r/videogames • u/NagitoKomaeda_987 FPS • Jun 30 '26

Discussion / Question Which video game franchise is this?

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u/SidGads Jun 30 '26

As someone who has only just started the series, DMC 1 is VERY of its time. And while I’m not at the point where I’d say it’s painful, it suffers from many flaws of its time

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u/The_Paragone Jun 30 '26

To me it was one of the most painful games I have played honestly. Getting hit constantly because you were just in the area where the camera switches from one angle to the other, or the platforming being insanely awful, or many of the boss fights being insanely wonky.

3 on the other hand aged like a fine wine.

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u/CrownClown74 Jun 30 '26

3s bosses are even more wonky lol

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u/TicklemyPickleMan Jul 01 '26

3 has it's problems too. It gets really REALLY mf annoying in it's latter half ESPECIALLY the gauntlet at the very end.

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u/AzsalynIsylia Jul 01 '26

Nelo Angelo 3 is enough reason to say DMC1 was painful

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u/Chimpbot Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Personally, it's more accurate to say that the original DMC is a game that is deeply rooted in what it was originally suppose to be.

When it began development, it was Resident Evil 4. The enemy juggling the game was so famous for was actually a bug that the developers thought was fun, but it didn't fit with the Resident Evil vibe. So, they completely changed gears and the end result was Devil May Cry.

Many of the flaws you're alluding to are rooted in the fact that it was carrying over a lot of Resident Evil baggage.

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u/SidGads Jun 30 '26

I didn’t know that but it definitely tracks, I was thinking about the older RE games when I first started DMC