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Title: Bayonetta
Post by: ShinAkumaXX on December 19, 2010, 10:07:09 PM
Just got this a couple days ago. I received a 10 dollar Christmas coupon from best buy in my e-mail and they had the game for $20.00. So 10 bucks was a deal! So far I really like the game a lot. I got to Chapter 4 and haven't played any further. I think it's safe to say I like it better than the Devil May Cry games. I actually got DMC4 for 10 bucks at Toys R Us a couple weeks ago. But am a bit annoyed at that game....  Perhaps I'll finish Devil May Cry 3 before I come back to this one. I am a few chapters into each, and Devil May Cry 3 seems better...So glad Bayonetta is better, I can put that one off for a while. She's hot, the little cut scenes are amusing, and the graphics are gorgeous. The game can seems to be a bit less hard than Devil May Cry games. This Genre of games seems hard for me any how. Either I suck, or these games are just hard... I'm hoping Bayonetta only gets cooler, and I assume it will. Just curious if any of you guys have the game and what you think of it? Does it make you think about a video game character in ways you normally would not? Ha. Anyhow, sorry to compare and talk about the Devil May Cry games so much, but obviously they have some similarities.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Kale on December 19, 2010, 10:30:49 PM
I thought the game is pretty good... but like the DMC games, I thought the movement were kind of stiff especially the running and jumping. But the panther transformation looked awesome.

Pretty solid game though.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Dominus on December 20, 2010, 07:47:59 AM
Dont f :-X with a witch
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Gecko on December 20, 2010, 09:51:49 AM
Bayonetta is awesome! It's one of my favorite games of this generation! I'm a huge Devil May Cry fan, and this game takes Devil May Cry, Super Mario Galaxy, and a little dose of acid, and slaps them together into a crazy, high-speed hack and slash action game masterpiece!

It helps that the guy behind it is the original creator of Devil May Cry. That's why it's fair to compare it with such. It really is a spiritual successor to those games, and it more than lives up to it. I played it, and my mind was adequately blown.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Ahasverus on December 20, 2010, 10:02:02 AM
Bayonetta: Best-action-game-ever.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Aridale on December 20, 2010, 10:42:19 AM
so many ppl really liked this game? I thought it was absolutely retarded... I played it for like an hour and just couldnt bear it anymore
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Gunlord on December 20, 2010, 11:09:54 AM
I love her legs 8)
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: shelverton. on December 20, 2010, 03:11:26 PM

Bayonetta is actually a strong contender for all sorts of GOTY awards. It will probably win some too. 2010 has been shock-full of great games though, and the action category is especially difficult this year... but in my opinion, Bayonetta was a perfect 10. Better than God of War 3, better than Lords of Shadow, and so on.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: ganonfloyd on December 21, 2010, 02:33:56 PM
I've been meaning to play this, even though the demo left me very underwhelmed... although I don't like the DMC games either save 3 so that might explain it.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 21, 2010, 06:52:54 PM
I have this game, and it's fun but I haven't gotten all that far.  Dante's Inferno kinda prevented me from continuing this.  I should go back to it!
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 21, 2010, 10:24:36 PM
I actually just recently became interested in this, ordered it right away, and it just arrived today. Hopefully I can play it tomorrow, because it looks so delightfully absurd. Just from watching the trailer, I can understand why SUDA51 thinks it's so neat.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: shelverton. on December 22, 2010, 04:29:58 AM

Slightly off topic for a second;

Jorge, how is Dante's Inferno? I have avoided it because I've heard bad things about it, but now I'm hearing great things too from other sources. I really like DMC/GoW/Ninja Gaiden/LoS/Bayonetta and so on. Would I enjoy it?
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Kale on December 22, 2010, 09:45:07 AM
Since you like Ninja Gaiden, I'd say no,,.... but you also like GoW.... so................................. I would say yes >.>
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Ahasverus on December 22, 2010, 01:18:24 PM
Dante's INferno is.. a mess. Horrible graphics, horrible camera, horrible story, and over all vulgar as it gets (The divine comedy man! How could they ruin it?) and it lasts a breath. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: shelverton. on December 22, 2010, 01:53:13 PM
Since you like Ninja Gaiden, I'd say no,,.... but you also like GoW.... so................................. I would say yes >.>

I like a little bit of this and that.  ;D My point is I tend to like third person 3D action games, even though many of them are rather different from each other. I do prefer Ninja Gaiden over GoW though, not that I would ever seriously compare the two.

Anyhow, I'm gonna see if there's a demo or something on XBLA and go from there.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 22, 2010, 02:03:01 PM
I have a far different opinion than Ahasverus.

I like Dante's Inferno more than Lords of Shadow, actually.
It's a videogame adaptation of the story, so it's going to take license with it.  It's a great game, plus runs silky smooth on the PS3.  The graphics are topnotch, the framerate is amazing, and there are many moves that Dante can do.  There's even whip-swinging (although he uses Death's Scythe to do so).  The music is also very good.
It feels like a Castlevania 3D game.  Plus, it's full of checkpoints (even though you only have one life you respawn at the checkpoints).

It does have quick-time events though.  If you don't like those, you might take less enjoyment from the game.

You should be able to download the demo and test it out.  The demo plays the first stage and the first descent, before you meet Charon.  The game gets way better afterwards.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Kale on December 22, 2010, 02:36:24 PM
While I don't hate it like Ahsaverus, I definitely don't like it like Jorge does. I find it inferior to LoS. I hate the system in it more than I do LoS and I think LoS' system is pretty stupid. (Magic I mean, and Dante's system is more magic than moves though it's a mesh of both).

I would hate to have that as a 3d CV.

His scythe is bad ass though.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Ahasverus on December 23, 2010, 08:50:34 AM
The fight with Death was a highlight in my opinion :P
We all have different opinions, I respect some people that liked it, but I found it dumb, half assed and plain ugly (Graphics, aesthethics and story treatment). CG's are awesome though.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: ShinAkumaXX on December 23, 2010, 03:08:53 PM
I merely played the Demo of Dante. I really thought the graphics were a bit weak as well. Mainly the backgrounds bothered me. Having other options out there, such as Lords of Shadow and Bayonetta for the action genre. I think I'll play these a couple times through first. Maybe buy Dante when I see it for a 10 bucks too. But I have a feeling it'd be just another game that sits on my shelf. I have many bargains I figured I might as well buy that I just don't play... I saw Darksiders for very cheap the other day, $15. I know that is said to be like these games. I just see and and think I just wont like it as much either. I never seem to like games that have a THQ logo on the box though... that may sound silly. But they are never games I just gotta have. I am not very good at these sort of games, I find them to be hard. But I'll let you guys know what I think of Bayonetta after I beat it. I'm on Chapter 6 now. I think it's great so far, and am sure I'll love it after I beat it. As for Devil May Cry 4... it may be ignored for a bit...
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: shelverton. on December 25, 2010, 06:05:41 AM

I actually liked Devil May Cry 4. Am I the only person in the whole wide world who didn't hate it? It seems so...
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: ShinAkumaXX on December 25, 2010, 04:27:12 PM
I don't hate it. I was having fun until the part I'm on now. You have to move around these blade statue things, gyro blades I think. It's a real annoyance. Then you fight this half frog/half angler fish thing, and it beat me a few times. So I have moved these statues a few times and really don't want to again anytime soon. I don't know why they made it such a pain in the ass to move these things around. Or maybe there is a secret method I don't know of? But the only way I've been able to is to keep punching them.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Kale on December 25, 2010, 08:31:52 PM
I actually liked Devil May Cry 4. Am I the only person in the whole wide world who didn't hate it? It seems so...

Nah man, I'm with you. I actually like it better than DMC3. Which makes me like the only person in the world who probably does.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 25, 2010, 09:39:59 PM
So yeah, Bayonetta. Pretty absurd, though not as much as I had hoped—and honestly, that was the main draw for me. I'm not too keen on memorizing button combos and getting the timing right on certain ones (ones where they have a pause in between buttons), so I just press buttons.

Not too fond of hack and slash games with combo moves, but I am having some fun with this.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on December 26, 2010, 07:15:45 AM
Yeah I don't like the button combo memorizing either, so I'm with Freak on this one.
Still a fun game, but the fact that I botch those often makes the game less fun for me.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: ShinAkumaXX on December 26, 2010, 06:07:32 PM
I'm pretty crappy and doing the combos myself ha. Especially the ones with the pause in between them. I figured out using the sword puts many enemies in their place much faster than trying combos. For me anyhow. I can't even pull off many of the combos. There are a couple special moves where you hold RT then hit Y or A to do moves, but I have the other special move break dance where you hold down RT, so I can't get them to work, just does break dance.
Title: Re: Bayonetta
Post by: Abnormal Freak on December 26, 2010, 08:54:01 PM
You can turn the breakdance move off, under "special moves." I had to, 'cos I hold the dodge button down when I use it, for some reason, and kept getting pissed that I'd keep going into the move.