Yoshida: Sony is "Working Diligently" on The Last Guardian
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RespectThySole
Member
Yep. They've still shown nothing of the game after all these years.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
omegashockwave
Member
That's nice. I'm going to keep pretending this game doesn't exist. Let me know about 20 minutes before it releases so I can care about it then, and they won't have time to delay it.
Sparkedglory
Member
Believe
lukeskymac
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Reintroduced on February Morpheus event as system seller.
Believe.
Believe.
What have you done?
Robot Pants
Member
HL3 and TLG in 2015.
Believe it
Believe it
Acquiescence
Member
I know you're joking (well I hope so anyway!), but for the love of God keep virtual reality away from mah Team ICO games.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm patient.
Acrylic7
Member
This is my attitude towards everything game related this gen.
mcz117chief
Member
Still waiting, I can wait for 20 more years, I don't care, I just know it will be a nice game 
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Which is what amazes me about the constant begging/complaining/hope for it.
Say what you want about the hope for shenmue 3/HL3, but at least people have an idea what they would look and play like.
All people have ever got is two prerendered cinematic trailers. It ridiculous.
mcz117chief
Member
You say it like we haven't played Ico or Shadow of the Colossus.
Leafhopper
Banned
Shut down, shut it all down.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
So?
There has been no indication that TLG would play like either. None.
I dont beleive in the past 5 years, there has been one development interview discussing gameplay in detail.
There's been a very strong indication of what the gameplay would be like, it's completely self-evident in the trailers...
More importantly it's coming from the people who made SotC. SotC.
Uno Venova
Banned
Everything about this game is funny.
Not in detail, but Ueda has talked about the design, and we have trailers showing the gameplay, and select press saw a demo and talked about it.
It was Ico 2. What it will be if/when it releases, who knows.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Because no trailer of a game has misrepresented its gameplay.....perish the thought.
Salz01
Member
I'd like to know exactly why gaf is infatuated with TLG. Is it just because it's from the team that gave us Ico and Shadow? I loved Ico, but if this game never comes out it wouldn't matter to me, because the concept seemed so vague and they never really gave us much info about it. Nobody here has ever played it so we can't be missing much. Is it just the thought of playing something from this sony team?
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Sorry, but if im waiting for a game for 5 years, im gonna need a bit more than that.
And yes ive read the eurogamer preview, its still not enough information to warrant more than a passing interest.
Acquiescence
Member
Actually, from all the media that's been released, it's fair to come to the conclusion that it plays a lot like ICO.
Yes.
That makes no sense to me at all.
Either you're waiting for it, and therefore already are interested, or you're not waiting for it, therefore the time is irrelevant.
mcz117chief
Member
I really doubt it will be any of these: rpg, mmorpg, fps, tps, rts, tbsg, point-and-click, moba, racing game, simulator game...or any other.
Team Ico has a vision and they have stuck with it since Ico, there is 0 (ZERO) indication that it will or even might have changed.
That does not guarantee it to be gold and free from criticism. SotC was amazing, no doubt. But this game has clearly been ground through the mill and back and then sent to bake in the fires of development hell. It's not a pretty story and does not inspire confidence.
No game is free of criticism, but those things were true of Ico and SotC too. Ico was a PS1 game, and SotC was a co-op MonHun style game.
mcz117chief
Member
Development hell and many setbacks are not as common as you might think, a lot of good games we have played recently were in such a state at one point or another.
All right, that is true, I almost completely forgot.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
Ok. Let me put this another way.
Im "waiting" for tekken 7, ive seen a short trailer, the developer has shown some of the new designs, gameplay has been briefly discussed and the team has a high pedigree of shipping amazing games.
But if you think if 5 years pass and I still havent seen anything more of the game, outside of another cinematic trailer im going to be concerning myself about the game still? I would of long moved on.
If it then showed more media on the 6th year, yes id check it out, but outside of that, the game wouldn't even register on the radar. I certainly wouldnt be complaining in a E3 2019 thread that the game still hadn't been shown.
I kinda feel like this about Tekken X Streetfighter now.
There is one thing that I have begun to learn over the years. One man does not make a good game, and nothing a person has previously worked before is an indication of the quailty of their next game. Game development has too many variables, even within a competent team.
There is zero indication that Team Ico even still exist, at least not in the way they did since SotC shipped. New people bring new ideas, and even old people look at things differently between releases of games in the same franchise.
It's actually not self-evident at all. ICO does not play like SotC, even though their share aesthetic sensibilities. Similarly, just because Last Guardian shares aesthetic sensibilities with both does not mean that they will play specifically like one or the other.
In fact, from the information we do have, it seems more like its own unique hybrid of both concepts, with the Griffin being as a Colossus that you guide through puzzles, and your navigation through the world being more ICO-esque. I'm actually surprised anyone is jumping to conclusions about how it plays considering how divergent SotC and ICO are from one another.
Past reference still does not mean squat when looking at the now. This game has clearly been a disaster. But sure, I'll show interest again if and when they show something compelling and nail down a release date. I'll always leave that door open.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
The development studio is the same, but all the devs who worked on SotC aren't still there and on the project. Some level of turnover after all this time should be expected. and we know several people from that studio have indeed moved on.
Hey, their slide as an example of third-person games for virtual reality was pretty telling! If they think it could work, having the chance could always be nice... specially taking into account how immersive the worlds devised by Mr. Ueda & the SCE JAPAN Studio Product Development Department #1 were.
Vestal
Junior Member
Look Yoshida has a good rep. But games get cancelled when they go into these types of development hells.
Look as Starcraft Ghost, Titan as examples. Both from one of the most respected studios in the industry.
Want more? Ultima Online 2 is another vivid example.
TimeEffect
Member
You see, Y2Kev? You See!?!?
Ico has you guide Yorda through what is essentially a giant Zelda dungeon, and she is both a hindrance (unable to be self-sufficient and the primarily failure state), and required (she opens magic gates, stands on switches, etc). Trico looked to be exactly that. It was capable of moving heavy objections you can't, to get you to areas you couldn't reach, but is a source of peril, can be wounded, must be catered to, must be protected.
I don't see any SotC at all in anything they showed, or anything reported, other than there's a big creature, although Colossi are very specifically not biological like Trico.