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reviniente said:
Christhor said:
Smeags said:
At this point I honestly feel bad for all the fans who are looking forward to The Last Guardian. The wait and delays were somewhat amusing at first, but now... I can't imagine how annoyed and frustrated the fans are.

Hopefully it comes as soon as possible for you guys.


I don't think that many people mind actually. I don't anyway, as long as the finished product is pure Ico quality, who cares how long it takes? Quality takes time!

And time costs money. SON¥ doesn't have a lot of money.


Because, as we all know, Sony stops the development of things when they realise it will cost them way too much.



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Christhor said:
reviniente said:
Christhor said:
Smeags said:
At this point I honestly feel bad for all the fans who are looking forward to The Last Guardian. The wait and delays were somewhat amusing at first, but now... I can't imagine how annoyed and frustrated the fans are.

Hopefully it comes as soon as possible for you guys.


I don't think that many people mind actually. I don't anyway, as long as the finished product is pure Ico quality, who cares how long it takes? Quality takes time!

And time costs money. SON¥ doesn't have a lot of money.


Because, as we all know, Sony stops the development of things when they realise it will cost them way too much.

Unfortunately for them, no. Seems to me, they usually grasp reality during the course of giving bleak news conferences or embarrasingly half-assed interviews.



RolStoppable said:
Maynard_Tool said:
Mmmmm this fills my heart with... sadness u.u

What a great pun. How in the world could we forget about the Wii's most prominent vaporware...

Well I didnt... im still waiting for more news about the game u.u



I am currently trying to suffer through Ico and so far it sucks actually.

Very excited about Lost Guardian though and very much looking forward to it.



CGI-Quality said:
Xxain said:
CGI-Quality said:
NightDragon83 said:
The Last Guardian is the new Duke Nukem Forever CONFIRMED!

Except that it won't be a critical failure and isn't on a 10+ year development cycle.

OT: To the news, funny how Ueda hasn't actually left Team ICO, but the media loves to run with unknown variables. Good to see the game is still very much in development!


??? ... what... do... you... mean..

Many thought Ueda left Team ICO. Not exatcly. He just works under contract now - Yoshida explains this here:

Yoshida talks Vita, Demon's Souls, & the Last Guardian

"For my personal experience with Demon’s Souls, when it was close to final I spent close to two hours playing it and after two hours I was still standing at the beginning at the game. I said,  “This is crap. This is an unbelievably bad game.” So I put it aside."

That was funny. And such honesty.



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Slimebeast said:
I am currently trying to suffer through Ico and so far it sucks actually.

Very excited about Lost Guardian though and very much looking forward to it.

Ico sucks? What the hell!?

Lost Guardian!?! LOST! Oh I see, your alluding to the game's absence by identifying it as lost. You think you're so clever. 

I hate you so much.

I've reported you, SlimeBeast. Or should I say, Slamebeast.



Jay520 said:
Slimebeast said:
I am currently trying to suffer through Ico and so far it sucks actually.

Very excited about Lost Guardian though and very much looking forward to it.

Ico sucks? What the hell!?

Lost Guardian!?! LOST! Oh I see, your alluding to the game's absence by identifying it as lost. You think you're so clever. 

I hate you so much.

I've reported you, SlimeBeast. Or should I say, Slamebeast.

Haha, I didn't think of it that way. Lost Guardian. Lost. That is clever!



reviniente said:
Christhor said:
reviniente said:
Christhor said:
Smeags said:
At this point I honestly feel bad for all the fans who are looking forward to The Last Guardian. The wait and delays were somewhat amusing at first, but now... I can't imagine how annoyed and frustrated the fans are.

Hopefully it comes as soon as possible for you guys.


I don't think that many people mind actually. I don't anyway, as long as the finished product is pure Ico quality, who cares how long it takes? Quality takes time!

And time costs money. SON¥ doesn't have a lot of money.


Because, as we all know, Sony stops the development of things when they realise it will cost them way too much.

Unfortunately for them, no. Seems to me, they usually grasp reality during the course of giving bleak news conferences or embarrasingly half-assed interviews.


Exactly, so there's no reason for us to care when it comes to this game.



Zim said:

Very worrying for the future of Team Ico. The last game they put out was nearly 7 years ago! Since their last game we got the entirety of the Mass Effect, Gears of War and Uncharted trilogies. We got 4 Assassins Creed games. The list could go on and on. Very worrying about the effciency of the development team. One game per generation of hardware would make staying afloat VERY difficult.

If the game isn't out before thee Wii U/720/PS4 it is going to have a very hard time as well.

Not sure what is going on with the studio but it needs new management or something.

My way of looking at is in the time Michael Bay made 3 Transformers Terrence Malick probably makes one film - and I'd rather have his one film than Bay's 3.

So long as they deliver in the way they did with ICO and SOTC I'll be happy.  I am worried though that they are trying something too hard to achieve within a game environment.



Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...

Reasonable said:

My way of looking at is in the time Michael Bay made 3 Transformers Terrence Malick probably makes one film - and I'd rather have his one film than Bay's 3.

So long as they deliver in the way they did with ICO and SOTC I'll be happy.  I am worried though that they are trying something too hard to achieve within a game environment.


Right except generally speaking Gears of War, Uncharted and Mass Effect all had better critical reception and FAR better sales than Ico and SotC. While other studios are putting out entire trilogies that are better received and selling better, Team Ico isn't putting out a single game. 

You can't take such a short term view. Yes if The Last Guardian comes out and is great then hey brilliant. But what if it ends up being their last game because of how inefficient they are? Not so brilliant then is it. The industry is no where near as forgiving as it used to be. If The Last Guardian gets overhyped by next-gen because it comes out too late and doesn't get enough sales then say goodbye to Team Ico. 



Turkish says and I'm allowed to quote that: Uncharted 3 and God Of War 3 look better than Unreal Engine 4 games will or the tech demo does. Also the Naughty Dog PS3 ENGINE PLAYS better than the UE4 ENGINE.