Well now the armada of disgruntled Devil May Cry fans has taken to ridiculous new extremes in voicing their disgust over what they see as the death of their favorite series. In the last few days, a new petition by “R.J.” of Franklin, VT has surfaced on the official White House website, which begs for President Barack Obama’s help in banning DmC from being sold to gamers. Yeah, you can believe it. The petition, titled “Get Ninja Theory’s DmC: Devil May Cry pulled off the shelves,” addresses DmC’s many changes from its predecessors and mentions an offending in-game insult towards fans and consumers who went out and bought the game. Here is part of the argument (with spelling errors intact):
Umm… Yeah, okay. Even if this person was completely serious in their quest to protect the gaming world from a new envisioning of Dante, has the reimagining of a video game character really become a matter of national precedence these days? I think the President has a few more pressing things on...
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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Well, I don't think a petition is in order, but if the fans choose not to buy it, good thing! I am not a Devil May Cry fan, but I can see how DmC is an insult to anyone that is, and to a larger extent, and insult to all gamers. It is a juvenile and out right moronic reboot of a classic franchise. I hope it sinks, and yes, I have stake in this, because games like this are bad for the industry. Shovel-ware.
Lol, that's definitely a little over the top but hey, any negative press surrounding the new direction DMC took and the arrogance shown by Ninja Theory is good press. I really hope this game flops as it would show that many of us more devoted gamers really can have an influence on how well a game does and hopefully make companies think twice before they give us the middle finger in favour of reaching a broader audience.
The thing is Square Enix and 343 didn't make comments about their previous games being outdated and lauging at fan backlash. Also journalists and bloggers didn't write tons of articles condemning old fans for disliking the new direction. They let the game speak for themselves without trying to cash in on the controversy.
should i blame the troll who started the petition or the fool who wrote this article to spread news of the troll
Another thing Sqeenix and 343 never did- Claim all negative reviews to be trolls.
NT is in maximum damage control mode as of now.