DMC

Weekend May Cry

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I broke down and actually played a game outside of my lunch time! I’ve been so busy lately with work and other activities lately that I’ve barely had a chance to turn my computer on. I’ve done more gaming at work lately than I have at home, and that was enough for me to break down and play a game. It’s my Friday dammit! Time to pull out a sword and ready my ass for the kicking that is the original DMC. I had to remind myself how to play… ever walk away from a game for so long that you forget what was going on in the world around you where you last left off? It took me a little time to remind myself of the controls too, but I managed to make it past the “Dragon”.

That’s not a Dragon… that’s a T-Rex that shoots flaming loogies. I’ve decided.I played a bit of DMC5 today too on the new laptop. I had to reduce a few features on the old laptop, but on this laptop I have everything turned up, and it looks peachy at 144hz. I have been thinking somewhere down the road to look into selling my current monitors and going FreeSync. The only reason I haven’t done it any sooner is because a good chunk of what I play is already locked at 60 FPS, so why pay more to accommodate maybe 50% of what I play? To me the cost wasn’t worth it, but now that I’ve played around with G-Sync on a couple games I think I’m ready to make a couple new investments. I’ll just need to do some research and price things out. It isn’t a big priority right now, but I do see it in my future.

Lets Rock Baby

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So, over the last week I’ve mainly been playing Metal Gear games, Okami, and today it was The Devil May Cry Trilogy. I’ve been on a Japanese game kick, what can I say? :melon:

When you’re beside yourself.

I’m finding that for me the Devil May Cry series lives up to its difficulty curve, you simply don’t wave your sword around like an idiot (my default strategy) with most of your enemies. The best way I’ve been able to think of it so far is that Devil May Cry is like an extreme game of Simon, an extremely deadly version of Simon. When this enemy attacks here do this. When enemy runs after me press left and Y. I left off at a point now where I need a second Rusty Key, and I didn’t feel like continuing any further due to the traditional sweaty hands and tired button presses. #FirstWorldProblems

Man Candy from the PS2 era.

I remember when I tried to play Devil May Cry 3 from the 2006 PC port and being extremely disappointed. Granted you could mod it to fix some of the issues, but it still wasn’t quite right. While this HD remake isn’t perfect DMC3 in this years remaster is definitely a step up with better controller support and resolution up scaling. I definitely like the combat in both games, although if I were to complain about anything it would be the camera. I’m sure I’d still have the same problem if I played on console, but in certain areas of each level the perspective changes, and sometimes the direction you’re running may or may not change when you want it to. This makes it really annoying for me during boss fights, I’m actually surprised they don’t list the camera as a final boss for the game. 😛 Of course if I can learn when what position shifts to which angle I can eventually figure it out. Streaming this publicly would be an embarrassment for me, though I could say that for just about any hack n slash… or most games I’ve played.

I keep telling myself I’ll stream more public stuff one of these days, and I think it’ll happen. The planets just haven’t quite aligned for me yet.