DMC 3 - Special Edition Devil May Cry

[Salsa Party Animal]

Do any on NTSC version have progressive scan in it ? I got pal version.

[spagmasterswift]

You've heard of it haven't you? The legend of Sparda?

Just had a quick session and all I can say is I've turned soft. My thumb is killing me and I'm getting schooled by the bloody ice mutt >_<

Taken some time to get back into using a PS2 pad let alone remember that R1 was lock-on Its freaky going from Dante to playing as Vergil too. Keep wanting to cancel of his gun so you stay up in the air but you can't (at least not yet?) and no airhike is totally throwing me off. Dont see the point of the teleport thing yet and haven't even mastered simply launching an enemy into the air yet.

I feel like I'm playing DMC3 for the first time - a feeling I never thought I would get after caining it so hard last year. LOVING THIS!!!

Back to the Lab

[Mardigan8]

You've heard of it haven't you? The legend of Sparda?

Just had a quick session and all I can say is I've turned soft. My thumb is killing me and I'm getting schooled by the bloody ice mutt >_<

Taken some time to get back into using a PS2 pad let alone remember that R1 was lock-on Its freaky going from Dante to playing as Vergil too. Keep wanting to cancel of his gun so you stay up in the air but you can't (at least not yet?) and no airhike is totally throwing me off. Dont see the point of the teleport thing yet and haven't even mastered simply launching an enemy into the air yet.

I feel like I'm playing DMC3 for the first time - a feeling I never thought I would get after caining it so hard last year. LOVING THIS!!!

Back to the Lab

Great to see someone else going through the same feelings I was. Its weird isn't it, having to re-learn a system that a few months ago you new inside out. The game is totalyl refreshing and a great challenge with Veril being a totally different beast to Dante. The gun cancel and air hike stuff will pass mate, dont worry, I felt the same.

I now have Vergil fully upgraded. Style, moves, health, DT, its all there and when you get Dark slayer to level 3 that cicle button becomes your new best friend... with trained use you are untouchable, simple as that. Now folk who dont DMC3 will mistake this style for a fiddly add on but if you LEARN how to use it like the real players will the power it gives you to oy with the enemy is like nothing you have seen before. Vergil need never run to an enemy again... a series of air tricks, trick ups and trick downs and he can dispatch an entire room of enemies while mainintaining the same fluid combo, the guy is a beast.

Just recycle Missions 1-3 Spag to get Vergil sorted and concentrate on upgrades cause you know you aint gonna use a vital star even if you got one, we are too hard for that **** now

Should finish Normal mode with Vergil tomorrow and cant wait to get stuff unlocked and get Dante upgraded also.

Broly - Can I carry orbs I have earned into a Dante game if I start it after I finish normal mode with Vergil? Would be great now that I dont need to spend any more orbs if I could just use them all at the start of my Dante game.

Cheers.

[spagmasterswift]

I'm getting caught out by the Yamato(?) move. The pay off of having such a wide and devastating attack is that vulnerable moment when he slowly sheathes his Katana, but its such a SICK and explosive move to end a combo on I just can't stop myself bussin it. Tonight I'm gonna bring the Teleport into the mix and try and slow down my switching - which is cycling so fast at the moment I can't keep track of when the teleport is available.

Not leaving the Lab until I've caught up with what Vergil can do. Any tips on the Long Range attack? At the moment I'm just throwing it in whenever I can and feel it should be used more effectively - its just so graceful compared to Dante's fast action revolvers >_<

[Mardigan8]

USE the Summon Swords, they should be dispersed during any break in combo for maximum damage... they can also be used to juggle enemies when upgraded but they wont keep YOU in the air, hit those ****ers up with a Force Edge launcher then juggle them with Summon Swords and watch the style gauge go mental. My biggest problem at first was switching weapons far too often but I have started getting a few brilliant combos together and now have a more structured attack pattern with Vergil. You will feel lost at first Spag but keep trying stuff, V is a nutter when you get his stuff down... like a launching an enemey into the air with Force edge, following them up by holding the attack down, switching to Yamato for an aerial rave, then finishing by switchin to Beowulf for the mental air kick you do. Then you can kick off a Beowulf series on anyone left standing

Wait Spag, WAIT till you get Vergils Judgement Cut move upgraded... the one in the boss fights where he just stands ready, unsheathes his sword so fast you cant see it and sends slashes all around you (think you mentioned finishing a combo with it above). You can send up to 4 teleported slashes at your target just like he does to Dante in the boss fights when that move is fully upgraded and while it will require careful timing and a good window of opportunity to pull off the reward is just gorgeous... finishing an Aerial rave by landing and doing that is just disgusting. Get these moves upgraded and get back to the lab to work on ****.

Am on Mission 14 with a fully upgraded Vergil and on the normal difficulty nothing is giving him a serious challenge, he is just far too ****en mean for this setting

[Silvergun X]

The move you're thinking about is Judgement Cut, not Rapid Slash.

[spagmasterswift]

Nothing makes the day drag more than DMC

[Mardigan8]

Nothing makes the day drag more than DMC

It really is a shame having it sitting in the house not getting played, so many routines I want to try out on the bosses and stuff.

Was wondering about the Jester fights, are they optional? Cause I cam across one on Mission 13 I think it was and it was a portal that I could have just ignored that took me to the fight. Pretty good boss but nowhere near as good as the others IMO... nothing better than going toe to toe with Beowulf and teleporting round him making him dizzy

Also, on level 3 Summon Swords are just insanely powerful. Example being the Beowulf fight... when he stomps his feet to bring down the big pillar things then hits them at you Summon Swords can tear through them before they get anywhere near you, whereas with Dante I always just evaded them... they really are a magic weapon to use when you get used to them.

[spagmasterswift]

Whats the deal with the Bloody Palace - I took out the goons in all three portals but nothing happened - are they different difficulty levels or what? Is it just infinite battling?

[Mardigan8]

Whats the deal with the Bloody Palace - I took out the goons in all three portals but nothing happened - are they different difficulty levels or what? Is it just infinite battling?

There are 9999 levels in the bloody palace and the different portals take you up a different number of levels. Fire portal up 100 levels, wind portal up 10 levels and water up 1 level. The more levels you go up the harder it got. I got spanked around level 800 by a platoon of the massive spider things, ****ers were flying at me in formation and everything, hehe, great fun though, but wont be journeying back in there till I have Vergil tricked out to **** or my Dante firing on all cylinders again... dread to think what level 9999 is like... probably 3 Vergils a Geryon and a battallion of Vanguards all with DT ooooooooh the mess that would make of even the best player!!

[spagmasterswift]

Wicked, so after taking on some Fire Portal drama you can cool off with an easy Water Portal kick-off!!

May have to hold off on that for a while though

[Mardigan8]

Wicked, so after taking on some Fire Portal drama you can cool off with an easy Water Portal kick-off!!

May have to hold off on that for a while though

Exactly, I somehow thought I was amazing with Vergil after a few hours of play so kept jumping inot the fire portal, only to get taught a severe and painful lesson on level 800 wont stop me going back for more when I get my **** together though!!

[Silvergun X]

That's made me quite chuffed to have reached level 2000 with Vergil. ^^

More practice tonight methinks!

[Mardigan8]

That's made me quite chuffed to have reached level 2000 with Vergil. ^^

More practice tonight methinks!

Aye, but that was level 800 without a fully upgraded Vergil and only a few hours of play... that spider posse and the all the other clowns that fancy some will be eating the sharp end of my Yamato the next time I get in about the Bloody palace

[spagmasterswift]

That's made me quite chuffed to have reached level 2000 with Vergil. ^^

More practice tonight methinks!

Aye, but that was level 800 without a fully upgraded Vergil and only a few hours of play... that spider posse and the all the other clowns that fancy some will be eating the sharp end of my Yamato the next time I get in about the Bloody palace

Not that anybody is saying your **** Silvergun