Shadow of the Colossus

OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
<div class="IPBDescription">:O oh my god</div>This game is incredible. "Epic" doesn't even begin to describe it.

Why am I just now playing this game!? I should I have gotten it the day it came out!!

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  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    For a whole package, probably one of the top 3 games I've ever played.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Definately. I usually don't play through games second...third...four...14 times. God I love it. <3
  • TheGuyTheGuy Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19295Members, Constellation
    If you like that game you'll probably like ICO as well. It's a commonly overlooked PS2 gem. Made by the same developers.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I didn't like ICO for some reason.
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    ...

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  • TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
    *watches trailer*

    ME WANTS RIGHT NOW!
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <img src="http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20051021h.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    Those cartoons are so unfunny it makes me weep like a baby girl <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1588514:date=Dec 14 2006, 12:08 PM:name=Thaldarin)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Thaldarin @ Dec 14 2006, 12:08 PM) [snapback]1588514[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Those cartoons are so unfunny it makes me weep like a baby girl <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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    Well that's appropriate because your sense of humor is about as well developed and mature as a baby girl.
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    ICO is more of a pain than anything else... but I guess if you like to put up with days of frustration just to get the girl to listen to you, then fine. :b

    Shadow of the Colossus is exceptionally nifty though; most of the titans are an utter pain to figure out how to deal with, and even after you figure it out, they can be a major pain to kill off. Particularly hate the bird titan, thanks to all the swimming I ended up doing. :b

    Most of the rest I have save points just before, as it's an awesome game to show off just how cool you are. Always looks like you're just on the brink of getting thrown, and barely manage to pull it off every time... ended up getting applause at one point from a housemate who'd been walking by, but stopped to watch.
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1588526:date=Dec 14 2006, 08:24 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Dec 14 2006, 08:24 PM) [snapback]1588526[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Well that's appropriate because your sense of humor is about as well developed and mature as a baby girl.
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    Ooooh we're going to go low <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> Okay I can do that, well I notice you're a Star Wars fan with the name Tycho Celchu so....

    <img src="http://cagle.msnbc.com/artists/Fairrington/Star%20Wars%20Geek%202005.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Except I'm not fat, don't own any comic books, don't live in a basement, am not the vice president of any fan clubs, don't have an inflatable lightsaber, don't need an air horn to scare away girls, don't like Twinkies, don't buy expensive eBay Star Wars memorabilia, don't camp out in line, and don't wear Jedi master pajamas, whereas YOU have demonstrated a decided lack of humorous inclinations. Honestly how can this not get to you:

    <img src="http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20010928h.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    edited December 2006
    You take things way too seriously <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> Lighten up!

    EDIT - Yes I still find that cartoon strip humourless
  • EpidemicEpidemic Dark Force Gorge Join Date: 2003-06-29 Member: 17781Members
    This pisses me off, why does it only come out on PS? I hate you.
  • AlcapwnAlcapwn &quot;War is the science of destruction&quot; - John Abbot Join Date: 2003-06-21 Member: 17590Members
    Got the game last christmas; i actually completed it for the 3rd time about a week ago.

    Its an amazing game; and the the ending is incredible.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
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    This pisses me off, why does it only come out on PS? I hate you.
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    'Cause its made by Sony in-house?

    I loved Ico too. Consider me an art snob.
  • TykjenTykjen Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    The most entertaining and epic game since God of War imo, which I played thru right before picking up Shadow Of the Colossus. Ico is a lost gem as well.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
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    Dey got comics for <i>all</i> da good games.
  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    Okay, just beat Colossus 10.

    Man.

    I think my favorite was Colossus 9. It was just such a cinematic battle...No, no, I take the back, my favorite so far is the giant bird. Like, the prelude to the battle, when you haven't done anything yet? It's so dense with...with <u>magic</u>. You swim around, trying to get in a good position, and every time you aim the camera at the Colossus, there it is, just <i>looming</i> over you, wings spread with a stare full of eerie menace. It's not even doing anything, yet it's so terrifying. And then when you're actually on the bird? Oh man. Best roller coaster ride <u>ever</u>.

    And the best part, as beautiful as graphics are, is the music. Holy crap, that is some emotionally powerful music.
  • SLizerSLizer Join Date: 2003-11-07 Member: 22363Members, Constellation
    I read about this but I never got to buy it? How cheap can I get it nowdays? I always knew its a mindblower but never had the money <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" />
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    my fave one was the sky dragon type thing :3

    Don't want to say too much to spoil it for anyone not that far though :s

    Oh and though you guys probably know;
    Try getting fruit from trees for an interesting effect.
    Kill the right kind of lizards and see if they leave anything behind... you may be surprised :3

    soooo many white-tailed lizards died. Oh so many... XD
  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    Oh, I already figured out that stuff. I like seeing how far away I can nail them (the lizards) from, like a pro marksman. >=D
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1588573:date=Dec 14 2006, 02:30 PM:name=SLizer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SLizer @ Dec 14 2006, 02:30 PM) [snapback]1588573[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I read about this but I never got to buy it? How cheap can I get it nowdays? I always knew its a mindblower but never had the money <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" />
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    On the day of release I got it for $40, last I saw brand new it goes for $20, used for $15 and $10 sometimes. Its worth more than any of the games released this year, if you ask me.
  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I'm half-tempted to get a PS2 just for GH2, SotC and whatever MGS games I can get.

    --Scythe--

    P.S. Thaldarin, you have the sense of humour of a dry brick.
  • RevlicRevlic Join Date: 2006-11-04 Member: 58367Members
    Those new slimline PS2s go well with Guitar Hero 2.

    Me likes it.
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    Aye, this is one of my favourite games also! I bought it at a time when I was thinking "I want to buy a game with huge monsters", and I didn't even <i>know</i> this game existed until ken20banks pointed me in its direction (KFS was playing it at the time!).

    It's a shame I don't actually own a PS2. I would play it on my friend's, but I have since moved out of that house. Still, I played it through twice and I'm sure I'll get a chance again some day (hopefully by then I will have forgotten a lot about it).

    There are so many good collossi, I don't know if I can choose a favourite. My favourite moment however, was being on the bird's head and killing that symbol, then losing my grip and falling...only to land and grip onto the symbol on his it's (the last one I had to do)! That was an ultra cool moment.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I had a few lovable moments in that game:

    The first Colossus was nothing short of Godlike to me. I hadn't had a gaming experience that unique...ever. You don't understand the game very well til you play him either...then it all comes together.

    The "Knight" Colossus was amazing too. I fondly remember my "leap of <i>prayer</i>", where I launched off of the back of his neck, fell, holding R1 the whole way- only to BARELY grab the ledge of his belt, pull myself up, and begin finishing him off. This was after I used his chestpiece by timing a jump from his elbow *just* right.

    The Bird...I fell off of him only once. But I remember I lost grip in the middle of a right turn, when I was on his right wing- came off- and just barely grabbed his tail with just enough grip to pull myself up.

    The two really small ones- the Bull, and the Dog, I guess(the one that was a huge jumping puzzle) were both lots of fun.

    The Dragon...that entire thing made me feel, "You deserve to be called a Hero" kind of stuff. Riding alongside the wing on Agro, climbing up the wing, giving the stabs then bailing off the side of the sucker as he launches into the ground- then following him again? Awesomeness.

    Oh, and when I showed my roomie the final boss(he doesn't play console games), he said "Thats the best boss ever."

    <3
  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1588621:date=Dec 14 2006, 07:55 PM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scythe @ Dec 14 2006, 07:55 PM) [snapback]1588621[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'm half-tempted to get a PS2 just for GH2, SotC and whatever MGS games I can get.

    --Scythe--

    P.S. Thaldarin, you have the sense of humour of a dry brick.
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    lets not be too harsh - a wet brick maybe, but certainly not a dry one.
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--quoteo(post=1588621:date=Dec 14 2006, 07:55 PM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scythe @ Dec 14 2006, 07:55 PM) [snapback]1588621[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'm half-tempted to get a PS2 just for GH2, SotC and whatever MGS games I can get.

    --Scythe--
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    I picked up a PS2 about 3 months ago pretty much entirely to play SotC. I've never regretted it. I've also got God of War (though I still haven't played it) and Kingdom Hearts, which are excellent. AND I can finally play all my old PS games again (DDR, FF9, Silent Hill, etc), and it plays the few DVDs that my Xbox couldn't deal with. All in all, I win!

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    The two really small ones- the Bull, and the Dog, I guess(the one that was a huge jumping puzzle) were both lots of fun.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Those two caught me up. They were just so lifelike... when they finally fell, I suddenly felt bad for what I'd done. ): I showed the second one to my girlfriend -- the jumping and everything was fine, and when I finally made it vulnerable and stabbed it for the first time, I stopped and turned it off. I felt too bad, like I was torturing a defenseless creature.

    The sky dragon was my favorite, but every single one is just wonderful. I really liked the sea serpent, too.
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