The Last Guardian, or, Trico

Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

Why'd you have to go and make a new topic right after I posted in the other thread :( ? Anyway:

Big Scoop: Project Trico is actually a new Monster Rancher game, where you can have a wonderful adventure with any of the creatures from the series.

I'm sure Sony is really upset over this leak, as it's probably one of their biggest things for E3. I hope they have some more stuff to cover up for it. Then again, if it ends up being a (really elaborate and well-made) fake, I hope I see that creature somewhere else in the future. I like its eyes.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:56 am

Can someone please explain to me the rationale behind a civilization designing buildings that apparently are a mile high up the side of a cliff top with no guard rails or anything?
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CubaLibre · the road lawyer Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Balmer

I was hoping Ueda's next game would be somewhere other than Uedaland.
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hyouko · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

It's not unheard of to use movie music over an early game trailer - some of the Zelda games used the Conan theme, right?

Looks great - I wonder how dynamic and interesting they can make the griffin-like fellow there. Eventually I will have to buy a PS3 for this... I wonder how far along the game is?

glossolalia · Joined: 04 Mar 2008

that creature has the best character animation i've ever seen in a videogame ever. which isn't surprising because sotc had the best animation i'd ever seen in a videogame before that.

Jujyfruits · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Location: b.a.

i'm really excited over this. that trailer looks fantastic. i have blind faith in ueda.

Moogs · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

PS3 purchase justified.

I predict this game will make me cry before it's over.

manmachine plays jazz · Guest

that trailer has more personality than every game released this generation. i am looking forward to this!

(and i hated shadow of the colossus)

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

my dick b throbbin' for this
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Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

thoughts:

-I'm a little disappointed that this isn't as divergent from sotc as sotc was from ico, seeing as this is really just
-sotc + a boy and his blob (which is cool in its own right)
-on the other hand, a boy and his blob is so obscure and out of left field it probably makes up for the sotc similarities
-this is all assuming that you don't ever directly control the giant wolf-animal-thing
-wasn't there an colossus in sotc that you had to indirectly control by striking rocks on its head?
-sort of like the underground lake creature in mario 64?
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Victor · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

I hope that you have no control over Buddy and that he is smarter than you and very old and that he doesn't talk, and the entire game is him leading you to and through places that he has known for ages.

This is an inside hope I have for this videogame.

Or what if, dudes, what if, get this, what if you are Buddy and the little boy is the NPC?

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

whoa
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!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

mmmmmmmmm

walt disneyfication of uedaland?

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

doesn't really seem any more disneyfied than ico
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Daphaknee · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:43 am

i like the hyena with feathers, i like that its feathers look like videogame feathers and not trying to be realistic feathers

i like it when videogames look like videogames

i jumped when the chain moved

im excited about this
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parker · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:43 am

The friendly monster thing is going to fucking die at the end isn't it? It's going to get killed off by some knightly jackass on a horse, made up to look like a standard fantasy protagonist or whatever.

I hate this shit. Like when Neverending Story kid loses his horse in that swamp. I wasn't even controlling a little guy and forming a personal relationship with that horse. It's just a goddamn shitty thing is what it is. I can hardly wait to even think about preordering this thing.
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Daphaknee · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:45 am

goddamnit parker :(
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Marshmallow · just call him badass Joined: 05 Dec 2006

i think he is going to surprise us all with a shockingly uplifting ending that makes us all smile

Broco · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Headquarters

maybe it will find its parents?

but they will mistake the boy for a flea and crush him

then the King's army will arrive and slaughter them, but the kid will flap its wings for the first time and fly to safety with the boy's corpse

!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

At the end, the gigantic rat eats the protagonist in a cut scene.

G. · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:05 am

Trico betting pool:
Boy dies: 2
Beast dies: 1

It would be interesting if the beast matured during the game. Then Ol' Yeller.

Winona Ghost Ryder · lives in a monochromatic world Joined: 04 Dec 2006

The monster is bleeding :(

Marshmallow · just call him badass Joined: 05 Dec 2006

i might try playing shadow of the collsauses again. i got up to the final one and quit because i thought it was dumb. it was great until that point though. apart from those two small monsters, those guys were boring

and i never got very far in ico which was like a more atmospheric and aesthetically beautiful zelda but with only one dungeon and no fun

i just keep that game because of the boxart and art cards. beautiful.

Renfrew · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:03 am

Ronk · saucy Scott Pilgrim fanfic Joined: 29 Dec 2008

yeah i guess i'm getting a ps3

Renfrew · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:27 am

I never finished Ico and this video kind of inspired me to try, but my PS2 has stopped reading blue discs so I guess I'm just screwed.
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Ness · banned Joined: 03 Sep 2007

Ico's one of my favorite games, Shadow of the Colossus isn't, 'nuff said

Toptube · Anti-cabbage Party Candidate Joined: 23 Apr 2007

Oh man I really wonder how this is going to play! For some reason I forgot I was watching a trailer for a game and only afterwards realized I had no idea what to expect from it as a game!

Both ICO and SoTC were great fun and greatly satisfied my exploratory side of gaming. I also really enjoy that half the stuff in these games goes unexplained or is atleast ambiguous. It just seems to make everything that you do and see carry more weight. As opposed to many games explaining absolutely everything to you, it allows you to sort of make your own experience.

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Renfrew · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:14 am

Faithless · Wendy's Hole Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: World 1-1

This game = Alan Grant seeing a Brachiosaurus.
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Toptube · Anti-cabbage Party Candidate Joined: 23 Apr 2007

The internet says this footage is almost 2 years old!

Martial Loh · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Location: London, UK

Interesting stuff!
Somehow they'll fit a princess into the mix & at the end you'll probably have to choose between her and the big cat-bird-thing...

Either they'll do this or Peter Molyneux will in a future Fable 2 DLC..
I'm bored of Ueda-land's limited palette. Then again i'm one of those oddities who didn't get along with Ico or Shadow of the Colossus (framerates were too horrible for me).

Isfet · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: A New York

not gonna even try to lie

this has me very excited.