IGN writes:
"Action games are like buses. You wait years for one and three turn up at once. They're also ultra-violent, noisy and frequently surreal – a lot like the N38 that ferries us home at night.
Well over 18 months since we saw Devil May Cry 4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 we're facing a veritable glut of games presenting new and ever more inventive ways to disembowel hordes of enemies, with the ludicrously lithe Bayonetta first out of the starting blocks at the turn of 2010.
Hot on her bullet-spewing heels is Dante's Inferno, EA's take on the theatrical action bombast that's long been Kratos' stomping ground. He's coming along for the fight himself, with God of War III promising violence in epic proportions – and who can turn down the opportunity to see eye-gouging and Minotaur eviscerating in high definition for the first time?
Having sat down with the opening hours of Bayonetta and Dante's Inferno, plus the incredible E3 demo of God of War III, we've pitted all three against each other to determine which game is looking most likely to take the action game laurels in 2010."
Alanah Pearce, who was a writer at Sony Santa Monica for several years and worked on God of War Ragnarök, has shed more light on the sex minigames which cropped up in the series' earlier entries.
Other than looking like that, why does anyone care about what she has to say about anything?
The PlayStation 3 is Sony’s most interesting home console ever, but what’s most interesting of all is trying to nail down the very best games on a console with hundreds of incredible games. Let’s give it a shot.
We desperately need Motorstorm back. Evolution is no more though and this makes me sad
Sly Thieves in Time
Stay the Party
Portal 2
Dj Hero
Demon’s Souls
God of war Ascension
2 of those games got railed through the “gaming media” during release.
Sly and god of war.
Both of which were fantastic games.
Yes it’s a decent list of popular games with a heavy hand on FPS and no Warhawk or Starhawk 2 of the best games (not sale wise) on ps3.
I would buy a Starhawk again even if it didn’t have a graphics upgrade hell I would even take a new one with micro transactions 😱🤯
I've noticed a recent nostalgia for the PS3 and I don't get it for me it's been my least favourite generation to date and I've been gaming since the NES I just feel like the ambition of the developers outweighed the capabilities of the consoles so I remember lots of games running in the lower end of 20fps range and I remember for the first time ever actually disliking the duelshock 3 and it's curved triggers
Sure there were some standouts and great games but that's the only gen I switched entirely to PC gaming
Maybe the recent nostalgia is because pretty much all of its games are trapped on that console. People want to play them on more modern hardware. hell... if XB can do it then so can Sony. there are competent emulators out there that can run on PS4/5 hardware but Sony just wont let them become official... why is that?
If we are talking least favorite generations (personally) then this one is certainly mine. i had more fun playing 8th, 7th and 6th gen stuff than 9th. And it isnt like i dont have access to do so... the heavy hitters just havent shown up anywhere close to those previous gens. The few here and there just doesnt cut it compared to the likes of constant good games that showed up in 6th, 7th and 8th gen. hell.... I'll even throw in 5th gen has been better than this one.
I tend to agree there's lots of amazing games locked to the PS3 like GTA IV or mgs 4 but then again my issue was never with the content the PS3 had but rather it's performance many other people have said the PS3 felt like it couldn't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time using PSN and downloading a game could take a few minutes to just start a download.
I typically don't worry all that much about performance I've never had a problem with games that run at 30 but games like crysis 2, Skyrim are good examples where the performance was so unstable you would never even touch the top of the frame cap and the hitching was worse than say Goldeneye on the n64
I think emulation is more than possible on the ps5 though it's just that Sony has no incentive to rush it's development it will likely be a ps6 feature if it ever happens at all.
But yeah the 9th gen has been so bad from a content perspective thats a given I see constant articles where people are frequently expressing their disappointment around the industry as a whole right now to much live service competition that sinks longstanding studios and consumes Devs time less ambition and games cost so much to make they have to play it safe.
The 5th gen was easily better than the 9th we had some all time greats crash, Spyro, Tony hawk, mgs, Mario,64, Goldeneye, Mario kart 64 the list goes on. The 5th gave us a new dimension and I remember being blown away by how much more open gaming had become the 4th gen with the mega drive and SNES was great and very easy to still revisit some of the greatest games of all time came out like earthbound, secret of mana, sonic , Mario world etc but saving our games was still not a standard function or a given so gaming was still evolving but it was very impressive to see some of the tricks Devs used like dithering to give us new experiences those earlier gens limitations bred innovation.
if XB can do it so can sony? I didn't know xbox had a cell processor in their older consoles, that's the reason why ps3 was so cool, but also the reason why games are hostage there and no, xbox did nothing similar even though their backward compatbility is good, they always had a similar architecture to their consoles.
Sorry Michael... I guess you missed the obvious part where i said there are already emulators out that do this. and that is what XB is doing... emulators for OG and 360 games. Its why the full slate is not BC on XBO/Series.
Creator of Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and Wonderful 101 comments on how they're all part of the same universe.
I could definitely see a Bayonetta/Dante game. Imagine them initially battling each other before eventually teaming up to take on the big baddies. Now, imagine what their child(ren) would be like.
Bayonetta and Dante I could see but even then with how their lore differs it's a hard sell. For the others...I just can't see it at all.
I feel he's just saying whatever comes to him online
Bayonetta is a witch who enter contracts with demons for power and Dante is a demon, not really hard to connect.
They could even write in an alliance between the umbra witches and sparda.
On the surface yeah but the actual lore the two games have given us if you go into it...not so much.
Im telling everyone, DON'T SLEEP ON BAYONETTA.
@Beast- Bayonetta isn't a copy of Devil May Cry, its BETTER than Devil May Cry in EVERY ASPECT. As far as your God of War 3 comparison, u can't compare Bayonetta and God of War 3.
2 different styles of gameplay:
Fast-paced gameplay in Bayonetta and slow paced gameplay of God of War
Different gameplay focuses
Over the top combo system in Bayonetta and Brutality of God of War 3
BTW: The article said they were comparing the DEMOS and making decisions based on that.
IGNorance i mean come on its been king of hack and slash since the release of god of war. While we havent seen footage in about 7months and every footage that was shown crapped all over Bayonetta well see who takes the crown when the embargo lifts in Januari just dont expect it to be Bayonetta. From both the demos i played god of war was just better more polished and the camera in Bayonetta was junk the camera cant keep up making it frustrating. Only thing about the gow3 demo that frustrated me was the harpy swinging sections. Then the part where they think 3 cant up the ante over 2 pure b*llshit excuse.
@Below
Because Hideki Kamiya made the game creator of dmc gives it a free pass for pretty much copying dmc.
Nobody ever says bayonetta is a copy of devil may cry??????
Wait until all games are out before making such bold claims.
The fkn BOTS section never have any fkn thing to talk about . So im guessing the BOTS even though its multilatform is calling BAYONETTA theres. Its the same fkn story for these BOTS