Devil May Cry - New Directions....

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I'm going to have to put things in quotation marks because the quote function doesn't place nice with my iPad.

"I'm not quite sure the fans are even aware that DMC2 and DMC4 underwent dramatic changes. in fact Hideki Kamiya who developed DMC1 never worked on any of the other games - which is why those games felt dfferent.
DMC2 was a completely different game from DMC1 and featured a change in Dantes characterisation. the game was actully very poorly recieved compared to DMC1. the gameplay felt a lot different and personally i thought it wasnt that good of a game.
DMC4 featured another change to Dante - if people look at pg 1 of this thread i've done a comparative analysis of Dante from DMC1 and DMC4. and its as clear as day that Capcom westernised him to the point he was completely different. he dosent even look like Dante. yet fans seem to be ignorant of the fact that its a different character because its still made by Capcom.
i didnt play DMC4 past a certain point because for me it wasnt fun. so i cant comment on any gameplay changes that were made, but fans are complaining about the changes made by Ninja Theory, yet are completely ignorant of the changes that were made before. heck Dante wasnt even the main character of DMC4, yet this somehow will end up being Ninja Theory's fault as well."


This post here shows that you have a lot less knowledge of the fan base and the series than you are trying to suggest.

DMC2 got a lot of hate for the changes made. We know as a fan base that the game was changed from a totally different game to DMC2 to cash in on DMCs success. There was never a chance of the game becoming a hit because when the director was assigned to the title it was already 60% completed. It's not possible to create a competent devil may cry in 10 months.

We also decried the changes made to the series in dmc4 and the inclusion of Nero, which again was not the directors fault but actually a result of the producers inflauation of montizing the female gamer demographic. The reason the game has so many backtracking sections were a direct result of this.

And while it is no way ninja theories fault Dante was not the main character of dmc4 it does represent the same corporate meddling that has brought us to the reboot. Let us not for get that devil may cry as a series was birthed by a fluke. DMC1 was actually supposed to be RE4 but kamiya saw that the glitches in the alpha build could actually be made into their own game. The reason dmc has changed so much over the years is the higher ups have never quite understood what devil may cry is, and have meddled in every title much to the charging of the designers and developers.

Whether Dante doesn't look like himself in 4 is a matter of personal opinion. There were several designs for Dante in in 4, one that was dark and broody like 2, one that was feminine and the final one. All looked like Dante far more than ninja theories take. It's not just a White hair and a red coat.

DMC4 is a game that you will only get as much out of it as you put in. It has extremely complex mechanics that not only put it at the top of the action gaming echelon, but also compete with some fighting games. Cap comas a company however have never promoted that side of the game, and many who have played it have not understood that. Watch a few true style videos such as the ones created by brea and then tell me that game is not fun.