Devil May Cry bores me...

[Gwen]

I really am not getting the dislike for this, I thought that was pretty radular :L
Like it's probably going to be a first day buy for me, and it's not like I'm some raving DMC fan, I only own and have played 1 and 4.

[Woppet*]

I think it looks kinda sketchy and wannabe 'edgy' but I'll pick it up when the price drops just because I like everything else from Ninja Theory.

i picked up DmC4 brand new from a flea market for £2 a few weeks ago.

[PrettyNier]

the writing in this is so bad

[Woppet*]

Speculation

[PrettyNier]

uh no not really
i'm talking about that one video
although i could easily say the same for every single piece of material we have that includes writing in some form

[Goemar]

Yes because trailers for an action game are going to show off the writing AND the old DMC had such amazing writing that this looks terrible when compared to it...

[SKELTON S. SKELETON]

let's put it this way,
vergil is working for a mysterious order, literally called The Order

[Goemar]

Don't get more mysterious than that.

[SKELTON S. SKELETON]

i think mysterious is the wrong word, and i think to highlight just how bad of a word that is that you just used (reading comprehension: the word was mysterious((no problem)))
Dante and Vergil are named after two characters from The Divine Comedy, that actually, through the series, go through a physical hell that is almost a mirror image of the physical and metaphorical trip through hell from the divine comedy. Sparda is a word that means sword, which is sort of representative as not only being the sword that struck down the legions of hell in the series, but also representative of his sword that is also named Sparda - that Dante eventually uses to strike down the forces of Hell. There are biblical and mythological references that actually kind of make sense in the original series, and aren't just there because they sound neat, like Sting likes to do in their RPG's.
So you're telling me, that in a series with a backstory that's so mythological and vast (i wouldn't say "excellent" or "impressive"((but good)))
that The Order is Mysterious, and not unimaginative, or pedestrian, or the kind of bullshit you'd see in the first script draft of a film school student who just saw The Matrix for the first time.

by the way i'd just like to put it out there, that vergil was a poet in the divine comedy, and likely the developers will totally miss that opportunity for a third time to do anything with that.

[PrettyNier]

when compared to it...

the writing in this is even worse than the writing in the first devil may cry game

seriously

"you must be the secret ingredient!!"

"Whhhhhoooooo arree youuuuuu????"

"im your prom-date, you ugly sacka shit!!!"

"whoooooo the fuuuuccckkkk are youuu!!!!"

"my name, by the way, is dante."

"dante? son of sparda? the (the rest is unintelligible)"

"yep. but you can call me dante the demon killer - has a nice ring to it, don't you think?"

"you want to kill me? you can't kill me, i'm twelve-hundred years old!!"

"you don't look a day over twelve-thousand."

"fuck you!"

"fuck you!"

"fuck youuuuuuuu!!!"

is anyone going to suggest that this isn't awful

it isn't even just the writing, its the intonation; dante's vocal work is really, really awkward sounding and his presentation is really stilted.

[Woppet*]

You can call me xX_dAnTe_Da_DeM0n_KillA_420_Xx

Jokes aside, who cares if the writing is bad? It's DMC, it's not exactly known for it's great writing anyway.

[Gwen]

i think mysterious is the wrong word, and i think to highlight just how bad of a word that is that you just used (reading comprehension: the word was mysterious((no problem)))
Dante and Vergil are named after two characters from The Divine Comedy, that actually, through the series, go through a physical hell that is almost a mirror image of the physical and metaphorical trip through hell from the divine comedy. Sparda is a word that means sword, which is sort of representative as not only being the sword that struck down the legions of hell in the series, but also representative of his sword that is also named Sparda - that Dante eventually uses to strike down the forces of Hell. There are biblical and mythological references that actually kind of make sense in the original series, and aren't just there because they sound neat, like Sting likes to do in their RPG's.
So you're telling me, that in a series with a backstory that's so mythological and vast (i wouldn't say "excellent" or "impressive"((but good)))
that The Order is Mysterious, and not unimaginative, or pedestrian, or the kind of bullshit you'd see in the first script draft of a film school student who just saw The Matrix for the first time.

by the way i'd just like to put it out there, that vergil was a poet in the divine comedy, and likely the developers will totally miss that opportunity for a third time to do anything with that.

While I liked your post, I think he was being sarcastic.

[PrettyNier]

Jokes aside, who cares if the writing is bad? It's DMC, it's not exactly known for it's great writing anyway.

because it's embarrassing, and its honestly a step below the writing in DMC3. hell, it's worse than the writing in DMC4; and this is made worse by the difference in tone between the titles and the fact that the general discussion surrounding the title is that it'll have a "better story" thanks to Ninja Theory and that it'll, in some way, be "better" and "cooler", and not just in a gameplay-sense

simply put DmC is trying to take itself more seriously, and its doing so at a considerable expense - really, suggesting that this is the Lords of Shadow of Devil May Cry isn't entirely inaccurate.

[NICKtendo DS]

Nothing beats the scene with the pizza from DMC3, where Dante is stabbed in the leg by a scythe and kicks the asses of the demon horde ransacking his yet unnamed shop. Forget the writing of dialogue, that scene is gold.

[Gwen]

Jokes aside, who cares if the writing is bad? It's DMC, it's not exactly known for it's great writing anyway.

because it's embarrassing, and its honestly a step below the writing in DMC3. hell, it's worse than the writing in DMC4; and this is made worse by the difference in tone between the titles and the fact that the general discussion surrounding the title is that it'll have a "better story" thanks to Ninja Theory and that it'll, in some way, be "better" and "cooler", and not just in a gameplay-sense

simply put DmC is trying to take itself more seriously, and its doing so at a considerable expense - really, suggesting that this is the Lords of Shadow of Devil May Cry isn't entirely inaccurate.

Story aside, the gameplay looks hella fluid and pretty fun to play, I really wouldn't go that far.
EDIT: Please excuse my use of hella. Love it.