Dante's Inferno and The Hate on it

[The Heik]

Yes I'm going to address all the hating the Latest game by EA and Visceral Games Dante's Inferno and offer my opinion on the hate that has been lashed towards it.

Really i think that it is all arbitrarilly stupid and utterly pointless. The biggest thing i keep hearing is "ooo its just God of War" and while i can agree that it does a lot things God of War has done i still have to say GET OFF THE I LOVE KRATOS BANDWAGON and actually play the whole game. Also having read the original book by Dante Aligheri i know what parts they've changed and parts that have been taken out, but when i saw this game i went into it knowing that it wouldn't be the exact adaptation of the story. Nothing is ever going to be perfect and the same applies here EA wanted to make the game sell and having Dante being a poet who faints after every time he leaves one circle of hell and being a griever of sorts wouldn't make them money so in a sense they had to modernize the work and make him the way he is.

So to summarize this all up:

Stop bowing down to Kratos and licking his boots by dismissing this game so quickly and give it an honest chance.

The things is that it doesn't just look like a God of War game, it FEELS like a God of War game. The combat is bloodily ripped off the combat system it's genre predecessors and suffers for it. The story, while yes it hasn't been specifically done before, has the same apocalyptic atmosphere that games from years before had. This game is treading old ground, only it's doing it with a broken leg. And the wolves are hungry.....

 

[Plurralbles]

... I think the differences outweigh the similarities between games.

 

[Eiseman]

OT: I played the demo and thought it was pretty blah. Once you can kill DEATH it makes the whole experience feel rather pointless.

Yeah, pretty much that. I'm used to Death being the second to final boss (lol, Castlevania). Being the first boss in the game basically equates to being the easiest boss, couldn't you make up a few henchmen to throw my way before sending in the freaking Grim Reaper? I don't particularly want that fight to be such a pushover, you know?

 

[Bat Vader]

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Main reason I hate the game is because Dante's Inferno does not need to become a video game. There is absolutely no need for it.

If they do this of course they will also need to do purgatory and paradise. Which are the next two books in the series.

 

[plastic_window]

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Main reason I hate the game is because Dante's Inferno does not need to become a video game. There is absolutely no need for it.

If they do this of course they will also need to do purgatory and paradise. Which are the next two books in the series.

My thoughts exactly.

I'm all for another hack'n'slasher, and I don't have any emotional ties to the God of War series to consider hating Dante's Inferno for the gameplay alone - what pisses me off about the game is that it makes no sense.

It is not related to the Inferno in any conceivable way - other than the 9 circles of hell and the fact that the main character is called Dante. It's even set about 200 years before the book.

What annoys me, specifically, is that this game is called Dante's Inferno because it's a name that sounds familiar. Even if you don't know exactly what it is, you know that you've heard that phrase before. The game, essentially, blemishes the source material in the most juvenile and completely ridiculous fashion and justifies it as a marketing technique.

I honestly wouldn't hate it if it simply was not called Dante's Inferno. Maybe it would stop people from thinking it is in any way related to the original material - because it just isn't.

 

[SageRuffin]

Someone please explain something to me: most of you all are complaining that the game has nothing to do with the original literary work. All I have to say is: and?

Take God of War. If SCEA stayed to the original Greek myths involving the monsters, the first game would've ended with the many-headed hydra; that's no more than 10 minutes into the game. But let's go a little further and say he can kill the hydra with little to no problem. Then he would've died at Medusa, since Kratos definitely didn't have the golden fleece at that that point, let alone it being able to repel attacks, projectiles, and even gazes capable of turning one to stone in an instant. Then of course there was bodyslamming the gorgon, tearing her head off, and using her gaze to turn other enemies to stone, waiting to be smashed into literally a million pieces.

So chill out. Is it really that hard to separate the game from the original literature and just simply enjoy both? Let me know, because if not then damn. Some of you really need to stop taking some things so literal.

 

[Zacharine]

Someone please explain something to me: most of you all are complaining that the game has nothing to do with the original literary work. All I have to say is: and?

Hardly any other game is riding so blatantly with a classical literature work. This is like doing a game named 'Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet' where the main plot is about Romeo getting possessed by demons and a witch-hunter/inquisitor code-named Juliet would have to scour the recesses of Europe and a few fantasy realms to find a cure: As in, absolute butchery or a venerated classical work.

I do not hate Dante's Inferno because it's a God Of War ripoff, I hate it because it annihilates any and all resemblance to the work it's riding with it's name. If you're not bothered by that, then I guess you're not too interested. But some of us like the Divine Comedy and consider this extremely disrespectful.

 

[Space Spoons]

I don't really have much of an issue with its gameplay supposedly being a ripoff of God of War's gameplay. GoW's combat was awesome. Who in their right mind would complain about getting more of it?

What I'm taking issue with is the fact that this teenage boy's vision of Hell dares to carry the title of the Divine Comedy. It might not seem like such a big deal to most gamers, but to people who truly appreciate Dante Alighieri's magnum opus, this is disrespectful to the highest degree, and actually detrimental to the original work.

As I've said before, it's like if they took The Color Purple and adapted it as a first person shooter.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Hate on it? I haven't really heard any. Have to admit that they're marketing attempts all sucked though. Still, might eventually get this game. Not getting it tomorrow due to games I'm looking forward to more, and stuff like car insurance coming up.

 

[shadow skill]

Call me back when entire animations are not snatched from God of War.

 

[3rd rung]

Whilst it may possibly be a good game, the fact is it differs utterly from the actual Dante's Inferno, an excellent epic poem. The use of the name is nothing but an advertising ploy.

It saddens me to think that kids will now see this soulless and ultimately transitory piece of coding as the real Dante's Inferno instead of the great piece of literature that it bastardizes.

That is why I hate the game.

I agree with you about the children not knowing what the really poem is. but as a game by its self looks great the demo played well. My miss givings about the title doen't make the game bad and I will buy it

 

[Ambient2100]

I dont give a flying fuck about God Of War anymore....
I really wanna try Dante's Inferno, cuz Ive always had a fasination about hell and stuff. Going thru they rings is a good idea, and I hope it creates some diversity in the levels

 

[Makon]

Someone please explain something to me: most of you all are complaining that the game has nothing to do with the original literary work. All I have to say is: and?

Take God of War. If SCEA stayed to the original Greek myths involving the monsters, the first game would've ended with the many-headed hydra; that's no more than 10 minutes into the game. But let's go a little further and say he can kill the hydra with little to no problem. Then he would've died at Medusa, since Kratos definitely didn't have the golden fleece at that that point, let alone it being able to repel attacks, projectiles, and even gazes capable of turning one to stone in an instant. Then of course there was bodyslamming the gorgon, tearing her head off, and using her gaze to turn other enemies to stone, waiting to be smashed into literally a million pieces.

So chill out. Is it really that hard to separate the game from the original literature and just simply enjoy both? Let me know, because if not then damn. Some of you really need to stop taking some things so literal.

This. Seriously, just examine the Game itself and rate it for what it is: a video game. Sure, it may play a helluva lot like the God of War games, but is that a bad thing? It takes an existing formula that works, and uses it. Sure, it may step on [or break] the toes of the original literature, what game or movie doesn't take liberties with original source material? In the end, it's a game. It's meant to be played and enjoyed for what it is. The $24 question is: is the game fun to play and of what level of quality is it? If you find it enjoyable, is it not, then, good?

 

[Punisher A.J.]

I dont give a flying fuck about God Of War anymore....
I really wanna try Dante's Inferno, cuz Ive always had a fasination about hell and stuff. Going thru they rings is a good idea, and I hope it creates some diversity in the levels

it does.... for the first 3.

 

[SageRuffin]

Someone please explain something to me: most of you all are complaining that the game has nothing to do with the original literary work. All I have to say is: and?

Hardly any other game is riding so blatantly with a classical literature work. This is like doing a game named 'Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet' where the main plot is about Romeo getting possessed by demons and a witch-hunter/inquisitor code-named Juliet would have to scour the recesses of Europe and a few fantasy realms to find a cure: As in, absolute butchery or a venerated classical work.

I do not hate Dante's Inferno because it's a God Of War ripoff, I hate it because it annihilates any and all resemblance to the work it's riding with it's name. If you're not bothered by that, then I guess you're not too interested. But some of us like the Divine Comedy and consider this extremely disrespectful.

And I say again, if God of War stayed true to the Greek myths, Kratos would've been devoured by hydra before you even get into the real meat of the game (or, I'm pretty sure that's what would've happened).

Maybe the reason I'm saying all this is because I haven't read the "Divine Comedy" myself, but I still think it shouldn't be too hard to be able to separate a simple video game from centuries old prose.

I'm just saying.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

Dante's Inferno is the rare game that offends insiders because of it's crass viral campaigns and it offends hardcore players who don't hang out on the internet by being remarkably similar to God of War in every conceivable way. What I can't figure out is if they actually read anything besides the Wikipedia entry on Dante's Inferno. They show surprising dedication to crafting the levels, but then miss the point of the original work so completely.

If they actually followed the work to the teeth.. all Dante would be doing is walking around the 9 circles of hell with Virgil, sightseeing.
It's a fucking videogame.. what do you expect? Of course they are going to dress it up and have all kinds of epic and flashy visuals happening. They took the general ideas from the work but just recreated it in their own way.

I personally can't wait to play this. The original work Dante's Inferno has always interested me so I think it's pretty cool that it was the inspiration for a videogame.

 

[mezmerizer02]

Whilst it may possibly be a good game, the fact is it differs utterly from the actual Dante's Inferno, an excellent epic poem. The use of the name is nothing but an advertising ploy.

It saddens me to think that kids will now see this soulless and ultimately transitory piece of coding as the real Dante's Inferno instead of the great piece of literature that it bastardizes.

That is why I hate the game.

I second this, don't let them play Grand Theft Auto 4 or Forenza Motorsports, they might grow up thinking one's a game about beating up hookers and stealing cars, but it's really about calling everyone in your phone 90% of the time and hanging out with them, and the other might lead them to believe they can actually race that porche you'll be buying them for their 16th birthday up and down the streets at 45m/ph (aka 72kp/h for all you lefties out there). Sorry, this isn't aimed at you, it's aimed at bad gaming... bad, bad gaming. grrr

 

[Bat Vader]

Is it really that hard to separate the game from the original literature and just simply enjoy both? Let me know, because if not then damn. Some of you really need to stop taking some things so literal.

What if your favorite book was turned into a video game but everything in the game was changed except for the title and some level settings?

It is hard to enjoy something that completely ignores the source material it was based off of. If they are going to just ignore the source material except for a few parts of it why not change the name of the game instead?

Dante's Inferno had no reason to become a game in the first place. That would be like making The Raven into a video game. There would be no reason for it.

 

[ryai458]

Yes I'm going to address all the hating the Latest game by EA and Visceral Games Dante's Inferno and offer my opinion on the hate that has been lashed towards it.

Really i think that it is all arbitrarilly stupid and utterly pointless. The biggest thing i keep hearing is "ooo its just God of War" and while i can agree that it does a lot things God of War has done i still have to say GET OFF THE I LOVE KRATOS BANDWAGON and actually play the whole game. Also having read the original book by Dante Aligheri i know what parts they've changed and parts that have been taken out, but when i saw this game i went into it knowing that it wouldn't be the exact adaptation of the story. Nothing is ever going to be perfect and the same applies here EA wanted to make the game sell and having Dante being a poet who faints after every time he leaves one circle of hell and being a griever of sorts wouldn't make them money so in a sense they had to modernize the work and make him the way he is.

So to summarize this all up:

Stop bowing down to Kratos and licking his boots by dismissing this game so quickly and give it an honest chance.

I don't think kratos wears boots I think he is a more sandals type of guy.
OT: who cares if its like GoW, do you people have nothing better to do than degrade other peoples hard work?

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