Poll: Who do you parkour with?

[davidboring]

So being that yesterday was the big day and I recieved Assassin's Creed 2, I have noticed I now own three variatons of sort-of-parkor-ish-free-running games. They're also pretty polarising games, people seem to either love or hate these three.

Personally, I like them all. For me, there's something about the Assassins' free-running that makes it feel the most free; that being said, I think Mirror's Edge is the most satisfying.

So what's your favourite way to run the rooftops?

 

[Mr. Grey]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

 

[Inco]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

Really, this is the end all of this thread. As Parkour was made into the movement in this game as a main element (and selling point)

Plus, it is AWESOME.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Prince of Persia.

Really, I don't think anything tops it.

Although the cinematic platforming of Uncharted 2 deserves a mention, but I wouldn't call it parkour.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I like those I've played (the prince of persia trilogy and mirror's edge) pretty fudging well >_> cannot decide

 

[Dark Knifer]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

It is all awsome, especially throwing them off the building with musclemass on.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

It might have been more simplistic than the free-running in the games you mentioned, but Beyond Good & Evil was excellent.

PS: Anybody see that gameplay-footage of the sequel? That stuff's TIGHT!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Prototype just crushes everything in it's way. Gets you there sure, but it's not graceful.

So true.

But I'm going with Ezio & Alty personally, because of the places where they go.

 

[Kollega]

From the games that actually have parkour (and not platforming, rocket-jumping, or smashing yourself through barricades made of APCs [footnote][HEADING=3]Yes, what you do in Prototype is NOT parkour - it's just demolition derby with a superpowered flying mutant instead of a car.[/HEADING][/footnote] to victory) as their gameplay basis, it's easily Mirror's Edge. Rather fluid, pretty immersive, and it's actually about parkour in it's purest sense.

 

[Aunel]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

ditto,
I'll sing a song for you.

 

[Dys]

Well, I've grinded most of the way through the second assasins creed in the past few days and, given that I never finished mirrors edge or liked PoP (at least the latest one wasn't particularly to my liking) it would be the obvious choice. It wouldn't be mine, however. I'd choose mirrors edge, despite not completeing it (I played on PC and scored a wonderful bug that erased my savegame completely towards the end, I wasn't keen to restart it), as the OP said, it is the most satisfying.

Also, I've been playing AC2 on my PS3, and I really hate the dual shock controllers (I could've got it on xbox 360 but that creates conflict as father 'borrowed' the console and uses it for DVDs, it's also on the family tv and is way too much effort fight my family for). Had I been playing it on a system with a less retarded control I may have liked it more (my hands are far too big for the playstation controller, which is why I hate them, don't bother responding and telling me they are the best, they are my least favorite and no amount of flame is going to change that).

 

[_Janny_]

Mirror's Edge and PoP seem the most parkour-ish to me, but my fave of the two is ME. Who can forget jumping from one crane to another, thinking there's no chance in hell you'll make it, and you just barely land on the other side, dumbfounded as hell and excited by your seemingly impossible accomplishment.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

ditto,
I'll sing a song for you.

Maybe this one?
Don't ask why, it just be funny when you think about it...

 

[Jamash]

With A. Gent from Crackdown.

Why sit stuck in a traffic jam when you can get out of your car, pick it up and Parkour your way over rooftops, carrying your car to your destination?

However, when you can effortlessly climb a skyscraper, sprint at 50mph, leap hundreds of feet to other rooftops and choose to fall from a 50 story building and stomp through a car or person, is it even Parkour anymore?

A Crackdown agent's superhuman toughness, athletic prowess and agility rather takes the skill, risk and sport out of it, but even if it technically isn't Parkour, Crackdown was still the first game that allowed me to experience and appreciate the freedoms that Parkour gives people, and it made me look at a cityscape in an entirely new way - no longer were roads and back alleys the quickest route from A to B.

 

[Aunel]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

ditto,
I'll sing a song for you.

Maybe this one?
Don't ask why, it just be funny when you think about it...

no, singing System is surprisingly difficult,

I'll do Master Of Puppets, you can never go wrong with Metallica

 

[Dark Knifer]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

ditto,
I'll sing a song for you.

Maybe this one?
Don't ask why, it just be funny when you think about it...

no, singing System is surprisingly difficult,

I'll do Master Of Puppets, you can never go wrong with Metallica

True, metallica is great, but I was hardly expecting system to be easy to sing. Especially their debut album.

Spoiler: try this one...

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

Crackdown.

 

[spartan773]

well it's kind of a tie between Altair, Ezio and Faith.

 

[brumby]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

It is all awsome, especially throwing them off the building with musclemass on.

hehe yeah thats fun watching them hurl through the air.. I once took a guy to very tip of the empire state building..

 

[Aunel]

Prototype.

Running around sprinting at full speed and then snatching someone from the crowd as everyone below wonders what the heck just happened. Then later consuming said person on the rooftop. It's all awesome.

ditto,
I'll sing a song for you.

Maybe this one?
Don't ask why, it just be funny when you think about it...

no, singing System is surprisingly difficult,

I'll do Master Of Puppets, you can never go wrong with Metallica

True, metallica is great, but I was hardly expecting system to be easy to sing. Especially their debut album.

Spoiler: try this one...

yeah, Serj Tankian is a great singer,
when are they getting back together?