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Devil May Cry 5 |OT| It's been 11 years since we last met. Where does the time go? [Now on Xbox Gamepass]
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Ran into something a bit odd, cant seem to get "Battle for the Ages" unlocked. (Clear Missions 19 and 20 without using continues)
I remember popping a Gold Orb my first time in 19. So I replayed it, beat it without continuing, no achievement. So I replay 20 without continuing thinking maybe I have to do it in a row, no achievement either. Anyone else getting this issue?
While I'm asking things, I glanced at the mission select and didn't see any info about per-mission collectables. Someone please tell me there's a way to see what Blue/Purple Orb Frags' I've found, because not having that info feels dated AF.
I remember popping a Gold Orb my first time in 19. So I replayed it, beat it without continuing, no achievement. So I replay 20 without continuing thinking maybe I have to do it in a row, no achievement either. Anyone else getting this issue?
While I'm asking things, I glanced at the mission select and didn't see any info about per-mission collectables. Someone please tell me there's a way to see what Blue/Purple Orb Frags' I've found, because not having that info feels dated AF.
Is that Honeycomb Fire?
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If this was legit, I don't know if I would be ecstatic that I can body these fools with Dante, or still turn the game off because fuck those guys
Just finished SOS today, felt it was still overall pretty easy. Surprisingly, I think the hardest boss in the game is actually Mission 18's boss.
I still stand by the opinion that Sin DT is broken in DH/SOS difficulties, but I can definitely see this changing in DMD. The triangle+square attack is just ridiculous and lets you beat bosses you have no business beating.
I'm gonna spend some time in the lab before going into DMD, I still don't know what I'm doing with Dante at all.
I still stand by the opinion that Sin DT is broken in DH/SOS difficulties, but I can definitely see this changing in DMD. The triangle+square attack is just ridiculous and lets you beat bosses you have no business beating.
I'm gonna spend some time in the lab before going into DMD, I still don't know what I'm doing with Dante at all.
That's a pretty dang weak combo compared to what I've seen for the other two though :/
I'm 2/3 of the way through SoS and i've yet to even touch gunslinger and until just now was only using Balrog and DSD.
But chapter 19 will probably put me in a blender.
Im starting to feel this way about SDT as well. Giving me bayo 2 flashbacks, though I don't think it's as destructive to the game as Umbran Climax was. It melts like half a life bar on SoS bosses so I've just resorted to not using it at all. Feels like cheating
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11 years worth of muscle memory, technique polishing, tech and combo practice versus 3 days.
Not saying V is going to come close to Dante/Nero but it's not exactly a fair comparison to make. There are a ton of legacy mechanics/skills/techniques in DMC5 that are carried from older games, dating back to DMC3.
Except there's nothing preventing you from hitting a face button and trigger button at the same time.
Also, I have a steam controller so I can map combos to paddles if absolutely necessary (currently using them for breakaway/nightmare/change gun on left and jumping on right).
Oh is there alternate inputs for those attacks or something? Talking about Showdown and Maximum Bet. I had originally swapped melee to X (so it was RB + back/forward + x + b) but ended up swapping back after I unlocked those moves.
Paddles sound super useful for this game. I'm jealous!
Whats the online function in the game? Sometimes before a mission it'll connect something and I'll get a stupid text box on the left saying "Starring: Some Guy" or something. Then after the mission I should rate his shit - without seeing anything? As a good guy I've always been stupid positive on the feedback but what the heck?
Also, whats with the audio desync during cut scenes? Driving this through Denuvo-free .exe and ultrawide haxor = cause for desync?
Good combat, great character graphics. Hilariously similar in all aspects to DmC that every "true fan" seems to piss on. Loved that game for the same reason I'm liking this, and hating that game for the same reasons I'm disliking this: moronic stage design "adventuring".
Also, whats with the audio desync during cut scenes? Driving this through Denuvo-free .exe and ultrawide haxor = cause for desync?
Good combat, great character graphics. Hilariously similar in all aspects to DmC that every "true fan" seems to piss on. Loved that game for the same reason I'm liking this, and hating that game for the same reasons I'm disliking this: moronic stage design "adventuring".
Haven't gotten to endgame yet, but I'm just basing it off how you said it was sword + DT simultaneously.
First post explains it better than I could, but the short. Basically ghost data from another player in another mission can be seen in the background in some levels. So if you care you can stop and just watch them, then rate them after.
no i think they just did a really bad job of syncing the cutscene audio to facial movements. Shame because the models and animations themselves are insanely good.
why did I even struggle against the chicken boss...i just s-ranked the fight by continously spamming the charged gunshot
This is a really big issue for me in need of a quality of life patch. Pressing L3 to change targets does nothing while you're moving around, which is infuriating. Tapping lock-on doesn't even cycle enemies, it just targets only the center most in front of your character.
In addition to fixing how the change target mechanic works, I wish they'd let me tap the right stick left/right to change targets to the respective direction of my current target.
I think it's all the same in every difficulty. Most of them aren't even about killing.
Finally managed to S rank mission 19 on DH. Not the most amazing feat but I still feel pretty good about it, though I've come to the conclusion I've 0 clue how rankings are determined.
Perfect, thanks.
It's purely based on style points. I unfortunately got an A the first time because I just couldn't keep my style points high. It annoyed me that the boss was always too far away for taunts to work after a combo.
I get like a second of silence then stuff is out of sync. I'm not talking literally the lips not matching whats being said. I have the audio on 1-3 second delay after the silence.
oh, that's a bit different then. Might be related to one of the two things you mentioned, yeah.
It honestly wasn't much different than the fight in DH, just be aware that Rainstorm counters
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I don't like the environments in DMC5 a whole lot because it's a ton of giant demon rib cage roads and hardened blood tunnels, but they're better than in DMC4. DMC4's were realistic and looked good at the time, but they lacked the flavor of DMC3. DMC3's tower was almost like Sparda's Castlevania or something. DMC4's environments didn't really tell a story. For example, the fortress was the Order's hideout or whatever, and they worship Sparda, but it was just a cathedral with no religious imagery. DMC5's environments make more sense and have more character. So many rib cage roads, though.
Maybe Bloody Palace will be on a bone platform inside a blood tunnel.
Maybe Bloody Palace will be on a bone platform inside a blood tunnel.
Whoooo Cavalier Angelo is a fucking blast on SoS. Went in the first time and was having so much fun fighting her again that when I died and looked down I realised I'd only chipped off a quarter of her health.
Going in with Balrog is so good. That uppercut on stagger and punching the sword to parry feel phenomenal.
Going in with Balrog is so good. That uppercut on stagger and punching the sword to parry feel phenomenal.
Mission 12 is a bit overkill for me. Have to go through the blood puzzle everytime I want to retry fighting the boss.
First run done. Overall, I feel that it's a good game with tons of flaws. It was also a game of two halves: the first being around a 6/10 and the second being a 9/10. Combat overall is a mixed bag despite being the main draw here. If you're in it for the story, it's nonsense garbage and I love it for that.
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It seems that beating the game doesn't unlock the ability to choose any character on any mission. That's a huge miss. Ideally in the next one they'll design it around a combination of Dante/Nero/Lady/Trish/Vergil/new character being present throughout the game. This could help expand the online component as well since it was really underdeveloped here.
It's nice that Nero's tools get expanded in NG+, but there needs to be more. Dante is ridiculous in this game. Once you get to him, it's so difficult to play anyone else. Having the different devil breakers is great, but why not let you cycle through them on the fly? I understand Nero needs to feel different from Dante, but he just feels so slow in comparison. And then V... man, I liked him at first. But then as the game wore on I liked him less and less. There's a clear hierarchy here of Dante > Nero > V and, while I'm sure some will disagree, I'm confident that will be consensus.
I've seen it stated before, but the game could've used more level variety in terms of visuals. The actual level design got more interesting toward the end at least. As did the mission structure. The game needed more of that. Somewhere in the mission 5-10 mark the game was losing me. They could've axed a bunch of missions and the game would've been better paced.
Platforming sucks. No surprises there I guess.
Fan service was great. There isn't much to say beyond that.
I'm torn. I'd like to play SOS, but I'm not looking forward to revisiting the first half of the game. It's made even worse by having so many loading screens. (and I have it installed to my SSD) There also aren't really any non-boss encounters that stand out to me. I will play more, but I may just wait until after Sekiro.
...fuck. I'll just say it. I kind of feel like playing Bayonetta 2 again. That game is just so well paced in comparison. It feels so much more rewarding to briskly wreck shit than any SSS ranking. I know, apples to oranges, but I seen some dunking on it before DMC5's release because the combat isn't "serious" enough. And yes, I absolutely felt like I was digging deeper into a combat system whilst playing DMC5 — especially with Dante. But at the end of the day your game needs to be fun. DMC5 is a better game to play in the "void," and that's fine if it's all someone is looking for. Bayo 2 is the MUCH better campaign. I rate the latter far more highly than the former.
It's nice that Nero's tools get expanded in NG+, but there needs to be more. Dante is ridiculous in this game. Once you get to him, it's so difficult to play anyone else. Having the different devil breakers is great, but why not let you cycle through them on the fly? I understand Nero needs to feel different from Dante, but he just feels so slow in comparison. And then V... man, I liked him at first. But then as the game wore on I liked him less and less. There's a clear hierarchy here of Dante > Nero > V and, while I'm sure some will disagree, I'm confident that will be consensus.
I've seen it stated before, but the game could've used more level variety in terms of visuals. The actual level design got more interesting toward the end at least. As did the mission structure. The game needed more of that. Somewhere in the mission 5-10 mark the game was losing me. They could've axed a bunch of missions and the game would've been better paced.
Platforming sucks. No surprises there I guess.
Fan service was great. There isn't much to say beyond that.
I'm torn. I'd like to play SOS, but I'm not looking forward to revisiting the first half of the game. It's made even worse by having so many loading screens. (and I have it installed to my SSD) There also aren't really any non-boss encounters that stand out to me. I will play more, but I may just wait until after Sekiro.
...fuck. I'll just say it. I kind of feel like playing Bayonetta 2 again. That game is just so well paced in comparison. It feels so much more rewarding to briskly wreck shit than any SSS ranking. I know, apples to oranges, but I seen some dunking on it before DMC5's release because the combat isn't "serious" enough. And yes, I absolutely felt like I was digging deeper into a combat system whilst playing DMC5 — especially with Dante. But at the end of the day your game needs to be fun. DMC5 is a better game to play in the "void," and that's fine if it's all someone is looking for. Bayo 2 is the MUCH better campaign. I rate the latter far more highly than the former.
Done with DMD now. Not as hellishly infuriating as DMC3 but it got bad sometimes, I used hella Gold orbs. Enemies taking forever to die was always a thing but goodness, I really felt it here. Proto Angelos were absolute pains here.
I may replay it later so I've got a question, what's the activator for enemy D.T? On older games you'd get a heads up before they transform and it was always dependent on how long they were alive. Here it doesn't seem like there's a heads up, they just pop their D.T after the life bar reaches a certain amount for many enemies sometimes and other times it didn't. This had quite confused at times.
Overall thoughts after DMD: I felt more comfortable with Nero's kit to deal with most enemies and avoid damage while dealing enough too. I was probably overwhelmed and not exploring my options right with Dante because I died way too muc and relied on S.D.T way too often with him. V was just lol. Anyway, really Love the game, best DMC for me and thinking best out and out action game ever for me too. Can't wait for Bloody Palace.
I may replay it later so I've got a question, what's the activator for enemy D.T? On older games you'd get a heads up before they transform and it was always dependent on how long they were alive. Here it doesn't seem like there's a heads up, they just pop their D.T after the life bar reaches a certain amount for many enemies sometimes and other times it didn't. This had quite confused at times.
Overall thoughts after DMD: I felt more comfortable with Nero's kit to deal with most enemies and avoid damage while dealing enough too. I was probably overwhelmed and not exploring my options right with Dante because I died way too muc and relied on S.D.T way too often with him. V was just lol. Anyway, really Love the game, best DMC for me and thinking best out and out action game ever for me too. Can't wait for Bloody Palace.
Yeah that's what I thought. I was just thrown off since I feel like I had some other attempts where I played a lot better but I guess not, either way it's done now and I'm one step closer to moving onto SoS.
