Capcom has revised the sales forecast of its games for a second time, saying that "excessive outsourcing" has caused a decline in quality.
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."
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
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.
Wow, take a niche, Japanese game that has built up a loyal fanbase over the years, strip out everything campy, familiar and cool about the series and turn the main character into an emo-a$$hole and somehow it doesn't sell?
Who would have thought?
/s
P.S. Any fan of the series - myself included - was shouting from the rooftops that this was going to happen, but Capcom and the Ninja Theory enamoured journalists tried to convince everyone otherwise.
They also said that its "previous policy of outsourcing work to third-party studios is no longer desirable".
I thought it was a fun game, unfortunately the story was stupid. I kept telling my friends before they bought it, if they watched all the trailers for the game you would know the whole story since the trailers showed most of the important parts. The ending didn't take much to figure out since Devil May Cry fans all knows what happens to Virgil and it didn't help that they came out with that DLC.
Gameplay was fun story was dumb.
This game is awesome, i think capcom along with alot of other japanese devs are stale and need to re-invent them selves.
There are pf course great japanese devs, but alot of japanese devs stop innovating after awhile and then competition(western devs) catch up and exceed.
Its not only game devs, happens with alot of japanese companies, car companies, game devs etc.
Capcom will learn from their errors and they could be top tier again.
Lol it's not even sure it will sell that in the long or mid term .
It isnt breaking a million so far and completely dissapeared from the radar .