Nannies Get Angry Over Dante's Inferno Achievement

[yeah_so_no]

No, it's Limbo. Limbo was technically considered part of Hell--it was the first circle of Hell in the Inferno--but was actually pretty nice. Limbo was the place for people who couldn't get into Heaven through no fault of their own--unbaptised babies and "virtuous pagans" (who were mainly pagans born before Jesus was born, and were therefore ineligible for Heaven, according to medieval Christian theology. Although the patriarchs of the Old Testament had been allowed into Heaven thanks the Harrowing of Hell, which was when Jesus went into Hell and took out the virtuous pagans during the three days between his death and resurrection). Limbo, in "Inferno," for the unbaptised babies and virtuous pagans was green fields and a beautiful castle that still felt somber because the people there knew they were in an "imperfect" Heaven and unable to reach God.

So this is basically just one more way EA's "Dante's Inferno" has piddled all over the Divine Comedy.

Purgatory, BTW, was where people who weren't evil enough to go to Hell but weren't good enough to get into Heaven went. It was a place where they were punished for a set amount of time to atone for their unforgiven sins. The punishments were pretty close to the ones in Hell--things like having their eyes sewn shut or being burned in a wall of flames--but unlike Hell, there was an end to them, and afterward their sins were purged, the people there could get into Heaven.

Oh, and as for why unbaptised babies went to Hell, it was because even though they hadn't committed any sins themselves, they were still tainted by Original Sin. Baptism was considered necessary for salvation.

I know I shouldn't, but duty requires that I do.


There are people who honestly believe what the above wrote is true and real, and base their lives on it. We let these people be in charge of things, important things, and let t go near our children. And we're okay with it.

Yet replace a few of those words with something like, I dunno, "monkeys" or "bannana cream pies", and we send'em to an insane asylum faster than you could say "Irony".

Why?

...uh, you do realize that Limbo and Purgatory are no longer part of Catholic theology, and I was specifically referring to medieval theology as displayed in Dante's Divine Comedy, right? And that baptism is no longer considered absolutely necessary for salvation of infants in the Catholic church? And that Limbo and Purgatory were never part of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Protestantism, right?

So, yeah, about your soapbox, there.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

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.

I agree.


But to be totally honest, if they stuck to the poem that close there would be nothing to play. It'd just be a long QTE.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Some people are easily offended, I guess. Fucking morons.

 

[Joey245]

Wait, EA is making Dante's inferno? I though Capcom made the Devil May Cry games...

Or is this a whole separate game?

OT: On the one hand, they're right. Baby killing is wrong and disgusting.

On the other hand, they're wrong. They're getting mad over an achievement in a video game, when kids are abused every day.

 

[DamienHell]

GOD! This game is stirring up so much trouble. Makes me want it SOOOO BAD!

 

[akmarksman]

Couple of things..

Hellions probably deserved it

Abortion: It really brings out the kid in you.


and I'm probably going to hell for that..but at least there will be company and from the sounds of it,half the dev team from this game.

 

[anthony87]

Do you think that maybe if we all rose up in arms together we could convince people that us gamers aren't a bunch of blithering idiots who immediately imitate everything we do in video games?

 

[BigHandInSky]

im not getting the game but from reading the title:
ha.....ha.....ha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...........ha........aaaaaaahhh
but after reading into it, killing babies for an achievement is pretty unusual/crazy but the look of the game alone justifies the achievement for me, the story of travelling through the different sins justifies it even more

 

[Eatbrainz]

i dont think they get the point, the setting is HELL, that already means the game wont fuck around with just killing demons.

 

[beddo]

Poetic Licence

Turning a poem into a shitty action game is not poetic license.

Well, we don't know if the game is bad or unfaithful to the source material because no one has really played through it all yet.

In any case, it doesn't have to stick to the source material, it may bring its own interesting interpretations.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Killing babies is a bit far, but who cares? None of them will play it, and the people that do are none of their concern, so nobody gives a shit what they think. Plus it's only a game, which tries to depict the violence and brutality of this imaginary hell world.

 

[yaik7a]

Wonderful Nannies can take the game away from the kids they "care for" problem solved.

If I was a kid and some women that sits around while my single dad trys to get laid , trys
to take MAH BABBY KILLAN GAME THERL B A PROBLEM

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Baby murder is wrong any way you slice it (no pun intended). And why unbaptized babies, specifically?

Baptized babies go to heaven, unbaptized, even if they were going to be, don't. I think they go to, or at least used to go to, Limbo. Along with the people who had no chance to learn about God or the Bible.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Purgatory, not Limbo. It's kind of the same thing really from what I understand.

 

[Something Amyss]

So what I gathered from the outrage is that Nannies are pro-baby killing?

Edit: Oh God, I just saw the "we don't know how faithful it's going to be" thing. I can't think of an idea more obviously unfaithful, save maybe for an FPS version of Arthur C Clarke's 2001.

"Shoot the monolith! Yes! Yes! Score!"

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Do you think that maybe if we all rose up in arms together we could convince people that us gamers aren't a bunch of blithering idiots who immediately imitate everything we do in video games?

By God, you're right! If only we had a forum where intelligent discussion for videogames could take place, while the people that run the site continue to write insightful articles on various things in gaming!

 

[Sevre]

Ain't no baby like a dead baby.