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A year has passed : Shadow of the Colossus
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scarybore
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I rented this yesterday and it was quite a good romp, but I did have quite a few issues with the game in the graphics department. The bad framerate & blocky flickering floor textures that reminded me of Sega Saturn games (maybe a slight overstatement but it sure reminded me of it) gave me a bad headache. I also found it a bitch at times to read any text that popped up. Doesn't help that this is the first PS2 game I have played since MGS3.
I really liked the epicness of the Colossus battles though, they were a bit on the easy side and for the most part pretty obvious in how to deal with them which didn't help with the games length. The music really added to the battles as well, very rousing in all and I was really impressed with that.
I would have liked less running around on the horse for no good reason other than to make the game longer, but saying that
. The game should be a arcade game with a **** ton of Colossus battles one after the other.
I would recommend it, I certainly enjoyed it more than Ico which I hated.
I really liked the epicness of the Colossus battles though, they were a bit on the easy side and for the most part pretty obvious in how to deal with them which didn't help with the games length. The music really added to the battles as well, very rousing in all and I was really impressed with that.
I would have liked less running around on the horse for no good reason other than to make the game longer, but saying that
my favourite part of the game was the ending where I actually felt sorry for the damn horse :lol
I would recommend it, I certainly enjoyed it more than Ico which I hated.
JackSparrow Ninja
Member
Grimmy said:
I'd sleep in front of the store to get it.
I finished the game today (did it in 3 times 1->8 / 9->13 / 14->16) and I loved it, even with all the technical/gameplay flaws there are (and there are a lot !).
The fact is I kinda thought the game was too ambitious for PS2, and I would probably have appreciate it even more on PS3... so yes, i'd buy it on next gen !!! And 4 more bosses would be great
The fact is I kinda thought the game was too ambitious for PS2, and I would probably have appreciate it even more on PS3... so yes, i'd buy it on next gen !!! And 4 more bosses would be great
tehrik-e-insaaf
Member
I think this is one of the few games that defined the current gen for me... bad frame rate and all
Go play this and ICO if you haven't already
and if you enjoyed those be sure to play Okami as well...
GO NOW!
Go play this and ICO if you haven't already
and if you enjoyed those be sure to play Okami as well...
GO NOW!
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Grimmy said:
You had me at 4... You had me at 4!
So I am not a heartless bastard for thinking that even though this is a good game, it is probably one of the most overrated things of the Earth with very objetive faults? Awesome!
Still, a good buy at this price, and I can understand why it is a great experience for some persons.
Magicpaint
Member
Drinky Crow said:
Spot ON!
Its hard for me to go back and play this now.
I wish I would have saved it at a my three favorite bosses.
Especially that flying dragon-type boss. That was just so incredible. That boss alone almost justifies the entire price of the game. Jumping from the horse onto one of his wings and being launched into the air was a majestic moment for me. As soon as I beat him, I reset the PS2, and fought him again.
In the end, he wasn't really a fight, and now its just sorta saddening to take him down and slaughter him, when all he was doing was just sorta hovering around.
But that's for a thread that was a year ago...
I wish I would have saved it at a my three favorite bosses.
Especially that flying dragon-type boss. That was just so incredible. That boss alone almost justifies the entire price of the game. Jumping from the horse onto one of his wings and being launched into the air was a majestic moment for me. As soon as I beat him, I reset the PS2, and fought him again.
In the end, he wasn't really a fight, and now its just sorta saddening to take him down and slaughter him, when all he was doing was just sorta hovering around.
But that's for a thread that was a year ago...
Angelcurio
Member
On day one and at full Price.Grimmy said:
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Grimmy said:
HELL YES!!!!
Honestly SOTC is was doing things next-gen games are now just getting to. Hell SOTC might have better animation than every next-gen game released so far. The motion blur was great and HDR lighting was on point. So artistic that it could make a grown man cry. The music was great and adventure really fun. I love this game. But the IK animation is what the game does best.
Who else believes that SOTC's animation is better than most next-gen games?
Pureauthor
Member
Awesome.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Team Ico has been amazing to the game industry and its consumers making us fill in the story elements ourselves. Never until I played Ico did I see a game make a castle a supporting character and make me feel as hopelessly lost as the characters themselves. never until SoC had I felt such an epic experience. I am very interested to see what they cook up next. I would not mind them to redo SoC but they need to give us the goods. I am talking co-op or fight to enimies at once. The stuff everyone is dying for.
even a year later, and i pop the game in on rainy days ---------
i've never realized the impact that a "massive epic open ambient landscape" could have on me as a gamer ---------- being birdman in pilotwings64 is the only experience that has ever come close - simply knowing how relaxing it is to hike over a map, with no threat, simply a vacation every time .... to this day, i'll pop the game in for a quick battle with an epic beast - only to find myself 2 hours later having done nothing but spend some quality time with Agro wondering the land.
i've never realized the impact that a "massive epic open ambient landscape" could have on me as a gamer ---------- being birdman in pilotwings64 is the only experience that has ever come close - simply knowing how relaxing it is to hike over a map, with no threat, simply a vacation every time .... to this day, i'll pop the game in for a quick battle with an epic beast - only to find myself 2 hours later having done nothing but spend some quality time with Agro wondering the land.
Pureauthor
Member
I'm not like most people here in the sense that I don't really 'feel' games. Or at least, the atmosphere of a game doesn't affect me very much.
Everyone's talking about the 'epicness' of the Colossi, and I'm thinking 'Big hunk of rock and fur. Weak Spot. Stab it."
It's a good thing that even on that aspects, SotC is a remarkably good game. The music is awesome too. If only they'd had a few more rounds of 'The Opened Way'...
Maybe one of these days I should pop the game in and just try roaming aimlessly - see what it's all about.
Everyone's talking about the 'epicness' of the Colossi, and I'm thinking 'Big hunk of rock and fur. Weak Spot. Stab it."
It's a good thing that even on that aspects, SotC is a remarkably good game. The music is awesome too. If only they'd had a few more rounds of 'The Opened Way'...
Maybe one of these days I should pop the game in and just try roaming aimlessly - see what it's all about.
deadhorse32
Bad Art ™
The game wasn't worth $60 for begin with
It was good but not great
So overhyped
Thanks GAF
It was good but not great
So overhyped
Thanks GAF
Schnicktick
Member
Pureauthor said:
Do you have a small TV? If so, that might be your problem.
Pureauthor
Member
Um, no, I don't think so. At bare minimum, I'd say it's medium sized.
Pureauthor said:
perhaps you're simply dead inside?
j/k i keed --
--yea, some people weren't gripped by the game - it has an extremely slow pace in just about everything. ----- i enjoyed it more than ICO, yet on the subject of ICO ---- ICO is the ONLY game I've ever played in front of a group of non-gamers, and have them not poke fun at a game.
brandonh83
Banned
Cosmozone said:
:lol
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
SotC is a great game, though slightly overrated by gaming at large, IMHO. I merely think getting something so genuinely artistic blew people's minds; does show how poorly concieved much of what we get is, however.
I only had the following problems:
1. I could live with the framerate, but the camera was bogus and virtually Sonic Team bad too much of the time.
2. The story was quality stuff, but it was very clusmy to me, to bunch much of it up as an uber-cinema at the end of the game. Some snippets of it should have been evenly distributed through the game; it could have been done in a way that did not interfere with the atmosphere or mystery.
3. I really wanted a lot more Ico-style platform puzzles on the /way/ to the various colossi. The potential monotony of the wasteland could have been solved by allowing the player to anticipate that there would be a creative new platforming challenge on the way to the next target.
Honestly, I feel these flaws are not insignificant and make the whole game seem not as polished as a lot of other titles in its era. I didn't have a problem with its length in fact, though having more platforming could have extended it a bit.
I only had the following problems:
1. I could live with the framerate, but the camera was bogus and virtually Sonic Team bad too much of the time.
2. The story was quality stuff, but it was very clusmy to me, to bunch much of it up as an uber-cinema at the end of the game. Some snippets of it should have been evenly distributed through the game; it could have been done in a way that did not interfere with the atmosphere or mystery.
3. I really wanted a lot more Ico-style platform puzzles on the /way/ to the various colossi. The potential monotony of the wasteland could have been solved by allowing the player to anticipate that there would be a creative new platforming challenge on the way to the next target.
Honestly, I feel these flaws are not insignificant and make the whole game seem not as polished as a lot of other titles in its era. I didn't have a problem with its length in fact, though having more platforming could have extended it a bit.
Callo Merlose
Banned
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121218
I'm halfway through Time Attack Hard and already have white agro unlocked. The only one I'm really having trouble with is the Knight. That bastards a shaker.
I'm halfway through Time Attack Hard and already have white agro unlocked. The only one I'm really having trouble with is the Knight. That bastards a shaker.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
this is one of the only games i can think of that demands to be a next-gen game. it's a shame to me that its ambitions were cut so short by hardware. and i wouldn't think they'd be cashing in by releasing a ps3 version, i'd just see them as doing what should've been done in the first place.