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Devil May Cry 5 Review Thread (Current Scores: MetaCritic 88, OpenCritic 89)
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Real talk Sekiro will probably have a lasting impact. There's a lot of Dark Souls fans.
Been a chart topper for months across all platforms and sold out on amazon best buy etc then re stocked and sold out again and still top charts.
Sales will surprise everyone in the best way possible.
The game is so good that it's being used to boost poor Anthem.
Anthem May Cry.
Based Dante saving videogames
...and yet Bayo's haters have been trying it for months [exhausting], tearing her down claiming DMC5 would end her. They lost.
It is possible that this genre isn't for you, and that isn't actually a real problem for other people to worry about.
You do realize that DMC1 scored higher than either Bayo game, right?
How does this happen hahaha, I imagine someone at Bioware grabbing everyone's shoulder HEY CHECK IT OUT OUR TIME HAS COME. NEW CHOCOLATE BARS FOR EVERYONE!The game is so good that it's being used to boost poor Anthem.
Anthem May Cry.
Yup, I don't care much about review scores, just want them to be generally positive, and it looks that way.
I just hope it sells well enough to meet whatever internal projections they have.
Good to see it reviewing so well.
Happy for DMC fans that have waited so long.
... but man... the Bayonetta trolls... obnoxious. Some people just can't help themselves, huh?
Reminds me of all the shitposts in the Horizon: Zero Dawn review thread gloating about how much better Breath of the Wild is. Shit gets tiring.
Happy for DMC fans that have waited so long.
... but man... the Bayonetta trolls... obnoxious. Some people just can't help themselves, huh?
Reminds me of all the shitposts in the Horizon: Zero Dawn review thread gloating about how much better Breath of the Wild is. Shit gets tiring.
why is he fake shouting lol
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Nobody even talked about Bayonetta until someone said Bayo 2 was the DMC2 of the franchise, come on now.
The next best selling game is over a year and a half old, not sure that says anything either way
Someone tweet metacriticThe game is so good that it's being used to boost poor Anthem.
Anthem May Cry.
Nothing incorrect has been said
I also want to add that its a much better saga ender than Kingdom Hearts 3 ever was.
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My issue is that, unlike a puzzle box, you aren't allowed any real time to learn and make mistakes whilst playing a character action game. If you put in on easy enemies go down too quickly, if you put it on hard you go down too quickly to learn; without a controlled space where I can experience gameplay without the worries of surviving and progressing I find it really hard to actually get all these concepts into my head. It's a concept that I feel veterans to the series/genre take for granted because they've been playing the games for so lon
My dude, they're not enough because they aren't representative of actual gameplay. That was literally in my first post on the matter.
I stand corrected on the health bar point; I didn't notice it in my first few times through the demo because I simply thought it was just a part of the lock-on graphic.
That's a good explanation, thank you. People are acting like my posts are an attack on the very fundamentals of DMC itself, but honestly I'm just frustrated at the constant condescension because I honestly don't feel that the "play through it a bunch" style is a great learning method for someone such as myself. As I said above the game just doesn't really offer an alternative between "so easy that I don't need to learn" or "so hard that I'm focused more on surviving than learning. That's OK in a game like Dark Souls where things are very much methodical and you aren't constantly being hounded by enemy attacks, but in a game like DMC where you're facing against groups and bosses almost exclusively I simply feel that another method of learning is needed.
Breh i'm not trying to be rude, but come on.... You launch enemies because you are safer in the air then on the ground against melee opponents, do you really need that explained to you.
And yea the game explains what those tools do. "exceed and ex-act are powered up moves", "Hey you can jump off enemies".
Mateeee what do you want the game to do. You got eyes, you can see the feedback. You use launcher, enemy gets launched. You use exceed, enemy takes more damage. You enemy step, AND GUESsss whattttt ya jumped off the enemy.
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- Every enemy has health bar shown on the lock on
- Ranking system what nani hUH, EYYYyyy? All the style bar does is reward you for mixing it up
- unrelenting enemy attacks - see gif below from the old thread. The enemies in the demo are literally punching bags, like they are at the start of every dmc. You can literally just spam a single button to kill them, because they are so slow. DMC is probably is on the easier side even on DMD, because its focused on style rather than difficulty.
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WHY ARE WE FIGHTING OVER DMC AND BAYONETTA ? ? ?
Both are great Japanese actions games made by great Japanese developers for fuck's sake. If anything this thread should have been DmC vs DMC.
Publishers should just start sending this guy early copies so he can make some great gifs, as part of the marketing.
Both are great Japanese actions games made by great Japanese developers for fuck's sake. If anything this thread should have been DmC vs DMC.
Publishers should just start sending this guy early copies so he can make some great gifs, as part of the marketing.
What a great fuckin' fight that was. Royal Guard was a must for me during my first go at that boss.
SunhiLegend
Next time try to also get a parry in there, I did on his last attack which he quickly followed up and after another parry not only did I feel like a SSSparda but also got an achievement lol.
Well DMC5 has been consistently the best selling game on steam for the past 3 days now, so I think that's at the very least a good sign.
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I've always said the best way to learn how to play DMC is to watch others.
I remember doing that back when DMC3 came out and youtube is still kind of new. There was this combo video posted called the Elysium or something. Watching made me realize the things I could do that I wasn't previously doing before.
I remember doing that back when DMC3 came out and youtube is still kind of new. There was this combo video posted called the Elysium or something. Watching made me realize the things I could do that I wasn't previously doing before.
Anime adaptation are probably the best they have ever been this gen to be fair, even with that stinker.
They can't all be winners.
All the GIFs in this age of accessible media share are going to be amazing.
I've played and finished Devil May Cry 5. The game does not teach you any of this stuff. You need to figure it out really. That said, it's also all extremely high level stuff. You don't need to do any of this to play through and enjoy the game.
Given that Sunhi gifs are heavily modified...
DMCV looks better without that.
I did manage a couple parry attacks, just didn't look as good as in the camera angle wasn't how I wanted it XD. I just got to this boss though, fight was amazing, will definitely be replaying a few more times, try out different stuff. :D
I'm playing on PC mostly maxed out, in the GIF apart from slow down and zooming in to cut out the HUD, all I've done image wise is increase the brightness/contrast a touch, at full HD and 60fps it's better looking than the small GIF, it's definitely one of the best looking games I've played.
I didn't get my ReMake2 key til 11:30 the night before it released. Assuming this will be the same.
As an add-on to my other posts: I did just pre-order the game.
I am 100% willing to give it a chance, but I'll also sell the game if I'm simply not feeling it. I've explained everything I want to explain about my potential issues, and I also admit that I didn't do so very well at first, so I'm likely not going to reply to any more posts after this one. That's especially true for those that can't help but take a condescending tone with me (seriously, if you think I'm wrong just say so, I don't need to be talked down to like a child).
Yeah, I'm hoping that some useful Youtube tutorials come out. I know that in Smash I would have never known how to "tech" had I not watched a YT video detailing that because that game's practice mode has the same issues I (probably) will have with DMC5's.
I've got the demo open and it does at least explain what Exceed and Ex-Act are. I would never know what the hell "Enemy step" is, though (it points to a pet peeve I have of fighting game/character action game terminology being overly complicated for such simple concepts).
As for the rest, that is simultaneously worrying and comforting. It's nice to hear from someone who's finished the game, though, so thanks for that.
Just a question: What difficulty would you recommend for a newcomer like me who doesn't want to just roll through the game? Is 'Human' (this game's easy mode IIRC) too easy or should I go one step up?
I am 100% willing to give it a chance, but I'll also sell the game if I'm simply not feeling it. I've explained everything I want to explain about my potential issues, and I also admit that I didn't do so very well at first, so I'm likely not going to reply to any more posts after this one. That's especially true for those that can't help but take a condescending tone with me (seriously, if you think I'm wrong just say so, I don't need to be talked down to like a child).
Yeah, I'm hoping that some useful Youtube tutorials come out. I know that in Smash I would have never known how to "tech" had I not watched a YT video detailing that because that game's practice mode has the same issues I (probably) will have with DMC5's.
I've got the demo open and it does at least explain what Exceed and Ex-Act are. I would never know what the hell "Enemy step" is, though (it points to a pet peeve I have of fighting game/character action game terminology being overly complicated for such simple concepts).
As for the rest, that is simultaneously worrying and comforting. It's nice to hear from someone who's finished the game, though, so thanks for that.
Just a question: What difficulty would you recommend for a newcomer like me who doesn't want to just roll through the game? Is 'Human' (this game's easy mode IIRC) too easy or should I go one step up?
Why is there not a link to Metacritic or the reviews in the OP lowhighkang_LHK ? It's really frustrating when review threads do that
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Again, this is mainly a you issue. You're essentially saying that you're not capable of creating combos on your own and need the game to tell you what to do to succeed, that's not what DMC is about. You can succeed just by button mashing on devil hunter. But for the gameplay to have as much spectacle as the cutscenes like in that beautiful tweet by SunhiLegend, you need to experiment and learn to do things on your own. Not because the game does a poor job of tutorializing, but because it's a player driven combat sandbox.
See that gif above. Survival is not an issue in DMC games unless you're very very bad at them cause a ton of the enemy types exist specifically to get styled on compared to something like Bayonetta where the dodge mechanic is such an essential part of the core gameplay loop that enemy aggression is turned up. Note these games are meant to be played through multiple times, as each difficulty unlocks a higher one.
Huh? Even the demo tells you what Exceed, enemy step, and Ex-Act do. It's part of the ability description when you buy it.