Which do EA's John Riccitiello & Jonathan Knight detest more? Gameplay, Originality, EA's market cap, Dante, or Beatrice? lolzlz!
1up.COM: Dante's is as complete a forgery as games come, taking approximately 90% of its key features directly from Sony Santa Monica's game.
IGN UK: Dante's Inferno misses the mark in almost every way.
DESTRUCTOID: You're not going to find a wholly original gameplay experience with Dante's Inferno,.
EUROGAMER: It's just not an original one, and it's arrived a little too late.
1UP: comes up short of creating the grand adventure that it seems to be trying for.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com: 1Up offered a 'C+' score to Dante's. the site said the story ended up 'taking a backseat' and that it 'comes up short of creating the grand adventure that it seems to be trying for'.
TEAMXBOX: It locks you into a gameplay hell of sorts, giving you a devil of a time just to try and survive, though rarely making you feel like the reward is worth the incredible effort. Instead of bringing the poem to life, the gamemakers slammed the book on your fingers.
GAMEPLANET: without innovative gameplay and with some downright outmoded game mechanics, there's not quite enough here to distinguish Dante's Inferno from the raft of action adventure titles available to gamers today.
TOTAL VIDEO GAMES: However, with the likes of Darksiders and Bayonetta on the market (as well as God of War III in our sights), Dante's Inferno is the weakest proposition of the bunch.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dantes-inferno-review?page=1: 6/10
EUROGAMER (6/10): It's packed with clichés and colloquialisms, and much of the voice acting is so naff that even the decent lines sound rubbish.
... The repetition really kicks in during the last few levels. The penultimate circle is simply a series of arenas in which you must complete a series of boring challenges - defeat all the enemies, defeat all the enemies without using magic, defeat all the enemies except this time there's more of them, and so on. Every arena looks pretty much the same and all the enemies have featured in previous levels. You might think this is training preparation for the epic, hardcore final circle - but without wishing to spoil anything, you might be disappointed.
http://www.gameplanet.co.nz: A fixed camera angle and far too many quick-time events. An imbalance between levelling Dante's two skill trees. An all too frequent and wearisome minigame inside. The circle of Fraud is simply uninspired.
lolzlzlz lolz!!
On the Very Serious Business of Story: EA loses Billions via Debauchery and Desecration of Classical, Epic, Exalted Art
Well, we have a lot of fun in these forums and all, but when it comes down to it, story is a very, very, very serious business:
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Jonathan Knight might get a kick out of debauching and desecrating Dante's Inferno, stripping Dante's immortal, exalted, incorruptible Beatrice naked, taking her from heaven where Dante had placed her in his epic, exlated poem and throwing her in hell, and then trying to sell her debauched nudity to fanboyz mashing buttons in their single mom's basements; but at the end of the day, EA is going to have to lay more people off while failing its investors, art, women, culture, poetry, and interactive entertainment.
I mean we joke around a lot and banter back and forth, but when it comes right down to it, billions of dollars are at stake alongside thousands of jobs; and something far, far greater--the culture.
Socrates tells us that virtue does not come form money, but that money and every lasting good of man derives from virtue; and the Founding Fathers remind us that our freedom descends from classical, epic, moral principles, while Homer tells us, "Fair dealing leads to greater profit in the end." Jefferson stated that they all fall away one by one, until one is left with Virgil and Homer and perhaps Homer alone, and it was Virgil who mentored Dante through hell, as well as Ludwig von Mises who adopted Virgil's "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito" as his lifelong motto.
So who are we to ignore or debauch those eternal, epic artists who exalted classical ideals?
Did they not warn us that our market caps would lose billions if we ignored, desecrated, and debauched their works?
""It's just a gross misrepresentation of the original work," said Rob Bricken in THE NEW YORK TIMES. The UK Guardian Reported: "The philosophy with which Inferno is shot through is completely jettisoned, and the quotes the game occasionally chucks your way are very short and pretty random." THE IRIS NETWORK reports: "#EAFail is a total cluster**** of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator." --http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/
It is hard to tell which JOHN RICCITIELLO'S & JONATHAN KNIGHT hate more--money or art. The hilarious thing is that they thought they could rescue EA's flailing stock price by stripping Dante's immortal, exalted, incorruptible Beatrice naked, taking her from heaven where Dante had placed her and throwing her in hell, and then selling her debauched nudity to fanboyz mashing buttons in their single mom's basements.
Do they not believe in Karma and Divine Justice? And if not, how can one hope to exalt the Divine Comedy if one does not believe in Divine Love? The entire exalted, epic point of Dante's Inferno was the incorruptible nature of Beatrice's exalted spirit and soul--she was the only reason that Dante the Poet made it on down through hell and back on up again. She was his pristine guide and inspiration. And the fanmba CEOs arrogantly stripped her naked and cast her into hell in their lame and failing attempt to make a buck.
Jonathan Knight and John RICCITIELLO will, of course, epic EA Fail, as check out what happens to EA's stock price when fanmbas try to recreate art in their own debauched image!
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Speaking of eafail, check out the #eafail link roundup: http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/ ""It's just a gross misrepresentation of the original work," said Rob Bricken in THE NEW YORK TIMES. The UK Guardian Reported: "The philosophy with which Inferno is shot through is completely jettisoned, and the quotes the game occasionally chucks your way are very short and pretty random." THE IRIS NETWORK reports: "#EAFail is a total cluster**** of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator." --http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/
Dante had met Beatrice in real life, and she became a lifelong inspiration to him. This is what Dante wrote about Beatrice in la vita nuova: "At that moment I say truly that the vital spirit, that which lives in the most secret chamber of the heart began to tremble so violently that I felt it fiercely in the least pulsation, and, trembling, it uttered these words: `Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi: Behold a god more powerful than I, who, coming, will rule over me.' At that moment the animal spirit, that which lives in the high chamber to which all the spirits of the senses carry their perceptions, began to wonder deeply at it, and, speaking especially to the spirit of sight, spoke these words: `Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra: Now your blessedness appears.' At that moment the natural spirit, that which lives in the part where our food is delivered, began to weep, and weeping said these words: `Heu miser, quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps!: Oh misery, since I will often be troubled from now on!'"
Dante placed Beatice in heaven.
EA stripped her naked and cast her in hell and they're still trying to market it as Dante's Inferno to bolster their flailing market cap.
Dante continued, "From then on I say that Amor governed my soul, which was so soon wedded to him, and began to acquire over me such certainty and command, through the power my imagination gave him, that I was forced to carry out his wishes fully. He commanded me many times to discover whether I might catch sight of this most tender of angels, so that in my boyhood I many times went searching, and saw her to be of such noble and praiseworthy manners, that certainly might be said of her those words of the poet Homer: `She did not seem to be the daughter of a mortal man, but of a god'. And though her image, that which was continually with me, was a device of Amor's to govern me, it was nevertheless of so noble a virtue that it never allowed Amor to rule me without the loyal counsel of reason in all those things where such counsel was usefully heard." --http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/TheNewLifeI.htm#_Toc88709639
The entire center and circumference of the Divine Comedy is Beatrice's exalted nature, which inspires and guides dante up into Paradisio.
Dante writes, "Nine times already since my birth the heaven of light had almost revolved to the self-same point when my mind's glorious lady first appeared to my eyes, she who was called by many Beatrice (`she who confers blessing'), by those who did not know what it meant to so name her. She had already lived as long in this life as in her time the starry heaven had moved east the twelfth part of one degree, so that she appeared to me almost at the start of her ninth year, and I saw her almost at the end of my ninth. She appeared dressed in noblest colour, restrained and pure, in crimson, tied and adorned in the style that then suited her very tender age."
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/TheNewLifeI.htm#_Toc88709639
Save Beatrice!! Recall the game, put her back in heaven, and get some clothes on her!
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EA's epic failure is a teachable moment!!
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lozllzzllz! SAVE BEATRICE!!
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