Devil May Cry 4 (Demo & Discussion)

[SinValentine]

i don't like how quiet nero is :/ but i guess he had to be different from dante. i was fighting berial and my ten minutes were up... i guess i'm at a slow pace, i bet you guys got farther?

what happens after fighting berial?

by the way i always thought nero was vergil :/ for some reason i thought in devil may cry 1 nero angelo was dante's brother so wouldn't it make him vergil? i must've missed something because was it ever mentioned in a game that there was another brother?

[The Dude]

Berial is the last fight on the Demo.
I can usually beat him with just over or under 3mins to go but i've only really played the 360 demo 6 or 7 times.

After fighting him you get a cutscene and thats it, if you can't beat him in time choose the 2nd mission in the demo, lets you play the 2nd half of the 10min demo minus the time limit.

Also, from every cutscene i've seen so far *minus the stuff in the demo*, Nero has just as big a mouth and attitude problem as Dante does.

[SeiyaKou]

Vergil(Dante's brother) actually IS Nero Angelo(the dark knight from DMC1). DMC4's Nero is just named that way and has nothing to do with Vergil/Nero Angelo, in fact we don't know much about him from official news and the fact that he's a son of Sparda is just a speculation.

[SinValentine]

ah i see, thanks for clearing that up for me lol

[Gradon]

Just bought the game today; just defeated Dante, I say, Dante is very quiet in this game.

[The Dude]

Not really, once you get him playable he never shuts up in cutscenes.

Im on level 19 *I got the game on Wednesday 2 days before UK release* but i've been too busy to finish it, might to so later.

[News Bot]

I was pretty disappointed with the story. Aside from that, the game itself was alright. Didn't feel much different from DMC3, even with the Devil Bringer.

[The Dude]

I thought the story was pretty decent, I didn't have any problems with it bar one inconsistency being Spoiler:

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Yamato being the key to unlocking the demon world, when it was previously force Edge, so it was definitley a MacGuffin/ploy to bring the sword and any Vergil references back in some way/shape/form.

Still have to bother with the Special Ending though, probably do it tomorrow.

EDIT: Got bored, got the special ending, pretty funny but no revelations.

[Umon Daisuke]

If this in any way helps to make more "sense", Yamato was Sparda's sword in DMC1 but it had the properties of the force edge. In devil trigger, it turned into the "Sparda" sword.

As for the game itself, I felt that DMC3 was a more polished effort. The backtracking gave RE Zero a run for its money, and they needed to have more variety with the boss fights.

It had the aesthetic charm of the original, but that one remains the most polished and balanced out of the three games. Still has the best soundtrack too.

[randomwab]

I was pretty disappointed with the story. Aside from that, the game itself was alright. Didn't feel much different from DMC3, even with the Devil Bringer.

This. I also don't know how I feel about the amount of recycling. I mean..

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half of the fucking game? Really Capcom? REALLY?!

I've just got to the second Dante mission and i'm burned out. I have no will to play it any further. Fucking meh.

Also, CiarenDevlin am from Belfast? I am from Belfast. zoooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyggggggggggoooo oooooooddddddddddddd!!!!1

[The Dude]

To be honest the repetition didn't bother me so much.
I don't see why its getting to so many people, I really dig the multiple style combat with dante and the faster paced style of his missions *either that or I run around like a hooligan with a sword fighting to get S ranks from everything in sight*.
The cutscenes during and inbetween missions padded things out for his missions.
If anything the slower paced missions of nero's frustrated me a bit.

[Skunky]

Hmmm, I see some mixed views...
I'm working 10 nightshifts in a row (how's that for repetition?)
I'll be getting it next week when I've got some time to play it.

[Rick Hunter]

Got only one thing to say... This game is good. But no new devil my cry will ever be as good as the first one was. They just don't understand what made it so good.

It's sad.

[Umon Daisuke]

The often costly, but great, Kamiya touch. The first game remains the most balanced out of the (good) three and has the best character designs.

The third game's flaws were in the aesthetics, and the abundance "punching bag" enemies. The combat system was better though.

DMC4 tried meshing the best of both DMC and DMC3, but almost everything past mission 14 seems patched up. Dante's parts seemed like an afterthought to me.

So I'd have to say that DMC and DMC3 remain my favorites. The first one's balance (and good ranking system) and the third's depth coupled with their great boss fights remain untouched. Ueda's killer soundtrack is not too shabby in the first either.

[Gradon]

The music in Devil May Cry 4 seem awesome, I've never thought of games soundtracks before because I was never interested much in the music (Except RE, I love the opera music they put in.), but Devil May Cry is like a game with intense music! When the soundtracks out, I'll be sure to buy it. ;P