Dante Steps Into the Demon World

...Okay I like what they've done with Vergil. I don't like the typical damsel in distress twist they threw in at the end there, but I guess that has been in every DMC so I guess it's part of their initiative to "appeal to the fans." Or video game writers still suck at writing female characters, which I will admit is the much more likely answer.

I was a bit skeptical about this as I loved the other games. I was going to play it anyway but this did its job and I am looking forward to this coming out.

@HerbieBug said:

I'm no DMC fan and have no stake in the yay or nay for new design argument, but it still perplexes me. It is different, yes, but why? To what end? Is this done with the intent to drum up sales from a new audience? What new audience would that be? How does this design hypothetically appeal to a new audience that the old design did not? Seems to me both old and new designs appeal to exactly the same demo (video game fans on the younger end of the spectrum).

I know enough about marketing to understand that you don't just make drastic changes like this to a proven sales commodity for random funsies. What is the thinking here?

Capcom wants to appeal to the hypothetical "larger western audience" that will buy their game when really they already have a large enough audience on both Japan and The West so they brought in Ninja Theory. I mean DMC4 was the best selling game in the series and one of Capcom's biggest money makers. Honestly, as a DMC fan, I like the idea of this reboot, both in terms of aesthetics and story it looks very original for the franchise except the whole origin story. In that front, Ninja Theory have done a great job and I get why Capcom brought them in for that reason.

My main concern however is why Capcom decided to give this franchise that is famous for its fast-paced, highly technical combat system to a developer that have never designed a decent combat system in their previous games. That is what most fans are upset about.

Well, and there is the whole change from 60 FPS to 30 FPS because of the engine's limitations on console but that will hopefully be remedied in the PC version. If the PC port didn't suck that is...

Yeah, this looks awesome! I never got into any of the old Devil May Cry's, but this looks like a fresh take on the subject. I'll probably pick this up.

@Yummylee said:

The more I see of this game the more I'm liking it. And Vergil is no exception! He looks like he'll make for a great villain, with this freedom fighter 'anything for the greater good' sort of arc that'll inevitably lead him to facing off against Dante. It's no Shakespeare, but it'll make for both a better and more fleshed out character motivation than ''deh, open demon portal for power''.

Plus new Vergil's character design is bitchin'.

yep

@murisan said:

DMC3 was the best DMC game yet. That being said, this looks fucking good. Virgil looks great, and Dante looks fine. The dialogue seems PLENTY up to par with the past DMC's (come on, be realistic), and I'm interested in the storyline between the brothers.

Dante saying the f-word over and over may be Ninja Theory's idea of cool, but it's not mine.

@Xeirus said:

@Tidel said:

@Demoskinos said:

Love this trailer.

Ditto.

I wasn't digging the previous 2 games, but this one is looking better and better. If anything, the unnecessary hate for it makes me want to play it more.

As a DMC fan I just want to buy 500 copies but that seems.... unnecessary since I'm sure dudes who weren't fans of this will eat this shit up.

I am fucking pumped up for this goddamn game. Jesus fucking christ.

@allodude: Guest appearance by Rowdy Roddy Piper!

I don't mean to step on any toes, but it's just that Dante... well.... he looks.... slightly mentally handicapped in my opinion. Maybe it's the hair, idk.

@HerbieBug: I think they wanted to freshen up the series a bit so they thought a reboot with a different approach in terms of story/ mood was needed. It kind of reminds me of the reboot of Prince of Persia back in 2008

Continues to look good and still on my will-buy list.

This is looking better and better the more I see of it, that'll probably mean i'll be dissapointed in the end XD.

Although I'm really digging the Dante redesign, I'm not really a fan of the new Vergil. From what I remember of DMC3, Vergil was a cold, calculated bad-ass who admittedly had no personality but was cool as fuck. New Vergil seems like the idealist older brother who will either turn on Dante or will be an annoyance throughout the game. Here's hoping to Ninja Theory proving me wrong.

Wow, that is some manga-esque dialogue.

Holy shit a Japanese games main male character does look like a fem bot

When I read the title to this video I thought it was going to be about a Dantes Inferno sequel, eeekkk...

Color me interested. This looks way better than what was shown of DMC before. I'll be keeping this on my rader now.

Looks better than I expected -- good trailer. Still not into the new direction though.

looks like the game is going to have a really good story. I still think DMC 1 was amazeballs.

I've played and beat every DMC and while some games in the series weren't exactly great (DMC2 is a piece of shit) they all still looked and and played like a DMC game.

When the first trailers came out I couldn't figure out why they were calling it a Devil May Cry when it didn't really seem like a Devil May Cry. After watching this latest trailer with Virgil I now know that this game is truly a "reboot" in the sense that everything about the series is being thrown out the window and all that's left are hints of names and appearances. It looks like an interesting game now, but people shouldn't expect it to play like previous games in the series or keep the same tone.

I'm no DMC fan and have no stake in the yay or nay for new design argument, but it still perplexes me. It is different, yes, but why? To what end? Is this done with the intent to drum up sales from a new audience? What new audience would that be? How does this design hypothetically appeal to a new audience that the old design did not? Seems to me both old and new designs appeal to exactly the same demo (video game fans on the younger end of the spectrum).

I know enough about marketing to understand that you don't just make drastic changes like this to a proven sales commodity for random funsies. What is the thinking here?

DMC3 was the best DMC game yet. That being said, this looks fucking good. Virgil looks great, and Dante looks fine. The dialogue seems PLENTY up to par with the past DMC's (come on, be realistic), and I'm interested in the storyline between the brothers.

these character designs are better than the stereotipical anime ones from the original

I think this game looks great. Maybe die hard fans hate the new direction but I"m going to check it out and Ninja Theory always makes interesting games.

Is it just me or the byplay between them reminiscent of Supernatural?

@SpasticHeathen said:

@Cyrisaurus said:

I don't understand the bitching about this, it looks better than every other DMC game I've seen

You take any game that has a very distinct feel and completely overhaul it to the point where it's barely identifiable and see how any community takes it. No lock on, two dodge buttons, stance options, a dedicated launcher button, new slightly weird floaty enemy juggle physics, ridiculously simplified, horribly long aerial combos along with a lot of animations (Especially Rain Storm and the new Eryx gauntlets) that are ugly as sin and cumbersome and a major tone shift that tries to be edgy but just comes off throwing expletives recklessly for it.

You may as well take Unreal Tournament and make it into a Call of Duty game for how much of a gameplay departure it's taking.

@killacam said:

do DMC fans actually like 4? everything i've seen from this looks so so much better than that attempt.

More than you realize. There were lots of fun things you could do with Lucifer, Nero's summoned swords and some of the more interesting momentum quirks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mbfq3GxLQ&feature=player_embedded#!

Preach brother

HEAVY VIGNETTING.

Ooo, obvious "They Live" references. Cool to see it in games.

fight back against Fox News.

I am a fan of the old DMC games and this looks like it could be pretty good. I didn't like they for like the great characters or anything, I liked the combat and style and retarded over the top story. Bayonetta did all of t hose things better than any of the DMC games did (and also than any other character action game did) and this doesn't look like its going to be there, but it looks like it will be fun with a potentially properly crazy story.

@whatisdelicious: If you mean.... lol ok I guess I should actually spoiler-block this then.

@kennyshat said:

@Greenlight13 said:

This is going to sound like a total copy of somebody else's comment, but I've never played or been remotely interested in a Devil May Cry game before, but upon clicking on this out of sheer boredom I really liked what I saw. Dante seems to be walking the delicate line between real emotional human and total badass without slipping into JRPG emo or gruff hollywood roid machine. Good delivery by the voice actor. The aesthetic and setting are cool, but Virgil is kinda meh for me.

This, pretty much.

Same here. Everything but the lack of excitement for Virgil. He looks like he has some real potential to get really psycho by the end of the game. Watch his eyes, man.

@Greenlight13 said:

This is going to sound like a total copy of somebody else's comment, but I've never played or been remotely interested in a Devil May Cry game before, but upon clicking on this out of sheer boredom I really liked what I saw. Dante seems to be walking the delicate line between real emotional human and total badass without slipping into JRPG emo or gruff hollywood roid machine. Good delivery by the voice actor. The aesthetic and setting are cool, but Virgil is kinda meh for me.

This, pretty much.

@Yummylee: I agree that it's not a huge deal, but it seems more like a plot point (and probably late in the game too) than the premise, hence, spoiler. I guess it's just not a huge deal to me because I've only recently gotten the least bit interested in this game, but if I was a big DMC fan, I'd probably think that was revealing too much. I feel like I can tell you how most of the game plays out now, after watching this trailer.

@Cyrisaurus said:

I don't understand the bitching about this, it looks better than every other DMC game I've seen

You take any game that has a very distinct feel and completely overhaul it to the point where it's barely identifiable and see how any community takes it. No lock on, two dodge buttons, stance options, a dedicated launcher button, new slightly weird floaty enemy juggle physics, ridiculously simplified, horribly long aerial combos along with a lot of animations (Especially Rain Storm and the new Eryx gauntlets) that are ugly as sin and cumbersome and a major tone shift that tries to be edgy but just comes off throwing expletives recklessly for it.

You may as well take Unreal Tournament and make it into a Call of Duty game for how much of a gameplay departure it's taking.

@killacam said:

do DMC fans actually like 4? everything i've seen from this looks so so much better than that attempt.

More than you realize. There were lots of fun things you could do with Lucifer, Nero's summoned swords and some of the more interesting momentum quirks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mbfq3GxLQ&feature=player_embedded#!

@whatisdelicious said:

@Yummylee said:

@DiGiTaL_SiN said:

should've put up a spoiler warning on that trailer.

...You're being sarcastic right?? Even CAPCOM have publicly announced that Vergil's in the game; if you are really that sensitive about such 'spoilers', then it's your own fault for choosing to watch any of the trailers. Especially when it comes to anything CAPCOM's involved in, as they often just love to lay out a games entire narrative across all of the trailers.

I think that was more in reference to the classic "sacrifice the big picture for the girl" plot going on.

It's still not what I'd consider a spoiler, though. It's more of a story premise, it's apart of the promotional material and again, if that is what he considers to be a spoiler then it's his own fault for watching the trailer in the first place.

yay! virgil is back! hopefully you can play as him i loved playing as him in 3. hell i'm just excited about this game period.

@Yummylee said:

@DiGiTaL_SiN said:

should've put up a spoiler warning on that trailer.

...You're being sarcastic right?? Even CAPCOM have publicly announced that Vergil's in the game; if you are really that sensitive about such 'spoilers', then it's your own fault for choosing to watch any of the trailers. Especially when it comes to anything CAPCOM's involved in, as they often just love to lay out a games entire narrative across all of the trailers.

I think that was more in reference to the classic "sacrifice the big picture for the girl" plot going on.

That's some awful dialogue they got going there.

This trailer is awesome, the new Dante and Virgil both look and sound awesome, and this game looks awesome. Seriously, I'm so sick of all these "Emo Dante" comments.

Most impressive.

Ninja Theory's face tech is still impressive. I'm still not a fan of the Dante redesign, but everything else in this trailer looked really good.

@DiGiTaL_SiN said:

should've put up a spoiler warning on that trailer.

...You're being sarcastic right?? Even CAPCOM have publicly announced that Vergil's in the game; if you are really that sensitive about such 'spoilers', then it's your own fault for choosing to watch any of the trailers. Especially when it comes to anything CAPCOM's involved in, as they often just love to lay out a games entire narrative across all of the trailers.

@SimonM7 said:

I miss junkie Dante. This Paul Walker-esque pretty boy is just boring looking. Luckily the voice work elevates him somewhat, but it would've been a far cooler contrast to have his "twin" show up and there be some sense of their wildly separate paths - which I can only assume was what they were originally going for with Dante's worn, effed up face.

But hey, he's generic attractive Dante now. Luckily fan feedback shoots down anything TOO interesting.

NT Dante has always had that pretty boy face of his. It's true, the announcement trailer shown him in a pretty messy state, but it also shown him looking just like he does now when he was butting out a cig on a demon's head. His face does look a little... leaner in the announcement trailer, but otherwise he mostly looks the same.

I imagine Dante getting himself battered, bloodied and malnourished will still play a part in the story anyway, maybe as a part of a prologue or something.

@SimonM7: Yeah I thought that was kinda disappointing as well. I am overall really curious as to how the ideas for this game came together, where, why and how they decided to reel it in and whatnot. With a bit of luck we might learn more about this after the game launches.

should've put up a spoiler warning on that trailer.

I miss junkie Dante. This Paul Walker-esque pretty boy is just boring looking. Luckily the voice work elevates him somewhat, but it would've been a far cooler contrast to have his "twin" show up and there be some sense of their wildly separate paths - which I can only assume was what they were originally going for with Dante's worn, effed up face.

But hey, he's generic attractive Dante now. Luckily fan feedback shoots down anything TOO interesting.

That was really cool.

Uh god Dante is sooooo hot. And now there's two of them! *swoon*