notZaar posted:

The fact that the game is running at 30fps is pretty telling. Compare this to Metal Gear Rising where Platinum sacrificied the FOX engine's pretty face in favor of their own 60 fps engine.

Also people like to poo poo on the stories in these games, but I really enjoyed the plot in DMC3. The family stories made an emotional connection, especially Dante and Vergil's conflict.

ChewyLSB posted:

Yes because a game that is so lovely that they have to say "gently caress" and "poo poo" every other word makes me think the game is really awesome. Because its so cool and edgy to use swears.

To me that just says to me that the game is bad and they're just padding it with swears to get the dumb edgy crowd. Which tells me the game is not going to be very good!

Pesky Splinter posted:

Demo at 4 hours 54 mins
http://e3.gamespot.com/live-show/

Summation:

* Vitality drink is literally Slurm from Futurama, right down to coming from the end of a slug monster. Hurray for originality!
* SOCIAL SATIRE SEE HOW MODERN AND HIP AND COOL WE ARE
* gently caress YOU! gently caress YOU! NO gently caress YOUUUUUU! *vomits*
* The combat is slow. As. gently caress.
* The combat looks easy. As. poo poo.
* The combat looks clunky. As. Hell.
* "So you're hoping this will have the amazing combat the series has, combined with your story telling".
* "We wanted Dante to be unpolished. He's young, a little unpolished" (in regards to character).
* The lack of a lock on target seems to be causing difficulties for whoever is playing this, they seem to be missing the mark quite a lot.
* Devil Trigger looks poo poo.
* Weapon/Ability upgrades will become available during the game.
* "Combat system has depth" (none of which is loving shown during the video)
* Made it so that expert players can play it, but not scaring away casual players.
* "All our bosses are pretty epic, so if anything [the bug boss] is at the shallower end of the pool"
* Bug boss is named "Poison".

And this boss section is a 1/3 of the way through the game. This is what the combat will be like for the majority of it.

ABANDON ALL HOPE!

Urgh. I've gone through cycles of disliking the game, feeling optimistic it'll work, disliking it even more, thinking that maybe it won't turn out to be so bad, and now I'm right back to really disliking it. Urgh...

ImpAtom posted:

I think it might be a perfectly mediocre action/platformer but man, those things are a dime a dozen. After Ninja Gaiden 3 was a gigantic pile of poo poo and Bayonetta's sequel appears to be nonexistent/cancelled, DMC is all we had left. Maybe Metal Gear Rising...

Ximum posted:

Well, Sega seems to have killed Anarchy Reigns, too. At least for America. It's bad enough Platinum's official stance at this point is "import it, we went ahead and put full English support in it for you."

Nikolaos posted:

Obesity? What? Where the hell did that come from?

Bushmaori posted:

Well yeah I know that this is the way it usually goes but I swear with this and the whole Mass Effect 3 gamer privileged rants they must be getting close to approaching critical fellatiatory mass in the eyes of the common internet reader. Or am I placing too much faith in my fellow humans?

notZaar posted:

The UI is changed, just a tad. Now the health bar has little sections instead of being one continous bar. It's still dreadfully simple and slapped together, they need to do some work on that. I noticed that the little face next to the health meter blinks occasionally, which seems to be a strange detail. Maybe it will eventually grunt and grin like the Doom guy head.

SSNeoman posted:

Okay, I'll bite.

Why is [Country] Idol one of the sources of evil in our world?
I get Fox News because they spread fear mongering and misinformation.
I sort of get the slurm because of the whole consumerism angle. Strange Journey did it better though, but that's par for the course.

The * Idol thing has me stumped.

Pesky Splinter posted:

For those of you that can tolerate him, Angry Joe has an interview with Capcom about their upcoming games.

I honestly can't stomach the guy, so can't offer any comment on the video.

And here's the usual doublethink on Dante's backstory, from various people:

"Very well put, but as you mentioned ripping open your chest is over the top and excessive which is exactly why I think they did it. They want Dante to retain a trait of over the topness, and ripping open your chest to see your heart is pretty over the top. Plus it's original, I can't say I've seen in a video game where the character rips open his chest just to see his human heart. But that's just my take on it, I find the action to be original, very emotional, and pretty badass."

"I still dont think its emo though, if he did it a lot than it would be emo but if he only did it once out of curiosity than its understandable."

"I wouldn't consider it "emo" because Dante is not cutting open his chest for attention like that of an "emo" person. He is cutting himself open to see if he's human or not, or at least that's what I get from the context of the picture."

Oh, to be 12 again.

Pasteurized Milk posted:

Looking at that concept art just kind of reinforces how weird of a choice Ninja Theory is for Westernizing a game.

Pesky Splinter posted:

I don't get the point of this new one basically allowing the player to spam the same move over and over and still give them a high ranking. Yeah, they might have a large variety of combos available, but what's the point if you're still rewarded with just spamming heavy attack?

Uncle Wemus posted:

Wow it sounds like they have no loving clue about anything.

Guydoingthis posted:

This is so dumb. Why would you start a reboot by flipping off everyone that bought the game because of fond memories of the previous title(s)?

The one way I can think of to save this would be to do something like having the white wig be an unlockable for replay, but I'm pretty sure they won't do that. They seem way too smug to acknowledge the previous games fondly.

I haven't even played the previous games and their attitude irritates me.

Alteisen posted:

Because games journalism.

ImpAtom posted:

Forever was poorly received for the story too, yes. It wasn't funny and was misogynistic in an uncomfortably straightforward way, even compared to older Duke games.

Pesky Splinter posted:

I hope however, the unseen boss designs are more interesting than the ones they've shown thus far: Poison is not that impressive and the Hunter is just Orangguerra 2.0, though the Not-Glenn Beck boss is looking pretty interesting being made of all TVs and that. And considering that it's heavily implied Mundus turns into a huge gently caress-off building, it'd be nice to see a Nefasturris-like boss again..

NinjaTheory posted:

“I want to be definitive. He’s not playable in the game. I don’t want to be coy about that and have people think they’re getting one thing when they’re getting another.”

Pesky Splinter posted:

Someone's Son of Sparda run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqdl6lx5CPk

It looks more interesting and engaging at a higher level - different enemy groups and all that. That lock-on seems to be more of a hinderance than a help though. Especially with those flying enemies.

This is a more personal complaint but I miss the older style of music, where it's more video-gamey, rather than "this is the poo poo we didn't want to put on our album" kinda thing.

Pesky Splinter posted:

They said something along those lines. I hesitate to believe them.

Speaking of that, look at this Truestyle video. Obviously this person knows the thing inside and out and can do all sorts of crazy poo poo. This is her DmC attempt.

And for shits and giggles, as well as demonstrating just how hosed and unbalanced the ranking system is, look at this guy go from a D to SSS in three hits.

skywalker6705 posted:

Stumbled on another ridiculous video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnbnqJSpj-Q

Man, watching this just makes me really aware of how NOT good I was at these games, even though I loved the hell out of them. Anyone else feel the same? I love watching this crap on youtube, it's like an inspiration to suck less. I seriously don't understand how anyone can't see why people see a difference between this DMC, and DmC.

Seriously though, he does like the entire Credo fight in one SSS combo where he takes one hit. Beautiful.

notZaar posted:

DMC3 Dante pointlessly antagonizes Lady in every encounter (even if she isn't the nicest person to him to begin with) and is generally really abrasive. It's nice that by the end of the game he actually has something to care about and can show some empathy while still kicking rear end.

Pesky Splinter posted:

SSNeoman posted:

Goddamn. I could poo poo a better translation than that.