Early happy 2023

Going off for the day, just wanted to thank everyone for being so active on the forum, we saw a lot of new users this year and a lot of fun debates and talks. Really glad to see it and it legit warms my heart (awh).
Hope to see you all in 2023 and be safe! :)

Roy

merry christmas and happy new year's, boys; i'm glad i'm here, you guys are really cool. once again, hats off to Royta for making and maintaining an awesome site. cheers!

Happy new year, have a good one!

Just another day.

Not gonna wish for a better 2023 (see how that worked out last year), just a stable one.

Happy 2023 everyone! Just got back from a night at work and I’m ready for the new year.

Happy new year guys. Hoping for a decent 2023.

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday in advance!

Happy 2023!

I genuinely feel like a better person now. I was originally moping on twitter due to all the stupid crap that was happening surrounding the release of Bayonetta 3.

I know it was you, Raeng, that told me I can't let others affect what games I enjoy and I had to take that thought for a bit and realize, yeah, it was stupid of me for letting others get in the way of my own enjoyment.

I will say, it's gotten REALLY difficult to talk about Bayonetta in public places like Reddit. R/Bayonetta is a catastrophe right now with everyone bitching and moaning about how Bayonetta 3 is the worst game in the world simply because the ending and story affected them too much. I'm not gonna say the gameplay in 3 is perfect (because it seriously isn't) but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't enjoying 3's combat. It managed to fix some issues I had with 2, and maybe it's because I had low expectations from the start, but I found 3 to be fun.

A lot of folks have been DMing me to give me a good cheer up, so I genuinely feel better now entering into 2023. I got a BIG Bayonetta 3 combo video coming out this week and I hope you all will enjoy what I got cooking up.

Oh, and I added you to the Special Thanks in the video credits, Raeng. :)
I know you've been trying to help me out, and it worked.
I feel comfortable coming here to talk, though I will admit I haven't been doing that much, but I thank you for letting me join the forums.

>gotten really difficult to talked about
Let me solve your problem right now.

STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.

At least in known shitholes.

I can't talk about ANY action game I love in most places without being attacked by mechanically blind fools.
So I don't bother. There's no point fighting to convince someone of good mechanics either.

Keep making content and those who are interested will seek it out.

yeah i'm with Birdman, you need to stop engaging with the unwashed masses. no good can come from it, the only thing you're gonna get out of reading and arguing with mong-centrals like Reddit and Twitter is worsened mental health, wasting your time, and interference with your enjoyment of games and whatever else. i don't do that shit myself. just talk to people you know and us on here, done.

>gotten difficult to talk about
I think all of us here can relate. I don’t even talk about games anymore. Barely even post here. Dunno if it’s getting older or me just being sick of how much of a close minded moron everyone is on big forums and sites.

And specifically when it comes to action games, if you don’t hold the same opinions as everyone and worship the same handful of games, you must be a troll. And since I don’t hold the same opinions as most of these robots I usually have nothing to talk about.

Happy 2023.

Set, take it from a reformed Redditor. Most of them haven't played it.

R/bayo has 36k members. I wager 90% haven't played, 9% played up to the 1st chapter, 0.9% finished it and 0.1% are on their 2nd+ playthrough.

I think what makes 3 extra spicy is that you can watch the last hour of the game, and in that 1 hour see nearly everything everyone hates about the story.

The algorithm also feeds off negativity, and people love dunking on things. You were in Yoshesque's last blind stream, right? Some asked about her thoughts on the ending, and seemed disappointed by her muted and level-headed response. People want the :-o thumbnails and rage.

They're also looking to "idols" to validate their feelings, which I admit I'm guilty of. Summoning didn't seem appealing to me, so I sought out Ytubers to validate it, rather than doing my own research.

The fundamental issue is we live in an attention economy. Dunking on Bayo on Reddit, YouTube and Twitter are competing with actually playing it. A single player game is competing with wells of infinite content, which are competing with Netflix, news, live-service games and even time outside.

Just make good content, combo videos and guides, and people like myself will slowly come over. I'm on Step 5 of Redditors Anonymous, admitting to God and others the exact nature of my wrongs. Not everyone's gonna come round, Steps 6 and 7 literally ask for divine intervention, but it's that 0.00001% of real passionate players who go on to make these games and set the discussion. You can draw a line from DMC to God Hand to Bayonetta and see they play the same games and influence each other. I didn't know "punish" was from God Hand till recently. Character action devs are discussing which mechanics worked, not which ships sunk.

> Set
Cheers man! Let me know when the video goes live, I'd love to see it! And yeah the downside is, it's always great to find new people to talk with but out of a 100 that are just angry people that say ignorant things there's usually only 1 that's open minded and mechanically interested. So it sometimes feels like you're putting in so much work, for nothing. Especially in a series like Bayonetta where there's still (strangely, imo) a lot of fans just for the story and pr0n. NG had this issue with Rachel/Momiji porn spam for a while so we just arranged a subreddit for that, so it'd leave us alone.

> bayo subreddit
By my experience, this is usually a subset of people. If you block those posters, you'll quickly notice it dying doing and becoming a nicer place again. Sanitise it! I did this with the NGsub too. Lots of memeboys, DMCfans or just haters. Sometimes I give them my 5cents, but generally I just know "ok this guy isn't openminded, not going to waste my time or have them annoy my day with their shitty takes, bye" and block them.

@Infinity_Divide always good to see you again mate, hope you have a good 2023 :)

Congrats on the collab, Set. Liked the van kill at 14:10, and the two juggles over the lava as Viola. I see you edited it to the beat. Must be the Sonic Frontiers setting in. Looking forward to the next one.

I wonder, does anybody have new year's resolutions?

Black Adam wrote:Congrats on the collab, Set. Liked the van kill at 14:10, and the two juggles over the lava as Viola. I see you edited it to the beat. Must be the Sonic Frontiers setting in. Looking forward to the next one.

Hey hey, I completely forgot to post the vid here (SORRY), but I'm really glad to see folks enjoying the vid. As for the whole editing to the beat thing, that's always been my things since my first combo vid lol. If anyone here hasn't seen the vid, it's right here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCOg-ADoOTA

Nadster wrote:I wonder, does anybody have new year's resolutions?

I haven't actually prepared a new year's resolution outside of just "be a better human being" but that's been an ongoing thing for a while now. I already lost 110 pounds, I've already spent more time socializing. I guess maybe meet more people and maybe find someone special? I don't really think much about relationships because it just leaves me down so I focus more on just doing things to make myself happy and I've already done a lot to do that and will continue to keep it up.

>new year's resolution
No. They're foolish.

Act now. Why wait?

>does anybody have new year's resolutions?
Study more (i.e. play less), learn something else useful, be less paranoid. The usual.

>new year's resolutions

play more (i.e. study less), don't learn anything useful, be more paranoid. the usual.

>didn't say "the unusual"
Missed opportunity.