A current trend in gaming is rebooting franchises. With new Tomb Raider and Devil May Cry games essentially starting again, Reuben asks if we need to press the big reset button.
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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Dmc.
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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.
Huzaifah from eXputer: "Devil May Cry 5, the latest iteration in the iconic DMC franchise by Capcom, still holds its own as a fantastic hack-and-slash in 2024."
NVIDIA continues to add games to GeForce NOW. This week, Devil May Cry 5, Gears Tactics, and The Crew Motorfest lead the charge.
my only gripe with reboots are if you completly change everything from combat, character design, gameplay to the point where it doesnt even seem like its from the franchise then why reboot, just make a new ip (DmC), i mean i dont really see how its in the franchise especially if its a downgrade, if your going to reboot then make everything better and not take 5 steps back.
the only reboots i played where i was like this is actually cool are
legend of spyro, they were different but they had elements from the original, but at the same time they werent as good.
splatterhouse, okay, it actually had a lot of potential, but combat wise it was executed poorly.
the new tomb raider looks really good, my only gripe is regenerative health and no swimming which for swimming is a TR staple, and regenerative health for a survival game seems to lose the point, but besides that the game is looking amazing.
reboots are good if done right, if a reboot is the same exact game as past games than its more of a sequel.
people have to understand this game IP's are worth a lot of money, it takes publishers years to build it fanbase with a IP so don't expect them to invest hundreds of millions into a game series only to let it die out
gears of war
mass effect
god of war
halo
uncharted
etc,
all these games may go away for few years but will always come back sometimes via a prequel/sequel or a reboot
The new DmC isnt a reboot. Rather, its an imagined future with a grown up COD fan spewing the word f**k every time he opens his mouth to speak. Years of COD babysitting would do that.
Some fail (RESI), some succeed.
If done well - definitely