Apparently they are coming out with a videogame based on The Inferno? There's even a book tie-in! You play a bad-ass version of Dante, who is on a quest to prevent Lucifer from taking over the world (and, if the preview is any indication, grope the ghost of Beatrice). Okay, I guess!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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This is good news for the MMORPG adaptation of William Carlos Williams's "Paterson" I'm working on.
Ha! The stoner in me has been hoping for some Carlos Castaneda related game action can this be your next project? not a MMORPG though that shit's for nerds.
As much as I'd hate to admit this in public, I played the demo and it was fun.
Do you get to beat up Virgil?
It end's after the first level after you beat the shit out of Death so Virgil comes later I'm sure, but for some reason I don't remember most of what I played happening in the poem. Where in the story did Dante get the BIG ASS AXE originally? I haven't read the inferno since High School so...
Huh? ends I mean Long, slow, day.
Seven Levels of Kick Ass!
"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"?
No: proceed into the smoke and fire
with faith in God and guns; yield not to fear.
With Virgil as your guide, his 12-gauge lyre,
and hope, and the promise of the fair Betty,
you shall save the world from an end most dire.
With Bible in hand and head held steady,
Tell us, Christian soldier, are you ready?
WIN
Is that a ring wraith?
How sad that my first thought was...Wow a videogame based on The Towering Inferno, I so want to be Steve McQueen.
I'm surprised you haven't heard about this before. Not because of the game, but because of the bit where they hired a marketing agency to fake a religious protest of it.
Also there is the bit about trampling a literary classic in the interests of exploitation and profit but blah blah blah old hat right?
I am so waiting for the MMORPG of James Joyes's Ulysses.
And that of Homer's Iliad.
Yeah but the main quest would only take one day to complete.
Are they gonna do a Purgatorio for the kids? And a Paradisio for the really lame kids?