Tyler from AAG writes "The rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia can be a pain at times. We cling to things that were central to our development into the people we are today, always looking back on them fondly with an air of sanctity. These things can be anything: a television show, a series of books, or specific memories of bonding shared with a certain person over certain activities. Detached from any of these things inherent measurable quality, we will always have nostalgia to inform our particular affections towards them. Nostalgia is not only something that everyone is guilty of, it is used too often as a tissue-thin shield by the gaming community for whenever certain creative license is taken with an established IP".
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5
2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.
Game Rant Writes "It's easy to dismiss Devil May Cry 2 as a blunder by the burgeoning franchise, but the game had a larger impact than most realize."
Hmmm. Currently playing DMC5 - up to stage 8 boss, and not really sure about it.
V seems way too overpowered and scrubby to use, and the cat AI seems almost random.
Overall game difficulty seems all over the place.
That woman in the van is really weird and pretty annoying. The expression on her face when she's putting new arms on the counter is priceless.
I've only ever enjoyed DMC 1 & 3. The others were meh for me. DMC2 was straight dumpster dripping though; it was a different studio if I'm not mistaken.
Full remakes of games are here to stay, and that's why we've thought up a list of 10 video game sequels and prequels that deserve a full remake.
Just can't take this list serious when they mention DA:2 and what they said about it.
Parasite Eve
The Bouncer
Dino Crisis
Metal Gear Solid
Silent Hill
Final Fantasy VIII
Croc Legend of the Gobbos
Chrono Trigger
Sonic Adventure
Mario Sunshine
your list is spot on. i always said parasite eve, metal gear solid, dino crisis and silent hill deserve a remake and would make tons of money right now.
Agreed with everything on this list. Glad you mentioned the bouncer. Didn't think anyone remembered that game lol. I Liked that game a lot despite the flaws with it. I can see them remaking it but it really needs to update the battle system and flesh out the story more in the remake.
some things are meant to die as well.
I can't take anyone who says something like 'Games were better back in the day' seriously. There's wistful nostalgia - a fond memory of a certain segment of a game - and then there's going overboard, especially when some of those games weren't all that good to begin with. Long-running franchises like this suffer the most from nostalgia-tinted goggles I feel, which hurts genuine efforts to inject new life into a dying franchise... not that this is one of those instances.
For anyone still on the fence about this: don't buy it. The control scheme is atrocious, the lack of a lock-on function hurts both the shooty-shooty and the stabby-stabby immensely, the voice acting is poor and the dialogue could well have been written by a cocky little thirteen year old. If that doesn't seem enough of a reason then don't buy it just to give the finger to Capcom, who have easily topped Activision as my 'Worst Publisher/Developer 2012' list for some insipid choices since Mikami left.
They should finally create, Devil May Run up on a...
Its funny how dmc fans react extremely negative to the reboot and subsequent updates; yet few understand that the orignal Devil May Cry was stripped of his creator and destroyed to the point where Dante is just a stupid stereotyped cartoon who got lamer with every realease.
Hideki Kamiya (Resident Evil 2, Viewtiful Joe, Okami, Bayonetta) is the father of DMC, this guy thought of everything that has established the genre of hardcore action/adventure. Supported by one of the best developer teams of the time, and having as producer the legendary Shinji Mikami, Kamiya forged a game that shook the industry, inspired countless developers and impressed the gaming community with the ground breaking masterpiece that the first DMC is known to be.
Then Capcom (before the release of game, mind you) intervened and authorizing a sequel giving control to another director (Ideaki Itzuno) and demanded the project to be fast tracked. Kamiya had his brainchild stolen and with few resources while under incredible pressure the new team failed to deliver almost in every byte of Devil May Cry 2.
What followed wowed many, some even prefer DMC 3 and 4. But I was disappointed (I'm sure I can't be the only one) since part 2 and danm me to hell if I'm wrong when I say the original had a magic that proved impossible to recreate.
Somehow, I'm still a fan; DMC games are always day one purchases for me, so I hope this one brings some of that coolness and magic back, its about fucking time.
It's all about the combat. Devil may cry (and Bayonetta) had the most refined and awesome combat mechanics in any game of it's type. The old arcade games like Final Fight and Double Dragon had next to no story, but we (anyone over 25) played them to kick peoples ass in the coolest way possible.
That is the essence of DMC, ree-booting it and messing around with controls that were extremely tight and refined is a shame to me. Capcom died when its best devs left. LONG LIVE PLATINUM GAMES