Zero Punctuation: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Bah, played Sands of Time recently (after being bored and remembering his chat with Susan about it) and while I enjoyed the game, playing it after Assassin's Creed 2 felt like "oh so this is how AC2 would feel if it had no assassins".
While the combat functioned similarly to AC (block, wait for strike, click for counterattack or if you have to, bounce off against the walls to slash em), it felt incredibly boring, out of place and completely frustrating. If it's still there with just bigger numbers (God weren't they big enough?! >.<), think I'll give it a miss and wait for AC3.
While the combat functioned similarly to AC (block, wait for strike, click for counterattack or if you have to, bounce off against the walls to slash em), it felt incredibly boring, out of place and completely frustrating. If it's still there with just bigger numbers (God weren't they big enough?! >.<), think I'll give it a miss and wait for AC3.
Forgotten Sands is an insult to the Sands of Time series.
The combat was shit and obviously ripped of from GoW, the plattforming half-arsed and scrubby, the story is beyond lame as the twodimensional characters ad the fact the Sands of Time or the Dahaka have no involvement in this game, too short, TOO EASY, and nothing kills you which happens in this game(arrows flying at you, Ratash firing you with fireballs, whole castle falling apart). I fucking hate Razia for being a useless ***** and ruining the mystery of the SoT-universe in one cutscene. This is how you show your fans the middlefinger.
If you like this game, you are no fan to the Prince of Persia genre, since it's supposed to be hard and challenging, not casual GRAPHIXXARTSY.
Yahtzee, stop using the half-arsed EMO-card(you don't even know what emo means anyway) and start showing appreciation for WW. It doesn't have the "genius" as SoT has, but combat,plattforming and PLOT is alot better, no, superior to any PoP release afterwards. I rather see sequels like those than THIS. Deal with it.
The combat was shit and obviously ripped of from GoW, the plattforming half-arsed and scrubby, the story is beyond lame as the twodimensional characters ad the fact the Sands of Time or the Dahaka have no involvement in this game, too short, TOO EASY, and nothing kills you which happens in this game(arrows flying at you, Ratash firing you with fireballs, whole castle falling apart). I fucking hate Razia for being a useless ***** and ruining the mystery of the SoT-universe in one cutscene. This is how you show your fans the middlefinger.
If you like this game, you are no fan to the Prince of Persia genre, since it's supposed to be hard and challenging, not casual GRAPHIXXARTSY.
Yahtzee, stop using the half-arsed EMO-card(you don't even know what emo means anyway) and start showing appreciation for WW. It doesn't have the "genius" as SoT has, but combat,plattforming and PLOT is alot better, no, superior to any PoP release afterwards. I rather see sequels like those than THIS. Deal with it.
The first thing that annoyed me about the game, just from seeing the trailers, was the Prince's voice. I mean, it was so deep and growly. You know, like someone that feels like they need to qualify their bad-assery by having a "tough-sounding" voice that makes him sound like a total wanker (a British slang term that my Yankee self shouldn't be using but will anyways because it sounds funny). See, I don't think the Prince needs bad-assery qualification, because the qualification forms were signed a while ago when he got a dagger that lets him REVERSE TIME.
I had no problem with the original Sands of Time Prince's voice, and hell, they could've just gotten Nolan North like they always do. Also, it's the same voice actor as the original Sands trilogy, so why did he change his tone? I don't remember his voice being so stupid in the first 3 games. Anyways, I might get it, if I find the money somewhere.
P.S. In the movie, he actually has a name: Dastan. Stupid name is STUPID.
I had no problem with the original Sands of Time Prince's voice, and hell, they could've just gotten Nolan North like they always do. Also, it's the same voice actor as the original Sands trilogy, so why did he change his tone? I don't remember his voice being so stupid in the first 3 games. Anyways, I might get it, if I find the money somewhere.
P.S. In the movie, he actually has a name: Dastan. Stupid name is STUPID.
Was hopin for some E3 bashing, oh well, maybe in 2 weeks time (since next week will most likely be NMH2)
Wait, it's a bad thing that enemies spend a long time 'telegraphing' their attacks? You can't have mob combat without that unless you want it to be very very hard.
Does anyone else feel that the sands of time idea--there is sand and it has power over time and the potential to make zombies and can be controlled with that dagger--really wasn't so interesting that it warranted four games and a movie to explore? Don't get me wrong, I thought it was marvelous when I played Sands of Time, and it was. That game had such a charming feel to it, like it was its own little self-contained fairy tale. It felt like one of the stories from 1001 Nights, and I thought they would use that kind of feel for the sequels (I got Sands of Time long after it was actually released, so I knew there were already sequels, and after playing Sands of Time I was very excited to try them). But instead they tried to drag it out, using the one idea that was really good from a 'this is a quick, simple story that is told with great skill and polish' perspective and trying to make it seem like some great, epic saga. But it really wasn't.
Sands of Time was like 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' But imagine if, after telling Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the author decided to cash in on his story's popularity and wrote a sequel about what happened to Goldilocks after she left the Three Bears' house, about her wandering through the woods and getting lost and swearing vengeance against the Bears, and then another sequel where she returned to the house of the Three Bears and basically went through the same story all over again, except this time she killed the bears and took over their house! That is what every Prince of Persia game after Sands of Time, and the movie, feels like to me. The stuff that happens after Sands of Time isn't really that important. It's just complicated nonsense that detracts from the original awesomeness.
It's also just like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies--the first one was really funny and very entertaining. It had this sort of modest charm to it--very simple story, very well told. But then they turned it into a trilogy, like there was some big epic story behind it. There wasn't! I saw the second one, and I thought it was absolutely, 100% garbage! There was nothing in that movie that was necessary, nothing truly new that made the story better (there were plenty of new things that made the story WORSE, of course). It took everything that was fun about the first one and made it forced and lame. It's nothing but a marketing formula, a trick that soulless, greedy jerks use to suck our hard-earned money away! Why do we fall for it?
Sands of Time was like 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.' But imagine if, after telling Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the author decided to cash in on his story's popularity and wrote a sequel about what happened to Goldilocks after she left the Three Bears' house, about her wandering through the woods and getting lost and swearing vengeance against the Bears, and then another sequel where she returned to the house of the Three Bears and basically went through the same story all over again, except this time she killed the bears and took over their house! That is what every Prince of Persia game after Sands of Time, and the movie, feels like to me. The stuff that happens after Sands of Time isn't really that important. It's just complicated nonsense that detracts from the original awesomeness.
It's also just like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies--the first one was really funny and very entertaining. It had this sort of modest charm to it--very simple story, very well told. But then they turned it into a trilogy, like there was some big epic story behind it. There wasn't! I saw the second one, and I thought it was absolutely, 100% garbage! There was nothing in that movie that was necessary, nothing truly new that made the story better (there were plenty of new things that made the story WORSE, of course). It took everything that was fun about the first one and made it forced and lame. It's nothing but a marketing formula, a trick that soulless, greedy jerks use to suck our hard-earned money away! Why do we fall for it?