We could have told you that, you know. If you don't trust our word, however, how about the one from Sony Worldwide Studios president
Shuhei Yoshida? He
would know, wouldn't he? Allegedly talking to
Official PlayStation Magazine (August issue cited on
NeoGAF), Yoshida refers to the team that built
ICO and
Shadow of the Colossus as the "Olympic Team." Why? Well, because it takes 'em four years to finish a game.
"They haven't released a PS3 title yet - of course not - they'll take four years!" explains Yoshida. "But they have something really, really good on the way." Is it
too early to dole out 2009's Game of the Year Award?
[Via
Eurogamer]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Bryan @ Aug 4th 2008 9:36PM
I have always wanted to play a Team ICO game, but I have never owned a Sony console.
doc j @ Aug 4th 2008 10:00PM
It'd be worth buying a refurbished PS2 just for Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
No joke.
StrangeBum @ Aug 4th 2008 10:23PM
I will second that.
I currently own no games for the PS2 other than Ico and Shadows. I may need to bust out the ol' black beauty for these gems soon.
Deadpool @ Aug 4th 2008 11:48PM
Third!
If you missed out on these games then I recommend you get a PS2 to play them. In fact, I think your missing out on two of the most original adventure games ever made. Not to mention a whole lot of other awesome PS2 games. Missing out on the PS2 is almost like missing out on SNES.
Jacksons @ Aug 5th 2008 12:29AM
Yeah, don't forget the bajillion other incredible games that make the PS2 great. That's right, present tense, because it's still alive!
Yourself @ Aug 4th 2008 9:42PM
Obvious: Next Team Ico game will be really, really overrated.
Ranko @ Aug 4th 2008 9:44PM
But it probably won't stop it from being really, really good.
Noshino @ Aug 4th 2008 10:44PM
Sorry, but their games are far from overrated, actually, I would say that they are underrated and often overlooked.
Not all fanboys have them on their must-have lists, and from those that do, not all have played their games, and even then, the number of people that actually understood the games are even less.
fwacce @ Aug 4th 2008 10:58PM
If you're going to say that, then please point out what was overrated about the previous 2 games. We're all ears.
samfish @ Aug 4th 2008 11:20PM
I like the Team Ico games, but they tend to have lousy gameplay mechanics, which keeps me from getting REALLY excited about their games they way I do Nintendo's or Platinum's.
EliteBeatsAgent08 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:29PM
Also obvious: The sony fanboys have added this game their "just wait till" list.
tmacairjordan87 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:35PM
You keep saying that about every Sony game that gets announced. It eventually gets to a point where this "wait until" garbage isn't even trolling anymore because you've said that about so many games. It, in fact, just makes you look that much dumber and you did it all by yourself. I'm so proud of you!
Also, it's nice to have something to look forward to. Wii owners would like to be in that position right now.
Roto13 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:55PM
I don't think they're as great as a lot of people seem to believe. When that image there was released, one guy on a forum I go to was about to cream himself. It's a freaking Colossus' buttplug. The other two games aren't so great that the slightest bit of 'information' is enough to warrant a crazy reaction.
Vidikron (FU) @ Aug 4th 2008 11:56PM
Also obvious: No one but the anti-Sony trolls even talk about "wait till" lists.
John McPoop (PSN:johnnynumber5) @ Aug 5th 2008 12:20AM
Just like Final Fantasy was overrated until the E3 announcement.
Saria the Cat @ Aug 5th 2008 1:24AM
Wait, a Team Ico game being overhyped or overrated? What planet are you from? o_O
EliteBeatsAgent08 @ Aug 5th 2008 1:56AM
Still bitter about that huh John McShitty?
It's hilarious how you ignore the fact I've NEVER said Final Fantasy was overrated. I've expressed nothing but interest in the title since it was announced for the psTRIPLE way back when.
Sorry but your argument is a lie (like most of your statements).
I've said from the beginnin that FFXIII and God of War 3 were the ONLY 2 games that could make me consider getting a ps3.
Well thankfully FFXIII is NOT a ps3 exclusive anymroe so that drops the must have list on the ps3 to a pathetic 1.
Yourself @ Aug 5th 2008 11:39AM
Really late on the reply here, but it was past my bedtime already!
Shadow of the Colossus was conceptually strong, but was mired with such brutal control and camera issues (I have to hold a button to hang on a ledge?) that it never managed to be particularly fun. There was one jump, I think before the third boss (it was the guy on a platform above a lake) that I tried about 10 times, having to swim for 2 minutes every time I missed it to get back into position. The empty world had a great sense of scale, but it was an empty world. The Colossi were visually impressive, but when it came down to climbing them, they weren't in practice anything more than a Mario stage, and factoring in the poor control, frustration was all that was left. In general, the designers had a good idea, but never thought it through and remembered that what they were making was a game.
Ico. I'll never understand this one. What's truly so great about Ico, where does its acclaim come from? It's an action-adventure game with the most basic combat, the most basic puzzles, and again, lackluster control. And as for the much vaunted emotional nature of the 'story', it was too terribly saccharine due to its lack of actual character development.
I honestly played both of these games from beginning to end, because I typically love cult-classics and critically acclaimed games (like Odin Sphere or Disgaea), but Team Ico is the classic case of style over substance. Unique does not by nature mean good.
Superstar90 @ Aug 4th 2008 9:46PM
Team ICO made the worst games ever in the industry and caused the downfall of the PS2. Basically they took ET and ported it to the PS2 twice, with all new glitches and a pathetic 10 fps framerate. They epitomize all the evil in the world and their games promote racism and were designed by Hitler himself. Their games are like poison for systems. The games also kill kittens... orphan kittens... orphan kittens with aids.
TEAM ICO SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE WORLD. THEY ARE POLLUTING THE EARTH.
Ayrkain @ Aug 4th 2008 10:11PM
Obviously obvious troll is really obvious. Sheesh.
Superstar90 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:09PM
Why am I always misconstrued? I actually like the 2 Team ICO games.
Thats the last time I try that again :l
John McPoop (PSN:johnnynumber5) @ Aug 5th 2008 12:21AM
Sarcasm can be a hard one to understand n the internets ...
Intentless @ Aug 4th 2008 9:46PM
I'm thinking game of the year 2010...
dimitri @ Aug 4th 2008 9:49PM
yes new super powerful and complex colossus :)
Dustin @ Aug 4th 2008 10:03PM
Is Joystiq really asking if it's "too early" to name game of the year 2009? Seriously?
You were handing out game of the year 2008 awards like they were candy, and that was last fall. :P
The_Punisher @ Aug 4th 2008 10:17PM
ICO of the Colossus: The Chain
Xoviet chiK @ Aug 4th 2008 10:22PM
Looks like an ancient ManHole Cover....
Teenage Mutant Furry Rock Turtles confirmed!
samfish @ Aug 4th 2008 11:25PM
No, no no. It's that thing inside the bowl of a toilet. I have it on good information that the next game takes place years after SOTC inside the Colossi's toilets.
Maverick Saturn @ Aug 4th 2008 10:25PM
I'm truly extatic, anything Team Ico touches so far turns to gold, lets not go silver :)
SuperGayParade @ Aug 4th 2008 10:35PM
I'll wait till it comes onto the 360.
OH WAIT! Pshaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Noshino @ Aug 4th 2008 11:04PM
Oh no you Di'n't!
Blazur @ Aug 4th 2008 11:02PM
Well now that sounds good! Glad he gave us that update...
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 4th 2008 11:09PM
Great. Another critically acclaimed game that will be ignored by the general consumer.
samfish @ Aug 4th 2008 11:22PM
I thought Shadow of the Collosus was a million+ seller?
Superstar90 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:29PM
Shadow of the Colossus had much more advertising than Ico and it was successful. It was first in its debut week in Japan selling over 100,000 copies.
Again this time Sony will advertise it, so it should be fine.
Noshino @ Aug 4th 2008 11:31PM
I think it roughly made it to the million, but if Im not wrong, for some reason it did reach Greatest Hits without having reached 1 mil sells on NA
EliteBeatsAgent08 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:32PM
Cry me a river...
Personally Team ICO is way overrated. Sorry but SotC was NOT THAT big a deal...
Really lets wait till we actually see what the hell this game is about and umm some actually game footage as opposed to this already old as hell picture.
tmacairjordan87 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:37PM
"Personally Team ICO is way overrated"
That means a lot coming from you hahahahaha
John McPoop (PSN:johnnynumber5) @ Aug 5th 2008 12:26AM
@PrematureAsshat
You say that about every Sony game.
Jacksons @ Aug 5th 2008 12:34AM
@EliteBeatsAgent08
What is your problem? You've obviously never played it since I'm pretty sure you'd burst into flames if anything with a Sony logo touched you. Why the constant blind hatred?
Superstar90 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:19PM
Do we know that it's a PS3 game? What if it's a PSP game.. they have experience with the PS2 which is essentially a home PSP, graphically.
I can't find ICO anywhere now, I rented it ages ago from some little rental store then I never had it again :( I should have just kept it, SOTC practically lives in my PS2.
Superstar90 @ Aug 4th 2008 11:21PM
Hah, nevermind just found out its a PS3 game...
Deadpool @ Aug 5th 2008 12:46AM
I'll mail you my ICO game. It's so old and theres no aliens to shoot at in the game, so I hate it. [Sarcasm]
Now that's your lesson on how to post "Sarcasm" on a blog. Next week I'll show you how to post when you're
"just kidding" on the blog and how to make delicious soft tacos. Stay tuned till next week! [j/k]
Noshino @ Aug 5th 2008 1:11AM
haha, oh man, your username and avatar are so fitting
Brodie-san @ Aug 5th 2008 3:30AM
Never played Ico (like most people, I missed it) though I'd love to. The day it gets announced as a PS1 download on the PSN I'm booking time off work and sending the girlfriend to her mother's.
Noshino @ Aug 5th 2008 3:46AM
"...The day it gets announced as a PS1 download..."
Uh, ICO is a PS2 title.
Brodie-san @ Aug 5th 2008 10:03AM
Right you are. Why did I think it was PS1?
It's been so long since it was released I somehow thought it was out on the PS1.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
:)
rokobungi @ Aug 4th 2008 11:35PM
YAY! another half-playable piece of art.
did some member of the team leave after they developed Ico because Shadow just didn't have the feel that Ico did Ico told a story without words Shadow just seemed they forgot to add the words.
I liked Ico, Shadow was too busy trying to be profound to care about actual gameplay.
So yeah I just didn't 'get it' sure, that's it I'm an idiot and everyone who doesn't like your 'precious' Shadow is too.
John McPoop (PSN:johnnynumber5) @ Aug 5th 2008 12:30AM
It is just about preference. I do not think someone could play this game now can and come away with the same feeling as when it was released. Mind you I am not saying that is the case in your situation.
I liked the game. I thought ICO was better but that was because of how unique and revolutionary it was at the time. I still thought SOTC was one of the best PS2 games ever made. It was essentially 16 (give or take a few) boss fights. If the game was anything it was certainly epic in scale.
it is OK not to like it.
Noshino @ Aug 5th 2008 1:08AM
Actually, I felt more connected with Shadow of the Colossus.
SotC brought these feelings of loneliness and sacrifice, one man that despite knowing that he would have to pay for it, fought this immense enemies just to bring back to life his beloved one, and hell, I felt connected at a lesser extent to Agro, but after what he does, I actually felt really sad, this being that was really important and that I hadn't paid much attention to had done such a thing for you....
Anyway, As for story goes, actually, SotC has more of a story than ICO, actually, they have a good summary on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_colossus