Probably made to appeal to the hot topic wanna be goth/emo kids.. Theyr'e taking over
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haha, I wouldn't be surprised XD
"I am in tears right now."
wow... REALLY?
no :P proverbial tears obviously =]
This is how Greenday sold out. Now DMC :(
:( indeed...
good... anyway, just thought i'd attempt a response.
Dante losing his muscles? yeah, ok. He looks more normal now.
Dante losing his Masculinity? lol... Dante had any?
Dante looking like a "twilight reject"? ...I hate people...
I do agree on the city... it doesn't look original at all (but then DMC never really was original, it was just taking several stock characters/settings and meshing them together somehow) I'm not complaining, I loved the old DMC games.
But really, as long as you acknowledge it as a reboot, and not as a part of the series you love, then it shouldn't matter too much, or just don't acknowledge it at all. Either way, I'm interested to see what it's actually like. I'll probably get it in a few years for £2 out of a bargain bin or something, and enjoy it too.
Muscles, he was pretty well defined within normal limits. If you played Devil May Cry 3, the opening sequence where he was shirtless, that was pretty cool. He just had definition. This is a kid that has none (he's shirtless in this trailer, too).
Dante isn't exactly duke nukem, but his overbearing overconfidence, cocky one liners throughout the entire series and complete disrespect for everyone and anything is something that is seemingly missing here.
Also, this guy is smoking. If you recall in earlier games, Dante was heavily against this, saying "it destroys the body" or something along those lines. Now, that's nitpicking almost, but it's something Ninja Theory overlooked when they Americanized him (not trying to be offensive with that).
He looks straight out of Twilight. I don't like twilight, I don't like those preppy teenagers that sparkle. Look at him in that picture. Tell me he doesn't look like some vampire straight out of that movie. The reject is frustration talking.
I'm just frustrated that, and this is personal (not the angry kind of personal, just something that I think), since it's my 2nd favorite series next to megaman and I just don't like what I'm seeing at all here. And I know if that this doesn't sell, Devil May Cry dies, and if it does sell, they'll carry on with it. Odds are we'll never see old Dante again (outside of Marvel vs Capcom 3).
I'm not trying to be a major downer, I'm just horribly disappointed and I'm doing my best not to come across as "whiny" but giving reasons as to why I'm disappointed.
Anyway, I'm gonna keep my eye on TGS and see if the gameplay is something good. At the very least, if I get it and it plays good, I can somewhat be happy.
If not... there's always Bayonetta.
The game looks passable, but what annoys me is the sudden change in Dante's look, I mean we know that he wasn't always the strong muscular man, but that fag over there looks like a freaking butterfly could take him down, at least give him some muscle. On the good side this thing is actually ok-ish for people who have never played the DMC series.
I thought it looked passable too, until I noticed it was a reboot on the press release and that the guy was actually Dante.
And you're right, for people who are new to the franchise, they will most likely get a lot of mileage out of this game. While I didn't particularly care much for Heavenly Sword, I can't deny it was a pretty solid game beneath the surface (though not everyone agrees, it just had "something", to me).
I can agree on most things, amd Dante smoking is pretty stupid, I wouldn't consider it nitpicking, They should pay more attention to the source material.
I always hate when things are "Americanised" too, and I despise twilight, I'm sorry, i didn't mean to sound like I was against whatever you're saying about that, I'm not, I just hate what Twilight's done, where whenever anyone sees some scrawny pale guy, Twilight's the first thing they liken him too.
I do understand though, and I'd much rather have the old DMC back too, even though it was getting tedious, like with Megaman as you mentioned, hopefully this will just be a sort of... "additional" series, like Megaman X and not completely stop the original DMC. Capcom are probably regretting this already considering the reception it's getting. To be honest I don't like the new design much either, random crap hanging from his neck, wearing that flag on his arm... and really... "Limbo city" sounds horrible.
Still, hopefully the gameplay won't be too shit. :)
We can only hope this isn't permanent, I guess. Unless it turns out to be great, but honestly, I don't see it happening.
It's all riding on gameplay at this point. I wasn't particularly impressed about his shape-shifting sword that has some serious Bleach fangasm spread all over it.
so......that means that to be a badass first you have to be an emo?
Absolutely not. Dante was anything but an emo in past games. :P
ctrl + F "emo", 4 results
You should CTRL + F the Capcom forums. XD
I feel your pain brother :C Devil May Cry 1 was one of my favorite shoot em' ups, still is too, but this... Is just a disgrace, shame on you Ninja Theory.
Even a day later, watching that trailer again, I still can't believe how they managed to miss just about everything that made DMC what it is.
But we're not alone. Just about every DMC forum I'm a part of has pretty much blown up. Capcom has to have seen or noticed this by now.
They could have at least given him a different name other then Dante.
I was hoping for that. I could even have lived with that. But this whole reboot thing is like a kick to the face.
He would actually look pretty cool if he still had....ya know...... HIS TRADEMARK HAIR!!! But do what Oney said, ignore anything after 3, and play the first like no tommorow. That game was a masterpiece.
For me it's not just his look. It's everything. Not one thing in that trailer made me think it was a Devil May Cry game.
But yeah, DMC3 will forever be the king of action games, IMO.
Wha.. what the fuck am I looking at.. Please, capcom.. PLEASE come to your senses and trash this, or like somebody else mentioned, have this not be the real Dante.. I think I'll cry the day this is released if it doesn't turn out to be some kind of misunderstanding. EVERYTHING looks wrong...
Everything *does* look wrong...
I really hope the people making the game are watching this backlash. I really do.
Okay, that's freaking BS. Why would CapCom do this to us! Whyyy??!!! :( This is a total annihilation and desecration of THE Dante that we all know and love. Seriously, what the hell happened??! He looks nothing like Dante, and he....just looks...I don't know how to say it....He looks like a stupidly depressed teenager? Idk. But still, once I read this, I have lost faith in Capcom. SHAME on them.
Yeah, he does look like that... I can't recognize a single aspect of the real Dante in him.
As for why, apparently it didn't sell enough and God of War-type titles do, and like Inafune said... they wanted to give it a western touch. This is much more than a simple touch though. :/
The good news...its not out "yet"
Bad news...I doubt there will be much to stop it,
But with games who knows? It's possible it may be scrapped widway (unlikely) but I feel your pain...they should just change it to "Edward will cry" and we'll call it a wash...because. Dante looks like Edward....and that bothers me.
Well to be honest with you, I've never seen a fan backlash this big ever. All of the forums I've been to, devil may cry related ofcourse, have almost self destructed. I think it's safe to say 95% of the fans are completely angry of what they've done.
It's getting big enough to the point that maybe, somewhere, they'll realize it was a mistake. But I doubt that. They'll probably ask us to be patient and allow them to show us more of the game etc, but so far, tonally, they missed every mark and ruined so many things. I don't even think the gameplay can be any good, especially if it's veering towards God of War like they implied.
WTF???
i readed all the comments that the people put in the trailer and everyone hate it. Is like making someone like Chuck Norris look like a emo....EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!....well, is not epic fail. is a GARGANTUAN FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!
It really is... :(
I just hope that the gameplay is better. :(
They said they'd westernize it, a-la God of War, so I'm not betting on it.
Others may like it, but I am not a fan of the God of War type of combat... I like stuff like Viewtiful Joe, Bayonetta and Devil May Cry.
But who knows, it might be the best of both worlds... but I doubt it.
WTF! This is an afront to the cool exterior that is Dante!
This emo-goth remake of Dante looks more like Edward Furlong from the straight to DVD "The Crow" movie. I mean, what's with this "teenage runaway" look? What are you kid, some punker who doubles as a male prostitute? Look at his head, he looks like Frankenstein's monster!
Effin horrible. I don't like emo boys. Give me cocky men!
Ok, looked at the trailer here: <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-10-devil-may/704508">http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs -10-devil-may/704508</a>
Impressions:
Well its a different take on DmC series. The trailer looks fine, the voice actor set to play him gives him more of a cocky bastard vibe than the picture you posted (which doesn't do him any justice at all because it looks way emo), and his hair is partially white...rather, a white patch on the top of his head so as to not lose the character of Dante completely.
Sure he smokes, but I found it funny and also a bit true to Dante's form (if he were to take up smoking) to extinguish it on his enemies while he's taking them out. lol
I'm still not cool with this whole "youth rehabilitation" thing they set up to appeal to new or younger sects who never played the first 3.
Body-wise, this guy still looks like Edward Furlong. He looks like a complete push over. So I'm hoping to never see him with his shirt off.
Oh well. I'm sure the gameplay will make this a blast to play and hopefully the new take will garner some respect with first gen DMC players.
In the meantime I'm going to stare at the Team ICO trailer for The Last Guardian again and wonder if they actually got a cat to model for them.
All my hopes are riding on gameplay at the moment, because the entire visual tone of the game is completely wrong (it doesn't look like DMC. at all, not even a little).
So I'm going to have to wait for that..
The smoking thing is wrong. Dante absolutely hates cigarettes, it's just another thing to add to the things Ninja Theory didn't care about when they redesigned pretty much everything.
But yes, Last Guardian looks crazy good!
Capcoms just going through a phase kinda like the prince of persia series
prince of persia 1-3 BADASS
prince of persia 4 great
prince of persia 5 Awesome
i really hope so
Captain
You're being a baby
NemesisTheory
no u
But seriously. I'm just venting.