I recently finished the Vergil's Downfall DLC for the latest Devil May Cry, and while the combat feels really solid, and I had a lot of fun with it, it pretty much killed any hope I had of the character ever being like his DMC3 version.
Some context for those who don't know what I'm talking about. In DMC3, Vergil is the brother of Dante, he seeks the power of his father, Sparda, who was a ridiculously powerful demon. This desire for power stems from his inability to protect his mother from being killed. While Dante compensates for this failure by being aloof, not really caring about anything, Vergil believes that 'might controls everything, and without strength, you can not protect anything, let alone yourself'. He is calm, calculating and this shows in the way he fights, with precise movement, the opposite to his brother's almost chaotic fighting style.
He is nothing like this in the new DmC. He's a mummy's boy with an inferiority complex, and his voice actor is just... bleh, I know it's a reboot, but while Dante still retained a lot of what made him Dante, Vergil pretty much lost everything that made me like him as a character.
Voice comparisons.
17.42 - 17.49
Compared to his voice actor in DMC3...
I hope this didn't come across too much like fanboy whining
Anyway, for the sake of discussion, have any characters you liked been unfairly killed off/changed so that they don't resemble the original?
Some context for those who don't know what I'm talking about. In DMC3, Vergil is the brother of Dante, he seeks the power of his father, Sparda, who was a ridiculously powerful demon. This desire for power stems from his inability to protect his mother from being killed. While Dante compensates for this failure by being aloof, not really caring about anything, Vergil believes that 'might controls everything, and without strength, you can not protect anything, let alone yourself'. He is calm, calculating and this shows in the way he fights, with precise movement, the opposite to his brother's almost chaotic fighting style.
He is nothing like this in the new DmC. He's a mummy's boy with an inferiority complex, and his voice actor is just... bleh, I know it's a reboot, but while Dante still retained a lot of what made him Dante, Vergil pretty much lost everything that made me like him as a character.
Voice comparisons.
17.42 - 17.49
Compared to his voice actor in DMC3...
I hope this didn't come across too much like fanboy whining
Anyway, for the sake of discussion, have any characters you liked been unfairly killed off/changed so that they don't resemble the original?