still just the same. I haven't heard anything about EA running around burning your books so shut up.

But what if someone took something you loved and crapped on it. I've never heard anyone saying that the Star Wars Ewok special was cannon and just as awesome as the rest. Someone should remake Halo but have Master Chief as a... god I don't know, a sparrow? Dante's change from poet to badarse super warrior is insane! I've seen nothing worse.

Also, isn't he breaking some sins what with being both outwardly violent and wrathful. How is he supposed to be getting into heaven? Wait... will they even be making Purgatory and Paradise games? What would he do then, kill angels to get into heaven?

Lust and Gluttony may somewhat explain themselves but I wonder the likes of Wrath and Envy will be handled.

Wrath= Anger So, maybe someone who fights with nothing but brute strength. His appearance kinda sounds easy enough to imagine.

Envy=Jealousy Probably another hot chick who can copy your abilities.

There is no envy in the book.

I'm more excited about their next release, McBeth: The Zombie Survival Game.

I'm still playing Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. I'm stuck at the part where you have to fire at the blimps. There's too many space ships.

It's a different medium, you lime-headed poofters. Different medium means a different presentation and adapted material. And with a title like "Dante's Inferno", it should really have some pretty decent action, not a lousy-ass walkabout through what could reasonably be called the most excited place around.

Two things:
I'm reporting you for the homophobic use of words.
Dante's Inferno just means Dante's written account of the Inferno (the old use of the term Hell). Sort of like saying: Micheal Jackson's Thriller. It's MJ's song, not that he's going to thrill people. It's Dante's poem of Hell, he isn't acting in a burst of fire.

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

by calling it "Dante's Inferno" while actually borrowing the story from Disney's Hercules.

Great.

Well Cerberus and Hercules are mentioned and seen. Cerberus is still wearing the chain around its neck that Hercules wrangled it up with.

Ahhhh, I think I've figured out why my panties are in a bunch... large baby spewing titties do NOTHING for me when it comes to Lust...

I'm pretty sure that if you go to hell for the sin of Lust, you're not about to be bombarded with things that get you off.

You're actually attacked but what you were in life. Lusters were thrown back and forth to show how lust and longing never lets anyone rest and changes all the time.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

It's a different medium, you lime-headed poofters. Different medium means a different presentation and adapted material. And with a title like "Dante's Inferno", it should really have some pretty decent action, not a lousy-ass walkabout through what could reasonably be called the most excited place around.

Two things:
I'm reporting you for the homophobic use of words.
Dante's Inferno just means Dante's written account of the Inferno (the old use of the term Hell). Sort of like saying: Micheal Jackson's Thriller. It's MJ's song, not that he's going to thrill people. It's Dante's poem of Hell, he isn't acting in a burst of fire.

Make enough points there, laddie? Why, I do declare, the whole thread must've gotten right up your dress, and no mistake! Whew! What a ruckus!

It's derogatory use of language, not homophobic. And speaking of the use of language, I'm well aware of what Dante's Inferno is about, and what the meaning of the poem is. But, to make a game about walking through Hell, paying a little how-d'ya-do to all its cheery denizens would be nothing short of abysmally boring. It would be like playing an RPG where there were no villains, no enemies, no antagonists, and no conflict, just a world full of NPC's telling you mini-games that you should check out whilst browsing the hot-spots of hell, you know, the Touristy attractions. "Go see Judas, Brutus, and Cassius suffering in the Ninth Circle!" "Watch as Hercules is no where near a three-headed dog he tricked and tied up once!" "Pay the Ferryman to cross the River Styx!"

Bit outdated, don't you think? Three traitors, all well over 2000 years ago, are the worst of the worst?

It's not the premise of the poem that they're using for enticement, it's the name. "Dante's jolly walkabout through some firey pits" doesn't quite have the same tone or attraction as a game that gladly and gleefully entices to plumb the very depths of the horrors the mind is capable of coming up with, distortions of reality, trivially twisted normalities that scar us to the very core--and we get to go in and butcher them whole. Now, you tell me--which sounds better as a video game with the name "Dante's Inferno"--A journey of spiritual enlightenment, or a badass tromp through Hell, fighting an insidiously twisted representation of the sins of man?

 

[theultimateend]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

I still think that this is a ridiculously horrible idea and will not be buying it under any circumstances. And I'm a big fan of God of War, too.

More copies for me!

 

[Yokai]

I don't know. I've read little of the poem, but it seems to me the game might have been more successful with much exploration and more sparsely spaced fights, more Shadow of the Colossus than God of War. It would be an interesting (and hopefully terrifying) landscape to simply travel through.

 

[Daruth_Winterwood]

This sounds really damn boring. This game had so much potential and they wasted it on a bloody hack n' slash GOW clone? Bah! Surely theres more to a journey of a soul into the deepest pits of hell other than killing? Well so much for my faith in games.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

I'll probably buy it after God of War, but then I might be disappointed that the character isn't as awesome, the game isn't as epic and the graphics aren't as good.

I just noticed for a game about hell it isn't even as brutal as GOW3. GOW3 has you pulling out a cyclop's eye with blood gushing all over you, and ripping of a guys head with your bare hands with a finger in his eye.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

No, they're trying to sell it on a misleading title. They're just plastering the historical work into relevance so that they don't have to make a game good for it to sell. It's kind of like when you see a video on YouTube called "New Fallout 4 Trailer!" only to watch a video about how great of a day Tiffany had, with a shameless screenshot thrown in the dead center of the video for the thumbnail. Then you notice that it has 2 million views and comments and ratings are disabled. Yeah, kinda like that...

 

[Internet Kraken]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

No, they're trying to sell it on a misleading title. They're just plastering the historical work into relevance so that they don't have to make a game good for it to sell. It's kind of like when you see a video on YouTube called "New Fallout 4 Trailer!" only to watch a video about how great of a day Tiffany had, with a shameless screenshot thrown in the dead center of the video for the thumbnail. Then you notice that it has 2 million views and comments and ratings are disabled. Yeah, kinda like that...

Not really. EA is not even attempting to make this game look like an accurate portrayal of the original story. They're not trying to trick anyone with the title. One glance at the screen shots for the game will tell you that it's not anything like the original story.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

No, they're trying to sell it on a misleading title. They're just plastering the historical work into relevance so that they don't have to make a game good for it to sell. It's kind of like when you see a video on YouTube called "New Fallout 4 Trailer!" only to watch a video about how great of a day Tiffany had, with a shameless screenshot thrown in the dead center of the video for the thumbnail. Then you notice that it has 2 million views and comments and ratings are disabled. Yeah, kinda like that...

Not really. EA is not even attempting to make this game look like an accurate portrayal of the original story. They're not trying to trick anyone with the title. One glance at the screen shots for the game will tell you that it's not anything like the original story.

So then why is it named "Dante's Inferno"?

 

[Internet Kraken]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

No, they're trying to sell it on a misleading title. They're just plastering the historical work into relevance so that they don't have to make a game good for it to sell. It's kind of like when you see a video on YouTube called "New Fallout 4 Trailer!" only to watch a video about how great of a day Tiffany had, with a shameless screenshot thrown in the dead center of the video for the thumbnail. Then you notice that it has 2 million views and comments and ratings are disabled. Yeah, kinda like that...

Not really. EA is not even attempting to make this game look like an accurate portrayal of the original story. They're not trying to trick anyone with the title. One glance at the screen shots for the game will tell you that it's not anything like the original story.

So then why is it named "Dante's Inferno"?

Like I said, to create controversy. This game could have easily been called something else. But a game called "Generic Action Guy's Trip to Hell" could easily fade into obscurity, especially when it's nothing but a God of War clone. But when you name it after a famous piece of literature, it garners a lot of attention. Some people get angry about how it's butchering the source material. These people are vocal about their outrage. This grabs the attention of other people, and as a result the game gains more publicity.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

This game looks great and I did read the poem, but I don't care if they play around with the story. They want a hack n' slash game set in Hell and Dante Alighieri's poem has a great setting. The scenery is amazing and the gameplay looks really smooth.

So why not just set it in hell and give the game its own [probably lackluster, but less obnoxious] story?

Then the game could have easily faded into obscurity. EA is trying to sell this game on controversy.

No, they're trying to sell it on a misleading title. They're just plastering the historical work into relevance so that they don't have to make a game good for it to sell. It's kind of like when you see a video on YouTube called "New Fallout 4 Trailer!" only to watch a video about how great of a day Tiffany had, with a shameless screenshot thrown in the dead center of the video for the thumbnail. Then you notice that it has 2 million views and comments and ratings are disabled. Yeah, kinda like that...

Not really. EA is not even attempting to make this game look like an accurate portrayal of the original story. They're not trying to trick anyone with the title. One glance at the screen shots for the game will tell you that it's not anything like the original story.

So then why is it named "Dante's Inferno"?

Like I said, to create controversy. This game could have easily been called something else. But a game called "Generic Action Guy's Trip to Hell" could easily fade into obscurity, especially when it's nothing but a God of War clone. But when you name it after a famous piece of literature, it garners a lot of attention. Some people get angry about how it's butchering the source material. These people are vocal about their outrage. This grabs the attention of other people, and as a result the game gains more publicity.

You're contradicting yourself! Once again, that's the same as putting an irrelevant video on youtube with a name like "Fallout 4 Gameplay Trailer" for views. They're just using the name for promotion, not controversy. I assure you, murdering the unbaptized children that are spewing out of Cleopatra's tits would be controversial no matter what the game is called.