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I think in order to save DMC, first of all we need to get rid of this bunch of new "fans" of the game who started gaming 5 years ago and their first DMC was DMC4. CRAPCOM and Ninja Theory are trying to appeal to these casual noobs and killing the franchise as a result. I really hate it when someone comes along and praises the new DmC. These people only like it because the game has been severely dumbed down to appeal to them and the new "Donte" swears like a brat.

Do you know what i find hilarious about this whole situation. Ho DMC4 is now brilliant despite it getting blasted to shite by the 'fans' when it first came out.

I'm a fan and i'm going to withold my judgement on the game untill i've sat down and played through it, instead of the alternative which is you know, being a colossal bitch.

No i don't have to spend £40 to find out if its any good. I'm perfectly capable of walking down the road and renting it for £5.

Fair enough. you didn't like the demo. If you want a game similar to old Devil May Cry there's always Bayonetta its the game DMC4 should of been in everything but name and its not like Capcom are going to destroy every last copy of the old series as soon s DmC comes out. You dont like it. don't play it. You want something like it gameplay wise, there are other alternatives.

I just don't understand the hate.

I played the demo and i thought it was alright. i liked the stuff with the environments shifting. the combat was different but quite fluid and fun once you got used to it. On the unlocked difficulty it was quite challenging and i'm looking forward to giving the full game a go.

Its basically about how you carry yourself. online and in the real world. You can either be level headed and reserve judgement untill you have all the facts or you can be a child and whinge about something you dont fully understand. Your choice mate.

I can't stand the "fans" of the new game or the people who are apathetic towards the entire situation that act as if it's criminal to voice an opinion on a franchise you've been playing for a decade...especially when the developer behind the game could give two shits about fan opinion or anyone's opinion other than their own. Especially when the publisher behind the game is only creating the game with a more Western flavor to sell more than the 4.5m units DMC4 sold.

When can we expect "Developers can be proper assholes"?

All I will say if the game bombs I expect to read in articles either:

- Devil May Cry is outdated.

- It came out too close to Metal Gear Revengeance.

It will never because old school fans told you so and it will be hard for NT to have their hands on another project.

Like I said before Ninja Theory needs to pick up dead series that are more compatible for them like Blood Rayne, P.N 03 or maybe even Splatterhouse which I knew if they did people would have little to no backlash.

Ugh. I have to squeeze my eyes shut and tell my treacherous hand to stay the hell away from links to articles on this game because all that happens is a near endless back-and-forth of purist fans who feel betrayed and other people who either genuinely wanted a different direction or who haven't so much as touched a Devil May Cry game in their life.

Fuck it. Essay time.

I'm going to take a MASSIVE leap away from the nostalgia crowd and come out and say that the original games just weren't all that good. People bang on about the various combos you can pull off but all I ever saw was one or two different combos for each weapon. As a hack-n-slash it was certainly fast but I never felt particularly engaged by it because 90% of all the enemies you fought were all but brain dead and simply watched or crowded around you as you slapped the crap out of their mates.

This is not to say that there weren't parts I enjoyed; some of the bosses were pretty well done and the games are rightly lauded for presenting an entirely seamless transition between gunplay and melee combat. Problem is that the guns are about as useful as a blunt toothpick on any difficulty above easy and my biggest beef with DMC3 was the weakness of the firearms despite the existence of the Gunslinger style (which I actually thought was the best in terms of design). In terms of practicality however the other 3 styles saw much, much more use, whether it was the ability to block, dodge or just being able to do more in melee.

There was also the issue of the writing and my God... it should be no secret (and if you've never caught on then you really need to pay more attention) that Capcom are consistently terrible writers. Dead Rising, Lost Planet, the Resident Evil franchise; all horribly written and Devil May Cry is no different with half-baked, fan-fictiony plots and dialogue so bad I was either cringing or trying my best not to laugh.

Another thing I've never liked about the original series was it's uninspired aesthetic design. I could only go through the same bleak, black Gothic courtyards and hallways so many times before my eyes began to weep for want of something different to look at but when the change in scenery did finally come even then they found some way to make it dull and drab. Ironically I think Devil May Cry 4 was actually the better game (for Dante's segment at least, Nero's basically amounted to 'mash Devil-bringer to win') as it allowed Dante to switch styles on the fly instead of lumbering about a bunch of menus. It was also much, much more colourful and I thought it just might be the one to make me finally invest in the series but nope, I still found the combat dull and the writing was offensively lazy - at least in the previous games they'd actually been trying, but for DMC4 it seemed like they were only feebly reaching for straws that didn't exist.

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If you think by this point that I'm about to defend Ninja Theory's DmC and hail it as the next best thing since sliced bread then boy are you in for a shock. Before I talk shitty-ness though, let's get what little I like out of the way:

I like Dante's new look. It looks grounded, Dante looks like someone you'd see walking through the street on a regular day instead of his awful albino anime pretty-boy alter-ego in Capcom's previous efforts. I didn't think much of it in 2010 mostly because he seemed to be such a scrawny bastard. Honestly, starving children in Africa had more meat on their bones than the 2010 reveal Dante did. His character design since then is much improved (at least in terms of physical appearance). Another thing I like is the overall aesthetic design. The world seems colourful, and the concept and what we've seen of Limbo so far appeals to me. It's psychedelic, but close enough to reality (as far as DmC goes) that it gives the backstory of 'demons control our lives' some more credible backing up when it comes to how it affects gameplay.

Right, here comes full rant:

Gameplay: Sweet Christ in a basket where the hell do I begin? Oh my God NT the controls... uuuggh. It's nice that you want to give us options but have you played your own game even a little? I found myself mixing up buttons and button combinations which performed entirely different functions so frequently that combat was mostly a process of trial and error. The ability to instantly switch between different melee weapons mid-swing, allowing you to chain together more intricate combos is nice but everything else is a bleeding mess. Movement was just about the only thing I could count on that worked while I tried to figure out how to dodge in mid-air.

To those purists who decry the combat as easy: it isn't. The hideous control layout will make it a challenge even against the smallest of foes. I'm not sure whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing. Certainly it'll make the game last longer if you're still figuring out what does what when a massive demonic maggot claws at your face. Platforming-lite also returns and it's as cumbersome and flow-breaking as it ever was, only difference now is that it's got a fancy new aesthetic (an aesthetic I like, but unless it actually makes the platform segments enjoyable then it might as well have returned to Bleak, Black Gothic Castle the Third).

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Narrative: Naturally it's too early at this point to tell whether or not the story will be a winner or a sinker. Ninja Theory proved themselves a master of character driven story with Heavenly Sword and Enslaved so I'm crossing my fingers that at least will be worth paying attention to. Writing on the other hand so far is... disappointing to say the least... come the fuck on Ninja Theory, what happened to the team that crafted characters like Nariko, Monkey and Trip? Clearly they've moved on or weren't invited to the DmC party because instead of a smug cunt I want to slap with a paddle, Dante's now a smug douche I want to smash with a bat and the change is easily for the worse. Some people might argue that his anti-establishment attitude stems from his hatred of the demons that run the world. Some people are too forgiving. A douche at the end of the day is still a douche. Some might have more sympathetic backgrounds than others, but it still doesn't excuse the banal dialogue and frankly infuriating attitude that someone like NT's Dante possesses.

I had high hopes for this when the footage showed in 2011 rolled around. It was a chance for Devil May Cry to be more than just Devil May Cry. It could have risen to the heights of Bayonetta but instead it's just more of the same with a confusing control scheme and an even more unlikeable lead. I can't express in words how much NT have let me down with DmC and come 2013 I predict that this will be one of the misses.

Of course, articles like these which deliberately provoke response from long-standing fans of the original franchise don't help matters either, and honestly, the article writer should be ashamed of himself for writing something that isn't anything other than deliberately inflammatory.

I'm digging the new DmC the demo was fun,I'm definitely buying the full game,DMC 4 was boring & I'm glad they went a different direction with the series & I've played all the DMC's.I was interested in the game when I first saw it over a yr ago & I had faith that the gameplay would be fun despite of people hating on it & now playing the demo has proved to me that it's interesting & fun.