Is DmC: Devil May Cry worth it?
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I'm just saying it was received so bad they had to cancel the entire reboot continuity and bring back the old one.
DmC is my favorite of the series. The definitive version is where it's at. Some of my favorite boss battles ever (especially Bob Barbas). The level design and art style are super.
Anybody who says it's an objectively bad game is lying to you and themselves. As always, it's all about personal preference as to whether or not you'll enjoy it though.
Anybody who says it's an objectively bad game is lying to you and themselves. As always, it's all about personal preference as to whether or not you'll enjoy it though.
It's the black sheep of the entire series. Bad level design, bad bosses, really bad writing, totally inconsequential to the overall story.
3 and 4 are the best examples of the series. DmC: Definitive Edition is an okay but not exemplary imitation. 1 is alright, but the series' status as an ascended Resident Evil spinoff is at its most obvious in that game and it doesn't hold up mechanically as well as the games built off of the DMC3 framework. Play it for history if you like, but don't feel like you have to.
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Just checked, Devil May Cry 4 is only 7 bucks on the store too. I might just buy that and DmC, even though I'd be playing the series totally out of order lol
1 is a bit creaky, but if you like survival horror— or just re4— you'll probably still enjoy it. it's a very different beast from the rest, though.
3 hasn't aged a day. just played it tonight and it feels like a dream. there's some 00s era quirks in the ui but that's about it.
4 is a very flawed, unfinished game with amazing combat. if you can stomach bad level design and backtracking, you'll do alright.
there is no second game.
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Well. I didn't mean it as an insult or anything. I just don't want his judgment clouded by some things that wouldn't matter to him as it would a huge fan of the series. I just formed my own opinion first and was surprised at the backlash. I still have only played the pc version though. Not the definitive one.
Just get DMC4SE, honestly. It's the better game of the two, has more content, more modes, and more playable characters.
Pretty much this. The only people kidding themselves were Capcom thinking it would work.
Play 10m-1h of it. No explanation will ever correctly describe the sheer magnitude of how ineptly made it is.
Sorry but I kinda took it as one. Over five years it's been nonstop getting shat on by association because of other people's opinions on it. It gets kinda tiring since every DmC discussion on planet Earth turns out like this.
It doesn't matter if you play them out of order. The story is crap for the most part in all of them. Don't go in expecting high quality writing.
Are you seriously trying to tell me you don't remember when everyone got so. god. damn. angry. at this dumb little joke, because it was "A slap to the face to DMC fans"?
But also a worse campaign structure. Don't try to sweep that under the rug for a newbie lol.
If he's planning to buy both, that's by far the best option so they can get a taste for both styles.
Both games definitely have their flaws.
Get the definitive version. It's pretty damn good. Isn't as good as the main DMC games, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden, etc but it doesn't have to be either. I'm sure you'll have a good time with it
DMC4SE is much, much better but DmC DE is still a fun game.
DMC4SE is much, much better but DmC DE is still a fun game.
And all the other things, yes.
I mean I like Dante's new design in a vacuum, but when he was first announced? You can't tell me that turning him into a methhead/insert of the game director was a good idea.
Is DMC3SE playable on PS4 yet? I honestly don't know since I just finished it on the PS3 HD trilogy disc.
yeah, just trust us. you don't want to play it. it is, maybe, one of the worst games ever made.
if you're willing to dump money on the same hd collection, except in 60 FPS, then... yes!
(i was)
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DMC4 is a game for people that care solely about mechanics. It's a very unappealing game for anyone else.
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I ended up buying both! I'll flip a coin to see which I'll play first.
Don't worry too much about the story. DmC's out of continuity with the rest and 4 doesn't call back too much to 1 or 3.
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I won't lie and say I don't hate DmC, I most certainly do, but even it manages to be a more competent actual game than the likes of DMC2.
The Definitive Edition never got a PC port, though.
It's horrible garbage not even worth playing
Get DMC4:SE and never look back. Well, look back to 3 maybe.
Get DMC4:SE and never look back. Well, look back to 3 maybe.
My original point is that now people can talk about game mechanics or w/e, but it's straight up wrong to ignore the initial backlash because of some hair.
I don't really have an opinion on Nu Dante over anything else aside from I like his design slightly better, but even Nero in DMC5 looks way better and what Nu Dante should have been.
The initial reveal trailer's Dante is so different from the final product that I honestly don't think that his actual personality was what caused the backlash at first.
Best DMC with best story and characterization.
The more DMC5 takes after it, the better. Still secretly hoping its somehow a sequel to both stories through some type of dumb multiverse bullshit.
The more DMC5 takes after it, the better. Still secretly hoping its somehow a sequel to both stories through some type of dumb multiverse bullshit.
Because his original design, and the entire aesthetic to DmC's reveal trailer, was so jarringly different from DMC and some folks didn't like it, to the point where Ninja Theory redesigned him and retooled his personality to be more in line with regular Dante. He's a lot more stoic in the original trailer as an example.
It's wrong to boil things down to just "it's the hair."
That was three years into the game's public existence. People were negative even before DmC was revealed because of the rumors of Ninja Theory working on it, reasonably so because of the extremely poor quality of Heavenly Sword and Enslaved as action games. Saying it started with and was mostly because of the hair is revisionism and fact obfuscation worth of the Donald himself.
And speaking as someone that doesn't hate DmC, it absolutely was. It came across as petty, not to mention tone deaf after three years of insults by press and developers, all sorts of disparaging comments incl. homophobic slurs on social media towards fans of the series because some dared to not swallow it without complaints and ask for seconds. Even people like Yahtzee felt it was too much and he couldn't give a rat's ass about the series or its fans. Maybe the developers felt the need to hit back, but it also hit people that didn't rain any bile upon Ninja Theory.
Yeah it's a good game and an interesting take on the series, plus it doesn't have that annoying twat Nero in it, so that's a bonus too.
Yep, the DMC HD collection is on PS4 now. 3 is definitely still the best.
Nice. They're both different with their pros and cons. But well worth playing!
Just do not play DMC4 on automatic mode. Its best element is its combat design. Auto mode makes that all irrelevant. I have a good feeling a lot of people play dmc4 with that mode which is like playing a racing game that steers for you in random directions.
I give credit to Ninja Theory for not putting in a stupid ass automatic mode. They had faith in their controls and required all players to learn it. And that learning process is part of the fun in playing an action game.
It's literally a joke that's doing the same thing you did. The redesign of Dante may have got people up in arms to start, but the shift in setting, tone, character personality, stupid edgelord writing and the fact most fans didn't want or need another origin story are all complaints that were leveled in some form or another before and after the games release.
But Ninja Theory sure like putting "fuck you" in this game, so why not one more to fans?
On topic for the OP, since you haven't played any DMC you probably won't see many of the flaws long time fans did. It's an okay action game, I didnt loathe the base version and apparently Definitive is better. I think 4 or Collection are better buys, but you could do worse for character action.
tbh, just two minutes of this—
—tells you all you need to know about dmc 2's 'quality'.
it brings us all together though. rich. poor. classic. reboot. one thing we can all agree on — dmc 2 sucks.