Meanwhile the ACTUAL Tarantino of gaming is off making Killer Is Dead. He’s not trying to reinvent the wheel here, he’s trying to beat 6 people to death with it.
Day One buy :tup:
That is most definitely true as well. I was shocked and ashamed when I saw people flipping their shit over just a simple trailer. No gameplay, no plot. Just. A. Trailer. However, as anyone in the industry knows, those people represent a very tiny fraction of the actual consumer base. They are just internet forum trolls and kids with nothing better to do for the most part.
However, THAT is exactly the kind of reaction Capcom told Ninja Theory they were shooting for-- They WANTED to piss people off. They wanted all the negativity and they continually fed it with all their comments, tweets, and panels. It just grew into something they weren’t prepared for and it blew up in their faces.
Tameem’s just a dick anyway… He would have acted the same regardless of fan-reactions. That guy is the textbook example of douchebaggery.
This game’s marketing in particular was the exact definition of bad, and made it so that a lot of people were going to be put off. Hell, it wasn’t until I tried the demo I even gave 10% of a shit about this game. Even after playing it, regardless of my personally appeal to it, I’m not blind to where other people are coming from. I know damn well where they fucked up, and I know where the game divided fans of all shapes and sizes.
If you like the game (like me) or hate it (like quite a few people), power to you. However, a lot of the supporters for the game I see seem to be “This game’s getting great reviews! Take that haters!” People forget that reviews are supposed to be a GUIDE. They aren’t the end-all be-all of the game’s quality and/or sales. Bad games can sell well, good games can sell well, good games can flop, bad games can flop, etc.
People act like game reviews are more concrete than say movie reviews, but they all are just a person’s opinion. Even the standards they go by in said reviews can be vastly different from one another. Games get overrated and underrated all the time. To be honest, I wish reviews were less focused on any random person who might play the game, and more on the overall appeal of the game from ALL demographics who might try it. If that was the case, I imagine average-good reviews for DmC rather than these good-great reviews.
Again, I like the game, but a game’s overall worth in its existence should not be based on a few.
Hecatom
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But of course they did, the difference is that they are in a position where they need to act differently from what they did.
Do you really think that it was wise from them to brush all the concerns towards the game as the whining of haters, etc, etc.
I am telling you, a good part of the reason why i wouldn’t buy this game is because they acted so stupid about it.
Of course it doesn’t help that the game is just average and that all their hilarious pretensions of making a Shakespearian story, but all of that would have been easily brushed, like po pimpus said, their attitude towards the fan base is inexcusable, i wouldn’t support a developer that trash talks their consumers.
that video made me facepalm so many times.
Do you think the guys that do CoD every year get upset when assholes like me call them out on being lazy, asset-reusing, creatively-bankrupt crooks? No, because they sleep on giant piles of money, while I’m still sleeping on Final Fantasy cosplayers. I wish I knew how to quit you, Squall.
My point is, the devs don’t get to pop off to reporters- that’s why we have rock stars and Charlie Sheen. The devs job is to make games and that’s it. When Tammy ran his mouth during interviews, you KNOW half the PR department at Ninja Theory shot themselves.
When you badmouth the people you are trying to sell your product to, you will lose any customer informed enough to know you said it.
I said “might”. Most of the non-negative reactions I’ve seen have been “looks alright, will pick up when it’s $20 used”, along with the occasional “NT delivers again, what now haters? Day 1” but who knows if they’re trolls or actual NT fans (lol). With how positive the press has been to this game it’s a good possibility that a lot of people will give it a chance when it becomes more affordable. Most people don’t really see it as a AAA release and wouldn’t mind waiting.
Even so, this and Ni No Kuni are the only two big releases this month, and it really should be doing better.
Popular series like Metal Gear and Dead Space will likely hurt much of any momentum in February. If only there as a magic sales figure bubble that could bring back the old series. Sadly, it’s been said already but, Capcom will likely kill DMC if this flops hard enough.
ugo_2u
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you know what will be cool? DMC Son of Dante.
ya know I’d lose all of my shit if Platinum made a game with Suda in charge.
No. No son of Dante. If they manage to get the series to realize it’s potential then do a great job after that, I would be cool with a passing the torch game.
specs
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Please don’t call anyone a “Tarantino of gaming” unless they know how to write dialogue. 99.9999999888898% of games from both sides of the pond have shitty dialogue. Tarantino films do not.
I can already tell… This is gonna be one HELL OF A PARTY!!!:rock:
He does have a point though; most of Django Unchained was the N-word, and frankly I’m amazed Dinti never used it in DmC if they’re trying to be so goddamn edgy.
No niggas in DMC/DmC. Gloria is Trish, Lucia isn’t real and a redhead, and Penis Peninus whatever is a demon who has a dog face.
Do kids and teenagers nowadays actually call each other niggas or say nigger in a mean-spirited way? I haven’t hung around the target demographic of this game in a while, I figure FUCK YOU is how they say hi to each other.
Sano
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Beat the game on Devil Hunter and am playing on Nephilim now. When I got to chapter 3 and the ground broke, Kat told me I had to find the long way around. I just did an air dash and cleared the jump. That ended the stage. I got an SSS ranking for the time it took me to clear the stage. 
i know this is a reference to MGR and Raiden… but i personally envisioned this as umvc3 dante doing some xf3 lighting bolts on this game, like zapped son… zapped.
i think a lot of people did go over the deep end really quickly with this game. However they were a small minority, a lot of people like myself were aprehensious (god damn i can’t spell) about NT due to past experience but were waiting to see what happened. That being said i feel like most major artists of all flocks receive this type of fan outrage right off the bat for all kinds of things, it’s their job to be professional and respectful about things and lay out your vision. These types of deals are always ones that can easily snow-ball and feed off each other, by responding the way tameem did he really simply fanned the flames over and over again. The more he fanned the flames the more angry reactions he got from fans and the bolder he got in speaking out.
Oh I dunno. I tend to think of Kamiya as a “Tarantino” of gaming.
Now I’ll agree the dialogue in his games is hardly on par with Tarantinos, but he matches him in other ways. It’s clear Kamiya is a biiiig fan of what he does for a living. Much in the same way that Tarantino loves movies, Kamiya loves games. They both take the strengths of the medium they work in and exploit them. Tarantino works in genre, makes heavy use of witty, poppy dialogue, knows how to make use of tension and builds a scene for maximum pay off and doesn’t ignore good ideas just because someone else did it first. Kamiya also works in genre, creates products with tight, responsive controls, uses all the strengths that genre provides to maximize the pay off he is trying to create, and doesn’t ignore good ideas just because someone else did them first. Last of all they are both highly referential, to their own works, as well as other peoples.
I think they share a lot in common, tho strong dialogue is indeed not one of them.
I have no idea what or whom you where responding to with that comment just felt i had to drop my own two cents in.
I just compared the two because both have a penchant for ultraviolence, which is why I enjoy them both in the first place.
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