I\'m bored enough to shred this, pity me.
The main problem I have with the game is the exploration aspect. Here we are in our 3rd generation of 3D gaming and *yet* Capcom has not advance to the acceptable next generation standard set by Mario 64.
Mario 64 set the standard for hack and slash action\\adventure games? Hehe, you\'re funny.
The environments are comprise of a straight forward corridor. It *feels* 2D. Back then, the reason why programmers were restricted to such a diminutive environment was due to pre-rendered background. It was understandable because of the limitations of the PSX hardware. Now we are in the next generation. Why are we *still* restricted to *fake* exploration? You walk into a room, press the button as quickly as possible at every corner until you find something, walk to a door, press a button, run straight until you get to the next room, and repeat. See how repetitious it can get?
Straight forward corridor? There are plenty of huge areas with lots of different things to do. However, hallways are common in building architecture in order to link many rooms together into one. When four large rooms link off of one corridor, the building is realisitc. I\'m sure you have a hallway in your house, do you consider it too to be diminuitive?
Secondly, it\'s not a game of exploration. You are just trying to complete your objectives and slay the demon spawn of hell. How can anyone expect this major feat of exploration when the chief objective is to get certain rankings based on the style of your kills? The game is based on advancing through the castle and whiping out anything that moves, then powering up your weapons\\stats so you can kill even more crap. It\'s a simple formula that is pulled off nicely and for you to expect something different then what its main purpose is, is like me bashing Onimusha because it\'s not a sports game. :rolleyes:
I won\'t even get into the hack-n-slash style of gameplay that feels way too similar to the mindless, button mashing scheme of games like Final Fight and Onimusha. It involves no strategy or precision. It is mindless repetition.
No strategy? Have you even fought or beaten the first boss? You will quickly realize that just blindly slashing at him is completely futile. I mean, you compared it to Final Fight and Onimusha, two games that are completely unline Devil May Cry in so many ways. Final Fight is a beat-em-up like the Bouncer and Onimusha is a straight up adventure game like Resident Evil. To say either of those even compare gameplay wise to Devil May Cry is an insult to all three respective games.
Despite the obvious truth, this game still got unwarranted accolades and strong appraisal from the Sony crowd and various websites.
I have no doubt in my mind it is a propagandish-trend......
Consider for a moment that people just enjoy good wholesum fun gaming. If that thought still never entered your pea-brain psyche, then please for a moment consider that it\'s not a conspiracy to make people buy more games, but rather a conspiracy for all reviewers to influence people to buy certain games, read: fun, and miss stupid games, read: terrible.
These so call professional critics are influence by money. It is obvious they have other determining factors other than their own sake of gaming.
So you are saying that all the opinions here, agreeing with the website big-wigs, are just on Sony\'s pay-role? I suppose then that all good games are just really crappy ones and we\'re just kidding ourselves then. Real opinions have nothing to do with it, only money. Sounds like you\'ve been taking a boat load of focu-syn on an hourily basis.
Game consumers consists of a bunch of asinine kids who refuse to intake anything negative....
They are too arrogant to have an optimistic outlook......and everyone of them is fixated in their own lil world.
And the pot calls the kettle black. Maybe you are not being optimistic, but the rest of us are very optimistic about these games and are very happy we have purchased them.
Why do you think the most popular mags are the ones that strictly caters(PSM) to one console?
Or perhaps because it is the most popular magazine discussing the most popular platform. I think you need to calm down man, you obviously have a lot of pent up frustration.
Almost propagandish to the way Hitler controlled his regimen.....
And now I suppose for reading these articles and believing their insights, which happens to be true on more then many occasions, we are Nazis? Uh huh. *cumples up Tshirts credibility, toss is out the window*
These magazines, in order to appease the fans, says a "crap" game is great. The fanboys program it in their head through their conscious brain that relays it into their subconscious brain, and as "crappy" as the game is, it is still "good" just because they have psychologically program their thinking that way....
Actually, I felt their score of ICO was quite low for a game that good. To each their own.
They *think* Tekken is "the greatest 3D fighter ever made".....
Actually, in the latest PSM mag with Dante on the cover, they proclaimed Virtua Fighter 4 to be the best 3D fighter coming out this generation.
I can\'t believe I responded to all of this. 10% of yoru post actually discuses DMC, and only through comparative analysis, flawed analysis rather, do you actually discuss what the game brings to the proverbial table of the industry. What about the rest of your "review"? It talks about media propaganda and how we are all mindless zombies for buying into it. NEWSFLASH: We play what we like. The people who read reviews are in the vast minority of all those out there who buy games and of those people, they go by what is pretty on the back of the box. That\'s why DOA3 will sell so well and why the Dreamcast was so ignored. Enough said. Go back to where you were hiding before you posted this trash, the forum was living fine without you and it will do much better when you leave again.
