Devil May Cry bores me...

[Goemar]

No you didn't. People have a right to bitch when someone presents a totally different character and tries to convince you it's the same character you know and love.

If the game is fun and good, that's great, I might even like it. Don't you dare tell me that this bloke is Dante, though.

I'd bet that the only reason for the redesign in Devil May Cry (Sorry, DmC, omagawd so ekstreem) was to distract people from the fact that it's been handed off to a studio that has yet to release a single good game.

BE MAD ABOUT THAT.

I have no idea why Heavenly Sword gets so much hate (IGN failed to mention the block system so I assume they didn't know how to block) but regardless, Enslaved was an awesome game. It's story and characters were utterly amazing so with the budget they have now plus guidance from the 'awesome' capcom I have faith in them.

Dante was well... not much of a character. He had the badass thing in the first 2 games (even if the second game was kinda meh) but in the third one he was too ott it might as well have been a different character and was only really the kind of 'cool' 10 year olds beat-off to. Yes he was younger but urgh, when I first played that game I was seriously annoyed with how stupid he was. He took a backseat in 4, and was outshined by Nero (who was much more fun to play as) as Dante was just the 'play it again sam' guy. The current Dante's character (not appearence dear angry people) looks kinda like DMC 3's Dante, but hopefully not to the same extreme.

I like DMC, hell I watched the anime, PAID for the anime - and it was utterly crap. But 4 felt old, the first and second games have aged beyond being playable and 3 (as awesome as a game as it was) seemed to be scripted by kids sniffing glue. The rich story and history the world had to show had been limited in it's accessibility. DMC needed a reboot, not a DMC 5, and Ninja Theory knows how to make characters. If you're going to write off a game with such potential simply on a character's appearance then that's just dumb. If MMX came out and it was just meant to be the same MM (I know X and MM aren't the same, that's besides the point) sure people would think it was odd, and maybe wish they hadn't messed with the character but I don't think people would hate the game, or refuse to play it.

Now if the game sucks, well that's an entirely different matter, and then, and only then (as we did with Crash Bandicoot) may we hate the redesign justly.