:lol::lol: Just the title of this thread had me laughing my head off. DT, you can't be serious? Do you have a personal vandetta against Dante or something?
I agree with Sparda
O lol) Dante's role in the series has an enormous amount of potential. The possibilities are infinite if you really think about it, because there's as much mystery revolving around him as there is around the legendary Sparda himself. I won't go into it to stop myself from kicking the thread off topic, but there IS a lot of room for expansion regarding Dante.
Why does Dante deserve the spotlight?
Here's a list:
-Royal Guard
-Trickster
-Swordmaster
-Gunslinger
-Rebellion
-Gilgamesh
-Lucifer
-Pandora
-Ebony&Ivory
-Coyote-A
-DARK SLAYER (hell yeah!)
Why does Nero not deserve the spotlight?
-Red Queen
-Blue Rose
-Devil Bringer
-Yamato (which doesn't make him any better since Dante still owned him, Yamato and all)
:| Dante can rock out way more combos than Nero and his motorbike sword. This is just going on the gameplay itself.
I won't say that Dante matters because he's been the protagonist for most of the series, but I WILL say he matters because he's the only remaining SON OF SPARDA. Yeah, okay, so Nero is a descendent of Sparda. Big whoop - so he's like a watered down version of Vergil. Dante owned Vergil too, if I remember right
Nero won't pull off being the 'new face' of DMC unless they make him super cool to play in the next installment. Like VB said, Nero is pretty slowed up to play, and to me he's pretty boring. It's all a one-track fight style with him - I don't know, maybe I just like stringing together multiple combos with different weapons and styles and whatnot. Point is, Nero was good in DMC4, but he's not good enough to take over the series. Did he defeat Dante? >_< There you go.
As you said with Dante, you either hate him or love him, the same applies to Nero. You either love Nero's sappyness and his continuous 'slamdunk!' and his snail-paced combos, or you hate it.