Devil May Cry creator says action games are unevolved: Use a leaf stone!

I don't know...Kratos does like running around half naked most of the time. :P

add bullet time! its groundbreaking

Sounds like he's trying to comeback against Itagaki's recent comment.

What did he do to make the genre evolve? Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage for Dreamcast came out a good 2 years before Devil May Cry. Both had great melee combat systems, both had projectiles, both even had power up modes (Berserk Mode/Devil Trigger). The only thing I can think of that was in DMC that wasn't in Berserk are air combos. I wouldn't exactly say air combos innovate the genre. As KMCC said in an above comment, it just seems like this guy is responding back to Itagaki's recent comments.

Wow, this is the first time I see Kamiya responding in a non-modest way. But then again, I'm confident that he can pull something new and unique, after all, he did Viewtiful Joe and Okami. I dunno if he has to do with MadWorld, the next game from PlatinumGames, but damn it looks incredible.

Reading this article is like CliffyB getting all angry about people using next gen brown and cliché personalities in video game characters.

It's not dissing him, I want to know how he feels about the series he created.

Jim:
"but Kamiya and his team can hardly be called masters of innovation for work that was no different from the PlayStation 2 era prequels."

ok, maybe you weren't dissing him. But I was referring to the above statement, where you judge him based on work that was not his. He only made DMC1.

do you see what you did Jim? now all these poor little misinformed commenters are making foolish statements.

Perhaps instead of worrying about how 3D action games haven't evolved maybe he should be helping Capcom out with Devil May Cry. I liked DMC4 but you can't tell me that it had some significant flaws for the player to overcome; absolutely no excuse for making me replay the first half of the game but with a different character.

Kamiya's probably just throwing claims around as an indirect response to Itagaki criticizing DMC4's enemies being objects to kill rather than enemies that want you dead.

All I know is that I can think of a couple of Action games that I like a lot more than DMC.

zgnoud is correct, the only DMC game Kamiya designed was the first one. He had absolutely no involvement in any of the sequels. After DMC he went to work on Viewtiful Joe, and after that, Okami.

Newb. Pichu doesn't evolve by any stones (and certainly not a Leaf Stone). He has to like his owner before he evolves. Come on, Jim. Journalism!

I know that the changes to the combo system in Devil May Cry 3 was purely superficial in that it could be completely ignored by players that didn't care about getting high ranks. But I'm just addicted to making that Style meter go up. Because of that, the way I play DMC1 is very different from DMC3 and 4.

I also really appreciate what they did with Nero's mechanics in DMC4 (Max Act Exceed Rocks!), but aside from the new character, Dante having some new moves and real time Style changing, and a few different enemies, it was pretty much the same game as DMC3.

The back-tracking and re-fighting the bosses so many times in DMC4 didn't bother me so much since I'm use to that sort of thing, but I do admit that it seems like a pretty lazy design choice (DMC 1 and 3 had it, but it was done much better in those games in that I don't remember people complaining about it).

From here I don't see very many places that Capcom can take Devil May Cry. It's been my opinion that they'll take it in the same direction that they took Mega Man in only moderately updating the formula.

And I have have no problem with that, as long as what they do add is totally awesome.

And I agree Remz, God Hand is badass (as you might notice from my avatar). I want more action games like that. Also I believe that the person most responsible for that game's awesomeness was Shinji Mikami (the guy who made Resident Evil).

Well... it is Capcom after all. Its what they do. Rehash the same game over and over until it doesn't bleed green anymore. Then after that maybe, I say MAYBE, change up the game style. Like RE4, for example.

But if he's talking about the genre in general, yeah okay. I can kind of see where he is coming from but God of War and Ninja Gaiden will disagree with him. I just think its problem that lies with the developers and their lack of effort. Its a lot easier to rehash another 3D action clone instead of coming up with new ideas that require a level of dedication to make them work right.

Its the fear of failing in a next gen market with big money that is stifling a lot of creativity. Just look at Heavenly Sword. Anything new they tried, failed in the end and ruined a game that would have probably been better off just sticking to the formula thats worked for others.