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bobobologna on 09 April 2010
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Rpruett said:
jesus kung fu magic said:
Rpruett said:
I disagree with your opinion.
In my opinion, Bayonetta gets cannibalized by God of War 3 in just about every single way. The gameplay of God of War is absolutely fluid, the story, graphics, scale, difficulty, etc is all right where it needs to be.

Bayonetta is an average game IMHO in just about every way and certainly no God of War. Consumers / Reviewers / etc will prove this opinion to be true.

Bayonetta has a 90 meta while GOW3 has a 93......3 point differential is the difference between an "average game" and a great one?

The truth lies somewhere in the middle.  86 on the PS3 / 90 on the 360.   I could say Bayonetta averages out at an 88 overall.   Either way,  3 points is 3 points.    God of War 3 has also sold quite a bit more on quite a smaller gamer base in a much shorter amount of time.  

Consumers have spoken of their opinion of quality / enjoyment of the two games.

Bayonetta is a niche game to me.  A game that die hard fans of it will swear by it but more people will avoid it than go out of their way for it.  Gameplay is almost entirely a personal preference thing.  For example, I hate Ninja Gaiden-esque game play.  I don't enjoy Ninja Gaiden's simply because of their gameplay.    So while it's great that you enjoy Bayonetta more,  you're in the minority. 

Averaging the scores is a terrible thing to do.  The PS3 version being a bad port doesn't take anything away from the XBox360 version.

As for the debate, well, I think they are pretty different styles of hack and slash.  In the end, people will prefer different styles.  Now if you compare a game like Dante's Inferno and God of War 3, which are very similar in gameplay style, then I could see someone trying to make an objective argument for which game is better.

I think Rainbow 6: Ravenshield is better than Killzone 2.  But that's because I prefer the style of gameplay in R6: Ravenshield over the style of gameplay in Killzone 2.  Yes, both games are first person shooters, but there's more than enough variety within that genre to have games co-exist without having to compare them.

By the way, were there all these hack and slash comparisons between God of War 1/2 and Devil May Cry 1/2/3?  Why is everyone so worked up about Bayonetta vs God of War 3?