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Sorry I can't think of this game without thinking of DMC from my middle and highschool, which was "Discipline Management Class." I was sent a couple of times for fighting in middle school. You sit there and do all of your work for the full school day in silence. Your teachers send everything for the day and you also catch up on homework. You actually get a shitload done being forced to sit in one seat all day, not moving between classes and doing all of this stuff. Anyway, does anyone actually like Ninja Theory's Devil May Cry? I am mostly playing this because I enjoyed Heavenly Sword and Enslaved (god, I loved Enslaved), but I was iffy because of all of the trailers and all of the video game babies who were mad about this new Dante. I also suck at these style of hack and slash games where I get graded and such having only played Lollipop Chainsaw, Heavenly Sword, and Prince of Persia games (If you truly do count the stuff from Warrior Within and on, even though they are heavy on platforming, they all have a combo system). None of those were particularly hard for me, but I don't think I am playing the extreme ones. I'm not going to go back and play any previous Devil May Crys since nothing from those games actually appeal to me. Metal Gear Rising, No More Heroes, and Killer is Dead are all somewhere on my list for a later date. So I suppose I need to get good at this type of game. So onto what everyone was mad about: the new Dante and the "edginess" of the game. I suppose the aversion to swearing is fair, but I feel like all of the people who make 20 minutes Youtube videos mad at this game, Tameem Antoniades, Ninja Theory, and the script would have no issue with the cursing. Especially those of the group that were sending the developers death threats over the damn game. I also remember seeing Devil May Cry fans struggle with so hard with this game because they loved Enslaved or Heavenly Sword, but tried to justify the like of those games because Tameem was not the lead writer and instead it was Rhianna Pratchett and Alex Garland respectively. What I find amusing is that in the opening credits Alex Garland is credited as story supervisor, meaning probably many bits of dialogue and storyline are his. Surprise! That said, I still felt like I was going to get into a game starring an insufferable main character. The stuff shown off in trailers and complaint videos really made me uncomfortable. However, I soon realized Dante doesn't have a ton of lines in the main game, with Kat or Vergil doing a lot of the talking while you are playing. If anything, Dante quickly becomes likeable, but maybe it's because I find lots of dumb swearing amusing as well as dumb jokes where he punches out a bouncer and writes "fuck you" on the list, which was a major point of contention for the angry fanboys. To me it plays like a more serious and dark version of Lollipop Chainsaw. There's still a lot of fun to be had. Dante is actually positioned as obnoxious, childish, nihilistic, hedonistic, and uncaring as a major theme of the story. Oddly enough I felt like he moved from the jerkoff in the opening cutscene to a level headed character with a moral compass maybe too quickly. My wife tends to hang around while I'm playing games, and while finding the story generally cheesy and rightfully so, she kept watching the cutscenes (the soda factory is super contrived along but I found surfing through Fox News graphics and killing Bill O'Reilly pretty awesome). What I find hilarious is that her problem was not with Dante, but Vergil and the way he talked. She was so annoyed with his "rich kid" dialogue for whatever reason. "Who talks like that? No one talks like that!" So yeah, that story was a lot of fun in the end and I was engaged. Kat was a cool character, but I tend to really love all of the Ninja Theory female characters, outside of probably whoever is in the racist extravaganza Kung Fu Chaos. The whole It all makes sense within context and really didn't bother me once I played the actual game. Sheesh. Graphics are amazing, but everyone knows that. I am going for the Platinum trophy, which means I have to do six playthroughs. I'm on my second and I am still not near getting all of the upgrades. I have a pretty hard time fighting effectively even at the next step up in difficulty. I don't know what it is, the combos in this are pretty easy to memorize since they are generally the same between weapons, but even still I have a difficult time remembering what weapon does what when I use a certain button combination, plus I continuously forget I can do a lot of other useful moves outside of my staples. I feel pretty lame considering everyone criticized this game for being way too easy, even on hardest difficulty. It's like, there's 8 total weapons I have to juggle from, multiple triggers I have to keep track of, simultaneous push triggers to do effect evades (which my fingers totally suck at), and switching between weapons with the d-pad mid combat. Oy. Am I really that bad? I mean it feels really awesome when I link together a good variety of weapons and chain myself to and fro between enemies and get the style points, but usually I'm being hit by someone or I am overwhelmed with all of the enemies on screen. I can't even really look up forums on certain enemy strategies, since almost every thread you'll ever find on this game involves mostly angry trolls decrying the game instead of being helpful. It's a cesspit out there.

Haha, what? Why are they climbing those branches like that?

They are just turning The Last Guardian into an e-book with stills from the failed game.

I wish Not a Game podcast would stop continuously rotating their original hosts with seemingly random people. Like it seems rather rare to get an episode with Pip, Cara, Tom, and Craig all at once. Admittedly, I haven't listened to them all yet, and I've been strangely working forward and backward, but I'm really growing to love this podcast and especially Pip's banter with Craig, but it frustrates me a lot. There's still a lot of issues with sound quality but I have gotten over my dislike of Cara's voice. I guess because even from the beginning I always wanted to hear what Cara had to say so that outweighs the voice/accent. I don't know what it is. I sometimes wish they would also get more into the social issues of games, as it seems they completely glossed over the past year or two of controversies, but I think they usually address that stuff in their columns on various sites, so maybe it would be exhausting to rehash that in the podcast.

Oh my god, I don't want Pixar or Disney or whatever bland Calarts pumped studio to ever touch this game.

Yeah Hollow, it looks very pretty, I think at least an update when it's finished would be great. Also I want to comment on BigJKO's game but then I think I should probably play Ben There, Dan That and the sequel so I can comment on the walk cycles, since I've owned them for years and haven't gotten to them. I'm really sorry, Ben!

Yeah I'm really worried I might have to just leave because of rent rising, even though I'm trying to finish my current degree at ACC for the next year and a half and then I guess we bail. I moved here in 2009 and I liked it more then, but I guess I was still here way after the more recent bustling days when I would visit sometimes from Houston and see it as a quiet and quaint city. Also how did you beat Lance? What is that thing? 71st place?

Thank you for the tips. Yeah I had to stop playing almost all games for the past couple of weeks because my life got too busy, but I will probably try to finish it over Christmas break. Last time I was playing was on Dante Must Die, I think I'm somewhere on Mission 6 and I was just continuously getting enraged. But those two enemies are still really giving me problems. I will have to mess around with the Butcher again, because I swear I've tried many weapons to ricochet blades and it only seems to work with a charged Osiris. The Rebellion really works? Even uncharged? The other thing about the Butcher is even when he's "downed" I can never seem to get three hits in on any weapon unless I miss the first hit on purpose and then subsequently hit him with the second and third hit. On the Dreamrunner, when you say get them into the air do you mean use a weapon where holding circle (I don't know what it is on non PS3) launches you and them up in the air and then start combing or should I be jumping and then grabbing them towards me in the air when they are open?

Yeah you should leave Austin. I wish I weren't here anymore. This place could just be every other mediocre city with some perks but the fact that everyone seems to think it's the best fucking city in America only makes it that much more. People move here and have to do everything they can to not admit the buyer's remorse.

In my head there's no reason to include the original version if the new assets are true to the original like an upres type version. Would be easier to do with Day of the Tentacle because it was already so detailed with large sprites and all, compared to the Monkey Island games. I think scanning the Peter Chan backgrounds might produce some odd results and may be more work than touching up the older backgrounds to be higher res. Just lookin ga little bit harder at the one posted you can see where he purposefully fudged a lot of the drawing since it's ultimately scanned for 320x240. Like, along with the nicer looking natural brush texture, you can also see uneven brush or marker strokes in the darks and a lot of the painting is very chunky and it would look pretty amateurish scanned in the game as is. Anyway, that HD paintover from earlier is a fan made thing right? I'd assume the talented folks at Double Fine would have an easier time breathing life into doing the same things but using a softer or slightly more textured brush to separate the floor tiles and things instead of just a vector hard straight line.

Oh god, commentary! Yesssssss! Also why would you want to switch to the original version in this? It's the same art just no lighting and low res.

It seemed like you could play pretty stealthily up until the last act. I know I try to play them not getting caught because I really don't want to deal with aiming guns and I like punchan.

Hahaha, I'm no longer bothered and disturbed by Glottis' jagged teeth! However that trailer could have been wayyyyyyyyyy more exciting to entice people who have not yet played it to give it a try. I mean there's more than enough moments to mash up there.

Maybe they can get Peter Chan? It's not clear to me who is doing this but it seems to be Double Fine, right? So maybe some of the Broken Age staff? Nice vector art sounds like a great idea. Then it can be rereleased for decades to come, just like Another World.

That sucks to hear man. Get some rest and maybe your misfortune will turn around soon. Are you able to collect unemployment at all?

I guess I have just never felt I benefited from 60 fps, so I don't see the point of getting mad about it. I don't play FPS or racing games ever though. I suppose it's fine if 60fps exists, but almost my whole life games have ran around 30 so I don't really see it more than a box that gets ticked for people to complain.

That team doesn't exist anymore. Assuming this is what will happen, redoing all of the animations to be higher res is going to be a bitch. I think Tim Schafer needs to hire Chris Remo back for sound, because I was recently watching the Thumbs' Twitch with the LA games and Chris was hilariously getting annoyed at all of the canned sound effects. Where is any info on this? The most I see is a twitter pictures. I'm lazy and going to bed.

Reggie could really break you in half.

Every other Youtube, Facebook, and Playstation blog comment seems to be really annoyed that this game is going to run at 30 fps. What is up with these people that care so fucking much about everything hitting 60 fps and up?

Forbin has your avatar though. It's going to confuse me so much. Welcome TheHollowNight!

Was there any pizza matter inside?

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I beat Tetris Attack last year on all of the hardest modes and got all of the hardest endings out of my Mario completion thing that runs forever. God the AI in that game is fucking cruel. I don't think i want to play Tetris Attack ever again unless it means someone is going to give me money, like that time I won second place in a Wario's Woods competition.

That's fair enough, I guess I would still think Kill la Kill is way more lurid and fan service filled than Bayonetta. But Kill Bill and Bayonetta both really aren't my thing and never will be, so I guess I'm good to go with abandoning all of my Imaishi crap.

I think this pretty much is the whole reason I keep clicking on this thread. Brilliant.