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DmC, my thoughts on the reboot

Whoops, I actually didn't get the joke at first.

I thought Dante was "born from the egg", then he "get's his sword, angst-y attitude and black haircut", then finally "grows up to be the badass Bruce Lee".

I look way too hard into these things sometimes.
 
Lo! For the savior of mankind is born not of the flesh, but of the egg, bearing the curse of frailty under the guise of a hardened skin.

Then doth he learn the Price of Freedom, armed with blade for war against those malicious characters of vile and surreptitiousness.

Thus, through the honing of thy body both sacral and daemonic, the Nephilim dost ascend to patronship with iron wrought spheroids betwixt the legs.
 
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TWOxACROSS said:
You know what? You're right.

However, people were only vocal about the actual hair color, and the greater b!tching about how the game didn't need this or that, and how Ninja Theory ruined Devil May Cry three years before the game ever came out. People didn't give it a chance. They told everyone outright that this wasn't the classic DMC, and that Dante's hair in this had its own significance - because it was such a big part of the classic Dante. All you heard at the time of the 2010 release was "his hair isn't the right color." I know, I was there. I saw all those stupid comments. Very few people at the time actually succinctly voiced what you say about " the greater significance of the change," and "the hair!" dominated comment sections, and NT was taken aback by all the ignorance, over both the hair not being right (despite them saying it had significance, and a patch of white on his crown), and the complete and utter reluctance to even accept something different, that has no bearing on the classics. Then, for the better part of three years they dealt with all that vitriol, and even the succinct complaints had fangs because the people who made those complaints wanted their words to change the very core of something that wouldn't change.

It's like complaining that the sun is too bright, and wanting your complaints to change its luminosity. It's beyond your control, and you have little right to expect your words to change its fundamental nature. People complained about how DmC was different, when that was the entire point of DmC - to be. F#cking. Different.

But here's the million dollar question for you - if every person against DmC consistently says "It's not about the hair!" then why in the hell did people get so bent out of shape over a f#cking wig joke? I'd imagine because, as evidenced many times, people slighted DmC for everything they could twist into being upset over :/

Here's the really big part - the absolutely HUGE thing that people overlook - people specifically look at it as "the wig joke" there and then in Mission 1, get their panties all wadded up, and go on a tirade about once again how it's a slight "against the fans." They ignore all significance the whole goddamn thing has specifically to DmC, and only DmC, not the fans, not the backlash, not anything but context within that one, singular game. Ninja Theory made the white hair significant for Dante, as something he grows into as he wrests control of his potential, and by becoming this "savior of humanity." Dante bears this iconic hair color that he jokingly says he'd never have "in a million years" because he doesn't like the look, because at the beginning of the game he is the reluctant hero who doesn't care about anyone but himself. Then, throughout the course of the game, we see Dante grow not just as a Nephilim, but as a person, and by the end of the game he's sporting the iconic Dante hair color, with an attitude to match his classic counterpart - compassion with a side of wit. Dante becoming something akin to the classic Dante was DmC's journey. All he was missing was a red coat.

The "wig joke" in Mission 1 was just the set-up. We don't get the punchline until the very end.

So yeah. There's that. You can keep complaining about a joke you didn't get. Have fun with that aneurysm.
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Chow out~​
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Times like this I wish they took the whole hair joke out altogether. It might not have been a personal jab at the fans but still, they knew how a majority of people felt about Dante's design change. It REALLY didn't do them any favors keeping it in.

Now, with that being said I finally have an opportunity to play the game tomorrow at my cousin's house. I'm looking forward to finally being able to try out the gameplay and judge it (gameplay wise) for myself.
 
Unknown said:
Whoops, I actually didn't get the joke at first.

I thought Dante was "born from the egg", then he "get's his sword, angst-y attitude and black haircut", then finally "grows up to be the badass Bruce Lee".

I look way too hard into these things sometimes.
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All this egg talk is making me think of Dante somehow being part chicken. Head canon accepted. Dante is chicken.
 
TWOxACROSS said:
However, people were only vocal about the actual hair color, and the greater b!tching about how the game didn't need this or that, and how Ninja Theory ruined Devil May Cry three years before the game ever came out.
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people were only vocal about the hair? that is not true. they also wondered where the red jacket was.

TWOxACROSS said:
They told everyone outright that this wasn't the classic DMC, and that Dante's hair in this had its own significance - because it was such a big part of the classic Dante. All you heard at the time of the 2010 release was "his hair isn't the right color." I know, I was there. I saw all those stupid comments. Very few people at the time actually succinctly voiced what you say about " the greater significance of the change," and "the hair!" dominated comment sections, and NT was taken aback by all the ignorance, over both the hair not being right (despite them saying it had significance, and a patch of white on his crown), and the complete and utter reluctance to even accept something different, that has no bearing on the classics.
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first the reboot wasnt the original serie so if anything everyone was telling the truth.
second, the reboot has impacted the original serie instead of original dante ntdante was put into playsation allstar. also had the sales been 3m instead of 1.1m the chances of capcom replacing original serie with the reboot would been very high.
capcom event hinted at a sequal for the reboot.
a reboot concept art even vaguely implies this too.

TWOxACROSS said:
It's like complaining that the sun is too bright, and wanting your complaints to change its luminosity. It's beyond your control, and you have little right to expect your words to change its fundamental nature. People complained about how DmC was different, when that was the entire point of DmC - to be. F#cking. Different.
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people complained about reboot being different? isnt that your assertion and not the actual complaint of people...the actual complaint being the reboot was not the original and thats why people complained and simply not because the reboot was different.
in first place noone asked for a reboot.

TWOxACROSS said:
But here's the million dollar question for you - if every person against DmC consistently says "It's not about the hair!" then why in the hell did people get so bent out of shape over a f#cking wig joke? I'd imagine because, as evidenced many times, people slighted DmC for everything they could twist into being upset over :/
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people perceived it as a cheap joke that was meant to insult the fanbase who complained about the abscene of white hair.
i will admit i may be wrong about the white wig scene, but i must say it\s really odd that the white hair that people complained about were used as a joke in a scene. whether ninja theory had planned this from beginning or not i do not know.
my opinion about the scene is no different from before though, it wasnt funny.

moving on, your wrong about white hair complaint. the gaming media did the same thing, instead of investigating why people brought a hair colour as complaint they simply ignored it and labeled the valid critism as whiny entitled gamers.
did u know that early on that many people thought the reboot was a prequal to original serie and not a reboot?
and during this periode the reboot that you say had no bearing on the original serie was marketed as the successor to original serie.

do you think just because people wrote that they wanted white hair that it meant they dislike characters with black hair colour or the colour itself?
there are alot people on the web who make a short setence to express themself, they dont elaborate on it though.
however, if you go into a journalist mindset and ask them why they dislike black hair to extract the reason, i gurantee you it will in most cases have to do with fact original dante had white hair, and that is why they are asking for white hair or hating on black hair.

i find it really hard to believe that people hate on a game simply because of a hair colour.
and that is how gaming media portrayed the complaints. they didnt want to understand why, and had they attempted to understand they would have realized that it was not a simple complaint about hair colour but a concerned complaint of the character they were presented with was not the character they knew and were fan of.

i have acknowledged i may be wrong about the wig scene because nts objective with that scene may not been to insult people, but its hard to not think that when it became one of the most important complaint for what was supposed to be original dante, i have even seen alex jones and tameem laugh at the complaints about white hair.

anyway, how about those of you who keep saying the people who complained...complained simply about a hair colour acknowledge the fact that people were worried about what the hair colour would mean.
if you look back at first trailer from 2010 and you view old comments, you will see a pattern of people often talking about the hair colour in context to what it signified.
you will often read people saying
1. dante will get white hair, ithe game is when dante was young
2. its a prequal
you will rarely find a comment where someone expresses they dont like blacik hair because they dislike black colour or they like white hair because white colour is their favourite colour and thus they hate the change.

If this is a continuation of DMC4 where is his demon hand? White hair? and muscles the new team making him is going to ruin the series by changing the look of the franchiese. Even gameinformer is sceptical about this game. he looks like twighlight and some random cyborg demon **** combined. They are gonna kill the plot i garuntee it...and another thing is just because he smokes doesnt mean he is cool. he looks like a ****in pansy in a big coat. anime dante his cool and tough not an anorexic puss
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Yeah... Dante was always the white haired badass... He never had a rough period after his mom was killed right in front of him... (sarcasm)
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that the same Dante everybody it just when he was young and i know what ur think that Dante has white hair but if u can see on top of Dante head u can see some white hair growing 1:30
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Who the **** is this guy? Is this really dante? Where'd the white hair go? Everyone, look at dmc 4 and then look at this garbage.
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thats is what happen when the director puts his own hairstyle on the main character of this game that has been played by so many ppl..
where is the organ music? and the distortion guitar?
the red clothes?
thw white hair?
and btw the begining looks like of a trailer of horror movie..
to me that's ok that he isn't so relaxed as he is on the rest of the games(exept dmc2), he could be realy mind ****ed because he probabely considered a freak by others
btw his eyebrows must be white.
painted?-.-'
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@Xxienjoymarshmellows that is not dante.. not dante because dante's hair are white.. white!!!! i wuont the really devil may cry 5.And you???
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I agree with you. Everyone here who doesn't like it won't even give it a chance. I'm 200% sure that the game's storyline will be epic! :) If it is the actual Dante, just when he's a teenager, then that'll be flippin awesome. I mean, doesn't anyone notice the white on the top and back of his head???
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the game is apparently a prequel after all. Dante's hair becomes whiter as the game progresses, and his devil trigger (which he only really learns to use in DMC3) makes his hair go fully white. The game is about him beginning to accept that he is part demon. His regular appearance will probably be playable anyway. Personally I don't mind his appearance, since it adds some sort of change to the game, in DMC4 even playing as Nero didn't feel that new since he looked almost exactly like young Dante
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as younger dante, nice, i like the sound of it.... it's rich if it's more of an origin game because dante's hair probably grew out and got white over the years
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Guys don't hate the game yet. The gameplay is pretty cool and Dante isn't emo. Sure he might have been born with silver hair but there is something called hair dye. He might have used it to make himself look cool or it could be a disguise. He looks alright, he's obviously younger and the only bad part is he's skinny. Still if you see in trailers his hair turns white and his hair is already partially white. This game will show how he became so badass.
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*sigh* am i the only one with a hd screen his hair is black but its turning white on the top if you open your eyes you'll see it. and who cares if he smokes. That would make sence he smoked when he was young, quit, now is addicted to pizza to stop smoking. Dante didnt just pop out of his mom an be all bad ass. it had to start some were. Things had to change. Give the friggin game a chance man,
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This was when he was young, moron. Besides, look, he has white hair in the middle and bottom of his head. -_-
You're criticizing the game because of Dante's look. Shut the **** up, stop whining and give the game a chance.
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It really doesn't make sense for him not to have white hair, his father and his brother both Naturally have white hair and Nero who is a relative of Sparda, and WTF is with the smoking? Dante didn't need to smoke to be cool. I really hope we get an explanation and i REALLY hope it isn't a total reboot.
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What kind of ****ty DMC is this? prequel or not, this sucks! >_< Dante and Nero both had white hair when they where young, and they BOTH got a sword for Sparda. That sword that Dante was using..wasnt the rebillion sword we use to know. So, i suppose this is a whole new story..a ****up story if you ask me. T_____T
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in my eyes its pretty ignorant to say people were complaining about a hair colour only, when it was more than that.
 
Chancey289 said:
All this egg talk is making me think of Dante somehow being part chicken. Head canon accepted. Dante is chicken.
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*tries and fails to come up with relevant joke*

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IncarnatedDemon said:
"sequal"... "its a prequal"
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Um... it's spelled, "sequel" and "prequel". Also, there were certain times where you spelled "doppelganger" as "dobleganger". A lot. Sometimes within the same paragraph.

If you're going to complain, using spell check once in a while might be a good idea.
 
TerrorA said:
Look, can't we just say that oDante and reDante are Badasses of the highest order?
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Yes.
Jak said:
bro...c'mon. if it were that cut and dry don't you think we'd already have heard of a DmC sequel by now? maybe even a little peace between both sides? some...interside relations? unholy love children? batman and robin?
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No.
Edit: Ok, maybe.
 
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