Hiroyuki Kobayashi: Devil May Cry 4 Was Made to Appeal to Women Gamers

The staff that worked on Devil May Cry 4 is currently hard at work on Capcom’s upcoming hack-and-slash for the PS3 and Wii, Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes.

During an interview with Siliconera , producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi revealed that, like Sengoku Basara, which has quite the female following in Japan, Devil May Cry 4 was developed with female gamers in mind.

[Quagmire]

Yet this seemed to warrant more for 'men'

[Slient Knight 9]

what about Lesbians?

[Blacktric]

Lady's breasts were pretty small in DMC 3 but in DMC 4 they were ginormous. And yet they are talking about how they made the game to appeal more for girl gamers.

[Forbidden_Darkness]

Unless, well im sure you could imagine what kinda of girl would get turned on by that, but im sure they can get off by it, i know i had to keep mine at bay ;)

[Baka-akaB]

if you actually read , they are telling you they made it for both genders .

TnA for male was already there , they just added more eycandy and a puppy behaving hero , for the girls

[Forbidden_Darkness]

I just didnt feel like reading it, title told me enough (3 hours of sleep doesnt help my attention span)

[StbI990]

B b but kratos vs Dante...lol see now this thing was meant for woman... oh the irony

[ABizzel1]

Devil May Cry 4 was almost as bad as Devil May Cry 2.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

No wonder the game was so easy on the hardest mode.

[midgard227]

yeah......only thing tuff was that damn tower....F that tower (extra challenge dungeon)

[midgard227]

interesting article cuz my GF definatly LOVES this game......tho she like ninja gaiden too

[Alos88]

In the same way Bayonetta was made to appeal to men?

[Baka-akaB]

Dear lord , explain the worst "co-hero" of all time : Nero ...

[alphakennybody]

agreed 101%, playing him was one of the worst gaming experience I've had in years.

[Slient Knight 9]

there was only 2 things i liked about Nero, 1 the devil bringer and 2. his devil trigger.

i got bored of having to finish what Nero started, while playing as Dante.

[Baka-akaB]

seriously , i had issues with raiden in mgs2 at first , but mostly because of the way he hogged the spot and was introduced ... but in the end the game was still awesome , and he was in fact quite well fleshed and at the certain of a great plot twist .

Here in DMC4 we are with a failed character period . Hell they knew people wouldnt like him without cloning dante/Virgil's look .

Just imagine you are enjoying a great action franchise (die hard , lethal weapon , pick whatever you like) , and out of the blue , and for no reason besides gender marketing , some emo kid , basically edward cullen from twilight , hog the spot for half the movie ... and that's the first half !

He hogs the spot and bring nothing good to the action or the plot ... how are you not disgusted ?

Next time make a dmc game , for well maybe dmc fans...

[DelbertGrady]

I could swear it was made to appeal to ladyboy gamers.

[bomboclaat_gamer]

no wonder so many ps3 guys loved it
just kiddin

my girl hated it, she loves gears, rainbow sex, and resident evil 5

[Ares84PS3]

I think it's way too late to try saving the unsavable.

[ranmafandude]

everytime a japanese game with lots of action tries to appeal to women gamers, they always seem to screw it up with women in the games with huge breasts and barley has clothes on lol.

[Simon_Brezhnev]

it was to really appeal to 360 gamers

[wissam]

So I played a girls game ? hearing this makes me want to break the damn game into smithereens.

[SolidMGSnake]

Yeaa.. DMC4 felt like one of those animes with a love story. Not saying its bad- I had no problem enjoying DMC4. Its just a drastic change when you compare it to the first one.

[rezzah]

All the love crap pissed me off. Also giving the girls some large tits is stupid, just made everything seem less like a DMC game/story.

[Jeff-Ryan]

emo guys...totally a girl thing

[Justanothergamer]

DMC 4 was total crap compared to DMC 3. Gameplay was dumbed down, characters failed to interest, they re-used levels and the bosses for the most part were bad and boring.

[J-Killer15]

Capcom did say they wanted the next one to be critically acclaimed so let's hope we don't have to play another DMC4. Wasn't that bad, but was a huge drop off from DMC3

[Katana Yamato]

Speaking as a Woman Gamer whose 28 yrs old as of now, i find his response to girl gamers quite stereotypical and a bit offensive.

Maybe the tween Twilight girls would like sumone as Nero, but i certainly do not. Dante seems more my type (though not to date really, he's too wild for me. I'd probably take sumone as Vergil but he's too damn serious and has issues). Tween girls don't really play DMC games...maybe older teenage girls who aren't foaming at the mouth over Dante or Vergil. But Tween girls (who i think Kobayashi is probably referring to) are playing shovelware on the Wii with their friends or boyfriends.

Kobayashi is so out of the touch with the fanbase its unbelievable he hasn't been demoted from Capcom from Producer to janitor at the Osaka headquarters where Capcom is located.

Sengoku Basara is a stupid game with zero strategy most likely and absolutely a zero compelling story unlike DMC. I find none of the characters attractive or that appealing, i'm only getting the game cause i'm done with Bayonetta and i have nothing else to play. And since Sengaku Basara plays kinda like a button-mashing DMC anyway, i might as well get it.

I'm not trying to say i'm special or anything. But in the Devils Lair forums where they're are an overabundance of girls, alot of the girls are into Yaoi and garbage like that (I'm not into it. it just seems silly and stupid). Sure i find the characters attractive and even the Voice Actors who play them...but in the end i just like playing the game. Same thing as Bayonetta, though the opposite. I hate Bayonetta but i love playing the game. Bayonetta is mostly geared toward the chauvinist male nerdy gamer demographic whose hyper-sexualization for the most stupidest reason, but i try to ignore that and play the great gameplay it has.

Anyway, its just really offensive to me that he thinks i would like sum stupid character like Nero and totally messing up DMC's storyline to put in sum generic love story (that's mostly common in JRPG's) just for better sales.

No wonder the game industry is not totally accepted by society as a mature medium of entertainment. When developers have to lower their standards and treat us as children bringing us crap like this and oversexed females in games just to make my sales and people bytch about it yet they pay for these games, it makes me realize sumtimes that i hate this hobby at times.

And also...i like playing games with violence and blood. I'm not a sheepish 9 yr old girl ya know. I like action games like any other guy or action aficionado. So that's major strikes against his view of female gamers.

DMC 4 has to be one of the most offensive towards female gamers anyway. Here's why:

You have a stereotypical damsel in distress that hardly speaks, and in the novel apparently cooks for nero and stuff

You have Glor--I mean Whoria

And Lady, a previously serious and tough character made into a money grubbing slut

Kobayashi should just STFU and never speak from his mouth the words Devil May Cry again.

Sorry for my wall of text

[Spenok]

So THATS why my wife really wanted me to play this game, and wouldnt stop watching me play it lol.