Renzatic on 24/12/2010 at 21:59
Shame. Doubly so considering the PoP remake isn't for PC.
Guess I'll be picking up Lego Indiana Jones 2 then. Or the original PoP off of GoG.
Sulphur on 24/12/2010 at 22:17
I played Forgotten Sands on the PC -- it's the only game with the Ubi Uber DRM that I couldn't resist getting. It's not fantastic, because the story is quite underwhelming and forgettable, but the gameplay is that good, tight old SoT stuff we always wanted, plus with some neat twists thrown in that get you back into that zen space where your mind blanks out and you're swallowed up by the flow of traversing a level from one end to the other.
I'd say get it cheap if you can and you don't mind having to find a crack for the stupid always-on internet thing.
Renzatic on 24/12/2010 at 22:22
I think I might wait on it. Maybe get the cel shaded Prince of Persia, or maybe one of the Sands of Time sequels I never played.
Besides the ultra corny edgy nu-metal bullshit, how is Warrior Within? Is it pretty fun? What about The Two Thrones?
edit: Just picked up the Indie Fright Pack. The Void for 5 bucks? Sure! Plus Burn Zombie Burn looks like a cool Robotorn-alike. And The Path always piqued my interest, might as well try it out, too.
Sulphur on 24/12/2010 at 22:43
You never played the sequels? Well, they all suck story-wise. Warrior Within might work you up into a frothy rage if you play it directly after SoT, it's a complete stylistic and tonal shift into emo-goth territory with metal underwear and Godsmack guitars. (
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/3/) Here's PA on the subject. The Two Thrones tries to address that but ends up being slightly unsuccessful because how the fuck do you consolidate two almost completely contradictory games into a single, beating heart? However, when it comes to the gameplay for the two, you get better combat and tighter platforming. The gameplay's all good.
Mostly.
Except for the parts where there's a long-ass, unskippable intro to a boss fight and then you get murderised and the checkpoint takes you all the way back to the long-ass intro.
Nameless Voice on 24/12/2010 at 23:10
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Shame. Doubly so considering the PoP remake isn't for PC.
Eh? It's available on PC just fine, I bought it when it was on sale for around €3.50?
Quote Posted by Sulphur
I'd say get it cheap if you can and you don't mind having to find a crack for the stupid always-on internet thing.
Cracks? For Steam games? I can't imagine that working.
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Besides the ultra corny edgy nu-metal bullshit, how is Warrior Within? Is it pretty fun? What about The Two Thrones?
The Sands of Time is hands-down the best, but the other two games are fun, too.
I didn't like Warrior Within's music, and I much preferred Sands of Time's simpler combat with the sand-retrieval mechanic. The boss battles were also annoyingly and needlessly difficult and frustrating, and the fact that the stupid death animations were unskippable was just idiotic (I deleted the files to solve that, though that may not work in the Steam version). However, it still had the same acrobatic puzzles, the level design was good, and I really liked the Dahaka chase scenes
I... can't really remember The Two Thrones that well. It was more of the same, but it tried to shift a little away from Warrior Within's dark and brooding theme, and more back towards Sands of Time's brighter, more cheerful outlook.
I hated that it continued on from the storyline of the
secret ending in Warrior Within, which most people (myself included) hadn't even seen from playing the previous game, since it required finding every single secret in the game...
I don't quite understand why you're asking now, though? They're all back up to €7.50?
I bought the whole set for €2.50 each on the first day of the sale, surely that would have been the time to buy them? :erg:
Sulphur on 24/12/2010 at 23:34
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Cracks? For Steam games? I can't imagine that working.
I don't see why not. It's just a question of placing the fixed .exe file(s) in the requisite game directory within the steamapps/common folder and
not launching it via Steam.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Eh? It's available on PC just fine, I bought it when it was on sale for around €3.50?
Renz is probably taking about Prince of Persia Classic, the remake of the original 1989 PoP that Ubi released on the consoles with SoT's graphics.
Kuuso on 24/12/2010 at 23:36
Am I the only person who considers the modern PoP's to be extremely dull both platform- and combat-wise? You end up repeating the moves times and times again in levels that don't really have anything else but bars to hang on to. It doesn't help the story and voice-acting is horrible.
catbarf on 24/12/2010 at 23:46
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The drawback is you can't use any other upgrades, and most of them are a lot more useful than magnum ammo.
According to Steam, I have played the game for 35 hours, and I have yet to get any such upgrades. It's not like Call of Duty where everyone starts with useful perks and you just get access to alternatives as you progress- the Medic doesn't even start with a medkit.
I really wanted to like the game which is why I keep coming back to it for a few hours at a time, but bullshit like getting one-shotted by shotgun slugs from hundreds of yards away, having helicopters dropped on my head, instant death to knifing after putting half a clip in the guy, Carl Gustavs with Explosives Mk2, and mortars, grenades, noob-tubes, UAV rockets, C4, and other assorted instruments of instant explosive death really kill the experience for me.
In other news, Battlefield 2 is $5, which is a very good deal if you've never played it. It has a very nice combined arms feel (even though the vehicle simulations are somewhat lacking) and some of the maps are simply huge and work great with 64 players.
Renzatic on 24/12/2010 at 23:53
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Renz is probably taking about Prince of Persia Classic, the remake of the original 1989 PoP that Ubi released on the consoles with SoT's graphics.
Actually, I was talking about the Sand of Time HD remake that came out for the PS3 just recently. For some reason, when NV said reboot, it was the first thing that popped into my head.
Considering my current gaming mood, if there's one game I really want to play, it's Tomb Raider 2 for PC. Prince of Persia is piquing my interest only because it's somewhat similar.
Sulphur on 24/12/2010 at 23:55
Ah, that. From what I hear, it's just Sands of Time with a resolution upgrade (PS2->PS3) and some normal maps.
I'll probably still get it anyway though.
