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I can't remember where for the life of me I spelled out my theory for DMC 5, might have been somewhere in the guild, or it might have been the Gaming Discussion.

Regardless I'll reiterate;

DMC 4 is likely just a stepping stone to setting Dante aside for a little while so as to not have him go stale, deny it all you want it'll happen if he doesn't get a break.
The game will likely take place after DMC2, I'd prefer immediately after, as there's little room to move beyond forward in time now.
Now as a little recap; As of the end of DMC 2 Dante has gone "all the way to Hell" and Lucia is last seen waiting around at Dante's, running out when she hears a motorcycle. WHile this could imply Dante's outside on his bike we'll say this is not the case.
Instead DMC 5, picking up where 2 left off, sees Lucia running out only to find Nero, the reving heard being an intended playful mockery to get Dante outside to discuss getting his assistance with what is to be the main focus of the game. However, as Dante isn't there he settles for Lucia's assistance instead, her motivations for doing so being twofold; she's a demon hunter and this will give her a chance to possibly find Dante.
As is the norm for the series, a gate to hell will be opened toward the end permitting Dante to return and join in for the final fight and fully step back into the spotlight for the 6th game.

Now, new things that have come to mind are gameplay mechanics;
Multiple playable characters are a given, as only two of five games have not really featured this(counting DMC3 SE as it's own game).

Nero obviously is going to be using the Devil Bringer and Exceed systems. One improvement that can easily be made is to provide him new weapons, in a way. It's been seen that he can absorb Devil Arms into his arm, and is more than capable of utilizing both Yamato and Red Queen at once while in the Devil Triggered state with Vergil's assistance. It is also seen that Vergil is more than willing to use weapons other than Yamato. As such it would be safe to say more weapons can be utilized in such a way.

Lucia on the other hand, and don't give me that look for saying she's the other playable character, will be using the amulet system. Elements, flight, speed, regeneration, and time control have all been seen to be used by this, but there are still a great deal of other possible attributes that could be modified in this way. As for weapons, that's a little harder to say. the two sword fighting style she had is a given but beyond that she'd likely be sticking to faster and smaller weapons over what you'd see in either Dante or Nero's possession.

Now to bring up something else, yet to be seen. Actually multiplayer gameplay. I personally found the Doppleganger style to be much more fun to use when there was another player to control it, so why not have it so that this time around, should you have a friend to play with, be able to have one player take control of one character or the other. I'm undecided as to whether the other character would be absent for the level or AI controlled when another player isn't present as both options have ups and downs in terms of actual and potential gameplay changes.

One last thing, if there must be repeated bosses they'd damn well learn to pull out more tricks with each encounter. Bosses getting progressively easier because they don't ever bring something new to the table is kinda bad.

There will be a DMC 5 and my brother says that it will be better then DMC 4. By the way, he works for Capcom. I can't wait to see it. xd

What is everyone's beef with DMC 4??
I thought it was great!!!
But I will have to agree that DMC 5 should be a little better.
More Dante!!!!!
That was the only problem with DMC 4.

DMC5 needs to be much better than DMC4. DMC4 was a good game, it was just too easy and left too much up in the air about Nero. sad

Personally, I would like to see a game featuring Sparda. I wouldn't want the Sparda game to be DMC5, but maybe a game on the PSP or something as a side game to the series. Speaking of a PSP game, for the longest time there was a rumor about a PSP DMC game. Haven't heard anything about that forever though.

As for DMC5, I would like to see Nero return, but not as the main character. I like Nero, but Dante's cooler. I would like to see Vergil in some way too, but that's just my Vergil fangirl side kicking in. XD

I totally hate that I couldn't be Dante in DMC4. That pissed me off...bad. I just like Nero's arm, its totally cool.

I want to see it go into the tony redgrave era of the stor i think it would be freaking sick for the finnal boss fight to be be between dante and Gilver. and have the old lady too i think it would fun as hell all the way around maybe even some co-op mission with tony and gilver just liek the story