I picked up the demo the other day and played it thru. My body has maintained a perverbial erection ever since. Is anyone else completely floored by this game? Its been some time since a PS2 title has "wowed" me this much. I think if I was told I could never play Halo 2 again if I opted to play Colossus, I think Halo 2 would end up taking a short walk to the trash bin. Theres such magnificence in the artistic level of quality and vision of the game.
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Stoked For Shadow of Colossus
- Thread starter sirris
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no demo for me
ONLY THE REAL THING WILL DO
ONLY THE REAL THING WILL DO
Red Scarlet
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Have fun with your game (doesn't it come out soon?).
Version 3.0
Member
I'm really stoked for this game, too. With Zelda delayed until next year, this is the only game left to give me a quality adventure fix. Ico was brilliant, and this looks to be just as good. The demo was a bit framy and crashed on me twice, but it was still awesome, and supposedly the later builds are more stable. And it doesn't have Ico's horrible low resolution, so that's another plus.
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man you guys suck, ban anihawk.
Amir0x said:
Who's the mod to contadct about getting Trizten banned, because he sent me the same private message - luckily he was being such an ass in the original post I didn't bother to read his private, just deleted it. However, if he's sending spoilers to people unannounced via PM's then he certainly deserves a ban.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I guess any PMs from him are automatically forwarded to trash now.Amir0x said:
That's what it's name is in Japan. That or "Wanderer and the Colossus", I'm not sure anymore.
â Narayan
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Word.Date of Lies said:
Lord Error
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One thing that I didn't like...
I forgot to test the demo on my old interlaced TV yesterday, but on the HDTV with prog scan enabled, it suffers from some bad texture shimmering. I never complain about visual flaws unless they bother me, but I have to say it really bothered me when I finally made it into the forest in the demo. Also when they show the bridge in the intro... argh... How come Ico didn't suffer nearly as much from this? I *really* hope they fix that for the final version. Just the fact that you can't see the ground (which is where textures suffer the most) makes the game look quite a bit better when you start climbing on the colossus.
Yeah, I'll have to test it on an old TV, just to make sure I have a backup plan if they don't sort this out. Deinterlacer usually helps with that problem a bit. Also, I found out that the game (demo) looks much nicer if you switch the TV to "warm" colors, which makes white colors look slightly warmer/reddish..
I forgot to test the demo on my old interlaced TV yesterday, but on the HDTV with prog scan enabled, it suffers from some bad texture shimmering. I never complain about visual flaws unless they bother me, but I have to say it really bothered me when I finally made it into the forest in the demo. Also when they show the bridge in the intro... argh... How come Ico didn't suffer nearly as much from this? I *really* hope they fix that for the final version. Just the fact that you can't see the ground (which is where textures suffer the most) makes the game look quite a bit better when you start climbing on the colossus.
Yeah, I'll have to test it on an old TV, just to make sure I have a backup plan if they don't sort this out. Deinterlacer usually helps with that problem a bit. Also, I found out that the game (demo) looks much nicer if you switch the TV to "warm" colors, which makes white colors look slightly warmer/reddish..
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Regardless, it's been taken care of.
Lord Error
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Edit, fuck, I see now that Trizten sent me too a PM about a week ago, and when I started reading it, it sounded like some idiotic fanboy garbage - just the way he wrote it. Something like people at Gamefaqs come up with when they are bored. Good thing I literally stopped reading after the sentence "I was thinking last night about teh story and wouldn't it be super-cool if it was like, blah blah yada yada....".
I never read these fanboy scenarios because they could sometimes get the right idea and spoil things, but I feel even better about that now knowing that he's not some kid dreaming stuff up but actually probably has played the game (AFAIK he was at this year's E3 so he might be a member of media)
WTF man, what kind of asshole does stuff like that?
I never read these fanboy scenarios because they could sometimes get the right idea and spoil things, but I feel even better about that now knowing that he's not some kid dreaming stuff up but actually probably has played the game (AFAIK he was at this year's E3 so he might be a member of media)
WTF man, what kind of asshole does stuff like that?
â Narayan
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Holy shit, am I ever so glad that those aren't real spoilers.
I would go ape-shit, APE-SHIT.
I would go ape-shit, APE-SHIT.
teruterubozu
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Wyzdom said:
Erections and leisure - doesn't sound so bad!
"Lesions" on the other hand...
Ah yes, nothing like GAF English.
On another note: I'm hearing that this game is pretty challenging.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
What's not real? I have reasons to believe those Trizten's spoilers were real.U K Narayan said:
Finally got the demo to work after numerous crashes...It's better than Ico, which isn't saying much. Taking down the colossus was pretty easy, and seeing as how estimates ranged around a dozen in the game...
Can't see how it'd work out. Another Wind Waker in the making? Maybe.
Time will tell.
Also I'd like Trizten's spoilers, if anyone still has 'em.
Can't see how it'd work out. Another Wind Waker in the making? Maybe.
Time will tell.
Also I'd like Trizten's spoilers, if anyone still has 'em.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
There's 16 colossi, and they won't be easy to kill like that first one.
Red Scarlet
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Ancestor_of_Erdrick said:
I don't think I'm really into adventure games, but I dunno, it's never really registered on my radar to look into (ICO/this game).
Wasn't Trizten the guy that went onto IRC last week and spoiled the game in there too?
I am also stoked for SotC. I haven't picked up the demo yet and I don't think I will. Playing the finished game for the first time will be brilliant so I won't want to spoil that by playing the demo, though it is very hard to resist. Sorry to hear that the game got spoiled for those who were really looking forward to it. Glad that guy was taken care of.
Ironclad_Ninja said:
I am beginning to think along the same lines as you. I was bugging my local GameStop forever about the demo, but the full game should be out ~1 month from now, I think I can wait. Burnout Revenge and Dawn of Sorrow should be more than enough to keep me busy in the meantime.
Yeah, that's the right state of mind. I've asked my Gamestop for the demo everytime I went in there but I guess I was lucky that they never had it in. I've got plenty of other games to keep me busy at the moment so it may be a blessing that Gamestop didn't have the demo. Only about a month left. The wait will be difficult but it will definitely be worth it.Ancestor_of_Erdrick said:
â Narayan
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This is fake, too. . . RIGHT?. . . . RIGHT!?AniHawk said: