Sulphur on 13/11/2010 at 07:11
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
Ah, okay. I figured they must be really good if you were that angry about it.
Shit, bro, by now you should know if they're good or not. People still keep talking about them for a reason, you know.
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My real concern with playing a series out of order is spoiling the story, so if I don't have to worry about that, then okay.
Yep. Do yourself a favour and start with SoT. It's got one of the finer video game narratives in gaming.
Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett
Pop 3d? you mean the original pop from the 80s? That's the first one I've played... Yes it's hard but it's also the one that started it all. Telling someone to overlook it is silly imo. Besides, you can download the old pop games off the interwebs.:) Not like it'll cost you a dime.
Nope, not the original. PoP 3D was the next game in the series after PoP 2 that was released in (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_3D) 1999, and was a travesty of a game. The original's still great; that's what the second last paragraph in my post was referring to.
CCCToad on 13/11/2010 at 10:44
I'd also recommend the Xbox remake, which keeps the original's gameplay but substitutes the 8-bit graphics for the graphics found in the SOT trilogy.
Harvester on 13/11/2010 at 14:31
Prince of Persia 2 isn't that hard in my opinion, I finished it without too much frustration. What makes it hard is that players keep trying levels, then run out of time and have to start over from the very beginning of the game. That's frustrating, but it can be remedied by saving at the start of each level, then trying a level, and if you fail, reload the level so you don't lose any minutes. That way, you don't have to constantly restart the game from the beginning when you run out of time. When playing that way, it's still a pretty difficult game, but not so difficult that it wasn't fun, for me personally at least. Though some may consider this method cheating...
sNeaksieGarrett on 13/11/2010 at 15:33
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I'd also recommend the Xbox remake, which keeps the original's gameplay but substitutes the 8-bit graphics for the graphics found in the SOT trilogy.
An xbox remake? Cool.
@sulphur: Sorry, my bad. I also seemed to overlook that last part of the post. And yeah, it is a difficult game. I never did beat it. I got to like level 4 and that's the farthest I've ever gotten. Haven't played it in a long time.
Enchantermon on 13/11/2010 at 20:43
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Shit, bro, by now you should know if they're good or not. People still keep talking about them for a reason, you know.
Point taken, but a lot of people have differing tastes. Though I wouldn't have even picked them up if I hadn't heard people talking about them a lot.
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Yep. Do yourself a favour and start with SoT. It's got one of the finer video game narratives in gaming.
Will do.
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I'd also recommend the Xbox remake, which keeps the original's gameplay but substitutes the 8-bit graphics for the graphics found in the SOT trilogy.
No Xbox here.
Nameless Voice on 14/11/2010 at 00:08
Quote Posted by Harvester
Prince of Persia 2 isn't
that hard in my opinion
Except that it has some puzzles that make no sense at all, such as one where
you have to let yourself die in a very specific way in a very specific spot - the hint is there, but the solution is so random that there's no way you could figure it out without a walkthrough or random chance. And the latter is unlikely since
you have to wait for a while after you die before the game will proceed, and most people would just reload at that point. The last level also punished you by making the game unwinnable if you didn't find enough health-increasing potions through the game - though it did have a stupid fight with an endless supply of them if you were willing to waste long minutes at it. A very bizarre and out-of-place fight.
Enchantermon: I see Gothic 2 and Gothic 3 in your list, but not Gothic 1. Definitely play that first if you haven't already.
Jason Moyer on 14/11/2010 at 01:11
Stuff I haven't played to completion, or in the case of strategy/multiplayer/racing games, for more than a few hours.
PC
Aliens Vs Predator 2010
Amnesia
Arcanum
Audiosurf
Avencast
Baldur's Gate
Beneath A Steel Sky
Blood Stone
Borderlands (just the 4 DLC)
Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood
Caesar II
Call Of Cthulhu
Chronicles Of Riddick Escape From Butcher Bay
Chronicles Of Riddick Assault On Dark Athena
Civilization IV (with both expansions)
Civilization IV Colonization
Civilization V
Company Of Heroes (+ Tales Of Valor)
Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble!
Darkstar One
Dead Rising 2
Descent 3
Dragon Age Awakening (+ all of the post-release DLC)
Empire Total War
Evil Genius
Fallout 2
Fallout Tactics
Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich
Front Page Sports Golf
Galactic Civilizations II
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Ghostbusters
Gorky 17
Gothic II Gold
Gothic 4 Arcania
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto IV
Hidden & Dangerous 2
Hitman Contracts
Hitman Blood Money
Icewind Dale
Icewind Dale II
IL-2 1946
Indigo Prophecy
Jagged Alliance Deadly Games
King's Bounty Armored Princess/Crossworlds
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
LEGO Batman
LEGO Indiana Jones 2
Lionheart
Lure Of The Temptress
Medal Of Honor Spearhead
Medal Of Honor Breakthrough
Medal Of Honor Pacific Assault
Medal Of Honor Airborne
Metro 2033
MLB Front Office Manager
Moonbase Commander
Napoleon Total War
Neverwinter Nights
Operation Flashpoint Resistance
Painkiller Battle Out Of Hell
Painkiller Overdose
Plain Sight
Planescape Torment
Prince Of Persia The Forgotten Sands
Project Snowblind
Quake II
Quake III
Railroads!
Rainbow Six Vegas
Red Faction Guerrila
Resident Evil 5
Sacred Gold
Scrapland
The Ship
Sniper Elite
Splinter Cell Double Agent
Splinter Cell Conviction
Spore (+ both expansions)
Star Wars Empire At War Gold
Star Wars The Force Unleashed
Star Wars The Force Unleashed II
Teen Agent
Temple Of Elemental Evil
Tex Murphy 1+2
Tomb Raider Underworld
Transformers War For Cybertron
Two Worlds
Viva Pinata
Wolfenstein 2009
X3 Reunion
Zeno Clash
Fuck a list of xbox games, as it's almost all of them.
Mr.Duck on 14/11/2010 at 01:14
Well, I'm currently balancing out, more or less, my game time as follows:
Playing a new game currently: Metroid: Other M.
Replaying a good game that I finished: Deus Ex.
Playing and hoping to finish a not-so-new/old game: The Witcher.
Now I need to add an old school game to finish up.
See, I've piled up my games in the following categories:
* New Games: They can be Good new games or Top Priority games. TP games get inmediatly played from start to finish and everything else is left on hold (because the game sucks me in it's void). A Good new game is a recently bought game that I -may- or -may not- play inmediatly, but I won't stop playing other games I'm currently playing. Good new games have the danger of becoming Unfinished Business games, mostly because I either -don't- play'em after I bought'em or got sidetracked by a TP game.
* Unfinished Business: what my backlog consists about pretty much. They can be games that I've owned for a period longer than 1/2 year or they can be games that I missed out on buying on their original run (i.e. getting a PSOne Final Fantasy game years after their original release) and that I've yet to finish. They can be recent-ish games, games a few years old or old school (2, 3, even 4 generations below).
* Replays: Games that I wuv so much that I have kept over the years despite the purges to my catalogue and -still- take the time to replay'em. It may take me a while to get to X or Y game, but I'll eventually replay it again :)
What I really need to focus now is my old school UB catalogue...will have to do a retro month, hmmm.
Enchantermon on 14/11/2010 at 02:11
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Enchantermon: I see Gothic 2 and Gothic 3 in your list, but not Gothic 1. Definitely play that first if you haven't already.
Yes, I plan on it. It wasn't on my list because I don't yet own it; my list was compiled on the fly from accounts on the websites I've purchased from and the boxes on my shelf.
Mr.Duck on 14/11/2010 at 04:52
Hooboy...
PC:
STEAM:
* Arma 2.
* Bob Came In Pieces.
* Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood.
* Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth.
* Call Of Duty: United Offensive.
* Call Of Juarez: Bound In Blood.
* Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
* Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath.
* Commander Keen Complete Pack (Only finished the 1st game, if memory serves).
* Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines.
* Commandos 2: Men Of Courage.
* Commandos 3: Destination Berlin.
* Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.
* Company Of Heroes: Tales Of Valor.
* Darwinia.
* DEFCON.
* Doom II: Hell On Earth (Yes, I know, shut up...).
* Dragon Age: Origins.
* Dragon Age: Awakening.
* Empire: Total War.
* Napoleon: Total War.
* F.E.A.R: Extraction Point.
* F.E.A.R: Perseus Mandate.
* Fallout: New Vegas.
* FarCry 2.
* Final Doom.
* Freedom Force.
* Freedom Force vs The Third Reich.
* Gothic II: Gold Edition.
* Grand Theft Auto.
* Grand Theft Auto 2.
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
* Guild Wars Trilogy.
* Guild Wars: Eye Of The North.
* Half-Life: Blue Shift.
* Herecit: Shadow Of The Serpent Riders (have to finish the extra episodes).
* Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
* IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
* Just Cause 2.
* King's Bounty: The Legend.
* King's Bounty: Armored Princess.
* Mafia II.
* Medieval II: Total War.
* Medieval II: Kingdoms.
* Metro 2033.
* Operation Flashpoin: Dragon Rising.
* Overlord.
* Painkiller: Black Edition.
* Red Faction: Guerrilla.
* Rome: Total War Gold Edition.
* Saints Row 2.
* Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter.
* Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter.
* Sid Meier's Civilization IV.
* Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword.
* Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization.
* Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords.
* Silent Hunter III.
* Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces 2.
* Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries Of The Sith.
* Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy.
* Star Wars: Dark Forces.
* Tales Of Monkey Island.
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon.
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege.
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon:: Island Thunder.
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition.
* Trine.
* Tropico.
* Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.
* Tropico 3: Steam Special Edition.
* The Ultimate Doom (just need to finish Thy Flesh Consumed).
* Unreal Gold (I know, shut up).
* Unreal II: Awakening.
* Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
* Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War Gold.
* Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War - Dark Crusade.
* Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War - Soulstorm.
* Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War II.
* Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War II - Chaos Rising.
* The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (currently playing).
* Wolfenstein 3D (I-EFFING-KNOW.....fs....shush!)
* Wolfenstein 3D: Spear Of Destiny.
* World In Conflict: Soviet Assault.
* X-Com: UFO Defense (I know, I know, I know, I know, shut up, shut up, shut up).
* The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game Of The Year Edition.
* The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game Of The Year Edition.
GOG:
* Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
* Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga.
* Beneath a Steel Sky.
* Blood (One Unit Whole Blood).
* Descent.
* Descent 2.
* Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition (I know...........).
* Fallout 2.
* Descent: Freespace + Expansion.
* Freespace 2.
* Giants: Citizen Kabuto.
* Icewind Dale Complete.
* Icewind Dale 2 Complete.
* Independence War Deluxe.
* Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos
* Jagged Alliance.
* Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games.
* Lure Of The Temptress.
* MDK 2.
* Myst Masterpiece Edition.
* Neverwinter Nights Diamond.
* Outcast.
* Raptor: Call of the Shadows 2010 Edition.
* Riven: The Sequel To Myst.
* Sacrifice.
* Syberia.
* Syberia II.
* Teen Agent.
* The Temple Of Elemental Evil.
* Tex Murphy 1+2.
* Tex Murphy: OverSeer.
* Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive.
* Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon.
* Total Annihilation: Commander Pack.
PHYSICAL:
* The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.
* Supreme Commander.
* Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.
* Anachronox.
* Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under fire (ugh...in Spanish from Spain, alas...).
* TIE-Fighter: Collector's Edition.
* Sid Meier's Pirates! - Live The Life.
* Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe.
* Homeworld.
* Myth: The Fallen Lords.
* Myth II: Soulblighter.
* Myth II: Worlds.
* Baldur's Gate II: Shadows Of Amn (waiting for it to be on COG to buy it and give this one as a gift).
* Baldur's Gate II: Throne Of Bhaal (ditto).
* The Curse Of Monkey Island.
* Blade Runner.
Holy shit, that's a long backlog......and I'm still missing the d/led games for the consoles.....*Dies*
