Japanese retailers list PS2 reprint of Shadow of the Colossus

My 80GB MGS4 bundle Backwards Compatible PS3 begs to differ.

Hardware-based emulation > Software emulation, my friend.

My 160GB edition says you're wrong. Know why?

Because it's got Nate The Goddamn Drake on the front!

Hardware is overrated. The software emulation works just as well.

Give us the Japanese boxart for ICO, please. The American cover was ugly and horrible and completely missed the point of what sort of game it is. It easily falls into the category of the worst game covers ever. The Japanese cover is MUCH better, as one of the best box arts ever.

How someone could think Ico is superior to SotC is beyond me...
But to each their own.

Also, SotC is a prequel to Ico. If you missed the reference at the end of SotC, then there's no helping you.

I won't down vote you though, since it's you're honest opinion. Instead I'll vote up.
:3

Eh, we all have different tastes in games so you shouldn't be lynched for disliking Shadow of the Colossus.

They should remaster these games just like the God of War series, I'm sure they'll end up pulling quite a lot of money and it will satisfy the mass fanbase. Everyone wins!.

Oh yeah, I did catch that reference - which was pretty sweet.

Overall, I felt that Ico did a better job of playing with light vs. dark, plus I preferred how the gameplay of Ico was more focused on the relationship of a boy and a girl, rather than man vs. beast (although, admittedly, that was for the man and woman relationship). I did love the environment and atmosphere of both, but, personally, I preferred the lonely feeling of the castle vs. the lonely feeling of the fields.

In some ways, I think the PS2 wasn't powerful enough to really capture the vision that SotC was going for. I can't quite place my finger on it, but I think the wide open areas of SotC could have been done much more effectively on a more powerful system.

However, I'll admit, in both games, I would like to have had both games tell a bit more of the story. I realize the angle they're going for is for the player to fill in the blanks, but I think both were hands off to the point where the impact they had on me weren't to both games full potential.

For the record on horse controls, they were intentionally a little off. You're riding a horse, not a car. The controls aren't going to be 100% responsive because real horses aren't always 100% responsive. And if you get all twisted around, just remember on the horse that Left and Right are always Left and Right, no matter the camera orientation. The game developers went and rode some horses a bit just to get the horse riding right.

So the horse riding was awkward, but it was also realistic.

I finished Ico and SotC for the first time in the last year.

I have to say I don't hate them, but they are overrated. Ico is near impossible to figure out without a FAQ. And SotC has such huge frame rate problems it's a real drag. You can say the lack of controls responsiveness is because you're on a horse, but the real answer is the game just runs slow. Which is weird, because the graphics are poor too, the textures look like a PS1 game.

SotC would be much improved by a PS3 remaster. A faster frame rate would improve responsiveness and make a huge difference.

I'd pay for for those 3 together. Put all 3 Sly Cooper games together (and fix the camera on #1) and I'd buy that too.

Agreed. Jax & Daxter is another serious that could use a re-release. Much like Ratchet: Deadlocked, just ditch Jax X cause nobody really liked either of those games, lol. Honestly, I have no problem paying a premium for upgraded content. Ports on the other hand gotta be dirt cheap or I wont buy em.

It's the same reason why I've bought PS1 Classics for $6 and wouldn't buy N64 games from VC cause they're $10 a piece. Maybe that's justifiable for Ocarina of Time, but literally no other N64 game is worth $10 under any circumstances. Just like Original Xbox games aren't worth $15.

Since when has the PS2 been terrible? I'd get PS3 hate a little, but the PS2 was the best console of the last generation.KotOR and Windwaker aside, all my favorite games of the last generation were on PS2.

I saw the PS2 last generation as the console that was lagging behind. It was the only console that had only two controllers instead of four, and you had to buy an add on if you actually had more than one friend to play with. And that only worked in some games. I'm going to be downvoted for this because people love it, but I also thought (and still think) that the dualshock controller was/is outdated. Sony is the only console maker that doesn't put the left analog stick front and center where it belongs. The controls in most games have you using the left analog stick and the face buttons more than anything else, shouldn't the analog stick be level with the face buttons, in the most comfortable position? It made sense when they added the analog sticks to the PS1 controller since most games still didn't support analog control, but now that it's the main way you interact with your games it needs to be right under your thumb instead of off to the side.

That said, the PS2 had some great games, so it doesn't really matter.