The good thing is, if there’s a remake, the government won’t blow your brains out for playing the original, nor will they put you in prison.
That has got the weirdest and most over the top way anyone has ever said 'the original still exists.' You even managed to throw in a 'first world problem' angle in there. You know, that is the same argument people made when DmC was replacing DMC.
Look, this whole argument misses the point people are trying to make about remakes. No, it's not a blind hatred of remakes, it's an incapacity to articulate the why. I loved RE1's remake but there's the rub. It was the same director remaking the game with the technology he didn't have before. Most remakes forgo the whole experience in order to focus on modernizing the game. Thet miss a whole lot of what made the original memorable. It's not the big things, it's the small and subtle things. The graphics the combat, the accessibility, are all that people tend to focus on.
I'd love a remake done right but I don't trust Capcom to pull it off. I don't know that I'd trust
Kamiya to pull it off. I'd trust him with a Bayonetta remake and an Okami sequel because those are the things he does right. Atmosphere, tone and bravado aren't. That was probably Mikami's department since the only games Kamiya did that nailed that experience, that horror/action balance and both were produced by Mikami. I think the two of them would make a great remake for DMC1, but just one of them? I don't see it. And that's the ideal version of that scenario. The way capcom is treating their REmakes I don't know that they'll even bother trying to make DMC1 anything like, well, DMC1.
Yeah, it's my favorite game so I can be overprotective and overbearing about it but that's also because there is only 1 DMC1. The closest thing we have to DMC1 isn't DMC2, 3, 4 or 5, it's that remake of RE1 and Onimusha 1. The game is one of a kind even in its own franchise so the thought of losing that is not great. 3, 4 and 5 are basically a trilogy of their own. Gameplay, themes, narrative, cast and even the way the world works (DMC1 isn't he kind of game where people ride missiles or have robot hands or have something as stupid as Patty in the cast), all those things are shared across those games, they are alike and clear part of the same series, but DMC1 is not like any of them.
The Resident Evil 4 Remake was even better than the original, so who knows, Capcom could make the remake better than the original game.
I disagree. I don't think the remake is better, period. I think the remake is better in many areas, does a lot of good things and builds well on the fundamentals of the original, but it also comes up short in so many others. Yeah, it's got great gameplay and balance but it's also rather forgettable. To simplify it a bit, are there any scenes from the remake that have become iconic memes? Or is the game even as talked about as the original was this far from its release? People have been talking about 4 since it came out. It made a splash across gaming for years, the influence it had cannot be understated, and people did their damndest to copy it. I don't see that for its remake. It's a good game, absofkn'lutly, but I don't see the longevity that RE4 had and I think it's because it lacks soul. Yeah, the game was cheesy but people quoted it to no end. I can't think of a single line from the remake that's become iconic. It's so grounded it could never be. Ada is so monotone she sounds like they just used the takes where she was memorizing lines (fly, my pretties) and Leon lost his swager.
That's what I think people aren't unable to articulate. It looks better, it plays better, it's story is more cohesive/better written/better acted/less stupid and so on, just doesn't cut it. As odd as it sounds, that doesn't make a game memorable. If that's the case then God of War
is better than DMC. In a lot of these remakes something is lost. No different than a movie remake that has better special effects, bigger stars, a more modern story and yet it still doesn't compare to the original.
DMC4 combos all look the same to me.
Well, yeah. I know that pulling off that stuff requires real skill but I find it to be pretty boring, as an expectator. Can be clever but I just don't see the appeal anymore. After the 15th time watching a guy jump cancel for 3 days it loses its allure.
I thought the style switching made the game seem easier on the Switch
The game is balanced to have the players using one style. Having more options breaks that balance so it's become a different experience. You also have, how many years (?), of practicing style switching? We're not really playing the game the way it was meant to be played.
What is going on with the leaks everywhere you look? They can't seem to keep a secret.
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Back when DMC1 was fairly new Drew Coombs mentioned that in a lot of the roles he got after he was asked to do the Dante voice so Dan being asked to do the Vergil voice didn't ring any bells or alarms. After more videos and discussions I'm not so sure anymore. I do think, however, that he is not working on a DMC 1 game but 3. This is mostly because they wouldn't ask him to do his voice like he did in 3 since the game is set in the time of 1. Not when it's around a 10 years gap. His older voice would be the better fit.