Talk about winning the fans over. That would cause another outrage and surround the game with a negative aura from the start. In the mind of many, Tim Phillips is still the obnoxious punk who flipped them off in the DmC credits
I don't think I'd read Tim Phillips flipping off the camera the same thing as flipping off fans. Especially with the way he just skateboards off. It looked more like some extra footage of him goofing off that they decided to end the credits with.
To me, that's the same level of over-analyzation that made many fans think that the "5" on the shirt of that one fat guy drinking Virility that Dante and Kat walk past was a strategic, subtle backhand to the fans to represent NT's contempt for anyone who wants a
DMC5.
There's underlying messages, and then there's literal
X-Files conspiracy fondling. I'd classify these two in the latter.
@RedNether They are a business, they need loyal people to make money off, and were not talking just about few rabid ones, after pretty good commercial success of DMC4, sales dipped really low with DmC, showing what bad PR can do to you.
....eghhh, I don't mean to be a wet sandwich, but you do know that the reboot was entirely because of Capcom's reluctance to greenlight a
DMC sequel due to
4 failing to be the financial success they wanted, right?
Not to say
DMC4 was technically a failure from a layman's perspective, but considering how many times Kobayashi reportedly cranked the budget higher to accommodate for more of the high-production mo-cap cutscenes (which is likely was only half the game's assets were ever made, leading to its infamous rehashing), it's likely that Capcom didn't view the past
DMC titles as a landmark success. (Although the
DMC4: SE certainly boosted sales to a level Capcom seems satisfied with). I won't deny that bad PR and terrible marketing destroyed what little hope
DmC had worldwide, though. That goes completely without saying. The best thing, theoretically,
would be to market a return to form as much as possible...and given how aggressively-attached people are to Reuben as Dante's voice (and honestly, who can blame them), keeping him around would be the smartest move.
One other thing to mention is that sometimes a conflict of schedule or a Union Strike prevents a voice actor from being recruited or from lending their voice to a project, making it so that companies don't even contact them and secretly replace them.
Ask the
Resident Evil fans...they know exactly what this looks like.
Well, sucks for some, I don't really care about any actor, just want the story of Nero and Dante wrapped up properly.
^Pretty much this. There are people who can replace Reuben (Robert McCollum showed he could mimic most of his vocal traits in
Sengoku Basara, for instance), and at this point I'd just like them to continue the story and answer that infuriating cluster of questions they kicked over like a bee's nest in
DMC4.