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Game4life · Jan 16, 2015

Did not see a thread regarding this but lock if old

Gameinformer said:
When visiting game studios during our cover story visits, one constant refrain is developers citing the influence of Ico on their concept of game design. We've spoken with David Cage about it in the past, and Naughty Dog's game director Bruce Straley and creative director Neil Druckmann discussed the importance of Team Ico's work during our last cover story trip to the studio for The Last of Us. In the middle of our larger interview discussing the transition from The Last of Us to Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, I spoke to Straley and Druckmann about what it was like to meet the creator of Ico Fumito Ueda and the influence of Resident Evil's creator Shinji Mikami.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...t-over-creators-of-ico-and-resident-evil.aspx

There is a video in the article where Neil and Bruce talk about their meeting with Ueda and Mikami

mrmickfran · Jan 16, 2015

Druckmann is such a dork.

It's adorable.

Psychological Intellect · Jan 16, 2015

Cool video. Thanks for da link

Dynamite Ringo Matsuri · Jan 16, 2015

mrmickfran said:
Druckmann is such a dork.

It's adorable.

He was totally star struck during the Sierra lifetime achievement award too, even the most accomplished have their idols

chadskin · Jan 16, 2015

Tomorrow on IGN: Druckmann forced out Ueda at Team ICO, will become creative director of The Last Guardian.

loaf of bread · Jan 16, 2015

chadskin said:
Tomorrow on IGN: Druckmann forced out Ueda at Team ICO, will become creative director of The Last Guardian.

I'll take it.

plasmawave · Jan 16, 2015

They must have seen the The Last Guardian running on the PS4.

Icyflamez96 · Jan 16, 2015

It's "eeko?"

My life is a lie

Game4life · Jan 16, 2015

Dynamite Ringo Matsuri said:
He was totally star struck during the Sierra lifetime achievement award too, even the most accomplished have their idols

Yup. Super cool to see.

Mass Effect · Jan 16, 2015

chadskin said:
Tomorrow on IGN: Druckmann forced out Ueda at Team ICO, will become creative director of The Last Guardian.

Hey, that's cool. Maybe then something will actually get done.

hiyo!

nelsonroyale · Jan 16, 2015

Not surprised. Team Ico's games really are something special. An experience you can't really get in any other medium. I also consider the visual/aural experience right up there with stuff like studio Ghibli...They are 'spellbinding'...

hurricanes · Jan 16, 2015

Not surprise. Both teams are considered legends of their time.

Holygriever · Jan 16, 2015

Icyflamez96 said:
It's "eeko?"

My life is a lie

Project Treeco.

It is pronounced as a brazilian would say it.

Pinko Marx · Jan 16, 2015

Icyflamez96 said:
It's "eeko?"

My life is a lie

Its a japanese game so of course it would be pronounced like a japanese person would.

Psycho_Mantis · Jan 16, 2015

Did he ask him about The Last Guardian though.

Come on Team ICO, you can't just make two of the greatest games ever and take this long for the third one ;__;

NewGame · Jan 16, 2015

looooool

this guy loves ico and then proceeded to make a cutscene shoot bang?

Rurunaki · Jan 16, 2015

NewGame said:
looooool

this guy loves ico and then proceeded to make a cutscene shoot bang?

Doesn't mean he has to make a clone of Ico. TLoU is praised for it's story telling and not because it's a shoot bang.

Endo Punk · Jan 16, 2015

Psycho_Mantis said:
Did he ask him about The Last Guardian though.

Come on Team ICO, you can't just make two of the greatest games ever and take this long for the third one ;__;

Team Ico are masters of fluke. If TLG is released it would not be solely because of Team ico even though it will have prob have their branding on it. I don't expect them to ever have a new game in development again and will be absorbed into SCEJ for good, if it has not already happened.

The_Hitcher89 · Jan 16, 2015

Endo Punk said:
Team Ico are masters of fluke. If TLG is released it would not be solely because of Team ico even though it will have prob have their branding on it. I don't expect them to ever have a new game in development again and will be absorbed into SCEJ for good, if it has not already happened.

You don't fluke games like Ico and SotC

They're masterpieces.

Rurunaki · Jan 16, 2015

Endo Punk said:
Team Ico are masters of fluke. If TLG is released it would not be solely because of Team ico even though it will have prob have their branding on it. I don't expect them to ever have a new game in development again and will be absorbed into SCEJ for good, if it has not already happened.

U wot m8? Once is a fluke twice is not. Considering the 2 games they made weren't a sequel of each other says something about Ueda. He actually tries to make games instead of churn out annual sequels.

Psycho_Mantis · Jan 16, 2015

Endo Punk said:
Team Ico are masters of fluke. If TLG is released it would not be solely because of Team ico even though it will have prob have their branding on it. I don't expect them to ever have a new game in development again and will be absorbed into SCEJ for good, if it has not already happened.

One does not simply create a masterpiece like ICO, a game that was very unique and has inspired countless amazing devs and then make another masterpiece like Shadow by fluke.

Team ICO are insanely talented. Its the exact reason why so many people are anticipating The Last Guardian.

Endo Punk · Jan 16, 2015

The_Hitcher89 said:
You don't fluke games like Ico and SotC

They're masterpieces.

I think you can tbh. The games are indeed beautiful but they already show the problems of team ico. Ico was delayed and missed its ps1 debut for ps2, the combat and escorting yorda can be a hit and miss many times, sotc has a number of techincal issues worst of all its frame rate. They carried all these problems with them into TLG wiithout any growth or maturity. They seem to be a dev that were in the right place and right time for those games. They are ill prepared for the challanges of modern game development and don't know how to work their way around problems. They tried to push ahead with an idea that sounded good on paper but they didn't know how to make it happen, and their perfectionism prevented them to change their focus so they continued head butting until Sony had to come in and get their WWS talent on board.

FlutterPuffs · Jan 16, 2015

Endo Punk said:
I think you can tbh. The games are indeed beautiful but they already show the problems of team ico. Ico was delayed and missed its ps1 debut for ps2, the combat and escorting yorda can be a hit and miss many times, sotc has a number of techincal issues worst of all its frame rate. They carried all these problems with them into TLG wiithout any growth or maturity. They seem to be a dev that were in the right place and right time for those games. They are ill prepared for the challanges of modern game development and don't know how to work their way around problems. They tried to push ahead with an idea that sounded good on paper but they didn't know how to make it happen, and their perfectionism prevented them to change their focus so they continued head butting until Sony had to come in and get their WWS talent on board.

It's not a fluke if you've made two games that are considered the best of its generation.

Really.

adixon · Jan 16, 2015

Endo Punk said:
I think you can tbh. The games are indeed beautiful but they already show the problems of team ico. Ico was delayed and missed its ps1 debut for ps2, the combat and escorting yorda can be a hit and miss many times, sotc has a number of techincal issues worst of all its frame rate. They carried all these problems with them into TLG wiithout any growth or maturity. They seem to be a dev that were in the right place and right time for those games. They are ill prepared for the challanges of modern game development and don't know how to work their way around problems. They tried to push ahead with an idea that sounded good on paper but they didn't know how to make it happen, and their perfectionism prevented them to change their focus so they continued head butting until Sony had to come in and get their WWS talent on board.

Probably the greatest armchair analysis I've ever read. You should write a TLG postmortem book for those of us too shackled to concepts like reality and factual information.

Aquamarine · Jan 16, 2015

Endo Punk said:
Team Ico are masters of fluke. If TLG is released it would not be solely because of Team ico even though it will have prob have their branding on it. I don't expect them to ever have a new game in development again and will be absorbed into SCEJ for good, if it has not already happened.

team ico members have been working on other projects at sceja for a while now.

it isn't a standalone group. sceja staff members float from project to project.

any person who is currently working under mr. ueda's project is designated a member of "team ico," but it's not like you have the same group of guys working on the same game for the past 8 years.

even mr. ueda himself has drifted once in a while.

Guymelef · Jan 16, 2015

chadskin said:
Tomorrow on IGN: Druckmann forced out Ueda at Team ICO, will become creative director of The Last Guardian.

I wish that were true.

Endo Punk · Jan 16, 2015

Maybe I'm just cranky, being a huge fan in the PS2 era and seeing they haven't released anything in the past 10 years hits home how the studio that went from such highs dropped to such lows. And its a bitter pill to swallow. I understand people under Team ico weren't doing anything and helped with other games I'm just saying I don't expect Team ico branding to ever be used again (if) after the TLG release, its tainted and doesn't hold the same weight anymore.

Icyflamez96 · Jan 16, 2015

Pinko Marx said:
Its a japanese game so of course it would be pronounced like a japanese person would.

Alright alright, not like i'm expected to be familiar with everything Japanese. Geesh

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