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Dante's Inferno
BeoPuppy:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 24 Mar 2009, 22:54 ---The difference is that God of War was called God of War and not, say, Homer's Oddysey. I'm not a Christian so I'm not too fussed about the co-opting of Christian mythology in this game - it's the insult to literature that annoys me!
Oh and that stupid giant scythe thing. Does he also shout out "MY PENIS IS ENORMOUS!" as his battle-cry?
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Really? Because to me it looks like a re-interpretation of a piece of art. Something which happens a lot to ... art. Certainly this is a new medium for that to happen in but the principle seems to be the same as, for instance, L.H.O.O.Q. by Duchamp.
Also: don't you yell that when you enter battle? I do and, boy, ... does it work!
Inlander:
Yeah, but there's a difference between "reinterpretation" and "co-opting the name and sticking it onto something that bears almost no resemblance to the original apart from being set in hell". So far the game looks like the latter.
I mean it's like if they made a computer game set in the Vietnam war, and the called it Apocalypse Now, and the first promotional video of the game had the main character parachuting into the Vietnamese jungle carrying two mini-guns and mowing down hundreds of Viet-cong single-handedly before progressing onto a boss fight with a tank-driving Ho Chi Minh.
BeoPuppy:
True, but would be funny as hell.
Yeah. You can't really say anything right now on the basis of the information available. We'll just wait and see what it resembles then.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 26 Mar 2009, 05:43 ---Yeah, but there's a difference between "reinterpretation" and "co-opting the name and sticking it onto something that bears almost no resemblance to the original apart from being set in hell". So far the game looks like the latter.
I mean it's like if they made a computer game set in the Vietnam war, and the called it Apocalypse Now, and the first promotional video of the game had the main character parachuting into the Vietnamese jungle carrying two mini-guns and mowing down hundreds of Viet-cong single-handedly before progressing onto a boss fight with a tank-driving Ho Chi Minh.
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That sounds pretty excellent.
Let's make it a cyborg Ho Chi Minh and, also, there's a lot of bad feelings about Nam still, so let's make it set in an alternate timeline where they were being aided by alien forces that turned the Vietcong into super zombies. That should make people feel better.
Reed:
Make him a mecha-Ho Chi Minh and I'd buy that game in an instant
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