DmC review thread - If you see an old school DmC fan, shoot on sight

[chronovore]

God damnit, I just came here to post that.

I dropped in the random gaming thread before peeking here.  :'(

I'd play that if it were an alternate skin, but the VO wouldn't match.

[Don Flamenco]

best gif ever

[demi]

Its from a youtube I believe

[Don Flamenco]

"I dig the first one. It's obviously a nod to The Crow, but it looks pretty cool on its own. Plus its got a long cloth, which you can see on his right hip -- and the chuck taylors are a nice touch."  -- ezekial45 on gaf, general of the DmC defense force

[Don Flamenco]

 “If Dante, dressed as he was, walked into any bar outside of Tokyo, he’d get laughed out. What Devil May Cry did when it launched was it brought everything that was great about action cinema like the fashion, music — it was like a cultural melting pot — and I feel like now, for Devil May Cry to have that same impact, it needs to draw on new things. New music, new ways of cinematography, new fashion.”   -- Tameem


(they would both get laughed out of bars...well Donte would fit into a certain kind of bar, perhaps)

[Don Flamenco]

He's a videogame character, who cares if he walks into a real life bar cause that won't ever happen.

in my fanfic, they both will. 

[demi]

-- Don Flamenco on the bore, general of the twisted panties over a shitty game brigade

[Mr. Gundam]

I have some store credit at Fred Meyer that I need to use up soon, so I'll probably take one for the team and pick this up.

[Steve Contra]

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best gif ever

That's so perfect.  I was playing the demo just mashing buttons like an idiot and I got a SSS.

[headwalk]

i want to play a stinky fat guy in a vest.

[Don Flamenco]

-- Don Flamenco on the bore, general of the twisted panties over a shitty game brigade

my panties are fine.  the train wreck surrounding the game is just hilarious.   

this must be the party Dante in DMC3 was talking about.

[archie4208]

3edgy5me

[mjemirzian]

$4.99 for the PC version on a steam sale

and that's being generous

[Beezy]

Yeah... I'm passing on this. It might actually be a good/decent game, but it's no DMC.

[demi]

If you guys have such a hardon for the DMCs, just get the collection. What's the big deal?

[Positive Touch]

the tears have already made this game worth it

[demi]

Here you go dudes, only $16 and you can play with your nostalgia riddled ovaries.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874129031

[demi]

I really want to get this game, but I also don't want to plunk down $60. And Ni No Kuni is out next week.

All the DMC people on GAF seem to be enjoying it. Flamenco found typing furiously in anger on Capcom's board.

[Momo]

Spend your money on Anarchy Reigns instead

[Don Flamenco]

I really want to get this game, but I also don't want to plunk down $60. And Ni No Kuni is out next week.

All the DMC people on GAF seem to be enjoying it. Flamenco found typing furiously in anger on Capcom's board.

I don't hate it that much.  There are worse action games out there!  Seems like it's a step above God of War, but I'd really have to play it on the hardest difficulties to see if it's balanced. 

but yeah, not $60 good.  More of a summer drought kind of game, when it's cheap and there's nothing new coming out.

[demi]

Spend your money on Anarchy Reigns instead

No thanks, lol.

[bork]

I really want to get this game, but I also don't want to plunk down $60. And Ni No Kuni is out next week.

All the DMC people on GAF seem to be enjoying it. Flamenco found typing furiously in anger on Capcom's board.

I bet it's going to get discounted within a month anyway.

Spend your money on Anarchy Reigns instead

+1

[bork]

Watched some of the walkthrough on YouTube. I might buy the PC version a few weeks after release. I really need to know if there are visual improvements.

I thought it was already known that the console versions run at 30 FPS and the PC version will be running at 60 FPS?

[Sho Nuff]

hahaha oh god dat Enslaved ending

[Mr. Gundam]

hahaha oh god dat Enslaved ending

Seriously.

[maxy]

Gaming Age - B+

Destructoid - 9/10 A beautiful, bold, and supremely enjoyable videogame in its own right. It deserves to be praised...Action games may come deeper and harder than this, but few are as pleasurable.

Gamespot - 8/10 DmC succeeds both in its story and in its brilliant combat, and it looks the business too, despite a few minor glitches and the more colour-soaked levels looking like they've spent a little too much time in an Instagram filter.

IGN - 8.9/10 360 version | 8.5/10 PS3 version Long-time Devil May Cry fans unsure of Ninja Theory's treatment can abandon their fears. DmC hurls Dante into a newer, better world, complete with a glorious combat system and enough style to make old Dante proud.

EGM - 9.5/10 DmC is everything a reboot should be-confident, thoughtful, and brazenly unafraid to sacrifice a few sacred cows along the way. For all the backlash they've had to face, developer Ninja Theory has delivered the most polished, refreshing, and memorable hack-and-slash experience in recent memory.

1UP - A Ninja Theory's reboot is brazen, fast, and devilishly clever

Edge - 8/10 This is the best entry in its genre since Bayonetta, and might just be the best game Ninja Theory has made to date.

Eurogamer - 8/10 Ninja Theory has absolutely nailed the leading man and the combat system - by far the most important things - and DmC is clearly a labour of love, a tribute as well as a new beginning.

Gametrailers - 8.5/10 Ninja Theory has done right by Devil May Cry, delivering a striking game that honors the series' essence while still feeling like the product of a distinct vision. If you can forgive a few excesses--like the pretty-but-toothless boss fights--you'll find that your old friend hasn't changed all that much on the inside, in spite of his new style.

Thesixaxis - 7/10
It’s obvious why long time fans of Devil May Cry had concerns about the reboot of the series but Ninja Theory have done a lovely job with taking over the reigns. It’s certainly not without its issues, and at this stage in a generation you feel like a game should probably be wielding more graphical clout, but the game’s combat more than makes up for it. It’s simply brilliant, and you can have a lot of fun trying out the different options it presents you. Once Dante’s picked up every weapon there’s simply so much available to you, and it’s what sets the game apart.

PSNation - A- Even with some weird yet minor issues, ‘DmC: Devil May Cry’ is a really good game. I’d say that Ninja Theory have done a great job with rebooting the franchise, and have definitely earned some props with this one. Even with the ridiculous end-boss (thanks to Phil Kollar for revealing the obvious to me), DmC should satisfy anyone looking for an over-the-top, action-packed experience with an amazing flair for the cinematic.

Adam Sessler's Review - 3/5

Gameinformer - 9/10

Famitsu - 34/40 9/8/9/8

OXM UK - 9/10 (Not 100% confirmed yet)

X360 Magazine UK - 9/10

https://twitter.com/zombryn/status/285376208567402496

https://twitter.com/zombryn/status/285835930781220866

LEVEL (Swedish game magazine) - 9/10

[Don Flamenco]

welp, we've got our new DmC series. 

[Mr. Gundam]

welp, we've got our new DmC series.

Seems that way.

[maxy]

welp, we've got our new DmC series.

 

[Mr. Gundam]

I've got some store credit that I need to use at a local store very soon, so I'll probably buy this with it.

Also, surprised Red Box isn't carrying DmC.

[Don Flamenco]

I don't care; I have loads of good action games to play.  cause that's what made the old DMC games good--infinitely replayable and deep combat.  This shit will be yesterday's news in 2 weeks after all the bros 1000 it.   Then the sequel will come out and be the same damn thing.  In 10 years, people will still be discussing the old DMC games fondly and this focus-group diarrhea will be known as the period when the series completely went to shit.   So yeah, this game can fuck off because of how little I care

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I do care  :'(

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but I will have my Revengeance in February

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[Mr. Gundam]

But there's the thing: we play these games for different reasons.

I don't replay games, I don't obsess over deep combat. I play through them, beat them and then move on to the next game.

If the reviews are true and this is a good game, I probably won't even notice. This sounds different than Front Mission getting westernized and losing the point.

[Don Flamenco]

But there's the thing: we play these games for different reasons.

I don't replay games, I don't obsess over deep combat. I play through them, beat them and then move on to the next game.

If the reviews are true and this is a good game, I probably won't even notice. This sounds different than Front Mission getting westernized and losing the point.

yeah, i know, i know.  but I do play these games for the reasons above, so it's a loss of a series for me--actually it's a loss of a pillar for an entire genre, which is why a lot of wacky fans are pissed.  I'm not going to tell people not to play this or that they're bad for liking it.  It's all business decisions at the end of the day and old DMC can't market itself in the current, shall we say..."consumer climate."

If Revengeance weren't coming out next month, I'd be a lot more pissed.

[demi]

I linked you to the collection above. Pay your $16 and wriggle your joystick in glee.

[Don Flamenco]

why would i not already have that?   I bought about or 5 days before release when Gamestop randomly decided to start selling it early. cause i was up on that, cause the internet and the clerkstress was all "how did you know we were selling it? I just put these out a little bit ago." and I was all "the internet, baby, the internet." 

[demi]

I figured you have been putting so much energy flapping your arms over DmC you would have forgot.

[Don Flamenco]

I actually had never played the games before and I only got the collection so I could be on the snob side of the hate equation with DmC. 

[chronovore]

I actually had never played the games before and I only got the collection so I could be on the snob side of the hate equation with DmC.

Well-played, Don. Well-played.

[brob]

looks perfunctory and absentminded. sucks that devil may cry got sacrificed because capcom suits don't care, but at least we got three great games out of the series. Having played some of ninja theory's output it seems they excel more at smaller scale, non-combat focused things (enslaved DLC), hope they return to that in the future - maybe they could make a DLC for the side-kick character in this game.

[Steve Contra]

hahaha oh god dat Enslaved ending

Yeah...

[Don Flamenco]

Got it for $37 and get $3 gmg credit with it...welp

[Rahxephon91]

The giantbomb review was pretty shitty.

It's almost wholly successful at what it tries to do, and seems like the start of a promising new direction for what was otherwise a nearly forgotten franchise.

Brad seems to think his and Giantbombs view's of disinterest in the franchise meant that the series was "nearly forgotten". But what? DMC4 was the highest selling one, Dante has become a popular character in MvC3, and the uproar about this new one would say otherwise. It's quite possibly the stupidest thing to say here.

[fistfulofmetal]

its pretty clear that the general games media is pretty ignorant towards the DMC series in general. GB themselves proclaims their disinterest in the series many a times. So this review means nothing to me and so does the others. If anything it only makes me less interested in playing this.

[Stoney Mason]

lol. Some bitter tears all up in this thread.

[Don Flamenco]

[Stoney Mason]

lol at the Patrick line.

Like I said I'm mainly trolling in this thread. These type of games really aren't for me. The only game in this genre I really like is Bayonetta and that's because of how cool it makes me feel rather than any specific gameplay component. I'm much more likely to play this DMC than I would have been to play the series in the past, but I'll wait for a cheap steam sale on it.

[mjemirzian]

but I'll wait for a cheap steam sale on it.

Hater! 

[tiesto]

Not sure if I'm ready to trust the western gaming press but... this actually turned out good? Color me surprised.

[MCD]

The old DMC fanbase should be grateful this didn't get the NG3 hamburger treatment.

[Don Flamenco]

i just thought the chances of it being good were pretty low.  HS and Enslaved are garbage action games. So bad, that it was inconceivable they were even capable of making a good action game. 

[Beezy]

- Music is worse, which is saying something.

Thanks for confirming what we all thought.

[demi]

Wrath has always said it looked shit. Thanks for convincing us.

Haters form one line, people who dont give a shit in the other please

[Don Flamenco]

- Music is worse, which is saying something.

Shootie HG redeemed





(yes, that's the guy behind such great hits as "Angry DMC3 Battle Music," "Angry DMC4 Battle Music," and the Chocobo song from FFXIII-2

edit: holy shit, fighting game stream fans-- that's UltraDavid with dreads 

[maxy]

So this is shaping into another Bayonetta 2 thing?

[mjemirzian]

The mechanics and scoring are relatively simplified, shallow, easy, low skill cap, etc. It's perfectly possible to play Bayo, DMC, NG, at a low skill level and have fun mashing away. Those games having a higher skill cap or greater difficulty modes doesn't impact them in any way. Conversely, while it's possible to play a high skill cap game in a low skill manner and still have fun on an easier difficulty level, it's not possible to do the opposite in a low skill cap, low difficulty game. It's very immature of these reviewers to backlash against legitimate complains about the combat mechanics by name calling and chest-beating about how proudly casual they are, etc.

The game itself looks like a decent masher up there with GoW, it's mostly the clueless idiot reviewers that annoy me.

[cool breeze]

whole situation reminds me of



and didn't the DMC3/4 team work on Dragon's Dogma?

[Rahxephon91]

They did in fact work on Dragon's Dogma. And hey now they are free to work on DD2!

[Don Flamenco]

The mechanics and scoring are relatively simplified, shallow, easy, low skill cap, etc. It's perfectly possible to play Bayo, DMC, NG, at a low skill level and have fun mashing away. Those games having a higher skill cap or greater difficulty modes doesn't impact them in any way. Conversely, while it's possible to play a high skill cap game in a low skill manner and still have fun on an easier difficulty level, it's not possible to do the opposite in a low skill cap, low difficulty game. It's very immature of these reviewers to backlash against legitimate complains about the combat mechanics by name calling and chest-beating about how proudly casual they are, etc.

The game itself looks like a decent masher up there with GoW, it's mostly the clueless idiot reviewers that annoy me.

this shit is pretty annoying.  it's basically self-hating nerd-shaming.  So people who took the time to learn the combat in the previous games are just dorks who spend too much time with video games.  Spending time learning games is a waste of time people should be ashamed of.  And calling for certain base standards in a genre?  lol go comb your neckbeard, you fedora-wearing beta loser. 

But paying $60 to spend about 10 hours playing an easy game that gives you the illusion of being good while delivering a plot not even worthy of a B-movie (yet with millions of dollars of production value thrown at it) is somehow reasonable and normal.  Basically, the marketing worked to convince everyone that DMC was obscure, outdated, and completely esoteric + hardcore to figure out. 

and then there's this shit nugget from Digital Foundry of all places:

Overall, it's pleasantly surprising to see DmC working as well as it does at 30 frames per second, proving that high-speed action titles don't necessarily demand a 60Hz lock. That said, we're particularly looking forward to playing the upcoming PC version, where players can hopefully enjoy all the sumptuous visuals of the console versions at much higher resolutions, with the 60FPS response fully restored - something that hardcore fans will almost certainly appreciate."

yes, lower the bar some more and make 60fps a "hardcore" thing.  That'll give all the devs next gen an excuse to push so many effects that their gorgeous game will either tear + stutter to death at unstable 20fps or have the world's tiniest FOV. 

[hampster]

Thank you Typographenia on GAF

[Don Flamenco]

60fps PC vid:

http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_devil_may_cry_pc_gameplay_2-29277_en.html