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DmC: Devil May Cry - Ignore the OP/outrage, it's pretty damn good.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    You can rig the dice game. If you buster or snatch the dice it will always land on the number that was facing up when you bustered it. The dice follows a set sequence 1-4-2-6-3-5. Since it moves quite fast, if you are a little slow at reacting but you want 5, snatch after you see 3.
    It doesn't matter what you do to the dice after bustering it, it'll always land on the number you chose.
    So the whole thing isn't even a puzzle. After a while you know which number to buster and you just buster that number.

    Dante aint the only cheat.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    I'm usually not a big fan of the screaming metal but I will admit it goes well with the game. So much that I keep rewatching that trailer.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    This is great.

    With PS+ i barely finish anything anymore. I start the free games and play so slowly that the next wave hits and I totally move on , never to return.

    The only 2 games I got so into I finished were Spec Ops and DmC.

    Very excited to pay for it this time.

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    Monger wrote: »
    I hope so. DmC is probably the most underrated game of last year.
    Shadow Warrior. By a mile.
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    cloudeagle wrote: »
    Devil May Cry 4 is also getting re-released this summer.

    Re-releases for everyone!
    I'm pretty ok with this too!

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Now, if both of these could be confirmed for the PC, that would be great.

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Burnage wrote: »
    Now, if both of these could be confirmed for the PC, that would be great.

    I've already started harassing Capcom and Ninja Theory about that on Twitter. I highly advise everyone else wanting a PC version do the same.

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  • ShinyRedKnightShinyRedKnight Registered User regular
    So is it weird that they're releasing remakes of the reboot and the last installment of the original series?

    Are they literally testing the waters to see which take is more popular for future games? They even separated the two in terms of release dates so as not to cannibalize each other's sales.

    Of course it could be an easy way to just get people to buy more games rather than releasing both on a single disk.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    None of those are really mutually exclusive. Taken together why wouldn't they release them separately? They're separate games after all.
    Ticks all the dots really.

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  • Psychotic OnePsychotic One The Lord of No Pants Parts UnknownRegistered User regular
    I liked the new take on DMC. It was a fresh start for the series. Because really what was left for Dante to do other than keep an eye on the guy that seemingly has his brother's powers/gift.

    That and DMC Mundas was a bad ass and had the best theme ever. The only way he could have been cooler is if Michael Ironside voiced him.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Denying player options is bad.

    That's not denying player options, it's taking away a core tenet of the combat system. That's like saying "we've removed the ability to use swords" is just giving a player options.

    Its all fine and dandy until New Game Plus where you're constantly fighting reds and blues glued to each other and you cant land a blow without the wrong color slapping it away. This change is good news.

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    I kind of miss the cheesy Japanese style and feel of the old games. Will definitely be picking up the special edition to support a return to it.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    I liked the new take on DMC. It was a fresh start for the series. Because really what was left for Dante to do other than keep an eye on the guy that seemingly has his brother's powers/gift.

    That and DMC Mundas was a bad ass and had the best theme ever. The only way he could have been cooler is if Michael Ironside voiced him.

    The series jumps around in time its not like 1-4 are a linear progression. 2 is apparently the final game in the story and that could take place thousands of years after 4

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    I liked the new take on DMC. It was a fresh start for the series. Because really what was left for Dante to do other than keep an eye on the guy that seemingly has his brother's powers/gift.

    That and DMC Mundas was a bad ass and had the best theme ever. The only way he could have been cooler is if Michael Ironside voiced him.

    The series jumps around in time its not like 1-4 are a linear progression. 2 is apparently the final game in the story and that could take place thousands of years after 4

    Yeah, the progression goes 3, 1, 4, 2. I think the general consensus however is that the real progression is 3, 1, 4 and the number 2 was skipped because reasons.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    2 could be the ending for dmc dante. Hes certianly bland enough to be the same character

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    Cantido wrote: »
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Denying player options is bad.

    That's not denying player options, it's taking away a core tenet of the combat system. That's like saying "we've removed the ability to use swords" is just giving a player options.

    Its all fine and dandy until New Game Plus where you're constantly fighting reds and blues glued to each other and you cant land a blow without the wrong color slapping it away. This change is good news.

    I got the impression that it's an option you can toggle. So like, people can keep it on if they want, and not feel like they're losing a big part of the combat system.

    I mean, I know I'mma turn that off...

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    There is no DMC 2. It doesn't exist.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    So is it weird that they're releasing remakes of the reboot and the last installment of the original series?

    Are they literally testing the waters to see which take is more popular for future games? They even separated the two in terms of release dates so as not to cannibalize each other's sales.

    Of course it could be an easy way to just get people to buy more games rather than releasing both on a single disk.

    I'd say it's just a cheap way to get additional revenue now that costs for developing new AAA games are $ludicrous.

    This probably explains the whole "remaster" craze to be honest.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    Burnage wrote: »
    Now, if both of these could be confirmed for the PC, that would be great.

    Hmm, how close was the PC version that already came out to this new version? One would hope they'd just patch this stuff in, but we all know they won't without charging.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Dante's DmC character wasn't that bad...

    In a vacuum.

    But he does sucks nuts when compared to Original Dante. Huge, sweaty demon nuts.

    With no pizza.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    Ehhhh

    DmC Dante is an actual character. Like, he has character development throughout the game. Old school Dante is just a guy who makes sarcastic quips. Not that he was lame or anything, but I thnk Ninja Theory did it better.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Also...I would say Dante didn't start getting really over the top until DMC3.

    He was still sarcastic in 1(never played 2) but it was a lot more subdued.

  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    DMC2 didn't have a character.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    Ehhhh

    DmC Dante is an actual character. Like, he has character development throughout the game. Old school Dante is just a guy who makes sarcastic quips. Not that he was lame or anything, but I thnk Ninja Theory did it better.

    My favorite part of that trailer for the rerelease is that DMC4 is just a footnote at the end of a DmC trailer, and not the other way around

    Also that old Dante just plain doesn't show up anywhere in it

    In my dreams they would go full George Lucas on the DMC4 special edition and insert new Dante in place of the old one, but Capcom is pretty lazy

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    The best thing they could do is alternate between the series every couple of years

    Then everyone could be happy

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  • Vic_HazardVic_Hazard Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    DMC4 has awful writing and the best combat. DMC3 has by far the best story/characters and a really good story by action game standards in general. There is absolutely a character arc to Dante in DMC3.

    DmC has the level design though, and I thought the music was very fitting (I love a game that can can fit its music to the gameplay). The club level is amazing, Dante as a character is alright, Vergil is awful. Not for the "hurf durf he has no honor" ridiculous stuff. Vergil was a great boss/rival/ally in DMC3 because he was an utter badass, in cutscenes he oneshot bosses that killed me over and over, and every boss fight with him was the epitome of epic character action boss fights. Vergil in DmC hides and sneaks, and gets cornered by a standard enemy I kill in droves. When you finally face him it's not "Holy shit this is epic" it's "Is this guy for serious?". He's simply not a very engaging ally or rival, in fact he doesn't feel like an equal at all because I'm running around saving his ass. They turned Vergil into the support/tech guy from other action games.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Yeah, I agree with that.

    Honestly, I didn't even know if Dante and Virgil's power could manifest in the material plane until the very end of the game when they dueled.

    Cause every time Dante had to fight, he would shift to the demon world. And whenever they had to split up, Virgil would have to sneak around. Also when they killed the woman, it was with a normal gun without any fanfare even though I'd shot her a bajillion times in the club and used demon Magic.

    So I figured they were basically as powerful as a normal human in the human world and only superpowered when in the demon world.

    But then Dante and Virgil duel in the human world with full use of their powers and I was all, "So why didn't Virgil use this earlier?"

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Yeah. I will admit that the Vergil boss fight was a disappointment.

    One of the reasons I'm glad they're rebalancing everything.
    Yeah, I agree with that.

    Honestly, I didn't even know if Dante and Virgil's power could manifest in the material plane until the very end of the game when they dueled.

    Cause every time Dante had to fight, he would shift to the demon world. And whenever they had to split up, Virgil would have to sneak around. Also when they killed the woman, it was with a normal gun without any fanfare even though I'd shot her a bajillion times in the club and used demon Magic.

    So I figured they were basically as powerful as a normal human in the human world and only superpowered when in the demon world.

    But then Dante and Virgil duel in the human world with full use of their powers and I was all, "So why didn't Virgil use this earlier?"

    Its been a while since I played it but from what I gathered.
    Mundus was keeping the demon world/human world separate.

    So when he died...no more separation. Why demons started pouring out into the real world.

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  • Vic_HazardVic_Hazard Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Yeah, I agree with that.

    Honestly, I didn't even know if Dante and Virgil's power could manifest in the material plane until the very end of the game when they dueled.

    Cause every time Dante had to fight, he would shift to the demon world. And whenever they had to split up, Virgil would have to sneak around. Also when they killed the woman, it was with a normal gun without any fanfare even though I'd shot her a bajillion times in the club and used demon Magic.

    So I figured they were basically as powerful as a normal human in the human world and only superpowered when in the demon world.

    But then Dante and Virgil duel in the human world with full use of their powers and I was all, "So why didn't Virgil use this earlier?"

    But in the base assault mission Vergil is under siege by one of those chainsaw guys, and I'm basically saving him from a bunch of regular demons. That's the clearest schism I know of from DMC3 Vergil and DmC Vergil, like compared to DMC3 Vergil it's ridiculous. They could easily have made that mission be about "Vergil doesn't give a shit about Kat, it's up to you to save her and her computer or whatever" instead of making it you emasculating Vergil.

    It's not really about me not liking these kinds of relations, but it simply makes him a less interesting ally/rival later. He's like a supporting character in gears of war or something, not the epic equal of DMC3.

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  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Also...I would say Dante didn't start getting really over the top until DMC3.

    He was still sarcastic in 1(never played 2) but it was a lot more subdued.

    To be fair that was also a much younger Dante in 3 and the entire incident with his brother matures him up a fair bit.
    DMC4 has awful writing and the best combat.
    I dunno, I think 3 with that big mod that got released a few months ago is the current reigning champion of DMC combat.

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  • Vic_HazardVic_Hazard Registered User regular
    TOGSolid wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Also...I would say Dante didn't start getting really over the top until DMC3.

    He was still sarcastic in 1(never played 2) but it was a lot more subdued.

    To be fair that was also a much younger Dante in 3 and the entire incident with his brother matures him up a fair bit.
    DMC4 has awful writing and the best combat.
    I dunno, I think 3 with that big mod that got released a few months ago is the current reigning champion of DMC combat.

    I will concede that it's at least debatable, I like DMC3s combat. DMC4s is really fluid, exceed is a really fun system and 5 style dante is just balls out crazy though.

  • TOGSolidTOGSolid Drunk sailor Seattle, WashingtonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Vic_Hazard wrote: »
    TOGSolid wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Also...I would say Dante didn't start getting really over the top until DMC3.

    He was still sarcastic in 1(never played 2) but it was a lot more subdued.

    To be fair that was also a much younger Dante in 3 and the entire incident with his brother matures him up a fair bit.
    DMC4 has awful writing and the best combat.
    I dunno, I think 3 with that big mod that got released a few months ago is the current reigning champion of DMC combat.

    I will concede that it's at least debatable, I like DMC3s combat. DMC4s is really fluid, exceed is a really fun system and 5 style dante is just balls out crazy though.

    The DMC 3 mod tweaks a bunch of things and allows for style switching that works just like it does in DMC 4. Without the mod DMC4 does allow for way wackier shit via style switching I'm not gonna even try arguing that one. With the mod, however, DMC 3 just goes fuckcrazy turbonuts. DMC 4 does have some downsides though in that Dante's gunslinger stuff just isn't quite as smooth as it is in 3 which is terrible because I like to mix in a lot of gunplay.

    I do dig Nero's play style a lot though. It's part of the reason I use the whip so much in Bayonetta. :biggrin:

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    My dream scenario would be to let Hideki Kamiya ride in on a white stallion with long fabio hair to rescue the series (while blocking people on Twitter in his spare time) but I suppose Platinum can't always be the solution to everything.

    Feels like it should be though.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    I really don't think the series needs rescuing.

    DMC4 was the best selling one in the series. DmC wasn't a bad game either(though it did need a few tweaks) it just wasn't the DMC game everyone was expecting. Not to mention all the bad press it had.

    The series isn't even in that bad of a spot. Capcom(like always) just doesn't know how to manage its IPs.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Yeah. I will admit that the Vergil boss fight was a disappointment.

    One of the reasons I'm glad they're rebalancing everything.
    Yeah, I agree with that.

    Honestly, I didn't even know if Dante and Virgil's power could manifest in the material plane until the very end of the game when they dueled.

    Cause every time Dante had to fight, he would shift to the demon world. And whenever they had to split up, Virgil would have to sneak around. Also when they killed the woman, it was with a normal gun without any fanfare even though I'd shot her a bajillion times in the club and used demon Magic.

    So I figured they were basically as powerful as a normal human in the human world and only superpowered when in the demon world.

    But then Dante and Virgil duel in the human world with full use of their powers and I was all, "So why didn't Virgil use this earlier?"

    Its been a while since I played it but from what I gathered.
    Mundus was keeping the demon world/human world separate.

    So when he died...no more separation. Why demons started pouring out into the real world.

    That could be it, but I don't remember if it's ever clearly stated as such.

    But the point is that when the duel starts I'm all, "I'm gonna eat this chump for breakfast."

    Then during the middle, "Where the fuck did that come from?"

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Like seriously...it always amazes me how a company can have so many big selling IPs and still be so bad at managing them.

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    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I really don't think the series needs rescuing.

    DMC4 was the best selling one in the series. DmC wasn't a bad game either(though it did need a few tweaks) it just wasn't the DMC game everyone was expecting. Not to mention all the bad press it had.

    The series isn't even in that bad of a spot. Capcom(like always) just doesn't know how to manage its IPs.

    They wanted Devil May Cry to be a "Flagship" title.

    Like, Battlefield money.

    Capcom's biggest flaw is that they were batshit insane when it came to expectations

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    No action game will ever make that money. Not even GoW comes anywhere close.

    They're idiots if they think it's possible.

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited December 2014
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I really don't think the series needs rescuing.

    DMC4 was the best selling one in the series. DmC wasn't a bad game either(though it did need a few tweaks) it just wasn't the DMC game everyone was expecting. Not to mention all the bad press it had.

    The series isn't even in that bad of a spot. Capcom(like always) just doesn't know how to manage its IPs.
    It definitely needs rescuing. Specifically from Capcom who seem to want to reinvent the series every five minutes.

    "Dante is now Two-Face, the steely eyed stoic loner with coin flipping. No wait! He's young now, back in his youth, wait, no. Lets make him a side character and invent a new protagonist nobody asked for. Hold on, lets reboot and make him young again."

    It's ridiculous. It shouldn't be this hard for them to stick to a decent formula instead of being so schizophrenic with the franchise.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    They've changed Dante once

    And they did it to near-unanimous critical praise

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    Dr. Chaos wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I really don't think the series needs rescuing.

    DMC4 was the best selling one in the series. DmC wasn't a bad game either(though it did need a few tweaks) it just wasn't the DMC game everyone was expecting. Not to mention all the bad press it had.

    The series isn't even in that bad of a spot. Capcom(like always) just doesn't know how to manage its IPs.
    It definitely needs rescuing. Specifically from Capcom who seem to want to reinvent the series every five minutes.

    "Dante is now Two-Face, the steely eyed stoic loner with coin flipping. No wait! He's young now, back in his youth, wait, no. Lets make him a side character and invent a new protagonist nobody asked for. Hold on, lets reboot and make him young again."

    It's ridiculous. It shouldn't be this hard for them to stick to a decent formula instead of being so schizophrenic with the franchise.

    That's part of the problem they saw.

    There wasn't really a formula.

    Devil May Cry is the father of the character action game. They had NO CLUE how to make it popular, but they thought they had something. So they tried everything to make it "mainstream". Only, it didn't work.

    With these remasters though I have a feeling they finally get it, especially with DmC getting another shot. If it does well I can totally see them backing a DmC2.

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