Nero

[Ether0]

Nero should either be an angel or a young member of The Order (maybe both?), because I feel like they really need to expand on that, the game never made us feel like the Order was something greater than just the 3 of them.

Whatever they do, make him playable. 3 playable characters for the next Bloody Palace will be godlike.

Whenever I hear about more playable characters in a DMC game I get heart burn for some reason. Only when they are relevant to the actual plot because I remember 2 and 4 not handling two separate story lines so well. Maybe NT can do it but it just makes me instantly skeptical lol

 

[Gbraga]

Whenever I hear about more playable characters in a DMC game I get heart burn for some reason. Only when they are relevant to the actual plot because I remember 2 and 4 not handling two separate story lines so well. Maybe NT can do it but it just makes me instantly skeptical lol

The backtracking in 4 was horrible, sure, but Bloody Palace was glorious. Just imagine having Nero, Dante and Vergil playable on Bloody Palace. SO GOOD.

I think the way NT is handling it is spot-on, the main campaign with just one character being their focus with the story they want to tell, and spin-off side-stories for the other characters. I'd even take a Nero DLC for DmC instead of a whole new game, if not for the improvements I really want to see being made that they could only achieve with a sequel.

DMC4 has such great gameplay that they could've kept the game alive up until now with DLC campaigns being released every year, with Nero, Dante and Vergil being playable. Maybe even Trish. It would further expand the lore and give us new things to play with the fantastic combat system. There's nothing fundamentally broken there that desperately needs a sequel.

I hope Capcom can learn a thing or two about creative use of DLC with Ninja Theory. Not gonna lie, I'm a sucker for costumes DLC and things like that, but I'd LOVE new campaigns and gameplay content in general.

Just imagine how CRAZY combo videos would be today if they made a DLC with Dante where you gain access to new weapons and styles and is able to predefine them before you play. It might break the original campaign, but all they have to do is limit its use there. Hell, for all I care DMC4 is pretty much DMC: Bloody Palace Edition anyway.

 

[Ether0]

The backtracking in 4 was horrible, sure, but Bloody Palace was glorious. Just imagine having Nero, Dante and Vergil playable on Bloody Palace. SO GOOD.

I think the way NT is handling it is spot-on, the main campaign with just one character being their focus with the story they want to tell, and spin-off side-stories for the other characters. I'd even take a Nero DLC for DmC instead of a whole new game, if not for the improvements I really want to see being made that they could only achieve with a sequel.

DMC4 has such great gameplay that they could've kept the game alive up until now with DLC campaigns being released every year, with Nero, Dante and Vergil being playable. Maybe even Trish. It would further expand the lore and give us new things to play with the fantastic combat system. There's nothing fundamentally broken there that desperately needs a sequel.

I hope Capcom can learn a thing or two about creative use of DLC with Ninja Theory. Not gonna lie, I'm a sucker for costumes DLC and things like that, but I'd LOVE new campaigns and gameplay content in general.

Just imagine how CRAZY combo videos would be today if they made a DLC with Dante where you gain access to new weapons and styles and is able to predefine them before you play. It might break the original campaign, but all they have to do is limit its use there. Hell, for all I care DMC4 is pretty much DMC: Bloody Palace Edition anyway.

I agree, I spent waaaay too many hours in bloody palace in that game, was the only real reason to play it lol. DLC would have really helped DMC4 a lot, the game was very sparse content wise but I think at the time Capcom was not on the massive dlc train yet. They didn't jump on until Street Fighter 4...

I guess i'm just still cautiously optimistic about multi-character plots in anything Capcom touches and it would be new for NT as well but I think it could be pulled off, as long as they dont recycle stuff i'll be happy.

 

[Ronin]

What if Nero, in the reboot, was a cambion and a part of a cambion group known as the four horsemen in the later sequels. He can be War or Death. The four can be orphans and so is Nero.

 

[Nelo The Great]

I want nero to be modeled after me

 

[Loopy]

I want nero to be modeled after me

They'd model Nero using the features of the person they hire to do the mocap acting for him. Unless you get that job, it's not happening.

 

[Kammosjuttu]

To be honest, I wouldn't want Nero to take part in DmC. I don't hate Nero, but I never really warmed up to him that much either. Maybe I'm also afraid that Nero's appearance would once again shape Dante into a worse direction; I wasn't quite happy with the way how Dante was in DMC4, though I can't quite put my finger on it why. Maybe part of it is as shallow as not being used to see Dante as an uncle with a stubble and standing in the shadow of a guy who looked just like him but with less of age? I mean, the first time I saw a picture of Nero I thought it was Dante and when I saw the real Dante, I was like "what's going on? There are two people who look like Dante? Why is a new guy taking Dante's place if he isn't anything new, but just 'a younger Dante'?" etc.

But anyway, I would LOVE to see Trish in DmC!

 

[Dante47]

It would have to take place decades after this current game if he were to appear.
In Devil May Cry 3, it was possible that Vergil had a child, but here? No way.

 

[Ruisu]

Always though Nero in DMC4 was more of a reencarnation of Vergil or anything like that. The whole "vergil having a child" concept is just too stupid for me, and Nero's devil bringer and devil trigger really point in the way of him having something like the spirit of vergil himself inside him.

 

[Ether0]

To be honest, I wouldn't want Nero to take part in DmC. I don't hate Nero, but I never really warmed up to him that much either. Maybe I'm also afraid that Nero's appearance would once again shape Dante into a worse direction; I wasn't quite happy with the way how Dante was in DMC4, though I can't quite put my finger on it why. Maybe part of it is as shallow as not being used to see Dante as an uncle with a stubble and standing in the shadow of a guy who looked just like him but with less of age? I mean, the first time I saw a picture of Nero I thought it was Dante and when I saw the real Dante, I was like "what's going on? There are two people who look like Dante? Why is a new guy taking Dante's place if he isn't anything new, but just 'a younger Dante'?" etc.

But anyway, I would LOVE to see Trish in DmC!

That has always been my biggest issue with Nero. He is pretty much just a clone of Dante in dark blue. They are just too similar. If you are going to introduce a new character make them different from your main character, otherwise they have no point to even exist. I just never understood why Capcom even made Nero other than to get a larger female audience, which is an iffy thing already. That aside, they could have at least made him look different from Dante.

That aside, i could actually see him in this new DmC, He would not need to be the exact same character since the jist of Dante and Nero's relationship is a mentor relationship he could be someone from Dante's past like one of the gang members Dante used to run with turned demon slayer or something that Dante has to guide, in a way, or protect.

 

[Dante Redgrave]

It would have to take place decades after this current game if he were to appear.
In Devil May Cry 3, it was possible that Vergil had a child, but here? No way.

Only if Nero either was accelerated in aging by a decade or Vergil was nine when he inpregmanted someone with the kid, there's only ten years age difference between them.

 

[Loopy]

I just never understood why Capcom even made Nero other than to get a larger female audience, which is an iffy thing already. That aside, they could have at least made him look different from Dante.

Yep, I get where you're cooming from with that. Give me Dante over Nero any day. If Capcom thought adding Nero in with that Kyrie, watered down save the love interest plot to get more females interested they were way off. Didn't work for me. It was nauseating for me to watch him screaming KYRIEEEE. >_<

 

[Ether0]

Yep, I get where you're cooming from with that. Give me Dante over Nero any day. If Capcom thought adding Nero in with that Kyrie, watered down save the love interest plot to get more females interested they were way off. Didn't work for me. It was nauseating for me to watch him screaming KYRIEEEE. >_<

Yeah it's sort of like asking us to play an imitation over the real thing I don't hate the concept of Nero, I would have no issues playing a dmc game without Dante, I just wish that if they want to make a new character make an actual NEW character

 

[V's patron]

I would just erase his connection to Dante/Vergil/Sparda and redesign and build him up from the ground up.

 

[Nessy]

Considering they mostly merged a lot of Nero's character and mechanics into the new Dante, I don't why any reason they would even bother with reintroducing him.

The DmC game and in fact ALL DMC games are not driven purely by gameplay, there is also story that makes a big deal to a lot of fans (not me).

And as much as the new Dante has in common with Nero, even more of old Dante/Nero has been left it, I see no reason why Nero couldn't have a completely different move set comprising of stuff that new Dante doesn't have from Nero and old Dante.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm not even saying that I would want it to happen (I hate learning 2 characters in a game), but now you can see a reason why they may bother.

 

[Dante Redgrave]

The DmC game and in fact ALL DMC games are not driven purely by gameplay, there is also story that makes a big deal to a lot of fans (not me).

And as much as the new Dante has in common with Nero, even more of old Dante/Nero has been left it, I see no reason why Nero couldn't have a completely different move set comprising of stuff that new Dante doesn't have from Nero and old Dante.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm not even saying that I would want it to happen (I hate learning 2 characters in a game), but now you can see a reason why they may bother.

Except as a character, Nero was pretty much nineteen year old Dante with a girlfriend and some of Vergil's personality thrown into the mixture. There was very little to let you seperate who was who other than their outfits, and that was actually the intent; make the "new guy" so much like the old hero that people just accept him...not realizing then that people say "why make a new guy then?"

And thus, we get reboots.