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Hiya gang, long time no messaging - probably because I've been on a long vacation from PSO. Stop scowling like I just committed a blasphemous act!

About a year ago I played Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. The game was a platforming masterpiece that glued me to my Gamecube for an unhealthy amount of hours (surely a good thing). I picked up a copy of Warrior Within once it went on sale but could never get into it - too much hack and slash. When it was time to marry the sexy Redhead of this forumn I was forced to sell virtually all my games to help fund the wedding. Both PoP games bit the dust (sob).

I brought the 3rd PoP game on the PS2 for my evil step-son, Twin Dante, as an Xmas pressie, then watched with awe as he trekked through the streets of Babylon executing stealth kills and also generally brutalising other monsters for a bit of hack and slash fun. It made me envious of the good times I had with SOT and made me want to try WW again.

Getting WW for the Gamecube was a piece of cake, SoT was a nightmare and will be worse if HMV online are selling stock they don't have. I also grabbed the last copy of TTT that was on sale at Gamestation (£24.99 and a bargin to boot).

I loved the platforming and puzzle solving of SoT, but the drawn out battle sequences frustrated and bored me. Thankfully the battles were far less often than the joys of defying gravity. The look of the game was fantastical with a nod towards the fantasies of every young woman who wants to be swept off her feet and married to a fairy tale prince (unlike Buckingham Palace which seemed gaudy and shabby when I went for an interview in the Accounts Department). The end boss fight was sadly anti-climatic after some of the fights earlier in the game.

I couldn't get into Warrior Within the first time round. It was too combat based although the intensity was dropped from the first game and changed for more frequent small skirmishes. I'm a metal head so the Godsmack soundtrack and arabian-metal mix was fine with me. The second time round I decided to give the game a proper try and was suitably impressed. Most of the platform sections are quite sedate with no real urgency, so the platforms became the puzzles as I struggled to see ledges in the present. The battles became less of a problem as they didn't last about 10 minutes and I finally got a grip on the battle controls. The enviroments were much darker like the game overall, but Ubisoft still made an effort as good as Sands of Time. Also the Dhaka chase sequences are blood pounding in your temples moments, one false move and you're dead. My two complaints are based on the alternate ending and the Cliffs section which you play as the Sand Wraith. If you fail to get all nine life upgrades then you don't get the Water Sword and must face the Empress of Time at the very end of the game - and she is no easy pushover the first time you fight her. Blocking the Empress in the final battle is worthless and her damage is obscene, she teleports very quickly and can slow time like yourself. She also unleashes Tornados which are unblockable and just as hard to avoid, this all adds up to a virtually unbeatable boss. If you get the 9 life upgrades and get the Water Sword then you only have to fight the Dhaka which although hard is more balanced than the Empress final battle. When the Prince becomes the Sand Wraith his sand meter refills automatically while his life drains. The sand is very usefull as there are loads of traps to navigate and because of the draining life you will need to rewind in battles more as well as use the special attacks. When it comes to the Cliffs section of the game you have to leap about on totallyunstable platforms that fall away constantly, a virtual death trap of jumps, you also get platforms you have to run across before they fall away. It is a real slow time section. All fair so far until you get to the last wall run, as you perform the last wall run a Blade Dancer charges towards you and you have to slash her so she falls and you don't, also the wall run is a little hit and miss as to wether you can make it. I had to rewind time so many times on this section and still fail it defied belief. Most of the time the Blade Dancer hit me, and on the few times I did kill her I ended up missing the ledge by a fingers length. The first time I ever made it I couldn't figure out what to do and then died when the ledge gave way. In my opinion it was too nasty a section after most of the sedateness - but at least it wasn't as bad as the alternate ending with the 2nd Empress fight.

I've only just started playing The Two Thrones. So far trying for stealth kills is proving to be the most fun as it is a Prince of Persia dream come true of platforming. The Dark Prince section I've played so far reminds me of what was bad about Sands of Time.

Right, I've disected the PoP games. What's your take on this excellent series?

Regards

UK Jester

i was wrong in the information i said in one thread... back with the correct information if anyone is still wondering...

Mario: none
Luigi: none
Peach: affects weight. -11 of weight statistic of kart.
Yoshi: affects weight. -14 of weight statistic of kart. said to have better power-sliding.
Toad: affects weight. -17 of weight statistic of kart.
Dk: affects weight. +8 of weight statistic of kart.
Wario: affects weight. +10 of weight statistic of kart.
Bowser: affects weight. +17 of weight statistic of kart.
Daisy: affects weight. -8 of weight statistic of kart.
Dry Bones: affects weight. -20 of weight statistic of kart.
Waluigi: affects weight. +2 of weight statistic of kart.
R.O.B.: affects weight. +17 of weight statistic of kart. (same affect as bowser)

credit: (changed wording so it made more sense imo) goes to Mystic Aurora.


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i thought that was kind of cool. i had no idea that the chars affected the weight massively o.o

Does any1 here play BattleOn? its an OK online rpg where you can fight monsters, earn money, buy spell, and change your class to anything there by changing your armor. check it out at http://www.battleon.com its usually full, but when you get on, you probably wont get bored.

i just want you to rate my HUmar and recomend stuff.

HUmar ORAN lvl 179

weapons:
frequent weapons:
M&A60 VISE +9 50/0/0/40/0
RED HANDGUN +90 40/0/0/45/0
RED HANDGUN +90 0/40/0/0/0
RED HANDGUN +90 0/0/40/0/0
IMPERIAL PICK +20 0/40/5/30/0
weapons that i never/rarely use:
DISKA OF LIBERATOR +9 0/0/10/30/0
SILENCE CLAW +15 0/50/0/0/0
TWIN BRAND +9 0/45/0/0/0
ANGRY FIST +30 0/25/20/0/40
RED SABER +90 35/0/0/0/50
RED SWORD +90 0/0/5/25/0
RED DAGGER +90 35/0/0/35/0
armor:
SENSE PLATE
3 units:
Perfect resist
Perfect resist
god battle
shield:
CELESTIAL SHIELD
mag:
bana lvl 200

I was bored of doing the pokémon league once, so i started a new game, not intending to find a gold poochyena at odds of 1/655631. I started with mudkip (I used to have a swampert). I done the 4th gym and decided to save, now I have only just caught groudon and i'm right next to kyogre. But i'm regretting saving even with a gold mightyena.

which one do you like the most (i already know wich one you will chose, the last one i bet)?
some are prototipes, one is a mod but the 1st and 6th port do not work, and some are fusions beetween consoles







and...............the best one

to see the dreamcast consoles, either mods or versions check the links
http://www.shinforce.com/dreamcast/Consoles.htm

Who saw this movie!? No one I bet, and how dare you, it's actually a good Jim Carry movie. Not In Living Color funneh (I think that was the name of the show .:O You know, with the Waynes brothers and stuff?) But it was definately good, Jim Carry can act as it is, comedic roles at least, and his Canadian dry humor works well. I don't think many of the stoners here (I know who you are! Smoking the marijuana is bad for your health, but drinking is far worse you dirty Europeans.) will see it, and most won't get the jokes as they're actually very well written dry jokes. But if you love good comedy, and watch Mad TV (Basically Mad TV skits throughout the movie but with Jim Carry instead Will Saso.) you should go see this movie. For example, one of the funnier jokes goes something like: At the end of the movie, after the company goes under(Basically the CEO was feeding all his assets/and profit into his OTHER businesses, allowing him to take that money as tax free profit, 400million, in tax free money. That's called money laundering boys and girls, and it's a federal crime.) and everyone has to find new jobs, well every has or did, and Dick and his wife Jane are driving along when one of the other men that Dick worked with at Globa-Dyne (or whatever, the conglomerate where Dick worked) drives up next to him in Mercedes, and the guy starts boasting about his car. And Dick says something to the effect of "Yeah, where are you working now." And the guy looks over and says:"Oh, it deals in trading energy, it's called Enron."))) I laughed so hard at that. And so did, maybe ten other people in the audience(Out of a couple hundred -____-; America, what a sad state you've become. China and India, come on in, the economic take-over is yours to for the taking.) If you don't get the joke, the company Dick's fellow employee is now working will soon be doing the same thing that his previous company did, thus going bankrupt and all employees lose their pensions and life savings and such. THUS! The boasting man, is about to lose everything......again. WOW!. Long post, but really if you like comedy go see it, I loved it. Now all there's left to see this year is King Kong.