Prince of Persia

The combat is kinda lame, I agree. I often find myself desperately trying to make the prince drink some damn water during a battle. Isn't the sequel even more combat-oriented?

anyway, don't bother with me, i don't actually LIKE video games, only a small subset thereof. i suppose i shouldn't really hang out on this board :-(

I don't think the GC version has the original as a bonus. :(

The fighting can be hard, the one with his dad is a complete bastard and probably the biggest sticking point in the entire game. But it looks lovely, and plays right.

The second one (the Warrior Within) was supposed to be the Poochie of the series. Is the third one out yet?

The new one is out I think!

I was able to go back to my only old save and unlock PoP1. Man, I'd forgotten how ridiculously hard that game is. The title screen said '92, I was sure it was older than that!

HOWEVER

i was at a local bakery today where i sometimes go to get a sandwich for lunch, it's a couple of blocks away from my house. it's one block away from ubisoft, and i think the bakery does a really good lunchtime trade selling sandwiches to ubi workers. anyway they have a big mounted & signed (presumably by the dev team) poster of the new prince of persia on the wall! and some other game... socomm?

signed!

xpost, I think it'll let you drink in battle if you sheathe your sword?

Good on your dad! That's dedication!

I just finally got Sands of Time tonight (11 USD)- I'm liking it so far, even though I was stuck like an idiot for probably 20 minutes trying to jump back and forth up that wall to statue to get the stupid dagger. Still don't really know what I was doing wrong (pressing A too late maybe?) - but it felt great to finally get it right. Hoping to play through some more this weekend... slightly concerned reading the combat comments above...

Finished this tonight - 15 1/2 hours - not exactly a speed run. Got stuck a few times on puzzles - wandering around rooms trying to figure out what the fuck I was supposed to do - but didn't have too hard of a time with the combat.

I was playing this on the 360 and was slightly disappointed to discover that after unlocking the original PoP the screen wouldn't display - I guess nobody bothered to check the emulation of the bonus features? Anyhow - I was planning to check out the upcoming remake with "improved" graphics... which should be out soon, right?

GT review is up

I don't know. At first I was looking forward to it, but the most recent things I've read or seen, give me the feeling that it has fallen into the pattern of recent ubisoft games of having a great visual presentation, but empty, boring gameplay?

Perhaps I say this too often, but it seems appropriate: "rental"

This Wired review is pretty discouraging.

hey I like this

i do not

willing to accept however that that might be 90% due to the fact that i seem to be utter shit at it

the ps2 one or the new one?

the new one

oh n/m then

I really like the new one. Took me a bit to get into it, but once I understood it was a rhythm game and not a traditional platformer I raced through it. There is definitely a groove to it, and it is hard to give up on what you think the timing should be and go with how the game wants you to play.

Forget everything you know about PoP and you'll enjoy it more.

further in, starting to turn around on this game - EZ is dead right about thinking about it as a rhythm thingy, and when you kind of get locked into moving around it gets really fluid and really fun.

combat however is just dumb and annoying to have to bother with. especially since there are basically no consequences for it um ever - u cant get killed = random button mash until i get to run on the ceiling some more.

also, it looks great - had to turn the brightness way way up on my tv to get through the first tutorial level (note frustration upthread) but it gets better after that.

The combat does kind of suck - check out the combo list (I think it is in the options) and you can start to chain long strings of attacks. Though yet again, it is about rhythm.

One plus is the fact that the platforming gets longer and more varied as the game progresses, with more old-school memorization of obstacles and the like. The "no penalty for failing" trope falls flat on its face when you realize you've got thirty-plus moves to get right without stopping.

I loved how in Sands of Time, whenever you died the narrator would basically say "what happened? I am confused" and make you start over.

i am amused that in this newest one you can get achievements for following the dialogue tree w/yer lady friend to the very end that are named stuff like "SUPER BUDDIES!" and shit like that. also at points this game is actually pretty funny, and the voice acting is pretty great, script is decent to good. TBF prob oscar material when it comes to game scripting.

so basically you are saying I should get this

(btw you were all right, Fallout III is incredibly rad, no pun intended)

Started playing the new(ish) one over the weekend and while some things grate (like the Nathan Drake Prince and the incredibly frustrating Warrior bossfight), it's pretty enjoyable. Key to this, though, was the realization that this isn't so much a Prince of Persia game as a Sonic the Hedgehog game.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/prince-of-persia-posters.jpg

...The INSTANT I hear Godsmack I will start slahing seats and throwing shit at the screen.

thought it was ok but got bored halfway through as it felt like i was doing the exact same thing over and over. hopefully the next one will be more like the puzzley/adventurey games of old

Agreed 100%. Still, the new one is a pleasant enough diversion, not to mention amazing to look at, and certainly worth the $15 it cost me.

Just finished. You know what? Fuck this game. Fuck it right in the pooper. That was one of the worst endings I have ever seen in a game. And no, Ubisoft, I'm not paying $10 for you to fix it.

Short non-spoiler version: imagine the developers decided it would be awesome to rip off Shadow of the Colossus but squeeze it into the last five minutes of the game, with all the subtlety, ambiguity, and melancholy atmosphere stripped out. Just...no.

what's the pay $10 to fix it thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtcHKQCHO1k&feature=PlayList&p=DF3363144D948947&index=0

That's the one. And apparently the new boss is THE SHAPESHIFTER, ie "changes between the four bosses you've already fought until you're fucking sick of them." So lame.

I finally grabbed that new Prince of Persia 2-D hollowknightroidvania game on sale, not in a gaming mode right now but I'm looking forward to trying it on a future rainy day.

Finally played it for a few hours yesterday (first time playing anything in a few months). Couldn't care less about the story but the movement and combat is a joy, I even enjoyed the combat tutorials once you reach the main hub (so many options to start with, and it's very fluid). And I'm really not mad at instant restarts (no run-back) for boss fights, I think you just lose a few Persiabucks.

I'm waiting for it to go on sale again before picking it up, but it looks fun. Definitely the type of game I'm interested in right now.

Ok, so I unlocked the bonus challenges. On the very first one, I was thinking what a fun and cleverly designed platforming stage it was, and that it's cool that they give you some gauntlets way beyond what would be reasonable to put in the normal world. Then it just kept going, and I looked up a video and realized how long it is without any checkpoints (not to mention the fact that you will often hit sections that will kill you if you don't know what's coming, and need to do the rest of the level perfectly just to get back to it). It is insane.

Respect, I guess?

I'm now ~40% of the way through this game and it rules. The time powers that you acquire really spice things up in terms of the platforming puzzles.

Ok, I did spent at least an hour before that bumping up against dead ends because I didn't notice that you could jump up through a particular chandelier, that's on me. I assumed that you must need some sort of double-jump or other upgrade to progress and wandered around the whole map trying to figure out where else to go...but there were these hard-to-see wooden doors/walls that let you wall jump up. That kickstarted a real rollercoaster of sections.

it's on ps plus now, pretty fun!

yeah this game is amazing - quite challenging but super smooth and intuitive control.

I'm at my first boss fight where you really need to use a certain time power and it's quite spicy.

Halfway through and still super impressed with this game, traversal and platforming puzzles get really crazy once you get the double jump combined with the other abilities.

I actually want to go back through the map and find all the little nooks that are newly accessible, always the sign of a good metrovania.

I finished the main game and I'm at the final boss (bosses?) of the dlc, really great game. The dlc has some truly crazy platforming.

Per the parry talk on the Clair Obscur thread, the dlc boss is suddenly all about parry timings it seems.