Ico / Shadow of the Colossus

Controls take some getting used to. At the time it reminded me of OG Prince of Persia. Hit jump a second before you need to jump type thing.

it was mostly the camera and aim options, im used to setting vertical axis to 'inverted' but they mislabeled it, never seen a game get that wrong before. i also didnt get that the circle was a stamina meter. game is pretty sweet though, great concept

the platforming in sotc is seriously fucking terrible

admission: i gave each monster about 10 mins of dicking around before looking up what to do

dicking around the colossus

http://paradigmposters.weebly.com/store/p13/Shadows_of_the_Colossi.html

prob just me but the last colossus is such a ramp up in difficulty that it just seems to me like a huge 'fuck you' from team ico

It was easier for me than some others, but it's definitely the longest and most unforgiving.

I feel somewhat ashamed that I never finished this beautiful, one-of-a-kind game

I think I sort of got sick of riding around on that fucking horse

i was up all night trying to beat that final colossus, very upset
beat him the next morning after like three tries. it was like a crossword puzzle

it took me forever but a friend just played this for the first time and was disappointed at how easy the last one was.

Have we mentioned this is currently free on PS+?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXLZvsSmBIs

want

if i'm being honest, though, it does look like a PS3 game. but it's probably too late at this point to optimize it for PS4

This does not look good to me but I found Ico and SOTC both pretty frustrating so maybe just not for me.

fallout 4 looks like a ps3 game

It was inevitable, if it was ever actually released at this point, that it would be released for current-gen consoles, but still: bullshit.

They could at least throw us a PS3 bone on this one, given the delays.

xp tbh I'm not that impressed by the visuals with the new Fallout either

more hyped about the stupid wrist toy

(Not to get too far off topic but) I just started playing Fallout 3 this week in light of all the F4 hype and, after spending forever playing Skyrim, the graphics have been a bit shocking. Not so hot!

I wonder if the griffin actually has much freedom of movement or if it's just programmed to progress along a line.

seems to be like ico's follower where it responds to call button

i think i have very low standards for graphics, i just don't care that much. i've been amazed since 16 bit.

i'm in for Last Guardian, hope the gameplay is compelling.

on the beth front tho i think every scrolls & every fallout game they have made has looked hideous pretty much from day 0.

re: last guardian i am LOVING the animation on the kid, so evocative

run animation feels a little sloppy on the loop but i'm assuming they're still in beta

I really really need to play through the first games but the PS2 emulator is still struggling w it.

Trailer does a great job of showing off the fiddly controls, annoying camera angles, repetitive sound palette, and infuriatingly obtuse NPC.

haha

Ico: shadow of duke nukem forever

I like the way he runs down stairs and that environment is amazing

Yeah complaints about graphics seem to be missing the point - it's beautiful for reasons other than polygon count, and the amazing stuff they're doing with light, Ico was doing on the PS2.

Also Penny Arcade back in 2009.

Basically I'm hype for this just as More ICO.

*flags post for penny arcade link*

It's still beautiful, it's just that given the wait and that it's jumping to the next console generation after so many years, it adds to the general disappointment. If they released it as an End of Life PS3 title it wouldn't bug me.

tbf, it could end with both the boy AND the gryphon dying.

finally played Shadow for the first time yesterday! everyone is right, this game is amazing. took down the first 2, about to go for 3. it has a weird backwards jump i haven't mastered... the presentation and animations in this game are really impressive. holding onto a colossus as it tries to shake you off is SO MUCH FUN.

yeah this is amazing. on the 4th boss now, the one with 4 spider-like legs, with no idea what to do. ran away and got a ghostly message to try hiding underground. now i'm in some dungeons trying to figure out what to do about the giant monster upstairs. this game is amazing. the presentation is wonderful. it is an open world game but it flawlessly gives you directions on what to do. a large part of the pleasure is in figuring out for yourself what to do. the cutscenes are beautiful and ambiguous. what are the black spirit entities? why does a similar black ectoplasm grab at us after we take out a colossus? then we go through the Stargate?

this game is thick with atmosphere. sadly the bloom and glow and authentically emulated Playstation 2 video effects is still a little too costly for me. diving under water slows the game to an unplayable sludge. i'm playing on PCSX2 1.5.0 w Direct3D11(Hardware) at 2x native resolution and it is SMOOTH, nearly 60fps with some drops to 75% at times.

the horse animations are AMAZING. still the best videogame horse? i think so. i love the cinematic asymmetrical low angled camera! the ambient soundtrack is perfect. SOTC is ridiculously good.

can you take out these bosses in any order, sequence break it like Dark Souls?

60fps? That must be nice. SotC felt like it frequently ran at 15 frames per second on PS2. Looked beutiful nonetheless.

There's a specific order IIRC.

Yeah, pretty sure there's a forced sequence.

I figured out that the Ico/SoTC collection is one of the like four PS3 games you can remote play on the Vita but it seems like a shame not to see it splashed across a big screen.

eh it's not 60fps all the time. for most of the boss battles it is well below but yeah i don't really care either way. i think i played through Mario Galaxy 2 for the first time at more or less half speed the whole game.

here are some screenshots. i know there is an HD version of this game but the PS2 original still looks really good imo.

http://i.imgur.com/ecd9WXI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7b7XqFy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vBqP33V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aspPjPT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uMwzXC2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/D0dIJZa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nV0pUbS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uDWNcGW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JPF3SJe.jpg

yeah this game is amazing. i am playing through trying not to follow any hints online and it is working out. the level design is really well done, it is harder to get lost than in MGSV. speaking of, i feel like the horse in that game is inspired by this horse. same buttons to run and mount/dismount, even.

grabbing the one colossus's beard was SO COOl! damn i had no idea that was going to happen! i love this game so much! the water one was amazing as well. the pacing is just incredible, you spend 50% of your time just traveling, wandering around this beautiful open world. the level design is really nice. the level design on the bosses is incredible.

who would have thought the way to make good platforming in 3d was to have the platforms move and be unstable? genius. this game is brilliant.

i posted this in another thread but here's a page about unused assets in the SotC code:

https://tcrf.net/Shadow_of_the_Colossus

Some general spoilers if you're going through the game right now.

yeah don't look at that until after you beat the game for sure

love reading your reax btw Adam