Ico / Shadow of the Colossus

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!

SotC is still so beautiful

when are they gonna do one of these bad boys for next-gen

Demon's Souls is a forthcoming RPG that has been likened to SotC because of its giant-size monsters. screens look incredible.

I was just thinking about how this is probably a top five game for me. What a great experience.
Here's a video of the tech demo. Where's my fuggin next gen sequel!

Yeah, it was my favorite video game experience of the last ten years for sure. If they had found a way to make the parts between colossus fights more engaging (though I liked the spareness of it), it would probably be my favorite game period.

loved ico, hated colossus.

Rumor is that Team ICO has something ready to show at E3.

absolutely LOVE SotC, top 5 game for me.

i still haven't played Ico, need to find a way to do that.

colossus is top 5 for me too, loved that game

so, shadow of colossus only this time you ride the colossus?
yeah, that could talk me into buying a ps3

is that actually a thing?

also... where do i know that music?

yeh, that musics bugging me as well, its from a film - i'm thinking Miyazaki or Coens?

oh, youtube comments say Millers Crossing.

ahhhh

yeah, that could talk me into buying a ps3

yep!

People who have played these games, please estimate percentage of time spent walking around doing nothing but getting from pt A to pt B and also estimate how much of this drudgery you believe is essential to the enjoyment of these games.

30% / 22%

You aren't doing nothing; you're looking for the colossus. Sometimes that's can be a bit of a puzzle, given the lack of a HUD. It's a little bit like if you had a horse in Fallout, and there weren't any dudes out in the wasteland.

i have totally wished for that horse in fallout, and that i didn't have to worry about molerats & raiders.

i got the perk to keep the molerats off. And the bears.

"You aren't doing nothing; you're looking for the colossus."
The colossus is where the shiny thing is. When there's a vast grass plains in between you and the shiny thing, it's no puzzle at all that you have to drudge drudge drudge drudge all the way there.

i guess it's boring but it helps to set the scene. i found it kind of soothing, and it would have felt like a very different game if you went directly from colossus to colossus.

Yeah, I don't want to eat a dinner of a steak and a banana split; there's gotta be some greenery and soup to levy that shit out.

it's no puzzle at all that you have to drudge drudge drudge drudge all the way there.

I don't know, it took me a while to find some of the later colossi.

It's not greenery and soup; it's a waiter deliberately stalling for time and handing you more bread baskets.
I get the idea of different paces, but how much are you willing to put up with before you "leave the restaurant?"
please estimate how much more grind you could endure for these games.

hey guess what philip nunez you're wrong

Yeah, I don't want to eat a dinner of a steak and a banana split

all the more for me.

the grind killed colossus for me. it was all grind, even after you'd found them it was a grind to kill them.

i experienced no "grind" at all, until the last colossus anyway