Devil May Cry bores me...

[Goemar]

Honestly? I've been looking around and more than just a few of the "good" reviews read/smell a bit like Capcom's fat stacks of cash in the reviewer's pocket.

I wonder if anyone's forcing themselves to enjoy this game to justify the internet arguments they made against fans of the old games who weren't happy with the direction this game was going? I hope not, that'd be sad.

With IGN, yeah I can see a big bag of money making those numbers go up. But EVERYWHERE? Including sites that refuse to have flights and accommodation paid for when previewing games etc? Seems like a bit of a stretch.

Also many games have had "I like where this is going" preview/first impressions and then getting a "well, crap" review. I know Jim Sterling has done this with games and then they go onto the "Most disappointing games" list which make for good entertainment so I doubt there is any "lets make this better then what I said it was going to be otherwise I'll look stupid" reviews. Epic Mickey is probably the most recent and famous case of this as from the concept art and idea it looked awesome - and then it was pretty bland. Duke Nukem Forever also comes to mind.

Also, most of the whole 'this isn't shit' arguments were made against fans hating it just because of the new Dante. And those type of fans (along with the Sonic fans who think every game is good and the legions of angry Sony fans we had around it's launch year but to a less extent now) are just never going to be happy. DMC 4 showed signs of getting stale. DMC 5 would have only been worse. Look at where Resident Evil is now. The series needed a reboot.

As for the game itself, in all honesty I didn't like the demo too much. But demos can be funny. Look at Dead Space, that demo was good awful but the game was just dandy. I'll probably pick it up when it's dirt cheap, so no - I'm not as excited for the game as I once was. But that doesn't mean I regret defending it against some of the stupidity people threw against it before they actually played it.