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cubanlord
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NovaKart
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| It doesn't look like it has anything to do with the book. I'm still waiting for the Canterbury Tales video game. You can choose if you want to be the nun, the miller, the wife of bath, the prioress. At the end you have to fight the ghost of Thomas Beckett. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Looks kind of like a clone of GoW, gameplay-wise.
Anyway, I'll give it a DL on 360 for sure! |
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Fox
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I think instead the game should have been "Dante's Paradise," focusing on gameplay wherein Dante storms Heaven, killing everything in his path, until the final battle with God, after which he replaces him.
It would have been about as true to the source material too. |
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oskinny1
Joined: 10 Nov 2006
Location: Right behind you!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Played the demo, a whole lotta bare tatas! |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| oskinny1 wrote: |
| Played the demo, a whole lotta bare tatas! |
I think that's a rough quote of what one of the Medicis said after reading the draft of the original... |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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We were just talking about this game in my class for 'Video games as Literature'. In this case, we were talking about adaptations. I'll admit, I've never read Dante's Inferno, but I've been told that they may have changed a lot...
Bloopity- apparently the controls are EXACTLY like GoW, so whilst it may not be original, at least it'll have good gameplay mechanics. |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Wait, what? Video games as literature???!? And they have classes for that now??!?? |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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| Oh man, I think I just had a wee aneurysm...no it's alright. Go ahead without me. I'll just lie here. |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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They do at my university yeah. Getting back to Canada, I had to take an elective, and I found this one fit into my schedule .  I figure well, I like books and I like games... let's see what we get out of it.
Harder than I thought, actually, and most of the games that we play are artsy indy games. Not a bad thing, but some really are really just... out there. |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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Oh. Oh oh oh. I just Googled and this is actually going on less than a two hour drive from me.
I mean, games are cool, I guess. But are they literature? No, sir. No, they're not.
Please tell me that Virgil doesn't follow you around during this game with some kind of hand grenade....uh oh. This one might be a full on stroke. Call an amva abdjkfbadsjfbds dsfakl jfba |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| banjois wrote: |
Oh. Oh oh oh. I just Googled and this is actually going on less than a two hour drive from me.
I mean, games are cool, I guess. But are they literature? No, sir. No, they're not. |
Quite a few games have very interesting and thought provoking stories to tell. Bioshock is one excellent example of a game that would be foolish to deny could be considered a method of storytelling. I guess if your criticism is that games consist of more than written text you might have a point, but many games are clearly engaging in artistic storytelling in addition to simply being tests of skill. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd say they should be described as "interactive movies" |
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Fox
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| reactionary wrote: |
| I'd say they should be described as "interactive movies" |
Maybe modern games may well often fall into this category, but when I think back to games like Final Fantasy VI, whose medium was primarily reading, I feel it was much closer to a book than a movie. Lost Odyssey also comes to mind, which had some absolutely beautiful short stories included as an important part of the game. |
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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OK. Please be gentle with me, here, the third neurological event in as many hours will do me in....
I realize that there's some fantastic and interesting game development going on, but you just CAN'T refer to it as literature. That's ILLEGAL. |
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