Devil May Cry Reboot-Who The Hell Is This Dante Impostor?

Devil May Cry has been rebooted but with some weird emo Dante, wtf? who the hell is he? i need a blonde Dante. to live

[dark-hollow]

I will send angry letters to capcom with my angry face >:| so they will know that I am very angry!!!

[dark-hollow]

Seriously
First RE then FF and now this???
Japanese gaming is going waaay down hill

[Lovable]

I don't have any defense...

[Reibooi]

@dark-hollow

You can't really use this as a example of why Japanese gaming is going downhill because Capcom is not the ones making most of this game. Ninja Theory is and they are western. So basically you have a Western Dev completely DESTROYING the character and franchise and Capcom stands by and lets it happen because they hope that this will be what the west likes and hopes it leads to sales instead of stepping in and saying stop screwing with our character.

I blame Ninja Theory not Capcom. Capcom is doing what they did with Dead Rising 2 in just having another dev do the game but the difference is that this time Ninja Theory was a bad choice and has no idea what they are doing.

[sack_boi]

It's like someone just kicked me in the balls. I'm mad at Crapcom right now, really mad.

[newhumanbreed]

Blue Castle Games was an excellent choice.

Ninja Theory was a horrible choice.

At least they did one thing right...

[Redrum059]

popular games like halo and cod with their sales numbers have started the trend where evryone wants a "western touch" and its pissing me off.

damnit, i miss last generation.

[3sq]

Capcom gone (RE)
Square Enix gone (FF)
Namco gone (Tekken)
Konami half-gone(SH), I'm watching you, Konami.

What the hell is wrong with this gen?

[evrfighter]

if they wanted to westernize DMC it might have been ok to give dante a Tier 1 beard.

[Unicron]

It's funny. japan seems to think the US wants "western" games.

Um no. I want BOTH. I like JRPGs because they ARENT WRPGs. I like DMC BECAUSE of its Japanese flavor...

sigh.

[Hazama]

Yeah they seem to be completely ignorant to the fact that we ALREADY have western games...

[mastiffchild]

I NEVER thought of DMC as that Japanese, tbh, and didn't see any need for them to fill a game already with it's fair share of western references(for example take the pizza fuelled shenanigans of DMC3's opening-there's tons of western references in the games' architecture, backdrops and cultural stuff too, isn't there?)with the4r influence of a western dev.

I just feel the Japanese part of the games was, mainly, the eccentric gameplay done sleek and stylish and at breakneck speed. Some of the weaponry is also similarly bonkers-but cool. I don't have any of this rabid hate for NT having found HS a VERY good game(if a little brief)and their current efforts look great to me.

Thing is I'm equally unhappy as everyone else that we get Emo/Twilight Dante rather than Actual Dante. I had been worried that Capcom would wreck it, like they did the SP is RE5 and LP2 by making co-op king of EVERYTHING making SP a seeming afterthought. Miss Frying
Pan meet Mr Fire. Whatever, uni, I agree with your premise entirely but don't hold that this series is particularly Japanese and unwestern to begin with and felt it's sales success across the world was down, largely to this fine balance. I agree that giving it to a western dev will possibly water down the Japanese part of the series, though, and am sorry if that's what you meant. It just came across like you felt the game was particularly Eastern and I always thought of it as good balance anyway.

I'd go as far as saying that Bayonetta's success was largely down to Kamiya knowing how to balance his identity alongside western and in game references and influences much like he already did with THIS series.

[Garrus_Vakarian]

Yes, this is srs bsns. >:|

[Sam Fisher]

ok if dark-hollow can't use this then just change dmc to final fantasy 13, or neir. dark-hollow can use other examples but what dark-hollow is saying is true, even kojima had to go learn western style games to help him on mgs4, which isnt a problem but man the japanese are losing this badly. capcom is a great example, square too. except for atlus. demons souls was great and refreshing. they need to make a new 1 pronto

[Reibooi]

And I agree there are things that Japan needs to do better and I wasn't using my statement to say that Japan is perfect and all mighty in Game development. I simply stated THIS situation isn't on the Japanese side but on the Western side.

What Kojima did with MGS 4 is how do add a Western touch the right way. Even with it's different game play MGS 4 still felt like a MGS game. However it doesn't matter what Ninja Theory does with this look it won't feel like DMC and that's not counting whatever the game play might be like which if their past games are any indication it will not be what DMC fans want.

The thing you need to keep in mind in nearly ever game the west didn't like that came from Japan the case was that Japan was trying to Appeal to the west. That's why FF13 had a liner story and game play because they wanted it to move forward quickly like a FPS and that failed.

That's why Nier was changed to a roided out old man because they thought people would not like the younger Nier when in fact most people would have preferred that.

Trying to appeal to the west is in my opinion what is wrong in Japan. They need to make the games they always have and people will play them. If you look at SE's games on the Handheld they are not trying to make the western and those games are awesome. The World Ends With You is a perfect example but when it comes to console they try to appeal to the west as does most companies and it backfires.

[VandimionX]

I Mostly agree with you, however Nier didn't start production with the younger version of the character...that was changed to suit Japanese tastes. The developer stated the game with the older Nier is the original version of the story.

[Reibooi]

@VandimionX

Ah. Interesting I thought they started with the young one and changed to the old one for the US.

Either way the reason for the old one is the same. They thought that would appeal more to the west. So they made a different version for Japan. Most people I know who know what Nier is told me they wanted the Japanese version instead.

It's funny cause Nier could have been a good game but SE didn't seem to have confidence in it. Had they put more backing and money behind it they could have created quite a good game.

[Crossifixxo]

You Sirs&Madams, are a group of MORONS!! I'm sending mine filled with SHIT(no matter where or from whom i get it). After all what goes around comes around doesn't it?

[Natsu X FairyTail]

I think this might actually be a good Reason to send Death Threats to the Capcom HQ's!

;)

[Solid_Snakeps3]

i swear, if they dont change 'just hit puberty' Dante back i will not buy this game

[hot-sauce]

R.I.P.

Devil May Cry
2001-2008

I'll miss you. You were one of my favorite franchises.

[pwnd_of_lol]

Oh god... That character... that weapon. They're just trying to make their own God of War.

-----> this sucks http://i39.tinypic.com/513s...

[Bumpmapping]

I was never big fan of the series but this is Crapcom for you they don't give two shits about there fans looks at DMC4 for a example.

[TrevorPhillips]

I am speaking to a developer now about the disappointment going on with Dante's new look and he said "I know

That's how it always is though

You're not gonna get innovation without changing things up a bit" and he also said "And when all the backstory is explained then people will be like

AH, OK

Yeah"

[dark-hollow]

innovation my a#@
What innovation got to do with the character looks?

[disparage]

Whatever dev you're speaking to is a douchebag. How about we give Dante a beard and an alcohol bottle while we're at it?

[GSpartan777]

The DMC series was innovative enough as it is. All they had to do was further build it up. Make every game better than the other. NOT F*CKING CHANGE IT!.

[mastiffchild]

IDK. There's a point in what the devs said to Agent- but the new Dante looks nothing LIKE innovation and everything like following a recent trend which would mean a game that once set trends was now following one, a weak and washy one in Twilight/Emo(in the mainstream anyway). To me it smacks of "chasing" a demographic and you can tell with DMC1 and 3 that they were made without worries like that and no concessions on the developers p;arts, no nods towards fashion and trends.

Innovation isn't just changing something it's changing it for something you thought of rather than aped or bought in from outside. Plus, if you want to steal, you make sure you steal from genius and that looks an unlikely source for this p;articular trend. That said maybe we will all go "ok, yeah" when the back story is revealed but I'll say this:it's got to be one HELL of a back story.

[Homicide]

Twilight May Cry!

You suck Capcom and Ninja Theory. The original Dante was an iconic figure who we grew to love with his arrogant, sarcastic, funny attitude.

This new Dante looks like he cuts himself after listening to My Chemical Romance.

[PS360PCROCKS]

I HATE TWILIGHT!!!!!! :'(

[The_Devil_Hunter]

Spechlees with this redesigned character. Terrible. Just terrible.

[redDevil87]

At least cover his nipples for fucksake

[CaliGamer]

Who the F#@K gives an ish over how Dante looks, if it's a reboot then you can expect changes, small or big.

People get angry over some pretty trivial things in the video game industry. If only there was this level of dedication to opposing this tea party movement that is afoot.

Dark times ahead my friends.

[alphakennybody]

really? it's his look that gave the game a personality.

[CaliGamer]

This Dante looks just as "SPECIAL" as the last one.

I don't see why people don't reserve judgement until the thing is released. A reboot signifies a whole new direction.

How come no one complained that George Clooney didn't return as Batman in Batman Returns? Because it was a reboot so then you expect something new.

The same people on this thread complaining that they want the old Dante are the same ones complaining that there is no innovation in the industry. Can't have it both ways.

Wait to pass judgement.

EDIT:
Disagree with no response, NICE! LOL.

[alphakennybody]

@ Cali )1 i wasn't the one who diagreed 2) i will now disagree 3) what does batman had to do with this? 4) Dantes orignial look screamed personality it gave the game an indetity of its own 5) how does a re-design = innovation ( ooh let's change his looks how innovative!...really?) innovation comes from gameplay or whatever but not from a bad re-design. At the very least they could have kept his old design.

[mastiffchild]

Also you have to look at the redesign and wonder just how it ended up looking that way and the belief among many is that it's a bit cheap in copying a mainstream image of Emo or of Twilight. I think a lot of DMC fans(myself among them) have doubts because of this rather than anything else as DMC was always very much it's own game and didn't follow outside fads and fashions at all.

Sure, it might be an amazing thing to have the series reborn but there's a balancing act(and not only between eastern and western influences)here between rebooting it and totally destroying what it once was by making the new one too different to the old ones. Another thing is gamers are very conservative, mainly, and changing too much too fast and in a manner that appears a little cheap and lazy and just watch that fanbase disperse to game series like Bayonetta which actually manage to be more DMC with it's real creator than the new DMC itself-it's very possible and definitely one of the fears being expressed by fans who are only worried that a publisher with a pretty weak record with story driven games this generation might have screwed up again.

[ApocalypseShadow]

http://n4g.com/user/useract...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://wallpapers.free-revi...

shame capcom....shame.you lost the fans....

[Darkfiber]

Good God...

Japanese games keep trying to be appealing to "the west".

Twilight is popular in the west, let's make Dante some angry brooding teen. They'll like that there!

They need to do some more research on who is their actual target audience and not assume that just because something is popular here doesn't mean the people playing your game also like it. It's for fucking 12 years olds, this isn't. Get a clue. Do 2 minutes of Google "research" for christ sakes, save yourself millions of dollars. Idiots.

[qadsia123]

Didnt expect this kind of uproar I bet there going to pull an infamous and bring the old starwberry sundaue eating Dante weve all come too love!!

[mrbillybadass]

I've never been so mad about a game ever, and as soon as I saw that trailer and ninja theory was deving it. I'm somewhat expecting the biggest backlash to a game announcement ever...not even exaggerating.

[YoshiMeetsU]

Reminds me of Dead Rising 2. If you played the first it went from a down to earth photog with a game full of Japanese appeal. Now we get Chuck "American Douche" Green. Yeah, they try to make him sensitive with his little daughter but you can tell the sell-out western influence all over it.

I'm getting the same feeling from this one and I really enjoy the work NT has done in the past.

[MegaBit]

Capcom totally made the right choice by revamping Dante. I have never seen this much buzz for any DMC game since the franchise was launched! Smart guys, those Capcom people ^___-

[midgard229]

well i hope they turn link into a fat bald guy with a tank top with a big butcher knife, then u'd know how we feel

[MegaBit]

I knew someone would rip me for that. :P Yes, I would cry if Link was desecrated in such a way.

[Hazama]

You think they're doing it to generate buzz eh? Makes sense.

[MegaBit]

Negative news is still news.

[PrinceOfAnger]

i prefer dmc3 remake on this one.

[qadsia123]

@darkfiber

Looks like thats what there trying to do only they seem to not know most gamers hate Twilight...

[midgard229]

here you go guys, more screenshots of this horrible dante

http://s100.photobucket.com...

[cmrbe]

It is a very westernised version of DMC. However lets wait and see how this pans out.

I am actually am all for a reboot after DMC4 dissapointment.

I wouldn't mind a gritty/dark more mature take on DMC.

[midgard229]

dmc4 wasnt even bad man, besides the recycled bosses i think the game was awesome. fun gameplay, good story besides all the yellin "KYRIE!!!!"

this....now this....this is "Devil is Crying"

[ApocalypseShadow]

NO GOOD....

[devilhunterx]

Silver Haired. Not Blonde.

[maniacmayhem]

I hate things that make me angry!

[Homicide]

Burn it with fire!

[Dannagar]

I don't trust Ninja Theory even if they do alter the character. First Problem, DMC games run at 60 frames a second. Ninja Theory's never producted a game that runs at 60 fps. Heavenly Sword had a terrible frame rate and was a "C" grade game at best. This game needs to be canceled. Ninja Theory has just shown that they aren't in-tune with the DmC audience.

[TheMutator]

i open a damn blog at capcom.com this is wors crap i ever seen, woww DMC...damn i only two dmc...Devil May Cry (original and Detroit Metal City, well and this Devil Made Crap

[VandimionX]

Seriously, this series is too young to start a reboot with anyway. wtf Capcom.

[Lazy_Gamer]

The west already have plenty of western games so japanese games without the japanese flavour is like a cola bottle without bubbles. What's next? Avatar Resident Evil?

[Redempteur]

devil may cry 1 & 3..i'll look at them and remember the good times