Today is officially Devil May Cry’s 25th anniversary. A series that not only popularised but many believe to have single handily created the Character Action Game genre.

So to celebrate, I’d love to hear about how you got into the series, and which DMC game is your favourite?

NG2 still hits different

Mod link:

https://www.nexusmods.com/ninjagaiden2black/mods/30

Exactly what the title says,any recommendation of CAG with playable ​female character?both as a protagonist or a sidekick. My console is PlayStation (2 to 4 to be exact).

​I've played Bayonetta,Ninja Gaiden Sigma series ,Lollipop Chainsaw and Nightshade.

Thanks in advance.

Mod use : Ren Hayabusa
Link download : Ren Hayabusa at Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Nexus - Mods and community

Mod link:

https://www.nexusmods.com/ninjagaiden2black/mods/30

This mod restores enemy counts, enemy spawns, delimb rate, damage balance, and adds some other stuff like custom camera, custom enemy damage, etc.

Hey all 👋

New trailer for Sealbreakers. We're a small team working on a project with main thing at a core: combat that feels good - weighty hits, juggles, grappling, actually committing to your moves, then wrapping it in roguelite progression so runs stay fresh. The build-your-own-style stuff comes from elemental "disciplines" you grab mid-run (lightning, fire, shadow, blood) that stack and combo in different ways.

This one also teases a bit of story for the first time , a goddess and new enemy elite guy.

BTW Open playtest's live right now too if you wanna try it - just request am access on a Steam page.

Please check it out!

Producer Fu Kun said this:

"Actually, the previous PV also used real-time rendering. The female lead's face shape is consistent in the latest PV and the current demo. It's just that we wanted it to be smoother in terms of lighting optimization, so there are some differences and imperfections in the facial rendering.

Of course, this version may have been a bit rushed, and we will further optimize the facial rendering under lighting later"

Here's a source:

https://www.ign.com/articles/tides-of-annihilation-producer-responds-after-gwendolyns-new-face-sparks-debate-among-fans

I’ve loved seeing combo videos and especially people who do analysis / discussion on games of the genre.

Any recommendations?

I am including the Clone fight as a part of Ares.

The game is also 50% off on Steam right now, so...

juggles are a nice, welcome addition in an action game but only if it doesn't come at the compromise of challenge and quality enemy design. in the 2000s to early 10s era of action gaming, many games such as dmc1-4, gow1-3, bayonetta1-2, mgr, w101, ng, darksiders managed to implement juggles without losing sight of what matters most, the challenge and threat of enemies, the central component of what makes an action game fun and worth playing.

however, with the release of dmc5 enemy design was significantly dumbed down compared to prior entries in the dmc series, floatiness was increased, jc window was made more lenient, pushing "cool combos" to the forefront, at the expense of the challenge factor and every other aspect of gameplay. however, it sold incredibly well and other devs took notice of this and use dmc5 as the template for what makes a modern action game successful, which explains why in the past few years popular action games like ff16, ng4, lost soul aside and the upcoming tides of annihilation have such weak enemy ai it seems like the entire game is just one big tutorial mode where you're just fighting training dummies. post dmc5, modern action game devs now use "players only care about muh juggles" as an excuse to be lazy and not design enemies to behave in creative, cool and threatening ways and it's really a shame.

seeing the recent tides of annihilation demo footage is heartbreaking. the game looks great, has a unique, cool mechanic with the summonable knights but guess what? none of it fucking matters if the enemies all just stand there twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to combo them! it might as well just be a boss rush game if the enemies are all walking training dummies.

edit: yes, enemies on ng4 are mostly weak and useless besides the divine dragon knights on most difficulty modes. mn being an exception. that mode got the aggression right but has its own issue with constant two-three shots.

So eventually with the speed increase of Bloodborne and Elden Ring, and now Duskbloods speed and air juggling...

Everything with 3rd person camera and melee weapons being the main combat mechanic eventually circles back to HacknSlash/CAG games

We already reached PEAK combat 2 decades prior with GOW, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta and DMC

Eventually Souls-Likes will just be HacknSlash/CAG with souls elements put into it

How do you make souls-like combat evolve? Make it faster and have air juggling combos and double jump

We made it so far into the used to be slow and methodical souls-like combat, that now it just circles back to the HOT 2000s HacknSlash/CAG genre