I just played the demo and... wow. I've seen games barrow from others, if a game has a cover system people say 'Gears clone!' But Dante's so obviously outright steals so many things from God of War it's kind of gross.
-The right stick is how you dodge
-Light attacks and strong attacks are assigned to Square and Triangle respectively
-Hold Triangle to send enemies flying
-There are green fountains that look a lot like the green chests in God of War and just like God of War you need to mash a button to 'open' these fountains
-There's magic
-Death's (Dante's) Scythe stretches just like Kratos's blades
-There are QTE's
I could go on, but you see what I'm saying. This isn't so much a game with some nods to God of War it is almost a blatant rip off. I was sort of excited for this game, but it feels more like a skin job on God of War II than a new game. I've never seen a game so brazenly steal from another game like this...
I played the Demo..and I dunno..I wasn't really impressed...i could care less about the console war but i'm not gonna lie it feels good that the ps3 is getting some love. (=
Me too! I mean sure GoW got ideas from other games, but GoW executed it so well, its the first game that comes to mind. It doesn't feel as epic as I first envisioned it and I couldn't help that the game felt as if it was going TOO fast *plot wise*. I didn't dig the animation style for the cutsecnes either...took away from the experience and "darnkess" for me. I dunno. Thats just my opinion. God of War took my heart.
@eskaltipoka: You're right. This is like a poor man's God of War. You know what I really didn't like? That big beast you fight right at the end. Watch his legs when you attack him, they jiggle like jelly. What's that all about?
And I agree about the plot. First were here, next we see an extremely gross love interest. What was Visceral thinking with that design, are those... veins... like you see on an old person? No thanks. This Beatrice is easily the nastiest female I've seen in a video game in a long time.
YES! when I saw it i was like..."ok this potentially could be an awesome fight which might just keep my interest for the game." ...but it fizzled out.. and when I saw the buttons that I needed to press during the cinematic...i was like..I can't help but remember seeing this done much better..and it was a Ps2 game *GoW*
OH GOD YES she was horrid!! I didn't understand who took her, and why there are demons out if Dante didn't die.
I was cracking up in the intro when he gets stabbed in the back top right shoulder blade by a random scrub, and then pirate death appears. LOL...i unno it seemed cheesy and rushed. Like the develpoers didn't think about that till the very last minute.
@eskaltipoka: It felt as if a whole bunch of guys that played God of War a lot said, "Hey, how can we make a game that's basically just like this but not."
"Well, uh, I've been reading this for school," the second fellow said and held up Dante's epic poem.
"Yeah? What the heck is that about?"
"A dude, he goes to Hell."
lightbulbs.
"Duuuude," in tandem.
"You thinking what I am?" The first says.
"Fuckin' a I am. We'll make a game about going to Hell, but it'll be just like God of War!"
"YES!!!"
I hate exclusive content but then I hate that Microsoft didn't stick around for bluray, still though my hatred is more on exclusive content. We all pay the same for single player
Hmmm, this sounds rather appealing to me now, just have to remember to download the demo tonight and give it a shot! After playing the GoW3, and being a little 'meh' with it, I'm hoping this game can wow me like the first 2 GoWs did.
I know we've been over this before, but including the Longfellow version of Dante's Divine Comedy with this is like including Bram Stoker's Dracula with the DVD edition of Twilight.
Just seems kind of weird. Not to mention that the Longfellow edition is already free on sites like www.divinecomedy.org and all that, but hey, I guess there's no harm in adding it on.
Thank you, EA, for the yet another hearty "fuck you" to 360 owners, who comprise more than half, and in the US two-thirds, of your potential customers. I'm certain this will have NO adverse effect on 360 sales whatsoever. I'm certain that none of the large chunk of people looking forward to this game who will (would have) been buying this on the 360 (easily more than half) will not feel the least bit slighted or ignored or underappreciated.
And to cut off the inevitable flood of "Haha, buy a PS3 you LOSER" idiot backwash, I can't afford every fucking system on Planet Earth, and it would be nice to not feel I should have to. Multi-platform means multi-platform.
So, EA, suck a dick. You've lost a sale, probably a few thousand or more. It's not at all hard to just buy this used and you make no profit. Your marketing department and exclusive deal with Sony has now cost Visceral Games programmers rather hard-earned money.
Congratulations, you've bought a nickel for a dollar! Yay!
@senselocke: Wait... excuse me? A "fuck you?" You do realize the Xbox 360 is getting a game called Mass Effect right? That game isn't coming to the PS3.
You do also realize that EA screwed all those that bought the collectors edition of Dragon Age with the soundtrack fiasco?
You do realize that up until very recently the 360 was getting everything and that PS3 owners have been getting screwed for two years.
@senselocke: What are you talking about?the 360 gets tons of exclusive content.
Have you not noticed that up to this point pretty much every demo came to the 360 first? 360 got the MW2-Elite bundle, it gets Mass Effect 2 ect...
Stop complaining.
Like has been mentioned, PS3 had to wait forever for Fallout 3, no GTA DLC. I mean ffs the pS3 is usually the one getting screwed so there is no hearty "fuck you"s going on.
The marketing push for this game is insane. I was intrigued by the concept at first, but once I saw that it was (basically) a God of War clone with as much gratuitousness crammed into it as possible, I lost interest.
EA obviously thinks they have something special on their hands, otherwise they wouldn't be pounding the pavement so hard.
So I can't be bothered to care about this game, much less who gets the Divine edition. Am I in the minority here? I get the feeling that many are modestly anticipating this title.
@Wolfnave: The reason I have any anticipation in this game is because it is made by Visceral Games, guys behind Dead Space.
Visceral Games doesn't seem to do anything new, Dead Space is a Resident Evil 4 clone and Dante's Inferno is a God of War clone, but what they do do is make good games.
Hell, they have two major releases in 2010, Dante's Inferno and Dead Space 2.
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I like that there is no extra buy in price. BlazeBlu was awesome in that respect because sometimes the additions aren't worth a price hike of 10 bucks plus. Its no DLC but hey a perk is a perk.
@TheNexusRebound: Hell, what BlazBlue did was awesome. I REALLY needed that tutorial DVD(got the 360 version...I know, I know playing a fighting game on that pad.....) and the OST. Usually, I don't get so worked up over a game's OST, but I absolutely LOVE the Guilty Gear soundtracks.
@Koda89: Oh I agree the add ons were nice. I just wish there were more companies that went that path. I think it is badass to get a digital copy of Dante's Inferno so it is a nice little add on to my purchase.
This game sparked my interest in reading the poem but I got confused by the multitude of translations available. Does anyone know what the most read/accepted english translation is? Is it this Longfellow one?
this is stupid! i was planning on getting this on the 360 and God of War III would be for the PS3. NOW i have to buy this Divine Version (i am a collector's edition whore). the 360 versions of MOST multiplatform games are superior so my mind is going through some hoops. now i don't know what to do. DAMN!
@OmegaSpartan08: whilst usually the case, there are a few multiplats that were technically better on the PS3, such as Bioshock, Burnout Paradise COD4 and Unreal Tournament 3...
@exion: well Bioshock took a year to be released so they had time to perfect the game on the PS3. UT3 was better on PS3. i guess i'll get this. i feel a bit better about getting it now.
@OmegaSpartan08: The Bioshock being better due to being released a year later can be pretty much discounted though, as UT3 was released a year later on the 360 and was relatively awful.
Still, there's no indication that Dante's Inferno is going to be inferior on either console right now, but the idea of playing a god-of-war style game on anything but a dualshock sounds like madness!
I own a ps3 and I should be happy for this, but I must say that I don't like it at all where this is going. All multiplatform games should be the same. Why piss one group of people off. I never liked it when MS did that, and I don't like it when it's turned around.
Keep in mind all this content is digital, which means additional data on the disc. Assuming this game hovers around 9GB (assuming), including this content on the 360 would mean a second disc which would mean increased licensing fees which would mean an either EA takes the hit or the 360 price goes up.
"All multiplatform games should be the same" is bunk when one machine has a capability the other doesn't. When the SNES and Genesis were competing, would it have been fair to only use 3 buttons on the SNES controller for multiplat games? When the PS1 and N64 were competing, would it have been fair to make the N64 version artificially load slower and add additional unnecessary compression to PS1 sound/music?
Assuming the game is around 9GB. Which it probably is.
@Koztah: Free, day-one DLC for 360 would address this. But I guarantee that's not in the pipes. This is about an exclusivity deal Sony pulled. But if they earn another 3% on sales of this for PS3, but lose 100% of the profit from several pissed-off 360 owners, all that is happening is that EA is making the money that Visceral would have made. It's not a net INCREASE. It's just stupid.
@Koztah: Square Enix doesn't have a problem with giving out Final Fantasy XIII that has 9000 discs to go through for the 360.
It really isn't about the storage space IMHO. Everything in this world boils down to $$$. You have enough of it like M$ did for Square Enix, then you get what you want.
@senselocke: How many 360 owners are really going to pass on a game because the same version on another system has some developer commentary and a digital artbook?
People on gaming sites such as Kotaku who own 360s have already identified the game as a buy or not buy, and some light extras on another console isn't going to affect sales significantly on the platform.
Add to that, MS doesn't like publishers offering free DLC. That's why 360 owners don't get all the free TF2 updates and why they had to pay for Crash Course for L4D. Remember?
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-The right stick is how you dodge
-Light attacks and strong attacks are assigned to Square and Triangle respectively
-Hold Triangle to send enemies flying
-There are green fountains that look a lot like the green chests in God of War and just like God of War you need to mash a button to 'open' these fountains
-There's magic
-Death's (Dante's) Scythe stretches just like Kratos's blades
-There are QTE's
I could go on, but you see what I'm saying. This isn't so much a game with some nods to God of War it is almost a blatant rip off. I was sort of excited for this game, but it feels more like a skin job on God of War II than a new game. I've never seen a game so brazenly steal from another game like this...
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Also I'll warn you now, Bayonetta is a complete rip off of Devil May Cry.
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And I agree about the plot. First were here, next we see an extremely gross love interest. What was Visceral thinking with that design, are those... veins... like you see on an old person? No thanks. This Beatrice is easily the nastiest female I've seen in a video game in a long time.
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OH GOD YES she was horrid!! I didn't understand who took her, and why there are demons out if Dante didn't die.
I was cracking up in the intro when he gets stabbed in the back top right shoulder blade by a random scrub, and then pirate death appears. LOL...i unno it seemed cheesy and rushed. Like the develpoers didn't think about that till the very last minute.
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"Well, uh, I've been reading this for school," the second fellow said and held up Dante's epic poem.
"Yeah? What the heck is that about?"
"A dude, he goes to Hell."
lightbulbs.
"Duuuude," in tandem.
"You thinking what I am?" The first says.
"Fuckin' a I am. We'll make a game about going to Hell, but it'll be just like God of War!"
"YES!!!"
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This just makes me want to play GoW a lot more and I'm not really a fan of the series. I just wanna scratch that itch of pure visceral rage!
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Just seems kind of weird. Not to mention that the Longfellow edition is already free on sites like www.divinecomedy.org and all that, but hey, I guess there's no harm in adding it on.
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And to cut off the inevitable flood of "Haha, buy a PS3 you LOSER" idiot backwash, I can't afford every fucking system on Planet Earth, and it would be nice to not feel I should have to. Multi-platform means multi-platform.
So, EA, suck a dick. You've lost a sale, probably a few thousand or more. It's not at all hard to just buy this used and you make no profit. Your marketing department and exclusive deal with Sony has now cost Visceral Games programmers rather hard-earned money.
Congratulations, you've bought a nickel for a dollar! Yay!
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You do also realize that EA screwed all those that bought the collectors edition of Dragon Age with the soundtrack fiasco?
You do realize that up until very recently the 360 was getting everything and that PS3 owners have been getting screwed for two years.
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So it's not like this came out of nowhere.
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Have you not noticed that up to this point pretty much every demo came to the 360 first? 360 got the MW2-Elite bundle, it gets Mass Effect 2 ect...
Stop complaining.
Like has been mentioned, PS3 had to wait forever for Fallout 3, no GTA DLC. I mean ffs the pS3 is usually the one getting screwed so there is no hearty "fuck you"s going on.
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EA obviously thinks they have something special on their hands, otherwise they wouldn't be pounding the pavement so hard.
So I can't be bothered to care about this game, much less who gets the Divine edition. Am I in the minority here? I get the feeling that many are modestly anticipating this title.
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Visceral Games doesn't seem to do anything new, Dead Space is a Resident Evil 4 clone and Dante's Inferno is a God of War clone, but what they do do is make good games.
Hell, they have two major releases in 2010, Dante's Inferno and Dead Space 2.
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*nvm didn't read the entire article* maybe like those useless pre-order dungeons in assassin's creed 2.
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Who knows, you might just get lucky.
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Still, there's no indication that Dante's Inferno is going to be inferior on either console right now, but the idea of playing a god-of-war style game on anything but a dualshock sounds like madness!
Visceral games havent let us down yet :P
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Keep in mind all this content is digital, which means additional data on the disc. Assuming this game hovers around 9GB (assuming), including this content on the 360 would mean a second disc which would mean increased licensing fees which would mean an either EA takes the hit or the 360 price goes up.
"All multiplatform games should be the same" is bunk when one machine has a capability the other doesn't. When the SNES and Genesis were competing, would it have been fair to only use 3 buttons on the SNES controller for multiplat games? When the PS1 and N64 were competing, would it have been fair to make the N64 version artificially load slower and add additional unnecessary compression to PS1 sound/music?
Assuming the game is around 9GB. Which it probably is.
Either the PS3 gets this content or no one does.
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It really isn't about the storage space IMHO. Everything in this world boils down to $$$. You have enough of it like M$ did for Square Enix, then you get what you want.
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People on gaming sites such as Kotaku who own 360s have already identified the game as a buy or not buy, and some light extras on another console isn't going to affect sales significantly on the platform.
Add to that, MS doesn't like publishers offering free DLC. That's why 360 owners don't get all the free TF2 updates and why they had to pay for Crash Course for L4D. Remember?