Waiting for boycott letter.

The one thing for me that can go f**k itself are those goddamn dice games. I must have been on level 19 for about an hour fighting the same battles over and over because I kept getting unlucky rolls.

People hated DMC4? I swear to good this place is so unlike the rest of the Internet.

"The one thing for me that can go f**k itself are those goddamn dice games. I must have been on level 19 for about an hour fighting the same battles over and over because I kept getting unlucky rolls."
Oh my god. That was the worst part of the game.

Mini-review time!: I felt they should have stuck with Nero the whole way through. Throwing Dante in there halfway through felt like they had ZERO confidence in Nero.
"Don't worry, you'll get to play as Dante soon!"

Going through the game backwards, fighting the same bosses and enemies again? That was not necessary. Dante's gameplay DID change it up alot, but it doesn't change the fact that it's lazy ass game design.

Even with all it's problems, I really enjoyed it. It's not as good as the other 2 DMC games though.*



*DMC2 is not a DMC game.

@Jordan
It wasn't "bad" like DMC 2 was, it just wasn't excellent. While Nero's new mechanics did gel with the series (in fact, I thought JYB's Nero was more fun than Dante), the level designs were pretty awful, and there wasn't much additional content: something the franchise is known for.

DMC 4 is a perfect example of a "7"ish game.

I thought Nero was a great 'eyecandy' addition to the series but I hope later DMC series include both Nero and Dante in a way that their playstyles can diverge more from "Nero has the Devil Buster... Dante has styles and weapons." Although the Buster gave some amazing visual moments (I found myself playing the game at least twice just to see all the modifications that Devil Trigger makes on grabbing each enemy), it felt like a simplified Dante. I also wasn't a big fan of Nero's Exceed system and thought it was just a twitchy man's version of the kind of attention that a great Dante-player would put into quickly shifting styles and weapons.

I'd like to see DMC5, if Nero's in it, as a game where you more or less have a choice at the beginning of the game to either go with Nero and Dante and I'd like to see their games, while entailing the same levels technically, to have divergent paths sort of similar to how Sonic 3 with Knuckles was Sonic 3, but some levels were almost 100% different due to Knuckles' abilities.

I can't believe I just referenced Sonic and Knuckles in relation to DMC4.

I loved these games. I thought 1, 3, and 4 were all great. And Nero's hand added a much-needed newness to the system that was getting tired.

I hope this is under $30, where am i gonna find the time though tsk. And why isn't Bayonetta getting a PC port neways, its on the 360 ... sighs.

DMC4 was a disappointment. Going from 3's brilliant combat to a bastardized version where you couldn't even toggle between locked-on enemies was painful. However, I really liked the Nero mechanics. It was a shame that the upgrade system was shit and that they only gave us half a game to play through twice (one time with Nero, and the next with nerfed Dante). Couple that with a 20-minute install, a worse story than 3's, and a caricaturization of Dante, and you get a big disappointment in my book.

I blame myself though, I was beyond hyped for it.

Have you guys ever even noticed that the repeat bosses is a long-standing Capcom formula?

I never really had any problems with the dice part. Got through it pretty quickly, tho it was incredibly satisfying to watch dante simply slice the thing in 2 when his turn showed up.
And I, for one, really liked DMC4. Might play it a little again before the UK release of bayonetta

This game had an amazing PC port, it looked and ran like a freaking dream.

Not really my kind of game though, not even a little bit.

In my opinion, Devil May Cry has gotten progressively better over the years.

I think DMC4 is a lot of fun...whatever the hand weapon was called, that thing was great.

I played through about half of it and got sick of it though. >_>

huh the dice games must have been pretty bad cuz I beat the snot outta DMC4 and I cant remember em for shit. Traumatizing experience deleted.

I recall most of the hate coming from Sony fanboys that were all pissy about one of their exclusives coming to the 360. I'm glad it did get a multiplatform release honestly, because I still don't know any PS3 owners that have this game. Regardless of the platform though, it was an amazing game. I still play it from time to time, and hope more people pick up on this once it does go digital!

It's weird to think DM4 was going to be a PS3 exclusive once...because I actually made the mistake of getting the PS3 version first and it was bad.

Not the game itself, but the install was so long I had time to go take a shower. And not a quick one.

And even then the loading of scenes, despite that install, took forever. Even the controls were loose. I know this because I went and checked out the 360 version (I'm lucky enough to have both) and the controls were good. It really felt like it'd been built for a 360 controller with this title.

The game itself, from characters to graphics (speaking of graphics, I was pissed when I saw the graphics were better, not the same, on 360...I felt ripped off) and boss batttles, it was pretty good stuff.

I DO hate on DMC4...the PS3 version. It was inferior on a technical level by more than a slight degree. There was no excuse for the game not looking and playing equal on each machine. For those reasons, I flip a finger at DMC4 and won't buy DMC5 till I rent next time.

It's alright. It wasn't godly like DMC3, but it still alright.
But the thing that annoyed me the most was when playing the same levels and bosses again, but as Dante.
That was plain lazy.

it's a great game, not stellar. it suffers from some structural weaknesses like the backtracking. I think most of the hate is sony fanboys lashing out at Capco for wanting to make money (those scoundrels!) and xbox people not really caring about the franchise. Also why the f did they make Nero look exactly like Dante?