hot or not? (dante's inferno related) verdict: NOT NOT NOT

[demi]

They tear their cunts open and stab you with their clitoris

[archie4208]

Kill any fatties yet?

[demi]

Not yet, maybe thats next.

This game is like one giant gauntlet. I had to kill a shitto of enemies just to reach the boss, and now after... more enemies

[Third]

The clitoris monsters are hard to beat with the scythe. The cross attack, however, will trash them pretty fast.

I started this game on hard. But I didn't like the challenge. A game can be hard in a good way, but this one is pretty stupid. Finished the game on normal in the end.

And demi, be prepared to die a lot, and it probably won't be your fault.

[demi]

And now there's these worm monsters. You cant get them to come up unless you walk to them - you are supposed to dodge, but of course you still get hit on occasion.

How do you fuck up a God of War clone? Holy fuck is it really this difficult?

At least Darksiders wasnt a total fuckup

[Third]

Some of the environments are pretty great, though. The rock faces that vomit bodies looked pretty awesome. And Minos bossfight was awesome, too.
The beginning of the game has some great environments and ideas.

But the game becomes pretty mediocre during the middle and the last part of the game is fucking annoying and very bad.

EA needs to fix a lot of things in DI2.

[Akala]

How the fuck are they going to make a DI2?

I'm actually curious. someone spoil it for me (in spoiler/PM please!) cause I'll probably never play it.

Do you actually go through all 9 levels of hell? Does it end with a cliffhanger? Are they actually going to try to make a sequel out of Purgatory?

[Third]

How the fuck are they going to make a DI2?

I'm actually curious. someone spoil it for me (in spoiler/PM please!) cause I'll probably never play it.

Do you actually go through all 9 levels of hell? Does it end with a cliffhanger? Are they actually going to try to make a sequel out of Purgatory?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes, you go through all the layers of hell. The ending isn't a cliffhanger. You just escape hell and your spirit lands in Purgatory.
So I guess the sequel will take place in the purgatory. And after Purgatory comes Paradiso.

[close]

So it'll probably be a trilogy.

[Akala]

Dante's Inferno III: Paradiso*
Heaven is about to get a lot emptier! Avenge Dante's dead wife by fighting through the heavens! Then killing her.

"It's heavenly!" - IGN

*also available in EA Paperbax

[Raban]

Dante's Inferno III: Paradiso*
Heaven is about to get a lot emptier! Avenge Dante's dead wife by fighting through the heavens! Then killing her.

"It's heavenly!" - IGN

*also available in EA Paperbax

This reads like a Penny Arcade strip.

[demi]

I am in awe at how bad this game is.

[archie4208]

Are you even going to bother getting 1000 on it?

[demi]

Sure am

[Third]

I'm sure demi has 1000'd shittier games. Like The last Remnant, for instance.

[demi]

I had to notch it down to Normal, I caved. Anyone who beats this on the hardest, you are awesome or more maso than me. Cause this game is TURD CITY.

[Bebpo]

My chance to show off demi!

/jk, playing it on normal

[Bebpo]

And yeah the game sucks but on the other hand it does a good job hyping me for God of War 3!

[demi]

Playing on Normal is SO MUCH BETTER. I think my problem is that I am going in expecting BAYONETTA 2, so I got FURIOUS at what I was playing.

LOWER YOUR STANDARDS: IT'S A GOD OF WAR CLONE

I say this to myself... and it all makes sense

That's not to say this game still is turd city. I fucking died on the fatass boss (who WASNt in Gluttony for some reason) because the platform goes out from below you an you die when you fall in the goop. Yeah thanks.

[demi]

Oh yeah, this game is definite shit. #1 for worst of 2010 goes to... Dante's Inferno!

[Stoney Mason]

Interesting.

The demo I thought was okay. Does it do a good job of hiding the annoying bits?

The demo I mean in comparison to the full game.

[demi]

This game is garbage, no need to explain. Holy shit did they get it wrong.

[Bebpo]

Interesting.

The demo I thought was okay. Does it do a good job of hiding the annoying bits?

The demo I mean in comparison to the full game.

The demo doesn't have the terrible platforming and the annoying enemies and bad bosses and cheap deaths.

...so yeah the demo is better. 

[demi]

Dont forget the required trials at the end of the game! Yes, hovering in the air for 7 seconds is integral to saving my girlfriend!

[Third]

Yeah, the trials felt so tacked on. GOW has trials as bonus option in the menu. DI forces you to play them. And I hated the trials in GOW already

[Ichirou]

I knew this game was going to be shit just from playing half of the demo.

[ManaByte]

My friend is "loving" this game, and I just smile, nod, and go back to Bioshock 2.

[Beezy]

Shame on any of you who actually bought this shit and not Bayonetta.

[Ichirou]

Shame on any of you who actually bought this shit and not Bayonetta.

.

[Bebpo]

Gluttony - ok I guess, but that white room puzzle (which is fine) being in GLUTTONY makes zero sense.  It's like they made the puzzle after the game was done and just had to throw it somewhere.

Greed - Long as hell with a lot of annoying shit.  That room with the spinning spike wheel and you have to do little double hops but the camera sucks?  The part where you turn the circle and it spits fire destroying a pillar and you have to jump off the center back to the ground but the CAMERA IS A FUCKED UP FIXED ANGLE AND YOU DIE AND HAVE TO FIGHT AGAIN, ugh.  I didn't even bother going for the optional damned in a couple spots because the horrible I-can't-see-shit platforming was not worth it.

In Anger now.

[demi]

The trials completely kill this game for me. I feel like stopping right here they are that bad. The game is over, this is the extras, I'm sure.

[demi]

LMAO Lucifer's DICK

Dante's dick

Seems cocks back then were huge. Where did we go wrong?

[Third]

Nothing went wrong here. 

I, too, was surprised by all the cocks in the game. Never seen so many penises in a game before.

[Bebpo]

The trials completely kill this game for me. I feel like stopping right here they are that bad. The game is over, this is the extras, I'm sure.

Sounds terrible :\

[Sho Nuff]

Holy shit! I want to play the game that broke Demi

[demi]

When you beat the game, you unlock a survival mode featuring FIFTY waves. What a fucking CHORE, even on easy. I wish I had bought this game so I could feel better taking a greasy shit on this and lighting it on fire.

I'm not even gonna bother watching the features, I'm sure its nothing but them stroking their dicks to God of War.

Dante's Inferno reaffirms my suspicions that game developers do not play games at all. All you had to do was copy the fucking game, and they fucked that up.

[Ichirou]

Did you 1000 it?

[demi]

For sure

[Stoney Mason]

Sometimes when you are doing such a blatant rip of another game, the team either doesn't care, or honestly don't really understand what makes the original so appealing. They get it on a surface level but not on a real level.

Not to mention Visceral games and their prior incarnation as Redwood Shores have only done one truly great game in recent history and that was Dead Space. Just because a team at that company made that doesn't mean the rest of the company is hot shit.

People were sort of quick to annoit Visceral games as the next hot shit company but that may be a bit premature.

[Ichirou]

Was Dante's Inferno done by any of the people involved in Dead Space?

[Enl]

Wow, judging from the demo I thought this was going to be mediocre at best and was looking forward to it in that regard. After looking through this thread the game sounds really broken and awful.  Think I'll hold off on getting this until I find it for real cheap or just borrow it from a friend.

[Stoney Mason]

Was Dante's Inferno done by any of the people involved in Dead Space?

I'm too lazy to look it up but a studio like that probably has at least two dedicated teams. Most of the EA studios have multiple teams with some slight crossover especially with engineers as the project ramps up.

[demi]

Dead Space - decent
Dead Space Extraction - awesome (for the wii)
Dantes Inferno - shit on a plate

[Stoney Mason]

Dead Space - decent
Dead Space Extraction - awesome (for the wii)
Dantes Inferno - shit on a plate

Extraction was a co-prodction with Eurocom.

But either way I think they have a pretty good handle on the Dead Space franchise in general. Dead Space on one level is a rip of RE 4 but its a damn good one that finds its own spot. I haven't played Dante's Inferno outside of the demo which I thought was decent but it appears they don't quite have a grip on that genre yet.

[demi]

Well I didnt see "Eurocom" on the game when I booted it up, so it's a Visceral game

edit:

IGN: First of all, who's developing Dead Space Extraction, how big is the team and how long has it been in development?

Steve Papoutsis: Extraction is being created, designed and produced by the core Dead Space team at EA Redwood Shores Studio with development assistance from a Triple-A Wii team at Eurocom.

[Bebpo]

Dead Space - decent
Dead Space Extraction - awesome (for the wii)
Dantes Inferno - shit on a plate

Hmmm...I gotta play Extraction one of these days.

[Bebpo]

This game sucks so much.  Just got to Violence.  At least there's only 3 more levels left, though I hear they are the worst >_<

I actually think the game design is done on purpose by people who know how to make fun games.  I have this funny feeling that the team thought the best way to create a videogame hell is to make it a gamer's hell, aka, to think up every type of frustrating and annoying game mechanic in action games and to make the entire game out of a series of them.

Oh and fuck the anti-magic-field enemies. Sorry, but you're not allowed to tell the gamer to choose their main weapon and spend the entire game upgrading it and then say HI CAN'T USE IT NOW, LOL

[Bebpo]

Finished it.  Took me 6:40.  At least it was short.

Everyone says the last few levels are the worst, but I'm weird and actually thought they were the best (outside of the grindy ass final boss which is awful).  Probably because the last few stages didn't have much platforming or instant deaths and the combat is easy and short enough that it never gets annoying.  I mean it's still a better action game than No More Heroes 2 because at least here the longest "endurance" battle was only 5-6 mins instead of THIRTY MINUTES IN A PARKING LOT.  The combat is shallow as hell and broken.  I just tapped OOOOOOOOOOOOOO while dodging a little for the whole game.  But at least everything is quick and doesn't overstay it's welcome.

The graphics never got good    There wasn't a single WOW moment.  The 20 min GoWIII demo was more impressive than the entire game of DI.  Hell I don't think it even looks as good as GoWII in the GoW Collection.

This game feels like they discovered it in a time warp.  This game could have and should have came out 12 months after GoW1.  It would have at least been acceptable then.  Now it's just a dated crap action game.
At least the achievements are easy though I'm not sure where you can do a 666 hit combo.  Probably gates of hell mode.
6/10

[demi]

lols, 6/10. nice game journalist impression. 3/10 and thats only because of lucifer's fat veiny dick

[Bebpo]

But it was better than NMH2!

[demi]

nope, this game is one of the worst. NMH2 > Dante

[Bebpo]

THIRTY MINUTES IN A PARKING LOT

[Bebpo]

Also what was up with no Demon Beatrice boss fight?  She was the boss of fraud in the anime and at the end of the fight Dante beat her up and sends her to heaven.

[demi]

the whole "boss" was that entire SHIT level

[Bebpo]

I liked the trials!  They were all easy and gave me a reason to do something other than OOOOOOOOOOOO

Plus the stay in the air one was super easy   I was used to doing Y (hold) -> X -> air throw -> X -> air throw -> X -> air throw against those anti-magic guys because if I stayed on the ground I'd get raped.  So I just did that and beat it in like 8 seconds lol.  100 hit combo was easy.  Just threw on the "increase combo count time to 3 seconds" relic and OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.  I dunno.  They were all short (like 1-2 mins except for the endurance which was ~5) and had some variety.

I thought the Greed and Anger levels were the worst part of the game.  I died A LOT on stupid platforming/puzzle shit.

[Bebpo]

Went through the gates of hell

ooooooooooooo

Man, the game sucks but the achievements are so easy I'm tempted to do a new game+ run with a walkthrough to finish up the achievements/trophies.  Would be the 2nd game in like 4 years I 100%'d besides Williams HoF Pinball.  But then again the game sucks, so nah, will pass.  Maybe if I'm really bored one day I'll do it.

[Green Shinobi]

I'm not going to buy this, but I have a question for anyone who's played it.

Is Geryon in the game? If so, do you get to ride him, or do you fight him?

[demi]

You ride him and get to play as him

[Green Shinobi]

So in the first circle, do you get to just beat the living shit out of the old philosophers and other noble pagans in limbo? Because I would rent the game if they let you do that.

Seriously, how strongly does the game tie into the actual poem? Do you get to have conversations with the Italian noblemen that real-life Dante hated and put into his poem as the ultimate insult?

Do you get to meet Francesca and Paolo in the lust circle?

[demi]

You talk to a poet named Virgil throughout, who talks about the circles. Limbo you hitch a ride on the boat Charon, and rip its head off.

You meet those two and have to absolve them to get an achievement (though the description for them makes it seem like they deserve to be in hell)

[Green Shinobi]

Limbo you hitch a ride on the boat Charon, and rip its head off.

 

Fucking awesome. Inferno and Purgatorio are two of my favorite literary works of all time. I don't know how I'd feel about this one. Too bad the gameplay apparently sucks.

If they made a version of this that was actually good and had constant tie-ins to the poem, only instead of going through hell as an observer you were beating the crap out of everything, that would have been a day one purchase for me.