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Both the Platinum Games thread and the Devil May Cry threads have been archived due to inactivity, and that broke my drat heart considering that today, SEGA just released the latest iteration of the Bayonetta franchise on  STEAM:BAYONETTA 1 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/460790/) https://twitter.com/SEGA_Europe/status/851814640468324353 Against all odds, Bayonetta 1 is finally available on Steam for the low, low price of $20USD or its equivalent in your local currency. It was a stunning return to form for Hideki Kamiya in 2009, who arguably created the character-action genre in the first place with Devil May Cry, as well as creating Clover Studios' Okami and Viewtiful Joe before leaving to start up Platinum Games. Bayonetta basically plays like an extremely-polished character action game with an emphasis on dial-a-combo inputs a la Tekken for your offense and dodges that can trigger slo-mo and/or parries that can reflect enemy shots and attacks for your defense. All the usual genre standards like launching enemies into the air for combos, weapon sets and quick switching, "style points" and combat rankings that give you a metric for how well you're doing, tougher difficulty than most games, badass boss fights that range from massive monsters to duels with enemies with movesets very similar to yours were refined to an amazing extent by Platinum with Bayonetta 1, making it one of the best action games of all time during its release. Check out this video from Gamespot for gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bOOEo-glA The port comes with 4K support, Steam cards to sell to rubes, and all sorts of fancy bells and whistles with PC tech that I don't understand! Buy a copy today! 
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It's a new gender-bending shadow the hedgehog game!
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You all have my permission to drag on me if this turns out to be jack loving poo poo.
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Nioh is rad and I'm ready for a new Ninja Gaiden but it seems like an even less likely prospect than before, at least in the short term. Speaking of, when are they going to bring those games to PC and current-gen consoles?
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Nioh is rad and I'm ready for a new Ninja Gaiden but it seems like an even less likely prospect than before, at least in the short term. Nioh and Bloodborne are going to be the white whales of Sony PC ports.  final hour
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I'm pretty sure the poll ends in about 8 hours and the online script was hosed by whatever time zone you're in.
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Apr 11, 2017 08:02
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Really? gently caress, then. Whatever, I can wait another 8 hours. Or however long it takes.
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Bayonetta 3 on all platforms for certain nailed on guaranteed probably not i'll take anything
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Yeah, I jumped the gun there, not seeing anything new. Now I'm thinking about staying up just to catch the announcement.
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Metal Gear Rising is one of the best games ever made in its genre. The gameplay isn't as technical as Bayo but it makes up in style. Like everything onscreen is hella cool 99% of the time and Samuel is the definitive samurai badass in fiction. Also Furi is really weird but features some really cool boss fights. WaltherFeng fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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Apr 11, 2017 09:20
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Hopefully, it won't be announcement of an announcement of an announcement. I want to play Bayo over Easter.
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WaltherFeng posted:Metal Gear Rising is one of the best games ever made in its genre. There is a beautiful simplicity in Sam's playstyle that I would love to see in an actual reboot of DMC if Capcom tried it again.
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toasterwarrior posted:There is a beautiful simplicity in Sam's playstyle that I would love to see in an actual reboot of DMC if Capcom tried it again. I'd definitely play a spinoff or successor to Sam's portion. It was just very satisfying. Speak of satisfying, I'm really bummed that there's no analog triggers on Switch - this means if there was a DMC4 port, Nero's motorcycle sword revving would be quite different. Real pros just slam it full force at perfect timing, so I'm not too fussed.
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A couple sites let slip early: Bayo PC port, out today.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:A couple sites let slip early: Bayo PC port, out today. Awesome. I'll drum up a post once the official word is out. EDIT: Sega Europe is gonna announce it in 15 minutes. toasterwarrior fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6bOOEo-glA
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And the news is out. Updated the OP.
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why should i play bayonetta.
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Cerepol posted:why should i play bayonetta. Because it plays like an updated DMC title and for $20 it's pretty great value.
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who started calling these things character action games instead of beat em ups
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Apr 11, 2017 16:36
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Beat 'em ups are the 2d sort, CAG (dumb name I agree) evolved for the 3D games.
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Cowcaster posted:who started calling these things character action games instead of beat em ups Beat-em ups have an ensemble cast and are usually MP, character action games are SP and usually centered around one badass.
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Is Bayonetta the Dark Souls of the CAG genre?
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Cerepol posted:why should i play bayonetta. I done up the OP again Cerepol posted:Is Bayonetta the Dark Souls of the CAG genre? Nah I'm gonna say that's DMC3
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bayonetta on pc is great and an instant buy for me but what i really want is a new or at least remastered godhand 
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Das Butterbrot posted:bayonetta on pc is great and an instant buy for me but what i really want is a new or at least remastered godhand
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Team Dragon's Dogma represent! The secret best character action game.
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Das Butterbrot posted:bayonetta on pc is great and an instant buy for me but what i really want is a new or at least remastered godhand Godhand's quite old and was a famously poor seller back in the day, it's never going to happen.
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They did do a PS2 classic of God Hand for the PS3 so at least it's easier to play now without finding a working PS2 and a game disk 
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Godhand's quite old and was a famously poor seller back in the day, it's never going to happen. Heck even a Clover franchise like Viewtiful Joe that got a decent push at the time (but also didn't sell) hasn't gotten a remaster treatment. Only Okami.
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I bought a copy of Bayonetta on Steam at launch. I won't replay it for ages, but I hope that good sales lead to a Vanquish port.
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toasterwarrior posted:I done up the OP again Just so you know, Kamiya worked on Viewtiful Joe and Okami in addition to DMC but he didn't work on God Hand - that was Shinji Mikami's game, the guy behind Resident Evil and Vanquish.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Just so you know, Kamiya worked on Viewtiful Joe and Okami in addition to DMC but he didn't work on God Hand - that was Shinji Mikami's game, the guy behind Resident Evil and Vanquish. Like a combo, the OP is an ever-changing beast! Thanks! I'll look into adding cool gifs showing off the game's features once I finish downloading the thing and getting to grips with it.
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I hope Vanquish is ported next. Or even Anarchy Reigns. C'mon Sega.
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holy poo poo i fuckin missed that umvc3 sequence of dante and vergil trading attacks but never hitting so SIIIICK also fereydun feel free to pimp your dmc4se mods here
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Cerepol posted:why should i play bayonetta. because it's wonderful in all of the ways
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In Bayonetta is the dodge/parry button different from the attack button? How does the combat contrast with Viewtiful Joe, Wonderful 101, and Revengence? I understand very well how the dodge/parry mechanics work in these games and it's frustrating at first but rewarding when it clicks. I don't love these games but I kind of like them.
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Heran Bago posted:In Bayonetta is the dodge/parry button different from the attack button? Dodge is a different button; it's generally mapped to the trigger and is fully separate from attacking. I haven't played Bayonetta for a while but IIRC the parry is very similar to how it works in Revengeance. I never played Viewtiful Joe, much to my chagrin, but it's similar to W101 and MGR. Bayonetta wants you to dodge more than MGR did, and they encourage that through the use of Witch Time, where enemies move slower if you dodge properly. Dodging is definitely easier to get a handle on than parrying, but it's still very rewarding. The real beauty of the combat system in Bayonetta is the training room load screen; whenever the game is loading, it drops you into a training room with a dynamic list of combos on the side; as you press buttons, the list changes to show you what combos you can go into from the buttons that you've pressed already. It also shows you how many times you've done that combo, so you can look for routes that you don't often use and test them out to see what happens. This makes the combos very accessible; you don't have to try and discover them, you can just look for stuff you haven't tried before.
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