Rare is there a case in which a videogame was met with such vitriol as DmC: Devil May Cry. The new Devil May Cry even generated animosity between fans and the gaming press, but ultimately, the press failed to highlight either side of the debate like good journalists should.
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.
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"...but ultimately, the press failed to highlight either side of the debate like good journalists should."
Exactly, and rest of the article does a fairly good job to explain what Ben Parfitt's mindblowingly stupid article failed to acknowledge.
inb4 someone brings up the "fans hated it because of the hair" argument...
It's a good game.....just not te game traditional fans wanted. It affected sales in that regard...if it had been the old Dante I beieve it would had made its target. I enjoyed the game but understand the other side to an extent.
I swear, it's almost like every defender of DmC always goes back to the hair, like as if that there are absolutely no other complaints for the game and that is literally the only reason why fans of Devil May Cry do not enjoy DmC.
That is the equivalent of someone shoving their fingers in their ears, going "LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA" while the other person tries to say why they didn't like whatever it is that they didn't like.
R.I.P Journalism. 1605-2013.
I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but as someone who's relatively neutral-positive towards the series, I totally understand where Parfitt is coming from.
I've seen some very intelligent arguments against DmC's existence, and while I don't agree with most of them, I respect them. But the ratio of ignorance to intelligence I've seen in comments all over the Web is astonishingly skewed towards the former. Comments that obviously come from people who refused to play the game (or only tried the demo) and make points that are plainly contradicted by the game itself.
Who do I blame for the franchise's current predicament? The fans? No. Ninja Theory? No. Capcom? Yes, but not for the reason you might think. If they jumped straight from Devil May Cry 3 into DmC, I would have been mad. But 4 was a huge indication that the series was in danger of stagnation. My opinion, of course.