Gametrailers.com's video preview of Shadow of the Colossus.
Man that game looks sweet, I might finally break down and get a PS2.
Man that game looks sweet, I might finally break down and get a PS2.
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Shadow of the Colossus Video Preview
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Duckhuntdog
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Ha. Screw video, I spent a good half hour with this game at the Chicago Comic con.
jaundicejuice
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Thanks man, that game looks simply amazing. One of the things I wished for while playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was to have a mode that was nothing but pure platforming. No wanky combat, no guantlets of respawning enemies, just you, a healthy atmosphere and some massive environmental puzzles...looks like SotC will deliver on that wish.
krypt0nian
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Duckhuntdog said:
Without detailed impressions, your post failed.
jaundicejuice said:
I felt the exact same way about Sands of Time. I've always wanted a game where your only enemy is the environment itself.
Shadow of the Colossus is looking phenomenal. I really hope that the areas you have to traverse between Colossi feature Ico-quality puzzles.
Hands down --- the greatest experience I had at E3 .......... If done right, this could be a legend in the making.
It was inspiring the crowds and crowds of people gathered to see the demo - people were gasping, girls were clinching their dudes, and dying on purpose just so they didn't have to leave the demo (for another go at the beast)
The hickups were even passable then, but now it's looking better and better ---- I hope there's more and more platforming later, like in the demo where you had to leave your horse behind.
It was inspiring the crowds and crowds of people gathered to see the demo - people were gasping, girls were clinching their dudes, and dying on purpose just so they didn't have to leave the demo (for another go at the beast)
The hickups were even passable then, but now it's looking better and better ---- I hope there's more and more platforming later, like in the demo where you had to leave your horse behind.
SolidSnakex
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ced said:
It's October release for both now.
DieNgamers
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Looks...big.
Buggy Loop
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Damn this is my most anticipated game of the year (more so than zelda..), the music from the intro that they played during that preview gives me goosebumps, i was like, dude, STFU and let the music do the job 
Im gonna go rewatch that intro sequence again, just brilliant.
Im gonna go rewatch that intro sequence again, just brilliant.Doom_Bringer
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awesome preview! It also shows some kind of shadow mosters, could it be the prequel to ico? I hope so.
mckmas8808
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I never thought I would buy a game like this but these last few videos are starting to me make a believer. I usually buy games like Madden, GTA, Gt4, etc. you know the big popular ones. This will be my first buy from a game of this type. Its simply too beutiful.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Aico? I always pronounced it Eeco. WTF?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
You should've played Ico already. That's from one huge Schafer (and Lucas adventure games in general) fan to another.
Correct pronounciation is Eeco.
btutterrow
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Could my theory I mentioned in a previous thread be true????
Signaling for the horse and having him gallop towards you... WOW!
Firing arrows while standing from the mount... WOW!
The giant with the HUGE sword... WOW!
Ico made me love gaming all over again, when I was getting burnt out. Lets hope SotC will do the same...
About the girl being the Queen? What a nice little surprise if true! And those shadow creatures... AMAZING!
Signaling for the horse and having him gallop towards you... WOW!
Firing arrows while standing from the mount... WOW!
The giant with the HUGE sword... WOW!
Ico made me love gaming all over again, when I was getting burnt out. Lets hope SotC will do the same...
johnjohnson
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It looks great and seems interesting, but if the only enemies are the 15 giant golems what are you supposed to do while you look for them? Just run around on your stallion or can you do something else in this big world? Collect something? Do some optional quests?
Doom_Bringer
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lunlunqq said:
ya I think so too! After seeing the shadow creatures, I am convinced that this game is somehow connected to Ico.
Doom_Bringer
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johnjohnson said:
Probably a lot of puzzle solving elements. For example; your sword tells you the direction in which the colossus is but since the world is huge you must find a safe and sensible way to get there with your horse. Also, I think the game has some smaller enemies too! I saw a picture of a small/bull like colossus some time ago.
here we go, found the picture!
Lord Error
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There's already some stuff that looks simillar without any creatures involved. The black blood/smoke squirming out of colossus when you stab him for example. I think Ueda actually openly said in some recent interview that there's going to be some small thing to remind people of Ico, somewhere in the game.
sp0rsk said:
The amazing thing for me... what really blew me away... was how the giant colossus move. It's not some painful, canned animation. When they're trying to throw you off, it has this incredibly graceful and yet powerful swaying move that is just out of this world. The way the beasts lumber and collapse when hit in the right spot... it's just breathtaking. The horse animation was also righteous. Really, all of it was. But the beast, man, I can't believe they did that so well.
As an aside, I love how you can see all the trees shaking during a colossus battle.