bloodysabbath posted:

Really starting to think that the games press racket is fellating this game so hard because it gives them a great excuse to nerdbait and bash people who actually like games/know what they are talking about.

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" From the makers of the critcally acclaimed Heavenly Sword, and Enslaved, Ninja Theroy have taken on the mantle of DMC, in their latest game, DmC: Devil may Cry blah blah.

[a few more paragraphs sucking NT's cock, with words like "artistic", "stylistic", "cutting edge mocap" SLURP SLURP SLURP]

Oh, well, Dante may look different, but he's still the same Dante. And the fans don't like it because they changed his hair, get over it losers. He's still got the same wild crazy attitude.

*picture of the out of date crack-whore Dante*

The graphics look as sweet as, and it controls like a true DMC should. All the old moves are there, and it's improved the styles by using the Angel and Devil triggers. They do blah blah blah

*another picture of Dante in the road with a mid-airswing or whatever. An "action pic"*

And the boss is ugly as hell. It's like some gross bug, and some ugly fucker, like all DMC bosses. The fight puts you to the test taking advantage of the triggers, you have to blah blah

*picture of bug boss looking angry*

And the dialogue is sharp, having come from the screen writer from 28 Days Later, and Dante is witty and full of one-liners like his older self.

*screencap of Dante being wacky or in the middle of saying "gently caress"*

I don't get why the so-called fans of the series don't like it. It's story is brilliant and the graphics are gorgeous, who cares about the 30fps?
For one I look forward to this [reboot/prequel/reimagining/whatever word they're going to use], and it'll prove just how great NT really is. SLURP SLURP"

User0015 posted:

People usually say RPS is one of the best, but I don't know if they had time to look at it or not.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun from May 22nd posted:

Yes, its full name is “DmC Devil May Cry” – so, in essence, the game’s actual name is Devil May Cry Devil May Cry. I can’t claim to navigate the labyrinthine cognitive corridors that led to this not-so-dynamic duo of a name, but oh well. I’m playing a game called The Exiled Realm of Arborea right now and am eagerly anticipating a dark, gritty noir drama unabashedly titled Max Payne 3. Names have never exactly been this industry’s strong suit. Stupid, silly amazo-action, however, is right up our alley full of conspicuously placed explosive barrels, and few deliver it better than the Devil May Cry franchise. Basically, I’m in love with Dante’s dumb demon-slayer-who’s-basically-a-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle antics, so this has me pretty excited. That said, DmC is the first series entry that hasn’t been developed internally at Capcom, so I’m still exercising caution.

Announced alongside a January 2013 delay for the console version, runs-on-PC DmC won’t be out until “later in 2013.” It is, however, at least existent – a promising step in the right direction. That said, the jury’s still out on new developer Ninja Theory’s vision of Dante’s over-the-top, demon-infested life. I mean, his hair’s the wrong color. What’s up with that? Surely it’s a crystal clear reflection of how the game will play. There’s no other explanation.

Or perhaps – and this is a crazy, totally out-there long shot – Ninja Theory knows exactly what it’s doing, as evidenced by its incredible work on Enslaved and pretty solid work on Heavenly Sword. The developer’s flair for the dramatic is pretty much peerless – especially with frequent involvement from Andy Serkis, aka Gollum from Lord Of The Rings and Caesar from Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. So yeah, it’ll probably be a different spin on the swords ‘n’ guns hack ‘n’ slash, but I’m pretty optimistic about its chances of standing on its own two feet.

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I try to switch weapons mid combo which works fine but even if the combo is the same botton sequence switching weapons restarts the combo so no mixing and matching weapons even with the same combo

The way the Demon and Angel forms are set up are somewhat counter intuetive when you actually get your hands on it.

The game is not as responceve in certain areas. For example: When I was trying to use the angle dash I found that I wouldn't;

Similar things happened when dudging

You HAVE TO be facing the thing, ledge, or enemy you want to graple or nothing will happen. If you can't see it on screen it doesn't matter if you're right infront of it, you won't graple it. I fell off the edge more than a few times fighting poison because of this.

I was floating right under a blue crystal during one of the 'kill the camera sequences' and D wouldn't grapple till I moved back and shifted the camera to see the drat thing.

Canceling isn't available all the time.

DT isn't as helpful as I'd hope. From what I saw the only real uses for the DT were A) to recover health and B) to launge all enemies into the air. I saw no other uses for it

I didn't hate the plataforming elements

Stinger is not as easy to pull of as previous titles. There was just a big difference from the original way to do it that made it very hard to do.

In DT killing enemies gets you more of those slo-mo kills. I didn't like that, it broke the tempo of the fight and was more distraction than anything.

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it's a vast improvement on DMC4.

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Now that I'm more rested I think I was more tired than I realized when I played this. One reason I think this is that I was that I was really struggleing to pull of the stinger, which is done the same way as Bayonetta, and I've done it there with more ease. And with Poison there were times when I was doing magnificently well but then started to struggle in others.

Now, something I didn't mention how how often I died or fell unintentionally. At the church I actually fell ALOT. In this case it was because of how the A-Dash didn't respond to L2+X, to A-Dash you have to hold the L2 for significant amount of time before pushing X. The thing is, from what I've seen on online videos I'm left wondering if it's just the PS3 version that does this, people playing the 360 version on online videos didn't seem to struggle at all with this so maybe it's an early port glitch. I actually did fall on purpose a few times to see if there was any penalty of any kind, like a health decrease, but nada.

One thing I did do was wait on one of the plataforms to see if anything happend if you just stood there. Well the plataform would start to vibrate, which game me the impression that eventually it would fall from under your feet if you just stayed there, but I didn't stick arround to find out.

I also did rather poorly with Poison,like I said above, I died a round 4 times, maybe 5. I know, juudgin my own skills, I would've still dies twice even if I did have a good handle on the controller layout, which was the primary reason I struggled so much. The other two reasons I died so often, and why I know I would have died anyway even if I could play better are because i didn't dudge on time several attacks. This goes back to what I was saying about the game not giving you the luxery of waiting till the last moment to dudge some attacks. More specificly when Poison is about to slam her fist down on you is not the time to wait for the last second. The other reason was that when you are attacking her hands the camera zoomed in right ontop of me and I couldn't see her face so it was hard to judge her attacks. I also mentioned that the other thing that was a pain in the rear end was that you had to look at the blue crystal to latch on to it.

One thing I really wante to find out with Poison was whether or not you could latch on that red crystal on her forhead every time you saw it. You can't, it has to be glowing before you can Demon grapple it, which means countering her swing. Now I can't be sure about this but I think you can't do any damage to her head unless that crystal is visible; I'm provably wron about this but that's the impression that I got while fighting.

One thing that kinda bugged me was that the launcher (AKA high time). Pressing and holding the button will send you flying in to the air with your opponent but in this game you have to hold the botton longer than previous titles which sometimes left me on the floor when I wanted to be in the air.

There was a cool little thing in the area with the two cameras where when you destroy the one on the left and the little chubby dudes appear (stingers). If you demon graple one to remove the shield and the camera is facing the right direction the shiled come flying at the camera. Nothing great but I thought it was kinda neat.

The double jump is not made for covering distances, it's more for getting you hight. I often found that double jumping would actually slow me down while in mid air and that to get to the next ledge the better policy was to not use the D-jump and stick to the A-dash.

Using L2+O in mid air lauches your enemies higher up. I was hoping they had something like that since you can launch your enemies in Bayonetta in mid air and I was hoping it was also here. Unfortuanatly they decided not to include the air stinger.

randombattle posted:

You guys just can't accept the artistic genius of the NT crew. Clearly everyone complaining is just an entitled gamer who doesn't understand how ART truly works.

bloodysabbath posted:

Really starting to think that the games press racket is fellating this game so hard because it gives them a great excuse to nerdbait and bash people who actually like games/know what they are talking about.

"Wouldn't it be totally rad if the game played itself and if at the end Dante sparkled in the sun?" (And oh yeah the whole thing is an allegory for being poor in America.)

Ankle-biter posted:

Don't say that! You are giving me bad ME3 flashbacks

Sex_Ferguson posted:

It's hard to tell how Capcom would react to this game bombing.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Disco level is so video-gamey it hurts. A literal sign saying "ROUND 1" and "FIGHT" appears and then the enemies spawn in.

ThePhenomenalBaby posted:

Not sure what your problem is with this. DMC has always been one of the more "videogamey" videogames.

ThePhenomenalBaby posted:

Not sure what your problem is with this. DMC has always been one of the more "videogamey" videogames.

Alteisen posted:

To be honest one has to ask, what is considered a bomb for Capcom exactly? They really want those CoD numbers after all.

Pesky Splinter posted:

I looked up the units sold of Ninja Theory's past games:

Heavenly Sword: 1.5 million

Enslaved: 4 hundred thousand.
That really loving bombed. They were hoping it would reach the 1 million mark. I'm surprised that NT didn't go bust from that.

Critically, the DMC series and NT's games are around the 70-80% mark from the aggregate scores of metacritic and gamerankings.

Bayonetta actually sold less than Heavenly Sword at 1.35 million units.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Pesky Splinter posted:

I looked up the units sold of Ninja Theory's past games:

Heavenly Sword: 1.5 million

Enslaved: 4 hundred thousand.
That really loving bombed. They were hoping it would reach the 1 million mark. I'm surprised that NT didn't go bust from that.

Critically, the DMC series and NT's games are around the 70-80% mark from the aggregate scores of metacritic and gamerankings.

Bayonetta actually sold less than Heavenly Sword at 1.35 million units.

notZaar posted:

Wow it looks like Capcom pulled NT out of the fryer with this deal, so that's just one more reason to hope it doesn't bomb (for all involved.)

Archonex posted:

I don't know if this is the angle or what, but Lilith there seems to have some sort of serious birth defect that altered the overall shape of her skull.

notZaar posted:

Wow it looks like Capcom pulled NT out of the fryer with this deal, so that's just one more reason to hope it doesn't bomb (for all involved.)

Sex_Ferguson posted:

I knew Bayonetta was PG's best selling game, but I didn't know they broke a million, nice. I can only hope Anarchy does as well.

Oxxidation posted:

I won't really be shedding too many tears if Ninja Theory sinks. They're CG artists with delusions of grandeur, not game developers, and it's shown in all their work so far.

Alteisen posted:

I won't like to it because gently caress destructoid, but Jim Sterling's latest jimquisition essentially calls all DMC fans assholes, he paints like its the gamers fault for having certain exceptions of a particular franchise and the name associated with it.

I presented what I felt was a good argument, such as when I see Resident Evil, at a minimum I expect a horror game, not an action game with poor horror elements. I was promptly told that I need to lower my expectations. Cause you know, that's the right answer, just gently caress it right?

Alteisen posted:

I won't like to it because gently caress destructoid, but Jim Sterling's latest jimquisition essentially calls all DMC fans assholes, he paints like its the gamers fault for having certain exceptions of a particular franchise and the name associated with it.

I presented what I felt was a good argument, such as when I see Resident Evil, at a minimum I expect a horror game, not an action game with poor horror elements. I was promptly told that I need to lower my expectations. Cause you know, that's the right answer, just gently caress it right?

Azure_Horizon posted:

Anarchy absolutely bombed in Japan.

GUI posted:

The lack of a lock-on button is such a bad idea. There's one or two sections in the camera footage posted above where the player has issues grabbing airborne enemies.

Sex_Ferguson posted:

Ninja Theory really seems more like they'd rather be working on some artistic underground movie group than on video games.