Uh, haven’t you spent well over a year complaining about the DmC story? I agree that story is not important to this sort of game, and I have less than zero interest in digging into anime/comics/whatever for story beyond the games themselves, but that statement coming from you seems a bit hypocritical.
Mofo’s really don’t read around here…
I “complained” about the story because scrub-ass Tameem took time out to shit on OG DMC’s patchwork plots and claimed his shit was gonna be a “Shakespearian” experience…
Said Shakespeare turned into every video game plot ever, except it decides to be extra crass and condescending to fans of the original games for no good goddamn reason.
Niggas is really defending squirrel semen, demon buttsecks, “FUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU,” and infanticide…
I weep for you all.
1st niggas praising SfxT and now niggas besides ShogunZ praising DmC…
Stupid
Retarded
Kidz
Indeed
they made this on purpose why people can’t see this is beyond me. The way Japanese tell stories specially in video games they hide important information from the player intentionally, they do this because they want “you” to come up with your own answers.
Too bad that DMC 4 sucked in my opinion.
Would be more inclined to throw money at them for a DMC 1 or 3 special edition.
If you don’t start capitalizing that damn “M”…
Was just spelling that shit as a headline in my head.
Calm down I didn’t even play the reboot 
I’m fully aware that this is done on purpose, because they you know, do it.
At the end of the day, DmC left me with no questions. Every DMC game has left me with nothing but.
I still like DMC’s story better than DmC. Just not the presentation.
After 4 games, that many unanswered questions is a lot and I only touched on a few of them. But if they at least address who Nero’s father is in the next game it’s cool.
DmC left me with one very important question-
WHO GREEN-LIT THIS TRASH?
The only characters with any real meaningful arc/development in the DMC series were Arkham/Mary.
DMC Dante was an amalgam of incompatible versions of cool. How does DMC 3 Tay, develop DMC1s personality and then to 4, and then to 2?
He jumps from being a goofball to brooding. He needed more consistency.
Like it or not, DmC Dante has a much more believable character progression.
I’m not saying that story and etc has to be compromised for an action game. But usually over the top shit is usually just likeable characters, and just enough reason to explain why you’re doing whatever the hell your doing.
I’m sure if you’ve played God Hand you know that game is pure nonsense but the meat of the game is the combat and the over the top presentation is what makes it fun. Sure a good plot would be apprecitated in these games. I actually found the Bayo 1-2 plot connection to be pretty decent. But at the same time these high action games are usually over the top to the point where even if there was a deep story it’d probably still be silly.
This is hardly a fair comparison. You’re comparing 4 games made by multiple different teams at different time periods to one game against its own continuity. Yeah DMC1 and 2 are out there as far as Dante’s personality is concerned, but they were both made by two different teams with different design ideas and different goals. And even with that, DMC3 and DMC4 Dante even if they don’t canonically go after one another still came out in that release order and had a pretty similar Dante. Going by the timeline is also slanting against the original games in a biased way. Yes the jump from 3 to 1 is big, but the jump from 3 to 4 is nothing and makes perfect sense. And the DMC3/4 Dante is what people knew for 8 years and works fine even still today, as seen by Ninja Theory putting their own spin on that version of Dante and missing the point entirely when if that type of character didn’t work anymore they could have went with anything else.
Any of the games taken individually on their own merit, or hell, any of the games made by the same team on the merit of that team and what they did with the series, all individually make sense and even though specific character traits vary here and there, Dante still has a believable understandable journey over the entire series. He’s a half human half demon who has to come to terms with his heritage and who he is, he wants to find out more about his mother and father and he does so with the help of Trish, who tragically dies and puts Dante in a very vulnerable position emotionally and it reminds him that even Devils May Cry (The series is actually named after this moment. Thanks Kamiya!). He then heads to Hell to end the demon invasion once and for all and that’s all we have been let privy to in the Capcom-verse of things. No he doesn’t act the same in every game, no if you go by the timeline his personality changing every other game doesn’t make sense, but his overall story makes plenty of sense and Itsuno’s team crafted the Dante everyone would then take to be the canon Dante in terms of personality anyways even though the series has changed hands so many times.
Give DmC to another team for a sequel and they’d probably make their own changes to how Tameem Dante acts too. DmC has the benefit of being an encapsulated story that starts and ends with 1 game with no other outside variables like an anime, manga, novel, or any of the other shit that the classic series has. It stands to reason that this singular experience by one group has more consistency than an entire lineage of story by multiple groups and developers all trying to add to this massive collection of ideas. That being said, more believable character progression doesn’t mean good character, and I don’t see nearly as many people going crazy over DmC Dante as they did with classic Dante. There of course will always be people who prefer one thing to the other, but it really seems that as far as likability goes, old Dante with all of his crazy nonsense that isn’t consistent at all seems to have new Dante beat in spades.
at the end of the day who play these games for the story? who’s nero’s father? is he supposed to have a mother too? what about other siblings? seriously who cares!
to me this kind games are becoming more like fighting games where story is irrelevant.
I care about the characters, their moveset, their combo priorities, what I can do in the game that’s what’s important.
if you want deep stories go play an RPG or something
Rpgs having deep storys? Lol.
I’m just really fucking fed up with the games having utterly no relation to the poem. Is Alighieri getting royalties for his likeness being used? I bet not. Plus Virgil came thousands of years before Dante, how the fuck can they be brothers
DmC Dante does have more believable character progression if we are comparing it the entire DMC series but if we compare it to just the individual games I’d argue DmC is much worse in that regards.
It also helps that Dino is an absolutely terrible character…
I don’t really think DmC Dante character progression is good. He started as like a typical douche dude, met Vergil and calmned down, and i guess was nice to Phineas. Other than he didn’t really do shit but stop acting like an angry teen rebel after he teamed up with his bro lol
But I do see why the character progression issue is a topic on OG Dante. Because in 1 he was a mix of serious/fun, in 3 he was acting a damn fool, and then in 4 which takes place after 1 he was acting a damn fool again lol. But again as stated that’s just because with DMC3 the goofy style Dante is a popular personality image so they just stuck with it
The irony of course is that other genres have been overtaking most JRPGs in telling a compelling story for the past decade or so.