DMC: Devil May Cry Review
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If you're ignorant enough to think that the only reason people dislike the changes are his hair, this game was made for you.Kitsune Hunter said:
No one who disliked this game before release cared about the relative quality of the game. By the way, I've seen just as many reviews saying it's awful based on gameplay and not the change in characterization as I've seen "dudebro I don't care what he looks like bro, its fun bro."
I'm sure you've kept your head firmly buried in the sand this entire time, but I'll explain. People are upset because they rebooted a character that needed no rebooting. They are upset that they turned him in to a generic, westernized, action guy. They are upset that they removed the character history, the lore of the world, and the other characters in the universe because the franchise fell in to the hands of a developer who openly hated the series he's been trying to rip off since the launch of the PS3. They are upset that the developer has been deliberately antagonistic toward the very fans who made the series a success.
Know what we can compare this to? The Transformers movies. The series was given to a man who thinks the property he's working with is stupid, so he made a dumb action flick with lots of crude, teen humor to appeal to the people who just want to turn off their brains and have a good time.
Lastly, I see a TON of "Well I'm gonna pick it up eventually" and almost zero "I bought it day one and it's great." Honestly, I have yet to see a single consumer review that even says something as basic as "I've played it for a few hours and it's pretty good." Nearly all the positive comments I see toward the game are like yours telling the dissenters to shut up cause the review they watched said it was good.
Easy. Give the franchise to a terrible gaming studio with a record of producing shitty titles. Honestly, I can't understand why they didn't just give it to Platinum Games. Anarchy Reigns and Bayonetta were incredibly fun to play.Adam Jensen said:
Actually, no. We're talking about Ninja Theory's writing. Ninja Theory developed this game, Capcom only published it.Archemetis said:
I actually think the rest of the writing team stopped Taneem, and that's why it's so different to his "videogames can tell serious stories" shite. They took one look at the script and said "Dude, we can't run this as it is, give the script to us and we can turn it into a more comical approach."
That's what I think anyway.
That's what I think anyway.
Well said.Sylveria said:
From my experience with it it was a pretty awful game.
The combat was slow and boring without much variation with just about every fight being one by spamming and grappling everything. The game seemed ridiculously easy on Nephilim difficulty with nothing really raising a challenge. The writing for the game was god awful and it seemed to be trying so hard to make Dante seem like a gruff badass whilst often failing to reach this.
The aesthetics of the game at some parts looked really nice and I enjoyed the shifting environments at some points as they added a nice effect.
The combat was slow and boring without much variation with just about every fight being one by spamming and grappling everything. The game seemed ridiculously easy on Nephilim difficulty with nothing really raising a challenge. The writing for the game was god awful and it seemed to be trying so hard to make Dante seem like a gruff badass whilst often failing to reach this.
The aesthetics of the game at some parts looked really nice and I enjoyed the shifting environments at some points as they added a nice effect.
Well this thread is clearly full of people who don't understand spoiler tags so here, quote me to see how you do it:
OT: The games decent. Fairly easy though, I went straight on hard and I think I've died once, and that's because of my own stupidity.
Really. I've had shit spoiled. The game got delivered to me today and I'm only 3 hours in. Not amused. Use tags.
OT: The games decent. Fairly easy though, I went straight on hard and I think I've died once, and that's because of my own stupidity.
I want no more spoilers.Rocklobster99 said:
BUt I must say you missed out the butchery of Sparda. Sparda got captured and exiled by some demons? Fucking really? Because the rest of the series myhtos has Sparda as a nigh-unstoppable killing machine.
Very disappointing to see The Escapist has given this polished turd a pass. I've known it would come to this since the debut trailer for this game first came out. I REFUSE to support Capcom with my money by paying for this gutted, pandering, hackjob that thinks it's my beloved Devil May Cray. Fuck Capcom and fuck Ninja Theory. I'm playing Bayonetta 2.
CAPCOM didn't write or develop it, those are both on NT. Secondly, while the DMC series wasn't exactly Planescape Torment, it was self-aware enough to not take itself too seriously so you could laugh WITH it instead of AT it and the characters at least had some charm and were likable. This...this tries SO HARD to be taken seriously and FAILS at every turn. NT's version of Dante is like Travis Touchdown played straight and as such he comes off as a complete twat-racket.Archemetis said:
I totally agree with you man. I'd have been fine if this was just "Angel/Demon Protagonist game #473" and classed as a new IP. But rail-roading the Devil May Cry franchise and abandoning the games that already exist just feels wrong. I was looking forward to an actual Devil May Cry 5 and I'd have bought it, so would new people to the franchise but it looks like I won't get that long awaited sequel now, at least not for a very. very long time. Sad really. Everyone could've got what they wanted fan-boy or no, but sadly it just hasn't turned out that way.DragonWright said:
Its a better game than the last at least in trems of game play and in that it might be the best, difficulty is so so and the new design is stupidly annoying.Its a begrudging 7 if that. That is all......
Well. Finally played the damn thing. It surprises me that I don't hate it as much as I thought it would. Though that's like saying a root canal only hurt slightly ass much as you expected.
The game is okay. Not the complete flop fan boys expected it to be. But my god, this has no business calling itself a Devil May Cry game. All the fun has been sucked out of what story the franchise had, and fucked over the combat quite a bit.
I'd give this a pass.
Yeah. People use that one scene a lot to say DMC's writing wasn't much to write home about in the first place. But thst's one overly dramatic scene that makes up 1% of all the cutscenes.
The game is okay. Not the complete flop fan boys expected it to be. But my god, this has no business calling itself a Devil May Cry game. All the fun has been sucked out of what story the franchise had, and fucked over the combat quite a bit.
I'd give this a pass.
Yay for original thoughts...Danial said:
Yeah. People use that one scene a lot to say DMC's writing wasn't much to write home about in the first place. But thst's one overly dramatic scene that makes up 1% of all the cutscenes.
I probably should have mentioned that I did play it beginning to end, pretty much the perks you get for having a cousin whose second job is to get early access to games in order to review them.Aiddon said:
I merely mentioned the bad story because this is Ninja Theory (Fact: Fans of the game pre-release even voted that they cared more about the story then the gameplay, a weird fact indeed...), you'd think they would have hired a good writer like they did their previous titles but no. Not to mention DMC's story in general was never anything to brag about but at least some of its previous title's stories were simple, this ones is trying too hard to be something revolutionary and ends up hopping the bandwagon of all cliches.
Funny you mention MG Rising, I played that demo and I can honestly say I have the feeling it'll turn out great. Sure the being able to cut anything and everything isn't original but what Rising has that the DMC reboot lacks is the fun. I got nostalgic DMC3 chills when I played Rising, not only that but DMC's original creator is directing it, and the combat is not only fluid its also fast. I can only imagine the possibilities when it comes to the challenge it will bring.
Sometimes its wise to do research and get an idea before you spend your small fortune of 60$ after all.
Actually Rising isn't being directed by Kamiya (he isn't even REMOTELY involved in development) as he's already directing The Wonderful 101. Still, it is looking good so far and even the demo seems to trounce this...THING'S attempts at gameplay.Xcell935 said:
It's one example of many, Capcom games have the same ideas towards writing as Jimmy Savile had towards the year 6 netball team i.e. nothing good. DMC 1-4 all contained some really awful writing and in 2 of the games terrible stories (2/4), I'm an undying fan of DMC3, its one of the best games ever made and also holds one of my only ever real achievements in a game (finished on DMD mode) but as good as the main story was, the writing to get their was in parts teeth gratingly awful ("This Party's getting CHRAZEH! lets rock!").Shadowstar38 said:
DmC, from the 3 hours i have played is...Not a great deal better story/Writing wise I'll admit, and doesn't hold a candle too 3, It so far feels like a good solid 7/10 game, But people are comparing it to the old games and holding them up as pure bastions of greatness that are being besmirched by the fact that one out of context scene and the fact that Dante looks different, I cant in any way shape or form see why people hate this and still defend DMC2, which was genuinely terrible.
Its a good game, It's not as good as Bayonetta or DMC3, or possibly MGSR (i refuse to call it Revengence, that is not a real word) but its hardly a 0/10 abortion that the people who, as far as i can work out have mostly not bothered playing the damn thing) seem to think, but then again holding fan review meta critic marks as anything other than a /v/ Revenge kick is usually a bad idea.
While I'm not disagreeing with the bulk of your post, please realise that when I wrote my post, not once did I say that Capcom developed or wrote this iteration of DMC.Aiddon said:
What I did say, in case it wasn't very clear was that people were complaining about the writing by comparing it to the previous games, which were developed and written by Capcom who I was quick to remind everyone can't write for toffees.