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How they thought that would sell 10 million copies is beyond me. I heard that it's pretty good, though.

Great post. :)

I was thinking about exactly this throughout the game. It was one of the main reasons that it didn't hold up for me as well as Bioshock. Unlike in the first game, where you're basically just a blank slate (in more ways than one), Booker is a very distinct character with unique motivations. That he's trying to seek redemption for the death and havok he's caused in his life clashes badly with the gore-fest that you end up playing through. Both are good on their own, but don't really make much sense when put together.

There are plenty of other apsects of the game that take me out of it too:

- Why does Comstock take such a hands-off approach in raising Elizabeth when he's grooming her to be his heir? So you can gain access to her powers in battle and interact with her as soon as possible because she wants to leave.

- Why doesn't he indoctrinate her with his own racist views? Because she wouldn't be as sympathetic a companion, and she's with you almost all the time.

- Why don't more enemies abuse plasmid use to stop Booker when they're cultists who'd do whatever Comstock says? Because the fights would be a lot harder to design and program, and the game had already been delayed several times without that. 

- Why are you able to walk around Columbia with weapons and plasmids at the ready, despite killing several police officers in the middle of a raffle and having posters warning people about you? Because having to lay low and constantly stay out of sight and on the run would be harder to design around.

The game was held back in a lot of ways because it had to appeal to so many different kinds of customers to sell well. Throughout, I kept thinking about how much better it could've been if not for that.

I HATE YOU *runs away crying*

Seriously, though, that's some collection.

And it's not even like Dante was that great of a character to begin with. It's just that this new Dante basically amplifies all his most annoying qualities (immaturity, goofy one-liners and wisecracks) without having any of the charm or coolness of the original.

Like many other aspects of the game, he makes the game feel like a bad alternate-universe fanfic that got a studio and a budget.

They tried to pull an Amazing Spider-man and it blew up in their faces.

Also, you need to get the HD collection of the first 3 games. NOW. 3 in particular is the best game in the series. 

Thanks! :)

As to the story, that's the key difference. It was terrible in pretty much all the games, but DMC is made much worse because it takes itself too seriously on top of that. Plus it's when it tries to be funny or witty that the dialouge hits its lowest points ("FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!1!")

Ninja Theory simply wasn't up to the task. They had some good ideas, though, which I hope transfer over into future entries.

Dem legs.

The lack of stories with the #bouncing boobies tag on this site disturbs me. -_-

Seriously, though, I was super impressed with the demo. I'll be picking this up one of these days. 

Pretty much. Throwing the franchise onto the overloaded FPS/TPS bandwagon at all would've been a gamble no matter how they approached it.

Not really. It's pretty much a "same crap different day" situation industry-wide. There's no excuse for the screw-ups they've made with their biggest sellers this gen, though.