@wakkaflakkachimmichonga: Actually it was Onimusha 3 in 2004 that first done away with the tank controls, or rather allowed you the choice to play with either tank controls or analogue.

yes you're correct. what i meant in my previous comment when referring to dates was the action and intricate combos that were introduced in dawn of dreams. i should have made that more clear, sorry about that.

So weird, so random.

I beat this game 6 times and loved every minute of it. Initially the reason I wanted a PS3, til it was announced to be multiplatform. Probably gonna have to pass, however.

If we're excluding DMC 2 and DMC 5 then technically out of 5 games it only got better twice? Although some might even argue that the combat in DMC 4 was a step back to DMC 3 because of the way Dante switches styles which would mean that game only ever got better once in it's entire lifespan. Since the thread is already shifting into the "which is better" direction I'll quickly throw out the argument that many people seem to mistakenly confuse streamlining the combat with dumbing it down. DMC 3 was a very technical game but it was also fairly young in the genre and suffered from many of the control woes from those earlier days. To say that DmC is a step back has always been a strange sentiment to me because I always saw it as a huge leap forward in minimizing the clutter that always permeated the control schemes of the series. You could still cancel in multiple ways but everything else played a lot smoother, it was a wonderful refinement and a way for Devil May Cry to enter the modern era of character action games.

Not that there is much to choose from really. As much as I would like to say that Bayonetta started a new renaissance for character action, it was actually a bright spark that just as quickly burned out. Apart from DMC and Bayonetta what is there in the modern game market? Metal Gear Revengeance and Anarchy Reigns I suppose both of which are somewhat atypical to the genre. With such a lack in games period it's really a shame that when DmC came out it was met with such resistance because there are so few titles trying to evolve the genre and push some things forward. I'm really curious how this Scalebound game will turn out, although I've learned that not everything that Platinum touches turns instantly gold. It's also exclusive to a console I don't own so it will be really bitter sweet if it turns out to be amazing as just like with Bayonetta 2 I won't be able to enjoy it.

I'm getting the feeling that I already played every current gen game for the next 4 years 3 years ago... only at a higher resolution and framerate.

@meatball:

Yeah I hear ya. We're kind of in this unfortunate dilemma where the audience has been split in half, and with the way Capcom's been doing I don't think making two games is remotely possible.

claiming the audience has been split in half is a huge exaggeration.

Vergil<3

I will buy this game again.