lolz! jonathan knight and his fanboys laugh at epic art and debauch it! knight et al exalt killing babies! lolz!

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12051-dantes-inferno-will-include-baby-killing-achievement/
http://www.thebitbag.com/2009/10/15/dantes-inferno-features-poor-taste-and-bad-judgment/

Oct 15, 2009 – The International Nanny Association (INA) has released an official statement regarding the Dante’s Inferno Video Game which features a baby killing achievement, or trophy, called "Bad Nanny." "INA feels this video game component of Dante’s Inferno was created out of poor taste and bad judgment. INA is opposed to video games that promote and encourage players to "kill" babies, even in fantasy play. It is our opinion that this type of play may promote violence towards children. The name of the trophy or achievement, "Bad Nanny," is offensive to our association in that we strive to promote and educate the public regarding the selfless work nannies do to support families by providing quality in-home child care." The International Nanny Association (INA), established in 1985, is a nonprofit and serves as the umbrella organization for the in-home child care industry. INA members include nannies, nanny employers, nanny agencies, educators and industry service providers. For almost a quarter of a century, INA has worked to professionalize the industry by setting high standards for industry professionals and nanny agencies. INA leverages the expertise of industry professionals from around the globe to help increase awareness about the industry, to develop the professional skills of nannies, and to educate parents about the benefits of hiring a qualified nanny to care for their children.
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More epic ea fail: Dante's Inferno will include baby-killing Achievement

from: Dante's Inferno will include baby-killing Achievement

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12051-dantes-inferno-will-include-baby-killing-achievement/

Ever kill a baby in self-defense? Get your hands on Dante's Inferno in February and you will. . . . Well, it falls in line with all the other craziness we've seen from Dante's Inferno, including supersized nudes that waddle around trying to eat you -- oh yes, Gluttony has saggy breasts.

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12051-dantes-inferno-will-include-baby-killing-achievement/

EA the ripper-offer doing Jack the Ripper

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25546

hopefully they´ll read "from hell" and give the game some literary depth.....but I don't know why.....I don't think so, more probably they will watch the moronic movie based on the comic.....if they even do that :D

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25546

"Dante’s Inferno seems nothing more than a medieval God of War that takes place in hell."

http://www.thunderboltgames.com/previews/article/pax-09-dantes-inferno-preview-for-ps3.html

At this point Dante’s Inferno seems nothing more than a medieval God of War that takes place in hell. Again, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be a bad game, but the first quarter of 2010 is already filled to the brim with high profile action games including Bayonetta, Darksiders and a certain series whose name escapes me.

http://www.thunderboltgames.com/previews/article/pax-09-dantes-inferno-preview-for-ps3.html

Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

more eafail#

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2009/09/16/pax-09-dantes-inferno/


it’s pretty much God of War, but instead of a fictional Spartan warrior they chose to make the main character a non-fictional poet.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have any deep emotional connection with The Divine Comedy. I just wish game companies would have the confidence to come up with an original story and label it as such rather than coming up with a 90% original story and labeling it as the mostly unrelated source material.
It’s bad enough they ripped off God of War for the gameplay, couldn’t they add a story without ripping off something else?
What’s worse is that they didn’t even use an action story. They used a poem more about skewering political figures of the time than conflict, so they had to appropriate characters that, in the text, are either benign or helpful, and turn them into villains. In the PAX demo I decapitated who I believe was Phlegyas, who not only was turned into a villain but was turned from the ferryman into the actual, physical boat.
It’s like if they’d grabbed the Driving Miss Daisy license for Crazy Taxi.


http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2009/09/16/pax-09-dantes-inferno/

Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

from --http://kotaku.com/5230207/dantes-inferno-preview-looks-like-hell

Final ThoughtsNobody said that a cloned game is automatically a bad game; if you
do it well and what you're cloning is really awesome, then it follows that the
clone should be equally awesome, right? So in that regard there may be hope for
Dante's Inferno. However, EA might want to start showing off what's different
about Dante's Inferno instead of all of the things that are the same as God of
War. That was their big pitch, right — that this is a badass retelling of Dante
Alighieri's story? If they don't get around to proving that soon, somebody's
going to be rolling in his grave.

--http://kotaku.com/5230207/dantes-inferno-preview-looks-like-hell

Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

the following is from:

http://kotaku.com/5230207/dantes-inferno-preview-looks-like-hell

What Needs Improvement?It's a God of War Clone: It's hard to appreciate a
game for itself when its so focused on being some other game. There are
obviously going to be some similarities between third-person action-adventure
games that feature a section in Hell. Hell's imagining in the minds of Man
hasn't really changed much in thousands of years, so when Dante climbs down a
wall made up of people with grasping arms, I can't call that a rip-off of the
beginning of God of War 2 in all fairness. However, most major elements in the
game that I saw like the colors of Mana, Health and Souls are deliberately and
directly lifted from God of War. The controls are cribbed, too, only modified to
fit Dante's scythe for the combos; and even the simple task of opening a door or
accessing a Mana/Health well involve mashing the Circle button in a mini
quicktime event — just like God of War. It feels like EA isn't even trying to
make a game; they're trying to make a mod that re-skins everything Greek to be
Christian (like Dante using a cross to activate the Mana/Health wells).

http://kotaku.com/5230207/dantes-inferno-preview-looks-like-hell

Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

The following is from: http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/?p=187

“But by claiming to have anything to do with Dante’s Inferno, this game loudly echoes that trend in a particularly frustrating way. It could have simply been called ‘Righteous Duty’ or whatever bullshit name [edit: Clint Hocking suggests 'Demon Hunter,' 'To Hell and Back,' 'Love be Damned,' 'Infernal'] with the same plot and mechanics — they could have even given Dante a shoutout in their ridiculous PR pitches — and I don’t think I would have batted an eye. But as the game industry’s big-budget, highly-publicized representation of a work that everybody knows by cultural osmosis, even if they’ve never read a word of it, it’s a big huge fucking depressing failure.”
God of War, which many have pointed out as a counterpoint to the general opinion I espouse, takes that latter approach. But while I’m not personally a God of War fan, it doesn’t offend me as a gamer; it’s just not my kind of game, mechanically speaking.
God of War is directly influenced by Greek mythology, but it doesn’t claim any kind of definitive association with a particular work in its title. Rather, it uses the cultural source material as a rough touchstone. Dante’s Inferno, ironically, appears to depart even more from its source material than God of War does, but makes an implicit claim that it is more related.

--http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/?p=187

Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/?p=187

“I just don’t see why this is based on Dante’s Inferno. If, as some have
claimed, the core market doesn’t care about the game’s adherence to its ’source
material’ — and surely it doesn’t — what usefulness is it to claim association
in the first place?
“This could have been simply a game influenced by Dante’s
imagery, as so many creative works have been over the centuries, rather than
actually claiming to be any kind of even remotely meaningful adaptation of the
poem. To me, it’s an amazing vindication of the claims of video games’ inability
to thoughtfully construct ANY kind of meaningful thought: here’s how video games
adapt one of Western culture’s defining literary works, and it consists of
brutally ripping apart demons for eight hours, surely complete with idiotic
throwaway one-liners.
“I know it’s not the duty of any individual game
designer to ‘justify’ games to anyone who doesn’t play them, and it shouldn’t
be, and obviously as a gamer I know full well that games are capable of more
than this. But the reality is that most games DON’T have anything to say; most
games DON’T communicate any meaningful thought; and most games DON’T deal with
their subject matter in anything other than the basest, most ridiculous way. You
could say the same for most fiction of any medium, but it’s certainly even more
true for games.

http://chrisremo.com/bloggin/?p=187

Dante's Inferno Divine Comedy

"I really got into re-imagining Dante as a flawed hero with a dark past, and his determination to save the love of his life from a terrible fate"all this stuff has nothing to do with the original work and, honestly, as Italian I'm not that happy to see the most important work of our literature turned into another trivial game simply full of blood and gore while the original thematic material would have been used for a much more mature and thoughful game .... If only Dante could sue EA for misusing his name! :P"

--http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25592