New DmC Gameplay Trailer

[Encentrik]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45IWGYzcuSU&feature=channel_video_title

Now being a fan of the Devil May Cry series, my initial reaction to Ninja Theory's version of Dante was similar to the hatred people have whenever the Westboro Church arrives in their town. Alright that might be a bit excessive but I was not happy at all with how Dante looked and his personality change such as the smoking. However, over time, I've actually begun enjoying the trailers and gameplay footage that's being released; obviously I find some aspects to still be worrying but Ninja Theory is starting to prove to me that they may be able to do something good here.

First of all, anyone who blames Ninja Theory for the new look for Dante, I'm just letting you know that Capcom was the one who wanted to "Westernize" Dante in order for Western audiences to like him more. This plan backfired and it turned out that NT actually wanted to create a Devil May Cry sequel. So I'm not hating on NT here but I don't think their track record is that good; Heavenly Sword was, imo, shit and Enslaved had some good writing and good casting with Andy Serkis but the gameplay was terrible.

In this trailer, it's shown that the gameplay, that previously looked clunky and unresponsive, has been tweaked and actually looks much faster. I was worried about the emphasis on aerial combat but that seems to be not that important. The voice acting for Dante is actually pretty good except the girl he's with is a bit bland and seems to be there solely for exposition but we haven't seen anything of her yet. The graphics on the other hand look pretty bad; not the environments or the art design, they look fantastic but the faces of the characters and the textures are pretty low-res. At Gamescon there were reports of considerably low frame rate drops and since the game is running at 30 FPS, I'm hoping they're fixing this problem. Overall, the game seems to be improving and I'm glad; any DMC fan should at least rent it to see how it is. The story seems interesting except having Dante as a terrorist is something I'm not really excited about seeing as that word is being thrown around everywhere.

 

[TheDarkKing]

Personally, I didn't like the reboot when I first saw it, but I'm starting to like the game the more I see of it... But I'm not liking the new battle soundtrack. Story looks good/ok and combat looks fluid and fun, so yeah, I might buy it when it comes out, despite not finding Dante's new "Westernised" design very good.

 

[PanYue]

Oh. Hey, wow. It's actually alot nicer now than when I last looked at it. I like him more than Nero, I s'pose. The combat remains faithful which I'm a fan of and it seems to, from a quick glance, take pieces of the battle system from DMC throughout and put it in one. But that's probably just me thinking that.

 

[Encentrik]

Oh. Hey, wow. It's actually alot nicer now than when I last looked at it. I like him more than Nero, I s'pose. The combat remains faithful which I'm a fan of and it seems to, from a quick glance, take pieces of the battle system from DMC throughout and put it in one. But that's probably just me thinking that.

Actually if you notice, the music seems to get faster and more intense the better combos you seem to do. That's a nice touch, if you ask me. Also I don't really hate Nero mainly because I blame the Director of the game who wanted to make the game appeal vastly to the "Girl Gamers".

 

[PanYue]

So it does! That's pretty neat. I like it when games do that sort of thing. Music is a driving factor for my love of a game, so this is definitely a solid move in my books.

A voice at the back of my head says that "Maybe thats just the song itself". I'll wait and see.

 

[Palademon]

I thought Enslaved had good gameplay.
Playing Enslaved made me think Ninja Theory would do a good job with DMC.
I wasn't as pessimistic when Dante was revealed though, since I thought that would be his early years and we'd see an awesome metamorphosis in the game. Sadly that is impossible now, but looking forward to this.

 

[hazabaza1]

Ohgod Dante looks like Emo Beiber.
Anyway, while it looks good, it looks very different from what I grew to grow and love in DMC3 and the Dante sections of 4. This seems to have more focus on individual aerial combat and less large crowds of mooks to slice through.

 

[JohnDoey]

If they hadn't named the the game DMC and just said it was inspired by it, people would probably love it but they shot themselves in the foot.

 

[Fwee]

Sometimes people just have to trust the developers to know what they're doing.
If they're changing something in a game series they're probably doing it for a reason, not just pulling a huge publicity stunt. So I got annoyed when people flipped their lids at the new design. And then I myself wanted to complain when it turns out Dante can transform into his more classic version. I figured it was going to be part of the narrative of the game, so it could actually be a cool story point.
Mainly I think that the game genre that the original DMC *arguably* created has so many imitators and idea recycling that Ninja Theory could have just made their own title instead of doing their own "Dylan Goes Electric" with Capcom's series, unless of course they had a creative idea behind it.

 

[anthony87]

It looks....pretty fucking great actually.

I was one of the many haters when this was first revealed but unlike the vast majority of them I've been looking more forward to this the more I see of it.

 

[Encentrik]

Sometimes people just have to trust the developers to know what they're doing.
If they're changing something in a game series they're probably doing it for a reason, not just pulling a huge publicity stunt. So I got annoyed when people flipped their lids at the new design. And then I myself wanted to complain when it turns out Dante can transform into his more classic version. I figured it was going to be part of the narrative of the game, so it could actually be a cool story point.
Mainly I think that the game genre that the original DMC *arguably* created has so many imitators and idea recycling that Ninja Theory could have just made their own title instead of doing their own "Dylan Goes Electric" with Capcom's series, unless of course they had a creative idea behind it.

I think the reasons fans got more upset as time went on was how the director was poking fun at the original Dante, who has become sort of a gaming icon to Playstation fans, and eventually when the fans were so upset, they decided to add the White hair/Red trenchcoat look when you go into "Devil Trigger". It's more of how Tameem, the director, treated the fans and how he spoke of the original 4 games.

Also when I heard that it was an alternate universe, my mind was wiped clean of "I hate this!". It's not set in the original DMC universe, which means that they can do whatever they want. I'm okay with that; although the choice to make him Half Angel-Half Devil is a bit odd; but his attitude seems to be very DMC3 Dante-ish, including one liners, so I'm more lenient.

@Azzxl: Yes that's very true; that's what I've been saying. If they named it something else and based it off DMC instead of making a DMC game, then it would've been much more popular. However, you would have others calling it a Devil May Cry rip-off.

 

[Honey Badger]

First time seeing it and I've gotta say, everything just seems a lot more "crisp", if that's the right word to describe it... looking forward to this one.

 

[AngelSword]

When I saw this, my first thought was, "They're making a DeLorean game?"

 

[cgentero]

Looks like they've been listening to the fans, if you compare this footage to the TGS11 footage you can see they changed a lot of things people were criticizing in the forums, like the excessive kill cams and slo mo to emphasize heavy hits. DINO is still fugly as ever though, still want OG Dante back, also the whole terrorist thing is just another part of the asinine political message.

 

[Encentrik]

Looks like they've been listening to the fans, if you compare this footage to the TGS11 footage you can see they changed a lot of things people were criticizing in the forums, like the excessive kill cams and slo mo to emphasize heavy hits. DINO is still fugly as ever though, still want OG Dante back, also the whole terrorist thing is just another part of the asinine political message.

Hell, if you compare it to the TGS '10 video, they've changed A LOT. Dante in the TGS '10 video looks like he was on drugs but now he looks somewhat respectable. As for the kill cams and slow mo, yes I am glad that they're not putting many of those in the game. It just slows it down but a couple to make it look stylish isn't bad.

 

[AJax_21]

I'm actually pretty impressed by the improvements. Game is looking much smoother than last time they've shown it. I do hope it doesn't suffer NT's usual horrible input lag issues.

 

[TehCookie]

I still think it would do better as an original IP. Though I am glad NT is listening to the fans instead of claiming "They secretly want to like it."

I'm not going to lie I hate the new look (although they improved it vastly, and I laughed when I noticed they changed his necklace to have a red gem like the perfect amulet) but if the gameplay looked good I'd get it. I don't want to judge it yet, because it just looks bland. That's what it looks like when you have an amateur playing DMC. Not that there's anything wrong with that but if you want to prove it has the CUHRAAAZY combat as the others in the series they should have pulled out all the tricks.

 

[jacobythehedgehog]

Ouch, This really depresses me just look at this


It is not even the same main character. They should have called the game "City of Evil" not Devil May Cry lol ... Actually no lol, I am being serious

 

[darth.pixie]

Still hating it. It isn't about the look as much as the change that they made to everything that had established Dante as a character like background and such. I actually liked his character and would have liked to have some questions answered that were left pending.

As is, I'm not interested in the game.