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ils411 on 06 February 2013
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curl-6 said:
thismeintiel said:
curl-6 said:

That comment doesn't really address mine as I am clearly referring to the hair colour whiners, not everyone who disliked the game. I also never implied that nobody gave the game a chance.

You do realize that there is NO ONE who hated this game purely on his hair color?  When the first image was shown, yes, a lot of people hated it.  But that was more because he looked like a crackhead emo kid, not because he didn't have white hair.  Then, when the demo came out, fans moved on to more substanative complaints, like difficulty, controls, and combat.  The only ones who continually brought up the hair was the people defending the game, just so they could make the original fans, in their minds at least, look like shallow gamers.  Of course, this was far from the truth.  And they have voted with their wallets.

I see people all over the web still bitching about the character's new look, including his hair. Those are the ones I'm having a go at, because it's  such an insignificant thing to complain about.

I have to disagree, its quite significant. Those bithcing about how they changed dante's apearance, plus they made his hair black are those who started playing DMC duirng the PS2 era and actually loved the franchise and Dante. They liked the game play, they liked Dante for being Dante. Now, you take away the white hair, his traditional costumes, everthing and then you turn him into this black haired emo guy who doesnt remotely look like what Dante use to look like, then you got a new character with the same name. But that new character isn't "Dante", he's some new emo crap ass with the same name.

ITs one thing to modernize something or even re-invent someone, it happens all the time in comics, like how Thor has gone through a bunch of costume and look changes but he still retained his features. The golden long hair, that hammer and stuff. Even superman has gone through a bunch of iterations, but clearly, even with different costumes, power sets and shit, he still looked liked Superman. Now if you changed the face, thats not superman anymore.

It would have been better if CAPCOM rebooted the franchise with that new emo dood but instead of making him dante, they should have instead made a new character. Much like how Konami tried to pass the tourch to Raiden from Snake in Metal Gear, it didn't work much but at least people didnt bitch about why Soldi suddenly turned into this new guy.

Another example would by Ryu in Breath of FIre. Inevery breath of fire game from 1-4 (didnt bother with 5), Ryu has always been the dragon child. But in every iteration, the story has always been different, the back story, the plot, everything was not the same, but Ryu stayed constant as the dragon child with blue hair. Different story, different settings, same character, with zero explanation as to why he's the hero again..worked for me.

Mess with the story, mess with the plot, mess with the origin, but never ever mess with the established character itself.  I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that its not a big deal that they changed Dante is just plain stupid and Ignorant.  Its like Lucas going, hey, lets go re-make starwars, but instead of luke with the blond hair and black overalls, lets make the main into a huge ass muscle guy with green glasses! yeah! that'll work and no one will mind.