Nannies Get Angry Over Dante's Inferno Achievement

[Zombie Izzard]

Hello. I represent the Babies on Spikes Movement (BSM). And I would like to express our overwhelming joy at EAs' decision to incorporate spiked apparatus in their baby killing design.
OT/ You know the gaming industry has to stop worrying about every little public outcry. Call it art or interpritation and move on. On the other side of the fence if you dont want, yourself or your children to see babies on spikes, don't buy the game.

Babies on spikes. Its the American dream.

OT: This article actually makes me want to check out this game. I have a need to kill some heathen babies.

 

[Zealous]

Every time I see a thread pertaining to controversy or subjects in Dante's Inferno that should be removed or censored, I laugh a little. Even if the game's a flop, it'll still be the best game, in my opinion, for creating all these pissed off people.

 

[Terramax]

I love the amount of controversy this game has produced.

Seriously, this has made my day.

Yeah, but come on, do you think EA weren't trying to create this type of negative attention?

I'm no conservative, but a game where you kill babies doesn't seem to make any sense. Doesn't sound fun. Doesn't sound funny. As with the bad nanny it sounds like it's clearly there as a controversy marketing ploy.

 

[LeonLethality]

well I dont see anything wrong with it in a video game >.> they are getting so worked up for nothing

 

[The Austin]

Wait.... So if you're unbaptized you go to hell?

according to Christians and Catholics, yes, if you are unbaptized you keep the original sin (eating the apple from the tree of life) and so you go to hell

unless you are unborn, then you become a cherubim

at least thats what i remember from my classes

.....So, I'm going to hell then?

As if that were a bad thing.

Heaven is filled with wimps in robes trading recipes.

I'll take that over the psychotic chainsaw-wielding clowns any day.

 

[Desert Tiger]

Meh. Their name is "The International Nanny Association". You'll have to forgive me if I don't recognise them as experts at judging bad taste.

Also, I think if I get this I'll be yelling Heavy quotes 24/7.

WHO SEND ALL THESE BABIES TO FIGHT?

 

[PurpleRain]

Ah, I see. thank you for correcting my mistake, and doing it without insulting me. Good to know there's decency left...

You're very welcome.

*Sigh* Dante was a Spanish poet who basically kick started the Spanish language the way Shakespeare did for English. It has nothing to do with Devil May Cry. Dante's Inferno is about Dante and Virgil (a bard of another time) going through hell to get to Mount Purgatory and then onto Paradise. There is no demon killing, no action packed explosions, no fucking reason to shit on it and turn it into a game.

Err....Dante was Italian. And he didn't so much kick-start Italian as he caused his dialect of Italian (Florentine) to become the standard, which is why he's "the Father of the Italian Language." (Ironically enough, he didn't consider himself to speak "Italian". According to a class I took on Dante when I was in college--and my prof was the president of my college and a respected Dante scholar--he, and other Italians of the time, still considered themselves to be speaking Latin, IIRC.)

You might be thinking of Cervantes ("Don Quixote"), who was for Spanish what Shakespeare was for English. ^^;;

Thank you. I was sure he was Spanish. My mistake. It honestly makes a tonne more sense this way. I feel quite the fool. (But yes, my mind was on Quixote)

Why not? It's just a poem. Would've been more interesting with gratuitous violence.

Just a poem? You should read it. It's quite the epic. The thing didn't need direct violence. There was enough in the background for them to witness.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Nanny should not complain, that makes her a BAD Nanny!
Seriously, it's just another attempt at making a games' achievements have funny names, get over it.

I bet lots of nannies are going to be playing the game before, during and after work

 

[NickCooley]

Why not? It's just a poem. Would've been more interesting with gratuitous violence.

Just a poem? You should read it. It's quite the epic. The thing didn't need direct violence. There was enough in the background for them to witness.

Well yeah, just a poem. Words on a piece of paper. Not a sacred font of all that is good in the universe. Let them play with it.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

That's it. No matter what I'm at least renting this game.

 

[Tdc2182]

Game about Hell is too morally bad to be released, that would be quite the ironic scenario.

Uhh, I actually agree with the nannys on this one. Murdering children is crossing the line for a game

Why is it? Nothing is crueler then a child and it's not like the game is promoting GO OUT AND KILL THE NEAREST BABY!

I know its not telling us to kill kids. Its one of hose things I would rather just not expeirience, even in a fake scenario. They could have just not said they were unbaptized babies(I saw what they look like) and no one would be complaining.

 

[Tdc2182]

Uhh, I actually agree with the nannys on this one. Murdering children is crossing the line for a game

So what? Neon Genesis Evangelion crossed the line when giving psychological disorders to the cast of characters, it doesnt change anything when someone complains, im surprised in fact that this country aint supporting this game since it has a HUGE hard on for religion.

I actually love the fact that they love religion. And Ive known that they were going to cross the line with this game alot. Its just I dont enjoy killing women and babies in games. I prefer gangsters and undead nazis, because those are the image of evil. But kids?

You dont understand, SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE, if you people really want videogames to be considered a "mainstream medium" then allow little changes like what Dante Inferno game is bringing, if not then complain like all the other religious freaks!

Then this is going against what we are trying to accomplish in video game world. For the first time ever in a game, I am actually saying "Is this really necessary?" And really most of the people who complain about this arent even religious. And it soesnt take a religious freak to conclude that murdering babies is wrong.

 

[MarsProbe]

As if that were a bad thing.

Heaven is filled with wimps in robes trading recipes.

Really? You've been? It's rare that we actually get any first hand accounts of what the place is like...

Still, better that than an endless eternity of unimaginable suffering, if you ask me...

 

[Dommyboy]

What about how in Dead Space, the babies were mutated by the aliens and you had to kill them? And you could even punt them away, which was surprisingly fun.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I can't help but think if they'd just made it 'kill 100 demon babies' there'd have been no story.

Then EA would have had to spend some more money on advertising instead of letting loonies do it for free, like the Nanny association.

Reminds me of Have I Got News For You, a BBC comedy news quiz, and the whole topic of Nick Griffin the BNP leader came up, and both teams just went 'who?' 'no, haven't a clue' 'never seen him before' and then the host just moved on to the next question.

That's how we should deal with obvious shit stirring

 

[Flos]

Nanny should not complain, that makes her a BAD Nanny!
Seriously, it's just another attempt at making a games' achievements have funny names, get over it.

I bet lots of nannies are going to be playing the game before, during and after work

You're right! It could be worse.

Killing babies? There are any number of horrific abortion jokes available here. The Dante Inferno kids took the high road.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

You can kill babies?

*pre-orders*