Fat Princess!!

WolfForager · 30-07-2009 08:43PM #1

After much hype and excitement, Fat Princess is finally up on the PSN!! Downloading it now. Anyone else made the purchase? If so and you have played it, what are your impressions?

Silverfish · 30-07-2009 08:44PM

Theme music will be stuck in my head for weeks.

WolfForager · 30-07-2009 08:48PM

Should i boot it up in mute? :P

NotorietyH · 30-07-2009 10:10PM

I was in the beta so was in love with it already! Really liking the different modes and stuff that wasn't in the beta. Have only had a few games. Hadn't played in a while so just getting used to it again. So far though it seems people are fairly quick to fall into set groups and actually work as a balanced team in terms of picking classes and stuff. It helps that all the classes are pretty fun to play. I'm playing as a priest at the moment. I found when I was starting it out that it worked best to just pick one class for the first few games and get used to them and their quirks, then start playing some of the other classes.

Still don't like playing as a mage though :P

WolfForager · 30-07-2009 10:14PM

Hmmm, played it for 2 games with NotorietyH, needless to say he kicked my ass any time i confronted him :P

It's good fun but frustrating in the fact that if your inexperienced you die very quickly and that the amount of players rapdily dwindles throughout the game until your left with 4 people per team by the end! I'll give the arena thing mode a try later on and try hone my skills as it were!

BeansBeans · 30-07-2009 10:15PM

Ooh i love the mages

Theres some serious scope for tactics with this game. A few mages, a few dark priests and a few healer priests charging the castle and AOEing

would love to try that.

Anyway absolutely loving the game. It really seems like the devs loved it. The credits are hilarious along with so much else of the game.

NotorietyH · 30-07-2009 10:17PM

WolfForager wrote: »

Hmmm, played it for 2 games with NotorietyH, needless to say he kicked my ass any time i confronted him :P

It's good fun but frustrating in the fact that if your inexperienced you die very quickly and that the amount of players rapdily dwindles throughout the game until your left with 4 people per team by the end! I'll give the arena thing mode a try later on and try hone my skills as it were!

Lol half the time I didn't know it was you. I did see you attacking a few people I was healing the odd time, was amusing.

Playing through the single-player a bit will get you fairly used to it, the AI is pretty good. They just don't seem to heal as much. Which is handy enough for training anyway. It's all about getting used to the classes strengths and weaknesses.

Liathroidi Dana · 30-07-2009 10:35PM

Is this worth getting, and what games would you compare it to?

dmcg90 · 30-07-2009 10:49PM

Wouldn't find a game for love nor money earlier... got to play 2 games... one was good... took about 10 minutes... the other took 1 minute...

projectmayhem · 31-07-2009 12:11AM

Liathroidi Dana wrote: »

Is this worth getting, and what games would you compare it to?

Battlefield meets the level-selection bit in super mario world.

...I'm serious.

BeansBeans · 31-07-2009 12:27AM

Strangely enough i cant get into a game either at the moment. Was really enjoying the online. Well the single player is great fun too. The bots are surprisingly good.

Crucifix · 31-07-2009 09:59AM

Liathroidi Dana wrote: »

Is this worth getting, and what games would you compare it to?

TF2 meets Castle Crashers.

I had a lot of fun playing it last night. Also, best credits sequence ever.

dmcg90 · 31-07-2009 11:36AM

Tried for two hours to get games last night, could only get two... must be day one bugs.

Liathroidi Dana · 31-07-2009 01:29PM

Crucifix wrote: »

TF2 meets Castle Crashers.

I had a lot of fun playing it last night. Also, best credits sequence ever.

Now that sounds sexy!
Might wait for one or two reviews first.

WolfForager · 31-07-2009 02:16PM

Just noticed that there are only bronze trophies.... That's a bit of a pain in the ass!!

WarZoneBrother · 31-07-2009 02:20PM

I don't know where either princess is so I am so freaking crap and I do not have a clue what I am at.

WolfForager · 31-07-2009 02:21PM

WarZoneBrother wrote: »

I don't know where either princess is so I am so freaking crap and I do not have a clue what I am at.

:O The game we were playing was a TDM not rescue the princess, that might help ya :P.

NotorietyH · 31-07-2009 02:23PM

WarZoneBrother wrote: »

I don't know where either princess is so I am so freaking crap and I do not have a clue what I am at.

Not all the game modes have a princess. If you were playing Invasion it's a capture and hold mode.

Your princess will be in the other teams dungeon if it's a regular princess game I think. The object then if to get your princess back to your throne while keeping the other team's princess in the dungeon.

Then there's like a capture the flag type mode where the other team's princess will be on the throne and you have to grab them and bring them to your dungeon to score a point.

Also there's a team deathmatch mode, so I don't think there's any princesses involved in that either.

WolfForager · 31-07-2009 02:29PM

Last night i was chucked into a soccer type game.... Except it was more like football you used to play at national school where you beat the **** out of each other for the ball :P

BeansBeans · 31-07-2009 04:00PM

WolfForager wrote: »

Just noticed that there are only bronze trophies.... That's a bit of a pain in the ass!!

With the system Sony use there is a trophy quota though. Which means if they have gold/silver/bronze. It still equates to the same amount of trophy points.

Being all bronze it allowed them to add loads of trophies worth less, more goals, more challenge. If it was silver and bronze there would probably be almost half.

Anyway fact remains there are equal trophy points to be had.

So its all good.

BeansBeans · 31-07-2009 04:03PM

WolfForager wrote: »

Last night i was chucked into a soccer type game.... Except it was more like football you used to play at national school where you beat the **** out of each other for the ball :P

I was reading about that on the Fat Princess board on the US playstation forums. There was a few threads about FP soccer but nobody explained what it is? They seemed to love it anyway.

Is it a game mode im missing or what?

WolfForager · 31-07-2009 04:23PM

BeansBeans wrote: »

With the system Sony use there is a trophy quota though. Which means if they have gold/silver/bronze. It still equates to the same amount of trophy points.

Being all bronze it allowed them to add loads of trophies worth less, more goals, more challenge. If it was silver and bronze there would probably be almost half.

Anyway fact remains there are equal trophy points to be had. So its all good.

Interesting.. there doesn't appear to be that many trophies though...

BeansBeans wrote: »

I was reading about that on the Fat Princess board on the US playstation forums. There was a few threads about FP soccer but nobody explained what it is? They seemed to love it anyway.

Is it a game mode im missing or what?

I don't think it's a game mode you can search for, i think your just randomly put into it when you use "Quick Find".

BeansBeans · 31-07-2009 04:32PM

WolfForager wrote: »

Interesting.. there doesn't appear to be that many trophies though...

Theres 21 trophies in Fat Princess. As a comparison Bf '43 has only 12 trophies. And also strangely easy. The Fat Princess ones, are rather tough. Kill 88 enemies online (a streak

)?

WolfForager wrote: »

I don't think it's a game mode you can search for, i think your just randomly put into it when you use "Quick Find".

I actually just found this on the Fat Princess forum:

When you create/find a game and you have the option to select your map, Soccer is the last map amongst your selection choices. The map automatically sets the only mode of play as well.

Will have to give this a try. Seems strange they kind of hid it away and didnt talk about it in interviews.

projectmayhem · 31-07-2009 04:37PM

I just posted a quick review up now for anyone wondering. There's a nice embedded gameplay vid (from someone else) and some pics.

Having a blast with this game. Already gotten one or two trohpies out of it. Haven't had the chance to play soccer though, but the princess game is just so much fun!

WarZoneBrother · 31-07-2009 04:57PM

WolfForager wrote: »

:O The game we were playing was a TDM not rescue the princess, that might help ya :P.

Ye it helps me but a bit late now :P I went and played story and figured out why there was no princess. And there was me running away from everyone looking for a princess :rolleyes:.

noodler · 31-07-2009 10:13PM

Any reviews up on big sites?

WolfForager · 01-08-2009 01:29PM

noodler wrote: »

Any reviews up on big sites?

http://ie.ps3.ign.com/articles/100/1009878p1.html

Tis not a review but read the last line, that's a sure indication as to how is review will go

Helix · 01-08-2009 06:57PM

theyve really dropped the ball here. the online is a disaster, which is never good for an online game

projectmayhem · 01-08-2009 07:34PM

Helix wrote: »

theyve really dropped the ball here. the online is a disaster, which is never good for an online game

I've had the server not connect twice. That's all. And both were today. No other issues at all, and I've been playing at peak times too. The issue, as far as I can see, lies in the fact that there's no "servers" per se. Moreso it uses the user connections as servers, so with volume you get people logging on/off all the time, internet connections failing, etc.

Mid-game is fine because the game actually switches to another person (it tells you this) but when trying to establish a connection to someone who's just left the game entirely the game fails.

Helix · 01-08-2009 11:36PM

i havent been able to get into a game since it was released

had no problems using the earlier code at all

i may just be unlucky though

Liathroidi Dana · 02-08-2009 01:04AM

Hows the Offline on this, coz my internet sometimes likes to take the piss out of me sometimes.

I'm kinda afriad to get this with no demo...

Fat Princess!!

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