Ragna, Travis and Duke being similar to Dante? I don't think so, haha, we got a heavy difference of opinion on these. But if being completely original is the point, no game in the world have good characters as most of ideas at some point overlap because human personalities are limited, there are defined traits that makes people be what they are. People, just as ficticional characters are limited and share traits with other similar beings fictional or real. Dante doesn't seem like a "copy-paste" to any character i know (i got the same impression with Donte), besides he can be really similar to that Cobra as he was the inspiration for Kamiya to make Dante? I don't know, never read these mangas or cartoons of that Cobra guy.
Didn't say it was bad, just saying that the character's are really not all that interesting. It was only their actions that made it interesting. If you were to show some scrawny wreaking doing dante's moves and such, Dante would be a thing of the past.
Plus I notice you use Donte when ever you seem to be dealing with an unreasonable DmC fan. Which is out of the contrary considering I don't like DmC either.
By the way, a good plot doesn't hurt, but isn't necessary either and take a lot of resources to put some emphasis into story (expensive mocap, voice acting, graphics that became a burden to the game's performance). People find appreciation in these kind of games and the proof to this is the sellings of the past entries and even the best-seller of the franchise: Devil May Cry 4, who sold 2.7 mil units (which is pretty good for a title that is not AAA when it comes to budget and development time).
Yes. Now compare that to say CoD who still has a better plot then DMC, while DMC still has its old fanbase to go on with.
Capcom probably learned from their recent mistake that a game cannot be turned into something very different if you have a estabilished fanbase that are willing to have a similar experience they had before, and the market is becoming full of these story-driven games so you have a lot of "competition" to deal with. Even the fact that we have a handful of forums to discuss Devil May Cry serves as evidence to show that people holds interest in these kind of games, they have a demand, this is how the free-market is suppose to work. I think it would be cool to have a very solid plot to DMC, but i don't really think it's the main focus of the game and it shines a lot on the aspects that actually matters for these games to be great: gameplay and characters that fit the style of the game (fun to play and watch, with some cool personalities).
Good for you that you prefer quantity (more action and style) over quality (an actual structured plot, likable characters, a memorable setting, and actual cool music)
And the most important point: stories, in the end of the day, falls to a higher degree of personal taste; there are qualitative traits that cannot be measure or stated with certainty to say: "This offers more than this" or "This is better than that one", we can only talk about how coherent a story is, and even this doesn't mean much because some things in any story is suppose to remain as a mystery (Sparda is one of that things). I actually like DMC's story, even if they ****** up the timeline with DMC4 i really can't see why people think it is such a piece of ****, as i said in another topic: DMC characters (including even Nero and Credo along with all character from the ealier games, except Lucia) are among my favourite characters from a game cast along with characters like Big Boss, The Boss, X, Solid, Ryu (SF) and so on.
