Project ICO's next big thing: Project Trico

[J T]

I feel like I should be excited about this one, but it looks like it could be too heart warming and adventurous for an ICO/SOTC spiritual successor.

I don't know, like it could be missing that cold eerie stillness.

I had that feeling too, which is why I didn't like the music. Shadow of the Colossus had such a great sense of isolation. It reallys set SotC apart from every other game out there.

[Mozgus]

I feel like I should be excited about this one, but it looks like it could be too heart warming and adventurous for an ICO/SOTC spiritual successor.

I don't know, like it could be missing that cold eerie stillness.

I had that feeling too, which is why I didn't like the music. Shadow of the Colossus had such a great sense of isolation. It reallys set SotC apart from every other game out there.

Well for one thing, this is from Giant Bomb:

EDIT THE SECOND WITH ACTUAL INFORMATION: A post on NeoGAF with a relatively plausible trail of evidence suggests this video is year-old internal test footage, which would explain the working-title-esque "Project Trico" name, and the fact that I thought the music sounded awfully familiar (it's said to be taken from the Coen Brothers' film Miller's Crossing.) Could this be some kind of viral, intentional leak, as the GAF posters suggest? The plot thickens.

[Gamerforlife]

I feel like I should be excited about this one, but it looks like it could be too heart warming and adventurous for an ICO/SOTC spiritual successor.

I don't know, like it could be missing that cold eerie stillness.

Too heart warming? This is from the guy who created YORDA and made Ico

Too adventurous? Um, you guys did actually PLAY Shadow of Colossus right?

Seriously, some weird comments in this thread.

Oh and anyone who doesn't like Ico fails at life. Okay, I don't really mean that...well yeah, actually I kind of do. Seriously, people don't like Ico? Well, of course Mozgus doesn't. He seems to hate everything

This game will be great, as will Beyond Good and Evil 2. I'm surprised people have no faith in Ancel and Ueda given what they have pumped out before. These guys actually care about their work, unless ninety percent of other game makers out there. You people are way too pessimistic. No, not realistic, pessimistic

And I can't wait for Schafer's Brutal too. That looks awesome

[Mozgus]

Oh and anyone who doesn't like Ico fails at life. Okay, I don't really mean that...well yeah, actually I kind of do. Seriously, people don't like Ico? Well, of course Mozgus doesn't. He seems to hate everything

This game will be great, as will Beyond Good and Evil 2. I'm surprised people have no faith in Ancel and Ueda given what they have pumped out before. These guys actually care about their work, unless ninety percent of other game makers out there. You people are way too pessimistic. No, not realistic, pessimistic

And I can't wait for Schafer's Brutal too. That looks awesome

The sad thing is, when the day comes that you realize how wrong you are, you'll convince yourself the exact opposite due to the hype strangling you.

ICO is a just a tech demo and art piece. It's barely a video game.

SOTC was a fluke, however amazing as it was, innovation is a one time use. I don't think there's any chance in hell that they can perform the leaps with this new game like the ones they did with SOTC, given this generation's still obviously limitations. SOTC's most impressive aspects just don't shine in today's gaming world.

BGE was a masterpiece, but there's no chance in hell they'll create another one. They are dead set on making this one profitable, and masterpieces rarely make profit.

[corn619]

What ever it is, I guarantee it will be a masterpiece. A developer like team ICO doesn't spend 5 years making crap.

[Mozgus]

What ever it is, I guarantee it will be a masterpiece. A developer like team ICO doesn't spend 5 years making crap.

Except for ICO.

[corn619]

What ever it is, I guarantee it will be a masterpiece. A developer like team ICO doesn't spend 5 years making crap.

Except for ICO.

I'm sure ICO didn't take 5 years to make. And I thought it was a great game. Maybe a little overrated, but great and one of the PS2s best games. You seem to enjoy very little anyways so I take your opinion with a grain of salt. I think team ICO will throw everyone a major curve ball and this preview will look very different than the finished product. I bet that creature will be a very small part of a grand adventure.

[Mozgus]

What ever it is, I guarantee it will be a masterpiece. A developer like team ICO doesn't spend 5 years making crap.

Except for ICO.

I'm sure ICO didn't take 5 years to make. And I thought it was a great game. Maybe a little overrated, but great and one of the PS2s best games. You seem to enjoy very little anyways so I take your opinion with a grain of salt.

Every time I like a game, and make a thread, everyone ignores it. Yet here you are, in perfect form, responding to a negative opinion of mine. All my positive threads bite the dust.

If I didn't like any games, I wouldn't waste my time with them. Figure it out.

[corn619]

Moz, I agree with you from time to time on certain games, just not today. You had made a thread about Guild Wars a while back and I don't play many MMOs but I enjoyed that one. I would have never enjoyed it without your positive post about the game. So all hope is not lost.

[RadarScope1]

I'm perfectly happy trading a few deep gameplay elements for something that instills some emotion, wonder, artistic elements, etc. That's why I liked Ico. But I guess it can go to far if you don't strike the right balance (i.e. the new PoP, as gamerforlife said). But when devs go this route they trade a little bit of the "feel" in the hands -- which is mostly objective for longtime gamers -- and shift somewhat into the "feel" in the head/heart, which is mostly subjective. So you get people reacting differently to it because, hey, it's human nature.

I have faith in Ueda's team. They'll give us something worth playing, even though it will NEVER live up to the impossible amount of hype and expectation. This is year-old test footage of a game that's not coming out for at least another year, or year and a half.