SurrealityCheck posted:

If you guys had any idea how loving awesome Vanquish was before it had all the melee features stripped...

It would have BLOWN MINDS.

Platinum Games just make loving awesome games full stop.

VogeGandire posted:

Something else which should be included in the OP for why people hate this game because of Tameem Antoniades: New Dante was clearly based on him. Like, almost an honest-to-god self portrait.

Magil of Shadow posted:

Wait. What?


Details, if you'd please?

Sex_Ferguson posted:

There's a lot of factors as to why exactly this game is so hated, the biggest of which is that Ninja Theory is the worst company at doing damage control. Literally after the first trailer was released, the lead art director, Tameem Antoniades acted like a complete stinkyhole to anyone who disliked the trailer. He got better throughout the build up, but only slightly and still comes off as very pompous. This is not helped with several interviews where NT harps on about how the story of the game will treat us as mature adults, they couldn't include certain features because they felt it wouldn't work within the narrative of the game and they didn't want to make any realy changes because they were set on certain things.

I am almost certain that if NT had done a better job in handling the fan outcry, the game would be received with significantly less vitriol. Although, most of the changes made story and characterwise would probably still piss off fans no matter how unimportant those things end up being in the long run.

Bland posted:

https://twitter.com/NinjaTheory/sta...521624884920321

Didn't it get a 7.5 from some site? Was that not 'genuine'?

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Ultimately, though imperfect in several respects and a little 'more accessible than its predecessors, DmC Devil May Cry is, therefore, show a valid reboot . The review fiction and art will probably turn up their noses at several stalwarts of the brand, it is useless to deny it, but the fact remains that the title is still far from being a total failure. Of course you can not help but notice a slight loss of depth and a more moderate difficulty than the previous chapters of the brand, but the fact remains that the overall experience is in any case altogether pleasant and fun. Just a shame for a plot far from exciting and a technical sector not really rise to the occasion ... in that case, perhaps, the vote would have been higher by at least a point.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Yes, it did. That review has now mysteriously vanished though, and doesn't appear on the site anywhere I can find.

GUI posted:

Are there even any extra costumes in the finished games or do you have to pay for that costume pack to have anything other than ~~white hair~~?

Red Bones posted:

I'm planning on getting it. The gameplay looks pretty mediocre but the plot looks so fantastically bad that I want to see what kind of insane depths it sinks to.

Bland posted:

Wow that's pretty drat shameless

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Pesky Splinter posted:

A mop brush lands on Dante's head, and he looks into a mirror and says something like "Not in a million years."
Cute.
gently caress you, NT, gently caress YOU.

Pesky Splinter posted:

A mop brush lands on Dante's head, and he looks into a mirror and says something like "Not in a million years."
Cute.
gently caress you, NT, gently caress YOU.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

He looks like Tosh to me.

Unlucky7 posted:

The most annoying thing about that pic is that NT (or Capcom) wants it both ways.

sandpiper posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lgGIBxMTlw

swamp waste posted:

Haha oh no

To me this raises the question, did the team who made the previous DMC games know how ridiculous they were? or is ^^this what they were shooting for and only the language barrier / cultural differences made the results seem goofy instead of idiotic? Anyway, gently caress this thing, I guess.

OXM posted:

Capcom and Ninja Theory feel DmC: Devil May Cry will sate the brutality lust of series fans, while teaching newcomers a few of the high level techniques otherwise confined to certain terrifying Youtube videos.

"When I looked at videos of pro-players playing the old DMCs, they're always in the air, they're always juggling enemies around, and doing stuff that most of us look at and think 'I have no idea how that works'," combat designer Rahni Tucker told Dan Griliopoulos during a studio chat.

"We wanted to take that magic the pro-players could create and give more casual players a bit of that feeling. A bit extra hang-time, more aerial moves, the launch button is a single press without a lock-on."

Besides Dante's dependable launcher, the new DmC expands on Devil May Cry 4's grappling functionality in the form of Angel and Demonic grapples - one of which drags you after the target, the other of which drags the target to you. Given the mental wherewithal to distinguish one from the other in a blistering fight, these effectively guarantee a steady supply of combo fodder while Dante's aloft.

Game director Hideaki Itsuno of Capcom insists that this commercially necessary shift hasn't cost the game its vertiginous top layer of skill. "As the series has gone we've seen new users die out, as it took longer to get into it. When it came time to make DMC 4, with the new hero and new moves, new techniques and skills, not many new fans entered the series.

"But with this new DmC, you can take the techniques built up during the old series, and the bar to entry for new users is very low. Both old and new fans will be able to enjoy the game, and I'm very proud of them."

According to creative director Tameem Antoniades, enemies will also punish players for repeating moves. "If you do certain moves over and over, the AI stops you from doing that or responds to you doing that. DmC's a game about playing for style and hitting that high SSS rank is difficult."

Nailing the best combo ratings requires that you keep experimenting, in short. "You can get 50% there by regular combat, but if you want SSS you need to play more creatively. Once you play through the game, the difficulty modes just ramp up skyward."

SSNeoman posted:

I can't help but wonder what the point of this game is. I don't mean that in terms of quality or its status as a sequel.

I mean what's its message? Okay yes, breaking news: the government kind of sucks and Fox news is run by morons. But so what? What change do you wish to instigate? They criticize American Idol without mentioning why it's evil. They mock soft drinks for no other reason than gently caress CONSUMERISM (which is so ironic I think I'm going to get hemochromatosis). And they support Anonymous because they are a protest group?

It's just, for all their posturing about their deep and meaningful storyline, their message and plot is amazingly shallow when you think about it. I mean maybe that will change when we see the game proper, but I doubt it. The whole 99 percent movement has had a confused stance on what exactly its message is beyond "gently caress banks"


For gently caress's sake, Ar Tonelico had a deeper message and a more engaging storyline than this! And that game has a DLC where you can alter the antagonist's personality just to make the game more

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Pesky Splinter posted:

[e2]: Oh gently caress the mop scene has appeared.

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Unlucky7 posted:

I wonder how much of this marketing is Ninja Theory or Capcom. NT is not doing themselves any favors, but Capcom is pushing this game hard. To the extent that they would only allow the new look Dante to appear in Playstation All-Stars, and apparently some of the new look Dante's concept art does resemble his original look.

OXM posted:

"When I looked at videos of pro-players playing the old DMCs, they're always in the air, they're always juggling enemies around, and doing stuff that most of us look at and think 'I have no idea how that works'," combat designer Rahni Tucker told Dan Griliopoulos during a studio chat.