In DMC3 he's shown being childish,
Yeah, in 3, when he was young. I don't remember him going on about parties at any time in 1.
if he remembered his father's teachings then that would imply he knows more about his father than he's said he had. He would certainly be closer to his father if he was giving them classes personally and whatnot
Yeah? How is that somehow wrong? The only time Dante gets all angsty about his father is in 3. There are no other instances of angry at my dad moments. In fact, Dante reveres his father, otherwise swearing upon his name wouldn't be very striking and pretty meaningless. Just because Dante didn't know his father passed a certain age doesn't mean he didn't interact with him, just that he didn't get to know him very well.
And there's also all the references to real fighters like Bruce Lee in the games. It's never stated if Dante himself invented techniques like the one inch punch or if he just saw it on TV. Because if he didn't invent it then I doubt Bruce Lee was around 2000 years ago for spares to know it and teach it to them.
Bruce Lee isn't just famous for making movies. He was a real figure in the martial arts world who influenced a great deal if what we know as modern martial arts. Any and every fighter across the glove knows who he is.
Also, I don't recall him ever using the one inch punch on film. I don't remember ever seeing it in Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury or Game of Death. It was a famous move of his because he demonstrated it in a San Francisco martial arts conference in the 70's.
"The weapon animations of dante lack any kind of grace or finesse"
I never said that. In fact, I clarified, repeatedly, that I only meant it happened in one or two instances and suddenly everyone is making it sound like I'm sayin he's fumbling all over himself. That he could be a little more graceful, you know, for the sake of presentation, and everyone seems to be interpreting it as "lacking
any and all grace and fitness."
It doesn't matter if he watched movies or not
Doesn't it? It's the equivalent of Lara Croft learning archeology from watching Indiana Jones movies. No different. Being self thought doesn't mean you learned from watching movies. Reading books, watching real fights and practices, getting into real fights is how you self teach. Study and practice, not from watching movies. At best, that would be just the beginning, not the one stop for all.
WHy would that diminish him?
Because it'd be no different than Lara Croft learning archeology from watching Indiana Jones movies. Tell me that doesn't just sound uterly and incredibly unimpressive.
All of them master their martial arts on a daily basis for film.
And Dante was a mercenary before he went in to demon hunting so from one profession to the next he's been fighting pretty consistently all of his life.
They're paid to look good. Dante isn't.
That's because he's fictional, which only make the option of making him look good very possible and even encouraged. Well, at least that's what I thought. Since he apparently learned to fight from watching movies on his non existent television he should look the part. Silly me.
Now your adding realism to a game with demon hunting and magic.
Because I said that there are plenty of real world people way older than him who can still do badass things? He's digital. If they still can there is no reason why he can't.
Anyway, consider this matter dropped. I'm tired of this debate. All I said was that if they'd change one or two things in the animation it would look more graceful and, thus, more impressive like the subject matter they're mimicking, that's all, nothing else, and that apparently meant that I said he was completely without grace and that turned into some really left field discussion of how so many people think got his skills in the most auterly unimpressive way possible. Rarely do I wish I'd kept my mouth shut but, believe you me, I sure as hell wish I had, this time.
