Yeah, New donte's pretty dumb too. He's just some punk brat who talks a big game and wants to try and be all tough, but in actuallity he's just a giant show off who says F you every five seconds for some reason and thinks he's a cool guy. I didn't like that about him and definitely wished capcom looked after NT better when it came to Dante's character. But that's not like I'm gonna praise old donte either.
old donte was some idiot who wanted to be cool but couldn't show it. he was just an emotionally contrived fool who thinks his 70's one liners are hip. Plus, I never liked the way he dressed in DMC3 and DMC4. He looked like a guy craving attention to hard even though in the anime he obviously preferred to be alone. In the end I blame Capcom's incapacity to write good characters that ruined him.
Basically both Donte's suck and I'm just gonna have to expect that going into a DMC5.