Yeah, been at it for about 5 months, on and off.
Man, this game rules all ass. I can see why it won so many awards. It has such a kick-ass cinematic feel to it and the atmosphere and sense of scale is so damned good. Each of the colossi is very different and requires you to actually sit there and figure it out and each one is pretty neat. Yeah, there are some that are just OK, but there are no bad ones and most are excellent. And man was that last one great!
The main faults of the game are the slow down and lots of fog technically and the occasional annoyance in actually trying to find the colossus. The technical stuff I can live with and the few times I got stuck trying to find one wasn't so bad, so I could live with that. The rest of the game ruled so much, it just didn't matter.
I know a lot of poeple don't like the idea of spending between 30 minutes and an hour finding and fighting each of the 16 bosses (had to actually talk a customer at my bud's EB out of it today), but when this game goes cheap in about a month of so, give it a shot. It is really different and in a way, takes you back to the core of gaming. It's a gamer's game, simple basic storyline, not a lot of variety or depth in terms of gameplay options (your character really only does about half a dozen things, only has two weapons, never gets any stronger, and the ONLY thing to do in the game is find and fight the 16 colossi), but it is so incredibly well executed that you just don't care. It really is an experience, as long as you just enjoy it for what it is rather than bitching about what it doesn't have (like enemies to fight, a deep and engrossing storyline, or lots of action; it's just not that type of game).
Definetely one of my favs of this generation.
Man, this game rules all ass. I can see why it won so many awards. It has such a kick-ass cinematic feel to it and the atmosphere and sense of scale is so damned good. Each of the colossi is very different and requires you to actually sit there and figure it out and each one is pretty neat. Yeah, there are some that are just OK, but there are no bad ones and most are excellent. And man was that last one great!
The main faults of the game are the slow down and lots of fog technically and the occasional annoyance in actually trying to find the colossus. The technical stuff I can live with and the few times I got stuck trying to find one wasn't so bad, so I could live with that. The rest of the game ruled so much, it just didn't matter.
I know a lot of poeple don't like the idea of spending between 30 minutes and an hour finding and fighting each of the 16 bosses (had to actually talk a customer at my bud's EB out of it today), but when this game goes cheap in about a month of so, give it a shot. It is really different and in a way, takes you back to the core of gaming. It's a gamer's game, simple basic storyline, not a lot of variety or depth in terms of gameplay options (your character really only does about half a dozen things, only has two weapons, never gets any stronger, and the ONLY thing to do in the game is find and fight the 16 colossi), but it is so incredibly well executed that you just don't care. It really is an experience, as long as you just enjoy it for what it is rather than bitching about what it doesn't have (like enemies to fight, a deep and engrossing storyline, or lots of action; it's just not that type of game).
Definetely one of my favs of this generation.
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
