prince of persia

GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
edited November 2004 in Gaming
Since the guild wars beta is over for now :( I am substituting with this game. Prince of Persia : Sands of time I got it for free a while ago and just installed it today
WOW this game is a blast!

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  • youvegotjermzyouvegotjermz Baton Rouge, La
    edited November 2004
    yeah, it's pretty nice. doesn't take that long to beat
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2004
    yeah, i played it for xbox. i could never really do platformers on the pc, i just didnt dig em, but i thought this was one of the best games of the year last year. it was great :D:rockon:
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    Very cool game and a lot of fun. My biggest problem was also the best thing about it. The ability for him to stick to surfaces was amazing however at times it also got annoying cuz he'd suddenly stick to something when I didn't want him to. Still great game though. If you like it I'd also recomend

    Galleon - similar control scheme more open ended and it's a very cool cell shaded looking game. - Xbox and PS2 I believe
    Ninja Gaiden - need an xbox to play this baby but it's almost worth it.
    Blood Rayne 2 - Xbox, PS2 and possibly PC lots of fun, lots of blood and hot leather wearing vampire chick.
    Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver - The latest and easily the greatest in the series they took every thing that was cool about Kain and Azrail and put them both together into one amazing game. Visuals and controls are top notch. The world and history behind it all are of movie quality.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    not a xbox or ps2 or gamecube fan had all of them I sold them pcs own
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    GnomeWizardd wrote:
    not a xbox or ps2 or gamecube fan had all of them I sold them pcs own


    Not to start up a big battle between console vs pc. I'll only say this Consoles are better at some kinds of games PC's are better at others. For me I prefer the types of games on consoles and to that end the xbox IMO rules. My pc is a util beast and actually it's linux now so most games aren't really an option for me anymore. But even before my linux hop the only games I ever really bothered with on my PC are simple games, card/puzzle etc... Those I still play on my PC.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    man i play everything on my po weather it be FPS or RPG its great I live off my pc
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    GnomeWizardd wrote:
    man i play everything on my po weather it be FPS or RPG its great I live off my pc


    FPS, RTS and Flight sims are where the PC shines. RPG's used to be the domain of the PC but that is pretty much a wash now.

    Where the console shines are action games, scrapping games, racing games, sports games etc...

    I've never found a PC that responds as well as a console when you need a controller even using an xbox controller on a PC it just doesn't work as well. Plus there is a lot to be said about the 36" viewing surface.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    d00d the NFS underground with a wireless remote responds excellent! lot better graphics too
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    that 36" graphics surface runs at a normal resolution of 640x480. Now compare that to a 19" PC screen at 1600x1200.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    Bah 720rez for xbox but that's beside the point.

    I'm not trying to argue that the graphics are better on a TV just that they are bigger. Almost twice the size infact. Hell put the xbox on a 46" widescreen HDTV and oh my it's phenomonal.

    Control wise I just find there is lag on any PC game from the joystick to the PC. Then there is mutlti-player aspects where you will never get 4 people playin on the same PC the way you can get 4 friends playing the same game on a TV. Network play used to be an advantage on the PC but Xbox Live rocks so no longer a winner there.

    But whatever doesn't really matter to each his own. This isn't an arguement worth trying to sway sides on.
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2004
    heh, yeah, this is a useless debate to get into. of course in a computer forum, there are going to be those that bash consoles and <3 their computers. the point is, they both provide different types of fun that the other cant always imitate. at a lan party, i swear, you spend almost as much time setting up games than you do playing them. but me and my friends get halo on 4 xbox's in 15 minutes. as was said, to each their own. and composite video with xbox is sooooo nice. but the vast majority of people (with the exception of gnome apparently :D) that played prince of persia on pc didnt like it, but it was one of the highest rated of the year for the various consoles. i dont really know what i am trying to say, other than both pc's and consoles excell in their own right.

    (now a modded xbox, you could ALMOST argue that it is better than a pc :D )
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    almost, except for the fact that as a PC, it really isn't great. It's a P3 700 with a Geforce 3 and 64MB of ram. It definitely has a + for portability, but a small form factor system like a Shuttle can just as easily be put together.
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2004
    i dunno. its just nice to know, that immediately when i turn it on plugged into a network, the ftp will automatically be running. and that my divx/xvid/etc movies will play with no codec issues or problems. and that i can put all of my favorite movies and music videos on my xbox, i can take it with me anywhere and not worry about it. i dont have to worry about resolutions and displays, that the vast majority of tv's will take the xbox's output. as a linux box, its fantastic because you have all these wonderful capabilities and it can communicate just fine through SSH. and i have never been a fan of "gaming" on a tv through a pc, and i have definitely tried it several times, and it is always way more trouble than its worth, but having all back ups on the xbox, with no load times is fantastic. a modded xbox isnt quite a media center pc or a small form factor pc, but somewhere in between. so, you cant just compare p3 700/geforce3/64 mb of ram with an xbox just because of all the added functionality that is xbox specific. in addition, pentium 3 700's are hard to come by now if you dont already have one (i have like a 733, a 800, and a 933 sitting in my closet right now :D )
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    I wasn't comparing that hardware to an Xbox; that's what an xbox IS. The internal processor is a Pentium III @ 700MHz, the graphics chip is a modified Geforce 3, and the Xbox has 64MB of ram.
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2004
    i didnt say you were, everyone knows what the xbox specs are, you were trying to compare it to a shuttle small form factor or media center pc. and i was just saying that it isnt exactly comparing apples to apples just because the xbox doesnt run on an actual OS (its actually a trimmed down win2k kernel, but very lightweight). so because of this, the xbox is actually higher rated than a pc simply because it doesnt have the sheer amount of overhead that a regular pc that is running windows does. its funny, cuz folks have done mods where they increased the memory or bumped up the processor, and it didnt make any difference (except in 3rd party homebrew xbox apps) because each game is written to specifically take advantage of what is alotted for it. consoles do this by design which is why it is still hard for computers to emulate game consoles . . .
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    I disagree... once you install linux on the xbox, comparing it to a small form factor PC IS comparing apples to apples, because you are now operating on the same level as the rest of the PC world. It is true that console OSes are streamlined to the max in order to squeeze every bit of performance possible out of the hardware, but if you install linux on it, you are suddenly going through a full OS again, just like any other PC.
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2004
    well, i dont know if you could call the version of gentoo linux that installs for the xbox a full OS in the way that most people think of it today. as a matter of fact, i never even used the gui at all, but controlled it all through ssh. you could start and stop ftp, apache, install apps, etc. but this is just a console. i am not even sure that it has a gui running. again with the apples to apples thing, because linux is so customizable that it can take up a dvd worth or a mere 1.44 floppy. im not sure i would necessarily consider linux on a floppy a full OS, and the same goes for the xbox.

    good debate by the way :rockon:
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2004
    This is one of my favorite subjects of debate, PCs vs consoles. :jelly:

    I had actually thought about getting an Xbox and putting a mod chip and a bigger hard drive in for the purposes of installing linux and turning it into a portable system, but then I just got a shuttle instead. I like the ideas I've seen around here... I'm seriously thinking of reinstalling my gaming PC with both Linux and Win XP, and then stripping everything out of XP and just using it for games, and do everything else on the linux side...

    On the note of tiny linux installs, the same thing exists for both PCs and the xbox. I've seen a distro of linux (forget the name now, maybe someone knows) which ran completely off of a floppy disk if necessary, and was designed to turn old PCs into instant routing boxes. All you needed was a 486 or pentium class machine with a bunch of NICs in it and the 1.44 floppy drive.

    edit - LOL, IE crashed when I posted this. Time to switch to firefox.
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2004
    heh, yeah, actually, if you are interested in what all tiny linux distro's can do, there was someone that made a version of linux that would run on certain linksys routers, the WRT54G i believe. anyway, it obviously couldnt have stuff to share on its own, but it could map shares from another linux or windows box and run apache, ftp, ssh, and the like. the coolest part, was that when the router was turned off, it would return to normal

    found teh link: http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
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