peterb
3981
I bought a PS2 just to play Ico.
I plan on buying a PS3 just to play the Ico/SotC sequal.
That is all.
Dammit, now I’m looking at used PS2’s…blerg…
I keep meaning to sell my PS2. I’ve got one of the 60 GB PS3’s, which are very good at backward compatibility, unlike the 360. Mainly, I understand, because they’ve practically got an entire PS2 in there.
Heh, when I think about it - which isn’t often - I usually think it’d be less trouble to put it up on Craig’s List. They’re not worth much. I figure the console, memory cards, controllers (2 dualshocks and a logitech wireless) would probably fetch about $40. Shipping would probably add $10-$15 to that I guess, so it would make more sense to sell it locally.
I went and looked the box with my old stuff, and encountered the 3DO I bought off eBay just to play Star Control 2 again. This was before the Ur-Quan Masters free version existed.
Boston. Now if you’d asked 7 years ago, I’d have been a lot closer - I lived in Sherman Oaks back then.
Sigh, dangit, I’d so have taken it off your hands.
I have one of these too, and I dread the day it stops working. I love not having to lug out a PS2 to play any old games. (It helps that I sold mine.)
I’m pretty sure Sony will fix it when it does. For a $150 flat fee. I had to send mine in when the Blu Ray drive quit, and that’s when I encountered their flat-fee repair policy.
So people’s descriptions of the game have all been wrong? What really happens in the game then?
I have the fat not-PS2 compatable PS3 so my PS2 stays in a safe spot. Figure I’ll be keeping that PS2 until the Sony powers that be decide to port over Persona 3 and 4, and port (or update) Test Drive:Eve of Destruction.
That’s sort of a gigantic spoiler and the point of playing through the unfolding narrative. I would say that the first few colossi feel tragic when you kill them, but as you meet up with the more aggressive ones you’ll start to actively want to take them down. By the last third of the game, you’ll realize what’s actually going on, which is far more sinister in nature than originally hinted. And careful thought on the overall actions of the main character (or a rewatching of the first scene) holds further revelations once you know the whole story, mainly the fact that the main character already knows the whole story when he arrives.
sinnick
3994
I would agree with MattKeil that you should at least play the game. Saying that SotC is about “murder and destruction” is a pat and misleading summary of this game. The dark place that SotC takes you isn’t some glib murder sim, like the airport level in Modern Warfare 2. It’s an extremely artful and moving story. You should try it for yourself.
Further, who the hell is describing the game in that way? It’s such a gross misrepresentation/misinterpretation that I have a hard time believing it’s at all common.
I believe that was just Simarenda’s own description, cobbled together from the description of the game in this thread and other threads and reviews in the past. In other words, it’s a description put together by someone who hasn’t played the game.
Shimarenda’s summation of the game matches my impression of the game based on what I’ve read. So he’s not coming out of left field.
He’s working from a position of ignorance, not out of left field. What exactly did you read that gave you the impression of a “path of murder and destruction”?
He’s working from a position of “best guess”, and explaining why he never played the game. The fact that you’re jumping all over him for explaining why he did what he did is fucking ridiculous. Grow up, and stop being so defensive about your favorite games.
“Best guess” is another way of saying “ignorance,” so I’m not sure what your point is outside of wording quibbles. If you think this is “jumping all over him,” you need to get a grip, not me, particularly since your edit indicates there was originally a direct insult in your post. I was not aware asking for clarification on an unusual position (which it is, unquestionably) was being “defensive.” If someone had said they refused to see Psycho because from what they read it was about cross-dressing and motel management, I don’t think it would be out of line to ask the same questions.
So are you going to give some examples of what you’ve read that made you think the game about stabbing magical statues was mostly concerned with murder?
