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naznatips on 28 December 2009
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heruamon said:
naznatips said:
It's hard to explain the Divine Comedy to someone who never read it, because it's an enormously involved tale, but, here's the short version:

Dante's Inferno is a political Allegory following Dante himself... a fucking poet, as he strolls through the levels of hell making observations about the nature of religion and existence. The creatures he sees are nothing but metaphors for these observations. Beatrice, in the Divine Comedy, was nothing but his guide in the final part of the Comedy, Paradiso. Dante was certainly NOT a warrior, nor was he battling through hell and killing the Grim Reaper. For christ's sake Dante faints when they first cross the lake into the first level of hell.

The plot of Dante being some soldier who cheated on Beatrice and is chasing her soul into hell is pretty ridiculous, and there is no reason to turn a poem into a bloody action game. Hell they could have easily made an adventure game and actually kept the plot in tact and it would have been much better. What they did make was just a REALLY bad excuse to clone God of War.

@ Khuutra

Yep...I suffered thru it in both HS and College.

@ naznatips

I think we can fully agree on the extreme stretching involved in turning a mild mannered Poet into a raging God of War (you like that pun...huh), but I suspended my belief right around the time I heard about the and said to myself "...WTF...wasn't this guy a poet?..."  I just think anyone can judge the game, based on it's alignment to source material, especially when comparing it to Kratos fighting Zeus?!?!?!  We start slipping into the arguing on how World War Hulk can Beat Superman.  If you say DI is worst than God of War 1...I really can't debate that...I can say the demo looked okay to me, and I'll try it when it comes out...BTW...where is Hercules in God of War storyline?

BTW...I did some homework and watch youtube of God of War 3..yeah...Dante's Inferno is pretty much a blatant copy of it...but isn't that a good thing?

A lot of people fought Zeus. Zeus was an ass. Kratos himself starts out half-god (one of the countless bastard children of Zeus), and eventually becomes completely a god. Demigods attacked gods and titans throughout Greek mythology. Hell even regular humans did. Nothing in God of War is outside the possibilities of a Greek Epic. As for its characterizations of the Greek Pantheon, all the gods play their normal roles; i.e. conniving manipulative bastards constantly at war with one another and using humans as pawns in their games.