TGS ’10: Interview with Ninja Theory and reasons for the DmC reboot

September 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 am

GameTrailers were able to snag an in-depth interview with Ninja Theory’s own Creative Director, Tameen Antoniades, and Capcom’s Senior Producer, Alex Jones, regarding their inspiration and reasons for choosing to “reboot” the Devil May Cry series and slap on a fresh new look.

The interview is certainly very enlightening and definitely helps provide an insight as to why Ninja Theory would attempt such a bold move in completely restarting from stage one. Definitely worth a watch.

Last update: November 10th, 2012 at 11:53 am

By Steve, Let's rock, baby!

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I’m hoping the original Japanese director of the DMC series can convince them to change the new Dante before this game gets on the shelves. Like the guy said, they are on phase 1 of 5. So just maybe, the original director says “No, you need to change this.”
- dcchristian89
  
  I feel ya bro, sounds like u kno wtf ur talkin about
BKDx

What in gods name are capcom thinking, letting some other random game company make the next devil may cry
dcchristian89

Right now im very pissed but at the same time this change might be good. I know Dante looks terrible but after playin the game maybe Ill look passed that and the story plot may become a lot better this time around. Lets be real DMC 4 was good but DMC 3 was the best one so far. Why? because of change but at the same time it stuck to the story and with the new one hopefully it does the same. To wrap up my bitchin they need to change the look to somethin a lot better, because last time I checked Dante had “NO BITCHASSNESS” in his style while this new look has too much. lol
- dcchristian89
  
  One more thing idk about u, but idk a damn thing about Nero a new fuckin characters origin at all. This guy is up there with Dante and in some elements even better than Dante. Why dont they expand on his background and character bet 10 bucks it would sell.
- moreeses
  
  changing how Dante looks is a horrible idea yes they have to make him younger but why the heck would u change the haircolor, and dude Dante has always looked fucking sick and had a swag in the games
zandy zain

Actually I wanna say it’s too bad i can see story after DMC 2. Many people had their own opinion about this new DMC.
First, I think, if you look the story line from anime where they show dante’s birth place and the story when he had to runnaway from that city because chased by demon, it will be logical that dante had to hide his identity by colloring his hair an change hei name become “tony Redgrave”. but i hope there a moment in the game that we can see he trasform into white haired dante
Jak

Watching everything, reading articles here tand there, this seriously seems like it is going to be a disgrace. Im sure they can make gameplay fun and stuff, but they wulda been better off calling this game something else. They are wanting to change everything! not just dante, but everything! One, you should never change a big icon like this in the way they are. We all love him for who he is , why change that? And they are going to change the cinematography (or however you spell that) and the music! They are changing the style of the game all together! They are changing all of the factors that made devil may cry into Devil May Cry. The reason so many people love the games are because of what they are. If your chaning it so much and in the way they are changing it, it isnt a devil may cry game, it wont be a game that fans of the series will like because it wont share the factors of what has made past devil may cry games Devil May Cry.
Now I get I get people trying to go in a new direction and stuff, but they are complete chaninging it, not going on a new path. And why give the control of the next game to a completely different group of people? Its like giving the reigns of the next resident evil game to, lets say, gearbox, and they decide to change so many things about it. As a big fan of the series, I feal like i’m being spat in the face. I can only hope there will be a devil may cry 5 in the future that gets back on track of what it’s supposed to be
Jak

I really hope I am wrond for the most part, and I am excited to play a new Devil May Cry game, but I have a really bad feeling about how it will turn out
Kasori

This game looks like a piece of shit. ._.
ReMake

Anyone got link to petition about dmc 5 ?
pedro

dear oh dear,everyone i see just bitches on and on about how changes will be bad and kill the franchise lol.d you guys all share the same grey cell matter or what ??? not 1 of you has played the game which looks awesome btw and are already pissing on it.I for one look 4ward 2 the story of dantes origin and how he becomes the guy we know n love tday and did you stop t think the shit dante wuda seen through his eyes wud turn his hair silver??? this isn’t necessarily the way they are guna leave him if they make more sequels its just how he began,dmc since its release has been quality this new adaptation isn’t going to kill anything because its simply a story of who he was and if anything will make us all bigger fans,the tech has evolved to allow this game in the genre to get with the times granted those times seem strange as our hero is no longer recognisable but after 20mins of gaming and getting to know a whole new side of dante before he becomes the badass man he is now wooooooo i know we are all guna like this kid as he will remind us who we are or who we where when we knew it all felt invincible and thought the world owed us because we fuckin said so ;)
- crazed demon
  
  listen pedro first of all it shows in the anime that dante and vergil have always haid silver (or grey your choice) hair. Plus like i said in my main comment no1 does a complete 180 on their personality if you really are a die hard fan and played all the games and read the books and watched the anime it depicts him as a hyper out of control(in the having wild fun sense), player (in the hitting on girls sense) way. and secondly don’t you atleast see how the character looks like a younger version of the director, doesn’t kinda show that he’s subtedly trying to influence the whole game to be like a younger version of his life except with the whole demon thing. plus not to be rude but you write like a fucking 12 year old so it kinda puts out a image to everyone that you don’t know what your talking about.
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I get that they’re trying to “connect” with the dub-step/smoking/misfit youth of today, but this is like changing sonic the hedgehog to purple and putting him in clothes. You don’t just completely change an iconic character and expect favorable results from its fan base. No one will recognize it.
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in fact, the point that they KNOW the fans of DmC are already shitting bricks about it and are doing it anyway is amazing.
- pedro
  
  amazing good or bad? im open minded enough not to get bothered that the lead character is guna change completely because essentially it will still remain dante…….roll on dmc5
crazed demon

wow anyone else notice how the new dante look looks like the director of DmC to the dot i mean if your gonna do that you minus well make vergil look like the short fat bald guy who is also in this video. They just need to know that most of this new stuff isn’t like among the DmC fan base because first of all idk what kids your looking at but im 17 and me and my friends don’t have this outlook on life. plus i mean a the face should be changed to look like a younger him, maybe a little different and even with the gay sideways mohawk it should still be silver. plus all the DmC games have been with heavy metal type rock not emo stuff (not trying to use emo as insult just couldn’t find another word for it). and i see the trouble past thing but i’ve known ppl for a long time and no body and i do mean no body has a 180 personality flip like it’s showing him with in this game. i also see that he has Sparda (the sword, not his dad) with him but didn’t he get that much later in life. Now some changes are acceptable because there is the saying out with the old in with the new but didn’t you ever think that this new is bad while the old was really good.
alt-crtl-fuck off

gamplay looks cool but the Icon is not the icon
it looks like some other character it didn’t have the face of dante
Haloedge

Actually people if we are looking at the younger Dante then we are actually looking at “Toni Redgrave” an identity he had to take up after the death of his mother. This did include him dying his hair. So if any of you are concerned about his looks get over it, it’s part of the storyline and the programers would rather be true to the story of Dante than change his past to make you happy.
Dante_cry

Don’t Change the Image of Dante. Every new game has come out with a successful formula. New story, new characters, new gameplay. But Dante’s core and image stays the same. To make Dante look like some 80′s punk rock undergound emo “troubled youth” is LAMEASS. This ideal that the team is trying to present strips away Dante from being an overall badass. And what’s with the smoking? He never smoked to begin with, how can you be a badass and have awesome lungs to kick demon ass but smoke? It’s counter productive. COMMON!! All Your doing is pissing folks off more than anything. Stick to what works which is new gameplay, cool story, new characters including new hotties that Dante becomes partners with lol BUT LEAVE DANTE ALONE. If he looks this pathetic I feel even more sorry for the Devil Trigger.
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Well I’m open minded and all and I don’t tink this game will sucks just becouse they are changing everything but i can say that new dante is awful…I loved to play as Dante and even if using nero in the last devil may cry wasn’t so bad i hated every moment i spent playing him couse I couldn’t play as Dante who simply is one of the best videogame character ever
Gheezer

Okay… I can care less about Dante getting somehow restarted. But – Devil May Cry is an actuall NAME of something in the series. Anime has established that (or actually, I think DMC1 pretty much established it?) and at least the fourth game works with it a lot. I wonder if at least this much will be included or if it would be another Heroes V, a game with same name but nothing from the original series.
What I personaly find the most rage-able is the smoking. New attire? Ooookay, this is the least troubling, fashion changes and even trademarks can’t last forever. New hairdo? Weell… You just wished it won’t look like the Creative Scumbagtor, but okay, new hairdo, I can get with it (like someone said, this character MIGHT be Tony Redgrave, his alias). New weapons? That could be hard to justify in-universe, because Dante had Rebellion since the day he was born, I think, but well…
Dear Ninja Theory: SMOKING ISN’T COOL. DRUGS ARE NOT COOL. I wanna smoking hero, I can play Mafia or… Okay, or Mafia. But it makes sense that he smokes. I wanna drugs using hero, I can play Bioshock. I wanna both, I go and play Fallout. Dante was cool because he kicked massive amounts of ass and didn’t care about being cool doing it. He was cool because he ENJOYED it, not because he would like to be cool.
The really funny thing about this is that you CAN actually imagine being Dante. “Identifiing” with him, as the modern people say. But identifiing with someone who smokes, looks like he has done hard drugs and has the aura of “Idon’tgiveafuck” around him? No, thanks, I don’t want to.
Just one more though. WHAT kind of people do they want to attract even? Substance abusers? Violent brainwashed groupies? Martial-arts wannabes? I seriously hope that in this trailer we don’t see the character we will be playing the whole time, or otherwise it is pretty much letdown…
Fulufhelo

this game is really good!the only prlbeom i had was getting doing something for a trophy because it was hardbut it is really funits kinda like assassins creed 1before assassins creed 2 came outif you thought that the gameplay was repetitive and running on roofs and climbing buildings boring, then you dont know how to have fun