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Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time |OT| Sly & the Familys Tome are Back!
- Thread starter Byronic Hero
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Yeah it also seems to depend on what other sounds are going on around it. Sometimes I'll hear the bottle sound and it will take me 30 seconds of looking to figure out where it is coming from, other times the sound didn't kick in until I was practically touching it. That and the sound effects completely cut out from time to time.
The sound effects programming seems to be not very good.
The sound effects programming seems to be not very good.
I can't say I've had that happen to me. What version are you playing?
Spring-Loaded
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Ahh, that's cool. Thanks
Get all the bottles in world 3 first. Just trust me
I know this is probably mentioned somewhere in this thread, but I don't want to read the whole thing >_< Do you have to have prior experience with the Sly games to play this and appreciate this one? Checked out the giantbomb quick look, and I do really like the look of this game, but I don't know I'm ready to do a play of the whole series or anything. Since it's a cross buy game, it's also appealing.
Byronic Hero
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Check the OP.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Make sure to use Bently's binocucom at some point after completing world 4.
Werewolf Jones
Member
I finished Sly Cooper 3 recently and it kind of left a sour after taste, although I really don't like the art direction in this game is it more like the first game or more like 2/3? Because I LOVED the first game.
Yes. There's 1 in particular right outside of the base in the first world that is driving me nuts. I have no idea where it is so I have to assume it's somewhere underground and I just can't get it to yet.
PhantomOfTheKnight
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I just got to the first boss fight.
This is the best Sly game since the original. It refines ideas from all 3 and the platforming is just so fun. I love the big heist feel with all of Slys pals. The writing and animation is stellar. I'm in love with this game so far.
Leave Sanzaru to Sly. They do it better than Sucker Punch did it the last 2 times lol.
Great Charleston i'd put this one way above Sly 3, above Sly 2, and about as good as Sly 1 even though it's seen a lot of changes since the first Sly.
Also I don't know about you guys but playing on the PS3, the cel shading is gorgeous.
This is the best Sly game since the original. It refines ideas from all 3 and the platforming is just so fun. I love the big heist feel with all of Slys pals. The writing and animation is stellar. I'm in love with this game so far.
Leave Sanzaru to Sly. They do it better than Sucker Punch did it the last 2 times lol.
Great Charleston i'd put this one way above Sly 3, above Sly 2, and about as good as Sly 1 even though it's seen a lot of changes since the first Sly.
Also I don't know about you guys but playing on the PS3, the cel shading is gorgeous.
It's been known that there's a (spoilered just in case)
medieval-themed world and ancestor
I've had some (maybe even a majority) not make a sound. *shrug*
PS3
Fuuuu, I vowed that I was going to play through Sly 2 and 3 before this came out and am halfway through Sly 2 and haven't even started Sly 3.
I bought it despite Sony's lack of a promotional push to support Sanzaru and the Sly Cooper franchise. I guess I shouldn't have the attitude that I have to wait to play it since I've never played through Sly 2 and 3 before so this is all new to me....but the new and shiniest is always more tempting.
I bought it despite Sony's lack of a promotional push to support Sanzaru and the Sly Cooper franchise. I guess I shouldn't have the attitude that I have to wait to play it since I've never played through Sly 2 and 3 before so this is all new to me....but the new and shiniest is always more tempting.
Weird, I've either never noticed it or it's something to do with sound setup. But I just have it coming through HDMI so I doubt that's it.
Honestly, it's a lot more like the first game. Even though it has the hubs from 2 and 3 (which are gigantic now, and true levels in their own right), the missions for each are straight up platforming levels, and it's like Sly 1 in that sense.
You do have the other characters popping in fairly often, but most of them are close enough to Sly's gameplay that it doesn't feel that bad... to me, anyway. A lot of complaints in reviews is the abundance of minigames and how you're required to play other characters, both of them things I didn't have any issue with and hated myself in 2 and 3.
The Grim Heaper
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What am I doing wrong in World 3 during the Operation?
It's really starting to frustrate me.
I'm playing as Bob and it's telling me to "Loosen the valves" by rotating the right stick, but he's just moving a little to the left and that's it.
PhantomOfTheKnight
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That's one of the smaller problems I nhad with the game, especially when trying to unlock the safes.
First time I tried I was only 200 away from getting the high-score.
Don't remember having trouble with that part. Maybe
it might be the left stick you have to rotate? And if that isn't working have you tried just pressing up and down? I know Murray has to do that for some of his lever-pulling sections.
That bottom shot in particular is great. This game has such a slick art direction. I imagine it's difficult to pull off a "dark" look while still being colourful and vibrant.
Just keep rotating the right stick clockwise even if he looks like he's stopping and he'll continue his thing.
The Grim Heaper
Member
That should have been obvious. :/
Thanks. I guess I was waiting for some visual cue that never came when I tried earlier.
The Bentley hacking games are like once or twice a world and last like 5 minutes tops...
Werewolf Jones
Member
So it really is like the first Sly game then? Neat. Just gonna wait for European release now.
Not really. This has hubs and collectibles all over the place like 2 and 3.
It's like the first Sly in terms of platforming focus and in carefully designed smaller levels, but it uses a hub world like Sly 2 and 3. All Sly games have had collectibles, except 3 I think.
Yeah, three axed the clue bottles and treasures around the map for a more linear game, which had the hubs change somewhat drastically in a few levels. Would've been okay if the levels didn't axe almost all elements of Sly's gameplay around the halfway mark.
Spring-Loaded
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Are there ever arrow barrels that don't have a target within range? I"m in world 2 with one treasure to go and there are at least a couple arrow barrels which seemingly have no targets close by.
PhantomOfTheKnight
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I honestly have no idea what some of those arrow buckets were for.
Why?
I've noticed this too in World 1.
Are there any powerups that let you see the masks on the map?
PhantomOfTheKnight
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If you look at the picture of Penelope in the Binocucom, she has horns and a squiggly mustache.
Thanks for the screens, very useful. It still looks okay on Vita but it does look great on PS3. Is the difference enough that you find yourself playing the Vita version less, or put off when you do play it?
I can only really see myself playing this on Vita, guess I won't be missing out too much although I probably will get it cross-buy when it finally comes out here.
No. There's no doubt the PS3 version looks a good deal better but I play the Vita version more and have no problem whatsoever with that
No. There's no doubt the PS3 version looks a good deal better but I play the Vita version more and have no problem whatsoever with that
Awesome, thanks!
Quick Mustard
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Man, I really wanna play this.
Cant believe UK has to wait till March :/
Cant believe UK has to wait till March :/
One more arcade high score to go, and it's the goddamn regular Alter Ego. I got to 24k on one of my runs, but I just don't see how I'm screwing up so bad to the point where I'm usually two thousand points off. Super Alter Ego was a lot easier in comparison, since there's more sections, you get a do-over on the level that has the Sly Mask portal, and it's just lousy with enemies and power-ups. I just don't see the rhyme or the reason.
I finished episode 1 just now and got the 30 bottles. Not sure what the chiming I'm still hearing is, probably a treasure alert. But anyway it's a decent game for what it is but it has the same exact problems the other Sly games have. It's way too easy and too reliant on minigames during missions. I breezed through every job in episode 1 without any challenge at all, even the boss.
tiny raptor
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I'm glad that fans are appeased.
I've never played a Sly game before this (well, just the first level of Sly 1, really), but I am having an absolute blast with this.
Some people have been knocking the game for its minigames, but I think they're a great way to provide variety. The game just has so much variety, that I can't put it down. I know that every mission or task ahead of me will be different enough to keep me playing.
And there are so many laugh out loud moments, too! The voice acting, the writing, it's all there. Kevin Miller said it in the latest podcast from second funniest podcast: Sly should be an animated cartoon as well.
This could very well end up being one of my favorite games of this generation.