quote of the year lol

lol I understand now ...

Yeah, buty from what I know, the story in Dante's inferno (the game), has nothing to do with the greatest Epic poem ever [written].

A fucking Crusader? What?!

True, but it makes it even cooler that he is a Crusader. It ended the demo before I entered the first circle anyway. Dante was on the verge of suicide as well and he knew the difference seeing sin for what is is. That obviously wasn't shown, but it was an entertaining adaptation. To take cool parts and implement them is where I am getting at. It's like God of War...far fetched mythical fun. :)

Yeah, but you implied that Dante's story was good because it was adapted (which it isn't) from the best epic story, whereas GoW makes no claim since the story was made from scratch.

@S.T.A.G.E: God of War does have a pretty damn epic story man, once you get your hands on the collection you might change your tune.

Fair enough, and I agree with you that both games are fun mainly because they're over the top and pretty absurd.

But for me, playing a Spartan in anceint Greece, surrounded by Greek mythology, which has a very brutal and violent element to it, is lot more natural of a step than what they've done in Dante's Inferno.  (The Greek epics are super violent, after all.  The Iliad is a war story about the destruction of a civilization, and in the end of the Odyssey a bunch of guys trying to sleep with Odyseus' wife are butchered by him on the day returns home after many years spent away at war.)

Dante's Inferno, on the other hand, is a story about a poet about walking down into the depths of hell, along with his friend Virgil, also a writer, and seeing face to face the suffering of others, which they've brought upon themselves by sinning in life.  It's a poem about morality and a kind of compassion beyond morality, even.  If Dante had suddenly gotten to the 9th circle of hell and started beating the crap out of Judas because he had it coming, I think it might have kind of ruined the poem.

Anyway, the problem to me is that they've tried to make Dante like Kratos as a character, right down to the fact that he's using brute strength to destroy and have power over something that Dante never would have wanted to fight: Hell.  A hell that Dante the poet created himself.  What's the next game going to be, "Dante does Limbo?"  And then we get a pissed off Dante raping and pillaging heaven and making the holy trinity his bitch?  It seems like good comedy to me, but it doesn't really get my adrenaline going like God of War :)

You guys also forget that the gameplay was practically the same and that the devs of Dantes Inferno must've seen the GOW3 demo. They copied the beast rider from GOW3 and gave the beast cooler moves also making it more useful to your movement. Secondly you have more moves, which improves gameplay value. A deeper list of fighting moves means a better a more fluid experience ( I don't know if GOW does that though where you can buy new moves). The implementation of magic is also great and the Holy cross magic as well helps fend people off. I felt more challenged in Dantes inferno than the GOW3 Demo. Sure Dante wasn't powerful as Kratos, but he stole Death's scythe and is now using it on all the demons of hell. Can we say badass? Dantes Inferno may be an adaptation, but more than GOW it gives you a look into the spirit of a human being and not a super being like Kratos. He doesn't have wings, he doesn't have super strength and he isn't god-like. This is what makes his struggle mean more. In GOW3 I am expecting domination because it obviously seems like this guy has a vendetta against the gods after ripping off Helio's head (That was purely epic by the way). GOW3 is going to be more epic no doubt, but I just thought that the Dantes Inferno demo capitalized on the GOW3 demo which came out way earlier in a good way.

EDIT: On replaying (and actually finishing this time) it isn't actually that bad. It's basically a copy of God of War, but it does have a couple of new ideas.

I would now say GoW3 >> Dante's Inferno >>>> Bayonetta.

ive now played both demos. and i think the god of war demo was better imo, though dantes inferno is still a good game.