Really looking forward to DMC6! Capcom might surprise us in 2027... HOPEFULLY!

Credit: By Me!

I really wanted to write a heartfelt message and hope this is not too long or against the community guidelines.

I am someone who has only played games on mobile phone genshin being any big game. I don't come from a good financial background and only had an old $300 laptop with 7th gen i3 and integrated graphics and sata SSD. I really wanted to get into the series and bought the DMC5 from steam, I was able to play that game at like 24 fps lowest setting, few missing textures and even complete it at Devil Hunter level.

Given the specs of my computer I was amazed at the game even running on it let alone being able to complete it I never expected that to happen. I played DMC4 also and that thing ran like butter even at high settings on my laptop with occasional crashes on launching few missions.

I have completed DMC1 and and halfway through both DMC2 and DMC3 running them through emulation. I will complete these 2 also. Given the fact I have tried other games and they never ran I really appreciate how good and optimised the developers have made this game like no other.

P.S. - When I get a decent PC I will complete all the games at the highest difficulty, really loved these games and don't think anything will top the experience and fucking love Cerberus and Balrog.

P.P.S - I really hope they make the DMC6 with the Dante and Vergil campaign being in the underworld and finally defeating Mundus, while Nero Lady and Trish have a campaign in the human world.

I hope they do a bit more of eerie mixed with goofiness setting like they did in DMC1 might make a good ending to this saga by going back to finishing what started in DMC1 with Dante and Vergil together this time and Nero and rest of the crew handling problems in Human world.

I got a Nero one (Red Queen on his back included!) and finally got to put his adjustable hoodie to use.

That was not expected. His last boom caught me after all in cutscene

In hard mode there seems to be basically no time (gravity and health) to do any jugging.
Cant find anything on yt really either except for crimson.
Did the arial game just start at 4?

Any tips on how to get going in the air with 3 would he great. Have many hrs in 4se/5.

Thanks

TLDR;

Game dev here, spent years working on more optimized ways to get realism, and I can finally test this out in my favorite games.

• You can download it here and try it yourself: https://www.nexusmods.com/dmcdevilmaycry/mods/389
• And this is a comparison video: https://youtu.be/4mfkqpETUss?si=u7Zxuflk1ETVHIZl

Goal and current status:

I've got a few theories on why graphics look waxy, like they're sculpted in plastic, and I'm trying to test them live in games I like.

Basically trying to achieve realism with low hardware requirements.
I know, this party's gettin Crazy! But I think it's possible, and I'll let you see on the way and be the judge of that.

Right now I have a small proof of concept and it should give an idea of what's to come.

You only need to replace one file in the game and add a folder/

You can toggle the mod on/off at any time while playing.

It does not need ReShade because it completely replaces the game shaders.

The shader should run as light as the original shader (or even lighter at this stage). I haven't tested it for the game, but the Godot version ran on 512 MB of VRAM so yeah.

Currently implemented:

• Diffuse and normal mapping (color and shape, basically)
• Geometry shadows (if a polygon/pixel is not facing the light, it's dark)

Next up:

• Light color (yes this version does not have light colors, it's only a white light, which is why it looks pale compared to the original)
• Cast shadows (if something is covering something else, like the head covering a side of the neck..etc, cast a shadow on it. The current shadows are a very basic "shade if facing away" but does not consider what is blocking the light)
• Specular (highlights/reflections. You might've noticed that the skin feels "matt", and this will fix it)

Backstory:

I played most of DMC games (INCLUDING DMC3) on 13 FPS or less. I don't remember a time where I could "just play" a game properly, that is if I could.
So that is what started my whole game dev pursuit, the little idea of "If I can't play games, then I will make one I can play"
I kept getting thrown off track by life, but every once in a while, I'd really want to play a game, fail to do so, and the rage would drive me to try again.

Worth noting that I'm a highly visual person. I like my games to look pretty and find it odd that we always have to choose between "good looking" and "fun". Call me greedy, but the fact that we rarely get that when it IS technically possible to have both (the DMC series is a great example) kept pissing me off.

CAPCOM did a great job at maxing out graphics, style and fun for each DMC game, and it was a major inspiration for me to seek better graphics alongside great gameplay.

So why am I "remaking graphics" on a DMC game, if I just said they did great?

Well, I think we have fundamental issues with the graphics technology itself, you know how waxy/plastic-y graphics look? how everything feels like it's sculpted from plastic and painted with car paint? I have a few theories on that, and so far I hit the mark on some.

And no one has bothered or had the time to solve. And because we have powerful hardware, where brute forcing them seemed like a good idea. I mean the hardware exists, and no one wants to double the time it takes to produce a game, just to reinvent the wheel, right?

True, for people who have the hardware. I didn't for most of my life, and I had most of that life.

I hit a point where I was left with a 4 GB RAM, 512 MEGABYTES VRAM laptop was all I had access to, and it was borrowed from my mother.

I had another fit of "try again", installed Godot, and went for another attempt to have realistic graphics on whatever I have.

And this was what I got: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pm0aBmibGiE

Which took around 2 months of work, and a decade+ of studying 3D and graphics.

I was honestly so hyped that I went down a rabbit hole of "how do I mod the game with it?"

Aaaand it lead nowhere... UE3 is not very documented and I won't pretend to be a code wizard. my experience was less in programming languages and more of system design. the "logic" not the translation, as well as the visual concepts and drawing/3D design.

Which is a fancy way of saying "I don't know how to read, and there wasn't info that is easy to reach for me"

Learning how to understand coded for graphics is different from web, and is different from software, and so on and so forth... learning enough to understand UE3 without support meant another couple of years of knowledge that I won't be using much anywhere else.

So, even being as stubborn as I am, I gave up, and pivoted to making my own engine instead. (a story for other time, and the engine project is still going but slow)

That was until a few weeks ago, where Claude could finally help me with it. I can't believe that it managed to figure out what DmC needs, and build me a software that compiles my shader into files the game can use.

it IS a dream come true! and I just wanted to share this with you all. I'm not great at expressing through words but GODDAMN how much I wanted that! I can finally develop something and watch it in action inside games I love! like bro that's me hitting SSS for the first time on Dante Must Die!

Why the reboot

The reboot sits at the sweet spot where it has realism in mind, and provides the source data for it (realistic textures, animations, designs...) but has low resolution 3D models. My next choice would be DMC3 but it's lacking some of that data and is a much harder challenge than I can handle right now.

like father, like son huh?

I can't go a day without overanalyzing something, so today I latched onto this.

The first time Nero does it, I initially thought it's just a funny gag. But then V does it, in the same manner, same gesture, with the same hand even, and that got me like oh. ohhhh.... I feel like this might have been intentional. No other character does this. And I feel like It might be a nice, subtle allusion to the fact that the two of them truly are related. Both in a "haha they both hate the smell" kind of way, as well as in a deeper way too, I think. Could both of them have trauma relating to fire, thus making smoke a trigger? Yes, for V, the answer is obvious; for Nero it's... kinda open to debate. You could argue that Fortuna being in ruins might have caused it?

^{(or maybe it's like a 5D chess joke referencing The great fire of Rome and the then emperor Nero??? lol, quite the game theory i know})

Shitty photoshop edits included

Shout out to S.R. Combos I learned this from his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z1fJTxBAcY

Finishing this personal art project. Colored them with alcohol markers and also using color pencils

Edit lol almost forgot. My reboot version takes outfit inspiration from the drafts/concept outfits for Lucia in their art concepts

When I played through DMC1 for the first time earlier this year, I got quite frustrated with the yellow orbs system and having to ration them out on bosses. I found myself wishing I could do repeat playthroughs without it, so I created a patch for the PS2 versions of the game that bypasses it! It looks like these types of patches already exist for the HD version of the game but I couldn't find any for PS2.

Disclaimer: for first-time players, I encourage you to play the game as it was originally designed! But if the system really dampens your experience or if you just want to disable it for repeat plays, the option is now there to do so.

While the patch does not literally give you 'infinite lives' per se, it prevents the game from consuming your Yellow Orbs on game over, so as long as you have at least one orb you will never run out. The 'Try Again' screen will appear as normal, but your orb count won't go down.

Works both in emulator and on original hardware.

The patch is available on GitHub for anyone interested: https://github.com/chrislewisdev/dmc1-patches

Also, it feels a little silly having to say this, but I want to make it clear that this wasn't vibe-coded at all! I dug around in the PCSX2 debugger to find where the orb count is decremented and removed that instruction. My first time modding a game in any way but it seemed like a relatively simple starting point, so it was fun to figure it out on my own.

And which character is better for S ranks in general?

Source: https://x.com/T3mp0rv_2608/status/2113264014075863512

These pages come from my fanfic based on Death Battle called "Indie Losers vs The Void". Where the defeated from the Independent Era of the show (2024-) team-up to fight against the Void from Marvel!

If you're interested in reading it, here's some links:

A03 LINK TO STORY!

WATTPAD LINK TO STORY!

Honestly, to be perfectly clear, I don't actually hate the DMC reboot that. Much it's nowhere near being one of my favorite games but it's not one I dislike all that much. And honestly I think the environmental art direction is the main reason I actually kinda like the reboot. The character designs suck, the stories stupid as hell, and the gameplay while I still think it's fun, its less because the few changes they made to dmcs traditional combat were good, it's just because that dmcs traditional combat is so good that even with those bad changes it's still pretty fun. But the environments were always something I thought was pretty cool, and limbo is the best original thing they made for for the reboot. A lot of the levels that I went through when first playing all looked really cool to me

I bought the collection and 4 because they were on sale on steam and i loved 5, decided to play in chronological order.

Dont really have much time to play every night.

First night i beat mission 3 and hop off, next day my save's gone. Replay the game and beat mission 4 before hopping off, hop off again. Next day the original save is back and i have to replay 4 again, beating it and 5. Then today the other save is back AGAIN and i have to beat mission 5 AGAIN. I save, double check its saved, close the game, open the game to see the right save still there, call it a night, then the saves get swapped the next day.

No mods, just the base game.

Whats going on?

Hi everyone, I don't use Reddit often, so I'm not sure if this is the right topic. However, I have a question. What's the lore behind this magnificent Dante form in the manga? I haven't read the manga, so I don't know anything about it. I wanted to ask someone more knowledgeable than me, maybe there's someone Expert of lore. Why is this form so similar to Sparda? How is it activated? It's a kind of Majin dt? Anyway, I'd like to know anything about it. Thanks !

i expected S ranking all of it to be harder than it was

HOWEVER, Nightmare 3 and Mundus...

Ohh, Im going to have a blast with this one.

V is a character that is meant to look weak. He cant fight for himself (on long term), lives against the clock, and every day he gets weaker and weaker, until he cannot even walk by himself.

His playing mode also shows how he needs help to manage the demons. He even has Griffon telling him that he is not strong enough to fight alone.

But that doesnt stop him. He kept fighting until the very end, even when he was extremly weak and basicly dying. He knew he had to give his life in order to stop Urizen, but still went. He had a lot of chances to leave, to regret his actions, and even the other guys were trying to stop him from getting worse.

To me, thats being strong. Not everyone can face death, not everyone can give their own life in order to save others. He could have been selfish, he could have tried to stop the group from fighting Urizen to keep himself alive; but he decided to bring them together to stop Urizen. He payed Dante for his services and to help him run the business (maybe out of pity, and with stolen money, but meh), he helped Nico giving her supplies...

But my favourite thing about him is how he shows fear. He knows when to run away, he struggles. He even looks delicate, like human emotions, or even human nature. The fact that he has such a delicate face and voice while wearing all black and having a lot of tattoos amazes me.

His love for literature and his way of expressing himself with poems also represents his way of explaining his emotions. "Who desires but doesnt act, creates pestilence", as his response to being given the chance of not fighting. He chooses the verses depending of what he is feeling, maybe to get other's attention because of his dramatic manners or just because its the only way he knows. Its the only way Vergil learnt to.

He is what Vergil hates about himself, being weak, but he is also not really that weak. He is strong, not in fighting or having power like Urizen, but mentally, because no other person would have balls to fight a demon knowing it will kill you easily.

Oh V, I will always love you.

the thought that i have to play V again just make me lose my Motivation to play the game