[Multiplatform] Devil May Cry 4

As long as DMC4 doesn't follow the trend of it's disowned bretheren (DMC2) this game is gonna be the coolest demon killing game to date. But my question is has anyone heard a official or unofficial release window for this game? It was one of the first games to be announced for the PS3 so I hope it makes it for launch.

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From what I've heard from two or three magazines they seem to believe that Heavenly Sword will be a launch title. Not that their word is the law or anything though.

As for DMC4, I didn't think it was going to be because Capcom is usually pretty good about their release dates, so I thought that if I hadn't heard anything by now that it probably wasn't going to be, but I guess one can hope ^^;

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It's more then likely going to be done by the same people that did the DMC3 music (which was awesome) based on the sound of the DMC4 music I've heard.

Also the graphics are frick'n amazing, which makes the PS3 worth the money I'm paying, more so then my 360... what a waste.

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Generic Badass: If you watch the 2 gameplay trailers at gametrailers.com you'll be able to see the detail in the enviroment alot easier. And in my opinion everything looks solid and amazing, the FPS could use an improvement, but taken from other Capcom titles like RE4 and Dead Rising, framerate is the last thing Capcom does, and it usually turns out well.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hey, as long as it's done right I have no objections.

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C'mon, does anyone have the HD trailer?? Because I would love to get it myself. Sorry SOLDIER for leeching off your request, but DMC and MGS were the two games that got me into gaming hence my interest in DMC4 ^^

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The difference between something like Gears of War and Devil May Cry is that DMC requires accurate control of the character, so if your character were to sway or change posses like people do in real life then it could lead you to being hit by things that you had no control of, or knew was going to happen all because your character decided to crouch or lean on a different leg or something. In DMC, uniform animation and predictability of what the effect of each button will do is imminent to playing the game.

However in games like Gears of War or Assasin's Creed, the game isn't as fast or require as much control as DMC.

Some people may argue this, but I know when I play DMC, my techniques requires to have the same animation to perform the exact same every time. Otherwise I'd be screwed.

Finally this is the beginning of next gen, you can't expect this, that and the other thing to all be in every game right off the bat. It takes time for games to evolve and slowly assimulate all the new techniques brought to the table by other developers at the same time.

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Nero if the main character for about 70% of the game. Though Capcom hasn't said exactly how much you're going to get to play as each, they have said that Nero is going to be the REAL main character.

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I agree. Games become easier and easier every year because either A) They want to make it appealing to more people or B) Because reviewers cry and complain because a game is hard an makes it difficult for them to review in time because they have to keep on continuing (Ex. IGN's review on God Hand).

Capcom is one of the few maintainers of CHALLENGING games from Resident Evil to Devil May Cry. If you were to get rid of Capcom and fighting games there would barely be any challenge left in the gaming industry.

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Not too surprised with the PC version, or the 360 version. DMC3 came out on the PC and after you've got the game running on the PC there's not much difference to get it to run on the 360. DMC3 probably would have went to the Xbox1 too if MS didn't cut the bastard child off before Capcom had a chance.

On the other hand though, ports tend to suck no matter the destination property and with a series I treasure as much as DMC and the fact that frame-rate kind of matters in this game I think I'll stick with the PS3 source version thank you. Also DMC was made for the PS controller and the 360 controller isn't very good for anything outside the sport and shooting genres. SFII was enough of a nightmare on the 360 controller for one lifetime thank you very much.

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Well...
Final Fantasy XI
GTA
Assasin's Creed
These were all already multi-platform games or were originally intended to be. (Assasin Creed on PS3 was just the source copy). And Koei hasn't EVER made anything better then a sub-par game so no one cares about Fatal Inertia or that other game they're making. As for the rest I don't think that any of thoes are any real surprise.

-Guitar Hero is a sold property
-DMC already made the move to PC
-Virtua Fighter with the failure of the last one, they need to find money somewhere
-Armored Core, along the same lines of VF seiing as how when was the last good one anyway?

However the PS3 and 360 seem to each be at par with BIG exclusive titles now. But then again with the facts that the beginning of every new gen goes like this and that there are actually two other good systems other then just Sony's machiene for once, I think that this gen will see the creative juices flowing for the first time again in 10 years.

Just to be somewhat on topic I hope that the series will get a little more acknowledgement now in the NA market. The series has been HUGE in Japan and Europe, but not quite as large in the NA market. Making the move to the 360 also was definatly the way to achieve that goal for Capcom.

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MGS4 is highly unlikely to come to the 360. Konami wants to bring it over, but Sony owns half the product seeing how they gave Konami their dev kits and funding extremely early, which is why MGS4 was the first GOOD looking title shown for the PS3. Konami already cancelled like 10 projects including Gradius 6 in hopes to get the $$ they needed to buy Sony out of the title with little more then a financial scratch to what they owe Sony. Anything can happen still, however even if they do manage to buy Sony out, it'll take another year or more to port it to the 360 from that point anyway.

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Yeah I saw this announcement when it came out. Just like any choice to go multiplatform it was for marketing and $$ reasons, so I don't think that an explination was really required. However I guess for thoes who couldn't figure that out on their own now know Capcom's reasons for their choice.

As to which one is better, if there will be one. Seeing how I do have a PS3 I'm just going to get it. Because the PS3 version is the source version, and the 360 version was started late in the project, if Capcom decides that meeting release date is more important then a good port, the 360 version could very well be buggy (or at the least have more bugs then the source). However the key thing for me is that I've played 1 -> 3 on the PS controller, so why would I want to re-learn a new controll setup?

Anyhow I don't think that DMC4 on 360 will sell too well with Bioshock, Mass Effect, Halo 3 and GTA 4 all surrounding it's release so I dought that DMC4 will make a splash in that market between that and the fact that X-box fans have missed the last 3 games. However time will tell all.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Final Fantasy XIII is looking nothing like XII. In fact FF XIII is looking like a FFVII time set and probably field encountered battles, but the system is turn-based that then creates a fight scene using the inputed commands from both the player and the AI. For more info check out trailers for it on www.gametrailers.com and developer interviews scattered around the net for more info.

Final Fantasy: The Last Remnant for PS3 & X360 on the other hand is similar to FFXII and is currently the only FF game heading to the 360 also.

I will stop here to keep from taking this thread too far off topic.

Please if anyone else gets wind of new DMC4 info post it here.

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That's because either the developer of a game is asking too much for exclusive rights or because MS/Sony is too cheap to fork over the cash for exclusives. Either way, content is cheaper then properties which is what it comes down to.

I don't like the way the industry is going right now either, however it is something that happens every generation. I reffer to this as the fog of the console war, after the opening shots of each new generation the industry is sent spiraling into chaos of allegiances and legal jargan. As far as the consumer goes, the only thing we can do is choose a console (or two) and stick to our guns till the dust clears.

Also I apologise for the Last Remnant thing, just goes to show that with Final Fantasy, outside the name there's not much to bind the series together in realtion. ^^; However it's probably still the closest thing that the 360 will see to a Final Fantasy game from Square as of now.

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LMAO, you think that DMC3 for the PC was a mess... you should see RE4 for the PC. Let's just say that it's a por of the PS2 version, except with 1/4 res cutscenes, and all the menues are pictures instead of 3D gauges and what not. Also there's a whole community that's involved in retexturing the ENTIRE game. Yeah, Ubisoft knows how to make games, but they couldn't port a game if their funding and careers depended on it.

If the goverment wants to be productive, write a bill that doesn't allow Ubisoft to port properties. It's bad enough when they port their own.

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Well a bunch of people, myself included are making a whole slew of mods for this game that are SO needed. We've already upped the texture quality to that of the GC version as well as re-ripped the cinematics in HD quality.

Sometime around this coming monday one of the members is releasing a TOTALLY re-textured texture set for the game that makes the PC version of RE4 the BEST version.

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I know that Leon is the same, but the re-texturing of characters is a seperate project for the time being.

If anyone wants to help making RE4 -PC better or just wants to check it out you may do so here -> http://z6.invisionfree.com/Resident_...php?act=SC&c=3

Now I'll try to leave this to the topic discussion. If there's enough interest I may create a thread for this RE4 -PC stuff.

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Point #2 is interesting, however is not something that any DMC fan wouldn't have already dreamn't up, however it's nice to hear the developer keeping the dream alive.

Point #3 just means that there won't be new weapons. But there most likely will still be levels for the weapons that he does have which will elaborate on the current move set I would imagine. Along with his Devil Bringer upgrades.

Point #4 is hit or miss. As long as Dante still has DT, that's all that REALLY matters to me.

Point #5 is no big deal since they always tend to have umpteen dificulties per a game anyway.

The PS3 & 360 thing would be a good thing, but seeing how 2% of ported games manage to keep this promise in the performance area, I'm afraid that I'll have to see it to believe it.

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Yeah, that's probably what they meant.

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What's better then Assasin's Creed you ask... Credo and his army of Altairs in the background, lol.

New characters are always cool in DMC, though Agnus is definatly a freekazoid.

Lastly, I'm pretty sure that I remember in a designer interview that it was said that Trish, Lady or both will return in DMC 4. I'll try and look it up and post a link when/if I find the source again.

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If the NA versions is delayed, that's just simply inexcusable, what do they have to translate? menues? C'mon, that still shouldn't require a Feb '08 release. What BS, especially when all the voice acting is already in english.

I was speaking idiomatically.

This is one badass frick'n overlord... I mean trailer. ^^;

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23903.html

WATCH IT NOW OR DIE!!!

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@Inhert
DMC4 does take place after DMC 2 but it sounds like Capcom is totally pretending that DMC2 never happened, which is a good thing. Also Lady and Trish already met in the Anime which had them fighting for 3/4 of the episode before Trish went back out on her own. (Trish and Dante kind of split up, but they're still friends)

@Rotorblade
Trish changed her clother once in the Anime before going back to her original attire. Oh well, guess devils don't need to change their attire much, i don't know. lol

Speaking of, the final 12th episode comes out today. It came out last week in japan, but the subbed version by AonE & Conclave comes out today, can't wait.

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Just watched the 12th and final episode of the Anime and it ends off in a way that I believe is supposed to be right before the start of DMC2. Apparently DMC2 is just a job for a rich client (being the old hag that never told me Sparda's story in DMC2). But that sounds like the only purpose and motive from the hint, it was simply for money, no real siginigance. However it still doesn't explain the retarted ending of DMC2 where he rides off into hell... for what purpose who the hell knows. Oh well, at least now I can just pass DMC2 off as, "meh, it was only a simple mission for coin, nothing else."

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Uhhh... the only other 3D hack&slash action game that is even as hard or deep as DMC is Ninja Gaiden, and even that doesn't have as cool of characters or cinematics as DMC so I don't quite know where you're coming from.

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