NO_PUDding - 86 days 21 hours ago

I am not saying it's bad. I really wanna see what the game is about. I lvoe the movie, so I love it.

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ry-guy - 86 days 21 hours ago

I guess I misunderstood the tone at which you wrote the blog, hehe.

Yeah I saw the beginning and immediatly thought of The Day After Tomorrow with the mall glass.

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NO_PUDding - 86 days 13 hours ago

No I think you are right... I must ahve worded this badly...

Temptist thought I wa sbeign negative too. I shan't reword it, hopefully peopel will read an see. I am hyped about this, and a little negative about PoP, but I never meant to even share that.

I just tend to hate cel shaded games when they are marketed (by the developes themselves) as artistic. Not as much goes into cel shading as making a true artistic direction, and I am bored with cel shading being an excuse to claim artistic direction.

That's my only qualm with PoP and I ahve no qualms with I am Alive. But thanls for the heads up Ry-guy, I am clearly typing somethign neagtive :P

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ry-guy - 86 days 2 hours ago

I have the same issuses sometime.

Tone does not come across the internet very well, unfortuantly.

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NO_PUDding - 86 days 13 hours ago

Fixed... I never meant to be negative... read above comments.

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NO_PUDding - 83 days 12 hours ago

I really can't decide. This is another point I may bring up in a blog.

All the time in the early days of the PS3, everyone was saying they are a crap developer for the awful ports, people were bashing them. I was always very impressed by Ubisoft.

And Assassins Creed did quite a bit for me. But to me Ubisoft is like a lot of things loved by the mainstream. It pretends it's depthier than it actually is, so mainstream players can get involved and feel like they are actually experiencing something.

Indeed Ubisoft's marketing is great. Great soundtracks, from recently Sigur Ros, UNKLE and Massive Attack. It's that all there is to it?

I like Assassins Creed as I mentioned, less because of the gamplay, and because despite it's failings, it delivered on the free-running. I loved the story, and the universe in which is was set, and it was hugely fashionable due to the whole Da Vinci code thign which was popular then. And the idea that Templars exist in the future is such a juxtaposition of two gaming stereotypes. Knights and fantasy and Sci-Fi forces plotting to take voer the world.

Both were toned down, so once again Templars, rather than trying to take over the world, want to diminish the control of the church, and Assassins a usually neutral player in the story of the crusade is theorised, a large player.

Clever to me.

But indeed, as I said, I do have qualms with Prince of Persia. It takes inspiration from the things I mentioned. But I hate how they are so proud of the art direction when it's purely glorified cel shading.

And as for the Tom Clancy franchises, well they are becoming ridiculous. Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six were where it could have stayed. But it feels milked now that there is a combat flight simulator, an RTS, and a massive technical shooter (Hawx, Endwar and GRAW respectively) all crammed in under the same name. The last good Splinter Cell was Chaos Theory, and it was brilliant. But Conviction isn't even worthy of Tom Clancy's name. It's not technical, by any means. It's sickening.

Outside of that, I don't think you can blame their independant support failure on them. Haze, and Kane and Lynch weren't developed internally, and they were VERY unfortunate.

Anyway, a great point to bring up. I still ahve faith in them, but it's quickly diminishing, and BG&E2 will have to be great to win me over. I like that they are subverting their previously Cel Shaded game with realistic graphics.

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