So Prince of Persia sounds like a Ubisoft game/ Official EB POP thread

[Don Flamenco]

yeah, people have standards sometimes.  shocking, i know.

I don't know, 3 to 4 games a year, just sounds like your standards need an adjustment. Then again, you do save a lot of money.

this is more observational than based on my experience playing the game...I'll buy it soon and play it, then decide if I could give less of a shit about the challenge or how derisive it seems of other games. That's always a possibility.

and feel free to voice whatever you hate about the games I like any time, if you feel inclined.

[WrikaWrek]

yeah, people have standards sometimes.  shocking, i know.

I don't know, 3 to 4 games a year, just sounds like your standards need an adjustment. Then again, you do save a lot of money.

this is more observational than based on my experience playing the game...I'll buy it soon and play it, then decide if I could give less of a shit about the challenge or how derisive it seems of other games. That's always a possibility.

and feel free to voice whatever you hate about the games I like any time, if you feel inclined.

I fucking hate Fallout 3.

But i'm gonna give it another shot, i have a Pc copy waiting around. I mean when you have every soul on EB saying its amazing, it's gotta count for something. Already saw the making of, which was dogshit.

[cool breeze]

This game way better than spidershit.

It's better than all those games I mentioned btw.

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[WrikaWrek]

I was just sayin

[y2kev]

WRIKA MELTDOWN

KABOOOOM EXPLOSION BOOOM MELTDOWN

Wrika ->  :'(
EB -> 

[WrikaWrek]

 

[Himu]

this is like that horrible deconstructed food trend. they take apart any stupid dish or dessert and glorify the individual ingredients. they take apart a fucking sandwich because the ingredients are so nice to look at and supposedly taste delicious on their own and then they arrange them on a plate, dress them up with some fancy nonsense decoration and call it a day. all of a sudden you have a "gourmet deconstructed sandwich" that isn't even a FUCKING SANDWICH ANYMORE, just the goddamn ingredients. that's how this gen feels to me. everything is chunk sized and easily accessible, obvious and glorified but the parts don't come together to form a cohesive whole anymore.

Fallout 3 makes up for this shitty generation

[Jansen]

seems to me that some of you not only have low standards but incredibly shitty taste

this PoP is at the very least worth a play but only if you get it super cheap or rent it.

just so you know i have impeccable taste when it comes to games so i'm beyond reproach when it comes to gaming matters.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

I really really like this game. I don't feel threaten or punished when I make a mistake. No worries , just good times. Try and get the Warrior and Concubine Special achievement/trophies. Those are good challenges.

And I got more trophies 

[Jansen]

honestly tho i need to play the game more before forming a solid opinion on it.

i've only played it for 30mins or so lol

[cool breeze]

seems to me that some of you not only have low standards but incredibly shitty taste

 :'(

at least I think I have good taste (may be a paradox)

[Jansen]

always remember all that matters is what you believe

[demi]

I really really like this game. I don't feel threaten or punished when I make a mistake. No worries , just good times. Try and get the Warrior and Concubine Special achievement/trophies. Those are good challenges.

And I got more trophies 

fuck this trophy talk. banned

[Don Flamenco]

seems to me that some of you not only have low standards but incredibly shitty taste

this PoP is at the very least worth a play but only if you get it super cheap or rent it.

just so you know i have impeccable taste when it comes to games so i'm beyond reproach when it comes to gaming matters.

are you wickedlaharl?    gaahhhh another confusing eb name change.  i'm gonna get the pc version, i think. if it isn't retardedly unoptimized...though Ass Creed actually ran pretty well on my set up.

I fucking hate Fallout 3.

But i'm gonna give it another shot, i have a Pc copy waiting around. I mean when you have every soul on EB saying its amazing, it's gotta count for something. Already saw the making of, which was dogshit.

that's the spirit!  fuck yo' taste! 

[y2kev]

STOP ALL THE NAME CHANGING

help computa

[WrikaWrek]

Name changing is a really cigarillo thing to do.

[cool breeze]

nah, this joke wouldn't work.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

I really really like this game. I don't feel threaten or punished when I make a mistake. No worries , just good times. Try and get the Warrior and Concubine Special achievement/trophies. Those are good challenges.

And I got more trophies 

fuck this trophy talk. banned

Trophies are my new love. Embrace change demi!

[demi]

trophies are for losers. do you like leveling up? maybe LARP is for you. lamer.

[Jansen]

can't you recognize me? i've had this avatar for awhile now :\

and trophies do suck. i don't think you can even compare which trophies you've gotten with someone else while you're in a game.

[BlackMage]

this is like that horrible deconstructed food trend. they take apart any stupid dish or dessert and glorify the individual ingredients. they take apart a fucking sandwich because the ingredients are so nice to look at and supposedly taste delicious on their own and then they arrange them on a plate, dress them up with some fancy nonsense decoration and call it a day. all of a sudden you have a "gourmet deconstructed sandwich" that isn't even a FUCKING SANDWICH ANYMORE, just the goddamn ingredients. that's how this gen feels to me. everything is chunk sized and easily accessible, obvious and glorified but the parts don't come together to form a cohesive whole anymore.

Fallout 3 makes up for this shitty generation

NO Fallout 3 is a piece of shit too sucka

[cool breeze]

can't you recognize me? i've had this avatar for awhile now :\

and trophies do suck. i don't think you can even compare which trophies you've gotten with someone else while you're in a game.

I don't think you can but apparently soon you can compare trophies on a website!

[littlemathletics]

I kinda like it. Two hours in. Kinda fun, in a detached sort of way.

[Jansen]

how do you get the precious time achievement?

[cool breeze]

apparently you need to put the controller down and wait a minute after the final boss battle

[drew]

NO Fallout 3 is a piece of shit too sucka

die in a fire

[WrikaWrek]

I only have 2 areas and a boss left to complete.

I was doing the whole concubine gig, and my sister was watching me play, and she was amazed by how beautiful the game is, how cool the relationship between Prince and Elika was, and how it looked like some animated movie.

It's not often that my younger sister actually feels compelled to sit down and watch her brother play some game. She only did that 4 times before, and two of them were ways ago.

Broken Sword, and Metal Gear Solid 1 on the PC. MGs2 and MGS4.

Yes i see the trend. Whatever, the game rocks!

[littlemathletics]

I think it is more like an animated movie than a game a lot of the time. And, I think I like that. It's the kind of thing I could probably play through more than once - it's pretty relaxing. Nothing too worrying at all in there.

I can see the criticism, but I think it's just something completely different to anything else that's come out lately. It's lacking a lot of the exhilaration that came from narrow misses in Sands of Time, but it's still pretty amazing.

[WrikaWrek]

Ok that ending was bad.

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So HE (not me), decided that he would release a demon god in the world if that meant giving her life. That's all fine and shit, but dude, she didn't even kiss you or nothin', fuck this shit. What the fuck is this shit? Why do the developers assume this? Just because she's a woman? She was a cool character, but there was no love happening man, no "saving you" at some incredible moment, no nothing.

[close]

Fuck ubisoft montreal. This is like I am Legend levels of shit. The ending ruined the whole game for me.

[y2kev]

The game really isn't built to stress that connection (largely since Elika does most of the shit herself)...so the end was like no way i'd do that. just met her.

[cool breeze]

I just realized that there was never a Prince in this game and Nathan Drake didn't have a name

and I think that the ending could actually be cool if they borrow the story from Versus in that

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it's basically an endless battle that keeps resetting with positions changed, like this time around Nathan Drake is the one Eleka runs away from and he is the one Ahriman controls in the sequel.  That would be pretty dumb actually, but they already had a dumb ending, so go for the bronze.

[close]

[WrikaWrek]

I know, i actually tried to get away before starting to cut some grass. I was like "Fuck this shit, i'm getting out of here".

But i couldn't. And everything then leading up to the ending, was me doing something i really didn't want to fucking do. I understand there's something mildly interesting about that feeling, the desire of the character vs the will of the player, and it does provoke an emotional response, but i don't think it's the emotional response i wanted to have.

Cause right now i'm like, me and Prince are over, fuck that douche, the guy does anything for a pair of legs. She was a nice gal, very interesting and all that but cmon man, nothing happened.

I just realized that there was never a Prince in this game and Nathan Drake didn't have a name

and I think that the ending could actually be cool if they borrow the story from Versus in that

spoiler (click to show/hide)

it's basically an endless battle that keeps resetting with positions changed, like this time around Nathan Drake is the one Eleka runs away from and he is the one Ahriman controls in the sequel.  That would be pretty dumb actually, but they already had a dumb ending, so go for the bronze.

[close]

He is a prince, all you gotta do is read between the lines. His backstory says a lot. A war when he was a kid, his parents sent him away for safety, he grew up and went looking for adventure. He's always coy about his background, which means he wants to hide who he really is, if he was a typical thief he would have no prob saying how he grew up and shit.

He's a prince, but probably only by bloodline, as his supposed kingdom is probably another one's kingdom now.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

These posts are making so excited for the ending 

[Sho Nuff]

Oh god no, I'm not collecting orbs, I'm not playing this

[Jansen]

after playing more of the game (halfway finished now) i've come to the conclusion that the combat really is awful

every fucking major fight devolves into a qte suckfest

[Junpei the Tracer!]

WTF

I thought it was funny when WrikaWrek said the ending ruined the game but absolutely see where he's coming from. I had a pit grow in my stomach as soon as I realized what was happening. Why!? I just don't understand.

WHY?
In other news I got 1001 light seeds.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

What worse is that I told myself to go to sleep but I didn't, instead I stood up till 2 AM beating the game and I have to go to sleep with this ending on my mind.

[Bebpo]

I don't approve of the ending.  It was really out of character for a guy who only thinks about himself and likes the girls but only just enough to pimp them and sleep with them.  It also makes everything in the game feel like it was pointless.  I give ubi props for trying something different for the ending, but I don't like it.

I'm not sure just what I played.  I don't know if it was really a game, or if it was an artsy adventure like ICO.  I think it's somewhere in the middle between the two.  The whole thing feels like the developer tried to re-envision Ico with a budget.

It was definitely worth playing and the achievements/trophies are pretty good.  It's not GoTY contender or anything, but it's something different and worth a try for every gamer.

[Bebpo]

Also, the one complaint I have is the PUZZLES in tier 2 of each of the 4 areas.  They completely broke the quick and fun pace of just track running and doing flips and instead it's like trial and error turning switches for 5 mins.  They felt completely inappropriate for the game and I'm surprised the dev team left them in.  They seemed more like an expirement that the team would have conceded did not work and then they would remove it.

[Don Flamenco]

No guys, PoP is awesome, the focus group said so.  He's selfish, but sensitive when it really counts!  hahahaha

[bork]

So I should get Mirror's Edge over this after all?  You guys are confusing the hell out of me.

[WrikaWrek]

Focus groups are what is going to prevent the industry to ever be taken seriously as an art form.

[archie4208]

Platforming feels sluggish and automatic.  I don't like it.

[siamesedreamer]

Finished it last night.

I agree about the ending.

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Its like I just spent ~15 hours fixing all this shit only to completely undo it. What Bepbo said makes sense too - dude only gave a shit about himself, but now he's going to essentially destroy the world again to save this girl's life?

[close]

Overall I really liked it. I dig games with a defined structure. It was very similar to Assasin's Creed in that regard. The art style is utterly brilliant (and I'm never one to care much for art in games). And I'm in love with Elika. They did a great job making her actions transparent for the most part. I hope this game sells well. 

[Don Flamenco]

Started playing the PC version and it's pretty decent.  The wise cracks are really my biggest complaint and the story is like some hodge podge of generic fantasy words and okami. The gameplay is not bad--I fall all the fucking time, so I can safely say I appreciate the saving mechanic.  The combat is pretty distinguished mentally-challenged and repetitive, but not horrible or broken.  

The graphics are pretty sweet running at a solid 60fps on the PC.  Ubisoft actually did a little optimization this time.  My only complaint about the graphics is that the fertile grounds scenes are super underwhelming--Okami really did the whole "bringing life back to the world" thing so much better.  

So, serve me up half a crow, it's a decent game.

[CurseoftheGods]

I am enjoying this game, but it's a total cakewalk. There's no challenge at all.

[littlemathletics]

It's an interactive story. Seriously, it's got more in common with something like Dragon's Lair than it does with the original Prince of Persia.

[CurseoftheGods]

Just beat it (took me three days). I liked:

+ Atmosphere, scale, and beauty of the environments.
+ Music.
+ Platforming.
+ The Prince and Elika's relationship. Partner system felt fluid and really helpful with no baby sitting.

Disliked:

- Orb collecting. Cheap game lengthening mechanic.
- Combat. Felt stiff, repetitive, and automated.
- Lack of challenge.
- Lack of puzzles.
- The prince is a douchebag.

I feel like the sequel could be really great if they fixed all of the problems with the original. The new graphical engine cranks out some spectacular vistas -- if only it were more fun to traverse them.

[y2kev]

So I think this is bombing.

[CurseoftheGods]

In terms of sales?

[y2kev]

Yeah, I've seen it price slashed at a few places already.

[demi]

Gamefly sent this out on Friday... another 1000 in my pocket soon enough

[CurseoftheGods]

Be sure not to save any time during the final battle (keep multiple save files). You wouldn't be able to play the game anymore and miss out on the remaining achievements.

Fuck me. :'( 

[demi]

I beat Bullet Witch 5 times for all 1000. I am prepared for anything

[Tucah]

Previously played about an hour and enjoyed it, continued a bit further today. It's fun enough, even if it's super easy and not as good as SoT.

[chronovore]

So would anyone here recommend picking this up at $30?

Where's it US$30? Shit-howdy, I'd buy it for that.

[The Fake Shemp]

The ending is kind of stupid, actually.

[demi]

Gamefly hath delivered. Time to get my emo on

[demi]

This game is boring

[demi]

I cant believe they make the popups for achievements / friends appear on the left side. Great genius idea there. Cause its stupid.