I uh....I hate to be the negative ned here, but I'm really surprised at how positive a reaction this announcement is getting.
I mean, let me be clear: these are good things, relative to getting nothing at all. We finally get Vergil back after all these years, and DmC gets an overhaul. But can we all atleast admit that we deserve more?
A character is released into a game that is like 6 years old at this point, and given the game's near state of perfection, I highly doubt that they are going to change much else. Maybe they are, but I really can't imagine why they wouldn't announce what changes they'd be implementing into DMC4 if they were doing that. So my assumption is that the only change they are adding is Vergil and maybe some new gameplay modes like LDK mode from PC and Turbo. That is not worth $40 dollars, which is the likely price they'd charge for it. I fucking love vergil, but even $20 in a 6 year old game would be pushing it. Hopefully I'm mistaken here, and they're actually going to announce Vergil getting his own story mode of 10 chapters, plus filling out Dante's section with actual new environments, and reworking Sanctus so that he doesn't suck a chode and maybe even rewriting the present DMC4 storyline out of existance due to it's suckage. That'd be worth $40, hell that'd be worth $60 if need be. I'd pay for that, but I doubt I'm getting it.
As for DmC.....look, it's not that I want to disparage the improvements people made, but....honestly, who cares? Who in the hardcore community hasn't been soured on this game at this point? I feel there are 2 general reactions. Hardcores either got fed up with the poor quality of DmC and went back to playing DMC4 and Bayonetta and the rest, or they stuck with it, got the PC version, and implemented various mods that seem to have made it into this Definitive version they got going on here. It just seems like anyone who cared enough to have these sorts of features already got them through mods messing with the game.
So...Look, I'm not saying these things are bad. But they are table scraps. Vergil in DMC4? We should be getting DMC5. We should have gotten DMC5 4 years ago. Vergil could have been a part of that game instead. And I want to be kinder to DmC, given how it is routinely ravaged by the internet...but I would have preferred to see DmC2 with these features. I don't need to play DmC again, because like Dahbomb said somewhere here, this is what we should have gotten in the first place, and I'm just not interested in revisiting that altogether poor beginning of DMC's reboot. I'd be far more interested in seeing how they improve on everything going forward, not going back and trying to rewrite past mistakes.
I know that it's either support these franchises, or never see DMC again....but I'm just very sick of Capcom treating it's fans like such shit. We are willing to go above and beyond the call of duty, moreso than other fanbases, but Capcom is just never gives us anything to work with.
