Fat Princess

[Samwise]

Oddly enough, I think I like the worker best.  If I can ever manage to get into an online game I imagine I'll be very popular.

[Lounge]

The worker flinging bombs is incredibly fun. I think its my favorite as well.

[Sauced]

Had a good 4 win night last night.  Using the D-Pad to issue commands actually worked, people just started following me after a bit of persistent "Help!  Help me!".

I never play mages (fucking ice whores), instead grabbing whatever hat appears to be needed at the moment.  It does seem that the game spawns you near a needed hat, or on the opposite side of the castle from the hat you were playing?  Haven't quite figured it out yet, but it is certainly doing *something*.

[Dtrain]

The worker flinging bombs is incredibly fun. I think its my favorite as well.

I love camping a tower when it gets too hectic to harvest. If you back off from the edge just a little bit you can lob your bombs down on enemies trying to take the tower by hiding at the bottom. Also, your bombs will break off resources, so you can prep your harvesting if you can't get close - it's just a little tricky getting the aim right.

[Sauced]

Apparently the Matchmaking code completely ignores ping when returning the best match up.  Bravo.

[LK]

I don't know why console network code is so clownshoes. This and Castle Crasher must be contending for the Greatest Game Fucked Up By Worst Networking award.

Warhawk on PS3 suffering from this made me return the game in anger.

[schild]

Demigod was worse than all the games you mentioned.

[Segoris]

Don't know how I missed this thread, but I got to say this game is incredibly entertaining. Even the single player modes are a great time (grim reaper mode after a battle is just  )

[Hawkbit]

Yeah, I got my $15 out of it in the last 2 hours.  Anything past this point is gravy.  Didn't see much in the way of the connection issues, three minutes to start a game wasn't terrible.  Maybe I got lucky tonight. 

[apocrypha]

Having the same connection issues in the EU too, which is a shame because this is awesome amounts of fun 

Fixes coming apparently.

[Oz]

Maybe i'm just lucky (knocks on wood) but i've had not connection issues so far and it takes me *maybe* 2 mins to connect...

Although it does seem to me that the opposing teams runs at warp speed, which concerns me.

[Segoris]

I was also only having 2-3 min wait times. There was only once that I received a message along the lines of a being 'unable to connect to this server at this time' type of message.

No experience with the other team walking any faster or slower then I was though.

[apocrypha]

I've managed to join 2 games out of about 20 attempts. Every time it goes through the "Requesting Game Info.... Connecting To Host....." for 2-3 minutes then dumps me back at the main menu with a message the there was "a problem connecting to the host".

Oh and in one of the games I managed to join someone was cheating like a mofo - running around as a giant chicken 1-shotting (1-pecking?) everyone? Other than those minor problems it's great 

[Segoris]

I've managed to join 2 games out of about 20 attempts. Every time it goes through the "Requesting Game Info.... Connecting To Host....." for 2-3 minutes then dumps me back at the main menu with a message the there was "a problem connecting to the host".

Oh and in one of the games I managed to join someone was cheating like a mofo - running around as a giant chicken 1-shotting (1-pecking?) everyone? Other than those minor problems it's great 

Sucks about your connection luck. As for the giant chicken, was it after the game had ended while waiting for the next round? If so that is what happens to the person with the top score of the losing team. They turn into a giant chicken, while the top score of the winning team turns into a grim reaper. Killing the chicken or the reaper makes them drop an egg or some item (can't remember what it was) that turns whoever picks it up into the chicken or the reaper. This transformation lasts until the next round starts.

[Dtrain]

The reaper is all well and good, but the chicken thing is a great way to feel better about putting out a great effort when your team let you down. GIANT. CHICKEN. 1 PECK. 1 KILL. (??!?!?!!) Just look at how it damaged the psyche of apocrypha.

[schild]

Whenever I want to rack up points, I drop a chicken bottle on myself and peck around the gate. Instead of points for each kill, you get points for each hit. Also, achievements are unlocked by killing with a chicken. I'm getting pretty good with it.

[voodoolily]

So you're one of those people that just fucks around instead of actually doing something useful.

[Dtrain]

The achievement is also called 'little pecker' 

[schild]

So you're one of those people that just fucks around instead of actually doing something useful.

Yep. I fuck around at the top of the leaderboard where I've probably killed more than half the team combined. I am completely useless.

[apocrypha]

As for the giant chicken, was it after the game had ended while waiting for the next round?

Hehe no, it was all through a game. The guy had the title "King" and had over 7000 points by the end of the round while everyone else had <1000. There was definite shenanigans.

[Dtrain]

As for the giant chicken, was it after the game had ended while waiting for the next round?

Hehe no, it was all through a game. The guy had the title "King" and had over 7000 points by the end of the round while everyone else had <1000. There was definite shenanigans.

I've heard you can get stuck in regular chicken mode - maybe the same is true for giant chicken.

[Yegolev]

Neeeeeds a paaaaaatch.

[Hawkbit]

I got stuck yesterday being kicked from every game I could get into, then finally it wouldn't let me join at all anymore.  All day. 

Super fun game though when it works. 

[Hawkbit]

They pushed a small 13mb patch, not sure what it did.

Got into a game at 8 tonight, played till 12 without interruption.  Maybe it's fixed.  Haven't had this much fun in a game in a very, very long time.  Playing a priest is super fun, but I sometimes ninja build the upgrade and get yelled at.  Thing is, I'm nearly always top spot on points if I have access to dark priest for 1v1 situations. 

[Ard]

Yeah, pretty sure it's mostly fixed now.  Patch notes on their blog.  I got into a game first try after the patch, after a week of virtually no luck.

http://titanstudios.com/blog/

[Mosesandstick]

I need to buy a PS3 after trying this game out.

[Morfiend]

I need to buy a PS3 after trying this game out.

If its Fat Princess and not Demon's Souls that makes you buy a PS3, I weep.

Not saying Fat Princess isnt a fun game, it is, but really now.

[schild]

Demon's Souls is the best reason to buy a PS3, yes. Without question. Probably the best reason to buy any system ever. I'm not sure if that's good for the PS3 or if it says more about previous consoles. /shrug.

[fuser]

The gladiate arenas are kicking my butt, even healing between rounds I find it next to impossible on a mage.

[LK]

I played a couple matches at a friends. Felt slightly sluggish and glitchy. There was more than one occasion where the princess would disappear or shitty level design caused me to fall. Thanks but no thanks, I got my fill after a half dozen matches.

[schild]

Felt slightly sluggish and glitchy.

These are problems I have not had. Are you sure you weren't playing Castle Crashers? (haha)

[fuser]

Felt slightly sluggish and glitchy.

These are problems I have not had. Are you sure you weren't playing Castle Crashers? (haha)

Had the problems a few times too playing with a friend(he was hosting) where the catapult wouldn't trigger. I'd stand on it and jump in various areas and it wouldn't register. He walked over with me still on it and jump and trigger it fine launching us both into battle. He stopped the game and started a new one and the issue was all cleared up, go figure.

[Xanthippe]

Late to the party, I know, but I just picked this up.  It's really fun.

There's a $5 download pack that adds some new classes - ninja, pirate and giant.

Surprisingly enough, I get a game within a minute or two.  No waiting.

[NiX]

Don't tempt me :(

[Hawkbit]

The addon is one of my next purchases... I likely won't play it much but had so much fun a while back that I feel the need to shoot a couple extra bucks towards the devs.