Well, there’s always my sword. I mean the thing is used against opponents that are made of freaking metal and it slices them up, big time!
But then I can’t seem to get past a simple wooden door. Gotta find the key for that.
Its the same with my rocket launcher.
This doesn’t happen often, but sometimes, when the day appears to be going normal, this HUGE message in big block letters saying “CONNECTION ERROR” will flash in the sky, and all of the sudden, I’m back at home and it’s morning. I have to start the WHOLE DAY OVER AGAIN!
Sometimes, no matter how many times I’ve been shot, stabbed, or hit with fireballs, as long as I’m alive, I can operate with 100% efficiency.
But.
Sometimes, I die from any single injury, no matter how slight. Slightly singed toe? I’m dead.
I found this bottle of green liquid in a chest in an old castle. I’m going to drink it. I’ll be able to cast more magic!
I got this powder from a strange old woman who smelled bad. I’m going to eat it. I’ll be able to turn my enemies into woodland creatures!
I found this fruit on the corpse of this big ol’ plant thingy that tried to kill me. I’m going to eat it. I’ll gain some health!
I found this ghost in a graveyard. I’m going to drink it-
Yesterday I got in a car wreck and was killed. Thank god real life has saved games! Although I did have to go to work an extra time this week (note to self: save game at quitting time).
Next week I’m going to Vegas and putting everything on 22. I’ll just keep loading my saved game until I win.
Someone has already sort of mentioned this, but:
In Magic: The Gathering, i always wondered what you were doing? Were you walking around holding a card table under your arm, and then when you met a monster, set it up and whipped out your deck? And folding chairs?
Even a “real” game like Baldur’s Gate 2. There were times I was too lazy to go to an inn, so i’d sleep right on the street! i’d never do that in real life. Not to mention that one time I was playing and hadn’t rested for a long time. I had a romance with Anomen, and right as we start to go to bed in the Sahuagin lair, he asks me to sleep with him! Yeah, real romantic, the smell of fish.
Much as I loved Prince of Persia (not the one that just came out, haven’t played that yet), that guy could have saved himself so much grief if he just carried some freakin’ rope and hooks.
NWN? I always walk around with my sword out (unless you scold me) and no clothes under my armor other than my skivvies. Yup, no padding. Nope, it doesn’t chafe.
On the plus side, he was a pretty darned athletic individual. He had the capability to jump 20 feet and catch a ledge. And by gum, he ALWAYS CAUGHT THAT LEDGE. And he could hang there for HOURS at a time.
(It just occurred to me that you might actually be talking about POP:The Sands of Time as “Prince Of Persia” and POP: The Warrior Within as “The one that just came out”. I’m assuming, however, that you’re talking about Prince Of Persia itself, the classic game from 15 odd years ago, and are referring to POP: TSOT as “The one that just came out”)
(In any case, POP:TSOT is a truly fantastic game which should be played by all and sundry.)
Recently I was in boot camp, and I shot the drill instructor in the back of the head. He promptly turned around and came over to tell me to get out of his sight.
Harborwolf and I learned this trick purely by accident playing Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. He was trying to free up a bottle to catch the “super” poe, and he chose a bottle that had a regular poe. Thinking he would just set it free, he pushed the button and proceeded to watch Link drink the ghost.
Definitely one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in a game. Upon further experimentation, we discovered that the effects of drinking ghosts was random. Sometimes it would hurt you, and other times it would heal you! I like those odds!
I know that whenever I finally have an important conversation that I’ve been waiting for, I’ll suddenly lose all control of my actions and speech. I may also find myself having an out of body experience as I watch thing happens at some distant locations.
As a highly advanced robot, complete with an advanced AI and the ability to mimic the powers of my fallen foes, there’s one danger my titanium-laced frame, which can withstand being rammed repeatedly by robots five times my size, cannot endure - pointy things.
Back in the day, when I was a youth, I found that I could steal things from shops simply by running around the shopkeeper three times to confuse him. Of course, when he next saw me he punished me severely but I was allowed to keep whatever I stole. And after that we would carry on like I had never robbed him. Ahhhh nostalgia.
Hah, I’m playing this game for the first time, finally (I went from BG1 to EQ and never played BG2), and Anomen told me a while back that he finds himself drawn to me like a “dark flame.” Hmm, guess I’d best watch out for him getting frisky in a dungeon…
I often missed 
I was talking about POP: TSOT as the one I played. and POP:TWW as the one that just came out. Unfortunately I never played the older one, which is a pity, because I don’t think I’ll enjoy it after this one.
And don’t get me wrong, I love the game and I always thought (and still do) that the Prince was HOT and unbelivebly amazing, and don’t be shocked, but he’s GOT to be pretty damn good in bed since he’s so athletic! I just think rope would have been useful. Climbing boots?
See, this is the problem - he needs to be “outside”, or what the game thinks of as “outside”. So I was in the asylum before that, and he won’t be romantic in the asylum, so he started something just outside. Then the next time, you have to “sleep” to trigger it, and the next time I slept was in the Sahuagin lair! So I kept wondering if the Sahuagin were watching us (not to mention our party members, what exhibitionists we be).
Ever see the film Enemy at the Gates? Jude Law’s character gets it on with a woman in very cramped sleeping quarters, sleeping amongst a lot of other people. I always see that as my mental image of that kind of situation.
I’ve been in a dungeon a long time, but the trip to the surface wouldn’t be that bad - methinks it’s time for a little sleeping under the stars. 
So I was in this Imperial Base on some planet, trying to find some clue about the Dark Trooper, and I’m standing there, my body festooned with various bulky weapons, and a stormtrooper is aimlessly wanering back and forth in front of me, like he hasn’t got a care in the world. This happened all the time few years back. Oh sure, occasionally he would fire at me after a stretch, but usually I can waste him at point blank range with no trouble.
When other personalities have taken over, and I’m trying to infiltrate some high-security military base here on earth, I have the most amazing luck. Many of my foes have some sort of psychic ability to sense when my gun is trained on them, and rather than turn and fire at me, something causes the word “head shot” to materialize right near them, so I can kill them with one pull of the trigger. One would think that evolution would select against this sort of self-endangering trait, but it comes in quite handy on my end.
You kids and your lack of respect for history. And I admit that I never speculated about how good the prince would be in bed.
In any case, if you liked POP, I very highly recommend a relatively little known PS2 game called ICO.
(Btw, I’m playing POP:TWW right now, and it’s really not as good as TSOT )
It’s included on the Sands of Time disc. It unlocks once you beat the game.
Another thing that happens in San Andreas that rarely happens in real life: you can walk around in just your underwear and a pair of novelty nose and glasses and nobody gives you a second glance.