Sega Puts Bayonetta 2 in Stasis
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Hmmm I thought Bayonetta was developed by Platinum, or is this one of those cases of the publisher owning the rights and sitting on them.
And yet, they keep managing to find the wherewithal to flog the dead hedgehog. (Boy, does that sound like some kind of grotesque euphemism.) Do these people hate money?...
Seriously, though, I'm saddened to see Sega come to this. They were an innovative and energetic company that for an extended stretch just couldn't seem to catch a break, but since they got out of hardware they've just seemed to keep putting new millstones around their neck.
Seriously, though, I'm saddened to see Sega come to this. They were an innovative and energetic company that for an extended stretch just couldn't seem to catch a break, but since they got out of hardware they've just seemed to keep putting new millstones around their neck.
Oh Sega, you big silly company you. It's too bad we're not getting Bayonetta 2 but at least we're getting a new Sonic Racing game. Yay priorities! I didn't play the original enough to actually like it so in all seriousness I don't care but l know a lot of other people will.
You know, I can't say I will miss Bayonetta.
It just screamed "women have to be sexy in the gaming industry in order to be badass."
No thank you.
It just screamed "women have to be sexy in the gaming industry in order to be badass."
No thank you.
What annoyed me was that it acted like it was aiming to be a parody, while simultaneously reaping the benefits of and perpetuating the very thing it was parodying.LilithSlave said:
And then you get people like MovieBob who claim Bayonetta is a feminist icon just because she's sexually dominant...as though being sexually submissive makes a woman weak and just there to please men. He thinks the fact that the lollipops Bayonetta sucks on are very tiny makes her somehow not designed to be wish fulfillment, apparently unaware of the fact that "humiliation" is a popular service offered by dominatrices. He also said that she doesn't move like a stripper, she moves like a dancer! A dancer who happens to remove her clothes and spread her legs constantly...in other words...a stripper.
Yeah, that was when I kind of stopped liking MovieBob. That and his Other M review. He has some weird ideas on female empowerment.
I'm not sure what you're on about, I have several female friends who actually adore Bayonetta both as a game and as a character. They fully agree that she is an icon of female power. And evidence that you can be sexy without being slutty. She is sexy and aware of it, but she never puts out, and she shows more than once that she needs no man to help her out.
That is what sets her apart from the DoA cast, basically.
That is what sets her apart from the DoA cast, basically.
This did in fact turn off a lot of people including a friend of mine. Once he played it though, he was hooked. It was a really fun game with some nice boss fights, enemies that you actually had to learn how to fight and combos that you actually wanted to use. The story and characters were totally "Dafuq?" but if you could get past that it was a great game. So it totally makes sense that Sega would put a hold on what was probably their best game in decades. I say this as an old school Sega fanboy, Just die already! Seeing you just hanging on with brief glimpses of coming around is more painful than a clean death would be.LilithSlave said:
Yeah, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this.
The combat was swanky, but everything else was pretty much bloated nonsense (the bad kind) with a lot of cut corners. Also, every character in it was annoying as fuck.
The combat was swanky, but everything else was pretty much bloated nonsense (the bad kind) with a lot of cut corners. Also, every character in it was annoying as fuck.
