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12/10/09
-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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-Satisfied PS3 customer.
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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?