Dante's Inferno

[Slothy]

Call of Duty genericized Battlefield. They did it again when Battlefield 2 came out, except this time they called it "Modern Warfare".

To be perfectly fair, Call of Duty lifted more from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, which the people who formed Infinity Ward released 9 months before Battlefield 1942 came out. For that matter, implying that a largely single player game focused on providing an adrenaline rush of a single player experience ripped off an objective based multiplayer game with huge maps and a focus on vehicle combat is a laugh and a half. The two are nothing alike outside of their setting.

Same goes for Battlefield 2 and COD4. The setting is similar, but the games are radically different from the very focus of their gameplay to how they feel.

[Yeargdribble]

How did they do anything in their own way? They did it the exact same way God of War did.

Basically they took the build and controls and everything, but they used a different story. I didn't hear people griping about GoW stealing and bastardizing Greek mythology, but for some reason people get pissy about The Divine Comedy, though I doubt most have read it. Sure, they did nothing new other than use the same mechanics with a different story, but I don't care.

If GoW is fun to play, DI is fun to play. I don't care who came first or who stole what. If gameplay is fun, it's fun. I'd say their art direction was pretty solid and very twisted. That's a plus. If it looks great and plays just like a game everyone loves I can't understand what makes people upset.

If they'd made it look worse, control worse, and broke everything they were stealing for GoW, then there would be cause for dissent and negative comparisons, but considering everyone claims it's an exact clone, that doesn't seem to be the case.


I think Bolivar mentioned probably the greatest example for us all. Final Fantasy was just as shameless a rip off of Dragon Quest, but none of us care today. Both DQ1 and FF1 are good games with good gameplay for the time and have aged relatively well.

Who cares if the chicken or the egg came first if they both taste delicious?

[bipper]

Trying too hard to do things differently is what got us the Wii. Please Neo, stop pissing before Nintendo hears you.

[NeoCracker]

How did they do anything in their own way? They did it the exact same way God of War did.

Basically they took the build and controls and everything, but they used a different story. I didn't hear people griping about GoW stealing and bastardizing Greek mythology, but for some reason people get pissy about The Divine Comedy, though I doubt most have read it. Sure, they did nothing new other than use the same mechanics with a different story, but I don't care.

If GoW is fun to play, DI is fun to play. I don't care who came first or who stole what. If gameplay is fun, it's fun. I'd say their art direction was pretty solid and very twisted. That's a plus. If it looks great and plays just like a game everyone loves I can't understand what makes people upset.

If they'd made it look worse, control worse, and broke everything they were stealing for GoW, then there would be cause for dissent and negative comparisons, but considering everyone claims it's an exact clone, that doesn't seem to be the case.


I think Bolivar mentioned probably the greatest example for us all. Final Fantasy was just as shameless a rip off of Dragon Quest, but none of us care today. Both DQ1 and FF1 are good games with good gameplay for the time and have aged relatively well.

Who cares if the chicken or the egg came first if they both taste delicious?

I've avoided commenting at all on the story, so I don't quite see why you brought that up here.

And as for FF, there are a lot of similarities to DQ int he beggining, but as far as game play goes, there are still many differences one could point out about the gameplay of both. I can't comment about the first DQ as I have not yet played it, but FF differs in many regards from a lot of DQ games. I don't think anyone would argue any FF is an clone of any DQ.

And I do in fact care, as this is giving EA a pass to make games with little to no effort into the game. THat, to me, is unacceptable.

And to Bipper, you know what else trying to do things differently has brought us? Online capablilities, 3D games, Genre Hybrids, the different types of turn based RPGs, an 'Active' default instead of just the 'Wait', fully customizable classes in RPGs, as well as more customization in every other type of game, sand box style games, the list goes on and on.

Now tell me, what has making a replica of a previous game ever accomplished? I garuntee you the list you can come up with is much, much shorter then the list the other side can come up with.

And the Wii has awesome games, don't go dragging your 'I hate new things attitude into this old man.

(SPOILER)Just saying a personal dislike of something is no reason to come out and act as though it's some horrid gaming attrocity.

[bipper]

Neo, none of that is good. Change is bad. :P

Either way, after playing further into the game, I am strongly disappointed. The time trigger rooms are lame as .

With the different mind numbingly insulting dungeons with triggered timed certain death events Satan is like a really bad Gannon mixed with jigsaw from Saw.

I give the game a 6 out of 10 thus far.

Let down from the first half of the game.

[Unbreakable Will]

Neo, have you even played the game? And in all honesty given it a chance at all? I understand that you might freakin love GoW, but to completely write off a game that has some of the same qualities of GoW as inferior and a rip-off is seriously close-minded. It's rather presumptious to say that the people at EA aren't trying either, hell, I watched the special features a few times and saw some of the work that went into the artwork and the 3d rendering of it, to put that down is like spitting in their faces imo.

[Bolivar]

For that matter, implying that a largely single player game focused on providing an adrenaline rush of a single player experience ripped off an objective based multiplayer game with huge maps and a focus on vehicle combat is a laugh and a half.

You don't remember the abysmal tank section in the third campaign?

I guess Medal of Honor, generally, was first but I feel Battlefield really owned the WWII scene back then at least, I guess only exclusively, in multiplayer. Still, it set the bar pretty damn high in the genre and that's why I made this, admittedly bad, example.

[Depression Moon]

If it could find it for cheap or somehow stumble across it for free, I would definitely give it a try. It doesn't look like it'll beat GoW I played the demo and could already tell that it doesn't, but the game has to be at least a 7.

[bipper]

I give the game 4/10.

There is not enough hack and slash - at all.

OP: The game sells itself as being Brutal. It is in the look and feel, but the second you get that controller in your hand and make it past gluttony it turns into an annoying timed jump game that lacks good action, until the woods of the suicides.

I would actually suggest renting the game. It is short, you can beat it on a first play through in like ten hours, easy. The story is pretty cool, and the look and feel is awesome. It really does a good job of strongly rooting itself in the imagery of the Inferno.

Combat is fairly lame, even Lucifer is a push over. I played on normal mode, and will give the hardest difficulty a go. The hardest thing for me in this game, was a few of the timed switch rooms, which just took multiple tries to pass.

If the twisted abyss of hell is really as much jumping, timing, and just as unbrutal as Dante's Inferno led me to believe it is, I won't be joining Islam anytime soon.

[Pheesh]

Zero Puntuation - Dante's Inferno

[bipper]

Zero Puntuation - Dante's Inferno

That about summed up a lot of it. I refuse to discredit the game solely on the likeness to GoW - there are plenty of other places to discredit it. But that video doesn't do the good parts justice, as there were quite a few places of the game where it was actually pretty sweet.

[Alucard von Elru]

Who cares if the chicken or the egg came first if they both taste delicious?

This wins. That's pretty much my thoughts on the poor reception Darksiders is getting, too. We can have how many shooters a year that are borderline-identical, but we are damn lucky to get a decent hack-and-slash action game once per year, and even that doesn't really happen! Why are we only supposed to like ONE game in this genre? This isn't effin' Highlander!

On the matter of Dante's Inferno, I think the environments and enemies look awesome, the constant-60fps combat sounds glorious, and it looks just as fun as GoW. The only reason I haven't picked it up yet is because the design of the main character is absolutely pivotal to me in games like this. As much as the game at large appeals to me, I simply haven't gotten over just how dopey Dante looks. :/

[NeoCracker]

Neo, have you even played the game? And in all honesty given it a chance at all? I understand that you might freakin love GoW, but to completely write off a game that has some of the same qualities of GoW as inferior and a rip-off is seriously close-minded. It's rather presumptious to say that the people at EA aren't trying either, hell, I watched the special features a few times and saw some of the work that went into the artwork and the 3d rendering of it, to put that down is like spitting in their faces imo.

As I mentioned earlier yes. I even played the game to it's completion, right down to the fight with Lucifer.

And all of my comments about lack of effort were pointed directly at the gameplay.

And again, it's not that they ripped some of GoW off, but ALL of it.

[Yeargdribble]

God Of War III Video Game, Review HD | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com

Hilarious. The entire review criticizes the game essentially for being more of the same, but with prettier graphics. Not enough use of Titans. Problematic fixed cameras. Basic puzzles.

All of these things are what cratered the review of Dante's Inferno. But look, our beloved GoW did it, so it's gonna get a significantly higher score for all of the same things.