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Guh, so I think I'm almost finding employment right now, but I'm still not sure. I've been going back and forth with this company that makes shitty Facebook games on doing 2D art and animation, but I've been given this headache of an art test that never seems to end. Apparently art tests are normal with some game companies (one place asked for something that would take a month of free work, so I passed on that), but I don't understand the point of multiple revisions of my art test. I just feel strung along over and over. I really hope they don't keep this asset and use it without giving me the job, that would be super lame. These sort of things seem like a way for companies to get out of paying for training. Like they just want me in there ready to make crap Lisa Frank looking assets for a Facebook game without giving me hands on training or taking a chance ahead of time.

Hey, you're a cool lady. Would you like to get arrested with me for being complicit in this arson murder I committed? Yeah I just wanted to try one... Even if this is true, never believe it. Imagine you are the only guy who has ever laid eyes on such a lost pretty thing and that she has been waiting years for you to appear with long hair blowing in the A/C, ready to take her to places she has only dreamed of.

Oops, I guess I had only noticed it on Thongs of Virtue. That was also released months after he left, but it was still half of the game he had in his head. I don't know, legal or bad blood... Anyway, I sure do hate companies that just list their credits in a big fat list like that! Why do people not find it appropriate to credit those for their job titles? Edit: Oops, this is why I should not respond to messages before reading the whole thread, even a message apart. Sorry, 'bout that.

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Well crap and shit. I'm sure this story will not be told anytime soon though. Wonder if that's why Ron Gilbert was given a "created by" credit for both Deathspank games instead of being listed as part of the team or something more prominent?

Holy shit, how old is Nick Breckon anyway?

I think I'm going to pass on this one. I don't know, I'm sure the gameplay is more fun, but I don't really like this dark direction and the graphics are kind of nasty now. The one thing that bugs me is that in Deathspank the ending where seemed like the proper ending. The ending where just really did not seem like anything more than a mean joke of an ending. I don't know why they'd continue from the latter but there's no other option I suppose. I think this game will do well though, that's good for Hothead. I guess the Ron Gilbert factor is too important to me to keep playing a series he created yet is no longer involved in.

Now you've gotta play 2!

Well something's gotta be changed sooner than later, but that will only stop when workers stop being fans of megalomaniac companies and start treating a job as something to do and retain an amount of dignity. But that's just wishes. I also have nothing to say about this game.

I think my record on the original is around 32 minutes in one go, maybe even less. I have no idea anymore with Prince of Persia 2 because there was so much saving and loading going on that time was the most irrelevant part. Maybe I finished with 30 minutes left I want to say? That game also had a larger level in the beginning that didn't start the clock unless you died, so I kept reloading on it and letting the clock start naturally the next level over. I also haven't done a straight run on either, it's just a matter or reloading the level every time I die.

Happy birthday Hiblix and subtitles!

Santa?! I don't really have any opinion on this except it's a bad move to take away user options. To answer this though, Metal Gear Solid on Game Boy Color had VR Missions that were unlocked permanently in the cartridge. So if someone finished it and sold it who had completed all missions, you could not go back and start at 0. But you also just picked the missions from a menu and the actual main storyline had eraseable saves and all.

Yeah I finished PoP Classic already. I think in another thread around here I was speaking about how random and broken the combat was, making that one achievement of beating the game without dying impossible. They also made the last boss incredibly cheap. The cutscenes are also horrendous. The actual game though, the core part, works nicely though, with the added acrobatic stuff very welcome to the game. I think they also nicely updated it so the game is not so masochistic and newer players can enjoy it. I've played Prince of Persia DOS, Megadrive, SNES, Game Gear, Sega CD, Game Boy Color, Cell Phone version of Classic (Where time goes double speed for some inexplicable reason!!!), Turbografx 16, and will play the hi-res Mac version at some point. The Megadrive version (but not the Genesis one) and the SNES version both have extra levels but different ones. The SNES one is so jam packed it's almost a different game.

I thought I had posted somewhere on the forums about PoP2, but I don't even see it in the recently completed list anywhere. I found it extremely tough, but somewhat fair. The biggest problem was just long stretches in between my next checkpoint, so making sure I did everything right and master the combat in between was difficult. I do like how improved the swordfighting was over the first Prince of Persia, which you can just sort of keep pressing the hit button over and over to win, but the correct timing on things like those flying heads, fighting three in a row, then doing the exact jumps, and fighting one more was just tough. I also played it on an old mac I tracked down so I could get the higher resolution graphics. Very smooth looking. I think Prince of Persia 2 took a few months to get through too, but it wasn't unenjoyable like 3D, just too intense to keep playing all at once. If I recall, as the game got near the end, the levels became more story based, clever (like little tricks and less large sprawling levels of platforms), and easier to get through. It also had a few of those old game world peculiarities where you have to do some things out of no where without precedence: I can't really fault the game for that because it was a game from a time where you'd spend a year or more chipping away at the game and finding the correct thing to do to get on to the next level. I don't think anything was like that in the first game though. Also that weird shadow trick is never really explained in the game nor does the game let you know when you can do it. It's all in the manual only. Very strange. Still super enjoyable and lots of platforming fun, just made me sweat bullets.

I've got way too many action figures. No nudie ones, but still. Sometimes I just want to get rid of them as they fall down too much...

Is this even after purchasing that Epilogue DLC? If so, that's some BS. Haha, yep, that's to be played after Two Thrones. I didn't realize it was a collectible card game. For some reason I was under the impression that it was an RTS. So I guess it's going to be more like Metal Gear Acid then? Really? I don't fully remember now, but I seem to have the impression that it was riding the coattails of when that dark/violent thing was big in games. It's appropriate for Legacy of Kain and all, but I recall that sort of thing being injected into many things in the mid 2000s. I blame American McGee's Alice for spawning it all. Also I should say I think I'm really going to hate Warrior Within above all else for having Godsmack as part of the soundtrack. What the hell? The audience for that band can't really intersect with the types who would play Prince of Persia let alone platformer games, can it?

Ooo, I read the first four issues of this and should probably get back into it at some point. The universe was kind of thrilling for a comic book, and I'm curious to find out where the story goes. I imagine it will probably be better to wait until it's finished though. I hate reading comics issue by issue until they all come out to complete the story.

Let's see, I have recently finished Metal Gear Acid (although still trying to collect all of those fucking cards, AUGH!), Prince of Persia 3D, Sands of Time, and Popeye for cell phones!

I read somewhere that apparently the reason Link's Awakening was so quirky was that it was inspired by Twin Peaks.

Hah yeah, it's been a long time coming for me to get to them. I decided about 5 years back to try them all based on Sands of Time, having only experienced and finished Prince of Persia 1 in my childhood and also having failed miserably on getting past the third level of Prince of Persia 2. I spent a good year just going through different ports of the first game though before I moved on just to see all of the differences. I guess going from the experience you guys had, I'll be back in a month or so posting about how garbage Warrior Within was (Although from the search function it appears there's already been like 10 threads on Warrior Within over the years). I'm expecting to have some fun with Two Thrones and definitely the next gen ones, but I can't say for sure. Oh yeah, since I'm playing them all, here's a mini-review of Prince of Persia: Harem Adventures for cell-phones: Harem Adventures is okay for an old cell phone, but I have no idea why this thing was made. It appears Ubisoft put it out before Sands of Time and after scooping up the Prince of Persia rights from Broderbund/Mechner. It's just an extremely simplified version of the mechanics from the first game with about 7 levels. What is hilarious about this game is that the storyline is about rescuing the Sultan's harem, which was all kidnapped, but as you save all of the women, they all offer you half assed innuendo of sexual favors. Some don't even hide it and straight up tell you they are going to have sex with you. There's a fat harem woman who says the Sultan only uses her once a week and she is saving you, the prince, for the rest of the days. I don't know what the hell, it seems like this game was made to be a wrapper for 204x176 pictures of sexy women. I've never understood the older cell phone gaming culture and it's needs to have blatant cheesecake stuff in almost every game. Did people originally buy cell phone games so they could masturbate away from home? Are these games for poor countries who don't have internet access but have a cell phone? Prince of Persia: Harem Adventures, 7/5 stars, highly recommended.

Guess I've never understood full classic games on mobile device, but sure I suppose it's good it gets released again somewhere.

I've been waiting for Fez for a while now since someone had posted long ago at the Thumbs here about it. I thought development was dead. That Indie Games trailer was needlessly emotional with a sick desperation running through. It's probably appropriate but I felt a little bit manipulated.

Haha, well I was going to hypothetically pick up Rayman 2 and then... nothing else.

Holy shit, you're right, those are CGA shorts! So were the CGA colors a product of fashion or was fashion a product of CGA colors?

Macarena of Time is the most classic fucking thing I've ever heard in reference to video games. Also this thread has me foaming at the mouth wishing I had the cash for a god damn 3DS and its god damn games.