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Giant Bomb GOTY 2014 - Destiny Has Brought Us Here
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Jimmyfenix
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Ah thanks!
It certainly seems like a contender. I wish I could play it.
Anyway, I'm going to get around to trying some Shadow of Mordor later since that seems to be the favorite for their GOTY this year. Honestly, I'm expecting Arkham City, but with LOTR stuff.
broncobuster
Banned
Bayonetta 1 is old and out of mind and some of the crew are new to the series. Not that back to back Bayonetta 2 is tame or anything.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Brad calling Smash boring whilst continuing to play Destiny and Dota 2 is AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Also, regardless of Bayo 1, the first part of Bayo 2 is pretty fucking good.
bigwinnerx
Member
Love we're getting a Team GFB Top 10. They're certainly just throwing the new podcaster a bone here.
Jimmyfenix
Member
steve winwood would like to have a word
SlowRevolution
Member
so tomorrow's video has to be a big group thing, right? I'm probably just missing something but so far I kind of don't get how any of the SF ones could have taken too long at all to film, except Dan's.
bobawesome
Member
Jeff performing It's Tricky with two mics was a sight to behold.
I don't think they ever said it took long to film. The whole thing just took long to edit, and the podcasts obviously took up some time!
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
I really regret not buying Nidhogg when it was on sale for $3.74 after listening to the podcast today.
I dunno guys, I think Jeff's white board explanation of #RECHAUS was pretty fantastic.
But yeah, Brad's two finales are great too.
My guess is that tomorrow's will be all of them banding together to end the mystery of gameageddon.
But yeah, Brad's two finales are great too.
My guess is that tomorrow's will be all of them banding together to end the mystery of gameageddon.
Yep...a game i would love to play but i can't support that
Hopefully Scalebound will be awesome
Vire
Member
The game would be much better without the gratuitous camera angles.
It is a ton of great ideas stitched together with some really weak connective tissue.
Without the over the top nature of Bayonetta as related to sexuality, that game is just Ninja Gaiden.
And no one gives a shit about Ninja Gaiden anymore.
The discussion about NaissanceE made me pick that game up. Sounds super interesting.
bigwinnerx
Member
Bread's "Black holllllllllllllllllle" was basically amazing.
Vire
Member
That sounds awesome to me.
People don't give a shit about Ninja Gaiden not because it's lacking in tasteless T&A shots (which it also had, but not this extent).
No, people didn't give a shit about Ninja Gaiden 3 and on because the games were bad and were full of awful design decisions.
Doctor Decimate
Member
I'm in awe of Luis Hernandez's totally accurate description of From Software: "Apparently they've been attempting to make Dark Souls for 20 years"
Yeah. Might be game of the year material if it weren't so gross about everything it does.
Let's put it this way.
Devil My Cry 4 has a better combat system than both Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2. It is known, ask GuardianE, he will break it down in EXTREME detail. If given the option of replaying a character action game that's come out over the past 10 years, I'd rather play Bayonetta or Bayonetta 2 over it, because literally everything else about DMC4, it's art, it's music, it's tone, it's attitude, is SEVERELY lacking when compared to Bayonetta.
That being said, I can understand how it's not for everyone. But you cannot have a Bayonetta game without the in your face nature of her sexuality. If you do that, it's a different game entirely. And I think Bayonetta does more for the genre than DMC4, which is a mechanically better game.
And I'm not counting Ninja Gaiden 2 or 3, i'm talking about Ninja Gaiden 1, the one that they continue to rerelease with very little added to it other than new difficulty modes and challenges that stress the superlative combat system, but ad nothing else.
Are you people serious?
Are you people? The setting, tone, and everything about cut scenes matter when you choose to put them in a game. And everything about those parts of Bayonetta are fucking disgusting.
Yeah, agree with you there. Bayo 2 is my favourite character action game of all time, and a lot of that has to do with the style (styyyyyyyyyyyyle) and everything around it.
Flacracker
Banned
Also, regardless of Bayo 1, the first part of Bayo 2 is pretty fucking good.
What video is this? I dont think I ever saw it.
stump sock
Member
anniversary PS4 unboxing
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/we-opened-a-20th-anniversary-playstation-4/2300-9769/
Its such a shame too as the game seems to be so good.
I agree, I also dislike strong confident women
All I can say is, I disagree.
Strong confident women who conveniently happen to be 99% immature fanservice bullshit.
Everything is wrong with fanservice.
Kandrick
GAF's Ed McMahon
Nothing wrong with immature fanservice bullshit.
If anything we need more of that, not less.
Vire
Member
That's one way of describing camera angles that leer up a woman's buttcheeks.
Same.
stump sock
Member
everybody has their own line.
I personally draw a pretty big one between lewd/gratuitous and exploitative. Bayo in no way strikes me as exploitative.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
The action was done pretty well in those cutscenes
flatearthpandas
Member
The crew top 10 formatting in the OP is awesome. Interesting picks for all those that have posted too.
Was watching them play bayonetta and thought "isn't the fox costume cool". And then they went right up her crotch...fml
ShockingAlberto
Member
I'll just leave this article here and then leave until this conversation gets decidedly less heated.
http://leighalexander.net/bayonetta-two/
http://leighalexander.net/bayonetta-two/
Let's not get crazy.
Fan service has it's place, but it is best when it has agency and purpose; when it is used to define a character or world in a provocative way. Bayonetta has moments where it does that, and it has just as many moments where it's zoomed in on her crotch for no good reason.
The Barbarian is a character that makes great use of fanservice. That doesn't mean that Dragon's Crown doesn't revel in dumb fanservicy bullshit for no reason.
It's best when it has meaning. But I don't want to write off a game just because it does engage with the idea of pointless T and A here and there.
But as someone said earlier, everyone has a line. Mine is Senran Kagura games. But I do still find the "Life and Hometown" meme pretty funny.
Well if Leigh Alexander says its okay i withdraw my opinion....
bigwinnerx
Member
Excellent attempt, I guess....
Vire
Member
Oh well I guess that makes everything okay. I'm really glad Leigh Alexander gave her approval, now I can play this game guilt free!
It's frankly pretty embarrassing. It bothers me that this is the game we as gamers are putting on a pedestal and saying this is the best gaming has to offer.
Fotheringay
Member
Nothing calms down an internet conversation like linking to Leigh Alexander.
CosmicQueso
Member
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways...
Jazzpunk is stellar. So glad the guys brought it up so much during these awards or I never would have checked it out.
Jazzpunk is stellar. So glad the guys brought it up so much during these awards or I never would have checked it out.