Electronic Arts is commited to respecting the literary arts.

[Crushed]

:italycry

[Bebpo]

Cant see how the target audience could read

fixed

[Crushed]

Is this the original or a re-imagening?

Cant see how the target audience could read through the original.

"Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."

It's the standard English translation of the poem, with the cover showing self-mutilated soldier Dante holding up his skull-and-eyeball death scythe.

[demi]

BOOKS

[brawndolicious]

Is this the original or a re-imagening?

Cant see how the target audience could read through the original.

I think I heard the game takes you into purgatory but obviously paradise wouldn't really fit in.

[Van Cruncheon]

i personally cannot wait for PARADISE LOST: BATTLE ON THE EDGE

[Crushed]

i personally cannot wait for PARADISE LOST: BATTLE ON THE EDGE

just pretend that Atlus beat EA to it years ago with the megaten titles.

[fistfulofmetal]

Nintendo should do a hybrid Super Mario Galaxy 3/Paradiso game.

[Himu]

i personally cannot wait for PARADISE LOST: BATTLE ON THE EDGE

We need to re-imagine more literary classics into vidya games.

I propose Tom Sawyer.

Oh wait.

[Joe Molotov]

EA's XXXTREME WESTERN CANON!

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, you do your mom during a QTE and then have an epic showdown with your dad, who's final form is a two-headed dragon!

[Crushed]

EA's XXXTREME WESTERN CANON!

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, you do your mom during a QTE and then have an epic showdown with your dad, who's final form is a two-headed dragon!

What? No dude, doing your mom is sick. And not like, "dude that was a sick olly," but like sick sick. Let's just cut that part out and keep the fighting the Dad Dragon.

[Cormacaroni]

Do i get cheevs? I feel like I should.

[Van Cruncheon]

( Achievement Unlocked: Feminism Triumphs; Western Canon Raped 10G )

[Robo]

My porn name is going to be Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[Great Rumbler]

WOW

[ManaByte]

EA selling a public domain book anyone can get online for FREE.

[Raban]

i personally cannot wait for PARADISE LOST: BATTLE ON THE EDGE

We need to re-imagine more literary classics into vidya games.

I propose Tom Sawyer.

Oh wait.

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It looks like he got stung in the face, wtf

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Gulliver's Travels: Islands of the Damned

[Van Cruncheon]

Gulliver's Travels: Islands of the Damned

that's too thq. let's aim for more kotick-era activision: LILLIPUT: THE BLOODLETTING

[Joe Molotov]

My porn name is going to be Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

EA's newly formed literary porno division might have a job for you.

[Eric P]

Is this the original or a re-imagening?

Cant see how the target audience could read through the original.

"Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."

that made me fucking lol

[Barry Egan]

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: Amongst Humbaba's Many Theives

[Howard Alan Treesong]

UTOPIA: HELL ON EARTH

[TakingBackSunday]

Catcher in the Rye: Phonies Get Fucked

[recursivelyenumerable]

I'd be kinda interested in seeing whassisface's proposed game based on The Castle, though.

[Eric P]

I'd be kinda interested in seeing whassisface's proposed game based on The Castle, though.

it just stops in mid scene?

i think my copy is broken?

[Barry Egan]

Portnoy's Complaint: Vice City

[recursivelyenumerable]

it just stops in mid scene?

i think my copy is broken?

I guess by not getting past the concept art stage he actually out-Kafka'd Kafka.

[Van Cruncheon]

50c's BILLY BUDD: KRONIK ONNA BOAT

[chronovore]

Fiddy Cent's RHYME OF THA ANCIENT MARINER

[chronovore]

I only just now got it: EA is selling the original novel (poem?) as a tie-in to their game?

That's ridonkulous. Disney doesn't pump out a new edition for every fairy tale they convert into a new franchise.

Speaking of which, if this doesn't tank how are they going to deal with the sequel? It's not hard to picture EA launching "EA's literature classics" line, but there was no INFERNO 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO as far as I recall from Comp. Lit 101.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I only just now got it: EA is selling the original novel (poem?) as a tie-in to their game?

That's ridonkulous. Disney doesn't pump out a new edition for every fairy tale they convert into a new franchise.

Speaking of which, if this doesn't tank how are they going to deal with the sequel? It's not hard to picture EA launching "EA's literature classics" line, but there was no INFERNO 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO as far as I recall from Comp. Lit 101.

smh @ chronovore

[Cormacaroni]

Dante apparently predicted helicopters. Dante

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Dante apparently predicted helicopters. Dante

aye, for what would Heaven be without ye whirly-birdes

[recursivelyenumerable]

I haven't read these, but apparently the ending is that

spoiler (click to show/hide)

From the Primum Mobile, Dante ascends to a region beyond physical existence, called the Empyrean (Cantos XXX through XXXIII). Here the souls of all the believers form the petals of an enormous rose. Here, Beatrice leaves Dante with Saint Bernard, because theology has reached its limits. Saint Bernard prays to Mary on behalf of Dante. Finally, Dante comes face-to-face with God Himself, and is granted understanding of the Divine and of human nature. His vision is improved beyond that of human comprehension. God appears as three equally large circles within each other representing the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit with the essence of each part of God, separate yet one. The book ends with Dante trying to understand how the circles fit together, how the Son is separate yet one with the Father but as Dante put it "that was not a flight for my wings"[1] and the vision of God becomes equally inimitable and inexplicable that no word or intellectual exercise can come close to explaining what he saw. Dante's soul, through God's absolute love, experiences a unification with itself and all things, "but already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars."[2]

[close]

Wait, so I'm reading this right the big plot twist is that

spoiler (click to show/hide)

God is his own father

[close]

?   

[Cormacaroni]

Fits in quite well with quantum loop theory.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

You should really assume thatmost players know the plot of Xenogears these days ... same old same old won't work this time, Mr. Alighieri ...

... oh god ... Alighieri ... allegory ... what kind of high-school level bullshit is this?

[Stoney Mason]

I only just now got it: EA is selling the original novel (poem?) as a tie-in to their game?

That's ridonkulous. Disney doesn't pump out a new edition for every fairy tale they convert into a new franchise.

Speaking of which, if this doesn't tank how are they going to deal with the sequel? It's not hard to picture EA launching "EA's literature classics" line, but there was no INFERNO 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO as far as I recall from Comp. Lit 101.

Not that unusual imo. Often when a movie comes out from a book that do a special edition run and stick the stars of the movie on the cover of the book for a short time. They know people who saw the movie are more likely to purchase the book if they recognize it as something they have seen or just recognize the people on the cover.

[treythemovie]

Not that unusual imo. Often when a movie comes out from a book that do a special edition run and stick the stars of the movie on the cover of the book for a short time. They know people who saw the movie are more likely to purchase the book if they recognize it as something they have seen or just recognize the people on the cover.

This is just a tad bit different than those scenarios, at the very least in terms of tone and respect to the original.

[Don Flamenco]

I'd be kinda interested in seeing whassisface's proposed game based on The Castle, though.

whose face?  and any other details on that...genre, etc.


and gamers are gonna be disappointed when they find out the book is actually about a guy who just kinda passively walks through and observes hell

[Stoney Mason]

Not that unusual imo. Often when a movie comes out from a book that do a special edition run and stick the stars of the movie on the cover of the book for a short time. They know people who saw the movie are more likely to purchase the book if they recognize it as something they have seen or just recognize the people on the cover.

This is just a tad bit different than those scenarios.

Movie comes out like The Scarlett Letter that completely distorts the book. They stick Demi Moore on the cover of the book to boost sales for awhile.
Game comes out like Dante's Inferno that completely distorts the book. They stick their game on the cover of the book to boost awareness and create marketing.

Seems fairly similar to me...


The number of movies that retain the tone of the books they are based on is fairly low imo. There is a degree issue here but its not like they changed the book and turned it into a mini-novel of their game instead of the original work.

[recursivelyenumerable]

whose face?  and any other details on that...genre, etc.

Goichi Suda.  IIRC it was an adventure game for PS3, but only ever existed on paper.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Some complete distortions are more completely complete than others.

[Stoney Mason]

Some complete distortions are more completely complete than others.

Fair enough.

With all the cheesy marketing gimmicks they have used to try to promote this game, this by far seems the "classiest" by comparison. Everything being relative of course.

[Eel O'Brian]

well, if it gets a few people reading i see absolutely no problem with it

if it were up to me i'd plaster shit like spider-man and wolverine all over classic literature

the cover isn't important, the content is

(the game website has some interesting stuff, too)

[Stoney Mason]

well, if it gets a few people reading i see absolutely no problem with it

My opinion also.


Of course it will probably get very few if any to read it, but the work is the work. The cover is just toilet paper wrapping.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I'm not really offended or anything.

[chronovore]

I only just now got it: EA is selling the original novel (poem?) as a tie-in to their game?

That's ridonkulous. Disney doesn't pump out a new edition for every fairy tale they convert into a new franchise.

Speaking of which, if this doesn't tank how are they going to deal with the sequel? It's not hard to picture EA launching "EA's literature classics" line, but there was no INFERNO 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO as far as I recall from Comp. Lit 101.

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smh @ chronovore

 
My favorite English teacher is spinning in her grave so fast I can hear the whirring. In my head, I was equating The Divine Comedy with Inferno. smh, indeed.
However, it's clear now we can look forward to an action-packed three-part sequel, with Dante finally going up against God in the final game. I expect that boss battle to be a bitch.