Useless rage

If you’ve been following TGS (Tokyo Game Show), you might have noticed a few announcements that have made the boards on the Internet rage, or rather fill with trolls. It seems to me that this kind of behavior is that of spoiled children, but whatever…

Devil May Cry is rebooted as DMC
A new trailer shows off the new entry in the popular Devil May Cry series by Capcom. This is clearly a rebooting, as the Dante we know is younger, skinnier and sports dark hair. The setting seems more futuristic, too, as evidenced by the massive structures in the city. The trailer is classic Devil May Cry action, with Dante kicking the butts of various monstrosities.

Yet despite this, people are trolling. And I mean SERIOUSLY trolling. Whining about his dark hair or the fact that he is skinnier shows how superficial some gamers are. The Dante of the trailer is royally kicking the asses of various demons, showing off his gun skills with style, and with attitude (flattening his cigarette in the face of a demon as he is holding it nonchalantly by the neck). No matter, people scream (in CAPS please!) that “this is not Dante” or that “the series is ruined”.

I can’t guarantee the game’ll be great. But I can say I’m glad they’re rebooting the series (and apparently, people who are complaining about lack of continuity in the character or setting are ignorant of the very meaning of “rebooting”!) because the franchise had grown stale. People can not like the new Dante look; but the amount of trollage it gets is annoying, and as far as we know, changes are more cosmetic. The outrage at changing Cole’s appearance in Infamous 2 was understandable, as the game was a proper sequel; this is not.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3
If you’ve played Street Fighter IV (or its “expansion” Super SFIV) and liked it, you will surely like MvC3. Capcom (I see a pattern here…) is giving the same treatment to another franchise, Marvel vs. Capcom which, as you may have guessed, pits classic Marvel characters against Capcom’s, so you can finally know who, between Ryu and Spiderman, is the strongest!

The game is going to have more than 30 characters (I heard it may have as much as 40, but those are so far unconfirmed rumors…). About 20 have been announced, and the other trollage coming out of TGS is about the latest reveals…

Capcom’s latest revealed fighter is Tron Bonne, a minor character in the Mega Man series. She got a bit of trollage of her own, but nothing compares to X-23.

Who’s that you say? She’s one of Marvel’s addition, and she is a mutant who have powers similar to Wolverine, meaning she has claws and the like. Now without having played the game, people are up in arms, screaming “Wolverine clone!” and “Why insert such a boring – unimportant – unknown – insert any other adjective imaginable - character instead of X”! I understand she may not be the best known character of the Marvelverse, but people have to understand… she’ll be one of 30 characters. THIRTY! I for one am glad that they pick new, lesser known characters. This is the third game in the franchise, after all, and I’m glad they take risks by not doing it “all stars”. Videos of her and Tron Bonne show the characters have much potential to be fun (especially the latter, IMO, who gets hilarious moves), and whoever they announce as the remaining characters, this is one game I’m looking for. I’ll decide who’s my pick only after, you know, I actually PLAY the game? What about you trolls? Nothing better to do? Why not pick MvC2 online (on PSN or Xbox live), if you're SOOOOOO disappointed they didn't include X character yet?