my listing goes, best to worst
3,1,4,2
3 took every thing that made DMC a hit to begin with and refined it to a mirror finish, and brought back functions and unlockables from 1 an 2, (super characters and a much improved Bloody Place) in the SE, only thing i didn't like about the SE, is they 'fixed' the difficulty, pre SE, DMC3's normal was actually the hard setting, shoulda left it be imo
1 set the standard and paved the way for games like Ninja Gaiden and God of War, (though nether are as good for numerous reasons i won't go into here)by establishing a third person fighting system that works, in part like a fighting game, and brought us the epic win of the Devil Trigger as well as being the first good 3D Castlevania, even it it was still borrowing a lot from RE.
4 fucked up with the Nero/Dante switch, they shoulda had their own campaigns,(like in DMC 2) and a fucked up on the story, its not so good even by DMC standards, since its mostly about Nero saving his 'princess peach' useless girlfriend, and fucked up again with the dice game, which thankfully Dante was quick to do what i was i coulda done with Nero and the level repetition was, annoying in bits
DMC 2, the biggest problem i think this game had, is DMC 1, they tryed to hard to make another hit an some things fell flat, like Dante's personality, i actually enjoy playing as Lucia more, her story was more interesting to, the over arcing story was pretty meh to, but bitching about story in a DMC game is almost pointless since, lets face it, we're not playing it to see the next epic tale be laid out before, we're there to beat some ass, and look like absolute bad asses doing it, to bad the combat fell flat in DMS 2 as well, just felt off, which is why i rate it lower then 4, cause while Nero is a whinny pussy whipped *****, the Devil Bringer is fun to play with at least, where as there was no real difference between Dante an Lucia game play wise
also, quit note on the ladys of DMC,
Trish, Awesome, got it right the first time.
Lucia, probably the best part of DMC2 really, and nice little plot twist with her, and, red head :3 like red heads XD.
Lady, never really like her much, spent to much time being a ***** when it was pretty clear she an Dante where after the same thing
And yes, Metal gear Rising is ripping off Metal gear solid and both Warcraft and starcraft ripped off Warhammer
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