DmC: Devil May Cry “fans” are a crying shame

I don’t wanna be the bastard that actually pushes this over into 500 comments. I feel like there’s no coming back from that. So someone, please, take the hit!

Okay.

Yes!I bet that there would be exactly 500 comments….MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA….oh wait.

all on one card. just bet everything you got on 600 now;)

Well, if Brenna would come to answer us, we could reach over 1 000… or maybe… over 9 000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

This site seems like it has bad history between a lot of the community… Not too appealing when combined with this hate-filled article.

@504 I don’t think the article is hatefilled at all, I think it’s a direct response to a hatefilled group of gamers.

At most, this is Brenna going “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!”

Good call on the soap opera community though.

I’d love to say “Well, this was entertaining”, but it doesn’t seem to end.

you know what guys? i think devil may cry fans are a crying shame.

I read every single comment on this article. I have cancer now. Ow, my cancer…

@508 Sorry Dave. It’s all my fault. =(

By the way, the game is awesome.

So I’ve heard! Waiting on the PC version!

Good thing Metal Gear Rising is coming out next month so this piece of garbage can be forgotten.
Oh and it’s not just the white hair, here’s why.
-awful protagonists (The main villain is more likable)
-slow combat
-easy bosses
-terrible dialogue
-rip off story of they live
-offensive, especially to women (Kills the Lilith’s fetus, let’s her notice this, then kills her while grinning; Dante doesn’t even ask about this)
-Okay Music
-Dumb AI enemies
-Unnecessary cussing
-Cut scenes in battle
-Enemies can only be hurt in certain ways or with certain weapons
-Easy as hell even on the hardest difficulty
-Ending that made Mass Effect 3 look like the Odyssey
-Vergil/Final boss is such an easy fight
-By the way Ninja Theory are shit writers (Alex Garlands and another outside writer practically rewrote both of their games for them)

In other words I had more fun unclogging my toilet than with this game, it was also less shitty than the game too.

But besides all those points above here’s a quote from you which pretty much makes you sound like a dumb cunt since it’s pretty much why the fans are mad about DmC.

“Ever since the Tomb Raider reboot was announced, apparently a re-skinning of a survival horror Crystal Dynamics had been pitching for ages, I’ve tried to keep quiet about it. Because it looked ruddy awful to me – lacking everything I’d loved and appreciated in the series to date, and a total betrayal of a character I’d held close to my heart for a substantial portion of my formative years. There. I’ve said it. Tomb Raider, from reveal to reveal, has looked like nothing but utter rubbish, and I have been quietly anticipating giving it a critical savaging of such righteous fury that brand manager Karl Stewart will have to put his laptop in the freezer and cry himself to sleep. I’m not a very nice person, I’m afraid, especially where “my” games are concerned.”

You just named all the reasons fans don’t like the DmC reboot.
But you can go on with your shit game, it’s your $60.
Meanwhile i’ve got anarchy reigns and the new MGR coming.

Anyone wants to bet that this guy never played the game?

Complaining about the writing and then being totally in favor for MGR? Really?

I played DMC3 and DMC4 some time ago. The series did not impress me, but the concept of setting and title hero were funny and impressive. Re-rendition is visually horrible, and at this point I stopped caring about writing, gameplay or anything. I do not want and will not “try DmC: Devil May Cry, because it’s a good video game”, because it does not appeal to me at all and I will not give sixty (or how much it costs) bucks to check if I’m wrong. Grow up, Brenna Hillier. It’s a world of expensive TOYS we play with to entertain ourselves in the first place, and art – in the second. Industry did it this way, and neither “vocal minority”, nor “voiceless majority” will react without considering this fact consciously or unconsciously. And when it goes for MONEY – both me and that guy whom I hate because I am racist homophobic vocal minority will consider if this product WORTH my (or his/hers/its) money. Not WE must be worth the product, the PRODUCT must – technically, visually and narratively. And we all have the right to tell the word how do we hate when our toys are replaced with weird lameness.

I was always holding the position of moving forward, radical changes, experiments and evolution. But what we have here is taking original DMC, cloning it (maybe talently cloning it, I don’t care), and then slapping a logo on it. This is unforgivable in the same way as BioWare lies or idiotic journalistic outrage about Tomb Raider “rape attempt” in the trailer.

Have any of you people heard of RENTING?

@515 – Renting still costs money. Money this game doesn’t deserve, if the demo was any indication.

And what exactly is wrong with MGR? It’s a completely respectful take on the character and works within the established canon, and, most importantly, plays awesomely, if the demo is any indication. I am super excited for Metal Gear Rising. I don’t see how any fan of the series (which you have admitted to no longer being) could not be.

@516: “Renting still costs money. Money this game doesn’t deserve, if the demo was any indication.”

Yawn.

“It’s a completely respectful take on the character”

LAWL. Yeah, totally respectful. Remember how Raiden said in MGS2 how he loved ALL THE BLOOD AND THE GUTS AND THE KILLING? Me neither. All that criticism about the ‘new’ Dante, yet you seem to be oblivious to something so obvious? How does that even work?

“I don’t see how any fan of the series (which you have admitted to no longer being) could not be.”

I think that’s the difference between you and me, you seem to like your favorite franchise to be stuck in the same place over and over again. I’d like to see it improve.

MGS is a series that desperately needs better writing and i’m not seeing it here.

I’ll play the demo as soon as it’ss out and it will hopefully turn my opinion around, but it went from hate, to giving it a doubt, to like, to hate again.

To be honest, the gameplay doesn’t even look that good anymore. Seems to be hit-hit-cut-hit-hit-cut. Kind of boring.

Let’s not even talk about the bland art-direction and the horrendous voice-acting. And what’s up with that facial animation? Is that all Platinum Games can do, because it’s ALWAYS in their games.

And if the recent trailer is any indication the writing will turn me off AGAIN and Hideo isn’t even attached. How is that even possible? One must wonder if anyone at KojiPro has heard the word “subtle”.

You seem to be forgetting that Raiden’s Jack the Ripper personality was being held in check by the SOP system. Solidus was trying his best to bring that back out in Raiden. He was so adept at killing as a child soldier his nickname in Liberia was The White Devil. That certainly sounds like someone who isn’t mentally all there, even if he managed to suppress it over the years, with help from the Patriots’ technology.

As for the recent trailer, didn’t watch it. I don’t want any spoilers for the game.

I think that’s the difference between you and me, you seem to like your favorite franchise to be stuck in the same place over and over again. I’d like to see it improve.

If one of my favorite franchises does things I like, yes, I want it to continue to do those things. The only time Kojima tried doing new things was MGS2 and that game is a disaster. The only game in the series I don’t like at all.

Also, you do realize you’re bitching about a lack of subtly in a game starring A BREAKDANCING CYBORG NINJA KILLING MACHINE FROM THE FUTURE!!!

Take some time and think about that, for a moment.

clupula…no offense…it’s just kind of funny. i seem to almost always disagree with you. completley different taste in games.

@520 – Happens. If everybody was into the same games, we wouldn’t need as many as we have.

agreed

@518: Could be, don’t remember. The story always has been a disaster. But bearing your logic in mind, shouldn’t he go completely berserk the moment the SOP System broke down? What took him so long? I remember that scene from MGS4 where all the psc starting shitting and pissing their pants and fighting each other. And if remember correctly, Solidus only tortured him. He didn’t seem to be too interested in bringing Jack the Ripper back. “Time to let it rip!” Lawl.

“his nickname in Liberia was The White Devil. That certainly sounds like someone who isn’t mentally all there”

He got that nickname because of skin color and because he was good at killing. That’s also something he needed to be.

If you haven’t seen the recent trailer, it’s no wonder you don’t understand my concerns. The dialog and voice-acting is crunch-worthy. Really. Really. Really bad. I’m not trolling.

It doesn’t spoil anything important, so you can go and check it out. There is a reason why i stopped being optimistic after that trailer.

“The only time Kojima tried doing new things was MGS2 and that game is a disaster.”

The only time? No, it wasn’t the only time. He tried a lot of other things, especially in MGS4, which was also a disaster.

@519: I was talking about the writing. And fuck that kind of lazy argument anyway.

@523

Platinum kinda has more pedigree and ‘money in the bank’ with people ‘gameplay wise’ then NT did with DmC, no?

Gameplay in this kind of game is king.

I mean, Heavenly Sword, Enslaved & DmC, hardly the same league is it?

@532 – I liked MGS4, for the most part. I didn’t like a lot of Ryan Peyton-influences (like taking out the requirement to heal individual body parts that MGS3 had), but overall, it was a solid (HA!) game. The only part I disliked, really, was the last chapter, which felt too much like MGS2 to me. The other parts, the Middle East, Europe, and especially the South America chapter? Loved them.

I just wish watching trailers beforehand hadn’t spoiled the Rex vs. Ray battle for me.

@524: At least with DmC NT has shown that they can improve as a developer. The gameplay is as fun and fluid as in the previous games. I can’t wait to see what they do with DmC 2.

Platinumgames has yet to prove that they are able to deliver a game that matters story-wise.

@525: Naw. It wasn’t a game at all. 11 hours of cutscenes, with extremely short and linear gameplay sections in between. I think the longest level was in Europe, but only because you had to follow that slow, whistling idiot.

It had the worst bosses in MGS history and the worst fanservice. But the weapons were great and the gameplay was superior to the previous games. Why MGS3 didn’t allow you to crouch-walk is beyond me.

@526 – considering the sales of the game, I think it’s safe to say there won’t be a sequel from them.

And the gameplay is nowhere near as fun nor fluid as the previous games. It is an improvement on Ninja Theory’s previous games, but that’s a very low bar to cross over.

@523 “shouldn’t he go completely berserk the moment the SOP System broke down? What took him so long?”

The influence of his family and determination to avoid fighting in wars again kept it in check. But when he was pretty much forced into combat when the guy he was protecting got killed, well…

@527: Dunno about you, but last time i checked, DmC #1 this week. It’s only been out for 6 days so far. We might be able to talk in a few months, until then, stop looking desperate.

@528: Avoid fighting? He wanted to avoid fighting? So why did he join a private security company? Someone who wants to avoid fights usually isn’t looking for a job that gets him into a fight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e23c_HDPo7Y#t=01m06s

Here’s what’s missing from DmC. Here’s why I’m disappointed. If DmC truly does get this superb on the technical level, a re-evaluation is in order. But I haven’t seen it yet. And this pretty much boils down the actual reasons behind the anger, beyond the above-mentioned vocal minority of allegedly Cheeto-covered slobs. On the surface it appears to be Devil May Cry, but it lacks in the areas that drew so many to the series. No one wanted any of that to go away, and yet it did. DmC might excite me as a game, if it wasn’t trying to be Devil May Cry, and thus marking the end of the old ways. Once again, the game is young, and it may come out that it’s not so different after all. But right now, when I look at DmC, I don’t see Devil May Cry. It may wear the same face, but it’s just not the same game. “Not in a million years,” as the new fella says. (Then again, he went back on that with the DLC costumes, so perhaps he’ll go back on the rest as well… Only time will tell.)

Are we still pretending the DmC story is good?

It’s good.

@529 He got a job as private security because a) It was basically the only thing he was qualified for and b) Because he assumed that by guarding some guy in a backwater nation that hadn’t seen war for years (and was quite frankly sick of fighting) would be a nice, quiet job.

Until the game began all he’d have to do to scare off would-be assassins would be to cut up some things and block some bullets. A serious, well-armed and well-organized threat would have been unthinkable.

@533: He could be a tour guide for people in NY. And Rose already had a great job. Why does he need to work at all? He could be a stay at home dad. Taking care of little boyscout Jack.

You know, a modern man!

Why didn’t he just choose to protect a celebrity? It’s less dangerous than working for an official in a backwater nation.

@534 Raiden, a person with absolutely shit people skills and massive PTSD over being a child soldier, brainwashed and lied to most of his life, getting captured and reduced to the top half of a head by the Patriots, then getting absolutely fucked physically over the course of MGS4, working as a tour guide? Are you fucking joking?

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Rose (a psychological councilor specializing in soldiers with PTSD) was the one who told him to get the security guard job in the first place, since the guy Raiden was protecting was trying to rebuild the war-torn country Raiden grew up as a child soldier in. Get him to feel like he was helping to atone for his past sins and be proud over helping people.

@535: He would be an excellent tourguide. Remember how he and Rose met for the first time? She was wrong, he was right!

And Rose is mentally unstable herself, so the dumbest thing Raiden could do, is to actually listen to her.

“THERE WAS NOTHING IN YOUR ROOM! IT’S JUST AS EMPTY AS YOUR HEART, CONSUME MORE STUFF!”

@536 Because anything that happened in MGS2 is completely trustworthy, right? I mean its not like things went completely batshit towards the end with insane AI phonecalls, fake game over screens, running around naked, and other mindscrews right?

Oh, wait.

And somehow I don’t think its a good idea to let a cyborg supersoldier with a questionable grip on sanity be in charge of a group of civilians.

“And over here is Federal Hall, where you might remember a few…few…SOLIDUS!”

Next thing you know, there’s tourist bodies everywhere.

@537: She was batshit insane right from the get-go.

“I’m sure you’re busy saving the president and all that funky stuff, but do you remember what day tomorrow is?”

Right from the get-go.

And i think that would be awesome! Imagine they made a game out of that, with tourists approaching Raiden asking him if it was Godzilla who climbed that building or King Kong. And you’d have to answer those questions fast, or otherwise people would think you’re a mouthbreathing idiot and pay you less money.

Plus, there was the whole “killing a current president and a former one” thing.

Somehow, I doubt if you kill George W. Bush in a swordfight they allow you to get a tour guide job.

And you need the money to make sure little Jack has the best education, food and security money can provide. You’re a caring, loving, cyborg ninja father and you’re on your own, because Rose is in a mental facility for batshit insane girlfriends and she can’t help you.

@540 Exactly.

Somehow I doubt that Raiden would be too welcome in the US anymore.

…

Maybe thats why the police were trying to kill him in that MGR gameplay video?

@541 That made me laugh my ass off.

LOL @ people trying to rationalise the MGS story. You care far more about it’s continuity and logic (I use the term loosely in this case) than Kojima ever did.

@541 That was hilarious

Thank you, gentlemen. :3

@541 Haha!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/01/22/upset-dmc-fans-are-entitled-because-thats-what-we-call-people-who-complain-about-video-games/
So this is a thing.

Ooooooh SNAP Brenna, he done called you out. It’s on, girlfriend.

I’m just gonna leave this boombox right here… And if you should both feel the need to bust a move, and settle this like awesome 1980′s teenagers, just do it.. Just do it.

… Just do it.