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Bayonetta - giving naughty little angels a good spanking.
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Dude, she kills angels, it's something straight out of a JRPG.
Yep, she teaches evolution too. I still can't tell if you're being ironic or not.
It's co-opting it to be totally ridiculous.
And that, my friends, is A-OKAY in my book.
Obligatory :winky:
And now I have to kill myself.
I think it's the same reason a lot of us have a weird sort of fascination with anything from Japan
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Except for all those spaghetti westerns which were direct ripoffs of Akira Kurosawa movies. And samurais - fuckin love me some samurais.
Also, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Perfect Blue. Ghost in the Shell, Akira...
I don't know what you are trying to say
No seriously, I'm not getting it, what is your point
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Ah, that beer I just had made me read wrong. I was a wrong reader and your second sentence did not in fact say something along the lines of "it's not like a lot of us have...".
So, to put it succinctly I misread and you're totally right.
Those words are always so nice to hear
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You guys can like, go all faux intellectual on it if you like though.
Let the battle fucking commence:
Apart from that? Hot.
It's outcheesing DMC, and that's fucking impressive. Anything you want to see in it beyond that fact deserves a hair iron maiden to the testicles.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
That solid enough for ya
btw I'm pretty solid right now if you know what i mean
What do you mean by that?
I believe it's a reference to Metal Gear. I mean, given the avatar and everything, it's the only thing he could possibly mean.
I so, so want to stick an avatar-sized picture of the clone of JFK in here, but I can't cut and paste urls on the PS3, so I'll just say
"In his pants!"
and perhaps add
"Ponce's pants."
:P Fix'd
There's something funny here, but I can't quite point my finger on it.
Oh yeah, I was also being sarcastic. That's it.
:P
Providing you misunderstandings
in humor since 1985.
Well, maybe a librarian.
Dante isn't a vampire( I assume you mean Dante as to my knowledge there is no action game starring a vampire)
Bayonetta is a Witch btw. Who I assume has a bayonet.
He's a half demon. Which is totally different.
Also, the entire Blood Omen/Soul Reaver series has you playing as a vampire.
One guy I knew was playing Ninja Gaiden 2 for XBox. I started it up, and was like "Did they just completely transplant everything from Devil May Cry except the mythology?" Oddly enough my friend didn't like Devil May Cry.
It is. A vampire is a full demon that inhabits a corpse using the deceased's personality and memories. Half Demons are still human on some level and enjoy sundaes and pizza.
Soul Reaver is closer to Zelda than DMC.
which basically is a vampire demon
I say this as a person that adores both series.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
I dunno, they seem pretty similar.
Wait.
I mean the other thing. The one where they aren't at all alike except being sort of in the same genre of games. Just from the demo of DMC4 it's blatantly obvious. DMC4 feels like it's half as fast and nowhere near as smooth in combat. Also, in Ninja Gaiden 2 men are men, not girly boys that need belts to hold up their belts.
To be serious for a moment, I genuinely don't get how someone could play both games and think they're the same thing. About all the have in common is a) swords, b) 3rd-person view, and c) both made in japan. And demons, I guess. They seem as similar to me as CoD4 is to Halo.
Granted, I'm not entirely sure I'm comfortable with the fact that a person that oblivious could be out there somewhere. Or could be participating in a decision that impacts the future of my country next month. Or could be driving. Or operating a microwave, for that matter. They could have kids, or pets, and oh fuck the microwave. No that is not your bowl of macaroni it is your little turtle Shelly!
Someone hold me, I'm scared now.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Anyway, I'm 100% OK playing a hot secretary from a porn flick with pistol shoes.
Edit: confusion!
It was super effective!
I only went through the hard mode on NG2. I guess on the superhard it probably plays a bit differently, though I somehow doubt that you play any more offensively.
Method of attacking, timing of attacks, methods of dodging. It's almost exactly the same with a bit of emphasis change.
I'd played the first 3 DMCs before I even touched NG or NG2. I had virtually no trouble adapting to the slight difference in playstyle, though I got really tired of having to block and dodge so much and attack so little. Huge gigantic list of combos for each weapon in NG2, and virtually all of them were totally useless. Same for the weapons. Scythe and Sword, with a little bit of the others before I wrote them off.
Now, when the guy who made DMC 1 decides to say that he feels the genre hasn't evolved, only been added to and modified and that he has every intention and all the ambition in the world to create that very evolution, I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt. He created a game so highly heralded by my gamer friends (as WELL as creating Okami and Viewtiful Joe).
my friends and I always say "Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden 2 are good, but they're no DMC".
anyways, the point is I hope Bayonetta ends up being truly amazing and a game that brings it to the next level. The whole in-your-face-sex is irrelavent. If I can laugh my ass off at the ridiculous cut scenes (assuming they will be full of afformentioned in-your-face-sex) and look amazingly awesome while doing some of the most absurd combat moves ever seen then I will be happy. If all of that can then be applied to a combat system that is deep, rewarding and extremely fun then I will have found a true gem.
I understand the disdain for the in-your-face-sex, I just don't agree. Yeah, it's lame and tired, but it's not real it's all an obvious attempt to be so over the top it's ridiculous so I'm gonna enjoy it for what it is. crotch shots galore, tits in your face, guns blazing everywhere and (assuming) deep, amazingly done combat.
if the combat sucks though, then it'll suck completely.
NG has solid combat, careful attacks and defenses to be carried out. However, the combat is ALL dial-a-combo. In it's most raw format it's Dead or Alive in action game form. If you can't understand that or disagree, then reading the rest of this is pointless. I know people are going to say that DoA has nothing to do with careful attacks and defenses and they are right. The similarity comes from being dial-a-combo. You have the x, x, y, y, attack (dragon sword), the x, x, x, y attack (dragon sword)...and so on. You have variations of the same combo type that end in different ways. You have other options available than just that branch, but so do the DoA games.
the NG games are great games, but they aren't as good (or well made) as DMC 1 and 3. (4 to a lesser extent).
DMC 3 has phenominal combat. You are given complete control over the combat. You have combo's just like in NG1 and NG2, but the difference is that you can choose to add in anything else you want. Instead of doing the basic melee, melee, back + melee you could do (as a quick example), melee, melee, jump + ranged, mid-air melee to another enemy entirely, grounding melee attack from mid-air, forward + melee...etc etc and have it all connect as if it were one huge combo without delay in animations. You can instantly switch from 1 weapon to another and add that in to your combo as well. The instant weapon switching is what really made DMC 3 so top notch. It added SO GOD DAMN much to the playabiity and choice it gave the player.
both are similar in few ways, but DMC 3 goes so deep whereas NG plays a different game. NG1 and NG2 are fantastic games, but they just don't go into the offensive game nearly as much as DMC does. It, instead, goes for the defensive game (which is great in its own right).
Clearly God Hand is superior.