You mean Mirror's Edge? Yeah, it was pretty nice. Could've done with a little less-strict rules for grabbing ledges in midair, but overall it really did a great job of keeping the feeling of the original Prince of Persia.
first-person platforming has never sat well with me
maybe I should try the demo or something sometime
Mirror's Edge is a good idea with some execution flaws. I got it used and it is definitely worth that price. The first-person platforming isn't actually too bad, and although it's more difficult than third-person, the game makes up for it, I think, by the extra immersion gained. Things like rolling are disorienting, but it's actually very realistic in that regard. When you are in a roll, yeah, it's a blur, but when you come up you have a decent idea of where you are. It works. The main flaw that I see is that sometimes you'll go to jump to a ledge and miss the "catch zone" by an inch and Faith will just fall and die. It's a little frustrating, but checkpoints seem to be frequent enough that it's not a serious issue.
I seriously think it's worth trying. At least get the demo or rent it or something.
The only thing that stopped me was when I got stuck in an area where you had to fight, and it seemed like the second I tried to leave cover I was gunned down and killed. It's like I died before I even had time to get a sense of the room.
Yeah, you're really not supposed to fight. Sometimes you don't get a moment to get your bearings, you just have to move your ass. I think that's deliberate, to create the sensation of flight from danger.
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first-person platforming has never sat well with me
maybe I should try the demo or something sometime
The story is rubbish the engine the engine is fantastic and I love the game to bits.
It's just fun to run around and figure out little moves that save you that second here and there.
The time trials is the meat and the potatoes of the game not the single player experience.
A tip though, if you do want to get the test of faith achievement (which is not to shoot anyone in the entire game) do not try and get it on the first play through it spoils the experience.
Yeah, you're really not supposed to fight. Sometimes you don't get a moment to get your bearings, you just have to move your ass. I think that's deliberate, to create the sensation of flight from danger.
Yeah, 99% of the time you're better off to just dodge through the guards. I remember one area though where you had no choice but to fight. The only way to move forward was to climb a pipe, and if you didn't take out the guards in the area they would kill you while you tried to climb.
In the place I got stuck, I went through a door into a warehouse when 3 or 4 guards started shooting at me. I started off behind cover, but if I moved from behind it was only a matter of time before I got gunned down. I'm sure I was just missing something obvious but after about 45 minutes of trying it I gave up.
The real meat and potatoes was in the time trials anyway.
The only thing that stopped me was when I got stuck in an area where you had to fight, and it seemed like the second I tried to leave cover I was gunned down and killed. It's like I died before I even had time to get a sense of the room.
It sounds like you were running with the flight of the bullets, this is a mistake, if you run perpendicular to them you are more likely to dodge them, running directly towards someone is almost guaranteed suicide.
Assassin's Creed was a ton of fun. Admittedly you had to go a bit out of your way for the fun (turn off the game's entire HUD and make sure you use all your weapons for variety), but it was a lot of fun.
Mirror's Edge was really fun. Though I really regret paying full price for it. I beat the game in 4 and a half hours on my first run though, and that was getting the don't shoot anyone achievement, which really wasn't hard at all, considering how powerful melee was anyway in a pinch.
The story was bad. It could've been something decent too. Their attempt at portal-esque graffiti stuff was really weak too.
Really wish they would have made some real multiplayer modes for the game or something.
I played the entire story in one sitting and then went back and replayed several levels that I particularly loved for another three days before I took it back to the rental place
A wombat's head design that makes various appearances in the comic strip, and is featured as the site's favicon, making it something of an unofficial logo. Penny Arcade newcomers often mistake the wombat for a bear, or as a reference to the "scary bears" found in Radiohead's merchandise. The Wombat first appeared on a green pennant Tycho was holding on January 22, 1999, in the strip "Saving Private ION" before settling in as the identifying icon on Kara's clothing, imitating the iconographic association between Gabe and Pac-Man.
Lies and deceit the internet was created as a repository for all of mankind's bullshit
How else do you explain grouphug and wikifur and wookiepedia (a guy in my flight admitted to being one of the top contributors to wookiepedia to which I responded "you're a faggot")
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the internet could only have one purpose
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This is pretty creepy. I was reading the gay thread on the TOR forums earlier today, and then I pop onto Penny Arcade, and they've made a comic about it!
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Prince of Persia was too limited in it's input, I get what they were trying to do, but it made the entire thing not fun.
Satans..... hints.....
You mean Mirror's Edge? Yeah, it was pretty nice. Could've done with a little less-strict rules for grabbing ledges in midair, but overall it really did a great job of keeping the feeling of the original Prince of Persia.
Exactly! Just like AC, there was basically nothing for the player to do, no meaningful freedom of choice or challenge.
Movements that might reveal dialogue or story. Combat too, lacked any meaningful choices in attack or defense.
Was mirror's edge any good?
http://www.audioentropy.com/
it was disorienting and frustrating so that's as far as it went
Mirror's Edge is a good idea with some execution flaws. I got it used and it is definitely worth that price. The first-person platforming isn't actually too bad, and although it's more difficult than third-person, the game makes up for it, I think, by the extra immersion gained. Things like rolling are disorienting, but it's actually very realistic in that regard. When you are in a roll, yeah, it's a blur, but when you come up you have a decent idea of where you are. It works. The main flaw that I see is that sometimes you'll go to jump to a ledge and miss the "catch zone" by an inch and Faith will just fall and die. It's a little frustrating, but checkpoints seem to be frequent enough that it's not a serious issue.
I seriously think it's worth trying. At least get the demo or rent it or something.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
It's just fun to run around and figure out little moves that save you that second here and there.
The time trials is the meat and the potatoes of the game not the single player experience.
A tip though, if you do want to get the test of faith achievement (which is not to shoot anyone in the entire game) do not try and get it on the first play through it spoils the experience.
Satans..... hints.....
Yeah, 99% of the time you're better off to just dodge through the guards. I remember one area though where you had no choice but to fight. The only way to move forward was to climb a pipe, and if you didn't take out the guards in the area they would kill you while you tried to climb.
In the place I got stuck, I went through a door into a warehouse when 3 or 4 guards started shooting at me. I started off behind cover, but if I moved from behind it was only a matter of time before I got gunned down. I'm sure I was just missing something obvious but after about 45 minutes of trying it I gave up.
The real meat and potatoes was in the time trials anyway.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
It sounds like you were running with the flight of the bullets, this is a mistake, if you run perpendicular to them you are more likely to dodge them, running directly towards someone is almost guaranteed suicide.
Satans..... hints.....
It's on my top ten list. Great fucking engine.
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The story was terrible.
Satans..... hints.....
Mirror's Edge was really fun. Though I really regret paying full price for it. I beat the game in 4 and a half hours on my first run though, and that was getting the don't shoot anyone achievement, which really wasn't hard at all, considering how powerful melee was anyway in a pinch.
The story was bad. It could've been something decent too. Their attempt at portal-esque graffiti stuff was really weak too.
Really wish they would have made some real multiplayer modes for the game or something.
I honestly hated her, so much. Her design was just awful and her voice was also awful.
Urge to make colon joke, rising...
rising...
I played the entire story in one sitting and then went back and replayed several levels that I particularly loved for another three days before I took it back to the rental place
The Penny Arcade favicon...
What is it? Is there a reference or source or reason for that little orange bear... or... mouse... or... dead thing?
Thanks!.......
Is there a story behind that? A comic, perhaps? Or is it just a wombat for the sake of being a wombat?
Their old clan was CW, but it stood for Clan Walrus, so I have no idea.
I knew it was something ridiculously easy to remember.
edit: the wombat has shown up in at least one comic previously, see
Someone has way too much time on their hands and access to Wikipedia
Or Necrowombicon... that.
Also, what the fuck Wikipedia? The hell it does! Then what the fuck you call the Star Trek entry?
then compare it to a similar article but based on a fictional franchise, say, the Star Wars Universe.
bam motherfuckers.
Wasn't that a Something Awful game?
let me see if I can find it via google.
edit: Yeah, wikigroaning.
basically you do what I just said.
It's called wikigroaning
You take two similar articles, one about a nerdy thing one about a normal thing, and see which is longer
http://www.audioentropy.com/
like a wiki with entries on all the other wikis
and then the world can end
Deletion for irrelevance
This is the place where all that irrelevant bullshit should go
There will always be print encyclopedias, they will always have the important stuff
The internet was made for irrelevant information
How else do you explain grouphug and wikifur and wookiepedia (a guy in my flight admitted to being one of the top contributors to wookiepedia to which I responded "you're a faggot")