Not very interesting of a story, I think. But anyway.
I saw the trailer with scrawny and beaten up Dante. Lots of people yelling at it, enraged, but I was like, catatonic. I stayed there staring at the screen for a couple minutes, sighed, nodded in resignation, moved on to another video.
My interest in Devil May Cry dropped completely that day in 2010. Not just Devil May Cry's future, but the franchise as a whole. Couldn't even get around to replay the older games, my interest in it was completely gone.
I barely followed DmC's development and the fuss around it, the ****storm towards Tameem's PR, and all that. It just wasn't my concern anymore, Devil May Cry. I almost completely ignored it for its entire dev process' duration.
Then a friend of mine, who never got into DMC, bought it for his Xbox, and one day I was at his place, playing, he offered to let me try this DmC cause it was fun. I said why not. I had a good time with it, and both me and my friend split the cost of the PC version which we bought for his machine, cause mine was only good for playing old games. It's on PC that I had most on my experience with DmC.
I liked it overall, had fun, but I felt I had no reason to replay it again multiple times. The world was cool but not interesting enough, I didn't feel the urge of going find as many secrets and references and Easter Eggs as possible like I did in the previous titles, and the combat offered comparatively less depth so I didn't feel like spending a lot of time on it (recently I discovered fighting games and learned how much they have in common with DMC so I got back on it briefly).
Good things is, playing DmC rekindled my interest in the franchise. Some time later I joined here.