Ico / Shadow of the Colossus

It took me fucking forever to notice the sticks on the ground in the hellhound level (my tv is small and dark), but that one was still cool.

I've only just started playing SOTC. 3 Colossi down. This is so much better than ico! I'm definitely not doing it properly though. Is the time attack an option after you finish or should I be watching my time on my first play through?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20051021h.jpg

This:

I am enjoying it! It's funny, when you're climbing the colossi the music is all "Oh what a valiant hero you are" and then as soon as you kill one it changes to "FOR SHAME............."

-- Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:28

Is v v OTM

I like having the horse even when it takes forever to make it go anywhere! Camera is a real pain as well, I just can't get used to it at all :(

I also have just learned what that gauge is. I feel shame u_u

time attack is after you finish

Ah that would make sense. Are the colossi in the same positions?

you actually go straight to them from the temple, you'll see.

(so yes, but it won't matter)

Ah, got ya. You just meet them in sequence and start hammering lumps out of each other?

nope, you can pick which one to fight from the little statues in the temple. yr getting ahead of yrself, beat the game first! :D

by positions I thought you meant locations, sorry

Such a great game.

Ah right. I suppose I should try beating it first. I has teh fear of sandworm, last and the flying one. I probably shouldn't have read the thread!

One of the best games ever made, I think.

want!

Buy!

(You really won't regret it)

Unless you're as big a game-hating grinch as me.

tracer, I saw this online new for £10 somewhere recently. I'll try track it down again

easily one of my favorite things ever. not one of my favorite games ever, but favorite THINGS ever.

in other words, i love it just as much as my sofa and penis.

was at game - http://www.game.co.uk/ViewProduct.aspx?cat=10248&mid=325704

but it's out of stock now, sorry : /

it's greatest hits now, so it should be that price everywhere.

unless you don't get the greatest hits things in the uk?

cd try subscribing to the stock alert, I guess?

x-post

yes, you do, but it's called, alternately, xbox classics and ps2 platinum... not sure that shadow of the colossus is platinum over here just yet and either way it would be £20 and not £10 even if it was platinum, if I remember correctly

Yay to enabling TH!

Tracer, play.com on the markey place there's a copy for only £14.99!

With free delivery iirc.

I am the only person who doesn't like these games. ;_;

Me, me! Oh actually I loved Ico.

SOTC is a fine, really fun game. It's got nothing on Ico though.

i couldn't wait.

i've already beat the first two baddies.

and now i'm spent!

Well hopefully you tidied up afterwards...

I didn't like ico but I like this game. I think it's the lack of boring. That said, finding the third took forever. TH: look for gaps. That's all I can say!

i've also only just started playing this after having had it for a year or so. it's magnificent!

there's something nice about this game in that it's not like crack, the way most games are, trickling little bits to you, one or two drips at a time, always making you want to see what the next bit is.. each battle here is so monumental that it's like - wow, OK, i'm done for tonight.

i know, you kind of have to catch your breath after each one

i sort of love that it's probably the only game to generate a whole big file on gamefaqs that's not actually about how to play it but just story speculation!!

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924364/41817

we should have a gamefaqs nerd lol verbosity thread:

|Statement of purpose| (002)
The purpose of this here document is to combine all known and documented
theories concerning Shadow of the Colossus' storyline into one large
reader-friendly FAQ, and this is the statement that states that as being the purpose.

haha

Busy weekend, went from 5 to 12 (I think that was starting figure anyway). I have 13 next. Story so far makes no sense. So far I've been relatively lucky but wow, it can take forever to figure out how to either get there or beat the colossus. V frustrating!

Oh wow @ Number 13. Wow wow wow wow wow wow. Just WOW!!

which one is that?

To avoid spoilers, google it. I wouldn't want to spoil the amazing surprise that it is!

I am not building this up too much guys, it is incredible!

ohhhh yeah that one is amazing!

i should play this through again; i'm remembering the littler ones as being way more tricky to figure out.

It's finding the things though. That can be the real challenge. Up until you have to figure out how to beat them. There was one that was like a bull and that was impossible to figure out. Took me forever!

Wow, now I am watching youtube videos of "unusual' SotC kills.

i've finished off six of the mf's and have found them all right off the bat, i guess that'll change soon

Oh yes. Yes it will. Number 14 just beaten. That took a loooong time :(

FINISHED!!!

Amazing game. More when awake etc.

awes~

BLEW your MIND didn't it

These games made me realize that you could get far more versimilitude and/or graphic realism out of lighting and camerawork, as opposed to trying to perfectly render human skin. Knock the frame rate of SotC up to 60/30 fps or so, and you'd get damn-near-video quality.