Why is DMC2 so much worse than the other games? What happened?

Why is DMC2 so much worse than the other games? What happened?

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Why are you spamming this thread lately?

It has the best atmosphere in the series but Sup Forums is so contrarian they refuse to accept it.

By definition your the one being contratian you retard.

DMC2 is unironically better than DMC4

Different development team. IIRC it wasn't even a DMC game at first.

It's long and boring, but it's not bad. It's still much better of a game than DmC: Devil May Cry.

Atmosphere does not make a game good.

It does though

gameplay makes a game good, which is everything from how the character responds to your inputs, to the way the game responds to the actions of your character. dmc2 fails in that aspect.

>Reminder that this hypocritical Brit defended this game.

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This couldn't be further from the truth.

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gameplay doesn't matter as long as the game looks good

>It's still much better of a game than DmC: Devil May Cry
No, it's not.

Why do people care about that contrarian faggot?

I mean neither was DMC1.

DMC1 invented the genre so it being another game right at the start of development makes sense or at least is excusable. DMC2 was changed into a DMC game a couple of months before release.

DMC1 was a happy accident, in way that Mikami told Kamiya to make it a new thing. Had it stayed RE4, I bet today we would be having people complain that it ruined the series or something.

Anyone else feel as if DMC2 were a bargain bin movie adaptation game?

I wouldn't call it bargain bin, but it was more Hollywood action than the others.

The only credit I ever give DMC2 is having the best Dante design.

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>No, it's not.
Yes it damn well sure fucking is. DmC was irredeemable dogshit.

I suppose I'm not being clear.
Have you ever bought a game as a child because you saw a movie? You play the game and it turns out to be either painfully mediocre or complete dogshit. The point of the game was to catch the eye of children to make a quick buck. The game typically lacks content, depth, and quality.
DMC2 feels like just that, completely mediocre in all aspects. It feels as if it were meant to be a quick cash-in.
By bargain bin I mean that those titles that I mentioned would have massive price cuts because of the lack of interest in the game.

DmC is one of the best western games in the genre.
It's DMC2 that's irredeemable trash.

>DmC is one of the best western games in the genre.
This is the state of Sup Forums

even thats wrong though, the best design is the one from the scrapped old DMC4 build that was still in use during the original teaser of that game

are you genuinely fucking retarded?

>its a bad game because not muh dante!

is this "DMC2 wasnt bad" horseshit some falseflag operation to reinforce the idea that PC ruins fanbases, a legitimate case of PC ruining fanbases or just one autistic, retarded contrarian samefagging in every thread?

Compared to other western games in the genre like God of War an Dante's Inferno, DmC really isn't that bad at all. It just so happens that westerners suck ass at making action games.

I suppose I wasn't being clear, DMC2 still feels several levels above what one would find in a bargain bin, or at least ones around here.
To me it's like a typical Hollywood B-production, only interactive, cheaply done, but still with certain charm.

Westerners suck ass at making games

Prove me wrong.
It doesn't focus on cinematics nor qtes and the combat itself offers plenty of freedom, it's basically simplified DMC3/4 combat.
It's the forth best and second to worst DMC, but it's still an alright game. DMC2 is simply trash.

>westerners suck ass at making action games.

yes, or perhaps they dont and youre merely throwing retarded generalisation based on CAPCOMs terrible decisions. The japanese domination of beatemup is only really because devs like capcom and IP's like ninja gaiden were doing the same shit way before the 3D era already. Western developers are literally the apex of talent when it comes to making videogames and creating the technology for it. Ninja Theory and Santa Monica arent exactly good points of reference when its blatantly obvious that even Japan can create absolute dogshit (DMC2)

They didn't really know what worked with DMC that everybody liked, and when they decided to iterate the gameplay, they took a wrong turn, focusing on the gunplay and altering the melee inputs and combos to awkward trash.

DMC had no contemporaries to guide future development, so they just guessed wrong.

>one of the best western games in the genre.
It's amazing how little this actually means

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I’d say the last one.

>Why is DMC2 so much worse than the other games? What happened?
It was directed by someone who didn't understand a single about what made the original great. It's like the guy never even played the game, he just looked at someone playing the game and thought about how he could 'expand' it.