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Ico and Shadow of the Colossus collection; Heehee!
Topic Started: Sep 15 2010, 06:47 PM (714 Views)
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Famitsu has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 versions of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus will be upped to HD quality for their release on PlayStation 3.

Some details

- 1080p
- locked at 30 frames per second
- Trophy support
- Full stereoscopic 3D
- 7.1 surround sound
-Will be on one disc for NA/EU release.
-Ico features the ending of the European release
-Both will be re-textured
- Includes download code for ICO and Shadow of the Colossus PS3 themes.
- Bonus video content.





This is a day one buy for me. Without a doubt, I mean I already pre-ordered!


Uh, if you didn't try these games before then you seriously should look into them, they are deeply loved by many for a good reason, you know!






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What is ICO if you don't mind me asking? But for the Shadow of the Colossus I saw it a while ago, wanted it, but twas out of stores, so I never got it, BUT NOW I CAN! ='D
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ICO is the first game created by "team ICO", it was one of the first games to come out for the PS2 and one of the best by far imo and in many others.

Story;

Sometimes children with horns and these children are considered to be cursed and are shunned by all, when their twelve birthday arrives they are taken away and dropped off at a fortress where they are abandoned and left to die.
You play the horned child Ico. Almost right away he is surprised to encounter a mysterious young woman who has also been left, imprisoned there. The two must now try and escape together..


The game isn't really like any before of since, it's a very simple but effective game, it has no health bar, nor anything else of that nature. You get a real feeling of isolation despite your companion (whom speaks a different language from you). The strange thing about this game is how myself and many other of its players found themselves feeling like they actually care about the young woman (Yorda) despite her not saying a single word you can understand. The way she moves about at times when you leave her to her own devices always seemed interesting, she tends to seem pretty curious about her environment which is rather cute. x3

An unusual game, full of mystery.

I've tried to put some of my feeling for this game into words, but it's rather difficult since it makes you form a fair amount of unexpected feelings, or it did for me anyway. The game is also very pretty, or at least it was when it was newer, and boasts some very nice bits of music.

You can also play it two player with a friend controlling Yorda (second playthrough only? I dun remember for sure). Uh at the end of the day it's a Action-adventure, Puzzle game, though. ;)


I hope that answers your question!
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Ooh, sounds like my kinda game... But just to point this out, when you said playing as a horned child I though you meant a different kind of horned ^^"
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*main post also updated with trailer and more info.


ICO/SOTC shots in HD (fantastic clean-ups <3)

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Heehee, the little boy just has horns on the top of his wee head. Deeply strongly these games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThfWezaxPV0

^ Intro, would have linked the official trailer but it isn't very well put together. they left the menus video in so you can see what some parts of the huge and pretty environment you get to explore. At times Ico feels more like art than a video game.

Also - Yorda <3
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I would really like to play Ico now. Now that I've gotten a closer look at it it seems like it will be even more fun than I originally thought.
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Welcome to the forums, KyrekMormir! I do hope you enjoy it should you get your mits on it. :)

They have to add trophy sets these days but still in case people were worried Mr. Ueda said in an interview;

The site asked Ueda what types of changes we can expect for the remakes.

"They've become HD, the textures have been redone to go along with that, and also PS3 Trophy support."
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Famitsu also got to sample Team ICO's other PS3 titles, the remakes of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.

Regarding ICO, the magazine said said that you won't believe you're looking at a game from 10 years back. Team ICO is redoing the opening based off the original.

Regarding Shadow of the Colossus, the magazine said that seeing the giants in 3D is the highlight. However, the 3D matches the game as a whole. Even during exploration, you'll get a feeling of being there because trees and the fog can be seen in 3D.


They seem to be putting in a lot more effort than other developers have with their collections. <3 This seems like a great idea since the horses on the intro really looked pretty naff originally.
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Still no official date besides "April 2011"? D:

They're putting more work into it, because they know it can sell ;D
But I really wants it D:
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Nope, ain't that a bitch? And that's just dates from retailers. Suspect it'll still be out later than April, but we'll see.
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Nasty rumour.

We may have to wait until next year for the collection.

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/710911/Ico-and-Shadow-of-the-Colossus-Collection-Release-Pushed-According-to-Online-Retailers.html

American Amazon says December this year. But then again this is retailers we're talking about so it may not be pushed that far back.

I guess the new intro will be one of the reasons for delay and its been said they wanted to add a TLG demo to the collection if possible.

I'd love to see them add back in the colossi that they removed and make the co-op in the first game online, or even the co-op mode NICO getting added in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBpRiWGdWg

Shame that they might delay this, but it does give them chance to give us more nice things. <3
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I don't completely hate it being pushed back, because now I have the chance to get some money to buy it...
Online Co-op would be so fun with you ;D
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Aww, thanks, Paddy. ^//^
I could play Yorda (the pretty white and grey girl) and you could play Ico, hehe. I just love Yorda. <3
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We'd be the best together :'3
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We'd..um..! *sigh* Yorda is so cute. We'd be cute together!

The best together! I should have just said that. :lol:
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Oh, I should really mention this. There's an issue with sotc on the PS3, it's hardly game-breaking when just playing through normally, but it does screw up the hard mode time-attack mode.

Now the colossi are FAR more aggressive, and Wander falls over much more often, making the game a much more frustrating experience than it was on the PS2. Imagine playing a game where your character falls over on a regular basis...it sucks.

They say it is to do with the increase in frames per second in this version.

If you are new to the game you'll probably enjoy the PS2 version a lot more.
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