Prince of Persia DS • Gaming • DS • Eurogamer.net

Pac-man-ate-my-wife 22 Jul 2005 00:46:28 7,087 posts
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Is going to be a card-based battler thingybob.

Which means I've just lost all interest in the title

Edited by Pac-man ate my wife at 00:45:29 22-07-2005

asphaltcowboy 22 Jul 2005 00:48:27 5,157 posts
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Hmmm looks odd. Bit silly calling the thread "Prince of Persia DS" as, well, it's not really, is it?

Freek 22 Jul 2005 00:53:54 7,682 posts
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File that under: "lest ripp off MGS ACID". Is that going to be a new trend? If you make a new game in the franchise for a portable format it must be a card game!

Pac-man-ate-my-wife 22 Jul 2005 01:33:11 7,087 posts
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I'd really prefer a port of the original side-scrolling game with the odd touch-screen mini-game/puzzle thrown in than this.

It's just a bit ridiculous taking a game that's famed for it's free-flowing action and turning into a tedious card game affair.

Oh well, I suppose it saves me 25 quid.

Retroid Moderator 22 Jul 2005 01:34:53 45,464 posts
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Jayzus, what a waste...

Moist 22 Jul 2005 02:46:37 390 posts
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What a disappointment.

kururin 22 Jul 2005 02:53:16 1,211 posts
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Looks okay.

Now that they make a game specifically with the DS in mind, WE WANT THE REGULAR GAMES WITH THROWAWAY TOUCHSCREEN/2SCREEN USE BACK. Cry cry.

Pac-man-ate-my-wife 22 Jul 2005 03:02:53 7,087 posts
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kururin wrote:
Looks okay.

Now that they make a game specifically with the DS in mind, WE WANT THE REGULAR GAMES WITH THROWAWAY TOUCHSCREEN/2SCREEN USE BACK. Cry cry.

I've got nothing against the game design per se (well, except that it bores the pants off me) it's just shackling the PoP name to it when it's not in the least bit like ALL THE OTHER PoP GAMES EVER.

Ideally what I want is a fully 3D PoP in the vien of SoT that at least uses some of the DS features (like casting spells by speaking them out loud for instance). If they can't do that then a rehash with touch screen functions would suffice. But to call this PoP is like creating HALF LIFE 2: POKER where you can play as Gordon Freeman as he gambles his way through an alien infested landscape.

Retroid Moderator 22 Jul 2005 03:02:59 45,464 posts
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Strangely, I want good games from a series with a lot of potential on this format, actually.

Cry cry.

kururin 22 Jul 2005 03:15:21 1,211 posts
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Strangely you know fuck-all about this game.

kururin 22 Jul 2005 03:24:26 1,211 posts
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Here.

I seriously don't think I'm going to like this game and it will probably suck, but I think that alone is okay, and it doesn't have anything to do with my previous posts. What I'm saying is; the basis for disapproval displayed in this thread, as opposed to what you know, is fucking retarded. That is all.

asphaltcowboy 22 Jul 2005 03:54:37 5,157 posts
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Pac-man ate my wife wrote:
I've got nothing against the game design per se (well, except that it bores the pants off me) it's just shackling the PoP name to it when it's not in the least bit like ALL THE OTHER PoP GAMES EVER.

So a bit like MGA then?

Pac-man-ate-my-wife 22 Jul 2005 05:07:34 7,087 posts
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kururin wrote:
Here.

I seriously don't think I'm going to like this game and it will probably suck, but I think that alone is okay, and it doesn't have anything to do with my previous posts. What I'm saying is; the basis for disapproval displayed in this thread, as opposed to what you know, is fucking retarded. That is all.

As I've actually read the article I'd refute claims of retardedness but then again we're all a bit spongy-headed being gamers and all.

What we know (all direct quotes from the article):
a) "Instead of offering up the familiar action/adventure experience on the Nintendo DS, Ubisoft Montreal is instead building a card battle-based design..."

b) "Within Battles of Prince of Persia, players will command units and troops within a familiar "Tactics" interface, as well as control fights via a card battle system utilizing rules created specifically for this design."

All of which means, from the little we know, it ain't a PoP game as the series has come to represent is it? It's a card-based battle game with the characters from the series.

The game may very well be brilliant and I'm not suggesting it's not going to be. It's just if you love PoP this is kinda the antithesis of it and so is disappointing in that very important regard.

Retroid Moderator 22 Jul 2005 09:46:56 45,464 posts
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kururin wrote:
fucking retarded

A brave admission

pjmaybe 22 Jul 2005 10:06:59 70,666 posts
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Believe me, as fantastic as Metal Gear Acid is - I don't want to see this done to every single title.

Especially not an out and out action game like POP.

Peej

Singularity 22 Jul 2005 10:08:09 3,282 posts
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Singularity 22 Jul 2005 10:08:52 3,282 posts
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Battles of Prince of Persia?

There're way too many 'of's in that title.

Teeth 22 Jul 2005 11:54:41 7,987 posts
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What's fucking retarded is ruining PoP by making it into a card game.

pjmaybe 22 Jul 2005 11:55:46 70,666 posts
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Well it wouldn't work as POPSOT.

DS can't handle it. No it's not a flame post, the DS would not be able to do a proper 3D actioner on the scape of POP, FACT.

Peej

Teeth 22 Jul 2005 11:59:33 7,987 posts
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I'm thinking original style 2D Prince of Persia. It seems so obvious. Let's say you have the top screen for most of your platforming and the bottoms screen can be used as a screen extension or for stylus moments where you need to work out some door mechanism or arcane magical hex display thing or something.

Instead they bring you... a card game! Sounds fun to me.

Edited by Teeth at 11:58:44 22-07-2005

pjmaybe 22 Jul 2005 12:00:25 70,666 posts
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Yes but 2D is dirty. God said so.

Peej

Teeth 22 Jul 2005 12:01:31 7,987 posts
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If 2D is dirty... then... I am dirty! Yes, dirty.

Retroid Moderator 22 Jul 2005 12:03:04 45,464 posts
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pjmaybe wrote:
Yes but 2D is dirty. God said so.

'Good' dirty or 'bad' dirty?

Lutz 22 Jul 2005 12:03:58 48,870 posts
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Retroid wrote:
'Good' dirty or 'bad' dirty?

Pot Noodle Dirty. So wrong, but just so right.

Teeth 22 Jul 2005 12:04:51 7,987 posts
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Persil say that dirt is good. Who is right?

pjmaybe 22 Jul 2005 12:38:50 70,666 posts
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Retroid wrote:

pjmaybe wrote:
Yes but 2D is dirty. God said so.
'Good' dirty or 'bad' dirty?

Bad "get back in your basket you dirty dirty beast" dirty...

Peej

tpfkanep 22 Jul 2005 13:29:37 306 posts
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UBI = EA. They should've stopped with SoT.

Retroid Moderator 22 Jul 2005 13:31:33 45,464 posts
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tpfkanep wrote:
UBI = EA.

Nah - I like some of Ubi's stuff

They should never have messed with PoP's formula. They got it perfect with Sands of Time :/

pjmaybe 22 Jul 2005 13:33:06 70,666 posts
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Ironic how POP 3D (the post-Tomb Raider abortion) always gets completely forgotten about doesn't it, let alone the original 2 Prince of Persia games by Broderbund...

Peej

Retroid Moderator 22 Jul 2005 13:45:51 45,464 posts
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Annoying, is what it is.

I still just think of Tomb Raider as a Prince of Persia wannabe.

Pity PoP 3D was shite, I'd been looking forward to that for ages