This was my idea!

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:03 am

I have been planning since I was 9 to make a movie about X-Core Peter Pan meets X-Core Prince of Persia... but now both exist!

I'm gonna go to my room and cry a bit.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:06 am

Eidam, Prince of Persia had been hardcore for like a year now maybe. Ever since he became THE WARRIOR WITHIN.

I kind of liked him better in Sands of Time, when he was basically "Kinda Aladdin but not enough to get sued".

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:10 am

I know, I know, that's why I'm getting annoyed.

Sands of Time was the sex though.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:29 pm

Dudes, Aladdin's public domain from a really old fairy tale. Disney can't sue over him, unless you make him look exactly like their version. Or have Robin Williams doing the genie.

Also, Sands of Time was amazing.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:43 pm

Yeah, but The Prince in PoP, especially the 90s one, was SO much like Aladdin that it was kind of amazing Disney never tried something.

Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 28

Peter Pan / Prince of Persia / Link THREE-WAY-XXXTREME-HARDCORE-RUMBLE!

in chocolate pudding

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:06 pm

thank you for reading my online blog everyone.

Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 28

I would be interested to read your off-line blog!

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:51 pm

It is a mead notebook where I write down how sad I am, and that I am listening to Powerman 5000. It is punctuated by tiny heads, but they are always sad because I am always sad.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:42 pm

*Gives Justin a cookie*

-Shady.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:34 pm

C-can I hae a cookie, too?

T-Rex - OMG!

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:34 am

I think it was a wholesome moleskin cookie, so you may have to wait a bit.

Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 15

justinpie wrote:

Eidam, Prince of Persia had been hardcore for like a year now maybe. Ever since he became THE WARRIOR WITHIN.

I kind of liked him better in Sands of Time, when he was basically "Kinda Aladdin but not enough to get sued".

Totally agreed. Sands of Time is one of my all-time favorite games. The dialog, music, and game play were all excellent. Granted the combat system was simple, but really the combat was merely a great intermission between the creamy-goodness of the platforming/puzzle elements, a way to cleanse the palette between the puzzles, if you ask me (and the game was better for including it to break up the repetition.)

Out of curiosity - have you tried Prince of Persia The Two Thrones yet? I haven't had a chance, but it sounds like they brought back alot of what made Sands of time so good.

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:37 am

I think I'll wait a few months to play Two Thrones, since PoP games drop to $20 relatively quickly.

I will say this, though; pretty much everything about The Warrior Within bugged me, especially making it all about combat, but especially the Dahaka. While it's supercool in theory to think there's a creature of vengeance who takes down people who mess with the timestream, it's infuriating in practice -- When I have four sawblades and a pit of spike in front of me, I really don't need the camera pointing behind me to let me know a monster is chasing me. I get that I'm being chased, I get it.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

Quote:

Yeah, but The Prince in PoP, especially the 90s one, was SO much like Aladdin that it was kind of amazing Disney never tried something.

Well, that design on the prince actually predates Disney's Aladdin by about three years, so it would be kind of hard for Disney to claim they did it first and Broderbund copied them. Besides, Disney so totally stole the game format from Broderbund when making their Aladdin console games, particularly the Genesis one.

Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:34 am

isukun wrote:

Well, that design on the prince actually predates Disney's Aladdin by about three years, so it would be kind of hard for Disney to claim they did it first and Broderbund copied them.

Really? Well I seem to be the perfect fool! I always assumed PoP was trying to cash in.

Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 11

Yeah, the PC version of Prince of Persia was released in '89 while Disney's Aladdin came out in '92.

Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 15

justinpie wrote:

I think I'll wait a few months to play Two Thrones, since PoP games drop to $20 relatively quickly.

I will say this, though; pretty much everything about The Warrior Within bugged me, especially making it all about combat, but especially the Dahaka. While it's supercool in theory to think there's a creature of vengeance who takes down people who mess with the timestream, it's infuriating in practice -- When I have four sawblades and a pit of spike in front of me, I really don't need the camera pointing behind me to let me know a monster is chasing me. I get that I'm being chased, I get it.

Yeah I was completely and utterly disappointed with The Warrior Within. When I played Sands of Time I (and everyone else I knew who played it) all agreed that it was easily the best game we had played in 3 years if not longer. So when Warrior Within came out I picked it up right away, and I found myself shocked at just how badly they screwed it up by comparison. So many bad ideas like the NPC dialog "there's so much pleasure in pain" being spouted in combat repeatedly (it might not have been so bad if they had more things to say and didn't repeat the same dialog every couple seconds, but sometimes less is more and the dialog made it worse.) The Warrior Within totally reminded me of when Itchy and Scratchy got spiced up by adding Poochy.