How 'Devil May Cry' Redefined Style Over Substance

ScreenGurus Sam takes a look back at the excellence of the 'Devil May Cry' franchise and how it changed the rules of hack and slash.

[PhoenixUp]

One can only wonder how Capcom will continue the series

[WushuKnight19]

Give the IP to Ninja Theory or better yet Platinum Games. I don't think the series should be in the hands of Capcom of today.

[xDealtwithIt]

Give it to Ninja Theory? God in heaven no!

[WushuKnight19]

Sorry, actually loved the hell out of DmC. Especially the DE which made it now my second, if not my MOST DMC game I've played so far. After all the backlash, it actually turned out be a incredible game (DMC'ish or not). But I would love the original series to go on. As long as it's not staring Nero. And like I said. It's better in PG's hands, but having it with Ninja Theory is not at all bad.

[kraenk12]

Their game was much better imho.

[WildArmed]

My main issue w/ DmC was the dumb design centered around blue goes with blue, and red goes with red (Or was it vice versa?)

Regardless, that ruined the flow of the game. A franchise that touted flexibility -- play with any weapon and against anything -- was ruined when it was like... or gotta hold R1 noooww.

Sure they fixed that in the DE, but that killed the game for me. I enjoyed DMC4 more than this because of it.

Plus, other games offered more combos per weapon (mainly thanks to the swordmaster style)

[WushuKnight19]

I guess I'm one of the very few players who were ok with the design. Though wished the Vanilla version was similar like in DMC1 where the Frost received very little damage with the wrong weapons, and don't get staggered. But part of what I like and just use to with DMC is having enemies limit me on doing the same combo over and over again to kill every enemy, but still find other ways to strategies and keep the flop of the gameplay being fast-paced. Trying more and more to be precise on weapon switching like my gameplay here at 11:26 https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Not saying at all that anyone who disliked it should get better. I understand why people would dislike it. Especially when both the Hell/Frost Knights are next to each other, one of them attacks and you hit the wrong one, and then you get hit. But I was still ok with it, I did find other ways around it. And I ended up enjoying fighting this enemies.

[Adrian_v01]

My issue was the characters besides the combat. The constant cursing and sexual implications was just bad. The moment Virgil said to Dante "but I've got a bigger dick" was the moment I've said "yup, not playing this any further".

[drizzom]

Sweet Crying Devils no!

[xDealtwithIt]

@Wushu, I respect your opinion. Gameplay was great but for me it just lacked that certain appeal the original series had.

[_-EDMIX-_]

No.

I see no reason to "give" it to Platinum, contract it to them....sure.

Ninja Theory....GOD NO! I agree Capcom just doesn't have the team to make an ACE DMC today, but I don't agree in them merely giving the IP to any team.

Capcom still has money to make. Contract, outsource it to a better team etc.

[WildArmed]

Saw the video, I see your point. Typically when I switch weapons in a game, it was to continue a combo in a certain direction (like I need to pull an enemy up so I can kill him while enemies on the floor charge attack). So when they forced this color match, it kinda miffed me, maybe a lil' too unreasonably.

I have wanted to try DmC DE edition (since I hear they fixed my biggest issues with the game), but I ended up getting DMC4 DE edition instead.

I can forgive a lot of things (characters, plot, settings etc) in a fighting game, but combat is something i am pretty picky about -- also I understand this isn't the first game to do this rock-paper-scissors (see GoW), but it's never been so damn frustrating like the cases you mentioned. in GoW, it was like just switch to XYZ and kill them all. But in this you had to switch between combos/mobs even lol Maybe that was their idea of making it more complex, but I just found it frustrating (esp when camera angles failed)

[WildArmed]

Hey, that's my wallpaper! I haven't changed it since '07 XD

I've actually been replaying DMC1 lately. Think I'm at ch10ish right now, camera was messier than I remember.

[kraenk12]

I actually liked Ninja Theory's take on the series so much more!