Devil May Cry 5

[Multidirectional]

I learned to tolerate V because he only takes up 20% of the game, but still don't really enjoy playing him. I have a new Dante Must Die run planned soon where I will avoid using gold orbs, except I don't think I'll stick to that rule for his missions. Why bother gitting gud at character I don't like playing that much? I just hope he never appears in DMC games again, given that his story is fully concluded by the end of DMC V. And yes, all missions should have been playable with all characters, in which case I wouldn't have complained about that faggot at all.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Resident Evil 2 is the only Resident Evil that had the game change like that. In Resident Evil 1 the characters were more like difficulty settings. Jill is like an easy mode, Chris is hard...although he can do more damage and he does have that lighter, but it's harder for him to do everything and he has less inventory room.

This game could've probably done with being structured like Odin Sphere, where you pick a character and that's just your character for that run, and playing as everyone gives you a full picture of what's happening by the end. Although I don't really mind how it is, and Bloody Palace is a mode that lets you pick whoever and fight enemies. More than wishing the main story mode was done differently, I wish Bloody Palace was like some kind of dungeon crawl thing where you've got a little more variety in room layouts. You could so easily throw a handful of different layouts, and layouts that are still the kind of combat arenas in Blood Palace, into Bloody Palace and have it feel like something more than it is.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

I recently also started playing DMC5 again and I'm finding the V sections much easier than the first time I played, and I'm getting much higher scores. It's not even that I have him all upgraded either, because I barely upgrade him so the boss fight wouldn't have as much or as powerful stuff to use against me.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Nobody wants to fucking play as V

The asian segment of the fanbase actually quite likes him

 

[Multidirectional]

I recently also started playing DMC5 again and I'm finding the V sections much easier than the first time I played, and I'm getting much higher scores. It's not even that I have him all upgraded either, because I barely upgrade him so the boss fight wouldn't have as much or as powerful stuff to use against me.

On any difficulty below Dante Must Die V is pretty much "mindlessly mash buttons and get SSS rating anyway".

 

[Belegarsson]

V's gameplay feels like prototype for a summoner class in Dragon's Dogma tbh

 

[Ezekiel]

The graphics are so annoying. Game was stuck in 30 fps today. Quickly figured out it was V-sync. But looks like shit with it off, and the V-sync in Nvidia settings doesn't work that well. Switching to Borderless Fullscreen did fix it, but that disabled HDR. HDR is implemented badly too. I like it when games trigger it automatically, like Resident Evil 2 and 3, rather than having you activate it in the Display settings of Windows. When I did it the tedious way a few minutes ago and then tried to switch back to Fullscreen in the game (because the colors were all washed out and wrong in Borderless), the video signal just disappeared and the only way I could fix it was by going back to my monitor and restarting Windows.

 

[Latelistener]

Can't you enable some kind of Freesync / G-Sync? Any modern Nvidia GPU can do that if you connected it via Display Port. And AFAIK AMD can do it even via HDMI.

 

[Multidirectional]

The graphics are so annoying. Game was stuck in 30 fps today. Quickly figured out it was V-sync. But looks like shit with it off, and the V-sync in Nvidia settings doesn't work that well. Switching to Borderless Fullscreen did fix it, but that disabled HDR.

I had game stuck in 30 FPS for me once, I fixed it by switching framerate from "variable" to "60".

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Just bought Vergil DLC, first gameplay impressions:

 

[Alphard]

this game controls are shit, and ruins the experience. The targeting especially is atrocious, with the fact you have to hold the button to lock in, and you cannot switch target if you are moving, in a game where you are supposed to always move

 

[DJOGamer PT]

lol
it has the best controls of the franchise
git gud faggit

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Just bought Vergil DLC, first gameplay impressions:

Wait until you reach missions 19+20

 

[Dedicated_Dark]

this game controls are shit, and ruins the experience. The targeting especially is atrocious, with the fact you have to hold the button to lock in, and you cannot switch target if you are moving, in a game where you are supposed to always move

Fckn Souls wankers can't play games for shit unless it's grind to win.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Can't you enable some kind of Freesync / G-Sync? Any modern Nvidia GPU can do that if you connected it via Display Port. And AFAIK AMD can do it even via HDMI.

Modern nVidia GPUs (anything after the 10xx series) can do Gsync over HDMI.

Also, DMC5 is fucking great. Based Itsuno.

 

[Latelistener]

Can't you enable some kind of Freesync / G-Sync? Any modern Nvidia GPU can do that if you connected it via Display Port. And AFAIK AMD can do it even via HDMI.

Modern nVidia GPUs (anything after the 10xx series) can do Gsync over HDMI.

Free solutions based on FreeSync will not work over HDMI for Nvidia. DisplayPort only.

Can't say anything about a G-Sync chip, but if the guy had such a monitor, he wouldn't be complaining about Vsync here.

 

[Ezekiel]

Not sure what was going on that day, but my issue was more the HDR than the in-game V-sync, which is working right now in both Fullscreen and Borderless. Anyway, I've decided the HDR implementation (the ease of use) in this game is so bad that I'll just play it in RGB like before. Game doesn't even let you change the brightness; you have to do it with your display. Why are these devs so bad and Resident Evil 2's mostly good at the tech?

V's voice actor is bad, acting-wise.

 

[Ezekiel]

So all you have to do is enable HDR before you start the game and then make sure the game is in Fullscreen. If you forget to do the first thing, you'll have to close the game completely and start over.

Dante is a mess. No, I'm not getting good. They just smashed together everything, mechanics that worked well on their own but became a clusterfuck as they built on top of what was already there instead of redoing him. But fans expect the same thing from a sequel. Would have been nice if the player could pick and choose abilities from the different styles and then assign them to buttons other than mainly just Circle/B, so that they wouldn't have to switch styles at all. I would consider getting a controller with back pedals. I find cycling between four melee weapons and four projectile weapons clumsy. I know you don't have to have all the weapons on you, that you can carry just two for melee and two for projectiles, but it feels limiting. If I could have picked and chosen and have a mashup of styles in a single one, I would have just mapped the melee weapons to the D-pad, freeing up the triggers for other actions. Yes, that would have limited your projectile weapons, but I don't need so many projectile weapons in a hack and slash. His tools are mostly kind of lame, whether I'm sucking at the game myself or watching videos.

 

[Ezekiel]

Also...

Loved DMC3 when I was younger. Still like it now. Never really liked DMC4 much. DmC was average. I have low expectations.

 

[Lambach]

DmC was a flawed but overall decent action game when judged completely on its own merits. It would've been recieved better without the burden of having to live up to the DMC series proper, and specially without intentionally going out of its way to piss on the fans of the originals.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

DmC was a flawed but overall decent action game when judged completely on its own merits. It would've been recieved better without the burden of having to live up to the DMC series proper, and specially without intentionally going out of its way to piss on the fans of the originals.

There are so few action games working in the mold of Devil May Cry, that regardless of being a actually Devil May Cry game, it would've still been judged against DMC 3, 4, and Bayonetta...this exact type of thing happened with that Heavenly Sword game made by the same studio years earlier.

In a theoretical scenario where this game does happen, but it isn't a DMC game it probably ends up worse, because then they wouldn't have Hideaki Itsuno telling them not to do some stupid stuff, and they wouldn't have had him help fix the game for the Definitive Edition release. They would've however avoided all the negative press pre-release when they were saying stupid shit about the previous game and the fans.

I do definitely find the direction of DmC odd. I mean, the whole idea of it was making a Devil May Cry that'd appeal more to the West...Americans. Now you'd think that'd be some radical shift in gameplay, but what Ninja Theory ended up doing was basically a not as good normal Devil May Cry, with a bigger story focus and admittedly some kind looking environments. Like I'd imagine American Devil May Cry would look more like a Devil May Cry version of that Prototype game for '09, that but DMC with attack like you'd expect to see in DMC. But nope, their version of DMC for Americans was basically just DMC but 30fps, (on consoles at release) some unfun system where only certain types of weapons could hurt some enemies, (which was dropped in the Definitive Edition) and a version of Dante that's an asshole.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Nobody wants to fucking play as V

The asian segment of the fanbase actually quite likes him

What is it about metrosexuals in long black vests that is so appealing to the Japanese? I hope the coming Chinese century will snuff out these low test edgelords and favor big bearded Guan Yu type male characters who value brotherhood and righteousness.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Most combo autists from that video are chinese though...

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Most combo autists from that video are chinese though...

They just like the mechanics. If it were up to them they would have made masculine characters.

 

[Average Manatee]

Most combo autists from that video are chinese though...

They just like the mechanics. If it were up to them they would have made masculine characters.

No they wouldn't, to the point where the CCP had to ban effeminate male characters in media in an attempt to make their population more manly.

https://www.cbr.com/china-ban-lgbtq-stories-effeminate-males/