Ico / Shadow of the Colossus

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.

Couldn't get on yesterday. Actually played first colossus again to show epic scale to guests.

Basically the end: wow. WTF. Totally worth playing for really! Methinks I'll have to go online to understand one or two things (that I won't go into here for fear of spoilers).

As for the time trials, not a chance. I'm done for the while I think, it was funny last night realising that when you don't have to play that the controls are actually pretty frustrating, especially the camera.

The look and feel though? Wow. Just wow.

gff: it did.

yeah, i did something to the camera, can't remember what - inverted it i think? anyway i did something and sudenly it behaved the way i thought it should

haven't played this in many days, it's sitting there waiting for me - to echo my own comment above, though, for some reason i'm not ANXIOUS to get on with it, it's totally OK that i'm not, it's there and will be there; most other video games DEMAND that you play them - not this one. and this feelings makes me like it even more, treasure it even more, i almost don't want to finish it because i don't quite want it to ever be over.

"spoiler" talk is weird - there's no plot really!

Tracer, there's not a plot as such but when you first see a colossus that's the best part! Such a rush. Also why play the whole game if you know what's coming. Apart from enabling time trial and hard mode of course!

I tried the trick with the camera. It was just counter-intuitive the way it automatically panned etc. Best part was finding that you can move the camera during cut scenes. Savage.

finished. WHAT a game!

(i think i still prefer ico.)

bestest colossuseses: 7, 10, 13.

I should play this again soon. I never did finish the time trials or hard mode.

I can't remember which is which! I'll have a look online later and see. What did you think of the end film?

I just started Ico and I'm already lost.

Leave it that way. Walk away from the terrible game!

Ico isn't too hard to figure out. Where are you stuck, poly?

I got stuck at the part where the black thing pulls the girl into the hole, which is roughly the beginning of the game. It took me like an hour to realize that all I needed to do was walk up to her and press R1.

Then I dragged her around the castle and now I'm stuck again. I'm sure I'll figure it out, but SOTC made a lot more sense to me.

Ico, esp. once you've finished it, is beautiful and wonderful and perfect. Even if you think it's strange and boring-ish, the payoffs in the last third of the game are even better than the v. end of SOTC.

I have a Jap PS3, and am thinking I would like to play SotC upscaled. Would the fact that this game would be entirely in a language I don't understand be a barrier to enjoying it?

Hahaha, no.

the part where the black thing pulls the girl into the hole, which is roughly the beginning of the game.

Well now that you've got that sorted, know that this is going to happen a bajillion more times.

The only thing I can think of you'd really want SotC in English for is the hints you get when you're stuck on how to kill one of 'em, but I think the story would be fairly self explanatory from the visuals if you don't care about the details. GameFAQs would cover you either way on both of those fronts.

In fact, they have the entire game script here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/924364/39549

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!!

Not by a long shot. Check out Killer7's FAQs some time. There's a lot of this crap, nerdz be overanalyzin'.

never heard of Killer7! but yeah, you're right.

Dude Killer7 is the awesomeness.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/TECH/fun.games/08/01/killer7/story.killer7.cu.jpg

i've been trying to do the time attack stuff ... and it's hella hard!! reminds me just how long i took to beat some of those guys

i'm confused about the progression after you beat the game once, too. like, i'm back in the temple, and i can pray by each statue to start the time-attack, winning a new item after every two wins (whistling arrows, w00t).

but, then what? I can also leave the temple and go beat the colossi again, "for real" (did the first one, again, just to see). but what mode am i in? what good does it do?

i read some gamefaq thing that you have to beat the game in normal, do the normal time attacks, beat the game in hard, then do the hard time attacks... and you have enough strength and life to do [big secret though obvious thing].

but then i saw a youtube of someone doing [big secret though obvious thing] w/o all that, so, like, what's the point?

Link?

yo dudes -

have you guys seen beowulf!??

there is a fairly long scene that is a STRAIGHT. UP. RIP. of both the bird colossus and the water colossus, with our hero clinging desperately on

The movie or the game?

Or the epic poem?

My workplacei s going to see Beowulf at the IMAX on Friday. I will try and play some SoTC before then... to catch up.

the movie!