DMC4 Donte is NOT an older version of the same character. He's a different character althougether. Reuben Langdon who performed voice and motion capture for DMC3 and DMC4 Dante was asked to play DMC4 Donte differently from eairler iterations of the characrer.
So your argument is that just because the motion capture person and voice actor are different, means he's an entirely new character?
Gee, wish I'd figured that out earlier. I guess that means Darth Vader in the original Star Wars Trilogy and Anakin Skywalker in the god awful prequel trilogy are different people as well. I can rest easy knowing that a good villain wasn't ruined.
You wouldn't have much trouble recognising him as DMC1 Dante because you started playing DMC with DMC4.
For DMC1 fans such as myself DMC4 Dante is nothing like the original persona what so ever.
I didn't start playing DMC with DMC4. I played DMC1 first, then went to DMC3 and afterwards DMC4. Tried to get into DMC2, but it never clicked. If you would kindly, stop making assumptions about what people have played.
We both know that DmC Dante develops deeper than previous iterations of the character. The reason you need to pretend DmC is the problem is to excuse DMC4. If you pin the blame on DmC you think you can distract someone from questioning the abysimal DMC4. Dosen't work like that. DMC4 is held to the same standard, you can't excuse something for nothing being Devil May Cry, yet condemn DmC for not being Devil May Cry either.
It does? Could've fooled me. Let's see, he starts the game as a pretentious dirtbag who spouts curse words left and right...
...and by the end of the game he's still a pretentious dirtbag who spouts curse words left and right.
Ninja Theory character development must be entirely different than regular character development.
Anyway, no, the same complaint doesn't apply, becuase Dante in the previous DMC series isn't meant to be some sort of deep, empathizable character. He's supposed to be a fun character to play with who's humorous. Not to say that he's never serious, but gosh, if you're going to claim that there's no way to recognize DMC4 Dante from DMC1 Dante, I'm going to have to question whether you actually played either game.
DMC1 Dante spouts enough goofy one liners to easily make it his most memorable trait. I'm pretty sure this needs no introduction.
To summarize, the reason the old Dante doesn't get held to the same standards is because he's not trying to achieve those standards. He's never meant to be some sort of deep character that we can all see ourselves in. Getting mad at older Dante for not being an incredibly developed character is like getting mad at the Last of Us because it doesn't have as much jumping as a Mario game.
