With the game so close to release, it is saddening to see that many gamers still do not fully understand DMC Devil May Cry – the child formed from Ninja Theory and Capcom Japan’s partnership and re-imagination of a successful and treasured franchise. Since the game’s initial announcement during the Tokyo Game Show back in 2010, long-time fans of Dante (the series protagonist) and his fictional universe have been more than skeptical many reeling with rage and others sulking in disappointment as the soon-to-be fifth installment in their beloved franchise offered everything they did not want in a sequel.
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Ninja Theory have been getting a hard time of it since the announcement, and in all honest they've weathered it pretty well. Some of the abusive stuff they've gotten has been out of hand.
As for the game, controversial is almost an understatement! The article voices the opinion that most people just don't get DmC, and I do agree to an extent: there's a lot of fans who aren't willing to judge DmC by its own merits, which is a shame. Of course they're perfecty allowed to not like it, I just wish they'd give it a chance, but right now many of them feel like they simply want to rip it to shreds because it's not DMC5, which I do find a bit ironic in this age when everybody complains companies aren't willing to take big risks with their franchises. This is why! If they do, they get ripped apart for it. Perhaps Capcom should have done this as a new IP, although then it would have been called out for being a copycat.
Ah well, even as a fan of DMC since day 1 I'm looking forward to giving this a shot. So far it looks like a good action game, but unil I've got the whole game in my console I'll reserve judgement on it.
This isn't even really an issue anymore, and neither is the fact that DmC is a "reboot" the problem is that many fans (some of which have supported the franchise ever since it's original release in 2001 on the PS2) are either alienated or insulted by the new direction, to such an extent that it seems oddly stubborn and border line arrogant for Capcom and NT to have continued down this road knowing full well fan reception would be less than pleasing.
Basing my opinion on DmC purely off its own merits, I find it choppy, buggy, ugly, and screaming for attention. A handful of good and original ideas crumbling under the weight of awfully implemented game mechanics and horribly realised, dislikable characters.
DmC is not a game I would consider buying regardless of it's title, obviously.
I know my opinion isn't shared by everyone but what I fail to understand is, how is having strong, perfectly justifiable reasons for disliking DmC in anyway less valid than having reasons for liking it?.
If you've played it and you dislike it, fair enough, mate!
Touching upon Capcom and NT being arrogant for still making it, the way I tend to view it is it's their game, they can do what they like with it! As a consumer I like it when companies listen to the fans, but ultimately its up to them. Capcom have already said that they wanted this to be a radical departure for the series, and so they clearly knew it probably wouldn't go down well with the fanbase they have. It's a big risk for Capcom, and in a way I've got to appluad 'em for that considering nobody else is ever willing to take a gamble.
You raise fair points for me to consider. I'd probably put forth the argument that as a reboot it's not intended to please the current fanbase, but gain a new one, although I personally don't agree with that argument it's still one worth consideration, I reckon.
I've not played the demo as I'd rather just try out the entire game. When it comes around I'll form an opinion about it from its own merits and hopefully it'll be a good opinion. If not then it's a shame, but that's what happens and at least Capcom did what everybody complains other companies won't and took a risk.
To be honest, even as a huge DMC fan I'm not sure if I wanted another regular sequel, because apart from graphical upgrades the series hasn't exactly changed all that much over the years. That statement probably got me a few haters, but I think it's fair, really. That's partially why I'm interested to see what they can do with DmC.
I just read this entire comment back and realised that I must be suffering from a lack of sleep! It reads pretty badly, but ah well, hopefully you get the gist of what I'm saying: good be good, wish hardcore fans would give it a chance before blowing it off entirely and then if you don't like it, fair enough.
I think the point you are missing or you have failed to understand is that the majority of people who dislike the game is because it is different for all the wrong reasons pointed out very accurately by zerocrossing.
NT are also notoriously known for hyping their own product then under delivering, as they did with Heavenly Sword (great game with broken difficulty level and average combat) and Enslaved (claimed it will be better than Uncharted2, but again didn't live up to it in any shape or form).
The other important aspect when talking of a reboot is understanding what you can and cannot do with a reboot. If you change the characters, their history and the history of its universe, can you even call it a reboot?! Currently, it is only by name a DMC game and nothing else.
Journalists fail to understand the whole DMC DmC fiasco. They forget who created DMC and how the person and many of the talent behind it have formed a rival dev company called Platinum Games. How NT have a dislike for the creator of DMC and the game itself. How NT and Capcom together have created a DMC which has been designed to completely go against everything the original was.
Shoddy journalism, shitty devs and a sour grape publisher called Capcom all points at an overhyped game that will get good reviews as journalists hate eating crow.
I'll still play the game because I want to give it a fair chance but Im really not sure it's for me, and well you said it yourself in a round about way but it probably isn't, I guess I'll find out soon enough.
I am so shocked /s
Isn't there a metal gear revengeance article somewhere for you?
and as gamers when we have a favorite franchise we want things to slightly change in it but not to the point where nothing is even similar, they should have just made a new ip then i think if you have to use an established name to sell a game even though its completly different then your not really trying anything different, like the new tomb raider, its like an upgraded version of the previous games, or prince of persia 2008 very different but similar atmosphere from PoPSoT, and it still has an acrobatic character that is the prince,Legend of spyro, hes still a purple dragon that breathes fire and other abilities, sparx is still there, the gems are still there, they just added combat, DmC guy doesnt act like Dante , the gameplay is downgraded,the lore is completly differnt and is kind of off, they should hve just made it another game.
imo i still think its gonna be an okay game, but it will never be a DMC game, im gonna rent it but i will never buy it new because of the way ninja theory acts,and people just try to throw the hair color thing at people that have general complaints and speaking of which i like the way new dante looks, but you never completly change the way an iconic character looks, i can bet you if they completly changed the way mario, sonic, zelda, kratos, master chief, natahan drake looked then people would complain, just look at cole from infamous fans complained about that and he only had one game.
Features like scripted morphing environments aren't really all that original its just never been used as a selling point before as far as I know, as for the plot and characters they seem even more cliched and corney than before, "cool and edgy" was probably the direction NT were going with but it just fails miserably at it, trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy misses the point of being original and in the 1st place.
I know I keep banging on about this but I find it hard to like characters I can't empaphise with and the characters of DmC are poorly realised and generally dislikable...
Solely basing DmC off it's own merits when all it's doing is riding the coat tails of past succes and hiding behind the name of a far superior franchise, is really a hard thing to do.
No they bloody havent, the reason people called them in the first place was because NT called us first. They have no respect for the franchise and the fans and everytime they've spoken about the game for the past two years since it was announced they've dug themselfs into a biggerhole.
lol lol
At the very end after having travelled to 4/5 major locations around the world, taking out the biggest Nightclubs, you learn that Ozzy Osbourne is your father (the dark knight) and Sharon is not your mother. Your mother was a groupy that was later killed by Satan at another gig. Hence why you are into orgies and crack etc. you learn you have a brother called Virgil, named as such as he is forever going to be a virgin. Why you ask? Simple, he betrayed his family and became a opera singer. Yes, Mundus aka Satan is non other than Pavarotti. To be continued.