Just when you think gamer melodrama has peaked, something comes out of the woodwork to knock our community down another ten pegs. Ninja Theory's Tameem Antoniades has revealed that some gamers were so distraught over their development of DmC: Devil May Cry that they sent in death threats. How classy.
"Alex Garland warned me about it because he experienced a similar thing with 28 Days Later where people were upset that it didn’t feature real zombies. And now with his upcoming Dredd movie,” he revealed. "So I was half prepared for it, although I have to say that it has been pretty eye opening to see some of the creative ways in which people have chosen to vent their hatred. We didn’t expect death threats in comic book form or anti-DmC death metal songs!
"It’s pretty hard for me to back the decisions we made without showing actual gameplay to the public. So until that time comes, and it will come soon, I just have to put up with the rage. Though I must say, lots of people have come and said that they are now interested in DmC whereas they had previously lost interest in the series. We’ll see how this plays out."
The rage over DmC has been utterly pathetic. While I don't begrudge anybody the opportunity to be concerned about it, the sheer depths of lunacy that some people have sunk to are shocking, to say the very least. This level of outrage would be stupid even if these nutters had played the game, but it's not even out yet.
And we wonder why gamers are still portrayed as psychopathic manchildren on TV!
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9:00 AM on 01.06.2012 | 
You can vote with you bucks and not purchase a game of you don't like the changes made or the direction taken, but that's the extent of your role in the process. If SEGA decided tomorrow that from this day forward Sonic is going to be a transvestite aardvark with an Uzi and an exagerated pimp wall who throws headless kitten grenades and foghts wave after wave of faoling mouthed, rabid , swearing, kilted scottsman to save the kindom of bumfuck from their han fisted rule, you have no say so beyond voting with our bucks.
Deal with it, and drop the drama queen bullshit. It's a fuking hobby, not life or death, and it's not the end of the company, the world, or the universe if they don't have your god damn approval about what color a ficticous characters hair is.
Every collective is bound to contain idiots and sociopaths, I don't remember taking a mental competency test when I bought my last console. They just sell them to anyone, should I be demonized because some idiot did what idiots do? meh, nothing to see here
He is an game action hero, his brand of gameplay is far more important than the character itself.
Also, in before the stupid "first world problems" meme - oh wait.
Ninja Theory: Devs of 2012
The game still looks like shit though.
It's not pathetic. DMC was a game where you could play as a cocky, know-it-all, loud mouth teenager-demon, who carried a sword big enough to match Jim Sterling's ego.
People escape into games to pretend they are someone else. Someone cool, or cooler than yourself. Why would i want to play a game where 'i' play as a scrawny kid who looks like a crack addict? Agh...i wish this reboot trend would just die out already.
How is that relevant to the subject at hand at all?
Also, a 90's MLP Tales themed armor for MC in Halo 4 would make me buy the game.
Still don't see this as a Devil May Cry game, but whatever, not a huge fan of the series anyway.
Halo 4
or
Jim Sterling?
Point is, gamers are pissed about Dante's new look. (Judging by the comments, these people are the majority)
Jim have you ever received a hateful comic book?
Just...a hobby?
This is not just a hobby! IT'S A WAY OF LIFE! [/hyperbole]
Yes, because developers need to die over things like that. Stay classy, tahmidk
Man, this post is funny. "Death Threats? We should kill those people because they send rude letters!"
The fact is though, this game looks like complete dogshit, on a gameplay level. Not death threat/homophobic remarks from YouTubers(which isn't just gamers but people in general, just to stop the thread of self-hating we got going on here), but honest crictism regarding the videos. The animation transitions, the airtime, the whip, the camera, the framerate, its all inferior to DMC3 and even DMC4. Its a step back for the series, and I think DMC fans have a right to be angry.
But oh no, you're emotionally angry about a video game, what a big anti-social baby you are. Kinda reminds me of the weekly reaction to Jim Sterling's name around the internet. The phrase "fat, whiny manchild" gets thrown around a LOT. No wonder TV portrays us as psychopathic manchildren, derr herr
Dante- "My white hair? It`s not that I'm getting old, it`s always been like that. Why do you ask?"
Even Capcom are doing sly digs
What I'm trying to say is, 9/11 was an inside job.
Yeah, stupid man-children are stupid.
It's not a stupid meme when some dipshit who clearly has priority issues embodies it by making death threats over something as trivial as a video game character.
Anyway , I'm pretty interested in this DmC.