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by Scrustle » September 21st, 2018, 6:21 pm
Slowly but surely I'm coming around on DMC5. Still a lot about it I'm not too thrilled with, but I think I can get over most of it for the cool stuff that is there. I'm glad they showed some other environments. Was hoping we wouldn't be just stuck in a boring city for the whole game (even if it is clearly modelled after London). Dante's new weapons look cool, that boss looks really cool, and V seems pretty interesting. Anyone else think he looks like an edgy Adam Driver?
Also there was some interesting news about the music of the game since that trailer came out. Apparently the vocalist they got on board for it was involved in some very unsavoury stuff, so Capcom almost immediately backtracked on being associated with him, and seem to be scrubbing his work out of the game. A lot of people are happy about this, since the particular song he was doing vocals on (Dante's battle theme, the one in that trailer) didn't get a great response. I haven't heard the vocal version of the track, just the instrumental, which seemed alright to me. That said, I am aware of the band the guy is from (Suicide Silence), and from what I've heard, they're pretty awful. So I can imagine why people wouldn't like his work in this game either. I would prefer the game have as little to with him or the band as possible. But if they just got some decent vocals on that backing track, that song could be pretty cool. Given how late in development the game probably is by now, I expect that will happen.
Another related piece of news on the game though gives us another option. They put out some details on the Deluxe Edition, which among other things, allows you to change the music of the game to anything from previous games in the series. So if you just want to hear the old classic tunes, then you never have to hear any of this new stuff at all. Pretty good bonus I think.
On the Halo thing, that's pretty sad. We should have obviously expected it I suppose. After 5 I was completely done with the series. That was the point when they ruined it beyond all repair in my view. Yet I couldn't help but give them a little bit of the benefit of the doubt when they announced Infinite. It seemed like they had learned some hard lessons from 5, and were making a strong point of going in a different direction, even if the game is still technically the 6th mainline game. They even used that song from the Halo 3 trailer! You don't use that piece of music unless you're serious about what you're doing! Guess it turns out they were serious about mining nostalgia, and the game is going to be more exploitative garbage. And all this after Forza made a big noise about going in the opposite direction too! Thought MS was starting to learn! But of course not.