Good memories with DMC2? Excuse me?
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It was such a long time ago, but at the time it was one game at a time. I was younger then and I didn’t really have any problems with it. I thought they were all quite fun.
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Aye DMC hasn’t aged well and DMC2 even less so, still fun games though. DMC3 on the other hand is still just amazing.
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I don’t know…I have a soft spot for the raw simplicity of the first game. That and the time it took me to S rank the whole thing…hours of pain fun!
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Well it definitely deserves credit for (imo) basically creating the genre but it is as you say a bit simple and… weird compared to something more modern like Bayo.
It’s one of those games that is a bit painful to go back to solely because of the improvements made in the genre.
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Eh. You can still kind of get into the game, and it’s great from there.
DMC2, on the other hand, was a bad game when it came out and even worse now. I say this with zero nostalgia whatsoever. It’s BAD.
You can boot into it and it seems all well and good-- a good intro cutscene, an okay first level if a bit slow, and an introduction to some basic enemies, plus the new gunslinger stuff is cool. The jumping seems janky, but interesting.
The moment you get past that first level and realize how shallow the mechanics are, it’s all downhill from there. By the end, you’ll be suffering.
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I will fire it back up some time and report back. 
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I forbid you from doing this. I care about your safety and well-being, and introducing someone to DMC2 isn’t the kind of thing I want on my conscience.
Tell you what. If you refrain from it, I’ll actually get into making YT content again as soon as I can and do a full playthrough of the game. I’ll suffer to save others.
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Old thread but a good place to complain that Fanatical is tempting me to do something dumb to my budget.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/devil-may-cry-bundle
@CptMold What’s not so good about DMC 2?
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Literally everything. Honestly, you lose absolutely nothing at all by ignoring the game entirely…in fact you’re up because you haven’t wasted your time. The combat loses all the skill it required in the other games, the camera is awful, the storyline is terrible, the level design loses the confined combat arena style that worked so well in the first, the controls feel loose and floaty, the camera is bad etc…
I haven’t played it since its release year but if I ever had the DMC trilogy again I wouldn’t go back to it. One is great but a little dated (the combat is still good) and three is amazing.
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DMC2 is a bland game where the AI is terrible, the combo system makes no sense thanks to weird directional and gimmicky input, and the best way to play the game is to mindlessly blitz through its terribly designed fights that are easy to manipulate and cheat.
For example, I never learned about the power abilities in game. This is because I skipped right over ones that were supposed to be essential. At a timed gate that was supposed to introduce the speed power, I instead backflipped my way to the door in time, thinking that was the puzzle; YouTube corrected me on this later.
I was on autopilot to the point where for about twenty seconds, the audio cut out, and I instantly noticed… before realizing that audio cut out was the most interesting thing that had happened in two hours.
This, of course, was what broke me:
I was just playing DMC3 a moment ago and… yeah, if you don’t mind the challenge, it’s as great as they say, and only gets better once you actually have some extra gear. I finally got past Cerberus, only took me a year. Pretty cool game, shame I suck at it. Gunslinger FTW, by the way.
I guess I’ll go ahead and add that I’ve played through 1 already. It’s, as stated… dated but excellent. The writing is 90s-Capcom tier (that’s not a good thing), but everything else about the game has aged perfectly.
If that bundle includes 4SE, that’s a pretty good price. I’d definitely pay that price… it’s $10 per game for three amazing games, plus a $6 discount for the inconvenience of owning DMC2.
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Pah…Royal Guard if you’re ace (I dream of being good enough to use this well), Trickster if you’re not.
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I’ve played DMC 3 before my previous computer died. It won’t run on current machine as the graphics card has no 3D capability at all. Think it’s an integrated thing too, so no upgrades.
Enjoyed all the fighting styles though, especially the one where you can skateboard on the enemies, hee hee. Can’t get the names straight in my head now. Would love to try out DMC 4 and boy oh boy do I want DMC 5, now I’ve seen it on Live Stream.
Surprised that the 2nd in the series was so bad. Played some of the 1st a long while ago and that’s where I fell in love with Dante - style and wrecking everything in sight. Really thought all in the series were good. Ah well, good to know that the bundle isn’t so tempting in the end, lol. Thank you both.
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Says here it won’t activate in Canada.
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Different dev team who didn’t understand the success of the first game and made a more generic, accessible beat 'em up (effectively).
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No way… You bought the bundle and it won’t activate?!
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That is very odd. Wonder why… Do you play?
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No. Was just looking at the bundle.
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Oki. I tried out stuff on my compy last night, and oddly enough, both Skyrim and Devil May Cry 3 run and pretty well.
Now I’m guessing that I don’t get how to read System Requirements properly or something. T_T Need some help. Should make a topic maybe?
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