Posts tagged Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Backlog: Clever Unifying Theme Goes Here edition
Feb 5th
Okay, fine: So maybe we didn’t put our thinking caps on this morning to figure out what ties all three of our Backlog entries together. It’s possible that we didn’t get enough sleep because some jerk woodpecker just had to poke the hell out of a dying fir tree about five feet from a certain editor’s bed for roughly three hours. Maybe that same editor grew frustrated in hunting down a hilarious .jpg and drew a crude comic to vent his frustration instead.
Who knows? It is a mystery. So why don’t we just file it away for now and move on to more pressing matters?
Lovely.
Here’s the skinny: Nick is up to his old tricks, Doug is off the friggin’ deep end of football-induced insanity, and Aaron just really, really hates free stuff.
Backlog: Videogame Lethargy edition
Jan 14th
This gorilla mirrors my current level of enthusiasm toward videogames
Has it finally happened? Have I lost my interest in the one pastime I’ve sunk the most effort into since I was a child? Are videogames suddenly boring?
Maybe. Actually, I doubt it.
In all honesty, I’m more overwhelmed with the industry right now than I’m disenfranchised with it. And I should be specific here: I’m not talking about the videogame industry so much as I’m directing my bitching to the large pile of games I still need to finish. That’s no one’s fault but my own — still, once I have “too much” to play I get bored with games in general and — gasp — go and read a book.
In semi-related news, I’m just about finished with book four in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. With that movie and TV franchise in the works, I kinda hope for/dread a videogame adaptation. Here’s a tip, Ron Howard and Mr. King: make Rockstar San Diego the developers.
Backlog: In from the cold edition
Jan 7th
A rare moment of Portland winter when it wasn't grey and rainy! Instead it's just clear and cold.
Happy New Year! Brrrrrrr. It’s cold out there. It hasn’t snowed at all in Portland this year, but it has been frigid around here. Cold enough to make streets a little slick and freeze car locks if you’re parking outside. It’s kind of sad that we didn’t get a last-minute snowfall to provide a true White Christmas, but considering the insanity that happens whenever Portlanders have to drive in the snow, it probably saved millions in insurance claims.
It’s also been cold enough to stay inside and play some games, which we’ve been doing! Nick has (shockingly) kept on playing Minecraft, Doug is still living out sports fantasies, and Aaron has shared the joy of Civilization V. So, without further ado, we present the first Backlog of 2011.
The Backlog: Civil War Edition
Dec 3rd
Image by friend of the site Brian Gundell
I don’t care who you are, if you’re an Oregonian, this is a weekend you care about. It’s Civil War weekend, and as proud (if a bit underemployed) alumni of the University of Oregon, all three of us have a side to take in the game. Good luck getting much done in Portland tomorrow between noon and 4 pm, and god speed to anyone driving south on I-5 from Portland who isn’t going to the game. I don’t think it hurts us to take an excessively pro-Ducks stance, so here goes:
LET’S GO DUCKS!
We do have the usual Backlog content to go with the heaping of school pride, though. Nick’s been stabbin’ fools in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Doug’s tackling some single-player games passed over during the year, and Aaron has been finding a balance between work, games, and the Wasteland.
Guest Review: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (PS3)
Jun 1st
by Matt Damiano
Editor’s note: We at Silicon Sasquatch have a problem. We don’t get to play every game that comes out simply because we aren’t sent review copies by publishers. However, we have friends who, like us, buy their own games, and these same friends also happen to be competent writers. Mr. Matt Damiano is one of those people, and we’d like to congratulate him on being our first guest reviewer. Let him know what you think of his review in the comments!
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is the follow-up to the 2008 series reboot, Prince of Persia, which didn’t make much of an initial commercial impression despite its generally positive reviews (and my personal favor). Consequently, Ubisoft Montreal opted to return to the original mythos of the Sands of Time games and explore the seven-year gap between Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Given the studio’s lengthy track record with the Prince, how does Forgotten Sands hold up?