DmC gets blasted in Metacritic user ratings

I played the game and beat it,  I enjoyed every second.

shit game

The problem with trusting these type of reviews is you don't know if they've actually played the game or just the demo.

Frankly, you don't know if they've played the game at all. At least the pro reviewers have to play the game to the end.

I'm currently playing the game on SOS and it's wayyyyyyyyyyyy harder than it was on the demo, it actually surprised me.

I just finished the game myself, and in my opinion, the "fan outrage" the game is getting hit by is damn silly.

First off, Devil May Cry, and any of it's characters or mechanics have never personally struck me as something so amazingly awesome that
whatever structure the series' following deemed "THE WAY IT MUST BE" should only be deviated to great peril. I enjoyed the first and third games
because they were good action games, but neither blew my mind. The second and fourth games were the epitome of pedestrian. Again, this is my opinion.

Second, with all the outsourcing going on with established series these days, most to less than favorable results by developers that we don't even know why
they were given the name to work with in the first place, be thankful that DMC was given to a dev that knows how to make decent action games, because regardless of
how big of a blasphemy you think this game is, I can guarantee you, it could have been a hell of a lot worse.

Finally, in regards to the "extreme deviation" in part of the story, characters, and narrative of the game, perhaps I'm missing something, but besides Dante being a stereotypical badass and him being the one who should have "filled Trish's soul with light", I can't recall there being much of any kind of story or motive in any of the prior four games, and I played through them all. The aesthetic collectively is a plausible action game troupe. Ninja Theory, again solely in my opinion, has stirred in more personality and character in their reboot than I can ever recall seeing in any of the other games.

Ok, my 2 cents.

Played all the DMC games and this new one is just plain amazing. Through the roof production values, insane graphics and super fluid gameplay. I'm not far yet enough in the game to judge the story, but so far it seems fine, and its good enough to capture your attention. Basically, this user review fiasco should be ignored completely as we have already seen this type of behavior many times before for many different games. I'm glad I trusted the real critics on this one. 

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 also got blasted on metacritic user scores but no one hears about that.

This game is absolutely terrible, a 4 at best. The story and writing are the product of a 12 year old kid who's read too much V For Vendetta. The graphics are terrible, which creepy looking character models that put everything firmly in the Uncanny Valley. The music is an insult to every talented musician to ever make music: a clusterbomb of drop-D guitars thrashing at background wubs made by a kid on FruityLoops. The gameplay is just an insult. It's pathetically easy and I breezed through the demo on Son of Sparda difficulty without being hit once. It took everything to even complete the game on SoS in 4 and you would die dozens of times! The axe one hits everything and gives you an SSS rating without even trying. There is no reason, and no means, to do any of the stylish combat DMC is known for. Chaining combos together takes barely and skill and practise, and why use them when the axe destroys everything? This game is an insult to the previous DMCs and should be reviewed comparing them to the older games. It's the same genre and series, what possible explanation is there for just pretending they don't exist when it comes to DmC? This game is awful and it's fans are awful. I played through the demo and have every right to express my outrage at the direction this series I loved so much is going in. Also note: I didn't once mention Dante's hair, that's just a crutch supporters fall back on when they realise they don't have any legitimate counter-arguments to why the game is bad.

It's all well and good that the critics have their opinion  but why is it that in pieces like this we are constantly seemingly forcefully being given their opinion again.  It's almost as if the media conspired together to portray the game in a particular light, or like they are getting paid to (which I don't honestly think they are).  These articles always have some kind of 'slant' to them that is a little unnerving.

I just noticed the Hipster Dbag that wrote this article..... I bet he LOVES this game LMAO Those giant glasses better be prescription Bub.

The game is terrible. its way too easy. the art style is ugly. the characters are annoying. dante in this game in not likeable at all. the game is glitchy. the music, oh god the music... its TERRIBLE!! I never liked ninja theory and this is strike 3 for me. I will never buy another one of their games again.

I prefer this DMC over all the others. 

New characters feel like they could exist in reality, give or take a few supernatural things. New Dante pulls off being a badass without having to make me feel like I'm  in an episode of some anime I am half-heartedly watching.

Combat and puzzles and platforming arent too terribly difficult, but its FUN. And the more I game the more I notice people complaining about whats NOT there more often than what you're given.

I get the whole, hating to see your old heroes in new forms thing. But being a megaman fan I have seen, and played my fair share of strange megaman iterations and again, loved them for what they offered, not for what their predecessors did.

Last boss epic fight. Cant wait for a sequel.

People evaluate DmC not for what it really is, but what the other DMC games are! I've seen this happen with dragon age 2 as well... DmC is a great game, with a great gameplay and good graphics! It's not DMC 3 or stuff, it's DmC! 

I bought this on it's release date (and have actually played it unlike most of those megacritic 'reviewers') and I happen to think it's one of the best in the series.

People that think for themselves should pick this up and give it a try.

So we all agree that the new DMC is totally garbage?... thought it would be, didnt even wanna finish the demo never mind the full game.

This is feedbackula material. Where is that hypster that passionately defended femminism in the last episodes? Lol, just grinding you gears mister, love your show.

Fans of the series are taking this all way too seriously. This game is a great addition to the Franchise, which needed a fresh take/reboot...

Boil it down and you have :

A great narrative

Excellent storytelling

Excellent gameplay

Great variety

Great graphics

Replay value

...What's not to like...?

Pretty sure most of the reviews are people who just saw vids and dont like dante look and thats about it.

QQ moar fanboys... "oh dante looks different, this game is going to suck"..... game launches with positive reviews from many publications...... "wah Wah WAH!!!... *wipes tears from eyes*,  I'm going to Metacritic to give it a bad score"

Fracking kids man.... grow up, if anything this new DMC looks better than its predecessors.

I bet that a lot of these kids complaining about the difficulty never finished the old games in "dante must die" difficulty without using infinite devil trigger....

You know, I'm a die-hard DMC fan. I played through both DMC 1&3 on DMD with no items using only the base sword (except where required to shoot to progress the game for example). It's not DMC3 hard but it is still a DMC difficulty and certainly more complex than the original DMC's "Stinger, High Time, Helmbreaker, rinse repeat."

People act like it's DMC2 and it isn't. Not even close. The game is entirely aware of its heritage and embraces it where appropriate. Hell, if I had a complaint it is that the gameplay is TOO similar to previous DMC games. The weapons are almost identical to previous weapons. 

You can all bitch and complain but you're doing so purely for the sake of it. In fact, from what I've read, people seem to say "The game sucks because XYZ...(long post)... and that's why I never bought it." If you want to be sheep because it makes you feel better, go for it.

Any game that is liked by critics and gets low scores from users, I think those users are bias, and I feel like metacritic, just as any other site that lets users review and score games should be monitored. They should be disallowed to make reviews or put down scores if it's not just. On a somewhat different note, this seems to be a game that would go down in the 'best game no one played' award of the year.

I don't really care, im not going to play this.

And Capcom deserves even more of the blame since they are the ones that wanted another developer to do something different with the franchise.  Capcom failed DMC themselves for leaving so many holes in the story.  I wanted a real sequel ever since the release of that dreadful DMC 2.  DMC 3 was great; but most of the story consisted of Dante doing bad ass stuff.  And DMC 4 was straight LOL!  Even if Ninja Theory did make the game TOO MUCH OF THE SAME I wouldn't play it; because it would suck.  Having another developer do a game originally developed by another is like trying to mix oil and water.