DmC video interview reveals variations of Dante's new design

@nuragna I wonder why the picture in the video preview shows the new Dante with white hair, but the same image is nowhere to be found in the video,

@EeK85 It doesn't, that's why. It shows a cleaver mix that's half old Dante half new Dante. Personally, I've never been a huge fan of Devil May Cry, Dante annoyed the hell out of me. Probably because I didn't get into the series on the ground floor. I also found many of the plot lines to be ridiculous. That's something that even the most hardcore DMC fan HAS to admit. But it's fine because that's not what the series has been about in the past.

Admittedly, I have been spoiled by extremely story driven games like Mass Effect and Uncharted, and poor choices in description of certain events and how they are portrayed become very obvious when you play a game while looking specifically at the story. For me, story is just as much a driving force in games as gameplay. If a game has great gameplay but lack luster or hard to follow story, such as FFXIII, I'm probably not going to finish it.

Another example would be Halo: Reach, which is in the same vein as DMC as far as story to gameplay balance is concerned. Both series rely heavily on their gameplay and the unique situations they present to drive the story forward, both have either weak and/or hard to follow overall narratives.

The camera in DMC also killed me when I tried to get into it, especially since it stuck around so long. That ish might have worked for resident evil, with its slow moving zombies, but fast things trying to cut me to ribbons become unnecessarily difficult to fight when I'm battling them back and forth across the line that determines a switch of camera angle. Fixed cameras all the time suck.

@EeK85
Omg really!? its not in the video :( wow aww I thought maybe it was gona show that they were kidding all along and hes still gone be the dante Iv always known ..>.< oh well...thank you for telling me!

@oJMan240o
Well DLC is supposed to be a ridiculous fast twitch action for the talented gamer. I found the controls easy. Almost intuitive. In part to the camera. Then again anyone who has beaten dmc3 I think can master any game on any difficulty =P. So friggin brutal and fun. The first area I couldn't beat for the longest time. But i just forced myself to get better and better and it was so rewarding. Also regarding story, you don't watch a martial arts movie for the deep drama do you?. You watch it for the ass whooping! You just need just enough plot for you to know why your fighting. That's what DMC is. Kind of like DBZ. Just supposed to be crazy and entertaining. If I want a good story I play a Hironobu Sakaguchi game or Metal Gear Solid. I definitely wouldn't play mass effect. At least not Mass Effect 1, for a good story. Mass Effect 2 I assume is better but I can't bring myself to play it based on how bad mass effect 1 was story wise. Ever play Lost Odyssey? THAT was a good story. Battle system was just ok but each person had character. My chick frigin cried during the funeral scene it was so touching. And oh my gawd A Thousand Years of Dreams was so Brilliant. With Mass effect every conversation wasn't a conversation. It was just a series of emotionless interviews with no memorable scenes or humor or life to it. Then you get to the end and speak to the big red alien thing that's wants to destroy the universe and interview him, and he doesn't really answer anything. It was like talking to a robot that had canned responses. I was like "the game culminates" to this? lol. We had a real good laugh. But I digress.

DMC isn't supposed to have a deep story. Neither is Tekken or any other hardcore action game. This is intentional. Pick up something else for a deep story. The fixed camera gives it a Certain cinematic feel and artistic aesthetic. It's kind of like the old Resident evil games. Made you afraid to see what was around every corner.

@Meow Mix
I agree. DMC'd gameplay was easy to get into and incredibly difficult to master. Only through hard work could you barely pull yourself alive from Dante Must Die.

@oJMan240o
DMC's basic idea is that Dante is arrogant and that the story is cornier then 10 Final Fantasies (I might be exaggerating a bit). However, Dante was more then capable of backing up that bark of his. That's exactly what people loved: to be shoved into the shoes of someone virtually immortal. As in any over the top action game/martial arts movie, all you need is a main character who can kick ass and an opponent who needs an ass woopin.
if
Character A kicks Character B's ass
win
else
fail
end

If I wanted a great story I'd slow down the gameplay tenfold. To keep up with insane action you have to keep the thinking down to a minimum and lower the downtime. If I wanted long cutscenes to show off the love Nero had for his little lassy, I wouldn't want a game that suddenly contrasts to that idea and make me kill 500 demons at the end of the cinematic.

I take the Legacy of Kain series as my prime exemple. It was an action centric game that revolved solely on it's Story (especially that last installment: Defiance). The gameplay as slower and every room (basically) offered a new cinematic. You have to keep a certain flow to the game. You can't just start/stop start/stop. Everything has to feel fast in a DMC game which is why Story is cut off.

@nuragna

It's not, unfortunately. The PlayStation Blog has some kind of unique "preview image" for all of their videos, and I guess with this one they tried to sum up the nature of its interview with a clever mix of both Dante's old and new looks, like oJMan240o pointed out. False advertisement? They sure as heck fooled me (I thought that at one point Ninja Theory actually considered going with the white hair for Dante's new RocknRolla, meth-infused look).

@EeK85

And the sad thing is that he looks much better with white hair. Still a little bit drug addicted, maybe, but definitely more badass.

@Discotheque

Omg you read my mind, would have much better than.... this thing.

@Discotheque

What are you smoking? Enslaved plays great. Just because you are a fanboy and don't like games that play differently from DMC doesn't mean it sucks.

@Discotheque

def agree with you here, never played DMC2 cuz not many ppl seemed to bother buying it but his character model was the most badass of them all, he had that no bullshit look.

@DeeZeee The demon convinced me to buy Enslaved. It's so fun. Shame it'll probably overlooked.

@DeeZeee

lol so is it the cool thing to hate "hipsters" now ?

honestly your the only douche here for saying that

@Solace Haha, I don't hate hipsters or anyone for that matter. He just looks like a douche, look at me, I'm angry and smoking... How cool lol :p

@Arsenic13 Devil on the mind, I meant demo. Enslaved is great.

@Solace

Hipsters have always been cool to hate.

Because hipsters suck.

@WiredKnight
Its never cool to hate, you've just never met a cool hipster.

@dystroglycan
Oxymoron!

Joystiq hipster list of shame:
dystroglycan
Solace

Keep on truckin' with your ironic tees and handlebar mustaches.

@F1shBone no bayonetta?

@eilegz Um, Bayonetta is DMC from the perspective of a chick lead character. Everything from the crazy ridiculous story to the combat.

@eilegz Yeah I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe next summer when I have more time and its dirt cheap.

@F1shBone

It was 10 dollars last month a Best Buy. How much cheaper do you want to play the best game in it's genre?

@Arsenic13
LOL!! You gotta stop showing that pic man, ever since you put that on the last DMC post that's like the first thing that pops in my head when i see the new Dante. LOL......it's scary!!!!

@Arsenic13
HO-LY SHIT.
Mind Asploded

@Altar IbnLaAhad

Haha, easy on the downvotes fellas, i want old Dante back too. These guys really seem as though they've no idea what they're doing.

Also, excuse me if I'm wrong, but did that real-life Dante just say that original Dante was too over-the-top?! That's outrageous!

@Altar IbnLaAhad

Indeed.
Removing the over the top sensibility from Devil May Cry is like making God of War a family friendly game where instead of blades Kratos has stuffed bears on ropes and instead of blood people shoot candy. Actually scratch that, considering the unlockable costumes in gow 1 and 2 that very well seems like something the God of War devs would do (and it would be awesome).

@original fred

Kratos' Family Fun Candy Crushing Adventure Time? I'd buy that, Pandora's Pinata Collector's Edition of course. Everything would come in a Pinata in the shape of Kratos' wife's head and you get one of those stuffed bears on ropes to try and beat it open with. That way you can be just like Kratos, without the violence.

When you finally get it open you'd be met by the cotton candy protective padding on the inside. Extras include unicorn horn lolipop, a sugar statue of Zues (Blue Raspberry Lightning Bolts included), cutesy halloween skeleton cookies, and another teddy bear since you probably took the head off the other one while trying to open the pinata.

@leewan

Beat me to it.

@leewan batman?

@leewan then gets out and kills all the scary looking vampire creatures?

@logicplay they just sort of stand around. Those vampire creatures weren't doing anything to him. They were vegan. I saw a trailer where those dudes were minding their own business and I guy took out his aggression on some nice people after being made fun of for using spirit fingers.

@ZippyDSMlee

Darn forgot to add they should have jsut made him a unbuff white haired white guy instead of hollywoodizing him..... oh dear...I just had a thought......Dante is now a glitter vampire..... *sobs* what HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ZippyDSMlee

And while I am at it put it in proper 3rd person enlarge the levels so he can get into nooks and cranny's to find the things that unlock things and make a new combo system that works off the buttons GOW style so you can fight more efficiently. You can do this with mega man as well only make it more FPS like....with larger levels.. :P