Hey, who's this guy...? Oh, it's fucking DANTE. What do you reckon about the re-design?

[Anthan]

I wanna see his moves before I make up my mind.

I think I could get used to this if he still has his moves.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I don't like his silhouette, his clothes, hair plus he comes off as a smoking advertisement, it just doesn't add anything to his character. I'm not sure who they are aiming at because I doubt he appeals to younger fans either.

Apart he looks really clumsy in the gun play parts of the preview, Tentacle sword action looks really unconvincing even though it's totally scripted atm.

Very meh.

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thought the gunplay didn't look right. At all. It really does look like he's trying to be cool, which isn't what Dante does, damnit.

 

[Elemental]

It's funny how everyone calling him emo and yet you are the one who are crying and bitching.
He's NOT an emo.

It's not necessarily that he is emo, so much as he happens to look the part.

To confirm whether or not he's emo, we'd have to know about his personality, and all we know about that at this point is that (1)he's no longer magnificently arrogant, and (2)he's trying too hard to be cool. Actually, we only know the first part. The second is speculation.

Trying too hard to be cool? how? is it the cigarette thing? please explain.
We still doesn't know if he is arrogant or not, we'll have to see.

 

[quantumsoul]

Looks like his hair is turning white. Maybe his demon characteristics where showing and he dyed it black. The trailer looked interesting. The shape-shifting melee weapon was cool, but the series really didn't need a reboot. I would have preferred a new franchise or a sequel.

 

[Julianking93]

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thought the gunplay didn't look right. At all. It really does look like he's trying to be cool, which isn't what Dante does, damnit.

Not at all. His coolness is supposed to just flow naturally.

Still, I will admit that seeing the trailer made me somewhat hopeful. The look of the game seems good. Reminds me of a Silent Hill game in all honesty.

And personally, I liked Dante's new voice. Much more brutal sounding than before.

If they were just to change his look (and in my own perfect world have it set AFTER DMC2 for a change...) it would be perfect.

 

[Arella18]

Wow how stupid...anyone with eyes can tell that his hair is caked with hopefully dirt or mud...if you look at the roots its still silver v_v le sigh. I love how stupidly gamers will judge something with just once glance. He also looks like he got drunk and started a fight...which actually wouldn't work with his character...he does heal faster than wolverine. Though it also looks fanmade...sorry to say it but that doesn't look professional besides didn't capcom scrap dante for the little ***** Nero

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

It's a guy from Twilight. He's gay, emo and he sucks.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Not at all. His coolness is supposed to just flow naturally.

Still, I will admit that seeing the trailer made me somewhat hopeful. The look of the game seems good. Reminds me of a Silent Hill game in all honesty.

And personally, I liked Dante's new voice. Much more brutal sounding than before.

If they were just to change his look (and in my own perfect world have it set AFTER DMC2 for a change...) it would be perfect.

DMC2 was such a massive screw up it's been pushed to the end of the timeline and they are probably never visiting there again.

I want one set just after DMC3! All his weapons and badassitude still intact!

 

[ckam]

That's Dante? I don't know what to say.

 

[Infernai]

No no no, a million times no. That is NOT fucking Dante, THIS is dante:

Confident Smirk
Red trenchcoat
Bigass sword
the 'i don't care' stance
and
The supreme Aura of awesome

This.....thing is not the Dante i know and love, he's just generic Emo Demon Hunter number 987# to me. Hell, even the Devil May Cry 2 Dante seems more like Normal Dante compared to this abomination!
Still, i guess now all those dumbass trolls who thought Dante was either cliche or a stereotype without any argument will FINALLY have one, because Ninja theory seems to have a team consisting of you asshats!

All i have to say is; I don't care what game these Bastards made, get it out of their hands and give it to someone who actually KNOWS what a devil may Cry game is supposed to be. Or, just have them change the design to be more traditional Dante, then we will be happy. Sorry if this sounds aggressive but...this to a devil may cry fan is the equivalent of if they replaced, say Mario in the next game with some all black wearing teenage emo gangster who's more concerned with his own sob story then rescuing the princess. Bad example, i know, but its all i could think up!

 

[anthony87]

I like everything i've seen so far about the game. And i'm a DMC Fan of the first minute.

DMC needed the change or we just would've had another Series ala Megaman.

The City looks awesome. Dante really looks like some kind of fucked up project. Which seems realistic. I think this is exactly what would happen if humans find out we have Demons among us.

Thanks NT for having the balls to actually change something about the formula.

Edit: To anyone who thinks he's emo: What's emo? It's not just the dark hair and lipstick. It's more about how people react to certain situation. Id' like to remind everyone of you of the scene from the first DMC were Trish died. Remember that scene, and don't tell me his line wasn't cheesy and god-damn-emo.

He looks totally like a Punk, which would make sense. Dante in DMC3 was just an Adrenalin Junkie. But this Dante looks more like the guy the Dante from the first one would become.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's nice to see someone not bitching! You, my friend, are a real fan.

I gotta join in here with you two guys. I'm a proper veteran of the DMC series and I don't mean that in any sort of pretentious fanboy way. I've got every game in the series plus the demos of those games, I've played though each one to completion multiple times on Dante Must Die Mode except for the first one(fuck you 3rd Nightmare battle....FUCK YOU!!!!*ahem*) and I happen to think that the backstory of the series is one of the best in gaming.

The reason I put that whole last paragraph down is so people will have a bit of context for when I say this;

Ninja Theory are making the right move.

After watching the trailer and seeing the screenshots I was ready to jump on the whinging bandwagon with the other guys on this thread but then I sat back and took a look at what happened with DMC4 and what happened was that DMC4 nearly doomed the series.

It gave us a new main character out of the blue, fuckall backstory on said main character(yes, I'm aware of the novel), pushed Dante to the sidelines and chucked in a new decendant of Sparda just so that people wouldn't shit themselves at the concept of not playing as Dante. What this did was create a ton of questions that got no answer in the game, which is probably a good thing as the answers more than likely would've been ass pulls anyway.

Ninja Theory are being left to deal with the mess that was created when Kobayashi(sp?)basically screwed the series by badly trying to take the series in a different direction and that's no small feat.

As long as the combat is solid(which, judging from the trailer, it looks to be)and they give a plausible reason for the change in hair(the hair is important, it's pretty much what marks a decendant of Sparda)then I'm happy. Hell I'm even looking forward to it and if Ninja Theory are willing to make such drastic changes then it shows that they're really committed to taking the series in a new direction the way it was meant to be, not just by taking a new guy and slapping some white hair on him.

Oh, and will people shut up saying he looks like an emo? I know it's fun to be part of a group and all at this stage it seems like you're just copying what the people on the first couple of pages are saying just so you can be part of the hate. He had black hair with a bit of a fringe, it's called a hairstyle, a hairstyle doesn't make an emo.

 

[Elephant Walker19]

Is this real!?

I must be dreaming because thats not dante.

Hell I saw the trailer a few hours ago and didn't know it was DMC I thought it was some other game completely.

 

[Jkudo]

I like everything i've seen so far about the game. And i'm a DMC Fan of the first minute.

DMC needed the change or we just would've had another Series ala Megaman.

The City looks awesome. Dante really looks like some kind of fucked up project. Which seems realistic. I think this is exactly what would happen if humans find out we have Demons among us.

Thanks NT for having the balls to actually change something about the formula.

Edit: To anyone who thinks he's emo: What's emo? It's not just the dark hair and lipstick. It's more about how people react to certain situation. Id' like to remind everyone of you of the scene from the first DMC were Trish died. Remember that scene, and don't tell me his line wasn't cheesy and god-damn-emo.

He looks totally like a Punk, which would make sense. Dante in DMC3 was just an Adrenalin Junkie. But this Dante looks more like the guy the Dante from the first one would become.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's nice to see someone not bitching! You, my friend, are a real fan.

I gotta join in here with you two guys. I'm a proper veteran of the DMC series and I don't mean that in any sort of pretentious fanboy way. I've got every game in the series plus the demos of those games, I've played though each one to completion multiple times on Dante Must Die Mode except for the first one(fuck you 3rd Nightmare battle....FUCK YOU!!!!*ahem*) and I happen to think that the backstory of the series is one of the best in gaming.

The reason I put that whole last paragraph down is so people will have a bit of context for when I say this;

Ninja Theory are making the right move.

After watching the trailer and seeing the screenshots I was ready to jump on the whinging bandwagon with the other guys on this thread but then I sat back and took a look at what happened with DMC4 and what happened was that DMC4 nearly doomed the series.

It gave us a new main character out of the blue, fuckall backstory on said main character(yes, I'm aware of the novel), pushed Dante to the sidelines and chucked in a new decendant of Sparda just so that people wouldn't shit themselves at the concept of not playing as Dante. What this did was create a ton of questions that got no answer in the game, which is probably a good thing as the answers more than likely would've been ass pulls anyway.

Ninja Theory are being left to deal with the mess that was created when Kobayashi(sp?)basically screwed the series by badly trying to take the series in a different direction and that's no small feat.

As long as the combat is solid(which, judging from the trailer, it looks to be)and they give a plausible reason for the change in hair(the hair is important, it's pretty much what marks a decendant of Sparda)then I'm happy. Hell I'm even looking forward to it and if Ninja Theory are willing to make such drastic changes then it shows that they're really committed to taking the series in a new direction the way it was meant to be, not just by taking a new guy and slapping some white hair on him.

Oh, and will people shut up saying he looks like an emo? I know it's fun to be part of a group and all at this stage it seems like you're just copying what the people on the first couple of pages are saying just so you can be part of the hate. He had black hair with a bit of a fringe, it's called a hairstyle, a hairstyle doesn't make an emo.

Really liked this post. He does have white hair btw, its growing in, check 0:59 in the trailer.

 

[WanderingFool]

Hmmm... know what, Im repealing my orginal opinion of dislike. Ill give Ninja Theory the benefit of the doubt, and wait till I see more befor making my full judgement. Cause, there isnt really all that much to go on.

 

[nightowl195]

You're all being a bunch of babies. He looked completely androgynous before and now you're screaming "OMG he's so fucking gay." He's in a police lineup he's supposed to look like shit. Do you know how childish you look from an outsider's perspective?

 

[anthony87]

I like everything i've seen so far about the game. And i'm a DMC Fan of the first minute.

DMC needed the change or we just would've had another Series ala Megaman.

The City looks awesome. Dante really looks like some kind of fucked up project. Which seems realistic. I think this is exactly what would happen if humans find out we have Demons among us.

Thanks NT for having the balls to actually change something about the formula.

Edit: To anyone who thinks he's emo: What's emo? It's not just the dark hair and lipstick. It's more about how people react to certain situation. Id' like to remind everyone of you of the scene from the first DMC were Trish died. Remember that scene, and don't tell me his line wasn't cheesy and god-damn-emo.

He looks totally like a Punk, which would make sense. Dante in DMC3 was just an Adrenalin Junkie. But this Dante looks more like the guy the Dante from the first one would become.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's nice to see someone not bitching! You, my friend, are a real fan.

I gotta join in here with you two guys. I'm a proper veteran of the DMC series and I don't mean that in any sort of pretentious fanboy way. I've got every game in the series plus the demos of those games, I've played though each one to completion multiple times on Dante Must Die Mode except for the first one(fuck you 3rd Nightmare battle....FUCK YOU!!!!*ahem*) and I happen to think that the backstory of the series is one of the best in gaming.

The reason I put that whole last paragraph down is so people will have a bit of context for when I say this;

Ninja Theory are making the right move.

After watching the trailer and seeing the screenshots I was ready to jump on the whinging bandwagon with the other guys on this thread but then I sat back and took a look at what happened with DMC4 and what happened was that DMC4 nearly doomed the series.

It gave us a new main character out of the blue, fuckall backstory on said main character(yes, I'm aware of the novel), pushed Dante to the sidelines and chucked in a new decendant of Sparda just so that people wouldn't shit themselves at the concept of not playing as Dante. What this did was create a ton of questions that got no answer in the game, which is probably a good thing as the answers more than likely would've been ass pulls anyway.

Ninja Theory are being left to deal with the mess that was created when Kobayashi(sp?)basically screwed the series by badly trying to take the series in a different direction and that's no small feat.

As long as the combat is solid(which, judging from the trailer, it looks to be)and they give a plausible reason for the change in hair(the hair is important, it's pretty much what marks a decendant of Sparda)then I'm happy. Hell I'm even looking forward to it and if Ninja Theory are willing to make such drastic changes then it shows that they're really committed to taking the series in a new direction the way it was meant to be, not just by taking a new guy and slapping some white hair on him.

Oh, and will people shut up saying he looks like an emo? I know it's fun to be part of a group and all at this stage it seems like you're just copying what the people on the first couple of pages are saying just so you can be part of the hate. He had black hair with a bit of a fringe, it's called a hairstyle, a hairstyle doesn't make an emo.

Really liked this post. He does have white hair btw, its growing in, check 0:59 in the trailer.

Aye I know, but that's been pointed out so many times already I didn't bother putting it in. Also, is it just me or does there seem to be more white in his hair in some scenes compared to others?

 

[ANImaniac89]

Dante's son?
Sure.

Dante's younger self?
No!

thats what I thought
that he is Dante Jr

 

[Ascarus]

never played the first one so i have no real connection to dante, but that guy just looks like a dirty emo kid to me.

 

[Julianking93]

Not at all. His coolness is supposed to just flow naturally.

Still, I will admit that seeing the trailer made me somewhat hopeful. The look of the game seems good. Reminds me of a Silent Hill game in all honesty.

And personally, I liked Dante's new voice. Much more brutal sounding than before.

If they were just to change his look (and in my own perfect world have it set AFTER DMC2 for a change...) it would be perfect.

DMC2 was such a massive screw up it's been pushed to the end of the timeline and they are probably never visiting there again.

I want one set just after DMC3! All his weapons and badassitude still intact!

I'm not saying they should return to the gameplay of DMC2. I didn't really like that game (not as much as other people mind you. Everyone seemed to hate it. I thought it was....okay)

I just want to know what's happened to him since then rather than his chronicles before it. And I'd like some of it to be actually relevant. 3 did a good job at focusing on his upbringing and all but 4 had hardly anything to do with him as a character and neither did 2. It just focused on Nero and Lucia respectively.

I want more Dante story damn it!

 

[chainer1216]

Eugh, jesus. It's a remake, it's not supposed to look like the white haired guy. Same name, same characters but I'm pretty sure this is a new story. A story outside the accepted DMC storyline.

ya know, you could tell who was batman in batman begins, you could tell who optimus prime was in transformers, you could tell who the whole cast of the star trek reboot were supposed to be. but you cant tell that guy is supposed to be dante. or that that world is supposed to be the DMC world.

the point of a reboot is to make something that at the same time is both similar and differant, while making it on the whole better (thats the idea anyway) but this has nothing, even remotely, to do with DMC.