GDC09: Team ICO's new game is 'close to ICO' in essense

i bought ico + SotC half a year ago and since then i think they are better than any PS3 game out now.

Shadow of the Colossus is chronologically the prequel to Ico (even though Ico came out first)

You could probably understand the story of Trico without having played the past two games, but you'd be missing out on a great deal of the nuance that makes the series special.

+1

This.

They should dual reprint both SOTC (the NTSC version) and Ico (the PAL version which is compatible with US PS2's). The PAL version for both the exceptional box art that was on the PAL version (we got screwed in the US), and for the replayability factor (new weapons, subtitles, co-op, etc)


Or..wait..now I'm confused. Apparently Amazon still has copies of SOTC. I had thought it was out of print, but maybe I was mistaken.


Either way, reprint of PAL Ico (or just the PAL features on an NTSC only disc, with the PAL box art, etc) would be awesome.

Yeah I kind of agree with you in terms of Playstation news. The announcement of Resistance 2 DLC was pretty cool. Hopefully some Killzone 2 DLC is announced as well as a co-op patch for the campaign.

i still have ico but sotc disappeared from the living room ps2 years ago. i keep thinking it might show up like my soul calibur 2 copy did today but i might try hunting down a copy before things get ridiculous

^ You mean, as a $100 collectible? yeah, hurry up, pronto!

I bought a copy of Ico at a movie Gallery for like $10 last year. They have copies of SOTC for $20 at Best Buy. However, its not an original print as it's actually a greatest hits copy.

i still have the case and the demo and cardboard sleeve for being a psu g.a.p. member. i'm really hoping it's mixed in with a pile of disc but i'll settle for the greatest hits just to play again

Amazon also has it, for twenty bucks. You could easily take the disc out of the greatest hits box, and stick it in the other box, and it would be like nothing ever happened (I don't think the disc art or the contents of the disc changed at all, I could be wrong).

People should definitely grab SOTC up before it is too late. I lost my copy of Ico, and I kicked myself when I had to import the only version still in print a couple of years ago (the special edition PAL version with art cards, etc. It was like 60 bucks after shipping. I nearly cried, since that is the price of a new game). That version of Ico is no longer in print, so I wouldn't count on SOTC being in print in the US for much longer either.

The only perk of losing it was that I got to play the special features on the PAL disc (subtitles for her speech being the one enormous special feature, for me anyway. Co-Op was nice but unnecessary, as were the special weapons, and the film grain mode)

I think SOTC is the superior game, but the margin is so slight. Everyone should play both games if they have the opportunity.

That image is not new Grady. It was the background graphic on an ad early last year that Team ICO put up looking to hire more people. Speculation was abound back then.

There's no way to judge the scale of that image. It could be a small hubcap with a tiny chain(with the foliage being small moss), or it could be a huge pit with an immense chain(with the foliage being trees). With no other frame of reference, we just can't tell.

We can't base our guesses on previous games, because each game is completely different. You couldn't guess any bit of SotC's story from its first trailers just from connecting it to ICO. Too different. Basically drop all assumptions you have about 3-co and just focus on the image.

That image is not new Grady. It was the background graphic on an ad early last year that Team ICO put up looking to hire more people. Speculation was abound back then.

There's no way to judge the scale of that image. It could be a small hubcap with a tiny chain(with the foliage being small moss), or it could be a huge pit with an immense chain(with the foliage being trees). With no other frame of reference, we just can't tell.

We can't base our guesses on previous games, because each game is completely different. You couldn't guess any bit of SotC's story from its first trailers just from connecting it to ICO. Too different. Basically drop all assumptions you have about 3-co and just focus on the image.