More like a shitload of rehab, weight training, and group therapy. Guess the second look at the trailer helped to see that D.I.N.O. was more of a psychotic junkie with the way his arms looks way too thin and the constant smoking.
Observation: This thread contains a group of people I never thought I’d see, or for that matter even thought existed: Heavenly Sword dickriders. That game was NO good and before you even realized how ass it was, it was over.
That said, I’ve decided the only thing I really don’t like about this, as I said before but no say more succinct is that Dante’s new DESIGN looks shitty as fuck. Everything else looks great. Especially how he still wall runs. Change this bullshit design and I’ll take a closer look at a purchase.
As long as this new “Dante” is a homo hipster tweakin on acid, I’ll pass.
Not to mention there’s Ninja Gaiden 3 to look forward or to bitch about. Nobody made a topic about that yet.
bye, because its not changing. go play dmc4 some more 
probably because everyone knows that without the true team ninja on board NG3 is going to suck even worse than NG2 sucked after they rushed the shit out of it. (totally blanking on the head of team ninja’s name). anyways it’s hard for me to think of NG3 as a real addition to the series without him on board. his direction is what made NG1 and what made it through to NG2 was the games saving grace, the game fell apart when the big dogs rush him.
First two DMC games didn’t have any kind of real story. It was just “bad things happening, stop them”. There was no character development at all, and all of the writing and dialogue were campy (except in DMC2, where they honest to god tried to make a real story but nothing happened). Only DMC3 and DMC4 had a story. And yes, while we do play DMC for the gameplay, no one wants to really play as a character they hate. If the character isn’t likeable, the game isn’t as fun to play. The thing is with DMC and Dante is that he’s just a bad ass, campy kind of character which, I would say, the DMC fans have come to love since the first game. If you remove the “Dante element” from the DMC games, they’re not as fun (see DMC2).
DMC5 “Dante” looks pretty fucking emo to me. Makes me wonder when you last saw an emo/scenester kid.
No one said they cared about the story. they cared about ho easy and short that game was and that it was a true sequel to DMC1. the story, overall, is fine. The game as a whole needs to be redone. I don’t know exactly why Capcom remade RE1 but that game worked. All they did was gave the game better, up to date graphics, and a few plot changes to keep the game “fresh” AND IT WORKED.
this is not going to work at all. who in the hell would want to play “prequel of a prequel” to a game that has visually nothing to do with the original since it’s a “reboot”? If this was to be an actual prequel to DMC3 it should be about 100% to do with Sparda, what he did, who he fucked, and who he fucked up in hell years before Dante and Virgil. Not this crap. I would pay good money for a Remake of DMC2 and I’d most definitely pay good money a “100% all about Sparda” game.
you can keep this Emo May Crap. do no want.
Trying to reserve judgement. Trying really hard. Don’t like the new look of Dante, didn’t like the torture scene thing making it look like he was experimented on. Doesn’t look like he’ll be showboating, joking, and dealing corny one liners.
I agree with you there, although I’m not sure if you’re just making a blanket statement or are implying that I’m for this DMC5 reboot. I am, however, not sure if DCM2 needs a remake. I mean it wouldn’t hurt I guess, but I’m just not sure if it would make for a good investment. I think it’s just better to move on.
How do you know? You’ve done nothing but jump to conclusions this whole thread. Let’s forget for a second that they JUST changed Cole back to his original design, and I’m sure the outcry wasn’t nearly as bad as it will be on this. The original DMC4 Dante concept CG (in the first trailer) looked like Michael Jackson with white hair. It’s very possible if NT gets enough hate for this design it may and SHOULD change.
Ultimately it’s the look most people aren’t pleased with.
A minor re-design would lessen the bitching.
A jacket that fits, a bit more weight and a non-shitty hairstyle (not bothered about his hair being white personally)
Do you guys think that new-Dante would get less hate if he wasn’t named…Dante?
This is just a theory but has everyone ever stopped for a moment and thought that maybe this guy in the trailer just THINKS he’s Dante? I mean it would make sense considering he’s being tortured and maybe after the torture he might have ingrained in his head that he’s Dante, son of Spard. Or maybe Virgil somehow possessed this guy and is using him to get his own body back.
Just throwing theories out there because i don’t believe for a second that Capcom would throw that trailer out there and say, “Hey guys, this is Dante”. Doesn’t make sense.
That is NOT Dante…terrible just terrible. Ninja Theory makes crappy battle systems, heavenly sword was clunky as hell. We are doomed, thank God this is a remake and not sequel.
@ Kusanagi
That would be interesting but I highly doubt that. Capcom is flexing its ability to get western companies to do their work for them. For example, Dead Rising 2. Except DR2 looks good.
This thread is full of Fashion Designers.
http://fashionrules.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bruno_narrowweb__300x3710.jpg
This is how you guys look to me, in my head.
In a word: no.
Dante is an iconic design that is tied to his series really. They way the originally made Dante was perfect for the story as well as the gameplay. His design is intrinsically tied into the fabric of Devil May Cry. What if we looked up one day and Capcom had decided to make Ryu a spikey haired hipster with baggy chain covered black cargos and eye liner? Wouldn’t much like that would you? Why? Because it’s not Ryu. That design would literally cause Ryu to lose his original identity and I think that is the problem here
Hope this is true, like I said earlier, we need some M. Night Shaymalan (sp) right about now
I don’t think calling the old Dante emo is even the using the definition of emo correctly. The emo style is mostly really slim. Like WACO nuthugger jeans and and a t-shirt that is really tight. The only real thing emo about old Dante was that his bangs often covered one eye sometimes. Emo kids probably would never go shirtless because they look like a skeleton straight out of Castlevania. And technically emo doesn’t need to be all depressed but Dante’s cocky personality would probably be the last thing one would stereotype as emo (Barring the whole, “LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTT” scene).
It’s funny that I actually learned all this because I misused the word emo in front of an emo kid once. I got learned 
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edit: And I would say the retcon Dante fits emo because of his slim fit jeans and how his whole getup is thrown together. But I’m not emo so I’m no expert 
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edit again: Maybe they aren’t slim-fit but then again he looks so damn skinny in some shots.
Anyway, I’m done lol at the crazyness of the “fandom”. Things to note of importance;
There’s a tuff of white/gray hair on the top of Dante’s head. Also, he’s wearing Nero’s coat. Also, it appears as if he DOES have Rebellion, or at least a blade similar to it, and it changed at least twice from the scythe/axe/spear weapon, to the “whip” like weapon mid swing/combo. And thats definitely Ebony & Ivory.