So lately I've made a promise to myself to choose what games I'm going to play next, and make as much of an effort as I can to finish them. I picked the DMC series, finished 1 (for like the 4th time at this point), tried but couldn't finish 2, finished 3, and recently finished the quite good 4 HD Ultimate Hyper Platinum Turbo edition.
Anyway, that brings me to DmC. On its own merits, I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm probably halfway done, and I see no reason that I won't be finishing it. However, like most people would note, it doesn't feel at all like a proper DMC game, and I feel like its in my playlist due to the title it has. But that doesn't make it a bad game.
Getting to the point of this thread, we all know that DmC did bad financially (though apparently not bad enough that Capcom released it again on current gen). The game scored well with critics, but at release the high marks apparently didn't attract enough DMC fans to accept it or non-fans to try it out of curiosity.
What I'm wondering is, if the game was just another Ninja Theory hack-and-slash, like a post-punk Heavenly Sword, would the scores be just as good? Would DMC fans be more receptive to it as an alternative since "DMC" wouldn't be on the box? This is assuming that the game disconnected entirely, with a character not named "Dante", and the evil Rupert Murdoch Fox News demon wasn't named "Mundus" and so on.
I'd like to think that the scores would be about the same, as this looks like one instance where most critics put aside the larger context of the franchise and judged the game on its own. I just don't know if anyone else agrees, or if more people would have been willing to try it had it carried another name.
Although I wish they didn't, names do in fact carry a lot of weight. Chrono Trigger is my favorite game ever, and I deprived myself for years of the amazing JRPG experience that is Chrono Cross because it felt like such a radical departure from what I expected from a sequel, even though the reviews were saying to absolutely play it. I can see DMC fans "voting with their wallets" here, not buying it to prevent the series from moving in that direction and rejecting what was presented under that name.
Frankly, I hope that Ninja Theory gets to make another stylish hack-and-slash with a good PC port, where the levels themselves are among your enemies and little things are hidden everywhere. Despite that, a little part of me does hope that game isn't "DmC 2", as it might exist instead of a potential "DMC 5" when we could have 2 different yet great hack-and-slash experiences (not to mention Bayonetta).
Thoughts?
Edit: Still pissed that these important tweaks that show up in these PS4 "More HD than before re-releases" don't make their way to the PC version, I still can't believe I bought Dark Souls 2 a second time to have a PS4 port that looks the same as my PS3 port, I definitely wouldn't buy DmC a second time but I'd like these changes that PS4 owners got.
Anyway, that brings me to DmC. On its own merits, I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm probably halfway done, and I see no reason that I won't be finishing it. However, like most people would note, it doesn't feel at all like a proper DMC game, and I feel like its in my playlist due to the title it has. But that doesn't make it a bad game.
Getting to the point of this thread, we all know that DmC did bad financially (though apparently not bad enough that Capcom released it again on current gen). The game scored well with critics, but at release the high marks apparently didn't attract enough DMC fans to accept it or non-fans to try it out of curiosity.
What I'm wondering is, if the game was just another Ninja Theory hack-and-slash, like a post-punk Heavenly Sword, would the scores be just as good? Would DMC fans be more receptive to it as an alternative since "DMC" wouldn't be on the box? This is assuming that the game disconnected entirely, with a character not named "Dante", and the evil Rupert Murdoch Fox News demon wasn't named "Mundus" and so on.
I'd like to think that the scores would be about the same, as this looks like one instance where most critics put aside the larger context of the franchise and judged the game on its own. I just don't know if anyone else agrees, or if more people would have been willing to try it had it carried another name.
Although I wish they didn't, names do in fact carry a lot of weight. Chrono Trigger is my favorite game ever, and I deprived myself for years of the amazing JRPG experience that is Chrono Cross because it felt like such a radical departure from what I expected from a sequel, even though the reviews were saying to absolutely play it. I can see DMC fans "voting with their wallets" here, not buying it to prevent the series from moving in that direction and rejecting what was presented under that name.
Frankly, I hope that Ninja Theory gets to make another stylish hack-and-slash with a good PC port, where the levels themselves are among your enemies and little things are hidden everywhere. Despite that, a little part of me does hope that game isn't "DmC 2", as it might exist instead of a potential "DMC 5" when we could have 2 different yet great hack-and-slash experiences (not to mention Bayonetta).
Thoughts?
Edit: Still pissed that these important tweaks that show up in these PS4 "More HD than before re-releases" don't make their way to the PC version, I still can't believe I bought Dark Souls 2 a second time to have a PS4 port that looks the same as my PS3 port, I definitely wouldn't buy DmC a second time but I'd like these changes that PS4 owners got.
