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A203D on 08 February 2013
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DarkFury said:

I cannot talk about other gamers, but I know why I did not buy it, and the reasons are pretty mundane and not at all dramatic.

Now, DMC series has always been day 1 purchase for me. I simply already have an attachment to the characters and story of the original titles, and I really wanted to continue to follow them. Yes, classic DMC is campy and wacky, but it is endearing to me, and of course I loved the gameplay. When I buy a DMC game, I expect some things to be in place, and the most important one is the main character, especially his personality. The reboot just did not have that pull to lure me in to purchase it.

I've had people approach me online and tell me that I'm not a DMC 'fan' if I choose to support this game. They give me that exact reason. I know your not doing that.

But these are the words of Hideki Kamiya creator of the series: http://thesilentchief.com/2010/09/16/hideki-kamiya-responds-to-ninja-theorys-dmc/

"Hello all foreign fans. Recently I got lots of comments like “Dante has changed”, and someone said I was not too fond of newest Dante. But it’s not true.”Dante has changed”…that’s right. But from my point of view Dante has changed every time the sequel came out, and he was always different from whom I created first. So why don’t you wait and see how their new trial will be same as usual…? (sorry about my poor English )"

I started playing this series since the first game; and in that game Dante was not camp or wacky. He was just Dante, he wasn't anime, he wasn't camp, he didn't surf on missiles, he didn't go over the top with any camp behaviour.

That was my problem really, Team Little Devils never made any sequels to the orginal Devil May Cry game. Capcom switched to internal developers who never worked on the original. Thats why DMC2 wasn't that good. DMC3 was much better. But something changed, Dante was not the same, the story didn't make sense in conjunction with the first game. But maybe it was okay, the gameplay was really good, maybe Capcom was going somewhere with this.

...And then DMC4 came out, and Dante was ridulously camp, he didn't look anything like DMC1 Dante, he had a broad build, he had westernised facial features; smaller eyes, relaxed hair, huge forears, facial stubble, and red cowboy boots (eww). To me, it was like who the hell is this guy. Why is he acting like that, why does he sound so camp, why is the game feel like a teen anime. I mean sure create a love story, but why does the girl always have to be too pathetic to do anything. Why have Lady and Trish been relagated to Playboy fanservice.

I apprecaite some fans wanted DMC4 to continue and I apprecaite what you've said, but I'm just trying to say how it looks from the other side of the pond. There were some people, like me who think there was something wrong with this series long before NInja Theory were involved. That problem was when Capcom decided to make sequels without any input from Hideki Kamiya and Team Little Devils.