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Today marks the 7th anniversary of DmC:Devil may cry's release.
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Yeah it would have. It would have been different but DMC5 would have still happened. The only reason DmC happened is because there was an initiative to westernize franchises to reinvigorate them that didn't work out. ( thanks inafune) It was quite litterally an edgy bump in the road.
I will never understand people who have negative reactions to this but positive reactions to DMC3 cutscenes.
7 Year anniversary and a new Smash Fighter is being revealed? I guess Dante really is coming to smash.
Amazing game, my favorite with the third one. Happy b-day !
I still need to play the sequel.
I still need to play the sequel.
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Yes, this is what I think too. Has the DE fixed those awful color coded enemies?
Not played it in a few years, but I'm pretty sure they made them less obnoxious. From what I remember, using the colour is more effective, as opposed to the only way to hurt them.
Great game, but I am glad we got the old series back.
Maybe one day Ninja Theory will make a new action IP to continue with that style of gameplay.
Maybe one day Ninja Theory will make a new action IP to continue with that style of gameplay.
I liked the game, it was a good Devil May Cry game, but it didn't have the charm the main series had.
Feels like this series was just never built for me. The wackiness in DMC5 sounds right up my alley but threw me off.
DmC gameplay was so much simpler and better for new players. And though the cutscenes not perfect, I could stomach them (and ignore them) as another wasted story full of emo cliches.
DmC gameplay was so much simpler and better for new players. And though the cutscenes not perfect, I could stomach them (and ignore them) as another wasted story full of emo cliches.
We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that Capcom's cynical ploy to turn the DMC franchise into a bigger money maker by 1) pandering to a western audience, and 2) throwing the entire DMC fanbase under the bus, was unsuccessful.
I don't trust consumers to get anything right, but thankfully they didn't embrace DmC like Capcom was hoping.
Thus the DMC series rebounded from near disaster a second time. In much the same way that DMC3 corrected everything DMC2 got wrong, while building on its meager handful of half baked good ideas, DMC5 restored the series' stature after DmC tried to reboot everything with worse gameplay, lower design standards, and awful parodies of established characters.
DMC5 is a miracle. It's a rare thing to see a franchise recover from not one but two pants-on-head stupid episodes of money grubbing corporate sabotage.
I don't trust consumers to get anything right, but thankfully they didn't embrace DmC like Capcom was hoping.
Thus the DMC series rebounded from near disaster a second time. In much the same way that DMC3 corrected everything DMC2 got wrong, while building on its meager handful of half baked good ideas, DMC5 restored the series' stature after DmC tried to reboot everything with worse gameplay, lower design standards, and awful parodies of established characters.
DMC5 is a miracle. It's a rare thing to see a franchise recover from not one but two pants-on-head stupid episodes of money grubbing corporate sabotage.
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I waited a couple more weeks for the PC release. To this day, still the only game I've gotten 100% achievements with on Steam. I loved it. It probably still ranks as my third favorite Devil May Cry game, now behind 5 and 3. I already loved both DMC and Ninja Theory prior to its release so despite my poor reaction to its reveal and not agreeing with the aggressive talk about DMC's established style, I was very curious about the marriage of Ninja Theory and DMC well ahead of release and I thought it was a very cool take, even if I slightly prefer established DMC. I personally really liked the more straightforward gameplay systems and enjoyed traversing the levels more than traditional DMC games, though overall I still slightly prefer post-3 combat more than DmC gameplay.
A wise man once said, "Not in a million years."
You mean to say you weren't won over by catchy and relatable lines like, "The world is at last your bitch, as am I" or "I've got a bigger dick"? Huh.
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I liked the Definitive Edition a lot. Probably my 2nd favorite DMC game and clearly the best level design of the series.
I mean it's relevant enough to get people upset and posting in every thread about it
We could have moved on years ago but people insist on the salt shaking
I love this game. It was something different and that's ok, although I would prefer to have both versions of DMC continue if I had to choose only one I'd definitely choose traditional DMC over this. I hope one day we get the Definitive Edition enhancements to the PC version :(
early 00's cartoon dante wasn't cool enough for ninja theory, so they traded it with a character stripped from the hangover movies, with all the same level of boomer humour.
It's not even good enough to like ironically.
It was my first Devil May Cry game of any kind. Tried it for the first time a year ago while it was in Game Pass. Reason I purchased DMC5. Really thought it was a lot of fun with great level design.
can someone please post the gif of DMC4 dante punching this scumbag donte to dead ad infinitum?
I actually think the character/story reboot stuff was meh but could've worked if the gameplay wasn't clearly worse than other games in the series. For all of the extra polish in terms of environments and such, it just was a flatout worse game than other fan favorite entries.
DMC V probably put the debate to bed for good.
DMC V probably put the debate to bed for good.
Funny, you don't see anyone hating Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge for specifically the writing when the story was literally about Ryu being a "dark hero", and was about as pretentious, and idiotic as it could possibly get, with child surrogates, curses that involved the "vengeful spirits of everyone Ryu's killed", and dumb attempts at morality, drama and plot twists. Not to mention it forced you to watch the story quite a few times, with QTEs, and walking sequences. Not quite as awful as the original release, which had walking sequences everywhere, (Plus a few scenes of you, as Ryu, being forced to kill helpless people) but still pretty terrible.
In my eyes, this is a stupid fucking reason to hate an action game with perfectly good gameplay, unless you place a massive emphasis on story (in which 90% of video games, period, don't even have a story that's remotely passable), or it literally forces you to watch the story with constant unskippable cutscenes, and walking sequences.
Oh yes, and don't forget that NG3 Ryu wasn't even a separate character from past entries, unlike El Donte.
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Big fan of DMC1-4 and I still really enjoyed Ninja Theory's take on it.
Had its own style, combat was fun and the stages and environment variety were great.
Had its own style, combat was fun and the stages and environment variety were great.
it's mediocre at best, with some really bad writing and character work. Some great art design and set pieces.
Move forward press a button, is an engaging experience in this decade apparently.
one problem with this take slick, is that people been dunking on the gameplay even more for how much of a downgrade it was from its direct predecessors.
Yeah the gameplay is super shallow, the boss fights are easy, the enemies are crap.
Also nothing says Devil May Cry like Vergil in a fedora and Anonymous mask toting a sniper rifle.
Let's gut styles
Let's gimp the lock on n directional inputs
make two redundant dodges, which create over powered counters
Have command moves overlap between the weapons
bosses that are exclusively large pattern based foes n glorified set pieces until Vergil.
no inertia
Even less enemies than 4 that attack you in the air
But hey there is mindless platforming,so it's better than the games that have better combat in the series about combat.
Ninja Theory's "blah blah old Dante is gay, look how funny that is" was pathetic, but it's probably my favourite out of the DMC games I've played (1, 4, DmC and 5).
