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New Prince of Persia Announced for May '10, Returns to Sands of Time Storyline
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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands announced for May 2010 launch
http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/30/prince-of-persia-the-forgotten-sands-announced-for-may-2010-launch/#more-69622
Official Site: http://prince-of-persia.us.ubi.com/
Gamefly lists the release date as May 11th (probably a placeholder) for Wii, PS3, 360, PSP, and DS.
Nothing else outside of the presser from Ubisoft. The latest PoP looked great and had its moments but just didn't live up on the difficulty/platforming for me. Hopefully the latter can be improved in this case (a man can dream!), though it depends on which portion of the Sands of Time they plan on going back to. I assume the cliffhanger in the last game will have to wait for another game to be resolved.
Oh god it better not be Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: The Movie: The Game.
http://www.vg247.com/2009/11/30/prince-of-persia-the-forgotten-sands-announced-for-may-2010-launch/#more-69622
VG247 wrote:UBISOFT® ANNOUNCES
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE FORGOTTEN SANDS™
New Adventure in the Prince of Persia® Sands of Time Series Debuts May 2010
LONDON, UK – November 30, 2009 – Today Ubisoft announced that Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™ video game is in development and is scheduled to be released May 2010 for consoles and handhelds. This new installment in the critically-acclaimed franchise marks the return to the Prince of Persia® Sands of Time storyline. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™ will feature many of the fan-favorite elements from the original series as well as new gameplay innovations that gamers have come to expect from the Prince of Persia brand.
Official Site: http://prince-of-persia.us.ubi.com/
Gamefly lists the release date as May 11th (probably a placeholder) for Wii, PS3, 360, PSP, and DS.
Nothing else outside of the presser from Ubisoft. The latest PoP looked great and had its moments but just didn't live up on the difficulty/platforming for me. Hopefully the latter can be improved in this case (a man can dream!), though it depends on which portion of the Sands of Time they plan on going back to. I assume the cliffhanger in the last game will have to wait for another game to be resolved.
Oh god it better not be Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: The Movie: The Game.
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let's see if they can do it.
We're going back to the Sands of Time series? I loved it and all, but I'd have just as well left it done. It had closure, that was nice, lets leave it at that. I'd rather expand upon the framework laid down by the new series. :?
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This. The Sands of Time trilogy had a perfect ending with the Two Thrones. PoP(2008) ended on a goddamn "to be continued" achievement. I still hold out hope however as this is supposed to be released in May of 2010 which is nowhere near long enough for the PoP team to create a new game (only 18 months) so they could still be working on the sequel and this is nothing more than a movie tie-in.
My complete thoughts on POP2008 so I can now shut up about it:
Well, OK, I only got around to playing it a few years later, but Sands of Time was made in 2003.
Now, I wasn’t too young to have played the original Prince of Persia, but I was too young to be able to play them properly. I just died all the time, so when I think of Prince of Persia, Sands of time is my first proper memory.
Sands of time was a wonderful platformer. It was as hard as it was fair. The rewind mechanic genuinely removed a lot of the needless frustration that a lot of games with “jumping puzzles” have. Far from making the game easier, it simply encouraged the player to experiment more, which is exactly how it should be in games like this. The ramps, poles and other level geometry felt very naturally occurring, as if it was a real place with stuff placed in a way that just happened to create a subtle assault course.
The combat was fairly mindless, although it looked quite cool. Added little, but certainly didn’t take away too much either.
The puzzles were more often than not designed so you would have to actually think about how to get from A to B. You would look at the room, examine it, and come up with a solution through experimentation.
In a similar vein to ICO, there was no real upgrade system for solving puzzles, you didn’t need to find a certain weapon or tool to let you do something, everything you need to solve any of the puzzles you have with you from the start of the game. No blue keycard for the blue door.
However you look at it, Warrior Within was a misstep, the degree to which it offends you is probably largely determined by your tolerance of the bad metal soundtrack. The less said the better.
However, when it came time for The Two Thrones, they had actually learnt their lesson. Fun new things like the Dark Prince was a nice touch, the “stealth take down” thingies that let you do platforming instead of combat were a good idea well implemented, and definitely made you feel like a badass. Some good bosses and some bad bosses, and level design that wasn’t quite as tight as Sands of Time are the only major let downs.
Then, for the “next gen” Prince of Persia, Ubisoft decided to reinvent things. No doubt they looked at the “Generally favorable reviews”, and massive sales, that Assassin’s Creed got, and thought that they could pull the same trick off twice.
The new direction they took it in was to remove the requirement for the player to have any need to actually pay attention or think. They reduced a cerebral platformer down to “press some buttons when we tell you to, and get to look at some pretty pictures”.
In the Sands of Time trilogy, if you wanted to do a wall run, you had to line it up, and time it right. In this, you can make the decision to do a wall run mid air if you like. Just jump any old way near a wall, then push towards it, and the game will position you correctly on the wall, and you will end up exactly where the game knows you need to be.
In POP2008, the levels are just a bunch of platforming peices thrown together in a chain. You never have to think about how to get anywhere, since the game will tell you what direction to go. The most thinking you have to do is “which button does the game want me to press”. Essentially, the game is a long series of badly hidden quick time events.
The “Elika saves you” mechanic that replaced the sands of time is just worse in every way.
Firstly, because the player was in control. You pressed rewind, go back to where you need to be, and then jump straight back in. POP2008, however, replaces this mechanic with something much more passive. You don’t have to think about anything you do, because the game will save you, whereas in Sands of time, even though you could undo any mistakes, it was a mechanic that the player was in charge of.
Secondly, Elika saving you takes more time that the rewind did, and each time you have to watch that exact same animation, and hear the incredible annoying voice actor say something hilarious like “Gee, I’m never going to get used to that!”. I swear they got the guy from the Legend of Zelda cartoon to do his voice. I am baffled that they managed to make the prince even less likeable.
Thirdly, the only thing that the game could actually call a platforming challenge is collecting lightseeds. These are the collectable do dads that for some reason Ubisoft decided POP needed. Some are in positions where they are ‘hard’ to get. However, since Elika saves you whenever you fall, you can often glitch into getting the harder ones, because unlike the rewind mechanic, Elika saving you doesn’t actually undo anything. “Jump to certain death – Just get the lightseed – Die” is a viable strategy for a lot of lightseeds.
Instead of Sands of Time’s clever difficulty curve without introducing new abilities, POP2008 manages to have basically no difficulty curve despite having new abilities, which all boil down to “press the right button when you are on the right colour pad”. Unlocking new abilities feels unnecessary gamey, and lazy compared to Sands of Time.
The only thing I can say in it’s defence is that it did completely get rid of the bullshit filler combat that all the previous games had, but in their places was badly designed boss fights. The boss fights are all bad the first time round, and get worse with repetition. Oh yeah, the game makes you repeat all of the bosses, I have no idea how many times you have to repeat them all, but it is certainly too many.
It also looks pretty good, but whenever it goes to a cut scene, the character models all look weird, and facial animation is pretty bad.
It really just feels like the whole game is just the player pressing forwards, then some buttons when the game tells you to press buttons, then putting the controller down and looking at the pretty pictures when the game tells you too.
The worst part is, it’s a game series that didn’t really need reinvention, it just needed development. A few new ideas, and the same basic design philosophy of the previous games would have been glorious.
If you want a new game like the Sands of Time, you’ll be wanting Mirror’s Edge. But seriously, they best include a rewind in the sequel, since frustrating deaths was one of the biggest complaints I have heard about it.
End Rant.
So lame...
Also I've never heard of this site.
I never asked for this!
Really? See, I thought Two Thrones was just about perfect, and overall better than the first one, mainly just because it was more refined.
Still, looking at Assasin's Creed 1 and the 2nd one gives me hope that the POP team has taken some of the last game's criticism to heart and are expanding on it.
Also, didn't the new POP game have some DLC that kinda answered the 'to be continued" question? I never beat it, as I'm one of the ones that got tired of the same old thing, but that's what I heard.
Only thing that could get me interested in this would be if they said Jordan Mechner himself was on board and leading the project.
It's just what it's name implies, an epilogue. It doesn't wrap up anything but gives a view into the characters' reactions post ending.
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"the best game ever" use to say "new PoP"
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I don't know, Two Thrones came pretty close, but still wasn't quite as good as the first one. For me, anyway.
The atmosphere still felt very "brown" like warrior within. And the dark prince sections just angered me. And while they tried to make combat more interesting, I was more than content with Sand of Time's "use one move for every enemy". Because the combat sections would last for like, a minute each, and then I'd get back to climbing that beautiful palace.
tTT was a better game than SoT because the combat didn't suck balls.
Except for the sword that lets you knock down walls of course.
I like both systems for what they are. Elika is just a checkpoint who follows you around the level. Not a big deal.
I'm not saying it's his best work or anything, but Nolan North did a wonderful job voicing the Prince in PoP2K8. If you're going to poke at him for something, poke at him for Shadow Complex.
I liked the light seeds collection. It was cool to have some platforming challenge and goals that Elika wouldn't direct you to with the push of a button. You're right though - run, grab seed, die was my strategy for a couple of them, and I'm convinced it was the dev team's, too. Still enjoyable though.
As to games feeling like games - I don't know what to tell you. You were using power plates left by a god to temporarily do god-like things to get places you needed to be. Cliche? Sure. But I thought it was fun. I got to run on the walls for extended periods of time and fly through the air.
God no. Mirror's Edge was fucking horrible. And it didn't get any better when they introduced guys with guns. First person platforming is an experiment I would very much like to never see repeated.
SOT is still my favourite though.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
More reason to hate that movie I guess.
This is where you lost me. I thought both PoP 08 and Mirror's Edge were great, for entirely different reasons (which I'm not going to get into).
Anyway, this sucks. They've already finished the SoT trilogy, they need to continue the bloody PoP '08 story.
Also, how did the new Prince of Persia sell compared to the Sands of Time games?
PoP 2008 was a lot better than the community seems to acknowledge.
And the new movie, going just off the trailer, looks pretty darn slick. I see no problems here at all.
That's about as close to the horse's mouth as you can get, I'd say
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Why the new Prince of Persia Sucks
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Incidentally, I agree with everything you said, which is basically everything the article says, which is basically everything I said after I played POP08 a few months ago. It's mindless and repetitive and shallow and ultimately rewarding.
So here's to hoping they can do something right about this new Sands game. They can keep the awesome graphical presentation of POP08 if they like, which was the best part of that game, though I doubt they will.
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I'm one of those dissapointed too. I enjoyed the new PoP (2008) and thought Two Thrones did a bang up job of tying up the trilogy. Maybe it will be a whole new prince and setting again?
Fantastic eyesex.
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I expected you know Persians maybe someone that could pass for a Middle eastern person. Not a guy that looks at best like a Hobo surfer cosplaying as Emo prince from the second one.
Oh you've seen it?
Maybe it's just a tie-in/cash-in for the movie coming out and a team is still making a proper sequel to PoP08...but I don't have high hopes at this point.
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I think im alone in having WW as my favourite, yeah it had awful hardcore metal music, a woman in a metal thong and one in a dress that seemed to small, women balancing on lines while spouting "edgy" dialogue and "dark" animations for getting more hp. But it also had some fantastic setpieces like the garden with the canals and the wrecked ships. The combat was better, and it was longer. I also loved the Dahaka chases, and there was still plenty of good platforming. I absolutely hated all the combat parts of sands of time, in addtition for some reason the sound in my game was fucked up and it sounded like everyone where sitting in a closet with the door closed when they spoke. I cant really say what i didnt like about TT, but ive always felt that there was something missing in the game, but i dont know what that would be.
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1080p, 60hz, some work on the models and textures, and some nice special effects, and maybe some extra gameplay, and now you're talking.
That was the single worst thing about Sands of Time, the terrible sound quality
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Which version did you play? I played it and Two Thrones on the Gamecube, and remember at least one of them having awful audio quality, for the voices expecially.
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Maybe my glasses are rose-colored?
It was on the Gamecube, yeah
Sands of Time had terrible, tinny sound quality for it's voices especially. It sounded like they were being played through a twenty year old radio
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