Yes, you must.  And once you do, you'll realize just how messed up the ending of Shadow really is.  =/

That is fair comment, I'm not really sure I must have missed it or something. Was it that big in the EU? I can't remember anywhere in the UK making a big deal of it. I'll keep my nose out of this thread except to say I'm sure there are more people who claim to have liked it now than people who actually played it when it was released.

You're obviously not one of them but there doesn't seem to be a PS2 owning person alive who doesn't bow before this game. Smells a bit fishy to me, could be wrong, just a feeling like I said before.

Reading this interview and listening at the opened way just instantly made me understand why I loved this game so much: it's like my first Final Fantasy (FFVI), it's the music stupid.
I'm a sucker for this kind of violin play, mostly made by japanese musicians (but some western ones I love too).
I didn't own a PS2, so of course I played SotC only recently on the PS3. Besides, I have an european PS3, with semi BC, which is a very good thing, as some part of the BC is made by software.
Which means that I don't have any slowdown in SotC, the game is perfectly smooth, which makes it even better.
But that's really the music that makes this game so epic and fun, how come I didn't realise that sooner?
Reminds me that I still have to finish it in hard mode.

Maybe they didn't play the games at first.  Maybe they picked them up later after having heard nothing but good )if not amazing) things about series?

Read this thread.

Particularly wfz and Onxymeth's posts, as well as those that follow Onyxmwth's post.  When you have guys that in general favor consoles other than the ps3 speaking so highly of this developer, you know it means something.

a wii version must be made

funny story -- I actually got back into console gaming because of Shadow of the Colossus.  My girlfriend saw it on display at Best Buy and the horse was so beautiful it made her want to play it (she wasn't a gamer at all, then).  She bought me a PS2 as an anniversary present, though I hadn't owned a console since the SNES.  And all my troubles stem from there.  Sigh.

   The prospect of their next game was the main reason I bought a PS3 in December, despite already owning a 360.  Got it for ~200 bucks too, with that credit card deal they were doing.

    That movie with Shadow of the Colossus has been in my netflix queue for a while.  Gonna move it up.

I know what you mean.  I think with anything that attains a certain level of praise there are those that fawn over it, sometimes without even having played the game in the case of something like SOTC.

In this case the game is genuinely great, although not everyone would like it which is fine and their preference.  I think both ICO and SOTC were both so different, yet clearly the work of the same creative mind, that they have attained an even greater mystique than most games, hence the perhaps excessive fawning that can surround them.

Again, though, the game really is good, which is the main thing IMHO.

Or you could just buy a ps3.  >_>

All this " ___ MUST come to my console!" crap is pissing me off.  Especially when the comment is made about first party titles.  If you want the games, BUY the console!

Saying stuff like that is only reasonable in the case of something like Valkyria Chronicles, and even moreso Tales of Vesperia, where it would only be logical to port the title since the THIRD PARTY developer most likely lost money on the title.

i have to admit i wouldn't have read the book if i didn't play the game

Um...what book?