Devil May Cry 4 is brash, beautiful, and a huge amount of fun to play. It's also a little disappointing, seeming like little more than a cosmetic upgrade from DMC3. Playing through an entire level as Nero in a recent demo, areas are cordoned off by familiar red glowing walls, enemies drop in, and fighting begins. It's the same as always, with a few new moves, and knocking foes around and racking up combos is easy for a DMC veteran (or, frankly, even for a newcomer).
The locations are beautiful, of course, but seem very narrow in scope – as you pass through a wrecked town with demons merrily jumping on cars and running through the streets, you can't leap over the two-foot barrier to fight them (despite executing a 100-foot jump in the previous room), but have to merely watch the animations play out.
But overall the combat is why DMC works, and it works as effectively as ever in this iteration. It looks great, plays well, and will no doubt sell loads of copies. You just wish Capcom would address a few pacing and inconsistency niggles.
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.
Two Devil May Cry games have been delisted on Steam. As shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Wario64, Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 are no longer available to purchase.
Bless the adorably all digital future! When it comes to PC games its not as big of an issue because there should always be another way to access single player games, but still, I hate to see anything get delisted.
Well, DMC4 special edition has a lot of issues to run from Steam.
I have to get a modded executable to even be able to run the game on Windows 10.
Not sure if it is because the game runs in DirectX10 or what, but it sucks they have not even tried to fix it.
DMC4 Special Edition is not delisted, it was just the standard version, it has nothing to do with issues of performance or anything alike. Its just that Capcom probably do not want to sell the standard version, neither the standalone DMC3 version.
Devil May Cry 4 launched 15 years ago today, bringing with it new character Nero. Has it stood the test of time?
Never liked it and I think I got it day 1.
Cheap Capcom design of half a game that you have to walk through twice.
5 isn't much different in that department. Encounter the same boss three times with three different characters? Endless warehouses or alien-like tunnels that all look the same.
I'm actually with you there, but DMC has that terrible writing. Alex Garland isn't it?
From what they mentioned I'm actually happy with what they've done. Don't mess with success or you get DMC2!! I just want the combat depth to remain as deep as the classics with a good story to boot and all signs are pointing to yes. Nero's Devil Bringer air combos looked so dope and adding style switching to Dante was something I was asking for since DMC3. I hope he gets to be unlockable for the full game instead of his pre selected chapters. Capcom better wrap that crap up on the load times though, we're playing on PS3s, 360s, and PCs there shouldn't be an abundance of those.
I don't really know about Devil May Cry 4 anymore. I mean when the first trailer came out I was all like well it looks decent, but there's still room for improvement ( graphical wise ). I mean then DMC 4 really got me when they replaced Dante with Nero. How do you replace one of the coolest mofo's in gaming. That is like replacing Cloud with a brand new character that looks exactly like Cloud with different clothes and weapons. Well that is exactly what they did with DMC 4 and I don't like it. Capcom just face it tis generation you are really sucking, and I mean bad. Capcom note to self stop making milked franchises.
Capcom should change the style of DMC or else Ninja Gaiden 2 & God of War 3 leave DMC in the dust.....
Gee, if only games were more innovative with each release like Halo
*rolls eyes*
so very true