Shadow of the Colossus
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Here's the Metacritic ranking, fwiw:
Tied for 1st
GTA 5 - 97
Zelda - 97
Super Mario Odyssey - 97
4. The Last of Us remastered - 95
5. MGS V - 94 (avg of Xbox and PS4 ratings)
Tied for 6th
Inside - 93
Uncharted 4 - 93
Persona 5 - 93
Celeste - 93 (What? Never heard of it. Came out last week.)
Tied for 10th
Shadow of the Collosus - 92
Monster Hunter: World - 92 (avg. of Xbox and PS4 rating)
Mario Kart Deluxe - 92
and some others
My first pics. I would have more but I couldn't even figure out how to start climbing up and attacking the first monster 
He kept stepping on me, killing me.
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Gorgeous game. Camera is still a bitch though.
I'll be messing with the sensitivity settings tomorrow.
I'll be messing with the sensitivity settings tomorrow.
Will do. I see exactly where I need to go on the back of his leg with the hair and exposed area but couldn't figure out how to get up to it. I only tried a couple times last night because I had to go out to dinner.
I thought we could change the color palette for the entire game if we wanted, but it seems it is only for photo mode. No biggie though as I am sure I would go through as default as intended. But vivid in photo mode looks great. You lose some clouds and depth in the vivid pictures so default might be best.
Yeah camera is tough. Might be tougher than The Last Guardian, but I got used to that. Probably will get used to this too.
Well, I owned his lily white ass this morning. Made him my bitch. But now a new one is coming out...he wants me to be his bitch....aint gonna happen.
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Number 2 bites the dust. It's easier once you do the first one, so you have a clue as to what you are doing.
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The game looks really nice but it's kind of hard to enjoy it with it's gameplay issues, I'm so used to having a horse move in a game by just pushing the stick forward and that just seems like the way it should always be. Having to remember to keep pushing a button to get him to go and another to center the camera along with the fact that he doesn't always go where you are telling him to makes basic navigation frustrating. I know they wanted to keep the "spirit" of the original version but it just seems strange to hold on to things that are considered flaws just because the original dev team made poor choices.
Yeah, I thought Blue Point was supposed to make modern improvements to the controls?
I never got to experience the previous controls, so I am not sure. I have the same problem I had with climbing in The Last Guardian. My character would get off the screen and blocked by the hair of the AI I was on. It was either clipping, camera was wonky, and the controls were not responding correctly. I have fallen off the head of the 3rd Collosus 3 times because of the controls/camera.
From what I remember from the original, it feels pretty similar. Only now they made button configurations that make more sense and the improved framerate helps as well.
In the end I guess it works. It feels like a legit struggle.
I'm actually more disappointed by the camera and lock on. It seems to be worse in some ways.
Yeah the camera floating the way it does seems strange and it's hard to believe they didn't offer an option for modern camera locking etc. I don't know maybe they are trying too hard to respect the original teams work but it just seems kind of silly to not address those things if they could have been.
Just testing out my Twitter skills, which suck.
I'll post more. Game looks so nice.
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Why do the sceenshots get so compressed? The game on my TV looks so much better. All the detail from the waterfalls is missing.
Also, on a side note, I figured out that one of my DS4's has dust or something in the left analog which makes movement and targeting a pain. The camera system isn't as bad as I thought. I was wondering why it was playing the way it was. I didn't even notice until I played Skyrim and my character would just randomly stop moving forward.
Also, on a side note, I figured out that one of my DS4's has dust or something in the left analog which makes movement and targeting a pain. The camera system isn't as bad as I thought. I was wondering why it was playing the way it was. I didn't even notice until I played Skyrim and my character would just randomly stop moving forward.
Finally got past number 3. Number 4 wasn't too bad, but it took me awhile to figure out how to "deceive" him. Next up is number 5. I heard once you get past 5, then you should have the idea of how to finish the game.
To me (and I am playing it on easy), the game is frustrating because of the controls/camera, but the satisfaction you get once you take one down feels oh so good.
To me (and I am playing it on easy), the game is frustrating because of the controls/camera, but the satisfaction you get once you take one down feels oh so good.
Do you have any sense of sadness for killing the creatures? I've heard other people speak about that. Just wondering if you're having that reaction at all.
Yup, I had it last night. My wife was next to me while I was playing. She was watching Bachelor Winter Games on the TV next to our big TV. And I was stabbing the one in the center of the head, and the blood was coming out crazily. You can FEEL the stabs.Then you see the huge hairy boss, but can't NOT think it's a man's best friend Golden Retriever or defenseless animal. Once you get past that and it goes into a cutscene, with it falling down, that sadness goes away. My wife doesn't watch me game very close, but she looked over and asked what all the black stuff was coming up, and I told her blood. She literally said "this is the stupidest game I have ever seen you play"
But you did bring up a good question, and oddly enough that is how I felt last night. Kinda sucked.