Nannies Get Angry Over Dante's Inferno Achievement

[Foolish Mortal]

You know, it would be much easier to avoid outcry against video games if we didn't keep doing stupid shit like this. I mean, I knew this game was going to be a ridiculous bad-taste-fest the moment I saw the preview for the Lust level ('we thought that the doggy-style monsters really evoked the spirit of Dante's original work...'), but killing babies?

Just, everyone who dismissed it as more old media decrying video games again... look at this from their perspective. Hell, look at it from any outsider perspective. In this game, you are rewarded for killing 100 babies. How the hell else did you think people would react?

 

[Georgeman]

Dante's Inferno... Again? First this stupid publicity stunt back on E3 and now this stupid achievement announcement? "Oh look now you can kill babies! This is exactly why you have been waiting for this game! It's a great feature, right?" You know what? I wouldn't be too surprised if this turned out to be another publicity stunt.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Maybe they should add another achievement, Bad Vegan, where you have to eat 100 babies, may as well get PETA to join in the free publicity too.

Then add a heavy hardback Bible as a melee weapon, and have 'Bad Christian' beat 100 babies to death with your bible.

See just how many free column inches you can get by offending the easily riled

As was stated before, it's called bad nanny for a reason, it's trying to play on the concept that a good, or even just vaguely competent nanny keeps babies alive.

PETA is an ANIMAL rights group.

My bad, babies are fine, if it was kittens or puppies they'd be mad tho I guess they were just the first group who came to mind when I was thinking of reactionary types who get up in arms about little things.

Good point from the above tho, do we really need to provoke people with stuff like this, all the time we're bludgeoning hookers for refunds and stabbing babies it's just going to be that much harder to push video games as a mature form of media.

 

[Kevvers]

This actually makes me sick that they would take a good work of poetic literature (even if I find the premise distasteful) and turn it into some cretinous mediocre hack-n'slash where you get an achievement for killing 100 hell-babies. What kind of moron reads a book like that and thinks, gee that'd be a really great video game ffs. What next, Kafka's Metamorphosis redone as an FPS where the enemies shoot apples at you?? Camus' the Stranger as a Gears of War clone where you gun down wave after wave of Arabic men while the sun continually blinds you?!

The whole idea of this game sucks.

 

[MrGFunk]

Man, this news has 'em baby-shaking mad.

Oooow. Nice.

I reckon it's just the name they have a problem with. If it was called 'Kill 100 babies' they wouldn't care. Shouldn't they know it's not all about them - It's about the kids.

 

[Jekken6]

I'm still getting this game at some point.

 

[orangebandguy]

International Nanny Association? That's the funniset thing I've heard all day.

Why should they be so angry about that? I'd be more cconcerned about the amount of belts Dante wears.

 

[MarsProbe]

Well done INA, they've just managed to create an association between their organisation and the term "Bad Nanny" in my head that never before existed.

I wonder how they managed to come across this information anyway. Perhaps they were searching the internet for any known "bad nannies" in their area they could demonise (using that word for no other reason than it seems appropriate to the subject matter).

 

[oppp7]

Because apparently one person believing in an imaginary friend is wrong, but a whole group of people believing in one and then acting on it is okay.


Not to mention the stranglehold this supernatural nonsense has on our society on the never-ending impendiment of progress and their self-serving sense of morality makes them the biggest assholes on the planet.

Or they're inability to provide any sort of evidence beyond "it is because it is".


Or perhaps it is because it shows how childish our society still is because we have to hold onto such an infantile remant from our beginnings you'd think we would've lost by pure chance by now.

I think you're overreacting to religion. For the most part, it's just people forcing themselves to believe something because the truth is so bad. Such as the idea that when we die we just don't exist. It's like sleeping without never waking up. So we lie to ourselves about heaven existing because it's worse otherwise. Yes, a lot of people exploit religion, but they always do that sort of thing. Look at capitalism: it causes more greed and problems than religion ever did, yet it's considered one of the best forms of a society. As for religious genocides: read the Roots of Evil. The cause of genocide violence against other groups is caused by the psychological need to have a positive self image, and this image is disrupted if an individual cannot take care of themselves and their family. Part of this self image is the groups these people see themselves as part of. If this group is also poor and downtrodden, they either try to find another or lie to themselves about the group being better. Out of this is scapegoating, where they blame someone else for their problems to alleviate their responsibility. One of the ways to join a new group is to have a common scapegoat. This can raise self esteem by devaluing a subgroup. Often these subgroups are also downtrodden and not the source of misery amongst the group. And this can happen for many reasons, not just religion.
But really, it's not that bad. People are superstitious. Praying to a diety may not do anything, but it feels like it does. And it doesn't keep progress that far behind. I'm somewhat religious and I'm completely for stem cell research and cloning new species to help us terraform Mars (actually terraforming Mars and other planets is almost half of my religion, but that's another story...).

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

That is the coolest achievement I've seen in my entire life.

But seriously, assuming the killing of said babies isn't graphic- something along the lines of Bioshock Little Sister harvesting, maybe?- I don't see that much wrong with it. So long as the developers are careful as to how they implement this, things should turn out fine.

 

[Julianking93]

Just based on the sheer amount of controversy this game has produced is making me want to get it.

Also, there's a Nanny Assosiation?

 

[Fasckira]

Achievement Unlocked: Incurred the Wrath of the International Nanny Association

 

[beddo]

I'm still annoyed at the back-alley molestation of the source material, but that's just me.
Dead babies are alright in my book.

Poetic Licence

 

[beddo]

This is just another case of the experience of gaming being misunderstood. We play games as a form of Escapism, the idea in games are generally not want we wish to act out or implement in real life.

I don't think this will encourage any violence against children. Let's not forget that it's only recently that children have as many rights as they do and while child abuse as been around since the beginning of man, video games have not.

There is no more link between video games and violence than any other medium. For people who are prone to violence, violent depictions in any media may act as a catalyst but it is far from the root cause. Ironically, parenting is one of the biggest issues, and that's something the INA and society take away from millions of parents on a daily basis.

 

[Tears of Blood]

Just one word:

Lol.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Meh. Another day, another group of mindless dipshits hating on games because they dare to push to boundaries.

OK you know what? It's ok for films and books and art to do this sort of thing but when game do it? Oh nooooo! Everyone shield your eyes!

Get off your high horse you fucking snobs.

 

[TimeLord]

Maybe they should add another achievement, Bad Vegan, where you have to eat 100 babies, may as well get PETA to join in the free publicity too.

As Yahtzee once said:

It only really comes down to Mother Teresa or baby eating

Spoiler

 

[Booze Zombie]

I don't get how they're offended, really.
It states that killing babies is being a "bad nanny", so, what's the deal?