Anyone found Dante's Inferno demo offencing?

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#1 Dante_May_Die
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My question is for christians

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#2 The_Pig_Hostage
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Offencing?
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#3 JoKeR_421
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Offencing?The_Pig_Hostage
u mean offensive? lol and TC i didnt find it offensive, then again i am agnostic, my familys christian but not me, i respect and have nothin against any religion but why would u think this game was offensive?

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#4 Dante_May_Die
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[QUOTE="The_Pig_Hostage"]Offencing?JoKeR_421

u mean offensive? lol and TC i didnt find it offensive, then again i am agnostic, my familys christian but not me, i respect and have nothin against any religion but why would u think this game was offensive?

opps i mean offensive XD stupid dictionary doesn't give me the correct meaning :p well i was asking if someone found this offensive because of all the gore and using the divine cross as a weapon and etc
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#5 yokofox33
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Not at all, and I'm Christian. I found the camera to be more offensive actually :lol:

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#6 Dante_May_Die
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Not at all, and I'm Christian. I found the camera to be more offensive actually :lol:

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#7 haze_blaze
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I didn't find the game offensive... just stupid.
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#8 tommy7154
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Hooray for boobies!

Seriously if you find it offensive DONT FREAKIN PLAY IT, particularly since it has a WARNING because of the ADULT content. Holy sweet mary mother of jesus christ I swear I dont know how some people even manage to post a somewhat coherent message on the internet.

EDIT: OH I see this question was for "christians". Clearly I don't belong here. Good day.

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#9 Dante_May_Die
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Hooray for boobies!

Seriously if you find it offensive DONT FREAKIN PLAY IT, particularly since it has a WARNING because of the ADULT content. Holy sweet mary mother of jesus christ some people cannot be saved.

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no i didnt mean the boobies or anything i meant going to hell and seeing the angel of death which comes and takes our souls WHICH YOU KILL HIM...or i didn't pay attention to what were they talking about lol
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#10 tommy7154
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Ok well no I don't find it offensive. It's a game, but like I said I'm not a "christian" or any other religion.

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#11 N-FonRonsenburg
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I'm sure that before the game' release there's going to be issues among The Faith. Let's see here; A Soldier of The Crusades fighting his way through Hell condemning or absolving souls tells me that this is going to be an issue with "playing God" more than gore, violence, and nudity.
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#12 Silent-Hal
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It's not worse than Shin Megami Tensei or Silent Hill with it's religious themes.
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#13 emitsu97
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I didn't find it offensive at all. It was very fitting given the source material. I did however find it to be too obvious of a reskinned GoW.
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#14 Dante_May_Die
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It's not worse than Shin Megami Tensei or Silent Hill with it's religious themes. Silent-Hal
what about those?(didnt play them)
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#15 N-FonRonsenburg
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I did however find it to be too obvious of a reskinned GoW.emitsu97
I'm already getting sick of hearing this.
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#16 Silent-Hal
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[QUOTE="Silent-Hal"]It's not worse than Shin Megami Tensei or Silent Hill with it's religious themes. Dante_May_Die
what about those?(didnt play them)

SMT has you summoning demons, and in certain games, collaborating with Lucifer and/or fighting against God. Silent Hill mainly features an old cult wishing to resurrect the "old gods" of the town, with Christian angels Samael and Metatron both having great significance. Both can be seen as being fairly blasphemous.
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#17 Bladex2k
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i dont think it is its just a game telling a story

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#20 Dante_May_Die
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[QUOTE="Dante_May_Die"][QUOTE="Silent-Hal"]It's not worse than Shin Megami Tensei or Silent Hill with it's religious themes. Silent-Hal
what about those?(didnt play them)

SMT has you summoning demons, and in certain games, collaborating with Lucifer and/or fighting against God. Silent Hill mainly features an old cult wishing to resurrect the "old gods" of the town, with Christian angels Samael and Metatron both having great significance. Both can be seen as being fairly blasphemous.

Oh...that's umm..ok..
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#21 TJSAGE
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Nah...Only certain groups play the race card!!!!!!

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#22 JoKeR_421
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[QUOTE="emitsu97"] I did however find it to be too obvious of a reskinned GoW.N-FonRonsenburg
I'm already getting sick of hearing this.

i know, i mean first its not a bad thing and 2nd why in gods name everythin has to be a clone of this or that. so i guess all FPS games are clones of each other and i wont ever buy another fps cuz its copyin others. jeez ppl. god of war didnt start the whole button smashin thing so let it rest already
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#23 N-FonRonsenburg
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[QUOTE="Dante_May_Die"][QUOTE="Silent-Hal"]It's not worse than Shin Megami Tensei or Silent Hill with it's religious themes. Silent-Hal
what about those?(didnt play them)

SMT has you summoning demons, and in certain games, collaborating with Lucifer and/or fighting against God. Silent Hill mainly features an old cult wishing to resurrect the "old gods" of the town, with Christian angels Samael and Metatron both having great significance. Both can be seen as being fairly blasphemous.

Of course anything that draws attention from The Lord is considered blasphemy. So if one were to take this literal than recreation in general is viewed as an irreverence to The Faith. So playing video games is a sin to begin with, and then to add insult to injury let's play a game that is nothing but a reference to religion.
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#24 M0wen10
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Does it seriously matter if its offensive to christians? They're unlikely to play it anyway.

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#25 emitsu97
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[QUOTE="emitsu97"] I did however find it to be too obvious of a reskinned GoW.N-FonRonsenburg
I'm already getting sick of hearing this.

I owned and beat GoW, GoW 2, GoW:CO, played the GoW3 demo, just replayed and beat GoW from GoW:C and took a break from Dragon Age: Origins to try the Dante's Inferno demo. I enjoyed it, and will buy it, but like I said, it's a reskinned GoW. The only differences I saw were the slightly quicker combat, the upgrade skill tree and the option of how to dispatch held enemies and it's effects on available skills.
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#26 N-FonRonsenburg
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Does it seriously matter if its offensive to christians? They're unlikely to play it anyway.

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Please! Christians are going to be the first to criticize it and take it to The Supreme Courts to have it outlawed for blasphemy.
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#27 Clay-End
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Does it seriously matter if its offensive to christians? They're unlikely to play it anyway.

M0wen10

Good point.....but thre r going to be many christian gamers who wont give a damn if the Holy Cross is used as a weapon or not.....anyway the cross in the game looks pretty heavy...it would surely crack some skulls if used as a weapon..:|

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im christian and I havnt played it yet, demo was only released in america and im too lazy to make another psn. It looks a bit freaky to me, but I don't think its because of religion, I just dont really play horror style games or anything that gross. (again not because of religion, just because i'm a wuss) Dante's really intrigues me though, I will definitly see if i like the demo.

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#29 bellolugosi
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[QUOTE="The_Pig_Hostage"]Offencing?JoKeR_421

u mean offensive? lol and TC i didnt find it offensive, then again i am agnostic, my familys christian but not me, i respect and have nothin against any religion but why would u think this game was offensive?

Or maybe offending?!

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#30 bellolugosi
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im christian and I havnt played it yet, demo was only released in america and im too lazy to make another psn. It looks a bit freaky to me, but I don't think its because of religion, I just dont really play horror style games or anything that gross. (again not because of religion, just because i'm a wuss) Dante's really intrigues me though, I will definitly see if i like the demo.

kate_jones

Hi Kate!

It's more an action, hack'n slash ("à la GOW")than a horror game! Ittakes place inthe nine circles of hell (based upon Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy)!

If you like the dark atmosphere of Demon's Souls, it should be all right for you (yes there's mildsexual content in the circle of luxury, but, come on, it's no porn...)! ;)

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#31 donalbane
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I'm not Christian, but I fail to see why any Christians would be 'offencing' by a game that embraces their perspective whole-hog. It's probably one of the most Christian-friendly games I can think of, actually.
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#32 donalbane
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[QUOTE="bellolugosi"]

[QUOTE="JoKeR_421"]

Offencing?The_Pig_Hostage
u mean offensive? lol and TC i didnt find it offensive, then again i am agnostic, my familys christian but not me, i respect and have nothin against any religion but why would u think this game was offensive?

Or maybe offending?!

The term you both are looking for is 'offensive'.
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#33 DragoonKain1687
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Terrible things happened in the crusades under the banner of justice, and holyness. I did not find anything of the game offensive as far as that concerns. It would be like saying that when Columbus discovered America they brought happiness to the indians.

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#34 Hamitay
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It's sort of based on a book, released 700 years ago, the ones who need to be ofended are probably dead by now

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#35 yang_fox
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My question is for christians

Dante_May_Die
hell no!:P, at least not for my friend!
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#36 kate_jones
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[QUOTE="kate_jones"]

im christian and I havnt played it yet, demo was only released in america and im too lazy to make another psn. It looks a bit freaky to me, but I don't think its because of religion, I just dont really play horror style games or anything that gross. (again not because of religion, just because i'm a wuss) Dante's really intrigues me though, I will definitly see if i like the demo.

bellolugosi

Hi Kate!

It's more an action, hack'n slash ("à la GOW")than a horror game! Ittakes place inthe nine circles of hell (based upon Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy)!

If you like the dark atmosphere of Demon's Souls, it should be all right for you (yes there's mildsexual content in the circle of luxury, but, come on, it's no porn...)! ;)

yeah I loved demon's souls, it wasnt very gross, 3-2 did freak me out though, gargoyles scare the crap out of me for some reason.

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#37 N-FonRonsenburg
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I'm not Christian, but I fail to see why any Christians would be 'offencing' by a game that embraces their perspective whole-hog. It's probably one of the most Christian-friendly games I can think of, actually. donalbane

Well once again the point of "playing God" comes to mind because Danté has the ability to condemn or absolve his foes, and an act as such is viewed as blasphemous regardless of medium. The game is vulgar, gory, violent, and obscene so no - - it's far from being "Christian friendly".

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#38 verbalfilth
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christian here..although I can't say I'm a devout one.....and no, I didn't find it offensive. There is no shame in the naked body imo. ...even if its pixels >.>
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#39 chaotzu
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As a devout Christian I didn't find it offensive. Other games have told their version of The Divine Comedy (DMC) so I would be a hypocrite to condemn Dante's Inferno but give those games a free pass. Even the GOW hell levels were taken from Dante's Inferno. Greeks believe the afterlife was a resting place for warriors, not an evil place to rot away for eternity. The image of Hell was never described in the Bible, it came from The Divine Comedy. This game is just a retelling of the first act of that poem. I'm actually more interested because of the source material.
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#40 nightshade869
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I thought it was a complete rip off of god of war and I didn't like it at all. To each his own. I just felt really uneasy playing it and I don't know why. Too dark of a feel for me I guess. I definately prefer Kratos's story, but that is just my opinion.
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#41 BioShockOwnz
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Nope, I'm a christian and a sinner.

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#42 thunderf00t
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[QUOTE="M0wen10"]

Does it seriously matter if its offensive to christians? They're unlikely to play it anyway.

N-FonRonsenburg
Please! Christians are going to be the first to criticize it and take it to The Supreme Courts to have it outlawed for blasphemy.

Blasphemy is not against the law in the United States, and it never will be. Separation of Church and State, one of the things that makes America awesome. I find it offensive because, with all due respect to those who like it, it really is just a reskinned God of War. I mean, literally. You could stick Kratos in there over Dante as he's fighting, and be hard pressed to tell the difference. It's blatantly obvious.
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#43 Darthmatt
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I haven't played it. You realize the Inferno was written to be very insulting to the catholic church at the time it was written. I'm more offended at the sheer butchery the game does to a great literary classic.

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#44 muller39
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Chirstians were as corrupt back then as non Christians so no the demo is not offensive at all.

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#45 The_Pig_Hostage
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I haven't played it. You realize the Inferno was written to be very insulting to the catholic church at the time it was written. I'm more offended at the sheer butchery the game does to a great literary classic.

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^this
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#46 Adziboy
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I haven't played it. You realize the Inferno was written to be very insulting to the catholic church at the time it was written. I'm more offended at the sheer butchery the game does to a great literary classic.

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Yeah, because they'll make a game based EXACTLY on a poem. That's gonna be a deep, deep game with lots of depth, huh? Anyway, Dantes Inferno, although a rip-off, is excellent.
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#47 meluvulongtime8
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I only found it offensive in the way that it blatantly rips off God of War besides that nah

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#48 joseangelhe
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[QUOTE="emitsu97"] I did however find it to be too obvious of a reskinned GoW.N-FonRonsenburg
I'm already getting sick of hearing this.

But it's true.
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#49 Conjuration
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The only thing that offended me was the way this game directly stole just about everything from GoW.
This was like GoW 2.5 or something.

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#50 anime_gamer007
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Offensive to God of War. What a terrible knock off! It's a blatant rip-off I just turned it off about 15-20 mins into the demo.