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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: bort on December 16, 2008, 03:36:52 am
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http://dantesinferno.com/home.action
check out this upcoming ea title and literary adaptation and also go to hell
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uh oh this topic will get locked won't it. there's a dante's inferno game and it's fucking funny, click the link to watch the trailer. you journey through hell and fuck people up probably
go to helll
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electronic arts is the new cliffs notes
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so is this like Painkiller: weird viking tribeman-looking cross-toting guy edition
imo this could be very fun (love dante's inferno) but
it could also turn out to be horrendous
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electronic arts is the new cliffs notes
GO TO HELL! :fogetangry:
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Judging from the reaction from the rest of the internet I guess that 99% of people will post "pfft, it's gonna suck" and 1%(me) will say, wait and see before judging damnit we only have a freaking 1 minute trailer to dissect.
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Judging from the reaction from the rest of the internet I guess that 99% of people will post "pfft, it's gonna suck" and 1%(me) will say, wait and see before judging damnit we only have a freaking 1 minute trailer to dissect.
99% of the internet can go to hell
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imo this could be very fun (love dante's inferno) but
if you liked dantes inferno there is a 99% chance you will not like DANTE'S INFERNO: THE VIDCON because there wont be any substance to it at all *stabs crucifix in demon's head*
none of the punishments even looked remotely the same from what i could see in the trailer.
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but think how great the devil as illustrated by dore would be with directx 10
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What exactly would be the point of this game? IIRC Dante didn't battle evil slug lords and succubi on his journey through hell.
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dante's tryin to get through hell. at first he sees the two dogs, you know, those two dogs that are blocking his path. he tries to get past them but he's forced to flee down to the entrance of hell. he's gotta bribe charon but he doesn't have any money! better get some from the other souls. but they don't want to give them up?? time to smash heads.
and it goes on like that, a slightly higher-brow version of the harry potter games
tell me you made this up
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oh i did because i didn't remember the plot. that's why i deleted that post actually
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I'm going to hell
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Wow, I don't think I could have learned any more about the game if that video was made in flashwave or even powerpoint.
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powerpoint could've been very informative actually.
are they going to release dante's purgatory and the paradise parts after this game? i wonder..
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I'm going to punch satan in his big fat mouth
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This looks soooooooo fucken cool I can't wait to go to hell
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OOO OOH ME I want to go to hell.
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powerpoint could've been very informative actually.
are they going to release dante's purgatory and the paradise parts after this game? i wonder..
pfff purgatorio and paradiso are not nearly raw enough
it would be great if this prompted christian developers to make them though.
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idk man
there isn't really much action in the original story of the inferno either, just a bunch of wicked shit going on
they still made an action(i guess?) game out of it
so why couldn't they do the same with purgatory and paradise
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i mean they could but people don't care about those as much. no one's ever made an online quiz about which sphere of heaven you're goin to.
but this is deviating from the original purpose. go to hell
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What the FUCK was that?
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i cannot wait to climb up the devil's asshole
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The tagline is so bad :(
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Everything about this is so bad. The only way it could be even remotely worse would if this were from Japan and featured generic anime badasses as the characters with long flowing hair and katanas and scantily clad female assistants with huge knockers.
Thats the only way this could be any worse.
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well rowain big knockers is a bad thing looks like someone's done with PUBERTY, eh!?
cocky motherfucker...
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scantily clad female assistants with huge knockers.
According to the Japanese rule of video games you increase the quality by p^x where p = the price of the production, and x is the number of scantily clad female assistants with huge knockers.
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Everything about this is so bad. The only way it could be even remotely worse would if this were from Japan and featured generic anime badasses as the characters with long flowing hair and katanas and scantily clad female assistants with huge knockers.
Thats the only way this could be any worse.
What if it was a China-only MMO?
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looks cool, maybe i'll pick it up
cheers
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Judging from the reaction from the rest of the internet I guess that 99% of people will post "pfft, it's gonna suck" and 1%(me) will say, wait and see before judging damnit we only have a freaking 1 minute trailer to dissect.
congrats you're the proud, the brave, 1% of people who are mentally retarded but can still pull off a fascimile of normalcy. other such people include fictional character Rita from Arrested Development and high functioning autistic Mati from Captain Planet.
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congrats you're the proud, the brave, 1% of people who are mentally retarded but can still pull off a fascimile of normalcy. other such people include fictional character Rita from Arrested Development and high functioning autistic Mati from Captain Planet.
Wow, there was an autistic kid in captain Planet?
How.progressive of them.....
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congrats you're the proud, the brave, 1% of people who are mentally retarded but can still pull off a fascimile of normalcy. other such people include fictional character Rita from Arrested Development and high functioning autistic Mati from Captain Planet.
I'm not retarded, I'm just more optimist than the rest of you. Maybe it's because I don't have the same attachment to the original work that most of you seems to have. I've never heard of Dante's Inferno before and only vaguely knew about it just like pretty much everyone else I know in the real world.
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Nah you're just retarded. Trailers usually show off the best bits of a game or at least EXPLOSIONS AND ACTION but all this shows is a shitty concept and shitty production and a shitty tagline
I am a pessimist but yeah the game's going to be shitty, betting dollars
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sorry that was a drunk post, what I mean to say is I _loved_ when he killed the demon by smashing a crucifix upside his head
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I'm not retarded, I'm just more optimist than the rest of you. Maybe it's because I don't have the same attachment to the original work that most of you seems to have. I've never heard of Dante's Inferno before and only vaguely knew about it just like pretty much everyone else I know in the real world.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/1ddcl10h.htm
enjoy
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SK, in terms of offensiveness in a video game this is up there with Jean D' Arc and Trusty Bell: Chopin's Dream. This is like... Romeo X Juliet type shit.... only this time we can't blame it on Japan.
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why would you think explaining your position with DONT WORRY; I'M WILLFULLY IGNORANT OF CONTEXT would get me to revoke my previous statement about you being retarded.
also THE REAL WORLD what the hell dude. if you live in the west and you know anything about literature you know the divine comedy or at least the inferno. I voluntarily read that shit in ninth grade, once again, what kind of counterpoint is I HANG OUT WITH UNCULTURED MORONS WHO DONT KNOW BASIC ENGLISH?
all of this ignoring the fact that this is a fucking book to videogame translation into a shitty action game and you think "let's be fair" is a good position when we all know if this was something you had the slightest clue about like idk KIRBY why not and it was an FPS where he uses a machine gun to kill Nazis, you'd be first in line to condemn it.
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also THE REAL WORLD what the hell dude. if you live in the west and you know anything about literature you know the divine comedy or at least the inferno. I voluntarily read that shit in ninth grade, once again, what kind of counterpoint is I HANG OUT WITH UNCULTURED MORONS WHO DONT KNOW BASIC ENGLISH?
I'M SORRY I LIVE IN THAT WESTERN PART OF THE WORLD WHERE ENGLISH IS KINDA NOT THE FIRST PRIORITY
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I'M SORRY I LIVE IN THAT WESTERN PART OF THE WORLD WHERE ENGLISH IS KINDA NOT THE FIRST PRIORITY
yo dante's inferno is italian anyway, he was referring to like ENGLISH=LITERATURE i think
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yo dante's inferno is italian anyway, he was referring to like ENGLISH=LITERATURE i think
Doesn't change the fact they never mentioned anything about this and they kinda just focus on French and Quebec literature.
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well it's public domain and i posted a free link to it so you should give it a chance; it may quite not be quebec literature but i promise its pretty good and would be worth your time
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/1ddcl10h.htm
here's a french one, i don't speak french so i dont know if the translation is very good
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=512585
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I can see where SK is coming from.
Had I never found out about it online like 2 years ago, I'd never even heard of Dante Aligheri.
Not once.
Never ever.
Never.
It's good, but yeah, schools here mostly don't give a squat about it. French classes give mostly french litterature (mostly, otherwise it's like EDGAR POE)
and idk about the english litterature college classes because FOR SOME MILDLY OBSCURE REASON I was ranked below that class during my english entry test
but as far as i've been told they read weird books and watched movies about hooligans
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I'M SORRY I LIVE IN THAT WESTERN PART OF THE WORLD WHERE ENGLISH IS KINDA NOT THE FIRST PRIORITY
its not even an English work originally, it's part of literature classes. and once again this is a public work, incredibly famous, and yet you're still willing to "give it the benefit of the doubt" rather than read a work widely regarded as fucking CANON (http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/theocraticcanon.html) and realize how obscene making a videogame on it is!
why do you choose to be this way? seriously.
I can see where SK is coming from.
Had I never found out about it online like 2 years ago, I'd never even heard of Dante Aligheri.
that's not where he's coming from. where he's coming from is not only does he not know the work, he insists that the "real world" does not either despite this being one of the most famous works of western literature (even this shitty game trailer mentioned it changed the face of the world I GUESS ME AND THE GAME DESIGNERS ARE THE SAME), that people who dislike this idea have an unhealthy attachment to the original work and can't judge the game on its merits (man I don't know italian, it strikes me as a bit off to enjoy the language of an epic poem that's been translated, basically I DONT EVEN CARE FOR THE INFERNO THAT MUCH), and that his ignorance is an excuse to think this game can be okay and isn't just an awful shill.
this is like Macbeth, THE VIDEOGAME, and he's still saying "I don't know anything at all but heh...I'm an optimist (not just completely ignorant of any sense of context)"
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a work widely regarded as fucking CANON (http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/theocraticcanon.html)
hahahahahha off topic but i think its pretty funny that there is such a thing as canonical literature
hmm yes of mice and men surely has its merits but it must be taken with a grain of salt since its non-canonical..
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uh this is what canon means dude. its not a funny word wikipedia made up for anime. the original meaning is for writing an essential work. real canon IS literature canon. here's a quote:
canon, a body of writings recognized by authority. Those books of holy scripture which religious leaders accept as genuine are canonical, as are those works of a literary author which scholars regard as authentic. The canon of a national literature is a body of writings especially approved by critics or anthologists and deemed suitable for academic study. Canonicity is the quality of being canonical.
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uh this is what canon means dude. its not a funny word wikipedia made up for anime. the original meaning is for writing an essential work. real canon IS literature canon. here's a quote:
oh i thought it was specifically meant for intra-series works and continuity.
my bad!
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lets be honest though all dante's inferno was was dante and the catholics wanting to come up with a terrifying vision of hell to scare the living shit out of all the poor lower class back in the day fuck dante's inferno fuck dante I hope this game bastardizes the hell out of it.
delmons gonna rap e u in the butt
I mean seriously he wrote the paradise part but you almost never hear about it all you hear about is hell hell hell hell hell hell hell hell oh yeah heavens gravy hell hell hell hell hell
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its because paradiso and purgatorio are boring. if you dont show motherfuckers eating their own brains who cares man.
also its been a while since I've studied the comedy but if I remember right not only did he have great difficulty getting it published but it had nothing to do with terrorizing the poor. the people he depicts suffering are often politicians of note during the time. it's an attack on the upper class if anything.
in fact I'm 99% sure of this what are you even talking about man.
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yea dude he even heavily criticizes high members of the catholic church (i'm pretty sure there was a bishop or cardinal or something and an ENTIRE LEVEL devoted to religious fraud) in it what are you talking about
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I honestly don't know but I remember going to church when I was a kid and the douche bag preachers constantly reading excerpts from it and being like YOU DONT WANT TO GO TO HELL AND HANG BY YOUR TONGUE WHILE ON FIRE FOR ALL ETERNITY DO YOU!??!!????????????????////
And I figured thats what they did back then too because fundamentalists nut jobs like to keep it real, yo
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a work widely regarded as fucking CANON (http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/theocraticcanon.html) and realize how obscene making a videogame on it is!
what about all the other works in that list that is featured in bad videogames :(
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Such as?
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yeah I don't remember any videogames on the odyssey or beowulf even, and the last had a shitty movie with it. maybe some dumb text adventure stuff, but nothing on the level of retranslating it into HACKABOUTWITH SCYTHES/
funny comment I read: some guy was like "how is this a game, isnt one of hte levels just pushing through an eternity of pigshit" and someone else said "so its an mmo".
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*badum-tish* jerryyyyyyyyyyyyyy
i promised myself i wouldnt use this phrase anymore but im gonna go ahead and give this game the "gay as hell" award based on that trailer. sounds like some developers thought they could appeal to the nerd's "guilty for not knowing anything about history or religion other than the timeline of battle armor invention and the religious conflict between elves and dwarves" complex and said LETS MAKE A GAME ABOUT DEMON
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i do recall playing an adventure game about Ulysses with my dad long ago
i think it was in crude 3d or something
it was boring tho
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there are probably adventure games based on half the novels/epics there
i know el cid was a campaign in aoe2, but that was a good game
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Such as?
portions of sæmundsedda has been featured lots of times in pretty much any game that's focused on NORSE MYTHOLOGY fyi
also i can remember playing a game based on the odyssey ages ago... but it might've just been portions since i was only familiar with the childrens edition at the time (and still is... eh)
i think sæmundsedda is THE POETIC EDDA in english
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drawing stuff from mythology isn't the same as making a game purporting to be based on the work itself.
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hahaha oh man this is almost as good as that fake duke nukem trailer.
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drawing stuff from mythology isn't the same as making a game purporting to be based on the work itself.
yeah.
hahaha oh man this is almost as good as that fake duke nukem trailer.
that was fake???
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hahaha this is fucking horrible BASH DEMONS IN THE HEAD GO GO
what has the world come to (hint: its already a lot worse than thissss)
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This will be great for the three people who thought that the Fight Club game was playable.
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I still think this could be somewhat enjoyable, in the sense that Dead Space was. I'm almost expecting it to be DS in hell in fact.
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I good game based off a literature work would be Call of Cthulu. Which is whats giving me the benefit of the doubt for this, but just that.
I understand never hearing of Dante's Inferno. I only heard about it when I was 15, and even then that was because of some strange obscure reference by my dad's dad. I asked what that reference was after visiting and was told it was from Dante's Inferno. When I was in high school, the only famous works i've studied or even heard about was stuff like Hamlet, Macbeth, everything by Shakespeare. Stuff like Mice and Men was never even so much as mentioned by the teacher. Hell i've only found alot of these famous works purely by chance and word of mouth on message boards.
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I good game based off a literature work would be Call of Cthulu. Which is whats giving me the benefit of the doubt for this, but just that.
i wouldn't consider HP LOVECRAFT to be in the same spectrum as dante.
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I good game based off a literature work would be Call of Cthulu. Which is whats giving me the benefit of the doubt for this, but just that.
That isn't really relevant because Call of Cthulu is about material that directly translates well to a video game. Inferno does . . . not. Not even a little bit.
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Maybe if they had come up with the concept back when Myst was still big, and even then only maybe.
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Well, i'm comparing them because it's famous literature. Honestly I need SOMETHING to assure me, even a little bit, that this can be decent. But it's not like i'm gonna keep an eye on this i'll porbably forget about this game until some seemingly spontaneous announcement about it is made on this board or somewhere I frequent.