During the Tokyo Game Show, Gameinformer sat down with Hiroyuki Kobayashi, the producer of the Devil May Cry series. During our interview, we talked a little about the game's story, its characters and why Microsoft is a "no-go" in Japan.
GI: You've said in the past that there's a prescribed place in the game where you'll be able to play as Dante. Will you be able to, if you beat the game, play through it again as him, even though it would kind of mess up the story?
Kobayashi: To answer your question, no, because the story dictates when you'll pass to Dante. You can't go back and play as Dante from the beginning.
GI: Has adding the 360 version added any extra development time and pushed back the release date?
Kobayashi: Yes, it did add a little bit of time. We didn't even start development on the 360 version until after the announcement was made-it was like, "Oh, we're going to make it for the 360. We'd better get started." It wasn't that we were almost done with the 360 version and we made the announcement, it was the other way around. We made the announcement and then we started development.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
Best to good for me: 3, reboot, 1, 5
2 and 4 are trash, didnt like any of them.
5 has very good gameplay variety but i hated the foes.. it is just insects the whole time. Reboot has the best foes for me
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.
God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
This right here is my order as I thought DMC 5 was amazing and obviously 3 comes after 4 was great and 1 for the nastilgic value it holds 2 was so terrible that my local GameStop gave full refunds to people who returned it.
Two Devil May Cry games have been delisted on Steam. As shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Wario64, Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition and Devil May Cry 4 are no longer available to purchase.
Bless the adorably all digital future! When it comes to PC games its not as big of an issue because there should always be another way to access single player games, but still, I hate to see anything get delisted.
Well, DMC4 special edition has a lot of issues to run from Steam.
I have to get a modded executable to even be able to run the game on Windows 10.
Not sure if it is because the game runs in DirectX10 or what, but it sucks they have not even tried to fix it.
DMC4 Special Edition is not delisted, it was just the standard version, it has nothing to do with issues of performance or anything alike. Its just that Capcom probably do not want to sell the standard version, neither the standalone DMC3 version.
Devil May Cry 4 launched 15 years ago today, bringing with it new character Nero. Has it stood the test of time?
Never liked it and I think I got it day 1.
Cheap Capcom design of half a game that you have to walk through twice.
5 isn't much different in that department. Encounter the same boss three times with three different characters? Endless warehouses or alien-like tunnels that all look the same.
I'm actually with you there, but DMC has that terrible writing. Alex Garland isn't it?
Devil May Cry = Dante.
Same as MGS = Snake (Not pansy ass Raiden)
Can you imagine playing Halo without Master Chief?
They gonna screw up this time.
i remember when i said 360 version pushed back the release date and i got so many disagrees. remember when i said it was lead developed on ps3 and people disagreed. Here you have the game developer telling it as it is right here
You people were saying the 360's hardware was holding this game back and its hardware was keeping it from being as next-gen as it could have. All this is after praising it saying it couldn't be done on anything other that the CELL before the announcment.
You didn't get dissagree's when saying PS3 was the lead platform. For months and months people knew this was a PS3 exclusive and fanboys bragged how this game could only be done on the Cell and it took the gaming world by storm when they announced it for 360 many months after only then did you turn on it.
I find it hard to believe anybody would think this wasn't a PS3 title, why would somebody dissagree with you when it was known this was a PS3 title and later on Capcom had a change of heart?.
God Dam Sony fanboys are the filth of the gaming world.
I totally agree, as soon as a PS3 only title goes multi they all start becoming 2 faced and go the other way.
The fact is the Xbox 360 is the definitive of console gaming.
Good to hear the PS3 was the lead platform because another washed-down port will make me more frustrated.
I was looking forward to this anyways because it's a great series.