Zero Punctuation: Prince of Persia Retrospective

[Melaisis]

Heh, The Pet Shop Boys make the end of this video worth watching alone.

 

[StatikShock]

Sorry? XD

Sorry, it was kind of long winded

Its not Spiderman 2 - its either silent hill 4 or residant evil 4.

No, it's not.

 

[mathias53]

Its Spider-man 2 because that game was facking ursome. The best was climbing to the top of the empire state building and jumping off only to catch yourself at the last second.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

Everybody's still posting about Yahtzee's top 5? Sheesh

I know, especially since everyone's just posting the exact same list. Also, you know he likes Spiderman 2 because he talks about it at great length on his website. But does it really matter?

 

[otterbeans]

Bargain bins at Gamestop, here I come.

No matter how many times Silent Hill 2 is recommended, I'll never play it. I'd be paralyzed with fear for more than a week.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

That was a very funny review, poor Prince of Persia gets crushed by the TARDIS in the end.

 

[Evan Waters]

I'm not absolutely sure whether it's SPIDER-MAN 2 or not (though the apparent hyphen in the title seems to indicate such), but I'm not sure why it would be a great shock. Sure, Tobey Maguire completely phones it in and I think Kirsten Dunst may have literally done so, and the green missions can get very repetitive (you don't have to take them, obviously, but my good samaritanness always kicked in), but it's loads of fun and almost zenlike since you can just swing around the city as much as you want without actually doing anything. And yeah, skyscraper-diving never gets old.

I'm sure like any responsible gamer, Yahtzee alters his list every single time he thinks on the subject.

Back to the topic- it's ironic that one of the hardest ever 2-D platformers eventually became one of the most accessible 3-D ones, due to rewinding, generally good controls and your character's actual ability to do cool-ass things. I don't even think the actual combat mechanics are bad- what's bad is the goddamn respawning. Vaulting over people's heads is enjoyable, but I cannot think of a single reason why you would have more enemies popping in just for the Hell of it, especially since it isn't really a combat game anyway. The appeal is the platforming, the knife fights are just there to break it up.

I am disappointed that the newer one seems to be moving away from a pure Arabian Nights fantasy thing (though, technically, Persia is not Arabian anyhow) towards a more Miyazaki-esque world of gaping canyons and big vertical cities. It's kind of pretty but it's not as distinctive.

 

[UnconditionalZeldaLove]

Ditto, if I played Silent hill two I wouldn't be able to sleep for a year.

 

[hypercube]

Well, I've never played any of the PoP games, but now I think perhaps I should. I reckon they'll be pretty cheap by now, which is a good reason to buy classic old games and see what everyone is making a fuss about.

 

[hypercube]

Bargain bins at Gamestop, here I come.

No matter how many times Silent Hill 2 is recommended, I'll never play it. I'd be paralyzed with fear for more than a week.

Just saw your post, and having started Silent Hill 2 all I can say is that I nearly crapped myself playing it. It is without doubt the scariest game I've played - I don't count Forbidden Siren, as it didn't really feel like "playing"... While it was incredibly atmospheric, genuinely disturbing and frighteningly brown trouser time, the overwhelming cackiness of so many bits of it caused me to throw my controller across the room, nearly breaking my lava lamp in the process.

I thought it would be kinder to my possessions not to put the disc in my PS2 ever again.

 

[otterbeans]

Ditto, if I played Silent hill two I wouldn't be able to sleep for a year.

Yeah, I kind of enjoy sleeping, you know?

 

[otterbeans]

Bargain bins at Gamestop, here I come.

No matter how many times Silent Hill 2 is recommended, I'll never play it. I'd be paralyzed with fear for more than a week.

Just saw your post, and having started Silent Hill 2 all I can say is that I nearly crapped myself playing it. It is without doubt the scariest game I've played - I don't count Forbidden Siren, as it didn't really feel like "playing"... While it was incredibly atmospheric, genuinely disturbing and frighteningly brown trouser time, the overwhelming cackiness of so many bits of it caused me to throw my controller across the room, nearly breaking my lava lamp in the process.

I thought it would be kinder to my possessions not to put the disc in my PS2 ever again.

I read the wikipedia articles and watched a few play videos. I had to keep a nightlight on for a while.

It was more than enough for me.

I've been raised on kid-friendly games that give you a hug and a pat every time you complete a level, so I'm really not used to the whole mental masochism thing that goes on in horror games/movies.

 

[Inriri]

Personally 3 was scarier than 2 when it comes to shock (The screaming mannequin, the hanging guy, the bloody mirror), but 2 will remain the scariest horror game I've ever played when you realize how everything fits together.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I did love the prince of persia series. SoT is still my faviourt, but WW just seemed to destroy the series for me. I feel like I should like TT the best, all the ingredients were there, but somehow something wasn't right. I didn't mind Faria, even if she wasn't quiet the well charcturised stick figure from SoT, but I think the dialogue between the prince and his dark self made up for it. But there it is, the problem with TT, the dark prince. He just felt like a gimic, and not a very good one. The chariot races didn't help.

 

[Windows David]

first of all the 4. best game on the yatzee's ;list is a xbox game noticed by black track on the top and some green letters

second it was almost all the screen red and how there are orange/gold holes in the image

third the name has an "-",first word long then a three letter word and a number

personally i think it was spider man 2 but not sure and no way that its re4 and sh4.

 

[Unholykrumpet]

Unfortunately, I decided to buy this series a few months ago for 20$ altogether...without doing research. Turns out only sands of time works on a 360...the other two are not backwards compatible...which makes me wonder why the hell every bloody sports game is backwards compatible but not the PoP series. Seems like a poor decision...kind of like my poor decision to sell my old xbox when I got my 360

 

[Edable Giraffe]

that was one of the best for a while, nice work

i dont see what was wrong with (phara?) in the last game, i dont remember there being anything wrong with her, but as far as im concered two thrones makes my top 5 list over sands of time anyday

 

[striker2790]

Love how the Tardis falls on the prince at the end.

 

[hickwarrior]

first of all the 4. best game on the yatzee's ;list is a xbox game noticed by black track on the top and some green letters

second it was almost all the screen red and how there are orange/gold holes in the image

third the name has an "-",first word long then a three letter word and a number

personally i think it was spider man 2 but not sure and no way that its re4 and sh4.

I think i'll end this debate, by saying that you should look more closely at the pixelated, and see the blue and eye thingy for yourselves. You got internet, right? Why not google it? On images, that is...
Think i'll have a look around, now i've posted, i suppose.

 

[c0mb0 br3ak3r]

yea ye i know im late for commenting, but after using google for a little while i think i have it
number 2 may be another SH game and i only think number 4 is RE4 well because it was amazing, BUT it looks like is has a 4 and the gamecube logo on the top.

BTW i thought Peggle was going to be on it for sure.

1. Portal
2. Silent Hill 2
3. PoP Sands Of Time
4. Resident Evil 4 (?)
5. Fantasy World Dizzy (why not Peggle here lawl?)

edit: so after reading the first 2 pages people think 4 is spider man? can someone please point out how they got that, maybe i just suck at life