Devil May Cry Reboot Designed to Provoke Fans

[Evilsanta]

As long as they dont fuck up the gameplay i am happy...But if they do Capcom blood will flow.

But it is a prequel about Dante as a teen...So the designt kinda fits.

 

[Rewold]

I welcome change with open hands.

 

[Warnolo]

Oh good.

Well done Capcom, you trolled me.

Now you can eat your piece of crap.

 

[Warnolo]

As long as they dont fuck up the gameplay i am happy...But if they do Capcom blood will flow.

But it is a prequel about Dante as a teen...So the designt kinda fits.

So is a reboot or is a prequel?

Fuck it, i dont even want to know.

 

[Infernai]

The gameplay, Dante's characterisation and story (Don't look at me like that: Even if they weren't much in the plot department, the stories were atleast still FUN) are still gonna need to be pretty damn amazing and accurate to the games Lore if they want much as touching this game. In other words, they more or less have me at a tenuous "wait and see" stage now. Which, depending on information and trailers released may make my opinion either go to support it or go right back to hating on it.

Regardless, i still think the redesign looks fucking stupid...that isn't going to change.

I'm seeing that it's going to be like Shadow of the Colossus in that the character's appearance gradually changes from start to finish. In the trailer, there are scenes where Dante has odd patches of white in his otherwise dark hair, so I think a re-viewing of the traler can open this up to others too. His powers probably have an influence on this. I just hope the reboot means I don't have to stare at a chapter load screen every five minutes.

You mentioned this on another thread i was on before, and...i guess that would make a bit of sense even if it does conflict with some of the canon (Which somewhat hinted at Dante always having white hair, but i digress). I think, if done right, it could be a good idea.

HOWEVER, on this note i have to ask this: Dante's first Devil Trigger and full awakening of his demonic abilities is in the third game, and in all games The Devil Trigger has more or less been an essential ability. So....what are we gonna have instead? Cause if he does Devil Trigger in this game, it's gonna open up a whole new shit-storm among the fans.

 

[shadow skill]

They are not smart enough to troll the DMC fanbase. If they were they wouldn't be talking about how they are doing this reboot so that they can do 4-5 million in sales because they would know that such numbers are impossible for brawlers in this market. Does anyone actually remember what Sucker Punch was saying about Cole's redesign even before they turned him into a Backstreet Boy? Here is what the art director had to say:

Art director Matthias Lorenz said they wanted a ?more appealing, more compelling main character,? so that is why they decided upon a redesign. With regards to his new personality, Animation Director Billy Harper revealed the studio wanted Cole to be ?a little gritty, a little street, without the grumpiness.? Going farther, they described Cole as an ?EXTREME sports star ? like Travis Pastrana, Tony Hawk or Chris Sharma ? what would they be like if they had super powers.?

They just threw out a bunch of buzzwords for their justification of the redesign. In other words Sucker Punch did not really have a reason for the redesigns in the first place! Compare that to what Ninja Theory did with DMC and you see that their reasoning is actually coherent by comparison. The only real problem is that a majority of the fanbase simply hates Dante's look. The hatred is in no way lessened by the fact that the new design makes Tameem look like he was trying to insert himself into a popular franchise by replacing the iconic character with himself.

If you notice Ninja Theory has continued to say that Capcom wanted us to go crazy etc. In short they have been blaming Capcom for the failure of this design to get a positive reaction. Capcom is probably tired of Ninja Theory passing the buck (Even though this ultimately is the fault of Capcom.) so they try telling us that they are really being meta and that they wanted to get waves of hatred from the fanbase.


tl;dr version: Sucker Punch couldn't actually justify the total redesign so they changed Cole back to something resembling the original. Ninja Theory/Capcom are tired of the hate mail they are (Rightfully.) getting and decided to pretend that this is all part of the plan.

 

[TheBaron87]

I wasn't getting bored of old Dante

 

[_Janny_]

All I can say is yeeeah riiight... Nice (last-minute crafted) excuse, Capcom. I don't buy it. They could have gotten strong reactions with other methods, like, oh I don't know... making a game with Vergil in the spotlight?

I wasn't getting bored of old Dante

Hear, hear! IMO, Dante was still seen as cool by most of the fanbase, so a radical change wasn't needed.

 

[superbatranger]

Put like this, it sounds like a giant dick move, especially if all the hate towards Ninja Theory was unfounded, considering their first designs apparently were close to the original.

Can still see how this strategy makes sense from their perspective though, and there's truth to it, but still...

Well, I don't know about you, but I'd rather have the old Dante on my TV than this one. Not sure why, but there is something about this one that doesn't sit right with me. Granted, I can't pass any judgement on the game itself since I haven't played it yet.

I wonder if there were any easier ways to go about the new look so as to avoid any backlash from the fans.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

What would be creative is overhauling the character while leaving key characteristics of him in place. To an extent, something like the difference between Super Mario Bros. Mario and Super Mario World Mario. Something that would say, this is actually the character we're telling you it is, not just some thing we drew. They say that the most creativity comes from working around your constraints.

However, what would be even more creative is having an original IP for once.

CAPCOM.

Does this count?

The sound in that video seems exactly like the sounds and music from Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm/Heroes.

No suprise though, Cyber Connect 2 did make the Naruto Ultimate games.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

The old Dante was so forgotten, that he's in Marvel vs Capcom 3. Wait...

 

[Casual Shinji]

I call BS, Capcom just came out with this statement to make it look like an elaborate ruse to fool people into talking about a game. When did Capcom get marketing sence ?

Agreed.

This is just a cheap spin to make it look like they didn't have there heads up their asses by shipping this franchise off to Ninja Theory.

 

[Byere]

In other words Capcom, upon realising how much backlash fans were giving over the change of Dante, started acting like a cat. As they realise they messed up, they acted like they meant to do it (much like a cat running into a glass door. Neeeerooough *CRASH* ...I meant to do that... yes, that's just what I meant to do!)

 

[Mechsoap]

ooh capcom...when will you ever fail to be retardet

 

[Archemetis]

Now I might just be a cynic here, but to me this just reaks more of:

'Oh shit! We've designed a Dante that no one likes and now we look like idiots!'

'It's ok! We'll pretend we did it on purpose to get a rise out of them, then they'll look like the idiots!'

'That is genius!'

But like I said, that could just be the cynic in me.