“DmC: Devil May Cry Has Survived the Backlash & Aged Better Than Many of Its Contemporaries” - The Escapist is still shit even with Moviebob fired

[Dom Cruise]

I fucking hated the backlash to Japanese culture that happened around 2009-2012 that gave birth to this game and I'm sure there's a through line of many of the smug assholes thumbing their nose at Japan back then and the SJWs thumbing their nose at everything today and this game is proof.

I at least agree with the first few sentences in the aspect that shit was nowhere near as terrible as it is now. what I'd give for shit to be like 2013 again. Fuck.

Indeed, 2013 was a much milder form of our current cultural zeitgeist, things were already getting pretty woke (it was the year "Black Lives Matter" was coined after all) and the battle between gamers and feminists was already gaining steam (in those days though the term lefties would thrown around instead of "Incel" or "Alt Right" was "Men's Rights Advocate" or "MRA") but everything was so much in it's nascent stages compared to today and nobody had any idea at that time how much more intense and intense things would get as the years have gone by, if only things could have stayed at least at 2013 levels.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

"Aged better than its contemporaries"

Yeah no, that statement is bullshit. Its most immediate contemporary is Metal Gear Rising, which introduced the infinitely memeable and memorable Senator Armstrong, which people still reference and talk about to this day. All anyone talks about anymore about DmC is how hamfisted its messages are and how it's nowhere near as good as the original series.

DmC has half-decent combat going for it, but that's already outclassed by the games that precede it, and its iteration of Dante is nowhere near as likable. I do like the visuals, but they stand out because they're attached to a game that doesn't deserve them.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Nothing is out of place; it’s just as excessive, random, and prone to absurdism as its core inspirations.

That's one way to describe Vergil's abortion scene.

Ow. The edge.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

Political commentary has never been a core of the franchise

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

I guess the series has aged well if you aren't counting the gameplay.

 

[The Last Stand]

Is DmC canon?

 

[Snekposter]

Yeah no, that statement is bullshit. Its most immediate contemporary is Metal Gear Rising, which introduced the infinitely memeable and memorable Senator Armstrong, which people still reference and talk about to this day. All anyone talks about anymore about DmC is how hamfisted its messages are and how it's nowhere near as good as the original series.

Don't forget MGR's soundtrack. DmC doesn't have anything memorable like the other games, meanwhile Rules of Nature and Red Sun will live eternally.

 

[Uncle Warren]

Devil May Cry as a series is not high art.

People have been sent death threats for saying less stupid shit than this. Whoever wrote this is a braindead retard.

And like that I hit the nail on the fucking head.

 

[Absolutego]

i never understood why journalists were so hard on defending the game? at first i thought it was beacuse they got paid but they continued to defend it months afterwards.

Because the game and its marketing were openly antagonistic to fans of the old games. By 2013 the hipster invasion of games media was pretty much finished, and the autists of the '90s and '00s who got in tedious debates about how awesome their preferred franchise was had been replaced by failed creative writing majors who resented that they'd been assigned to their corporate media outlet's gaming vertical.
Much like the various slapfights that came after, they wanted it to succeed to prove they didn't need to give a shit about those greasy nerds who liked what came before, and the disconnect has only grown in the intervening years.

People have been sent death threats for saying less stupid shit than this. Whoever wrote this is a braindead retard.

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And like that I hit the nail on the fucking head.

I give it <3 years before this dude is accused of being a sex pest by one of his peers.

 

[MooseGump]

Remember when they first revealed the game itself Donte looked like a mongoloid

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Bayonetta and Travis Touchdown >>>>> Dante.

Dante died when they tried to make him kewl and edgy (bonus pizza censor!)

 

[M3xus]

Is DmC canon?

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: This was meant to be a franchise reboot, but a combination of poor fan reception and Capcom having to ferry over Devil May Cry staff to Ninja Theory just to get it finished caused Capcom to leave the series dormant until last year's DMC5. This is probably the first time I've heard of a franchise trying to reboot where the reboot was considered enough of a failure to go back to the original series.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

This is probably the first time I've heard of a franchise trying to reboot where the reboot was considered enough of a failure to go back to the original series.

Are you familiar with the Terminator series?

 

[AMHOLIO]

People have been sent death threats for saying less stupid shit than this. Whoever wrote this is a braindead retard.

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And like that I hit the nail on the fucking head.

Seriously expected him to be a fedora tipping atheist. As long as he's nice to people we can ignore his retarded ramblings at least.

 

[Raiken]

It aged so well they had to re-release it to make the combat somewhat good!
Also:
-remove Vergil's fedora
-tag on a line to explain why the sniper abortion was a good idea
-shorten the "making the world your bitch" line
-Adds the last part where dante moves his hand to Kat's butt when walking away

Bayonetta and Travis Touchdown >>>>> Dante.

Dante died when they tried to make him kewl and edgy (bonus pizza censor!)

You scared me by making me think about the OG dante first

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

In many ways, this was the prototype of shitty rehashes with the main writer ruining established lore by putting his own creatively bankrupt crap in it...
The only thing missing was the feminist/token-minority spin that we got with Ghostbusters 2016 a couple years later.

Also:

 

[Sanshain]

'Aged better than many of its contemporaries.'

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[Dom Cruise]

Bayonetta and Travis Touchdown >>>>> Dante.

Dante died when they tried to make him kewl and edgy (bonus pizza censor!)

DMC1 is by far my favorite of the series although that has more to do with the fact that I prefer the more RE feel to the original game, I liked "party's getting crazy" Dante too.

In many ways, this was the prototype of shitty rehashes with the main writer ruining established lore by putting his own creatively bankrupt crap in it...
The only thing missing was the feminist/token-minority spin that we got with Ghostbusters 2016 a couple years later.

It's distressing how long this zeitgeist of creative types openly showing contempt for their own audience has been going on, we are fast approaching ten years of this shit, ten years of our lives we'll never get back that weren't as good as they could have been thanks to assholes making entertainment worse.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Man, going back and seeing what their idea of Dante was is....really something.

Some examples.

 

[Slimy Time]

That's one way to describe Vergil's abortion scene.

Ow. The edge.

The one that stuck out in terms of "trying too hard" was the club scene when Dante gets denied entry. Goes up to the bouncer, bouncer says he's not on the list. Dante knocks out the bouncer and writes something on the clipboard and walks in. Pans over to the clipboard and it says FUCK YOU! in big letters across the board. If he wrote "Dante", that would be kinda cool, but no, it's "fuck you, you don't tell me what to do", straight out of Rage Against The Machine.

Another one, hey Dante, you need to get Mundus mad for out plan to work. Guess what he does? He taunts him over the sniper abortion of his child. Our hero, taunting a evil corrupt exec figure by telling him how you killed his (admittedly demonic) child. What a good guy.