Ha, I just remembered: not only was this the first game I bought for my PS2, the SotC/Ico collection was one of the three games that I bought at the same time as my PS3.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 February 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea about the trees and lizards until halfway through. the game is not very hard once you figure out what to do. i don't think a longer life or stamina bar would really be all that much help.
i'm down to the final 3! i hear the ending is amazing so i can't wait...
haven't tried Ico. i guess i need to play that next.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 February 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
had a clear memory of wanting to buy this because of the rapturous reviews (i generally play stuff years late). the dude at gamestop tried really hard to warn me off -- "it's supposed to be a fighting game, but there's no fighting. you just ride your horse around, and there's nothing there. then there's a huge boss, but you can only do one thing."
― goole, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
And there aren't any sniper rifles or rpgs, and I didn't see a single prostitute the entire time I played. F minus.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
very rarely do i get out of gamestop w/out wanting to smack the dork behind the counter
― circa1916, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
goole i checked it out late due to the hype and was not let down at all.
it is a boss rush game. Zelda where instead of going into a dungeon to fight the boss, the dungeon IS the boss.
lol gamestop dude. i have seen his ilk online. the game is "lacking content" and has an "empty world with nothing to do".
like giving a Picasso to a chimpanzee.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
adam i have played the game and love it
― goole, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
i still have never played Ico
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
ico is more clever, a little more emo, less beautiful
― goole, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah goole i read your previous comments about the game and i think we are totally on the same page! it's really quite an amazing game in many ways. the hands-off approach is a huge breath of fresh air.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
if you removed all the enemies from Dark Souls and left the bosses, it would probably feel pretty similar to this. you'd need different music too, of course.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
You just sold me harder on the Souls games than any of the previous rapturous praise has.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Friday, 26 February 2016 20:49 (eight years ago) link
i am on the final boss. had to take a break. wow this is epic. i was just hanging for dear life from the rings on the right fingers of this giant demon and leaping from ring to ring while my grip meter beeps away letting me know I'm about to lose grip.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:23 (eight years ago) link
the sense of scale here is unparalleled.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 27 February 2016 05:27 (eight years ago) link
holy shit that was a good ending! and it kept going, with this jaw-droppingly beautiful tone poem thing going on even while the credits were rolling. amazing. i don't want to spoil anything. the hype is real.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 27 February 2016 07:04 (eight years ago) link
i really like where the story went. wow. it kind of makes me want to play the game again.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 27 February 2016 07:08 (eight years ago) link
Ico sounds cool tho. its more platforming? i like the Tomb Raider-style levels in SOTC
What is the best way to play this game? Has PC emulation caught up or do I need to track down a PS2 and a legit disc?
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 February 2016 13:30 (eight years ago) link
If you have or would prefer to have a PS3 (which I would recommend), the remastered SotC and Ico have been released as a twofer disc and are also available for download individually in the Playstation store.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 February 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
Apparently my boyf's brother has a PS3 that he doesn't use bcz there is now a PS4?? and SotC/Ico is $20 on amazon!
― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 27 February 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I think that's roughly equivalent to what the digital versions cost collectively. Pull that trigger!
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 February 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
Just be forewarned that there isn't any swearing and you can't run over any old ladies in a car. These are definite deal-breakers according to most GameStop employees.
― Lisa Welchel's Madcap Macrame Adventure for Windows 2000 (Old Lunch), Saturday, 27 February 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
Ico sounds cool tho. its more platforming? i like the Tomb Raider-style levels in SOTC― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, February 27, 2016 2:08 AM
its more puzzle platformer with some crap action fighting here and there but similar atmosphere as sotc. i think dragon's dogma is also out for pc now. its not made by team ico but its game mechanics are really good, like a mashup of elder scrolls, dark souls and some sotc-like climbing huge enemies to hit weak points
― am0n, Saturday, 27 February 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
My 30 minutes of hands-on time with The Last Guardian was not bad, exactly. The game looks beautiful, its environments are stunning, and its puzzles are clever and satisfying, often with multiple layers to figure out. There's a core gameplay loop around solving a puzzle to get to a new room, then figuring out how to get your bird-dog friend to follow. That loop is strong, and it helps reinforce the relationship between the protagonist and the pet.
For as much as The Last Guardian nails the broad feeling it's going for in this demo, it whiffs on the details. Specifically: It feels awkward as hell when it comes to actually controlling the main character. The protagonist doesn't walk so much as he lurches in whichever direction you've pushed the analog stick. Much of the demo focuses on platforming, but his jumps have a stickiness to them, a sense of inaccuracy that could be played up as realistic weightiness in the right game but just feels frustrating here.
sounds... exactly like ICO/SotC then...
― self-clowning cozen of ILX (cozen), Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
we have a thread for last guardian right? i was just thinking about how i bought my ps3 explicitly for that game back in 2010! It's the gamer Chinese Democracy at this point; there's no way it'll reach expectations.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 15 September 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
sad but sounds accurate, uly
― Nhex, Friday, 16 September 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
Chinese Democracy exceeded my expectations by ever appearing - I would question the sanity of anyone who expected it to be good.
As cozen says, this sounds like more of the same good good stuff.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Fiddly controls are what we grew up on dammit AND WE LOVED IT
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 September 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
this looks pretty damned good in 4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GV-OmR1Vo8
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 26 January 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
Yesssss!!!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 January 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
ugh I still have yet to play this game :-/
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 29 January 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
*this games
yeah this is one of the greatest 3D games ever. everything about the game is incredible. every boss fight (and every journey to the boss fights) feels epic and grand. the gameplay is seamless, smooth, non-intrusive. no need for maps, markers, quests, NPCs, etc. you have a sword that you can hold up and the light it reflects shows you where to go. just follow the light. it is that easy. brilliant.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 29 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
jeez the remake is astonishingly good-looking huh
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
have you got it? I'm going to give Rime, which seems to be in a similar vein, a play-through before taking the plunge. I never played SotC on the PS2 so am looking forward to it.
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link
yeah, started playing it this morning and took down the first three colossi as my wife looked on in horror at my savageryit’s pretty remarkable tbh - it’s a total remake rather than a remaster but it plays just like the original, only at a silky 60fps* rather than the notoriously juddering ps2 version(* on PS4 pro)and it’s less than £25!
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
By 'plays like the original' do you mean 'has a camera like a lazy eye which seems much more interested in a random patch of grass than the giant you're supposed to be focusing on'?
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
well, yeah
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:27 (six years ago) link
The most Terrence Malick of video games
― circa1916, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
I am psyched to play this, loved the original. Will probably wait until I’m bored with Monster Hunter, the other, way different game of killing giant monsters.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
sounds great BG, looking forward to it
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
The Last Guardian (long intended for the PS3, thanks for the bait and switch Team Ico) is still pretty much the strongest argument for me to eventually buy a PS4, so this just the cherry on top.
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
hate to tell you but last guardian was all but unplayable imo. i lasted three hours.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
psvr last guardian is great thoyou just get to hang out with trico for a bit and feed him snacks while craning your neck to look into his big beautiful eyesit’s all i ever wanted from the base game tbh
― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
yeah Last Guardian looks great but is unplayably janky I think. Trico is cool though!
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
adding one more voice to say that the last guardian was bad - there are some interesting concepts in there but it's mostly boring and unattractive and a pain in the ass to control. but i didn't really like ico or shadow of the colossus that much either.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
i should point out that i think shadow of the colossus was one of my all time favorite games! and i bought a _PS3_ for last guardian. the gameplay is just SO bad.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
finished last guardian recently, enjoyed it. controls weren't too bad just annoying that the kid stumbles around like a drunk
― am0n, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Ico is all-time for me, I definitely enjoyed Shadow Of The Colossus as much as I could considering that it's a game where you're frantically and randomly grasping at patches of fur
Ico tho wow
An entire game devoted to the pleasure of architecture and space
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 15 February 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
Ico’s one of the few games I ever played co-operatively - a friend heard about it and liked it and came over to play my copy, handing off the controller to me for the hitting shadows with sticks bits.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 15 February 2018 08:34 (six years ago) link