DmC - Matrix Similarities

[Ronin]

In this new DMC, is Dante like Neo, trapped in Limbo/the Matrix?

Cause as people in some threads said, Limbo is like the Matrix, so...

Is DmC the next Matrix?

 

[Martius]

Change ai to demons and you get jackpot. Same with "They live" just change aliens to demons.

 

[Lunar Legend]

besides the fact that they based this game on "They Live" yeah

 

[Ronin]

So what now? In the sequel, it might turn into a Matrix Reloaded-like theme. Humans now know the existence of demons and angels.

 

[EvilX-81]

You can find a piece of pretty much every conspiracy idea out there is in this game.

Matrix, They Live, bankers using debt to control the world, poisoning your food and drink to make mankind docile, the christian-esque idea of invisible demons ruling the world, etc.

 

[TWOxACROSS]

Why not just look at the game for what it is on its own, instead of trying to tear into it for the similarities it has to some other stuff...?

 

[Lunar Legend]

well i am looking at it as its own thing. im just saying NT literally said that this game draws from "they live"

 

[TWOxACROSS]

well i am looking at it as its own thing. im just saying NT literally said that this game draws from "they live"

Yeah, there was inspiration from "They Live," Tameem said it was his favorite movie, but Devil May Cry drew inspiration from the Divine Comedy...who cares, right? In the end what matters most is the product itself.

 

[Dante Redgrave]

Yeah, homage to does not mean that it will continue to derive from that or a similar source all the time. They live was one of the favorite movies of the NT staff, so they threw in their love letter to the film with the way Limbo works.

 

[EvilX-81]

Yeah, there was inspiration from "They Live," Tameem said it was his favorite movie, but Devil May Cry drew inspiration from the Divine Comedy...who cares, right? In the end what matters most is the product itself.

I don't think there's anything wrong with drawing inspiration from something, and the only thing I see in common here is the concept. There's no fighting to make someone put on glasses, no busting into a bank to shoot up hidden aliens/demons, though there IS the whole world reveal at the end.

Honestly before I knew it was They Live inspired, I was drawing bible-inspired parallels (invisible demons rule the world.)

It's "They Live if demons did it" which I can dig. And I personally don't believe there are any ideas or concepts drawn from a vacuum.

 

[TWOxACROSS]

I did think it was funny that they had an homage to the bank scene from They Live in the form of the CG trailer, where Dante's walking over cars and then walks into a bank, laying waste to all the demons that appear

 

[Ronin]

After seeing how Devil May Cry became, I thought of it like the Matrix. Limbo is the Matrix and the human world is the real world.

Dante is Neo while Kat is Trinity.

 

[SeraphDark]

Given the amount of stories that have written throughout history, the plot lines and themes have become so convoluted, that it has become nearly impossible to not find fragments and chunks of other stories within or mirroring another storyline.

Which is why Hollywood has not produced anything truly original and groundbreaking in quite some time, and why tv has become nothing but reality tv.

Source: Avid reader, movie watcher and writer.

 

[SeraphDark]

After seeing how Devil May Cry became, I thought of it like the Matrix. Limbo is the Matrix and the human world is the real world.

Dante is Neo while Kat is Trinity.

But Neo didn't take Trinity from anyone. Kat loved Vergil before she met Dante.

 

[MigsRZXAStylish]

I can imagine DmC Dante and DmC Vergil kicking serious demon ass with this song from The Matrix OST:

Here's the long version not off the OST:

Anyway, on topic:

For my two cents on this, let me say one thing...

I KINDA NOTICED THAT!

No wonder it reminded me of The Matrix!

 

[Demi-fiend]

There is no spoon...

 

[Domenic93]

besides the fact that they based this game on "They Live" yeah

there is a big difference between based on, and plagiarize, and this is dangerously close to the latter

 

[Domenic93]

I don't think there's anything wrong with drawing inspiration from something, and the only thing I see in common here is the concept. There's no fighting to make someone put on glasses, no busting into a bank to shoot up hidden aliens/demons, though there IS the whole world reveal at the end.

Honestly before I knew it was They Live inspired, I was drawing bible-inspired parallels (invisible demons rule the world.)

It's "They Live if demons did it" which I can dig. And I personally don't believe there are any ideas or concepts drawn from a vacuum.

there was going to be a bank scene but that got taken out because the boss fight didn't fit in with the rest

 

[DragonMaster2010]

I'm a Nephilim...

 

[Jak]

the chosen one theme