Comments on: Dante’s Vs Darksiders

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:12:41 +0000

I like how you said, “Gaming is becoming like Hollywood” because I think video games aren’t that great anymore. Loved them like 5 years ago when your main choices were Gamecube, Xbox, Ps2, and a lot of unique stuff was coming out pretty regularly…but now video gamers are just too damn serious about games, and now graphics are usually the number one most important thing to gamers in determining if a game sucks or not…FORGET QUALITY, UNIQUE IDEAS, OR GAME PLAY!!!

Yep, most games coming out now are hack n’ slash and shooters…with original games coming once so often. There are still good games coming out, just not as much anymore. Keep up the good work, Sai! Later!

By: Bayonetta >> Sai's Asylum

Bayonetta >> Sai's Asylum — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:06:14 +0000

[...] seems it was more apt than I realized to mention Bayonetta in my discussion about Dante’s Inferno and Darksiders and how, like Hollywood, several games with similar themes keep coming out all at the same time. [...]

By: Neo Kaiser

Neo Kaiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:11:51 +0000

Yeah that’s the thing. Usually I’m against blatant fan service but with Bayonetta they actually think up reasons. Her hair is part of her powers and she uses it to cover herself. That’s better then the usual “magic bikini”. If you think about it using her hair for armour is better then a dress that doesn’t have any magical properties to defend against attacks.
and if she has to take her hair off for a much bigger attack then, meh.
I also like how bullets actually have a use. Whereas in DMC they’re only used in Easy mode to complete the story without any hassle.

I really like her design. They could have easily done the typical 14 year old with large tits that Japanese designers love jerking off to, instead she appears to be 30-40 years old (she’s actually 100). Even if it’s also the sexy librarian look.

I also found out it was released today instead of Thursday, so yay!

By: Sai

Sai — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:27:48 +0000

@ Neo Kaiser “Non-stop Climax Action” seems to be the motto of the Japanese Bayonetta ads.

Where Bayonetta shows some skin she isn’t a typical female game character and she isn’t some godawful hellish moe blob (surprising for a Japanese game with a female lead.) In fact, if anything the more perverted fans are bitching she’s too tall, her head is too small etc. I think she’s kinda hot (then again I go for legs.) I think it helps that the game seems like it doesn’t take itself that seriously.

I haven’t played the demo yet, no point now I’m just gonna rent the game. If I like it enough I’ll buy it. Darksiders I’m not expecting to like that much but it may surprise me. I’m gonna rent Dante’s too for the hell of it.

By: Neo Kaiser

Neo Kaiser — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:30:26 +0000

I have Darksiders and Bayonetta pre-ordered (Bayonetta’s called the “Climax Edition”…) coming out on the same day. Usually I’m against games of the same genre being released so close to each other.

I wasn’t all that interested in both games at the start (even though I do like hack and slash games like Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, Star Wars Unleashed).

Darksiders kinda came out of nowhere and I only noticed it when I learned Mark Hamill was doing the voice of the Watcher that follows the main character. After seeing some gameplay videos I thought it looked like a very good hack and slash game that can compete with Japanese developers of the same genre.

I didn’t care for Bayonetta at first because the producer seemed to be cracking the shits when he started making it. But after seeing some videos and playing the demo I realised that Bayonetta is a next-gen Devil May Cry. DMC4 was released on 360 and PS3, but it never felt like a next-gen game. They still had some mistakes that should have been fixed by then. But Bayonetta doesn’t seem to have any of these mistakes.
Although I can predict that so many people already hate the game because the main character is female and she shows some skin.

By: Sai

Sai — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:28:54 +0000

@ Masterquack: No you’re right, it does seem like he started to distance himself from the game.

By: Masterquack

Masterquack — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:49:04 +0000

yah.. now I’m sounding like a conspiracy theorist

By: Masterquack

Masterquack — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:43:52 +0000

yah, good point, it does seem like Will Wright was coperate but raped Actually come to think of it, correct me if im wrong (i followed the game closely but not THAT closely, i dont have 3 year attention span), he rarley appeared in the later videosand if he did it was just 1-2 minute adds, while in the earlier ones he was giving hour talks about the game. just my imagination?

By: Sai

Sai — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:40:33 +0000

@ Masterquack Consider that when the game was demoed in 2006 it seemed to be building toward what was promised, then it disappeared for a while and when it came back all the creatures were googly-eyed and cartoony looking.
Rumor has it EA wanted Maxis to dumb down the game for wider appeal.
Also note that Will Wright, creator of Spore and… well Sim games in general, left Maxis and EA soon after Spore was released.

By: Masterquack

Masterquack — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:36:23 +0000

I’m totally with you on that. However what really got to me with spore was that, they promised us ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation” and instead we got “Flash Gordon”, if you know what I mean.
And even that would be ok, because after all what high quality game for a big manufacture DOESNT get hyped? Except is specifically remember demo videos with much more interesting game-play than what we got. I feel like we all had one pulled over us.
At the same time I must say, spore is still a reasonably fun game, just wish they hadn’t lied to us about what it was.
I’m not even sure if its about mass appeal though, like you said, the gaming industry is getting like Hollywood. Which means, I think its getting to be more like, what will sell the most copies in one week. Possibly combining with the amount of piracy that happens to games now, so selling as much as possible in the shortest period of time, sorta makes sense.

Hehheh… you said circlejerk.