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Am 07.09.16 um 17:01 schrieb Justisaur:
> Werner Punz wrote:
>
>> Not to much, hey it is August.
>>
>> One thing I did was to buy myself a really cheap used PS3 to catch up on
>> PS3 titles.
>> The first game I now have been playing on this system is an old love of
>> mine which I never finished on the Wii and which simply never really
>> will run properly on PC emulators
>>
>> Okami, the PS3 is the only system which has this game in HD and as I
>> said no emulator really emulates this game perfectly yet.
>> (Tried it on a Wii emulator and a PS2 emu, the PS2 emu runs somewhat
>> better but some spells are a pain due to positioning problems caused by
>> the emu).
>>
>> Also Capcom basically has written this game off and will never port it
>> to another system again, I guess. Also although the developers want to
>> do a big sequel (there is a small one for the NDS) it wont happen, I
> guess.
>>
>> A short description of a game. Okami originated on the PS2 in its last
>> days and is one of the gems of this system. It is basically a Zelda
>> clone from Clover Studios (which is now Platinum games)
>> but the thing is it is better than Zelda in many aspects.
>>
>> You basically play a wolf godess and the entire game focues around
>> beating the usual evil which has overtaken the land of Nippon.
>> The art style is cell shaded japanese paintings and the games fights and
>> puzzles solving is centered around spells, which you can cast by drawing
>> symbols to a paper (similar to what Arx Fatalis did)
>>
>> The game itself is a uniuque mix of artstyle and 3d zeldaish gameplay.
>>
>> Unfortunately it is such a nieche game that almost no one played it.
>> Capcom tried to recover the costs by porting it to several systems.
>> The PS2 the PS3 and the Wii. With the PS3 version being the only HD
>> version so far in existence.
>>
>> Unfortunately this game will never see a pc port, the spellcasting
>> system would be perfect for the mouse and there are not to many Zeldaish
>> games on the PC anyway, so it is playing it on the console for now.
>>
>> If you have the chance check out this game, it is worth it.
>>
>>
>> Werner
>
>
> I played this back in the day on the PS2, it was very good and had
> beautiful graphics, but it's typical console length and feel other than
> the drawing spells gimmick.
Actually it is very close to a 3d Zelda in its game mechanics over time 
you learn you spells which open new areas and give you new puzzles. The 
3d Zeldas and Okami are action adventures which high emphasis on 
puzzling and exploration and less on combat. Probbly not the the game to 
mention in this group, it probably would be better off in an adventure 
game newsgroup.
Unfortunately there are not to many games on the PC side which are 
similar to this. Oceanhorn comes to my mind and from what I have heard 
also the Darksiders series.


> I haven't really played any zelda since
> the original (other than one I only played for an hour or two I hated on
> the game cube) but it didn't remind me of that.  I'd put a number of PS2
> games above it, God of War (now THAT should be on the PC!) GTA III & VC,
> Ico, and probably a few others.
>
> - Justisaur
Actuallly there are a lot of games which would deserve a pc port. Okami 
just comes to my mind because of the drawing thing, which would work 
very well with a mouse. But you mentioned God of War, the Bayonetta 
Series vom Platinum games also would be excellent on the PC.
ICO Shadow of Collossus, God of War pretty much every title published by 
Sony from the PS3 PS4 era... Thats one of the reasons why I recently 
bought (by now dirt cheap) second hand PS3 and I am filling my PS3 
collection ATM. You will never see those games natively on the PC.
With the PS3 having been end of its life for three years now you can get 
the games dirt cheap. I paid about average 5-10 euros for each of the 
PS3 games I wanted to have. The trick simply is to avoid Gamestop, they 
are a ripoff and buy this stuff second hand directly.