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
SOTC was good to play and complete once, and I’d consider the remaster assuming it’s got the hidden secret fruit thing from the original, which I heard about after I finished it. But it’s a very different game.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 15 February 2018 08:38 (six years ago) link
Hidden secret fruit??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 February 2018 08:43 (six years ago) link
it's a game where you're frantically and randomly grasping at patches of fur
FINALLY
― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 15 February 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
(i mean finally someone gets it, not finally a game where you're frantically and randomly etc etc)
― lana del boy (ledge), Thursday, 15 February 2018 09:24 (six years ago) link
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/924364-shadow-of-the-colossus/faqs/58447
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 15 February 2018 09:46 (six years ago) link
Right?
Good game! but I think I played it around the same time as Grand Theft Auto and the gameplay is reallllllly repetitious
Ico is perfect tho, perfect game, want a remaster, want a sequel that’s the exact same game but in an enormous tower built into a wintry mountaintop.
I’ve never felt an unique a pleasure as being somewhere in Ico and seeing a parapet or a windmill that I’d struggled with hours earlier, way off in the distance
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
Oh the soundtrack to Shadow Of The Colossus is hilariously bad imo, this dramatic James Newton Howard in top gear bullshit that completely doesn’t suit the slow motion climbing up a snuffleupagus
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, February 15, 2018 2:43 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I have the PS3 upgrade and I was baffled when I looked through the list of trophies you could acquire for a number of things I had no idea you could do in the game.
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
Huh... interact with fish and turtle...
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
I tried to interact with the birds a number of times on the PS2 but the camera made it kind of a nightmare and I gave up.
One nice thing about the PS3 version (that I THINK was absent from the PS2 although I might have just never utilized it) is the ability to remap your buttons and tweak the camera movements in several ways. I assume that carried over to the new remaster?
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 February 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNeYbBiCKw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 August 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 26 August 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
That was pretty great. I made it 16 minutes in before I suspected there could be significant spoilers (which the video impressively avoided before that, for the most part), but when I finish the game I'll definitely finish the video. I love the idea of game designers hiding things that are bigger than mere jokey easter eggs (almost as much as I love posters being citing by their dumb screen names). One of the best aspects of Breath of the Wild was all the substantial stuff you could do or get lost in that was completely irrelevant to the completion of the game. I suspect people are still figuring that one out, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 August 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
That was amazing, thanks so much ulysses!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
really, really good video
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 August 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
Tremendous
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 August 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
I've taken down ... six or so Colossi, and it's all kind of the same? I start at the ruins, the sword points the way, I take as long as I want getting there, thing eventually makes its grand entrance and I climb up it somehow, hold on and stab it where I need until it's dead. Fortunately, the scale and spectacle itself is pretty thrilling, so that makes up for the actual battles (so far). I wish the Divine Beasts in Zelda were this impressive.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
well yeah the game is from the ps2 era when full production console games had a smaller scope and focus
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
josh
― самокритика me, daddy (||||||||), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
The actual battles do a good job of twisting the formula iirc
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 5 September 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
The game looks absolutely gorgeous.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 September 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
So I've killed three colossi, each one more tedious and annoying than the last. Is this going to get any better?― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 09:34 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 6 September 2019 10:03 (four years ago) link
(that video was good though, and i've gotta have some respect for a game which can make people disappear into insane yet seemingly plausible conspiracy theory rabbit holes for years on end)
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 6 September 2019 10:07 (four years ago) link
I'm on the ... 8th monster? And this is the first one (maybe the second?) I had to look up online, since I had no idea what to do or how to do it, and the cryptic hints were no help. In fact, knowing the solution now, there is literally no way, even with those hints, I would have figured out what to do. (I'm sure I'm not the first one to joke that the camera is the toughest colossus to beat of them all.)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Fingers cramping up from holding down the grip trigger button all the time the ultimate boss iirc
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Another monster or two down. I'm going to chalk this up to a great experience but probably a bad game. Equally repetitive and novel, thrilling and boring, which is weird but it's a mix that makes it worth playing even if playing it is not particularly interesting or challenging, imo. ("Challenging," that is, after you spend forever figuring out the thing you need to do to make the monster do the thing, which doesn't feel like solving a puzzle so much as a PIA you just have to do.)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Holy shit, monster number 11 or so - the one in the lake - was so frustrating and lame it made me want to quit the game. For starters, it's a bullshit "hint" to say "get to higher ground" when you are on the back of a monster taller than everything except the giant bridges and mountains you can't reach. Beyond that, this is the first time the camera totally fucked me and trapped me under water, but since you can't drown (apparently) I had to quit the game and try again. And then once you figure out the monster mechanics, you once again have to do the same shit, again and again, over and over. I couldn't ask for a better looking game, but this thing plays like a demo.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 September 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Maybe it was the 12th colossus? Gah, I hope so.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 September 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
i've probably already said this multiple times in this thread but ico/shadow of the colossus/last guardian are all cool, innovative concepts undone by terrible clunky controls and bland environments. such overrated games.
― na (NA), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
Dragon monster was more fun, but still ultimately kind of lame. I think I am almost done? might as well just finish it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 September 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
This game was from before 3rd person 3d games had good controls
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
i played the tony hawk ps2 games so i know that isn't true
― na (NA), Monday, 16 September 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Regardless, they made it all snazzy for PS4 - it looks gorgeous and there is clearly a ton of work put into it - so it's a mystery why so much of it kind of runs like shit or seems sort of underdeveloped.
That said, the second bull monster that involves knocking down towers, that was a bit more fun, too, so that's two in a row after a tedious fallow period. It's an aggressive boss, which is more engaging than giant things that just lumber/fly/walk around sort of aimlessly while you patiently (or impatiently) wait for it to lift up its foot and check to see if it stepped in colossus poop or whatever. It's not really puzzle solving if the solution is mostly patience.
I dunno, I wish there were more challenges or enemies or something between bosses. Now I see why so many people said Breath of the Wild sets the bar so high for open world games. Then again, this is really no more open world than Dark Souls, and that game was a blast, constantly interesting/challenging.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 September 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
Ico has no flaws - I don't remember problems with Shadow of the Colossus, but I only played it the once.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 September 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
OK, last couple of monsters, particularly the final colossus, were pretty cool, even if the combat (as such) remained pretty simple. The ending was very satisfying, too, though I felt sad for the horse. As well you're supposed to, but honestly I felt bad throughout, since you're forced to take him along and he's such a loyal steed who puts up with so much abuse.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link