That is why I said "argue". The experience varies for everyone. The gameplay WORKS. I have plenty of people talk about DMC4's gameplay like it is a total mess. Just because it is a style that doesn't work well with you doesn't make it a mess. It is all preference and player opinion.
I know, I was simply adding to that statement.
That is also not as arguable as we'd like to claim it is. If the game is bad we know it's bad, there are people who are very articulate and can tell you why something is bad and they get paid to put it into words. In DMC4's case the argument is that there are people who can play the game in a certain way that few others can so it's a good game to some, that somehow seems to translate to the quality of the game is arguable. No, it's not. If a game is good it is good, if it's bad it's bad, whether someone likes it or not doesn't change the quality of the game.
I never said being half a game isn't a flaw. It is. But besides that most of the points people like to spew. "Nero is lame and he just yells Kyrie. He is a terrible character." That is pretty much all opinion. Yes DMC4 is unfinished and I hope it is finished in the future.
Of course you didn't say it, no one says it, we just act like it. I've used that reasoning to defend the game myself but it's rubbish, to act like it's a better game because it was meant to be a better game comes from the want to defend it but in the interest of real fairness it's not a liable attitude.
Capcom will never put the staff of the game back together and finish it, it's just not going to happen unless some one wants to finance that endeavour and that's about 2 to 10 mill, from an uneducated guess, so not ganna hold my breath, personally.
It is normal for enemies to respoun if you return to an area. Look at the castle and the forest. There is plenty of combat in DMC4. And if you REALLY feel like there wasn't enough then just spend some time in bloody palace and you can get all the combat you want.
But they aren't dangerous, not like 1's enemies.
I don't like bloody palace, I think the addition of a time limit is bulls#!t. That should've been optional.
DMC4 is not a good game, but it certainly is not a bad game, it's an average game with some major flaws that has found a audience with the people who mastered the nuances they created in DMC3. That is as fair a statement I can make. All the complains that seem unfair and uncalled for or that people always disagree on are born from judging it as been the next game after DMC3 and so it's all born from DMC3 been the ruler it is been judged by. It's a game I like and dislike at the same time. You will often see me change my stance on whether or not I like this game simply dependent on what part of it is been discussed, be it game play or story or design, etc. That's just me, though.