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I feel like I'm just playing this game because it's been lauded as "super artsy awesome and you totally have to play it", and not because I am actually enjoying the game itself. Last time I played I got 3 hours in and got bored. This time I can't even get past an hour without going "Meh". I mean, yeah, I "get" it, it's obviously a different game. But sadly I'm not enjoying it. So, like, I'm not sure. Do you guys recommend I just grit my teeth and get through it? Or is this as good as it gets?
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CrusherEAGLE posted:Last time I played I got 3 hours in and got bored. I feel like that happened to pretty much everyone who played the game. I really wanted to enjoy it but it put me to sleep.
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Dec 27, 2014 20:59
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Furthermore, Well, I could point out you're comparing the peak results of the Dreamcasts established hardware versus the new hardware of the Ps2, but I was talking more in terms of gameplay. The Ps2 was when games made the true transition from an attempted emulation of the console experience to a more fully realised idea of console games as an experience meant not just to amuse, but to really sink ones teeth into. Lets compare the way the two consoles approached puzzle games. The Dreamcast gives us Chu Chu Rocket - colourful, simple, cartoony. Gaming equivalent of candy. The Ps2 gives us Ico. Artistic, hauntingly beautiful, impactful in the way no game before it could have been. Gamings ambrosia.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:05
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I like ICO. It is an okay game to play, assuming that you are into those kinds of artistic games. If you're not? Then that's fine too. All games are good, assuming you like them.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:12
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Slur posted:I like ICO. It is an okay game to play, assuming that you are into those kinds of artistic games. If you're not? Then that's fine too. All games are good, assuming you like them. This coming from a hosed up normie who claimed the 3ds had no games besides Fire Emblem: Awakening.
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Dec 27, 2014 21:16
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I wanted to like this game when it came out but like you I kept getting bored and switching games. I eventually read a walkthrough to help me but when I read ahead and saw what the ending was I quit playing it.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:10
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I recently tried to replay it and couldn't. It was an okay game for its time, and you can really only complete it if you have loads of patience for games like it in general.
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Mercury Crusader posted:Furthermore, Well, I could point out you're comparing the peak results of the Dreamcasts established hardware versus the new hardware of the Ps2, but I was talking more in terms of gameplay. The Ps2 was when games made the true transition from an attempted emulation of the console experience to a more fully realised idea of console games as an experience meant not just to amuse, but to really sink ones teeth into. Lets compare the way the two consoles approached puzzle games. The Dreamcast gives us Chu Chu Rocket - colourful, simple, cartoony. Gaming equivalent of candy. The Ps2 gives us Ico. Artistic, hauntingly beautiful, impactful in the way no game before it could have been. Gamings ambrosia.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:20
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I played a demo of Ico when I was a child and thought it was boring and dumb Why am I still hearing about it as an adult man who now has a hairy rear end & face
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Dec 27, 2014 23:16
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gay skull posted:I played a demo of Ico when I was a child and thought it was boring and dumb I'm hearing some displaced aggression here... It's not the game's fault that you have a hairy assface
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Dec 27, 2014 23:44
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CrusherEAGLE posted:
Play Shadow of the Colossus instead
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Dec 27, 2014 23:45
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metricchip posted:I'm hearing some displaced aggression here... It's not the game's fault that you have a hairy assface Well I didn't like it back when I didn't have a hairy assface
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Dec 28, 2014 03:38
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it's cool but it's pretty static. it's one of those games where you follow instructions with very little room for deviation but the instructions are expressed as architecture and big cartoon bombs so i can understand realizing how it works and deciding that you don't want to do more of it. i really like the costumes of the guys who put you in the tomb at the beginning.
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Dec 28, 2014 04:09
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don't play video games because you feel you have to
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Mr. Pumroy posted:don't play video games because you feel you have to
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Dec 28, 2014 04:18
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There are moments in ICO that are sort of mysterious and beautiful, but I absolutely hate loving block pushing puzzles.
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YOU GOTTA WANT IT
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Mercury Crusader posted:Furthermore, Well, I could point out you're comparing the peak results of the Dreamcasts established hardware versus the new hardware of the Ps2, but I was talking more in terms of gameplay. The Ps2 was when games made the true transition from an attempted emulation of the console experience to a more fully realised idea of console games as an experience meant not just to amuse, but to really sink ones teeth into. Lets compare the way the two consoles approached puzzle games. The Dreamcast gives us Chu Chu Rocket - colourful, simple, cartoony. Gaming equivalent of candy. The Ps2 gives us Ico. Artistic, hauntingly beautiful, impactful in the way no game before it could have been. Gamings ambrosia.
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Myrmomancer posted:Play Shadow of the Colossus instead Yeah
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when does the third one come out
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I remember trekking to an real out of the way Gamestop to buy ICO because all the others did not have it in stock, paying 12 dollars and then going home and beating it the same day. decent game. The gamestop in question is now a Treadmill store.
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Dec 29, 2014 00:48
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I think both Shadow of the Colossus and ICO are boring games. Last Guardian is also never coming out.
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Dec 29, 2014 00:51
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Last guardian doesn't matter in a world where we're getting Journey Sequels.
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Dec 29, 2014 00:52
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Skeezy posted:I think both Shadow of the Colossus and ICO are boring games. 
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Dec 29, 2014 00:52
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Part of the problem is that you hear a lot about the games, especially Shadow of the Colossus, so people create unrealistic expectations when they play it. Ico was released in 2001 and was originally a PS1 title, but it's still pretty good even today. If you didn't like it after playing for some time, then you probably won't change your mind later on, as the entire game is pretty much that. I don't even remember most of the game, frankly. I only played Ico after finishing Shadow of the Colossus, and I personally enjoyed the latter more. You could try playing that instead and see what you think, OP.
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I think SotC is more popular and more well-regarded because the gameplay is much more unique while still retaining that lonesome, desolate vibe, as opposed to Ico where the setting is there but it feels like a marginally janky end-of-the-era 3D adventure game
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