So how would you have made Dantes Inferno then?

[eels05]

Been reading alot of hate for this game.Most of it based on 'its a GOW rippoff'.

So heres your chance to explain how you would have interpreted a 700yr old poem into a game that would actually sell enough units to justify its production costs.

Go.

 

[Americow]

Never read the poem. Or heard much about the game. Hooray!

 

[delet]

I wouldn't. The very idea of Dante's Inferno as a game is a horrible idea. They completely bastardize the original poem with the very existence of this game.

 

[Guy32]

The demo was fun, I have no problem with it.

 

[DanielPowell33]

Make it a cooking game about some guy named Dante working in a pizza place who has to pull pizzas out of the oven (inferno) in time.

But seriously, I like the game as is.

 

[eels05]

Try to stay on topic.
How would you make this game,keeping in mind its target audience is male aged between 18 and 35.

 

[eels05]

I wouldn't. The very idea of Dante's Inferno as a game is a horrible idea. They completely bastardize the original poem with the very existence of this game.

But can you deny the fact its very existance might spark some interest in the original poem?

 

[UnkeptBiscuit]

Well, quite simply, I wouldn't. How the hell would you make The Divine Comedy into a videogame without completely betraying the original text? All you'd do is hold the analog stick down while you listen to Virgil and Beatrice talk. It would suck, and you might as well just read the book.

I wouldn't. The very idea of Dante's Inferno as a game is a horrible idea. They completely bastardize the original poem with the very existence of this game.

But can you deny the fact its very existance might spark some interest in the original poem?

It might, but then all the frat boys and the like who bought the game based off the Super Bowl commercial they're gonna air would realize that Dante never fought anyone, the book wasn't filled with tits and violence, and it was a poem. I doubt they'd stay interested for long.

 

[delet]

I wouldn't. The very idea of Dante's Inferno as a game is a horrible idea. They completely bastardize the original poem with the very existence of this game.

But can you deny the fact its very existance might spark some interest in the original poem?

In a way. It caused me to want to know what it was about, then I learned via Wikipedia that it was completely based in Christianity, which simply doesn't agree with me.

The problem with people seeking this game after playing the game is that they will be expecting to get what they got off the game in the book. The game is a love story where you kill death and massacre your way through hell. From my understanding, the original poem is about one man's journey and description of hell, purgatory, and heaven as he makes his way through it.

 

[azncutthroat]

I wouldn't. The very idea of Dante's Inferno as a game is a horrible idea. They completely bastardize the original poem with the very existence of this game.

^^This^^

The situation is akin to video games adapted to films; it's an unnecessary caricature.

 

[Zeromaeus]

I wouldn't. The very idea of Dante's Inferno as a game is a horrible idea. They completely bastardize the original poem with the very existence of this game.

But can you deny the fact its very existance might spark some interest in the original poem?

Yes and no. Like the poster before me (Aby_Z), people who liked the game will be drawn to it and will likely not find what they were looking for. Dante's stroll through the afterlife is hardly comparable to the stuff he does in the game and people looking for that kind of content will be very much disappointed by a multi-hundred year old text that translates into a commentary on religion and multi-hundred year-old politics.

 

[CINN4M0N]

I don't know so much about it, but I hear there's an achievement for infanticide.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/26/

That just doesn't quite seem right. The babies in the first circle of hell ar just babies that died before they were ever baptized, and never had a chance to do good or bad. For that reason, you can't really be expected to kill them right?

But more importantly, how do you kill that which is already dead?

 

[eels05]

Your probably right.Not everyone who plays the game will like the poem.
But some might.

I guess one of my points with this thread is why is everyone acting like its sacrilege to base a game or a movie or a book on anything else?Its not like it hasn't been done before.
Probably 80% of movie made are based on books or adapted from something else,or borrow ideas from something else.
So why the outrage?Its just plain illogical.

Also once you've established your sending a character to Hell,named Dante or Bob or whatever else,and you've also established that a talk-a-thon tour through hell would suck dogs ball,whats that leave you with,keeping in mind you want to make money to keep your job.

I think the logical end result is the game thats been made.

 

[Julianking93]

I wouldn't make it.

I'm not trying to withhold the glory of the poem or anything, but I just wouldn't make it because its too close to God of War any way you make it.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Been reading alot of hate for this game.Most of it based on 'its a GOW rippoff'.

So heres your chance to explain how you would have interpreted a 700yr old poem into a game that would actually sell enough units to justify its production costs.

Go.

How about making it not an action game? If anything, it should be an adventure game. Or better yet, a 700-year-old poem.

 

[eels05]

I wouldn't make it.

I'm not trying to withhold the glory of the poem or anything, but I just wouldn't make it because its too close to God of War any way you make it.

So your saying if you were employed as a video game designer,and your next job was to enterperet Dante's Inferno into a video game format you'd walk off the job?
Keeping in mind you dont have to make it like GOW.

 

[Julianking93]

I wouldn't make it.

I'm not trying to withhold the glory of the poem or anything, but I just wouldn't make it because its too close to God of War any way you make it.

So your saying if you were employed as a video game designer,and your next job was to enterperet Dante's Inferno into a video game format you'd walk off the job?
Keeping in mind you dont have to make it like GOW.

That's what I said isn't it?

Any playable version of Dante's Inferno would end up being too much like God of War or Devil May Cry.

A mythology based action game has already been made and very well mind you.

 

[eels05]

I wouldn't make it.

I'm not trying to withhold the glory of the poem or anything, but I just wouldn't make it because its too close to God of War any way you make it.

So your saying if you were employed as a video game designer,and your next job was to enterperet Dante's Inferno into a video game format you'd walk off the job?
Keeping in mind you dont have to make it like GOW.

That's what I said isn't it?

Any playable version of Dante's Inferno would end up being too much like God of War or Devil May Cry.

A mythology based action game has already been made and very well mind you.

But you DON'T have to make it like GOW.
Yeah I see the irony it that statement.If they didn't have to why did they then?Probably because they employed designers from GOW on this game as well.That could possibly be their excuse,but you'd just quit your job?
A bit extreme?

 

[Julianking93]

I wouldn't make it.

I'm not trying to withhold the glory of the poem or anything, but I just wouldn't make it because its too close to God of War any way you make it.

So your saying if you were employed as a video game designer,and your next job was to enterperet Dante's Inferno into a video game format you'd walk off the job?
Keeping in mind you dont have to make it like GOW.

That's what I said isn't it?

Any playable version of Dante's Inferno would end up being too much like God of War or Devil May Cry.

A mythology based action game has already been made and very well mind you.

But you DON'T have to make it like GOW.
Yeah I see the irony it that statement.If they didn't have to why did they then?Probably because they employed designers from GOW on this game as well.That could possibly be their excuse,but you'd just quit your job?
A bit extreme?

I didn't say I'd quit. I just wouldn't do it.

I'd move on to that game idea I've had for about 3 years that no developer has come close to.

 

[eels05]

Been reading alot of hate for this game.Most of it based on 'its a GOW rippoff'.

So heres your chance to explain how you would have interpreted a 700yr old poem into a game that would actually sell enough units to justify its production costs.

Go.

How about making it not an action game? If anything, it should be an adventure game. Or better yet, a 700-year-old poem.

So you'd make an adventure game with zero action element for fear of seeming derivative?
Or just because adding any amout of action in this context is pissing on Aligheri's grave?
How can you have adventure without action anyway?