I don't know about it now, but a lot of people seemed to hate this game, especially at launch. I just wanted to see why. If anyone DOES hate game, could you explain? Its no where near as good as 3 or 4, but I think it's a nice gateway game for newcomers.
Nobody seems to have baseless hatred toward DmC here, thankfully. That said, I don't really like DmC either, and it made me pretty angry at first, because it's not Devil May Cry to me. It just doesn't interest me, and even sort of annoys me sometimes. Some reasons for my dislike of DmC:
1 Its gameplay was decent, as it was basically the same as DMC4, only with less combo potential, I think. And the controls were a bit less intuitive to me. Stuff like 'press forward twice to do Stinger', too... wut.
Dante having the Demon Pull and Angel Lift was pretty much a copy of Nero's Devil Bringer platforming elements. I thought the platforming was really boring, though. It seemed to only serve as eye candy, and to make the DmC world seem larger than it actually was. It's just a lot of traversing of empty spaces, really.
2 Its story was eye-rollingly bad, in my opinion. Not because it was terrible objectively speaking (it wasn't), but because it's just so cliché. It's like the wet dream of some paranoid conspiracy theorist on YouTube. It tried too hard to be 'edgy'. It's like we've gone from anime (or Japanese) clichés to western clichés. Why not get rid of these clichés altogether?
Its writing was also awkward sometimes, and I would say that's a fact. Mundus with his ''I will rip open his chest and feast on his beating heart''. Not only did it seem out of place, the line itself is just... LOL. The words 'f*ck you' being used three times without much effect. Kat explaining that they're a secret organization, when they are *standing in front of a secret door with a retinal scanner next to it*. Obviousness.
3 In terms of visual style, I can understand that most people didn't like it either. It wasn't their thing. Everything in DmC looks overly vibrant. I can see what they were going for, since it's supposed to reflect Limbo's manic and demented side (similar to TES IV: Oblivion with the realms of Mania and Dementia) but they overdid it, IMO. Its world also often looks dirty, and DMC's gothic style is hard to find. When it comes to enemy and character design, I found it pretty boring, tbh. Dante looks like a normal trailer trash kind of guy, and that just doesn't resonate with me. Nor does Vergil's 'hipster Ken doll' thing he has going on. Poison looked boring - no real creativity or imagination there. Pretty much every demon wasn't very interesting, aside from Bob Barbas's demon form.
4 Soundtrack was okay, though I'm not a fan of that type of music. Many people aren't. Could've used more variety too.
And they supposedly made this game for DMC fans and newcomers alike. It didn't feel like a Devil May Cry game to me. It just doesn't have enough similarities to DMC to warrant calling it Devil May Cry, IMO. No real gothic vibe, no apparent anime/manga influences, no witty Dante, a completely different visual style, different types of characters, and so forth.
Seems more like a spin-off. That said, as an H&S game, it's pretty good. They might as well have called it something else, made slight alterations, and you'd have a new IP. I can't believe they seriously expected nobody to get angry... especially when you consider that DMC was dropped like a brick, as though it never had any value. Add to that Ninja Theory's telling people that 'their Dante is cooler'...yeah, sh*t was gonna hit the fan.
So it's not that people think ''change is bad'', it just depends on the type of change. If people don't like the things that were changed, that's fine. I don't see why people who like DmC would whine about that. I would love for DMC to change, but DmC was the wrong kind of change (for me, anyway). Some forum members prefer DmC, which is fine too. But that's the thing; this reboot has helped ruin people's gaming lives. It's caused a dichotomy in the fanbase. Many people will never play DmC or any sequel to it, so if DMC doesn't return, Devil May Cry is ruined for them.