Bayonetta was freaking brilliant. It's pretty much DMC with a female protagonist, sure, but thats what makes it fantastic. I'm a huge DMC fan, and I enjoyed Bayonetta even more. The difference in the gameplay is pretty big. Bayonetta is just so dang fun to play right off the bat. The soundtrack is fantastic, the visuals are a huge upgrade from the recent DMC (Talking about 4, not reboot) and the boss fights and over the top moments are fantastic.

Whenever I play a DMC game, it takes me to about the halfway point or second playthrough for me to get into the gameplay, because of how much of Dante's (or whoever else's) moves are all locked away from the beginning. It's a blast unlocking them again, sure, but in Bayonetta the moves you unlock are even cooler, and the moves you start with still make you feel like end game DMC.

I really hoped for a sequel. :(
I still have to beat Vanquish. Funny thing is that I bought both Bayonetta and Vanquish at the same time at the store.

can't really say it's cancelled if it never was officially announced in the first place. but yes this is sad to hear regardless..

I'm guessing some people here either haven't played Bayonetta, or didn't get very far, or played it on easy.

You're not giving Bayonetta quite as much credit for its cleverness as is its due.

And I'll go out on a limb and say DMC 4 wasn't very good. Bayonetta was much better and managed to make a social statement to boot.
I'll be honest, I didn't dig the Vanquish demo enough to actually buy it (the story looked compelling, but the gameplay didn't draw me in). But largely, you're right, they are generally some of the games of this gen with superior production values.

To be honest i regret paid full price for my boxed DMC4. It feel old and tired pretty fast, around mission 8 or 10. I'm doing the same thing over and over again in cliche settings, environment and plot. At least in DMC3, bosses fight were damn good and the story doesn't bored me a bit and Virgil as bonus unlockable character alone worth the price.

Sure you can, if there was a team working on it and funding being spent on it, ceasing the funding and the team's work pretty can be fairly characterized as "cancelling" the game. Just because they hadn't got to the point of spending budget on promotion doesn't mean it didn't exist.

That's funny; I don't recall you ever playing Mass Effect 3 (let alone finishing it), but you made loads of threads about how bad it was.

No, he made one thread criticizing Biowares forum management, which is really ridiculous (criticize their game and youre banned, END OF LINE), and another one criticizing their DLC policy, if i recall correctly. You dont need to complete ME3 to make such points, do you?

You do not recall correctly.

This is Correct

I also made previous posts before the game came out, how EA's terrible business policies and Bioware's incompetence and decline in quality/standards would lead to an inferior game with multiple issues, the reactions on the forums were hilarious "you are just a troll!" "you don't like anything!" "ME3 will be fantastic!" and so on

In the end: I turned out to be completely right as always

Anyway, I'm not going to discuss this here anymore, if anyone wants to reply to me and continue this discussion, keep it in the previous ME3/My threads, this thread is a discussion about Bayonetta

I was going to respond, but then I realized that your post did a better job of proving my point than I could have.

Thanks.

Uh what? Played them both on Xbox 360 and I've never said they are bad games.... but "the best".... no they aren't. Bayonetta is a DMC + couple of more combos & female protoganist. Nothing that special.

Rofl metactritic? You want to go that way:
God of War III - Metascore: 92
So depending on metascore: God Of War is the best Beat'em Up Action game ;)

Uhh... last time I checked, God of War 3 was pretty damn fantastic.

Yes it still is and yet Bayonetta have pretty simiilar metascore... my point was that the Metascore is not an argument to say a game is "one of the best of this generation"