Um...well...hm.

My excitement for this game just went from 60 to 0 almost instantly. I was hoping for a moodier, slower paced game and instead they're taking a cool sounding setting and making yet another Devil May Cry or God of War.

Besides, Jack the Ripper sent some some pretty nasty correspondence to Scotland Yard, so the whole "Jack the Ripper was good" concept just doesn't sit well with me. I guess I'll just have to wait and see more of it first.

......I hope this game doesn't take itself seriously, because that's just ****ing stupid.

On the other hand if it's completely ridicules and over the top as possible, then it'll be awesome.

...bleh?
I love Visceral, I really do. Dead Space was my GOTY, but really? I was honestly intrigued and excited by the idea, but did they really need to pull in the supernatual and stuff like that? I figured playing a serial killer armed with a knife stalking people in the darkness and brutally killing them set to a moody 19th century setting would of rocked, but... bleh.

A Manhunt-esque Jack the Ripper game is one of the few games I would buy on premise alone, no matter how terrible.

A video game adaption of Alan Moore's From Hell would be awesome.* Imagine a 30 minute QTE of the dismemberment of his final victim? That would be some intense shit right there!

*Terrible.

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Well given all the conspiracy that revolved around the case, and the supposed involvement of secret societies and the like, I think Visceral will at least be able to make it interesting.

C'mon, didn't some of you shrug when you first heard that Dead Space was more or less going to be Resident Evil in space?

The more I read about these developers the more I fucking hate them.

There had to be demons, didn't there?
I'd be intrigued if they made a game about Jack the Ripper as a criminal, you don't play too many villains in games. Killing for good could be an interesting Dexter-like spin, but do we really need DEMONS? It seems like demons would throw out the stealth and intrigue involved with Jack the Ripper, making him another low-voiced action game hero (I assume). A game based around hunting him down could be good too.
Oh well, I'm not picking up Dante's Inferno, and I probably won't get this either.

Fuck, you could replace Jack and put Buffy and you would get the same damn outcome. What is next? Gone with the wind but with demons? Scarlet O'Hara as a whip wielding corset wearing avenger of justice?

Just drop the jack thing and make something good, like I don't know Dead Space 2.

Okay, I can understand Dante's Inferno. This... This sounds really stupid.

Fuck it, I'm maintaining a hope that the source is misinformed and that The Ripper will actually be stalking prostitutes in the darkness and brutally stabbing and mutilating them in a dark, moody 19th century setting in a Manhunt-esque style romp.
Hell, they can even include the secret societies and conspiracies if they want, just let me be a villain in the game for once.

wait, so i'm supposed to believe that jack the ripper hunted down prostitutes and shredded their bodies for altruistic purposes? sounds completely stupid, and also like a lame attempt to cash in on a less than pleasant portion of history. this announcement cements my view of ea as a worthless company, devoid of any understanding of what art really is. i frown on any and all of the people that purchase either dante's inferno (which they shouldn't really be able to call it) or this insult to history as well. why would you be attracted to these games if you know that the source material isn't being respected? it's just a ploy to encourage controversy and get coverage, nothing more. i'm officially ignoring the rest of your continuos hype for these titles. boo, hamza, boo

Well, I think they took an interesting character and made him into EVERY OTHER damned game character ever. Wow, so we can use him to run around and slay demons. He might as well be anybody else, then. I mean, how is he Jack the Ripper if he's not, you know, Jack the Ripper but instead Jack the Demon Slayer?

Well this sounds horrible now.

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i thought it would be a stealth game or maybe a indigo prophecy with killing hookers and hiding their bodies :/

So basically Dante's Inferno with a JTR makeover, no? Very original...

UUUGH.

When I first read the post about Ripper this morning, I went on record saying that the idea sounded interesting. But this just sounds like shit. "Over-the-top weapons?" What over-the-top weapons existed in 19th-century England? And fucking slo-mo? I swear to god if they call it "Ripper Time" I'm going to rip my eyes out.

Now that I've thought about it I kind of wish this were a slow paced game with an emphasis on brutality.

Slow in a sense of Condemned where everything is just real quiet and the fights should be concentrated struggle between you and one or two more enemies. And they should be definite "struggles." No three stabs and you're dead shit.

Yeah...a game like that set in The Ripper would kick ass.

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Why does everything have to be ruined by supernatural bullshit? It's such a cop-out. They couldn't think of a good design based on Jack the Ripper, so they decided to make him a demon hunter. What. The. Fuck.

I was allll ready for some kind of detective game, playing as a cop and tracking down Jack. Or even playing as Jack and your only combat would be the murders he commits. This could have been beautiful, but then they were like "oh wait we need to have the player kill something every 2 minutes or else they'll get bored! I know FUCKING DEMONS WILL SOLVE E\VERYTHING!!!!!!"

God damn it.

This seems like a frighteningly stupid idea. Jack the Ripper killed prostitutes and a limited number of them this much is known for certain. the only thing this game has in common with Jack the Ripper is his name and the location. What if Jack the Ripper was actually benevolent and fighting demons? What will the sequel be Mother Teresa eating babies?

How about releasing it for the wii , then you can get waggle dismemberment

Well you guys have to remember that they never found out who Jack the Ripper was. If anything, he has become a cult historical figure more than a well known murderer, simply because he was never caught or discovered. It would be much more offensive if we actually knew who the guy was.

But plenty of movies, comics, etc have played with the legend of Jack The Ripper, why not games? The mythology behind the whole persona is what's interesting about it. He became larger than life. It's not like an Al Bundy or Bin Ladin game when we know who the killer was and their motives. Nobody knows Jack about the ripper, to use a pun. It's funny people getting offended when they have played videogames with recharging health bars in the most devestating conflict of human history, but with a persona nobody ever knew who they were, it's suddenly horrifying.

If people actually knew who Jack the Ripper was, that would be a different story. But these guys are homaging and using the legend and mystique, NOT celebrating the man behind the persona. How could they when no one knows who he was?

And honestly, if any of you doubt the team behind Dead Space, your taste sucks ass. Fact.

God damn it. The more the game designer in me thinks about how cool a good serial killer game could actually be, the more pissed off I get about this stupid fucking idea.

It's like, after they impressed the shitfuck out of me with Dead Space and got themselves on my radar enough to really want to care about what their next few projects would be, these developers just decide to make themselves TOTALLY irrelevant. Dante's Inferno is a bastardization of (I'm told) a great work of a fiction and a shameless God of War ripoff, coming out one month before God of War. I could begrudgingly accept that since I absolutely love God of War and since Dante's Inferno looks better than I think anyone expects, it'll push the developers of God of War even harder to create the best game they can.

But this?

What the fuck?

Way to take an idea that would make up for Dante's Inferno, that could be totally intriguing and innovative when done correctly, and absolutely just shit all over it by turning into the most generic sounding bullshit ever that literally offends on so many levels by trivializing the deaths of people who were brutally murdered by a psychopath in some back alleys in Britain with a goddamn knife (a terrifying fucking death) and painting that psychopathic fuck AS A GOOD GUY.

At this point, I'm just debating whether or not I'm willing to deprive myself of Dead Space 2 in order to boycott Visceral Games.