darkslayer13;259263 said:
since you already knew what i was going to say there is no point in saying it. but i will anyway.
Vergil needs a real comeback. ( Note: that's a statement not a complaint. if Capcom dose something lame like bring him back as a spirit or alternate costume or some other fake comeback then i will complain loudly and frequently)
^this.
Although we should give credit where credit is due.
Nero might not be a match for Dante, but the intention was just that. Nero never was meant to outshine Dante, not by a far margin, and by having him fight Dante half way through the game and come off second best each time shows to me, at least, that Capcom isn't about to butcher Dante's character for the sake of a new character. If they were going to have someone replace him, they'd have let Vergil do the job. I'm digressing >_<
Point I'm trying to make is that yeah, Nero isn't exactly THE BEST character, but he wasn't created to BE the best. He's as flawed as Dante is, if you think about it. All this Nero bashing is really unnecessary because - and this is where who ever gets stuck with the job of 'tailoring' the game to the fans' wants is going to clash with a major problem - the fact is, very simply put, that Nero is the first male protagonist to join the DMC crew. Vergil was cast as the antagonist - if he'd been in Nero's situation, chances are people would have been hating on Vergil as well. People hate Nero because 1 - he IS on the good side and 2 - they're intimidated by the fact that DANTE was the unlockable character in DMC4, and not Nero.
DMC wouldn't be DMC if they brought out a game that had no Nero, no Trish, no Lady, and no Vergil. Even in DMC4 there was strong hints toward Vergil, without actually referring to him specifically. If they left out one or the other, the game would be a fail like DMC2.
So, with all that said, I do want more Nero, I do want Vergil to have an epic comeback, and I do want Dante to go into that family reunion with guns blazing and blood spraying.
The people at Capcom, or whomever is going to create the next game, have A LOT of material they can work with and refer to. Dante's banter to Mundus that he should give Dante's son his regards when they next meet - there's something to play on. Throw us a curve ball and make Nero turn out Dante's son - it'd make more sense than being Vergil's son anyway, seeing as Dante is the one who was raised with 'fine women and good booze'. Vergil's upbringing doesn't seem as seedy as Dante's, so the likelihood that Dante might have conceived a child (or a few of them) is pretty high up there. All that, and it will give Nero an actual purpose in the series. He's messed up becoming a demon at the end of DMC4 - so what if his mind starts ticking like Vergil's had? Which side is he going to embrace? Sparda embraced humanity and sealed away Mundus. Dante embraced his humanity and defeated Mundus. Maybe Nero can embrace his humanity and kill Mundus? Family tradition ^_^
Or, Nero can go off the rocker like Vergil had, and in his bid to gain more power he might unlock a chain of events that will restore Vergil to his human form. Maybe Vergil can even play the 'good' guy and try to show Nero that he was heading down a steep path to doom? Mundus was hellbent on merging the demon world with the human world, so why not have him try that again in the game, make him an actual boss, and have the sons of Sparda kick some serious ass? Maybe they all get stuck in the demon realm when that happens, or they die fighting off Mundus - this IS the game that happens after 4 and before 2, am I right? Somebody has to explain WHY Dante is in the depo state he is in 2, and seeing as none of the characters are featured in 2, I think it's safe to assume that they're all dead. And going on what Dante's reaction is in the DMC2 novel, why not make Trish go all-out evil again? I think she turns on him and hands Nero or Vergil or whoever on a gold platter to Mundus, just to throw some more conflict into the game, so Dante ends up killing her for her betrayal. It's the only thing I could come up with regarding his brooding silence when Enzo pestered him about what happened to Trish. AND he mentions slaying her
again, which as far as I know, Dante didn't actually
do in the games.
I mean, this is all the direction I think they'll probably go with the next game. What I actually WANT is, as I stated before, a game reflecting on their past. Yeah, okay, so it'd be predictable and we all know how it would end, but it'd STILL make a pretty cool game.
-rambling switch is now OFF-