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My biggest problem with the new Dante look in this DMC reboot is...well, look at him! He's a junkie!

It's not about him being goth or young or rebellious, according to what every editor puts into their articles. It that he looks like a drugged-up dropout listening to the Black Brigade. That's not the face of youth, or even rebellion; that's the face of a meth addiction.

Although, maybe that will come into play in the story itself. Maybe Dante has become a druggie as a means of "rebelling" or whatever you wanna call that. And maybe, throughout the story, he learns to overcome his addiction and clean himself up. Hopefully.

Still in meh with the Kinect. Meth would be more fun.

Keiji Inafune, who basically called the Japanese game industry a moribund factory for lousy, unappealing crap. He certainly has a point: Japan led much of the games market in the 1990s, but the nation's publishers failed to take advantage of popular trends in the West

When did making great games mean pandering to western sensibilities? Maybe Inafune should leave Capcom and go work for Infinity Ward or Bungie.

If all games took after what was popular in the west, I would have left the medium a long time ago. Thank god for Atelier Rorona (and Totori!!)

I think you are missing some of the context of his statement. He doesn't really have any problem with games like Atelier Rorona, i.e. games that are either low budget or targeted at smaller audiences.

His statements are railing against companies like Square and his own Capcom that make hugely expensive games that are meant to have huge global sales but that don't take western audiences into account. His problem isn't niche games, its big games that don't make money.

Wow, the series has really gone downhill since its glory days on Genesis when it was an enjoyable console RPG. Ever since the online Phantasy Star was released, the series has gotten seriously bad.

prime_pm wrote:

My biggest problem with the new Dante look in this DMC reboot is...well, look at him! He's a junkie! It's not about him being goth or young or rebellious, according to what every editor puts into their articles. It that he looks like a drugged-up dropout listening to the Black Brigade. That's not the face of youth, or even rebellion; that's the face of a meth addiction. Although, maybe that will come into play in the story itself. Maybe Dante has become a druggie as a means of "rebelling" or whatever you wanna call that. And maybe, throughout the story, he learns to overcome his addiction and clean himself up. Hopefully. Still in meh with the Kinect. Meth would be more fun.

I had to laugh at the article Ryan Clements did for IGN after it became clear that a lot of people hate the new Dante. He tried to say that people were overreacting because the trailer showed some great action/potential gameplay. I have three issues with using that as a defense: 1. Trailers always make stuff look great, it's all about marketing 2. This franchise has always had really cool cutscenes, and then the player could only do some of the cool moves from the cutscene 3. It's not always about having cool gameplay. People, including myself, are attached to the character I already question the need for a young Dante, since that is what DMC3 had, but I could go for it if he wasn't practically unrecognizable.

Is it me who sees Tron Bonne looking identical to Betty Boop (sans the fishnet stockings)?