Hands-On: 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.

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.

No, it's not the same thing. In your example, the video is called Fallout 4 to trick you into looking at the video, thinking it is something you like. That's not why this game is called Dante's Inferno. It's not using that name to trick people into thinking it's something it's not. It's only using it to create more controversy, and thus grab attention.


Though I'm probably just explaining my thoughts poorly. I apologize if what I am trying to say doesn't make sense.

 

[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.

No, it's not the same thing. In your example, the video is called Fallout 4 to trick you into looking at the video, thinking it is something you like. That's not why this game is called Dante's Inferno. It's not using that name to trick people into thinking it's something it's not. It's only using it to create more controversy, and thus grab attention.


Though I'm probably just explaining my thoughts poorly. I apologize if what I am trying to say doesn't make sense.

For your first point, I'd imagine the title Dante's Inferno to imply a level of poetic, artistic, and possibly even "Christian-friendly" storytelling. Instead, it's going to be the media's new GTA in arguments against video game violence.
As for not explaining your thoughts properly, I can see where you're coming from. The English language spent all its time with synonyms and left a few feelings and situations unworded. For example, unworded isn't a real word.

 

[Karacan]

I'm confused by the amount of Dante's Divine Comedy fanboys. I totally belong to that category, by the way. But I certainly enjoyed Devil May Cry (apart from part 5), which obviously is also a rip-off of Dante's masterpiece.

I'm certainly going to enjoy Dante's Inferno myself, for what it is. And I'm not a GOW-fan, by the way - the setting was not really appealing to me. Wandering through Hell with a Scythe and combatting the Sins of Man as Dante encountered in his passage through the nine circles of hell? Sorry, but I'm sold.

 

[MurderousToaster]

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'?

No, that just made me want moar.
Joking, of course. It did a bit, but then there's an achievement for stabbing said babies, so it's all good.

 

[maeson]

Ok, here's the deal, my literary friends. This game is LOOSELY BASED (these words are key here) on the vision of Hell itself. The actual story or any resemblance to the original, names and characters are just... for the sake of them, I guess.

People must not forget, this is a game, and as such, artistic liberties must be taken. You can NOT make a straight 100% game to movie and/or reverse adaptation. You can BASE off of one-another, but you can't take it as 100%. Why? Cause it wouldn't make sense, it's be cumbersome. In movies, usually there is more than one thing going on, usually two A-LA 24, it cuts between these separate scenes, in a game, that'd be VEEEERY awkward as you switch from... someone putting down machine gun fire and killing waves of cackling nazis to a nice, red-cheeked young woman, mixing a stew, listening to the latest radio-soap show. Or going from in-your face "I'm in a tank!" dude to someone with a sniper rifle, half-way across the arena. The pacing is all wrong. However a movie with only one thing going on will feel bland, and empty.

As for literature to games. From paper to movie is a bit easier. But from paper to game? Firstly, in literature, a lot is put into the character, his feelings, her thoughts, their relations to other. Games, are all about their actions. Sure, you can say "but we can have both", but you wouldn't get much done and you'll groan after you've seen your 10th heavily narrated cutscene, or worse, with the "Solid Snake Syndrome". Constantly repeating keywords so that people end up explaining something that should actually be common friggin knowledge to anyone living in that setting.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I'm interested, but more interested in DarkSiders

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

I played the demo and it was hilariously shit. The graphics were terrible, the special effects looked like something on the PS2, there was clipping EVERYWHERE and it made the finishers look like shit, there was screen tearing, there wasn't many moves and most of them were useless, the upgrade menu didn't have many moves to get either, the camera SUCKED TITS (don't tell me you didn't fall off that cross), the beast controls were wonky as fuck and most of the fighting was in enclosed spaces.

I'd take God of War over something trying and completely failing to be like God of War any day.