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RockSmith372 on 31 July 2008

it will be a big flop everywhere



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Zuhyc on 31 July 2008

The place I live in (Belgium) has 'more interest' in Greek Mythology than the Norse.



NiKKoM on 31 July 2008
ManusJustus said:
Barozi said: 

I hope you know, that there just living about 24 million people in Scandinavia, who could care about Norse mythology. It's not an integral part of European history.

Norse mythology's history extends through most of Northern Europe, originating in Scandinavia but spreading to Germany, France (Normans), Italy, (pesky Normans again), England, and so forth.

You may have heard of Hel, the place you go in Norse mythology, as most Christians developed their idea of hell from the Norse.

Hell (the New Testemant version) is based on Tartarus.. which came from the Greek Mythology.. And Sheoi (old testament hell) was based on Hades also from the Greek Mythology...

Greek Mythology had far more influnace then the Norse..



 

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ManusJustus on 31 July 2008

Ideas of Christian Hell come from everywhere, including Greek, Bablyonian, and Germanic Mythology and fictinal literature (Dante's Peak).  However, the term Hell in English comes directly from Hel in Norse Mythology as do ideas about it.



NiKKoM on 31 July 2008

But we ain't speaking English in all of Europe.. Hell, the word has cognates in related Germanic languages such as Old Frisian helle, hille, Old Saxon hellja, Middle Dutch helle (modern Dutch hel), Old High German helle (Modern German Hölle), and Gothic halja.. and Hel in Norse Mythology..

And the bible was ofcourse not written in English and probably not in the region of Northern Europe..



 

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Spectrumglr on 31 July 2008

i suspect that only scandiavians are keen on Norse mythology...so i guess the answer to your question is no...at least IF the game sells well it won't be for Norse mythology.



2008 year end sales (made in January 2008):

44.2 M 27.1 M 20.8 M

ManusJustus on 31 July 2008
NiKKoM said:

But we ain't speaking English in all of Europe..

 

For Europeans, pagain beliefs stayed important to Christianity even after they converted.  Hel was so important to the Anglo-Saxons (English) that they directly translated the word to Hell to describe Christian afterlife.  The Norse concept of Hel was equally important to other European cultures as well.

And that was a nice wikipedia you did.  Next time name a source :)



DTG on 31 July 2008

Europe, similarly to to Japan and quite unlike America prefers media with some form of intellectual gravity to them. If Too Human proves to be a mentally stimulating game then Europeans will no doubt purchase the game in larger numbers.



DMeisterJ on 31 July 2008

NO.



FaRmLaNd on 31 July 2008

Of course the greeks were more important in the grand scheme of things then the norse were. I mean western civilisation as it is today was largely shaped by them. That however does not mean that the Norse didn't have quite a large influence on the world as well, as they clearly have. The question is will said influence translate into increased sales? I don't think so. As people have said it'll live or die on how good the game is and how well executed the marketing campaign is. However utilising norse mythology will give the game a fresh setting which will most probably do it some favors.